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Apple Health App Data Helps Send a Man to Prison for His Wife's Death
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Was thinking this too. Pets are notorious for stealing things off the night stand but no heart beat in this circumstance.
18 steps? That doesn't sound like evidence to me. If I'm in bed asleep, and get up to pee, it takes me 26 steps to the toilet and back. I'm pretty sure it would take me a tonne more steps to stage a scene. I sure hope he did it and that an innocent person isn't in jail. Either way, may Kat West RIP.
It’s not like he was convicted purely based on walking around... his fingerprints were also on the murder weapon...
Seems like he must have given them his phone to get this data. Anything else is very strange as Apple made it clear with the San Bernadino shooter they wouldn't give user data away anymore.
If you want to protect yourself at night, keep a jug by the bed. lol Problem solved.
He probably gave up the password, thinking he had nothing to worry about 🤦🏻♂️
We he says she fell out of the bed, so the act occurred by the bed, so he didn't have far to go. Most likely he thought she was knocked out and would wake up again, maybe it had happened before, drunken arguments, etc.
Then this supposed crime scene investigator didn't clean the bottle he used, nor check/fix device forensics, etc. He could have left his phone by the bed for his sleeping alibi and walked around the house occasionally with hers, for example.
Most likely the iphone evidence was not the main evidence compared to the bottle, etc.
Edit: Article says she was found outside - so it seems unlikely that the 18 steps were for any act he did, especially as the time doesn't match up. Very suspect, especially given the testimonials about his good behaviour.
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My S4 says I haven't stood up today and I have a standing desk.
Exactly. Sounds more like the wife was drunk (as previously stated), went in to get sleeping husband's iPhone for some alcohol-fueled snooping (steps registered) and then fell. Like the husband originally claimed.
18 steps to commit a murder, fix up a crime scene, and go back to bed? Literally impossible.
He killed his wife because he didn't like the way her job was going? Wow. Not much respect for life there, and his wife, no less. I hope they didn't have any children.
Wow, I’m surprised his defense attorney couldn’t win this for him, there are so many angles that could explain/justify the steps/movement, etc. and the prints on the bottle even. But then again it IS AL.
Can arm swings count as steps, even if you don’t actually take steps? Was he right or left handed? Assuming the watch is on the left wrist, and he just swung his right arm, would this register as a step?
He needed a better lawyer. 18 steps to kill and cover up his wife's murder? And an iPhone never incorrectly registers any other movement as steps? Hopefully he was guilty and this was justice served but fingerprints on a bottle and 18 steps isn't exactly a smoking gun.
He had a deal on offer to get out on time served if he admitted it. He must truly have believed he could win this case despite the evidence, or he was innocent and couldn't face admitting something he didn't do. Or he wanted it to look like the latter which is probably fairly common. Still, the bottle evidence is strong, despite the lack of hair/blood on it. And when he is out, he can claim innocence forever.
I'm glad they got him, but my Apple Watch often counts any significant arm movements as steps. If I were to wear the Watch to bed and move around in certain ways while sleeping I'm sure it might count 18 steps, too. My watch sometimes tells me to "continue moving" when I'm sitting still (I guess it's going by heart rate in that instance). I don't see the Watch as being accurate enough to pin a crime on someone. The iPhone, on the other hand, is much more accurate for counting steps.
I was suspicious of the 18 steps. I figured that could be explained by moving in your sleep, rolling over, etc. I just checked in the Health app and my watch recorded steps on my watch 5 times while I was asleep last night: 49, 8, 16, 6, and 9 steps. I looked back a few days and every night it records a few steps. I'm guessing this is very common and certainly doesn't prove someone was awake.
The interesting thing would be that if they know he was wearing his watch, then check the heart rate for those times. I would imagine his heart rate would be sky high at that time if he actually murdered someone.
The interesting thing would be that if they know he was wearing his watch, then check the heart rate for those times. I would imagine his heart rate would be sky high at that time if he actually murdered someone.