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True Crime Documentary - Missing Wisconsin Woman Found Murdered In 'Car Accident' · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, And so your wife is injured.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: In a car accident.
• 0:13
  Speaker 3: Is this superlime that team?
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: No, the investigators were telling me they needed to investigate
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: this a little more thoroughly than just a traffic accident.
• 0:24
  Speaker 5: Are you guys listening in and add this.
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: To my wife?
• 0:28
  Speaker 6: He was a very fidgety, very nervous. His leg was
• 0:31
  Speaker 6: shaken quite a bit.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: Jis are own her neck? Are consistent with angel?
• 0:38
  Speaker 5: Okay, and I never chirped her.
• 0:42
  Speaker 7: They're gonna start looking at this and figure out, well,
• 0:48
  Speaker 7: this is silly, like he didn't do this.
• 0:50
  Speaker 8: Three months after a West Salem woman died from what
• 0:52
  Speaker 8: was believed to be a freak accident, her own husband
• 0:55
  Speaker 8: is now charged with killing her.
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: Can't hear me? Is that true that you punched her
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: broken nose? No, there's blood on both your knuckles.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Snapped from punching my wife.
• 1:10
  Speaker 9: It absolutely made no sense to me that this man,
• 1:16
  Speaker 9: after twenty five years of a marriage that everybody saw
• 1:21
  Speaker 9: as being happy one day, just snapped, killed his wife
• 1:26
  Speaker 9: and staged an accident.
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: Your wife going that you've ever thought that this is
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: what he's going to tell you? And I'm going to
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: me how the nut situate you and I grab the
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: gun trying to find the first place to put a body.
• 1:40
  Speaker 10: No, sir, the only thing they could do was killing
• 1:42
  Speaker 10: you want to.
• 1:43
  Speaker 5: Sell you anything, lead a jury, and to find the defendant.
• 2:00
  Speaker 7: They met in high school.
• 2:02
  Speaker 11: US finds should love their wives as much as they
• 2:05
  Speaker 11: loved themselves.
• 2:06
  Speaker 9: Todd and Barbara had a really special relationship.
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  Speaker 12: For as much as Todd and Barbara have consented together
• 2:13
  Speaker 12: in Holy wedlock, I pronounced them husband and wife, and.
• 2:17
  Speaker 7: Then they just sat together ever since.
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  Speaker 9: They were a team and everything they did.
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  Speaker 4: Todd was a pret typical average person at middle class,
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: lived in this area all of his life. His wife
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: worked as a what we call lunch lady at the
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: local middle school, so pretty normal person by most accounts.
• 2:47
  Speaker 11: Barbara and Todd Kenher celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary
• 2:51
  Speaker 11: with family and friends.
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  Speaker 7: We threw a surprise party for them, but we actually
• 2:56
  Speaker 7: pulled it off and surprised them. It was really emotional
• 3:01
  Speaker 7: and it was just really cool to see everybody there
• 3:04
  Speaker 7: celebrating them and their lifetime together.
• 3:10
  Speaker 11: One month later, on County Road, m tragedy struck.
• 3:15
  Speaker 13: Okay until your wife is injured?
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: Yes, okay, and you're in.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: A car accident.
• 3:21
  Speaker 9: Yes, a play for something, came for lunch part?
• 3:23
  Speaker 14: Sure, what's your first name?
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: God? God?
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna help you help her until somebody gets there.
• 3:29
  Speaker 10: Okay, Up.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds upset, he sounds excited. It sounds like a
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: weird accident and an unfortunate accident.
• 3:37
  Speaker 15: Exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 5: Take got her and she's hitting a head in the
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: THRONA think in the throne something.
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  Speaker 13: She's just bloke them out her nose and mouth.
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  Speaker 11: And how old is she?
• 3:50
  Speaker 10: One?
• 3:52
  Speaker 14: She awake?
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  Speaker 9: No, tell you to do what she talked?
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: That person a little bit?
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, you see breathing.
• 3:57
  Speaker 13: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 16: He's terribly traumatized. He's like, what what do I do?
• 4:06
  Speaker 10: Love coming out of malt.
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  Speaker 13: You're coming pack keep aren't going for her right now?
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: Continue with the CPR.
• 4:15
  Speaker 16: You can hear him trying to do CPR. He's out
• 4:18
  Speaker 16: of breath. Then he's worried that he may have heard
• 4:21
  Speaker 16: her because he didn't do it right, made it worse.
• 4:34
  Speaker 9: He's standing there covered in the blood from trying to
• 4:38
  Speaker 9: do CPR on her. He was interviewed four times in
• 4:42
  Speaker 9: the first hour while his wife is receiving CPR while
• 4:46
  Speaker 9: she's being loaded into the ambulance.
• 4:49
  Speaker 11: Barbara, still alive, was rushed to the hospital.
• 4:53
  Speaker 12: Sir coming over with me, Okay, what happened? You know
• 4:56
  Speaker 12: what happened?
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  Speaker 11: The pipe? There's a pipe over there.
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  Speaker 7: Gon't be all right.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know there was a pipe in the ground. No,
• 5:07
  Speaker 12: come on, that tree off a truck, off a truck, a.
