Camm Finishes Up On Witness Stand

LOUISVILLE -- The questioning of David Camm Monday focused around the T-shirt he was wearing 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.

Camm took the witness stand for the third day.

NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller reported that lead Prosecutor Stan Faith grilled Camm about statements he made to investigators following the murders.

Faith read from the transcript of the interview verbatim.

"The only thing I touched was Bradley, I did not touch Jill," Faith read from the transcript. "That's your statement, 'the only thing I touched was Bradley,' that's what you said."

Miller reported that Camm then asked to read the transcript.

"Mr. Camm I call attention to page 20 in the transcript in your statement. What does it say?" Faith asked.

"It says the only thing I touched was Brad," Camm said. "I did the best I could under the situation I was put into."

Prosecutors believe that the T-shirt evidence is crucial to their case, Miller reported. Their experts testified that the blood on the shirt was high-velocity impact splatter, and only could have been created by a gunshot blast.

A defense expert testified that the blood stains were created from simple contact with the source.

Miller reported that prosecutors are trying to use Camm's own words to prove that he never touched his daughter, and that the only way Jill's blood could have gotten on the T-shirt would have been through a gunshot blast.

Prosecutors are pressing Camm to find out how his daughter's blood got on the shirt.

Miller reported that Camm gave conflicting statements to police. In one statement he said that he checked to see if Jill was alive, but in another, he said he could not bear to lift her head to check.

Faith: "Why wouldn't you pull her out if there was a glimmer of hope that she was alive?"
Camm: "I thought she was gone, as it states in my Sept. 28 statement."
Faith: "You have to go back to that statement to answer my question?"

Defense lawyer Mike McDaniel told Miller that Camm was doing the best he could "under the circumstances."

McDaniel admitted that Camm's statements were inconsistent, but given the stress that his client was under at the time, he considered the inconsistencies normal.

"I think David has described as best he can what he did getting into the vehicle to get Bradley out," McDaniel said. "As far as what he did on checking Jill -- that was in his statement, he really doesn't have a good recollection of that."

Faith said that the evidence is stacking up against Camm.

"There is no one big bomb, but it's a series of cluster bombs," Faith said. "He's not been consistent in anything. He can't tell the story consistently with one line."

Faith pressed Camm with questions about his actions with his daughter.

Faith: You did not bother to take her out of the truck to perform CPR? How can that be?
Camm: I did the best that I could.
Faith: You did your best at 7:30.

Miller reported that 7:30 is the time that prosecutors believe that Camm committed the crimes.

"I think he's weathered it well, I think he's answered the questions well, I don't think Stanley's winning," McDaniel said.

Faith also questioned Camm about his shooting skills.

Faith: You're a good shot aren't you?
Camm: I was average. It doesn't make me a murderer.
Faith: No it doesn't, but having high-velocity impact spatter on your shirt does, doesn't it?
Camm: I don't have it. It's speculative. I do not have high-velocity impact spatter on my shirt.

Prosecutors said that Camm's shooting ability is important to the case.

"The average burglar couldn't do that. The average human being couldn't do that," Faith said. "It takes someone with some mechanical ability to be able to do this without thinking. A machine. That doesn't described anybody except him."

Miller reported that the defense was expected to call a few more witnesses before resting its case.