Dramatic Testimony In Boney Trial

By Janelle MacDonald

(NEW ALBANY, Ind.) -- It was day five of testimony in Charles Boney's triple murder trial Friday. Jurors heard Boney's statements to police, saying that David Camm paid Boney for the murder weapon. Boney is accused of conspiring with and helping Camm murder his wife, Kim, and their two children, Jill and Brad in the garage of the family's Georgetown home in September of 2000. WAVE 3's Janelle MacDonald has a recap of Friday's proceedings.

The statement Boney gave to investigators on March 7th, 2005, directly contradicted other statements jurors heard earlier in the day from March 4th. When investigators confronted Boney with evidence saying that his palm print matched the print found on Kim Camm's Bronco the night she was murdered.

At that point, Boney asked to make a written statement, which was yet another version of earlier statements.

In that statement, Boney writes that he first met Camm in July of 2000, playing basketball at a park in New Albany.

He called Camm "sincere," saying they talked about "church and Jesus." Boney then told investigators that it was during a second meeting with Camm at Karem's Meats that Camm asked for a "clean" or untraceable gun in exchange for $250.

Boney writes in his statement: "My case is based on selling an illegal handgun to a person who used it to murder his family."

The statement continues, with Boney's comments about Camm: "He was molesting his daughter, he was cheating on his wife and it all came crashing down when his family had enough. So he shut them up for good."

Boney wrote that he was not responsible for the murders but was set up. "David Camm knew he would use me from the second time he met me."

Wayne Kessinger, an investigator for the prosecution, took the stand Friday afternoon, testifying about a tracking device placed on Boney's vehicle the first time he talked to investigators. The very next day, Kessinger said Boney went to the cemetery where Kim, Brad and Jill are buried.

Boney told investigators he visited the cemetery to ask about a mausoleum for his family.

The device also tracked Boney to a street about a half-mile from the place where Camm was working at the time. Boney told investigators that he was there to take a dog to the vet, but the investigator told jurors the vet does not remember treating any dog brought in by Boney.

Kessinger told jurors that Boney was the coldest, calmest witness he had ever interviewed during a murder investigation, and that his emotions never changed.

Late in the day, Myron Wilkerson with the Indiana State Police took the stand. He took a statement from Boney three days after the original statement on March 7th.

During his testimony, Wilkerson said Boney wrote in his statement that "David Camm met him again to exchange the weapon, that he claimed he had another thing for me to do."

Boney told Wilkerson that Camm asked him to follow him to his house. Boney said he followed him to the Camm residence, and the family pulled in.

"They were home for just a few minutes, and then I heard someone say 'no!' he said."

He goes on to say: "It all happened so fast. It was a heated situation, but not violent at first. Then he said Camm went inside and said he heard a shot. And then he heard Bradley Camm. He says he didn't say anything, it was the sound that he made."

Then he said he heard a second shot.

That's when Wilkerson asked what the sound was. Boney replied: "I heard him say, 'Daddy! Daddy!' Daddy!' I heard him say 'Daddy.'"

Patrick Renn, Boney's attorney says he has admitted that Boney mislead investigators at first, but then told then the truth.

Testimony is expected to resume on Tuesday, since Floyd County courts will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

Online Reporter: Janelle MacDonald

Online Producer: Michael Dever