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  Speaker 11: Truck or a trailer or something.
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  Speaker 8: I think it was a truck with a flapping on it.
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  Speaker 12: And the truck took kept going. It didn't I don't
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  Speaker 12: know if he fell up.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, were you in the car with her?
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  Speaker 16: I was.
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  Speaker 8: I was driving.
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  Speaker 12: I tried to catch it, hit catch the pipe.
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  Speaker 5: I tried to see it.
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  Speaker 15: I hit it.
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  Speaker 9: I'd want to hit it, but the windshield got me.
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  Speaker 12: It came across the windshield.
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  Speaker 16: It came through the windshield.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, just stay right here.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my god, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 12: The pipe was there, he said. The truck was going
• 5:41
  Speaker 12: this way. It was an older flat bed. It came
• 5:43
  Speaker 12: off the flatbed truck and went right through the windshield.
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: He said.
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  Speaker 12: He tried to deflect it, but he couldn't, and it
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  Speaker 12: hit her in the head and she just started flailing
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  Speaker 12: all over.
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  Speaker 11: The officers could not understand how his car ended up
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  Speaker 11: as it did in the coffort.
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  Speaker 12: Is the normal, ty, well, he said, he backed up
• 6:02
  Speaker 12: because he was such a panic.
• 6:04
  Speaker 5: Is this normal?
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  Speaker 9: No. All he cared about was Barbara, and she was
• 6:12
  Speaker 9: in trouble and there was nothing he could do. He
• 6:16
  Speaker 9: was absolutely helpless, and he was so upset and so
• 6:20
  Speaker 9: frantic that every single one of those police officers who
• 6:24
  Speaker 9: talked to him at some point had to say, breathe, Todd, breathe, Todd, Listen.
• 6:30
  Speaker 12: To me, steep breath. You're starting to hyperventilate, okay.
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: Through the noise.
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  Speaker 9: He was truly distraught, frantic, and it was because his
• 6:39
  Speaker 9: beloved Barbara was suffering.
• 6:44
  Speaker 12: County guy comes here, he'll take over, and then I'm
• 6:46
  Speaker 12: gonna go look for that pipe.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, it's right.
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  Speaker 5: I pulled me out of the wind show.
• 6:49
  Speaker 12: He pulled it out of the wind show.
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  Speaker 1: It's sitting right beside the car.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: The pipe was about five feet long, galvanized steel.
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  Speaker 12: You want him to take pictures of Todd his hands front,
• 7:00
  Speaker 12: all the blood, his knuckles and everything before he takes off.
• 7:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, at that point, we were still, you know, trying
• 7:06
  Speaker 6: to figure out what we had. So that's where we're
• 7:09
  Speaker 6: just trying to make sure we documented that.
• 7:13
  Speaker 11: Barbara was in critical condition at the hospital on life support.
• 7:16
  Speaker 11: As the family gathered, they.
• 7:18
  Speaker 7: Were starting to tell us that, you know, there was
• 7:22
  Speaker 7: not going to be much else they could do, that
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  Speaker 7: she was going to be brain dead.
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  Speaker 11: Police immediately began a search for the truck that might
• 7:35
  Speaker 11: have dropped the pipe.
• 7:36
  Speaker 6: We had investigators are out pulling video from different businesses,
• 7:40
  Speaker 6: different residences to try to locate this truck that he
• 7:46
  Speaker 6: had explained to us was there and passing.
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  Speaker 11: One video from a horse farm showed the car that
• 7:52
  Speaker 11: Todd and Barbara were in that morning, about a mile
• 7:55
  Speaker 11: before the accident happened.
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: Within a minute or two, you should see a truck
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: plowing southbound. If there were a truck, and there isn't.
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  Speaker 11: Any other videos were closely scrutinized.
• 8:03
  Speaker 6: We're never able to see any kind of truck that
• 8:05
  Speaker 6: he would have described to us go by, and we're
• 8:09
  Speaker 6: never able to find anyone that would have been driving
• 8:12
  Speaker 6: a vehicle match in that description and with a payload
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  Speaker 6: that would have matched what Todd described.
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: Within a couple of days, the investigators were telling me
• 8:21
  Speaker 4: there were some issues they were finding, and then once
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: the autopsy was done, there were some bigger issues that
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: they decided they needed to investigate this a little more
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: thoroughly than just a traffic accent.
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  Speaker 11: The lab technicians reported a number of inconsistencies based on
• 8:36
  Speaker 11: their examination of the car.
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: There's no blood when the head rest, and the most
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: serious injuries were from the back of her head.
• 8:42
  Speaker 11: The windshield had been struck twice.
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  Speaker 4: By the pipe, so we tried reenacting it.
• 8:48
  Speaker 11: State police investigators conducted some twelve different reenactments with a
• 8:53
  Speaker 11: similar pipe.
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: Some of them do show up bouncing, but I think
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: only one of them showed that their bounce or not,
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: it still doesn't get the windshield twice, and he still
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: don't have two impacts. He said that he had gotten
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: some scratches on his neck from working with glass at work.
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: Get it turned out he doesn't work with glass at work.
