Day 23, Tuesday 15th - Afternoon update
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3:27 p.m. Prior has nothing further for today. He will continue cross-examining the witness tomorrow. Join me tonight at 6:30 MDT for ‘Courtroom Insider.’
3:26 p.m. Prior reviews the timeline of data points where Alex Cox’s phone was tracked on the Daybell property on Sept. 23.
3:24 p.m. Prior asks Wright if he is familiar with the shallow grave where JJ was found. Wright is aware.
3:22 p.m. Prior asks Wright to point to the garage on a GPS map and asks the distance from the garage to the barn in the back. Wright doesn’t know the exact size of the property, but he believes it is at least 100 yards.
3:20 p.m. Prior asks if there was any electronic information or evidence that Chad Daybell was at his property on Sept. 23 at 9:41 a.m. Wright reviewed no information showing Chad’s whereabouts that morning.
3:18 p.m. Prior asks Wright if he knows where JJ Vallow was the evening of Sept. 22. Wright says he has heard from reports that JJ was with Alex that night.
3:13 p.m. The exhibit is shown on the screen. It’s from Sept. 23, 2019 at 4:37 a.m. UTC time. It appears to be a message from Melanie Gibb to Lori. “We sent this to Chad. About 2 this morning David woke up with great pain and sorrow in his heart. He felt something big was going to happen. It was going to happen now or soon. Please call when you can. Maybe you can help him understand it. Whatever it was this was immediate. He can’t get to these people and there’s nothing he could do for them.”
3:12 p.m. Prior asks Wright if he looked into any correspondence between Lori, Melanie Gibb and David Warwick from the early morning hours of Sept. 22. Wright says he did not but believes other investigators did. Prior asks to publish an exhibit.
3:06 p.m. Prior shows the slide displaying Alex’s device activity on Sept. 22. Prior asks who was staying at Lori’s apartment on that day. Wright is aware JJ Vallow was at the apartment, and so were Melanie Gibb and David Warwick.
3:03 p.m. Prior shows the raccoon text on the screen. He asks Wright if anyone heard a gunshot in the area. Wright believes some of the neighbors were spoken to, but the police didn’t have this text until eight months later. Animal remains were found with the human remains. Wright doesn’t recall what type of animals were found in the pet cemetery. “There seemed to be at least one animal near where Tylee’s remains were found.”
3:02 p.m. Prior asks how many times Alex was at or near the property between September and November. Seven times total – four times in September and three times in October.
3:01 p.m. Prior asks Wright if he was involved in chemical testing at the apartment in Rexburg. He says the evidence response team went to the apartment at one time and took swabs of unknown substances. He does not know the results of the testing.
3 p.m. Prior asks if Wright was familiar with Chad’s habit of going to the Salem church or BYU-Idaho. Wright was not aware of Chad’s schedule. Prior asks what vehicle Alex drove to Yellowstone. He responds it was as silver/gray Ford F-150 pickup truck.
2:58 p.m. Prior asks Wright who was living at the Daybell residence on Sept. 9. To his knowledge, it was Chad, Tammy and Garth. He asks Wright if he knows their work schedules. Wright was aware that Tammy worked at the school and worked school hours on weekdays. Garth worked at two jobs.
2:52 p.m. Prior reviews the activity of Alex’s device on Sept. 9. There are gaps in the timeline, and Wright is unable to say where Alex’s device was during the gaps. Prior puts up a GPS map showing the Daybell property. There is a long driveway behind the residence.
2:48 p.m. As Wright testifies, Chad Daybell is typing on the computer and scrolling on the computer in front of him.
2:46 p.m. There were data points until 11:55 p.m. on Sept. 8 in unit 107. There were more data points in the same apartment going into Sept. 9.
2:45 p.m. Prior asks where Alex’s phone was between 11:44 p.m. and 2:42 a.m. on Sept. 8-9. Wright doesn’t recall but believes it’s in his report. Prior asks for him to review the report. Bailiff takes him the report.
