Retired master sergeant in court again

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Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis
Hennis, right, accused of rape, three murders


Retired master sergeant in court again
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 21, 2008 6:46:51 EST

A retired master sergeant is back in uniform at Fort Bragg, N.C., pulled from retirement to face three counts of premeditated murder and possibly the death sentence for a 22-year-old crime.

Master Sgt. Timothy B. Hennis is charged — once again — with stabbing and slitting the throats of the wife of an Air Force officer and two of their daughters in their Fayetteville, N.C., home.

Then a sergeant, Hennis was convicted and sentenced to death by the state of North Carolina in 1986 for the May 1985 rape and murder of Kathryn Eastburn and the deaths of her 5- and 3-year-old daughters. A 22-month-old daughter, Jana, was found unharmed in her crib.

Claiming he received an unfair trial on weak evidence, Hennis, who was 27 at the time he was charged, won his appeal and was acquitted in 1989 of the same charges.

His second wife, Angela, stuck with him through the two trials. The couple’s daughter, Kristina, was barely 3 months old when the Eastburns were killed.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/army_hennis_080120w/