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  Speaker 4: He had some injuries to his knuckles that he said
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: came from hitting the windshield, which seemed unlikely.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: WHU you go into a seat there.
• 9:21
  Speaker 11: On the day before Barber's funeral, Todd ken Hammer was
• 9:25
  Speaker 11: brought in for questioning.
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  Speaker 4: We were still trying to figure out maybe there's something
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: we're missing that he can explain that. Okay, that was
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: all wrong, but here's what really happened.
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: I just want to say sorry for your loss and
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: terrible tragy. I can't imagine what you want to.
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  Speaker 11: Investigators told ken Hammer they needed his help with some
• 9:44
  Speaker 11: new video leads.
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  Speaker 16: So they tricked him to coming back and they said, hey,
• 9:49
  Speaker 16: you know, come in, we found some videos of the
• 9:52
  Speaker 16: truck or something, when really what they wanted to do
• 9:54
  Speaker 16: was to bring him in and put the screws to him.
• 10:02
  Speaker 6: When you do an interview, you you let the person
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: talk and tell you their story. You're always looking for
• 10:08
  Speaker 6: a confession, but provable lies are a great thing to
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: have In statements.
• 10:13
  Speaker 11: Sheriff's Office Detective Fritz Leinefelder and Sergeant Mark Yelly conducted
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  Speaker 11: the questioning of Todd kN Happer.
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  Speaker 17: I'm just telling you that anytime that so many dies,
• 10:22
  Speaker 17: will it be a traffic accident? Some there's obvious a
• 10:26
  Speaker 17: lot of questions and if we don't take the first person,
• 10:29
  Speaker 17: one person's word for it when you're under a dress.
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  Speaker 17: That's why we're here today is just to kind of
• 10:34
  Speaker 17: clear things up, trying to get answers to some of
• 10:37
  Speaker 17: those other questions. Obviously, as time goes by, more questions
• 10:41
  Speaker 17: come up, and and we wouldn't be doing our jobs
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  Speaker 17: if you don't don't look into it through release.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why I Kim when you're when you called
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  Speaker 5: a I.
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  Speaker 13: I want to get this.
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  Speaker 5: Bar.
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  Speaker 16: You're going into the lions dead. They were not looking
• 11:01
  Speaker 16: for his side of anything. They wanted to convict him.
• 11:06
  Speaker 16: They wanted to get a confession out of him, and
• 11:10
  Speaker 16: they picked a time the day before his wife's funeral,
• 11:15
  Speaker 16: when he was going to be still traumatized, but maybe
• 11:19
  Speaker 16: even more emotional.
• 11:20
  Speaker 11: They started by asking ken Hammer where he was going
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  Speaker 11: that morning.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: I was going over to talk to a guy who
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: worked with pilicisty, Justin Heimer.
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  Speaker 6: Justin Heim, a person that he worked with that he
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: claimed had a windshield that was broken that he was
• 11:39
  Speaker 6: going to go fix. I did an interview of Justin
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: him and that turned out to be completely untrue.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: I talked to Justin, Okay, he had never had a
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: you do any work for him?
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  Speaker 5: Are you guys have seen you in that I.
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  Speaker 12: Did this to my life?
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  Speaker 18: I'm not haven't seen you anything at this point, I'm
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  Speaker 18: saying that just saying that there wasn't a windshiel.
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: Word, he didn't talk to you. You hadn't seen you
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: in about a.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: Month, and so I told you at least a month.
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: Maybe I'm just guessing, but I'm not changing my story.
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  Speaker 6: I'm he was a very fidgety, very nervous. You know,
• 12:16
  Speaker 6: his leg was shaking quite a bit. You know, he's
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: showing different signs, you know, in the nonverbal world of
• 12:21
  Speaker 6: shutting down and not wanting to talk, and his hands
• 12:24
  Speaker 6: over his face, his head face down.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: I did you can ask my kids have kids will
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: tell you. I don't do anything for her anything.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: There's injuries to Barbara that aren't consistent, okay, Okay.
• 12:44
  Speaker 18: There's a lot of injuries to her that aren't consistent
• 12:48
  Speaker 18: with the pipe going through the windshiel. Okay, And we
• 12:51
  Speaker 18: need an explanation for those pay And we don't have
• 12:55
  Speaker 18: an explanation for some of those injuries because they didn't
• 12:59
  Speaker 18: happen by a pipe coming through the winds child. And
• 13:02
  Speaker 18: I think you understand that, and you, I mean, I
• 13:04
  Speaker 18: think you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 13:06
  Speaker 18: There's interest in the back of her head, there's interest
• 13:08
  Speaker 18: to her neck, there's interest to her nose, there's interest
• 13:10
  Speaker 18: to her forehead, there's interest to her jaw. There's all
• 13:12
  Speaker 18: these different injuries that didn't occur. The pipe didn't go
• 13:15
  Speaker 18: bing bing bing bing bing bing.
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  Speaker 3: Injuries around her neck are consistent with being choked.
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: I okay, and I never choked her.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, I never.
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: But I mean, I've got I've got time.
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: You got it. Gotta stop for a second, take a
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: breath and relax.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, I can't.
