A convicted child killer has yet again been denied an appeal by the Nebraska Supreme Court.
On Friday, the court rejected the appeal from Ivan Henk, the father convicted of the 2003 killing of his four year old son Brendan Gonzalez. At the time Henk told authorities that he had dumped Brendan's body in a Bellevue dumpster, but the boy's body was never found.
Henk was attempting to seek a new trial, saying that evidence in the case had been planted and his attorneys had failed to properly defend him. The appeal stated that blood evidence found in the dumpster was planted by former Douglas County crime scene investigator David Kofoed.
Kofoed has been the cause of a number of appeal. Kofoed was convicted of planting blood evidence at a scene in 2006 that sent two innocent men to jail for a Murdock, Nebraska murder. The team that processed the dumpster, finding the blood of Brendan, included Kofoed.
The Supreme Court ruled that they would not approve the appeal because Henk admitted to, and detailed, killing his son and never brought up false evidence when he accepted his plea deal.
Because of that plea deal, Henk is serving a life sentence for First Degree Murder, instead of being placed on death row.