The whole recap for Day 13 0:00:41 · A prosecutor read a Feb. 16 message in which Bhatt wrote "Okay, I have left the state," followed by messages about the couple's daughter and custody. 0:04:36 · A prosecutor read Feb. 17 messages about a pediatric appointment, insurance, work and money for diapers, plus phone calls between the phones. 0:05:58 · A prosecutor read Feb. 17 messages that included the line "That's probably why we getting divorced," and one about bringing police to the home. 0:07:45 · A prosecutor read Feb. 18 and 19 messages including Please do not provoke me for suicide and The days are coming that you will regret a lot. 0:09:45 · A prosecutor read Feb. 19 messages arranging a pickup and drop-off of the daughter, and a later exchange about whose phone was whose. 0:12:12 · A prosecutor read messages asking about filing taxes and about what to do regarding the police report, with several audio-video calls noted. 0:15:54 · Investigator Zanis identified Commonwealth exhibit 453 as text messages between Mamta Kafle's phone and Naresh Bhatt's phone, extracted from Bhatt's phone. 0:16:33 · The judge asked for objections, the defense said no objection, and the judge received Commonwealth exhibit 453 into evidence. 0:18:21 · Investigator Zanis described a text from Mamta Kafle's phone to Bhatt's phone, translated from Nepali, saying the couple's daughter was crying. 0:18:42 · Investigator Zanis said the Bad memory contact label was associated by the extraction software and did not necessarily come from the phone's contacts list. 0:19:27 · Investigator Zanis testified that a text message to Bhatt's phone was sent July 28, 2024 at 9:42 PM and read on July 29 at 5:55 PM. 0:20:38 · Investigator Zanis said a message from Mamta Kafle's phone read 'Come fast' and that its timestamp was already converted to Eastern daylight time. 0:21:06 · The defense lawyer asked the investigator whether the time on the message from the phone ending 8236 had already been converted from UTC. 0:21:26 · Investigator Zanis testified that the user of Bhatt's phone liked the Come fast message on August 14, 2024. 0:22:11 · The investigator testified a contact attachment was deleted from Bhatt's phone on Aug. 14, 2024, and no texts came from Mamta's number after Aug. 2. 0:00:24 · The investigator testified three divorce and spouse-related searches, one from March 21, 2024, were found on Bhatt's phone, two finished by autocomplete. 0:01:34 · The witness testified one search carried a March 21, 2024 timestamp and the others had to predate March 27, 2024; the iCloud backup also held the searches. 0:02:34 · The witness testified that the searches were also found in an iCloud backup of the same account as the phone. 0:03:27 · The witness testified that on July 30, 2024, the phone showed searches for human brain diagram and chicken farm near me, plus a cached drawing of a brain. 0:04:35 · The witness testified that other searches on the phone included meat cutter, knife sharpener at Dollar Tree and electric handsaw for wood cutting. 0:04:45 · The witness testified the phone also held searches for meat cutter, knife sharpener at Dollar Tree, electric handsaw for wood cutting, and melatonin dosage. 0:07:11 · The investigator testified Mamta's number was stored in Skype as 'bad memory' with a man running emoji, and was not in the phone's native contacts list. 0:11:13 · The witness identified a 62-page report of Google searches from the phone, and the judge received it without objection. 0:14:22 · The investigator testified the meat cutter search had no date, probably because it was no longer in the active Chrome search history database on the phone. 0:16:14 · The witness testified the human brain diagram search showed a local timestamp of July 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM. 0:21:23 · The witness testified to later searches including pepper spray cleanup on August 2, 2024, and missing person finding rate in Virginia on August 5, 2024. 0:21:45 · Asked by the prosecutor, the investigator said they did not know why the searches were made and did not interview the person who typed them. 0:25:22 · The witness read searches from Aug. 16, 2024, including IAD to Delhi flights, IAD to KTM flights and CarMax Dulles, with timestamps. 0:28:54 · The witness read a search, "Can I donate my baby to my friend?", with a timestamp of Aug. 17, 2024, at 7:35 AM. 0:39:45 · The witness read a February 2024 search for uncontested divorce joint bank account Virginia and Feb. 20 searches on adultery in Virginia.
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