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: He's shaken, he looks exhausted, he looks grief stricken, he
• 13:42
  Speaker 9: looks numb.
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  Speaker 5: If I if I, if I was gonna try to
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: do something to my wife, I sure, and the hell
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have done it like this, to put somebody through
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: misery and pain like that. There's no way in hell
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: I would have.
• 14:00
  Speaker 9: Never.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: I've got fifty guns in my cart, I've got so
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: many things. And we had a fight. There was actually
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: zero fight.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: While we were interviewing him in that room, there were
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: other investigators at the house that we're doing a search
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: warrant that we had prepared and ready to go to
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: see if there was any evidence of something that would
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: have happened at the residence.
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: I just kind of glanced over at the sheet that
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: he left there that was the warrant and it said
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: something about first intentional homicide, and I was like, what, what,
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: what is this? I've never seen my dad heard a fly,
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: so I mean he's never heard anything that I've seen.
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: I guess we thought, you know, they're gonna start looking
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: at this and figure out, well, this is silly, like
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: he didn't do this.
• 15:01
  Speaker 11: About three hours into the questioning, Todd ken Hammer changed
• 15:05
  Speaker 11: his story about where he was headed that morning, not
• 15:08
  Speaker 11: to see Justin, but a friend of Justin's.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I'm confused. Justin had a conversation with you and Mason.
• 15:14
  Speaker 18: Hey, I got a buddy that needs a wind shild
• 15:16
  Speaker 18: of your parent, and you said I've got one.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: That turned out to be false, alsome.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: You're not telling us the whole truth.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Yes I am. You're not.
• 15:25
  Speaker 16: I'm not.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not. I wish you were.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I wish.
• 15:27
  Speaker 18: I know it's tough and I'm not trying to get
• 15:29
  Speaker 18: your ould up, but you're not telling us the truth.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: You're not something else.
• 15:35
  Speaker 10: The guys, I.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Can't do anymore. I can't do it. I can't tell
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: you anymore. I can't do anymore.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: I think he had a pretty good idea where we
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: were kind of zeroing in on that we believe that
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: he was the one that was responsible for Barbara's death.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to stand in my word and tell
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm going on.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: I'm telling so you can't stand anymore. So you're back
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: in the corner. There's the time to get it out.
• 15:58
  Speaker 10: I'll be in the corner of It's tough.
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: I I.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: Stand in the corner then, I mean, I'll get her
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: out of the corner.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I measured with releases. Yet I know what do I know?
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: What does.
• 16:15
  Speaker 15: I know?
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: What does and I have nothing?
• 16:19
  Speaker 11: Nothing I'm lying about nothing.
• 16:25
  Speaker 17: Give a lot of reasons for staking to your story,
• 16:27
  Speaker 17: I understand it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: But but but telling her what reason I would have
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: to do this to my wife? That's what I don't understand.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: We did not have a strong idea of what a
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: motive might be other than we don't know what happens
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: in domestic relationships.
• 16:39
  Speaker 18: We're going to go through everything, folds, computers, everything, everything,
• 16:44
  Speaker 18: her phone, photographs, talk to her friends, talk to her friends.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: They looked at bank records, They talked to coworkers to
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: find out if there was any hint of what might
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: be going on in their lives at the time. But
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: nothing jumped out as a as a motive for a crime.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: Mh.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: They've comed through our lives with a fine tooth comb
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: and can't find anything. I'm the one who's lived with
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: my dad and my parents my whole life, and I
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: know them and anybody else you ask that knows them
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: knows that he didn't do it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 13: We're gonna do it everything.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I understand that, and I'm not going to hide one
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: thing from you. Guys, if you if there's.
• 17:25
  Speaker 18: Anything that, I think, in my opinion, that you're hiding
• 17:29
  Speaker 18: one thing, and that's how all these injuries happened.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: The story doesn't matter up. Obviously you didn't plan because
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: this is I don't life right now. I didn't something
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: happened that you're not telling us. Okay, the dres your time.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 18: The injuries are are what they are. They didn't occur
• 17:48
  Speaker 18: as you said them. You're the only one who was there.
• 17:51
  Speaker 18: You're the only one that knows.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I am bar.
• 17:55
  Speaker 18: We can't ask part, okay, we can't. We can't ask part.
• 17:59
  Speaker 18: We can ask you, and you're the only one gonna
• 18:01
  Speaker 18: be able to tell us in her memory. You're the
• 18:04
  Speaker 18: only ones tonna be able to tell us some day
• 18:09
  Speaker 18: you're going to I think you're going to it's gonna
• 18:13
  Speaker 18: fester rot. You're gonna tell us what happened. Accidents happened,
• 18:18
  Speaker 18: and it wasn't the accident on the road. There was
• 18:20
  Speaker 18: an accident that happened prior to that between you environment.
• 18:23
  Speaker 18: Things got out of hand and things shouldn't happen that happened,
• 18:27
  Speaker 18: but they happened, and that's what it is.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I would never never, I don't care what the explanation was.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Hurt my wife or anybody for that reason, especially in
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that manner.
• 18:37
  Speaker 18: Something happened, something triggered it. You said, you don't snap,
• 18:40
  Speaker 18: but something happened.
