He said there was a text message from his sister Olivia Walton to his wife at 8.16pm.
“I suspect that was Olivia texting Al about plans for the sleepover the following night and probably asking Al to give her a call because Olivia’s mobile phone plan allowed her to make phone calls but not text messages or something like that,” he said.
Baden-Clay said he sent another group text message to his business team spruiking his wife’s successes at the training session she had that day at 8.22pm.
“It was just a little team building thing that I had and as each stage of a sale or a property management progresses I would give them a little pep,” he said.
He said he would have been doing the ironing at home by that time.
Baden-Clay said his wife would have phoned his sister at 8.28pm but they had poor phone reception so the call dropped out.
He said his wife phoned back from the home phone.
The jury was taken to a phone call from Baden-Clay to his wife 6.32am on April 20, 2012.
“That’s the first phone call I made to Al to ask where she was,” he said.
He said the call went to his wife’s answering service and he left a message.
The jury was shown another call he made to his wife at 6.38am.
Baden-Clay said he used his home phone to call his mother.
“I thought about calling mum and dad and I didn’t, I hung up,” he said, his voice breaking.
The jury was shown another call from the accused to his wife’s mobile at 6.45am.
Baden-Clay said he called his parents and told them his wife was gone and he didn’t know where she was.
He agreed he tried to phone Sgt Murray Watson at Indooroopilly police.
“I had his number in my phone so I tried giving him a call … and it went through to a standardised voice mail,” he said.
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