Sun Nov 28th, 2 days before the slaying .
She doesn't recall that date or what she did that day
Keast says that she spent some of that day arranging a date with somebody via that App.
Keast says that this also took her energy and her focus. JC disagrees.
EC's 'seeing demons' text and ' can you please text me back?'. Spring 2021.
JC reiterates that the signal is often poor at the barn, and testified yesterday that she hadn't seen EC's texts at the time.
Keast counters that other evidence shows she can hold extensive conversations from the barn ( He refers to exchanges including photos)
Keast also notes Spring 2021 was when she started affair BM.
She testified yesterday that EC was ' just messing around' re seeing demons.
School comms
Morning of 30th Nov.
The worksheet. She says that it was concerning. I saw a cape. I didn't analyse it. She says that although she posted it on Insta, she didn't recognise it as THE gun. The ' thoughts won't stop' phrase was not really concerning for her.
She claims she wasn't aware that the 9mm was more powerful.
Ethan's friend leaving.
Keast says school records show that he missed school for a couple days thereafter. She claims that she didn't know about absence nor whether EC was particularly upset.
Halloween 2021 - the friend doesn't come despite scheduled. JC calls friends' mum and finds he's goen to Wisconsin. EC was home alone and presumably upset. JC continues with her plans and goes to a few Halloween parties.
JC tries to maintain that EC had plenty of friends in school. ( She accepts she's never met them, Keast says he had no peer support left)
Keast impeaches her on bowling testimony yesterday. It wasn't really available in 2021
Keast impeaches her on her exaggerating the amounts of shifts he'd done at work.
You claim you're a ' helicopter parent' but you never looked at his phone? No.
' The one thing which was consistent with Ethan was his desire to get another weapon. ' She disagrees. ( I'm not part of the conversations between EC and his father)
Keast : You said taking care of that gun was EC's responsibility? She agrees
Keast : Do you agree that you were the last adult to have possession of that gun? She agrees
Keast : You were at the range, he showed you, you saw his stance was the same as the CCTV shows of the murders?
Keast Do you agree that owning a gun is very responsible thing? Yes she agrees
Now does a very effective set of statements. All the times she did not trust James
- getting up in the morning?
- mowing the lawn
- holding down a job
- update you on his whereabouts
- to turn on ring camera
She agrees to almost all of those.
This is the person - James - who she entrusted to buy a gun.
