Camm Call Threatens Prosecution's Theory

NEW ALBANY, Ind. -- David Camm's guilt or innocence may hinge on what time he made a phone call on the night his family was killed.

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Camm, a former Indiana State Police trooper, is charged with killing his wife, Kimberly, and his two children, Bradley and Jill, in their Georgetown, Ind., house in September 2000.

NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller reported that a supervisor for Verizon Communications took the stand Tuesday and testified that the company discovered a mistake in its billing.

The mistake came to light after questions were raised about a phone call Camm made from his home on the night of the murders.

Camm claimed that he called a potential client at 6:19 p.m., but phone company officials had said that the call was made at 7:19 p.m.

Miller reported that the difference is crucial because it supports Camm's claim that he was at a church basketball game from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. that evening.

The Verizon supervisor said that he mistakenly added an extra hour for daylight savings time.

"We were able to send him copies of this hour-off situation between Verizon and other carriers, and we said, 'how come?" defense lawyer Mike McDaniel said.

Prosecutors maintain that the time was accurate, but the Verizon official testified that the the problem was traced back to a software upgrading at a switch that manages Verizon's calls, Miller reported.

Prosecutor Susan Orth claimed that phone company officials are looking at the wrong records.

"I think what he's looking at are billing records from Fort Wayne, as opposed to billing records from our area," Orth said.

McDaniel said that without the 7:19 p.m. phone call, the prosecution's case crumbles.

"A lot of what they relied on, what their recontructionist relied on, was that phone call placing David there to prop up their otherwise shaky testimony. I think it's in the toilet," McDaniel said.

The Verizon official said that the problem has been fixed, and that the company had not received a complaint until the trial.