Innocent Victims - Scott Whisnant

Innocent Victims

By Scott Whisnant

  • Release Date: 2017-02-21
  • Genre: True Crime
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 43 Ratings)

Description

The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis.

On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s wife, had been raped and stabbed to death. Kara and Erin’s throats had been slit. Their toddler sister, Jana, was the only survivor of a bloody killing spree that terrified a community still reeling from the conviction, six years prior, of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald for the savage slayings of his pregnant wife and two daughters.
 
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department soon focused its investigation on US Army soldier Tim Hennis. Detectives and local prosecutors built their case on circumstantial evidence and a jury convicted Hennis and sentenced him to death. But his defense team refused to give up. Piece by piece, they discredited the state’s case, exposing false testimony, concealed evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. At a second trial, Hennis was found not guilty and released from death row.
 
But an even more stunning turn of events was yet to come. Twenty-five years after the murders, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation tested a crucial piece of DNA evidence from the crime scene. The shocking results led to an unprecedented third trial to determine Tim Hennis’s guilt or innocence.
 
From the initial discovery of the horrifying scene at 367 Summer Hill Road to the controversial change of jurisdiction that allowed Hennis to be prosecuted for an astonishing third time, author Scott Whisnant chronicles every development in this intricate, disturbing, and still-evolving case. Has the mystery of who killed Katie, Kara, and Erin Eastburn been solved beyond a reasonable doubt? Read Innocent Victims and decide for yourself.
 

Reviews

  • Clear Narrative of an Astonishing Case

    5
    By downhomeala
    Very engaging and easily read description of the twists and turns of the investigation of a Fayetteville, NC multiple murder. The author who by profession is a reporter, fully develops the events surrounding the investigation, trial and conviction for capital murder of a young NCO stationed at Fort Bragg. The complexity of the events surrounding this process seems like very imaginative fiction, but everything is for real. Very interesting and emotionally engaging -- and with a real surprise at the end. Well worth your attention.

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