Murder On Lockhart Road

Bizarre Twists And Evidence Keep Turning Case On Its Head

(CBS)  David Camm hoped, after five years in prison, that he would finally go free. With the help of an angry appeals court and his attorneys, Camm’s case was transferred to another county, where the judge set bond at $20,000.

Sam Lockhart wasted no time and went straight to the bank to get the money he needed to get his nephew out and take him home to await his next trial.

The key to finding the killer, or killers, could be that mysterious grey sweatshirt.

Prosecutor Keith Henderson pushed to finally get some answers and ordered the lab to look at everything. What they found changed just about everything.

Five years after the murders the DNA found on that sweatshirt was run through a data bank of convicted felons; almost immediately there was a hit.

The DNA matched to a man named Charles Darnell Boney, a convicted felon who was recently released from prison. It turns out Boney has a nickname, "Backbone," the same name written on the collar of that sweatshirt.

But there was one more mystery. Investigators were unable to identify the female DNA found on the sweatshirt. Who was this mystery woman?

Camm thought this would be the end of his legal trouble. "We got the killer. That’s the guy who killed Kim, Brad and Jill. That’s the guy," he said

Boney grew up in the same town as Camm. Once police knew who to look for they found him right away, just across the Ohio River in Louisville, Ky.

Boney wasn’t officially a suspect, yet, but he was a person of interest to the police and the media. He had no problem talking - in fact, it was hard to shut him up.

"I will be on every station. I don’t have anything to hide. I stand true to my word," he said during an interview.

Just four months before the murders, Boney had been released from prison, where he had served time for armed robbery.

Boney never tried to deny his nickname, Backbone. He was proud of it. "As you know my nickname’s Backbone, all it means is I’m not spineless," he said during a TV interview.

Boney denied any involvement in the murders and seemed especially eager to help defense investigators, who were videotaping their interviews. He appeared relaxed, and at times even chatty.

It quickly became obvious that Boney had what could only be described as an odd fascination if not an obsession: he really liked shoes and feet. His interests had gotten him into trouble with the law.

In the late 1980’s, when he was a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, Boney was known to authorities by another name, "The Shoe Bandit." It's a fact he doesn't deny. "I mean. I’m guilty. I did it," he told police during an interview.

Boney’s dramatic entrance into the Camm case seemed to answer a lot of questions about the crime scene, especially the bizarre placement of Kim’s shoes on top of the Bronco.

But Boney denied being the killer. "I would rather kill myself than kill kids," he told investigators.

Camm’s defense attorney immediately checked into Boney’s background. "Well I learned he has a history of violent crimes against women," Liell says. "Like tackling women and punching them in the face and stealing one shoe."

Donna Ennis knows first hand Boney is a dangerous man. In Oct. 1992, she and her college roommates were robbed at gunpoint by him.

She says his demeanor quickly changed from calm to angry and agitated. "He told us if we did anything he was going to kill us. If we tried to run, if we tried to scream he was going to kill us," Ennis remembers.

Luckily, a neighbor saw the commotion and called the police; Boney was arrested.