Summary of tweets for Tuesday, May 2nd - Day 15
State witness: Fremont County Sheriff's Office
Detective Bruce Mattingly.
Nate Eaton
@NateNewsNow
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Dr. Christensen leaves the courtroom. Next witness called by the state is Fremont County Sheriff's Office Det. Bruce Mattingly. He has been on the stand before.
Blake will be questioning Mattingly.
Mattingly has worked for the Fremont County Sherriff's Office for 22 years. He has been a detective for six years.
Mattingly received a call on Oct. 19, 2019 for a report of the unattended death of Tammy Daybell. Deputy Greenhalgh went out of the house and called Mattingly. He says she told him she did not find anything suspicious. Mattingly did not respond to the house.
Deputy Greenhalgh told Mattingly she learned about the event on Oct. 9 for a report of a suspicious call of a paintball gun pointed at Tammy. Mattingly was not involved in the paintball gun investigation. No additional investigation was done into Tammy's death on Oct. 19
Mattingly says on Nov. 1, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office began investigating the disappearance of JJ and Tylee. They began investigating Tammy's death in December.
Mattingly says it became a joint investigation because the FBI, Rexburg Police, Chandler Police and Gilbert Police were all doing investigations into suspicious activities.
Mattingly says they obtained a search warrant for Seasons Medical, Teton Medical and Walmart pharmacy. Blake asks to admit Tammy's medical records as evidence.
The medical records will not be shown to the court and jury at this time. The defense asks to review them. Mattingly says he reviewed them and from an investigative standpoint, nothing stood out to him.
Blake asks if Mattingly saw anything in Tammy's medical records that showed she had a history of fainting. Mattingly says he did not. She asks if Tammy had any dizziness or dizzy spells. "None." Blake asks if Tammy had a history of seizures or low blood pressure.
Mattingly says there was none and her medical history was "completely opposite" of what Chad told investigators.
Detectives noticed a Fitbit on Tammy's nightstand. Mattingly issued a search warrant to Fitbit and received information back from the company. There was no heart rate or sleep patterns recorded on the Fitbit but Tammy's step count was recorded.
Blake displays an image on the big courtroom screen showing Tammy's Fitbit activity. Mattingly says the device Tammy tracked her heartrate but not record the history. It also appeared that Tammy very rarely wore the Fitbit to bed.
"The reason we were looking for that is so we could narrow down her time of death."
We now see a screen showing the total number of steps Tammy took each month from January through October 2019.
Total steps for the year was 2,787,647. Mattingly says compared to averages, Tammy's steps were a little below average in the first part of the year but she was above average the rest of the year. "Tammy was very active up until the time of her death."
There was no slowdown in Tammy's activity in the month leading up to her death, Mattingly testifies.
He says he never found anything to support she was having health issues but he did learn Tammy was involved in clogging, Zumba and was preparing for a 5K that she completed just before school started in 2019.
Mattingly says Tammy had two life insurance policies. One was from Primerica, the other was from LifeMap. Mattingly sent search warrants to both companies. Blake asks to admit documents associated with the life insurance.
Tammy and Chad were listed on the Primerica policy. They were each the beneficiaries on the policy. The amount for Tammy was $300,000. It was paid to Chad Daybell when Tammy died. On the LifeMap policy, Tammy was insured and Chad was the beneficiary.
The amount was for $80,000 and it was paid out to Chad.
Mattingly clarifies there was an additional $50,000 on the LifeMap policy - so the total payout was $130,000. Blake has no further questions. Archibald will now cross-examine.
Archibald asks Mattingly if he learned Lori was in Hawaii at the time of Tammy's death. Mattingly says he was aware of that. Archibald asks Mattingly if he knew Lori's device was not on Cahd Daybell's property on Oct. 9 or 19. Mattingly says, "It was not."
Archibald asks if Mattingly if he knew what type of medicine Tammy was on. He says Tramadol and an anti-depressant. Mattingly believes the Tramadol was for pain in her wrist.
Archibald asks Mattingly if he reviewed Tammy's school personnel file. Mattingly says he did and there were no issues - she was a good employee.
Mattingly says the Primerica life insurance policy was established in Springville, Utah before Tammy and Chad moved to Idaho. The LifeMap policy was offered through the school district.
Tammy worked part-time at the district and when she went full-time, she was eligible for a maximum amount. After working at the district a year, she was eligible to receive five times her annual salary.
Archibald asks if the life insurance companies wanted their money back from Chad Daybell because of fraud. Mattingly says it was discussed but he's not sure if anything came of it. Archibald has no further questions.
Blake asks for a sidebar with Boyce and the other attorneys. White noise is played in the courtroom.
Sidebar is over. Blake is now asking Mattingly some follow-up questions. "Are you aware whether or not Mr. Daybell does have charges pending for insurance fraud?" Mattingly says he can't recall.
"Did you learn whether or not the defendant was living off the proceeds of those insurance funds while living in Hawaii with Lori Vallow?" Blake asks. Mattingly says, "He was." Blake has no further questions and Mattingly is released from the stand.
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