LIVE UPDATES: Lori Daybell’s life insurance phone calls played on day 5 of Arizona trial
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Lori Vallow Daybell is on trial in Maricopa County, Arizona, on one charge of conspiracy to commit the murder of Charles Vallow, her fourth husband. Nate Eaton is live in the courtroom with updates. Please excuse any typos. Times listed below are in Mountain Standard Time, so they are an hour behind Idaho. (Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time.) The most recent updates are at the top.
4:39 p.m. Treena doesn’t know of anyone off the top of her head. Lori suggests maybe a witness can help. Judge tells Lori to get with Mr. Dworkin later tonight and see if it can be revolved. Dworkin is Lori’s expert. Judge says this is unlikely to be an issue for this trial because it was filed late. We are in recess.
4:38 p.m. Treena says she has multiple problems with the fact that this is still being discussed at this point in the trial. Judge asks if someone at the police station can get on the phone and help the defense.
4:37 p.m. Jeff White, Lori’s investigator, says he spent four hours trying to open the files. Treena says you made need a Cellebrite account to open it. Jeff says he has an old version of Cellebrite and it’s not working.
4:36 p.m. Lori has one more item to discuss. She says she was given a flash drive on Friday from the state with the cell phone extractions. The drive won’t open. Lori’s expert is out of town. Lori is wondering what to do. Lori has her investigator explain what’s going on. Judge asks where the extraction is coming from. The drive contains raw data from the Chandler Police Department.
4:35 p.m. Join me tonight on “Courtroom Insider” at 8 p.m. MT on the East Idaho News YouTube channel. I will break it all down. Lots to talk about.
4:33 p.m. Judge tells Lori she can not phrase questions with “I understand” or other phrases like that. It’s a form of testifying. Judge says he allowed the clips of Lori’s interrogation into the trial, rather than the entire interview, is because the rule Lori cited does not apply here.
4:32 p.m. The evidence is turned over to the police computer/cell phone analysts at the actual police stations. Judge says we will take evening recess. Jurors will report at 10:15 a.m. tomorrow.
4:29 p.m. Lori talks about the phone being in the cupholder of the car “where it had been all day.” Treena objects – says Lori is testifying. Judge sustains. Lori asks what happened to the phone after Ynclan took it. She explains the chain of command in the police department.
4:28 p.m. Lori asks what time they got back to the house and what time Ynclan left the scene. Ynclan doesn’t know.
4:27 p.m. Lori asks Ynclan what she did inside the house after Lori, Tylee and Alex left. Ynclan said she broke briefly with some other detectives and then left to work on another case.
4:26 p.m. When they got back to the house, Ynclan says Alex could not take his truck or Tylee’s Jeep because the search warrant was still happening. Lori’s car could not be taken because it was in the garage. So they took the rental car.
4:25 p.m. Lori says, “You testified I chatted the whole way back.” Ynclan says correct. “It wasn’t Alex and Tylee chatting and me looking out the window the whole way home?” Ynclan says no – it was mainly Lori talking.
4:24 p.m. Lori asks where Ynclan put Lori and Tylee at the end of their interviews. “You stayed at the Family Advocacy Center until we left.” Lori met a victim advocate and then went back to the house.
4:23 p.m. Lori asks if she believes Tylee’s demeanor was genuine that day. Prosecutor objects. Sustained. Lori asks if she thought Tylee might be making something up. Prosecutor sustains. Lori asks Ynclan if she learned during Lori’s interview that Tylee had a bat. Ynclan says yes.
4:22 p.m. Lori asks how long Ynclan interviewed Tylee. Ynclan believes it was around 30-40 minutes. Lori asks Ynclan if she believed Tylee. Treena objects. Judge sustains.
4:20 p.m. Lori says she was worried about Tylee. Treena objects. Judge sustains. Lori asks Ynclan if she always wears her gun when she does interviews. Ynclan says now she does based on her assignment. Lori asks if Ynclan treated Tylee and Lori like they were victims that day. “Actually, yes.” Lori asks if wearing a gun would have intimidated Tylee. Ynclan says based on her age, she doesn’t believe so.
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