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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Ind. Law - Camm, Boney charged in triple-murder plot

The headline in the Louisville Courier Journal this morning is "Camm, Boney charged in triple-murder plot." The story by Ben Z. Hershberg begins:

For about an hour yesterday, former Indiana State Police Trooper David Camm thought he was free -- exonerated in the 2000 murders of his wife and two children.

The charges he faced had been dismissed by a judge in Warrick County.

But almost immediately, Camm, who was out on bond and living with a relative, was rearrested and taken to the Floyd County jail, charged with three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.

He was being held there last night along with a co-defendant, Charles D. Boney, 35, of Louisville, a convicted felon, who was facing the same charges.

Prosecutors allege that Boney gave Camm the gun used in the murders, which occurred on Sept. 28, 2000, and that both were present at the scene of the crime -- the garage of the Camms' home in Georgetown.

The effect of the legal maneuvers was to bring both defendants into the case in one jurisdiction -- though by the end of the day it wasn't clear that the jurisdiction would be Floyd County.

Camm was convicted of the murders in 2002, but last year the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the verdict.

Last November Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson refiled the murder charges against Camm and agreed to move the case to Warrick County because of publicity locally.

That's where things stood until yesterday, when Henderson moved to have the charges dismissed in Warrick County and then filed new charges in Floyd Circuit Court -- combining Camm's case and Boney's.

The story, along with related sidebars and additional stories, is available here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 10, 2005 07:45 AM
Posted to Indiana Law