Crime Scene

The Bronco was sitting in the left-side garage bay and in the same position that it normally sat after Kim would park it there. The Bronco was a large, sturdy two-door vehicle that was chosen by Kim and Dave in large part because it was a safe vehicle in which to place the kids, both of whom routinely sat in the backseat. Brad normally sat behind Kim and Jill was in the rear curbside passenger seat. Seatbelts were mandatory for the kids.

On the night of September 28th as the Bronco sat in the garage, the passenger door was open, the lower middle of the windshield had been shattered by a .380 round (which had passed through Kim's head), Kim's cell phone was under the driver's seat and a piece of her fingernail lay on the front passenger floorboard, although it was not recovered until months later.

Three shell casings were found. One on the garage floor, one on the back seat, and one on the floor of the Bronco near the rear of the driver's seat.

The back seat was later revealed to have a hole through it which matched the probable flight of the shot that killed Jill. A projectile was found in the cargo bay, buried in the carpet, which matched the probable flight of the hole through the seat.

A projectile was also found in the shattered windshield, near the bottom, which was the probable round that killed Kim.

A third projectile was found in the cargo bay which was the probable shot that killed Brad.

One normally would have expected Kim's purse to be sitting on the vacant front passenger seat next to her keys which were lying on the seat. Some police officers recalled when they arrived that it was, indeed, on the car seat. When it was collected into evidence, however, it was in the kitchen of the house. It was later revealed that it was probably taken into the kitchen by police personnel, although no one claimed responsibility for doing so.

Of great interest was the fact that Kim's brown shoes were off her feet and were sitting on top of the passenger side roof of the Bronco near the edge. They were sitting next to one another and had obviously been placed there with care inasmuch as they weren't in disarray. Sergeant Clemons claimed that those shoes were also part of a manipulation of the crime scene.

(Note: The term manipulation was used a great deal by Sergeant Clemons and later by the alleged blood spatter "expert" Rob Stites but no one explained why shoes on top of a car constituted manipulation or why a crime scene that allegedly had bleach added to the flow of blood was manipulation. The allegation of manipulation was the first in many such allegations which had no justification in fact; i.e. make an allegation but don't support it with evidence or provide a legitimate theory as to the motive for such manipulation.)

When the police arrived they found that Kim was lying on the floor with her feet slightly under the passenger side door. Her blood-stained pants were under and around her head and she was only wearing black panties with her shoes removed and sitting on top of the Bronco and no sign of pantyhose, knee-high stockings or other footwear.

As several police officers later stated, the size of the wound, its location, and the massive amount of blood loss immediately indicated to them that she had been fatally wounded.

The massive amount of fluid flowing from Kim's head which turned from a congealed crimson red to a yellowish clear fluid wasn't something that Evidence Technician Jim Niemeyer had ever seen before and he had no idea what caused it. Sean Clemons was also unaware that blood, once exposed to the open environment, actually separated into a yellowish liquid and cellular matter. He was later convinced that the blood flow was also part of the "manipulation of the crime scene".

Also in the blood trail was a distinct straight line which had been caused by some type of obstruction to the flow of blood. It could have been literally anything but a backpack seemed very possible when it was later discovered that Charles Boney's DNA was at the crime scene as well as his palm print and sweatshirt. Those three items, plus the fact that he was known to hide a gun in his backpack made that item a distinct possibility as being the source of the impediment. Whatever caused the obstruction in the blood trail, it was dismissed by police as meaningless.

The serum trail also led outside the garage and onto the blacktop. Dave, upon returning home, unknowingly parked his left front tire of his truck on the stream of fluid. Trooper Shelly Romero would later put a pebble next to the location where she had seen the stream at it's a point furthest from Kim's wound, thinking that it would possibly help in determining the time of the crime. That was a good thought but her suggestion was ignored by the evidence technicians who didn't measure the length of the original or continuing blood flow.

The police found Brad lying on the garage floor basically parallel to the passenger side of the Bronco with his head towards the opened bay garage door and Dave's pickup truck. His arms were outstretched and his legs and feet were together. Kim's blood-stained pants lay between him and her left hand was barely touching his left foot. His outstretched right hand was not quite reaching the blood trail from her head. Dave had removed Brad from the rear driver's seat side and had given him CPR in a vain attempt to revive him. Unlike Kim and Jill who had each suffered a gunshot to the head, Brad had no readily apparent head wound.

Brad had on Nike athletic shoes, dark blue athletic pants with a wide white stripe and a smaller orange stripe. He had on a blood-stained dark grey lightweight sweatshirt with white strips down both sleeves. The sweatshirt wasn't fully covering his torso, but rather his lower chest and abdomen were exposed and that area was blood-stained.

Brad's face had blood encrusted on his cheeks, nose and upper lip. On the left side of his face was the stippling which provided a clue as to the distance the shooter was from Brad when the gun was fired.

Brad was also partially lying on a grey sweatshirt. Dave didn't recall seeing it when laying Brad on the floor and neither did most of the police when they responded to the scene. Sergeant Niemeyer later claimed that he did see it but failed to collect it. He said it was lost in the confusion of the moment and was placed in the body bag with Brad and taken to the Medical Examiner's office rather than placed in custody as it should have been.

Police personnel later attempted to paint their own scenario when they described the sweatshirt under Brad as having been tucked under him rather than him being laid on a portion of it. Once they couldn't connect the sweatshirt to Dave, even though they lied to him by telling him that the basketball players had claimed to have seen him wearing it at the church gym, they dismissed it as an unexplained and insignificant "artifact."

Jill was sitting in the back seat on the passenger side with her seat belt still fastened. She was wearing dark blue pants, a blue and white horizontal stripped long sleeve shirt, white socks and brown sandals. She was lying on her left side with her head towards the middle of the car with the left side of her head on the car seat. She had suffered massive trauma to her head, the result of an apparent gunshot wound.

The left arm of her shirt was totally blood soaked and the left side of her hair was also bloody. Her left leg was bent and crossed in front of her on the seat and her right leg was dangling over the right side of the bench seat. A trickle of blood extended from her head, around her right ear, and into the right corner of her mouth, indicating she had fallen forward and had remained in that position long enough to allow the blood to have created the flow stream. The fact that she had been sitting upright when shot was confirmed by the location of the flight of the projectile through the back seat.

For several hours the evidence teams photographed the crime scene and the bodies as well as videotaping Brad and Kim and the interior of the garage. They didn't videotape the interior of the Bronco or Jill, however.

Evidence Technician Niemeyer dusted the Bronco for fingerprints and found several on the smooth painted surface. He successfully lifted those prints for later comparison.

As noted, three empty .380 shell casings were found in the garage and Bronco and retained for evidence as was a green vinyl jacket that was lying on a cardboard box on the right side of the right garage bay.

That green jacket would be tested, retested, and re-retested several other times for blood, all with negative results. The police didn't believe Dave's assertion that he had spilled a soft drink on it but instead thought that it was blood. The police finally dropped the green jacket from consideration only after it finally became apparent that it wasn't part of the crime. The "BACKBONE" sweatshirt, however, was almost immediately dismissed as insignificant after the police couldn't link it to Camm.

The three spent rounds were later examined by Sergeant Ed Wessell, an ISP firearms expert who, like Lynn Scamahorn, let the evidence do the talking. His experience, expertise and patient examination revealed that the .380 rounds were fired from a Lorcin .380 semi-automatic hand gun. The Lorcin is a very cheap Saturday-Night special which is popular with street thugs and drug dealers.