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Occurred on helium road, it takes about three and a half, to five minutes, to drive to that location. so, that means she left her house, about ten minutes till ten. if she arrives at helium road in three and a half, to five minutes plenty of time. she has time to kill robin, and then drive back to manhattan street, and arrive at about 10:20. that ten minute gap cast doubt on katie s alibi. so, really, it is katy s best friend who puts the noose around her? absolutely. something else was hurting katie too. if you watch dateline regularly, you know cell phone data can make, or break, a case. that was, certainly, true in this one. at 10:13, katie ping off of
The dea prepared for trial and also prepared to gamble. that the biggest mistake of his career would also become his best argument in court. are you confident you are going to be able to convict j.d.? yes. you have a stronger case than you did against katy? yes, because, the case we had against katy the defense was going to be obvious. jury, you have just as much reason to believe j.d. did it as you do katie. that is also going to be jt s defense? they won t work, scientific data proves katie could not have done it she was never on helium road. she left savannah home and eight minutes later she arrived on manhattan street, he admits he was on helium road, if that gun kills robin, only two people could have done it, either katie or j.d.. and i can prove it wasn t katie. but, not according to j.d.
J.d. had apparently asked his mother in law for a big favor. can we buy him a ticket to go to new york. for the weekend the trip to new york felt phony to you? oh yes. and it did to farren as well. it s not that far from there to the canadian border and after talking about it and thinking about it i said, let s go ahead and make the arrest. your daughter had been married to this guy yes. and now he s accused of her murder. it was like, i just can t believe it. and for katy, there was relief to be sure but much more than that. when i got the call that he was in fact in custody, i laid there and bed and i was just crying, i want robbyn back, i want those kids happy, i want to be happy, i want what will never be. now remember, j.d. was only arrested not convicted.
Secretaries upfront talking about the fact that if you have an android phone, that this tracking event occurs. and she had seen some program on television about it. funny, the things that you learn on tv. turns out some smartphones leave a digital footprint whenever they connect to a wi-fi network. katie s phone had the wi-fi turned off, but her son diego s phone had it on. that meant investigators could use wi-fi data to map diego s every move that night. and based on witnesses, prosecutors were convinced katie and diego were always together. so if you can track diego s phone, you can track what katy was? as i said to our investigator. get that data! because wherever diego was, katy was! if diego is on helium road that night, thing katy was on helium road that night. i couldn t wait to get that data.
Conversation, katy was a free woman. we spoke with her days after her release. i never thought that i was ever going to see grass again. or clouds again. or, little things that so many people take for granted. sunshine. just sunshine on your face. it s a gift. by then, she had dropped the last name spielbauer and went back to her maiden name katie phipps. her first trip out of jail was a surprise visit to see her daughter, harley. who had been living in florida with her dad. i was sitting on my couch. they open the door, the sun was on the face. [crying] my mom and my brother walked in. the tears went, and they were just there. everyone was like oh my baby! happy ending?
youknow something. i don t know anything. in my soul i believe you know what s going on here. the best i can do, giving you the benefit of every doubt i could possibly give you. is that you have some really deep suspicions that you don t want to discuss with me. sir, i do have a lot of suspicions. i do have a lot. whatever those suspicions were, jd was not saying. investigators had suspicions of their own. and next in the box? j. d. s wife katie spielbauer. coming up! the warning that robins friend gave her about katy. don t be alone with her. she s the kind of crazy that will kill you. and why katie may have been so angry with robin. is my husband cheating on me with her? i don t have proof of that. i will tell you this right now. they were gonna meet last night. you take a minute.
why would i confess to something that i didn t do? a one month goes by. nothing happens. two months. nothing happens. six months? nothing happens. there has to be a point when you re losing hope here? i talk to my lawyer. what we do? he says we wait and see. he says katy, the evidence is gonna come back and the evidence isn t going to go anywhere. james have been putting criminals away for as long as katy had been alive. he knew his evidence against katy was not definitive. cell phone pings the night robin was killed shows katie wasn t in range of our cell tower that would ve been on her route home from helium road. but from katy s best friend s house, the location of her alibi, katie would also have been in that cell tower range. and then, serendipitously, came a break. katy had been in jail more than a year when strangely enough, one of my investigators overheard one of the
Lies, remember, j.d. first told investigators he was never at the crime scene on helium road, later he said yes he had been there but so was katie. investigators found security video of a pickup truck that looked like j.d. s near the crime scene, close to the time of the murder. you can see and side the vehicle, we are confident that it is his vehicle but we can t prove that. what about katie? never saw any vehicle come through that security view that looked anything like the car katie was driving that night. tantalizing but not definitive, which seemed to be true of a lot of the evidence against j.d.. it had taken just four days to file murder charges against katy, but farren burn watts was reluctant to charge a j.d. without more proof. and so, nine months went by. and then the d.a. got a call from robin s mother jackie that forced him to act.
Obviously, mongold wanted to know, why j. d. changed his story. because, the thought of everything, that my wife could possibly have did something, was freaking me out. was that, really, why j. d. was coming clean? this time around, he not only admitted he had plans to meet robin that night, but also told them, where. and, it was not at his house, as he had first said. but j. d. maintained, he never left his house. well, it didn t work for me j. d.. it doesn t work for the phone records we have. mongold already knew, upping from j. d. cell phone was telling a different story then j. d. was saying. 9:23, how was your phone at i-40, and bell, westbound, headed towards a crime scene? j. d. said, he could explain that. somebody took it there. who? only other person that was at the house. which was? that would be katy. why would she take your phone? apparently, she probably saw text message on it. might she have taken the phone after that? and your truck? that s a good possibility.