Fry to Daughter's Body: 'I'm Sorry'

As the medical examiner’s office arrived to transport the body of 8-year-old Camden Fry on the morning of Aug. 11, 2009, a “distraught and hysterical” Kimberly Fry knelt over her daughter for the last time.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” she sobbed, said Detective Robert Hazard Friday as he took the stand.

Hazard and fellow detective Sgt. Joel Mulligan of the North Kingstown Police Department both sat before jurors Friday, recounting the morning they responded to the Fry house just after Camden’s body was discovered. Among Mulligan’s testimony was a seven-minute video he took just prior to the medical examiner’s arrival.

The video shows a “neat and orderly” bathroom with toy zebras, giraffes and elephants lining the side. The video then shifts to the bedroom of Camden Fry with the girl’s body, blue from lividity, still wearing her pink pajamas. According to Mulligan, the girl’s hair was still wet from what appeared to be a shower or bath and there was “blood on the ridge of her nose.” Red marks on the carpet beside Camden’s bed could be seen in a second video taken later that day.

While on the stand, Mulligan read a five-page letter apparently penned by Kimberly Fry the night of her daughter’s death. Fry, who is accused of strangling her daughter for which she faces a second-degree murder charge, also took a cocktail of pain killers, antidepressants and sleeping pills in a failed suicide attempt that night.

“I don’t know what came over me,” the note read. “I just couldn’t take it anymore.”

The letter, intended for her husband Timothy, goes on to say that Fry was tired of “fighting and fighting just because I asked her to take a bath.”

“I wish it could just be us, but it can’t,” the note said.  

In another excerpt, Fry says, “I am worthless as a mother and a person.”

The notepad was found weeks later on Sept. 2 by Timothy Fry when he tried to use the pad for notes and discovered the apparent suicide note.

Mulligan, one of the first detectives at the scene, also did the initial interview with Fry at the North Kingstown Police Department.

“It was one of the hardest interviews in my life,” said Mulligan.

The trial will return to session this afternoon. Check back with North Kingstown Patch for updates.