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: So you're gonna know where the next step?
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: What was there?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: What if you want to know all, you gotta just call.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: We had no further questions. He was allowed to leave
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: the Sheriff's office. Something caused Todd the snap. I'm not
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: exactly sure what it was, and a fight ensued, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: looking at the nature of all the injuries that you have,
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: it looked like that Todd beat his wipe to dead.
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: But with no confession, it would be up to the
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: crime lab and the forensics team to turn the theory
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: of what happened on County Roade m into enough evidence
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: for n.
• 19:20
  Speaker 13: Or rest war.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: One of the theories that we had is that Todd
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: retrieved the pipe from the trunk and then through the
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: pipe through the windshield again staged the incident.
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: And a single blade of grass became an important clue.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: The car was backed into the swamp where or some
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: tall swamp grass, and it looked like somebody who had
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: opened up a trunk and had closed it and caught
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: some of that grass in the trunk. Yeah, that's the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: only way the grass would get there. There's no explanation
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: for that other than somebody going in the trunk.
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: And the photos taking off ken hammer the day of
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: the accidents also became important.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: He had injuries to both hands on his knuckles.
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: Plus scratches around his There.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Was obviously a fight inside the car. No blood in
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: the headress kind of tells us that that's not maybe
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: where those injuries happened.
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: And then a truck driver who had passed the accident
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: seen came forward as an eyewitness.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: And he saw a kind of ditch and thought maybe
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: he was a teenager that made a ye turn and
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: got stuck, so he slowed down, looked to see if
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: any people were there. Most importantly, didn't see any people
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: and also didn't see damage to the windshield. Obviously the
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: car didn't go into that ditch because of paking through
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: the windshield. That must have been done afterwards. In other words,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: that must have been staged.
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: At the Kenhammer home. The family was in disbelief about
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: what was happening.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: He's a suspect now and he's going to get arrested,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: and we're like, well, they can't arrest him, like he
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: hasn't done anything, And we just kind of talked with
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: him and he told us what was going to happen,
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: and it did.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Three months after, a West Salem woman died from what
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: was believed to be a freak accident. Her own husband
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: is now charged with killing her.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Newsad's Madeleine O'Neill now joins us in this room with the.
• 20:59
  Speaker 15: Latest Martha and Mike. A homicide charge against the forty
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: six year old Todd Kinhammer has been filed today after
• 21:05
  Speaker 15: an investigation shows he may be lying about how his
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: wife died. It felt like I kind of came out
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: of nowhere, you know, having an arrest for a homicide
• 21:14
  Speaker 15: that you didn't know was a homicide that you thought
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: was a crash was out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 16: Of the ordinary.
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: Kinhammer pleaded not Guildy and his family stood strong behind him,
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: raising the money for a vigorous defense.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: It absolutely made no sense to me that this man,
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: after twenty five years of a marriage that everybody saw
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: as being happy, one day just snapped and killed his
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: wife and staged an accident. And that was that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: The trial for a West Salem man accused of killing
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: his wife is underway today.
• 21:55
  Speaker 15: Signs outside and inside. You don't see a lot of
• 21:57
  Speaker 15: murder trials in La Cross. I'll tell you that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: Seats in the courtroom were set aside for Todd's family
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: and across the aisle for Barbara's family.
• 22:06
  Speaker 15: Family members were overwhelmingly in support of Todd, and that
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: even included Barbara's mother should sit on the side for
• 22:11
  Speaker 15: Todd rather than for Barbara.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: He's a basket case pretty much the whole time. He
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: actually developed Graves disease, which is hyperthyroidism which causes tremors,
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: which people attributed to his guilt, But he had an
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: untreated medical condition going on.
• 22:29
  Speaker 19: We'll start with the state, mister Greenkey. I have a
• 22:34
  Speaker 19: difficult job.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I need to convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: the defendant in his case killed his wife of twenty
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: five years, Barbara kanteand I know that they were going
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: to talk about the lacomotive. I think it's human nature
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: to ask why would someone do this? Why would it happen.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I won't pretend to you that I know everything that
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: happened that day, because I wasn't there. Barb unfortunately has
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: passed away, and the only person that can tells what
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: happened is telling a story that is not true. You
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: won't hear any evidence that Todd and Barbara were fighting.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Many people say that they seem to be a good couple,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: a happy couple, a normal couple. There won't be any
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: testimony witness to some sort of argument or history of
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: violent behavior. But in the end, you will be convinced
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that there was no truck. There was no truck that
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: lost the pipe. Pipe did not fly and crashed their windshield.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And once you understand that, the only reality left is
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: an unfortunate one that nobody wants to face and nobody
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: wants to admit.
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: But we have to find the.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Truth for Barb.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: And at the end of the case, I'll ask you
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: to enter a conviction of guilty for first your intentional
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: homicide for Todd can.
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: Hem right, mister Hurley, are you ready to give the
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: defense opening? Yes, sir right, proceed, Good morning. He was opening.
