Chapter 8 - THE PHONE FORENSICS
The first forensic report answered some questions.
My phone had been used every day of confinement.
Unlock events.
Message activity.
Location.
Day One after I entered the shed, the phone moved from our property to Fenella’s house for roughly three hours.
Then back.
Day Two:
Fenella’s house.
Day Three:
Our house.
Day Four:
Our house.
Day Five:
Backyard.
That matched the tote.
Who physically used it?
Location alone could not prove.
Then fingerprints.
Mine everywhere.
Fenella’s on case and screen.
Not surprising.
She had handled it before.
Then message timing.
Several fake texts were sent while my phone was connected to Fenella’s home Wi-Fi.
That was powerful.
Fenella said:
“I brought the phone to my house because Clotilde left it.”
But why send messages from it?
She denied.
Then biometric?
My phone used PIN, not biometric every time.
Passcode entry logs do not record person.
No camera.
Then one message draft recovered:
Make it sound like she is angry not missing.
Not sent.
Stored in Notes.
Authorship unknown from device alone.
Then another:
Mention work.
The prosecutor wanted more.
They obtained a search warrant for Fenella’s laptop.
There, synced browser history showed searches:
Can text messages show location.
How long can someone safely go without food.
Pregnancy fasting risks.
How much water per day minimum adult.
My skin crawled.
Defense argued:
She searched after the incident out of concern.
Timestamps:
Two days before.
There.
Then:
How to turn off location sharing iphone.
Day before.
No reasonable post-event explanation.
Still.
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The full central conclusion needed the notebook and email drafts.
Not yet.
