A former Fort Campbell Army major accused of killing a couple and their neighbor in Pembroke over five years ago appeared in Christian County Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
Christian Martin is charged with three counts of complicity to murder, arson, attempted arson, and other offenses in the fatal shooting of Calvin and Pam Phillips and Ed Dansereau in November 2015.
Olivia Adams, representing Martin’s defense attorneys, along with Assistant Attorney Generals Alexander Garcia and Barbara Whaley appeared virtually before Chief Circuit Judge John Atkins.
Adams advised the judge the defense had filed a motion for three pieces of discovery that they are missing. Garcia responded that they object to the characterization that the discovery is missing when it has been provided with the exception of the additional evidence requested by the defense counsel.
click to download audioJudge Atkins vacated a hearing scheduled on December 14th and set another pretrial conference for December 30th at noon.
Martin was arrested in May 2019 on a sealed indictment returned by a Christian County grand jury in the shooting deaths. Police said the body of Calvin Phillips was found inside his home on South Main Street in Pembroke, and the bodies of his wife Pam and their neighbor were found with gunshot wounds in a burned-out car in a cornfield on Rosetown Road a few miles from the victim’s homes.
Martin remains lodged in the Christian County Jail under a $3 million bond.
