Fitbits and cell phones were the focus of Tuesday morning in the George Burch murder trial.
Day seven was also the day that the state called their final witness, resting their case, allowing the defense to call witnesses.
Before the state rested, they looked closer into the Fitbit that Nicole VanderHeyden’s boyfriend Doug Detrie was wearing the night of the murder, as well as cell phone activity of George Burch.
Sergeant Richard Loppnow of the Brown County Sheriff’s office was called back to testify. Loppnow said he viewed videos of Detrie, and counted the steps that he took in those videos. He testified he then had data sent from Fitbit that confirmed the number of steps recorded at those points in the video.
“That was time stamped in our records management system, and I took that data, and the data that was given to us by Fitbit, and compared the two,” Loppnow testified.
Loppnow told the court that he found the Fitbit data to be very accurate, with just a few times when the numbers did not match.
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