Murder On Lockhart Road

Bizarre Twists And Evidence Keep Turning Case On Its Head

(CBS)  Five years after David Camm’s family had been murdered, the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fall into place. And Boney was a man with a lot of explaining to do, starting with that sweatshirt.

Boney claims he got rid it shortly after he was released from prison, saying he threw it into a Salvation Army drop box.

He was quick to point out his DNA wasn’t the only DNA on the sweatshirt, saying that, "There’s also unidentified female. Everyone knows that. Everyone that’s followed the case."

He insists he doesn’t know how his sweatshirt got to the crime scene and he insists he didn’t even know David Camm. Boney wasn’t doing himself any favors by continuing to talk, especially when the subject turned to fingerprints.

"My fingerprints would not appear at that crime scene, because first and foremost, once again, I would have to have been there in for my finger prints to appear at the crime scene," he told police.

But Henderson says the palm print on the outside of the Bronco matched Boney's fingerprints.

The more Boney talked, the more he implicated himself. "If something of mine was there at the scene, that means that I would have been there," he told police.

And police could not have agreed more. His sweatshirt, his DNA and his palm print at the scene of the murders made their case. Boney was arrested and charged with murdering Kim, Brad and Jill.

Shortly after Boney’s arrest Camm and his father Don could hardly believe what happened next: the murder charges against David had been dropped. David’s father had never seen his son so happy. "Oh gracious, he was nervous, he was shakin’, he was beside himself," he remembers.

But the euphoria didn't last. For the first time in years there were no charges against David Camm. That changed about 60 minutes later.

Armed with warrants, officers arrested Camm, telling him he was being re-charged and would face an additional charge of conspiracy.

After a tiny taste of freedom, Camm was whisked back to jail. Keith Henderson had a new theory: Camm and Boney were partners and he couldn’t let Camm remain free, fearing he might flee.

Henderson said Boney made this an entirely new case, so now Camm and Boney would face not just murder charges but also the new conspiracy charge.

"After discovering Charles Boney my belief now is that that this was planned well in advance," Henderson says.

But Camm says he never met or knew Boney, even though they both grew up in the small town of New Albany.

Prosecutors suspected Boney stayed behind to clean up after the murders so that Camm could race back to the basketball game.

Boney couldn’t very well deny being at the murder scene anymore, with the sweatshirt, his DNA and the palm print putting him there. So he started cooperating up to a point; he always denied firing any shots that night.

Just days after Boney was arrested, he told police an almost entirely different story. He now said he knew Camm. He said he had met him at a basketball game and that he had told Camm he was an ex-con who dealt in drugs and guns. Once again, Boney was talking and investigators tape recorded every word.

Boney told prosecutors that Camm approached him with a special request. "He asked me specifically 'Do you still deal with getting firearms,'" Boney told police.

Henderson says Boney claimed Camm had approached him to obtain a clean, untraceable gun for $250.