Summary of tweets for Thursday, May 4th - Day 17
State witness:
Detective Colin Nesbitt, with the Kauai Police Dept. /
Part 1
Nate Eaton
@NateNewsNow
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20m
The next witness is Detective Colin Nesbitt. He works with the Kauai Police Department. Rachel Smith will be questioning him.
Nesbitt explains his professional background. He says on Jan. 25, 2020, he was assisting Rexburg Police in serving a legal document to Lori Vallow.
"They all flew over to Hawaii to whatever their investigation was in the matter. They asked for assistance in helping locate and serve Lori Vallow."
Police located Lori at a condo in Princeville. She was in the pool area with Chad. Nesbitt went with another detective and lieutenant to serve the papers to Lori. They gave
her a copy of the papers and officers asked if she had any questions.
The interaction was recorded and given to the Rexburg Police Department.
Smith asks to admit a thumb drive with the video recording he had with Lori.
Smith will now play the bodycam video for the jury.
The video shows Chad and Lori lying on chairs by the pool. They are both in swimming suits. The officer hands Lori the paperwork and says, "Do you have any questions regarding that?"
Chad sits up and leans over. Lori says she doesn't have any questions and the officers leave. In the courtroom, Lori stared intently at the monitor on their table as the video was played.
The paperwork was served on Jan. 25, 2020. Nesbitt was then assigned with a team to serve a search warrant on Chad and Lori's vehicle at the condo on Jan. 26, 2020. When officers went to execute the warrant, they were found driving the vehicle 30 minutes from Princeville.
Police initiated a traffic stop. Lori was driving. Officers gave her the search warrant and allowed her to take items she might need from the car like cash or medicine, Nesbitt says. Nesbitt says they looked through her purse and saw a credit card with the name of Tylee Ryan.
The name stood out to Nesbitt because he knew Tylee was missing. Police put Tylee's card on the front seat and the vehicle was then searched by officers. Evidence was bagged and tagged. Photos were taken during the search warrant execution.
Smith asks to admit 26 photos from the search.
Personal note: As the search warrant was being executed, I was standing off to the side wondering if I would get a chance to talk with Chad and Lori. A few minutes later, I did.
The first photo shows the front of the black SUV Chad and Lori were renting. The second image shows inside the driver's seat with Lori's purse on the seat. Nesbitt says Tylee's card is no longer on the front seat.
He assumes when they loaded the SUV onto the tow truck, the car slid off the seat because it was later found in the crack between the driver's seat and the door.
The next photo shows Tylee's card in the crack between the seat and the door. The next image is a close up of the Visa credit card. Tylee Ryan's name is clearly on the card. The next picture shows the back of the credit card.
The next photo is Lori Vallow's cell phone found in the side pocket of her purse. The phone was seized.
The card and phone were bagged and tagged then sent to Rexburg Police. The next photo shows the rear passenger side of the vehicle. On the bottom of the floor, there's a blue and white striped bag. Nesbitt says the bag had several personal documents -
birth certificates, death certificates, a marriage certificate, a rental agreement, and a patriarchal blessing.
The next photo shows what was in the back of the SUV. "There was a black Jansport backpack and inside of that backpack I seized two computers," Nesbitt says.
The next photo shows the items that were found inside the bag. There are personal documents, folders and a book called "Visions of Glory."
The next photo is of a phone that police seized. The next image is another phone. The next image is a phone with the initials JJ written in red on the case. The following photo is the front of a tablet.
The next photo shows some of the personal papers police seized. On the left side of the photo is Charles Vallow's death certificate. There were roughly 14-15 copies of the death certificate, Nesbitt says.
The document on the left side of the photo shows the condo complex where Chad and Lori were staying.
The next photo shows JJ Vallow's birth certificate and another copy of Charles Vallow's death certificate.
Now we see a photo showing JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan's social security cards. This image also shows a receipt from the Madison School District with JJ Vallow's name on it. We also see a birth certificate for Tylee Ryan. There is another birth certificate for JJ Vallow.
We now see birth certificates for Canaan Trahan, JJ's name before it was changed. There were multiple birth certificates for JJ with both names in the car, Nesbitt says.
We now see Lori's lease agreement for her Rexburg apartment. We now see a written copy of a patriarchal blessing Chad gave to Alex Cox. The next photo is a backpack. The next photo is an envelope with money. This was found inside the backpack.
The next image shows a document that has Lori Vallow's name on it with blue sticky notes all over the page. Nesbitt says he doesn't know what any of the sticky notes mean. One of the sticky notes says "Hiplos."
The word on another sticky note says "Brandon." The word below Brandon says "ANGO."
Nesbitt can't see the sticky notes very clear on the screen. He is handed a hard copy of the exhibit. On the bottom sticky note, it says "gladius."
The next photo shows a Macbook laptop and an HP laptop that were seized in the black backpack.
The next photo shows the back of the HP laptop. Smith asks Nesbitt if he participated in the search of Lori and Chad's condo. He says he did. He found a bag of silicone rings. There was no evidence that children were there. Smith has no further questions.
We are now breaking for lunch. Be back in about an hour with cross-examination from the defense.
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And that will be it for me - rest of the tweets in the morning!