Television Nirvana

Victims Katie, Kara and Erin Eastburn Thank goodness for online television viewing because I missed this episode of 20/20 which aired a few weeks back, dealing with the seemingly improbable legal case of Tim Hennis.  I have kept up with much of the Hennis case, involving the brutal 1985 murders of Katie Eastburn and two of her daughters, Kara and Erin.  I read the excellently written book Innocent Victims by Scott Whisnant.  I watched the well done television movie of the same name.  I found the 20/20 segment to be very well done, presenting as much of the overwhelming amount of evidence as possible within the forty or so minutes allowed.  Particularly heartbreaking were the emotional interviews with the victims' husband and father, Gary Eastburn, and the surviving Eastburn child, Jana, who was less than two years old at the time of the murders.  20/20 also interviewed author Scott Whisnant, who continues to hold firm to his belief that Tim Henni...

In the "better late than never" category and following up to my earlier posts on Tim Hennis from my other blog ( HERE , HERE and HERE ), in April of this year the former Master Sergeant was sentenced to death for the 1985 slayings of Army wife Kathryn Eastburn and two of her young daughters.  Hennis was originally convicted and sentenced to death in civilian court but received a new trial in which he was acquitted.  He is the only person known to have been acquitted in civilian court and later convicted and sentenced to death in military court for the same crime.  He has become the sixth person on the military's death row at Fort Leavenworth.  Perhaps not coincidentally, four of the six hail from military bases in North Carolina.  For anyone not familiar with the Hennis/Eastburn case, I encourage you to read my earlier posts, as well as Scott Whisnant's Innocent Victims if you can get your hands on a copy.  If you've heard about this case, what do y...