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: Say that mister corney told you that you're not going
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: to hear evidence of a motive. It's not simply that
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: you're not going to hear such evidence. What you will
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: hear is evidence of one of those quiet but amazing
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: love stories they had kind of marriage where they were constantly.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: And defense lawyer Steve Hurley told the jury that they
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: would hear from Todd Knhammer himself.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: You'll hear that on the Thursday following her death, it
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: finally hit him and he's going to tell you that
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: he spent the day crying and crying and crying. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: while he was doing that, he got a phone call
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: from the police and they liked it. They said they
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: wanted him to come down and talk to them because
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: they had some video of possible flatbeds that they wanted
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: him to look at. And he said, okay, and you're
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: going to see that tank. You're going to see someone
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: who is in an emotional state and incredibly nervous when
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: you've heard everything. It isn't simply that the state will
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: not have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he killed
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: his spouse. You will know that Todd Keenhammer could never
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: have even had the thought passed through his head, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: I will ask you to find him not guilty.
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: Thank you. My name is doctor Kathleen mcobn.
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: The state's most important witness was the medical examiner who
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: conducted the autopsy on Barbara Canhammer.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: The cause of Barbara Kenhammer's death was blunt impact injuries
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: of her head and neck.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: When you look at these injuries, do you think they
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: came from a pipe.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: I do not believe that these injuries are consistent with
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: the end of a pipe striking the back of the head.
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: No, right, mister earlier be perceived with your cross examination.
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: Good morning, got good morning. Were you given any information
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: about how mister ken Hammer had extracted his wife from
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: the vehicle? No specifics.
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: No.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: I was told that he removed her from the vehicle,
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: but not specifically how.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: We told that he finally had to yank her out
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: of the vehicle.
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: No, I was not.
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: We told that after he extracted her from the vehicle,
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: they fell backwards with her on top of him.
• 26:35
  Speaker 13: I don't think that specifically was told to me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: No.
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: And at each of these movements there is the opportunity,
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: is there not for the body to incur a scrape
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: or a contusion.
• 26:49
  Speaker 15: That is a possibility.
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: Yes, Are you ready to call your next witness?
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Stay calls Justin Heide.
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: Justin Hie was the person who ken Hammer had originally
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: told police he was going to see a a replacement
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: windshield on the morning of the accident.
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: Are you aware of any reason why Todd Kenhammer would
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: have been coming to your house on the morning of
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: September sixteenth of twenty sixteenth.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: No.
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: Ken Hammer had then said he was actually going to
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: see a friend of him, Ben.
• 27:15
  Speaker 20: Path, after I spoke with Ben and I told Todd
• 27:19
  Speaker 20: that Ben was not interested in having the winshield replaced,
• 27:23
  Speaker 20: and that was pretty much left at that.
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: And then the one witness who had driven by the
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: car and the ditch that morning before police.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Arrived, Sir, could you state your name, Randall Earler. As
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: you drove by, did you hear anything?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: No?
• 27:39
  Speaker 13: I did not.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Did you see any damage to the windshield?
• 27:45
  Speaker 16: No, I did not, as I looked through it to
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: look through that at that angle that seeing the door
• 27:51
  Speaker 16: was opened, I saw, I know damage whatsoever.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: It all left a lot writing on Todd Kenhammer's testimony,
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: but his family he was confident.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: We had our hopes up because we were like, this
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: should be pretty cut and dry, like it's blatantly obvious
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: that he didn't do this.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: We have something here that we don't have in most trials,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: which is a defendant on the stand.
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: His testimony in this case is going is the turning.
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: Point Todd Alan Kenhammer.
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: His lawyer, knew the best defense was that Todd had
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: no motive to kill his wife.
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: Is that youw and bar?
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: Yeah?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was a picture book saying, I mean just
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: one of these things where you know immediately that's the
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: girl you want.
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: The jury had already seen the three and a half
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: hour police interrogation of Kenthammer that the prosecution said showed
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: him to be a liar.
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: And you recall on at least one of those tapes
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: telling people that you were looking for Justin Heim's place. Yes,
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: do you know where Justin Heim lives?
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: No? I do not.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: Why did you say Justin him?
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: When I watched those tapes and I watched that video,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: That's not me it's me in the picture, but it's
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: not me talking. It's not right state of mind talking
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: in that I wasn't thinking of where I was going
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: or what I was doing. I was thinking of Barb.
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: And now he testified, He recalled he was actually going
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: to see somebody else who justin Haim knew.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: Do you remember the name of the person he mentioned?
• 29:36
  Speaker 15: It was Jerry Logging, a third person. We could not
• 29:40
  Speaker 15: believe that when there was a third person. That's just
• 29:42
  Speaker 15: one of those jaw dropping moments.
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: Do you recall when you were first asked what happened?
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: You said a pipe came through the winch? Yes? And
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: was that true? Did a pipe come through the winch?
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: Yes it is. Did you take her head and bash
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: it against the wheel room?
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: No?
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: Did you take a pipe and beat her with it
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: in any way?
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: No?
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Did you love Bart? Yes? Did you love her on
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: September sixteenth of last year, Yes, I still do. Did
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: you ever do anything to physically hurt Bart?
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: No?
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: I never have ever anything to my wife. Have you
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: ever lost your temper with her?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: No, never ever lost my temper with Barb.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: I have no further questions. He didn't look like a killer.