2:42 p.m. We are back in the courtroom and jurors are in their seats. Prior shows a slide showing Alex’s device placements on Sept. 8-9.
2:12 p.m. Prior asks about the margin of error on the data points. We will now take an afternoon recess. Back in 20-30 minutes.
2:10 p.m. Prior asks follow-up questions about data points and the accuracy of the device movement.
2:01 p.m. Prior asks about the Yellowstone trip. He shows the cell phone activity of Alex’s device in the Old Faithful area of the park. Wright walks through the movement of the device and notes the data shows nothing of significance during the trip.
1:58 p.m. Prior asks if Wright was present when the Rexburg apartments were searched. He was not. Prior asks about items seized during that search and who was the lead detective on the case. Det. Ray Hermosillo and Det. Ron Ball were leading the case for Rexburg police.
1:56 p.m. Prior asks who was present at the search of Daybell’s property in January 2020. Wright says multiple investigators were at the home. The sheriff’s office collected 43 items at that time.
Here’s the story we did at the time.
1:52 p.m. Blake has no further questions. Prior will now cross-examine.
1:49 p.m. We see an overhead GPS image of the LDS Church building in Salem. Alex’s device was there from 10:07 – 10:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 18.
1:42 p.m. On Oct. 18, Alex’s device was at Chick-fil-A in Ammon from 7:58 p.m. – 9:32 p.m. The device was then at the Salem church from 10:07 – 10:45 p.m. The next data point is on US Highway 20 in Rexburg.
1:39 p.m. Alex’s device takes a trip to Hurricane, Utah on Oct. 16. On Oct. 17, the device is at the Las Vegas airport. On Oct. 18, the device in back in Rexburg at the apartments. Lori flew to Hawaii on Oct. 17.
1:37 p.m. Alex Cox’s device was at Walmart the same time a new device was purchased on Oct. 8. The new device was activated the next day on Oct. 9 and there were ten text messages between the new device and a Chad Daybell device between 7:13 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
1:32 p.m. Blake displays GPS maps showing where Alex’s device was located near the Daybell residence on the evening of Oct. 9, 2019. There aren’t a lot of places for a vehicle to pull off on the road running near the house – but there is one spot near a canal. That’s where Alex’s device registered a data point.
1:27 p.m. Pants found at the apartment complex matched the pants on the receipt. On Oct. 9, 2019, Alex’s device was in the vicinity of Daybell’s residence from 4:50-5:03 p.m. but didn’t seem to stop, Wright says. The device was then at apartment 107 from 5:16-11:53 p.m.
1:26 p.m. A Frogg Togg brand black pair of rain pants was also purchased. Warrants showed the Homerjmaximus account searched for “frog togg sizing for pants” on Google.
1:21 p.m. A camouflage beanie was purchased. We see a slide that shows a large flip mitt fingerless glove bought at the store. A dark gray three hole ski mark was also purchased.
1:13 p.m. We now see an overhead map of Sportsman’s Warehouse in Ammon, Idaho. This shows data points inside the store where Alex’s device was located. Wright retrieved receipts from Sportman’s Warehouse that showed camo pants, gloves, a Dr. Pepper and other items were purchased with cash.
1:10 p.m. The device went to the Fremont shooting range on Oct. 15 in the morning and then again in the evening. The device also went back and forth between Alex’s and Lori’s apartment – and there was a stop at Chad Daybell’s house for 15 minutes in the afternoon.
1:09 p.m. On Oct. 12 and Oct. 13, the device went to the Fremont County Sportsman’s Club shooting range. It was there for around two hours each of those days.
1:06 p.m. Alex’s device went to the Fremont County Sportsman’s Club shooting range at three different times on Oct. 7. The device also went to the Unified Sportsmen’s Club. The next day, on Oct. 8, the device went to both shooting ranges in the morning.
1:05 p.m. We are back in the courtroom. Blake continues questioning Wright about location data he examined in regards to Alex Cox’s device at the gun range.
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