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'Innocent Victims' movie is compared to MacDonald Case.

posted 16 years ago by rhonda711
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I was watching LMN the other day and a movie came on called "Innocent Victims"
(1996), with John Corbet ( Aiden from SATC) as Tim Hennis. It is a true story about an Army Sgt. stationed at Ft. Bragg in 1985 and is accused of murder of a woman and her 2 children. They are stabbed and slashed to death and the woman is raped.They talk about Jeffrey MacDonald case alot in this movie, comparing it to the Hennis case. Difference being that Tim Hennis was found "not guilty" in the 1st. trial,retired from the Army, and the Army retried him in 2006, found him guilty and court-martialed him. Interesting movie. Long but interesting.

[–] JoeLoebner 16 years ago

Wow, i can't believe ive never even heard of this movie before. I gotta look out for that one.

[–] Noirdame79 10 years ago

A segment of 20/20 profiled this case. Tim Hennis was snared by DNA evidence 20 years later. Another killer who had no apparent history of violence and went on with his life uneventfully. He raped and killed Katie Eastburn, and brutally murdered her two daughters, Kara, 5 and Erin, 3. He left the 22-month-old baby, Jana, alive. Of course she was too young to identify him. Gary Eastburn comes across as a man of compassion. And he truly grieves the loss of his wife and daughters and credits Jana for saving him. He did eventually remarry, but he still gets very emotional talking about his first wife and two older daughters. That's how a real husband and father reacts regarding such horrible circumstances. MacDonald's behavior was the antithesis of that.