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: He seemed kind of sad, didn't he could the jury
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: see him as somebody who's, frankly, just a husband who
• 30:43
  Speaker 14: loved his wife who got lost and badly confused in
• 30:46
  Speaker 14: some sort of tragedy. It's not the worst reasonable doubt
• 30:49
  Speaker 14: argument I've ever heard.
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: May your cross examination.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I was trying to be aggressive enough to show him
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: that I believe he was lying, so the jury would
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: see that I thought he was lying to when the
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: police don't it scratched on your neck? You first said
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: that that was from working with glass?
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: Correct?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I said that, yes, Well, were these scratches from glass?
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: No, not from glass doing at home?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: That was a lie.
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: It wasn't a lie.
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: It was not true.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: It was not true.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: The scratches were from her trying to get you off
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: of her, weren't they.
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: Nope, the two of.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: You were fighting and she was scratching your neck.
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: Nope.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Well, run a topic. Your memory seems to fade at
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: certain parts, mister Candahmer, be solid in other parts. Is
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: it possible you're making this entire story up? No, mister Cantammer.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Isn't it true that you punched her, broke her nose? No,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: caused bruise on her face?
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: No?
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: There's blood on both your knuckles.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: Right, snap from punching my wife.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: There's scratches on your neck, right, Yes, there was. She
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: had scratches on her neck too, right.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: Yes, she did.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: You were strangling her at some point, weren't you. No,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: you describe a flatbed truck as a two thousand truck era,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: dark color, not white, pocket sides eight inches of two feet.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: That sound pretty detailed, wasn't it?
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: It does sound detail.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: You thought more detail wud make your line more believable.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I was trying to help, trying to help by sending
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: the police on a wild goose chase.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: No, not sending the amount of wild goose chase.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: They challenged your story about where you were driving that day.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Do you remember that? Yes, you said you wouldn't change
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: your story. It's one hundred percent true. Yes, you said
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: you wouldn't snap.
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: Correct.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: But now we know they were right to question that
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: story about just nine because it wasn't true.
• 32:45
  Speaker 13: Yeah, correct, that's all I had.
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: The prosecution closed out its case with a surprise rebuttal.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Witness, Could you state your name?
• 32:56
  Speaker 11: Jared Logging, the person Ken Hammer had claimed in this
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: testimony that he was going to see.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: That morning immediately after that statement, we were on the
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: phone making contact. He was extremely upset because he knew
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: it was a lie.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Had you talked to mister Kinhammer about fixing a windshield
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: on that truck?
• 33:14
  Speaker 15: No, I think it's just almost like a collective gasp,
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: where you see that third witness, that's the nail in
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: the coffin.
• 33:30
  Speaker 19: At this point we'll hear closing argument from Council on
• 33:34
  Speaker 19: the state having the burden of proof, goes first, but
• 33:36
  Speaker 19: they also get the last word in a rebuttal comment.
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: So, mister Greenky, thank you your hunter.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: As I told you last Tuesday in opening arguments, we're
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: here to seek the truth of what happened to Barbara Knhammer,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: and the truth does not support the defendant in any
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: way in this case. And even though I don't think
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: we have every answer, because one person involved in this
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: has passed away and the other person has done nothing
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: but throw up smoke screens, we have enough answers to
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: find this defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We have
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: to accept the fact that we are here to do
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: a simple job, but a very important job, and that's
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: to find the truth, the truth of what happened on
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: September sixteenth, not to judge the marriage of Todd and
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Barbara can Hammer, Not to say whether or not he's
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: always been a violent man or always been a bad man.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Sometimes people can have two sides of them, and sometimes
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: good people do bad things, sometimes bad people do nice things.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: If you believe that the defendant lied about what happened
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: and did things to cover this up, he's guilty. It's
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: really that simple. We have given you more than enough
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: evidence to find that Barbara Canhammer was beaten to death.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: If you were to find him not guilty, you'd have
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: to believe he was a victim of not only an
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: accident that defies physics and all the physical evidence, but
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: a series of incompetent law enforcementsters, incompetent medical examiner, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: an incompetent crime lab.
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: You should give.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Barbara what her husband will not, the truth about her death.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: He killed her, and he should be held accountable.
• 35:21
  Speaker 19: At this time, mister early, are you ready to give
• 35:23
  Speaker 19: your closing argument? Yes, sir, right, proceed, Good morning. Nobody.
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: Nobody who knew barb and Todd ever saw the market,
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: not in twenty five years of marriage, were during their
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: entire courtship. Nobody ever heard him raise his voice to
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: her or she to him. The state tells you no
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: marriage is perfect, and the odds of that being true
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: are great. But just because there might be a day
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: and no marriage was perfect doesn't mean you're gonna kill
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: your spouse. Use common sense, especially in answering the question
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: why would this man ever want to kill the woman
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  Speaker 10: who has been his entire adult life, the woman that
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: he fell in love with when he was sixteen years old.
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: I ask you to do your duty, and in doing
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: that duty, to find Todd ken Hammer not guilty. Thank
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: you for your attention throughout this trial.
