Reddit reviews One Deadly Night: A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice

This has nothing to do with anything, but I thought it was an interesting series of events. This crime happened in southern Indiana, just across the road from Louisville, Ky. It's actually kind of a weird area in terms of there's just a lot of murder there. This site puts Clarksville, IN with a crime index of 3. As in it's safer than 3% of American cities. Remember the other day we talked about the cannibal case? That's where that happened. And it's not like gang or drug activity. It's just weird ass violent murders.

Anyway, this murder happened in 1992. A man named David Camm was a police officer who lived in nearby Georgetown. He wasn't an important figure in the case, but according to the book One deadly night, he was one of the officers who responded to the call when they found the body. According to the book, he saw Sharer's body and threw up. Eight years later, his own family was murdered in the garage of their home and he was arrested and wrongfully convicted for those murders. I followed the Camm case very closely. It was on Dateline and 48 hours and all that.

Anyway, the Sharer case was solved basically immediately and handled via plea deals rather than trials. The prosecutor in that case was a man by the name of Stan Faith. Faith and Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, became close after Shanda's murder and she ended up working for Faith as a paralegal at the prosecutor's office.

In 2000, Camm arrived home to find his wife and kids murdered and was almost immediately the main suspect. It would take me too long to describe the circumstances, but the gist is that Camm was framed and while there were a lot of people doing a lot of wrong things in this case, the majority of the wrongdoing was perpetrated by Faith specifically. For example, he blocked the testing of exculpatory DNA through CODIS then lied to the court and said it was done and no matches came back. There was in fact a match (when it was later tested), and that match belonged to a man named Charles Boney--another local man who regularly attacked women to satisfy his fetish for feet (and violence).

Camm ended up getting released eventually and Boney is finally behind bars, but what transpired was nothing short of surreal. When the defense finally got the courts to test the DNA and Boney was identified, he was brought in for questioning. He asked for his lawyer. When the sheriff asked for the lawyer's name, Boney named STAN FAITH. As it turns out, Faith lost the DA election and went into private practice as a general attorney. At some point in time after that, Boney hired Faith to be his attorney. It also turns out that Faith and Boney's mother Barbara were close friends. Now, there's a lot of debate as to how this whole relationship came about. Some people think that Faith knew all along that Camm was innocent and framed him intentionally to save Boney. I think something else happened: Charles was using Stan as basically a souvenir. He intentionally sought out the places and people to relive this crime. We know he went to the cemetary over and over. He even booked a freaking tour of the cemetery where they were buried. He took dates there! What better souvenir than the prosecutor? We also know that Barbara knew Charles committed these murders. And what did she do? Cultivated a friendship with the prosecutor and baked cakes and cookies for him, like, weekly. She was constantly going to the office with baked goods. He was a job reference for her.

Anyway, after he was acquitted (2011ish?), he filed a lawsuit against a lot of people and Stan Faith and everyone in his office, including Jacque Vaught, were included in that lawsuit. Now, I have no idea what her role is in this and it's not my job to decide if there was any wrongdoing (I read the complaint, but it was vague on what she supposedly did), but he sued her along with everyone else who prosecuted the case. Sorry this was so long, but it was such a crazy chain of events. All these people went through so much and are all intertwined in each other's lives. Camm worked on Vaught's daughter's case, then Vaught worked on Camm's case. Then Vaught worked on Boney's case and sat and watched Barbara traipse in weekly and ate all these cakes and cookies designed as, what? Hush money? Then the officer who found her daughter sued her for framing him for his own daughter's murder.

I don't know what to do with any of it...