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: All right, mister Greenkey may give you a rebuttal argument.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Thank you, your honor. We've proven to you that mister
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: ken Hammer, for some reason that I can't tell you,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: because he's the only one who knows, killed his wife
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: and then tried to cover it up, and then came
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: into court and lied to you to try to get
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: away with it. Don't let them get away.
• 37:11
  Speaker 19: Been advised that there is a verdict at this point.
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  Speaker 19: I expect absolutely no comments in any way, shape or
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  Speaker 19: form from any member of this courtroom at this time.
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  Speaker 19: Mister ken Damer, if you please rise for the reading
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  Speaker 19: of the verdict State of Wisconsin Versus Todd A.
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  Speaker 13: Ken Hammer, be the jury find the defendant, Todd A.
• 37:32
  Speaker 13: Ken Hammer.
• 37:35
  Speaker 19: Guilty a first degree intentional homicide has charged in.
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  Speaker 7: The information when they said that I was just like
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: one of my cousins took my daughter away from me
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: because I was like so distraught. We were all really
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: upset and very angry that they had done this to us.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: We don't know how this works, and we've just got
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: played by the system. My name is Jessica Servis and
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: I am Todd and Barb's proud daughter. My dad is
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: an amazing, kind and caring person, and he has been
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: nothing but kind and caring to anyone he meets for
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: my entire life, and I ask you for your consideration
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: in my dad's eligibility for parole in twenty years. Please
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: understand that my parents were a very big part of
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: our lives and we would like the opportunity to share
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: more of our lives with my dad.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: Barbara Canhammer's cousin, Jerry Ann Buckner, was the only family
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: member to speak against Todd ken Hammer and on behalf
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: of the victim.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: We are family too, with heavy hearts and compassion for
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: all involved. That being said, we are compelled to stand
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: up for Barbara so justice can be served and her
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: soul can rest in peace. The horror of knowing she
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: suffered terribly while being strangled and having her skull fractured
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: by her assailant is gut wrenching.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: There is not one of.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Us here today that has not experienced anger or rage
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: in our lifetime. But to blatantly and repeatedly lie to family, friends, coworkers,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and law enforcement requires him to serve the full penalty
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: for his crime. We ask the court this day to
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: sentence him to life in prison.
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: Mister ken Hammer, at this time you wish to address
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: the court, and.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: I do what your honor.
• 40:07
  Speaker 10: I would like to say.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you to my family and friends for the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: support that they've offered and continue to offer.
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: And I appreciate that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: And I think for the time.
• 40:23
  Speaker 19: Right, mister ken Hammer, Is there any reason I should
• 40:25
  Speaker 19: not then now complete sentencing. No, there seems to be
• 40:31
  Speaker 19: a hidden side to you. To me, you snapped on
• 40:34
  Speaker 19: that date, you lost it, committed this horrific act. Barbara's dead,
• 40:40
  Speaker 19: and there's the cover up thereafter. That goes to your
• 40:43
  Speaker 19: degree of culpability. You are the one responsible for her death.
• 40:47
  Speaker 19: That's some pipe falling off the truck. There's a lot
• 40:52
  Speaker 19: of pain and suffering in this courtroom, and you're the
• 40:55
  Speaker 19: focal point of it all.
• 40:57
  Speaker 13: Whether you can ever restore people.
• 41:00
  Speaker 19: Faith in you, I don't know, but you are somewhat
• 41:05
  Speaker 19: of an enigma. But this is not church. I don't
• 41:09
  Speaker 19: believe in mercy in the courtroom. I don't believe in
• 41:12
  Speaker 19: being lenient or harsh, because those are things that are
• 41:17
  Speaker 19: not appropriate. What's appropriate is the right sentence for the
• 41:22
  Speaker 19: right person. Your attorney's asking for a twenty year of
• 41:24
  Speaker 19: parole eligibility date twenty years is way too short to
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: lengthy of your marriage at twenty five years is in
• 41:31
  Speaker 19: my mind, way too short. I will set your parole
• 41:35
  Speaker 19: eligibility or review datea at March ninth to twenty forty eight,
• 41:42
  Speaker 19: thirty years from now, when you're seventy seven.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: I was like, do you realize what you've just done
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: through our lives? In his life, we just kind of
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: looked at him and you know, said that we loved him.
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: And when they walked him away, I didn't really know.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: What to think.
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: But we're we're going to fix this like they're going
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: to realize they made a mistake.
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: The family quickly hired a well known pair of Wisconsin lawyers,
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: a husband wife team to appeal the conviction.
• 42:10
  Speaker 16: I've seen all kinds of homicide cases and this one
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: never adds up, never added up to me.
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: And they thought the re enactment video was showing a
• 42:21
  Speaker 11: bouncing pipe supported ken Hemmer's version of events.
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: The trial attorney's never put in the pipe drop reenactments
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: to show that's exactly what could have happened.
• 42:31
  Speaker 11: But the trial judge rejected the first round of appeals
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: and Todd Kenhemmer remains in state prison.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: There's not a question in my mind that Todd did this.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: The theory of an accidental a pipe flying through in
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: shield is so far fetched. One hundred percent confident that
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: we've got the right person in jail and justice is
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: being served.