Judge: State must prove cellphone tracing technology in Zimmerman murder case

BLOOMINGTON — The state must provide more information that cellular technology used to gather potential evidence against a Bloomington man accused of killing his ex-wife is reliable, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The hearing in the Kirk Zimmerman murder case pitted dueling experts against each other on technology used to pinpoint the path Kirk Zimmerman’s vehicle may have traveled on Nov. 3, 2014, around the time his ex-wife, Pam Zimmerman, is believed to have been shot in her Bloomington office. The experts also disagreed about how information was gather from cell phone records.

The 60-year-old defendant is charged with killing his former wife.

After a daylong hearing, Judge Scott Drazewski ruled that another hearing will be held Feb. 1 to gather additional information on technology used by FBI Special Agent Greg Catey to gather information on cellphone records for Zimmerman, his former girlfriend Kate Arthur and Eldon Whitlow, the last client to visit Pam Zommerman’s financial services office before she was killed.

The technology known as Real Time Tool measures the time it takes a signal to travel from a cell phone to a tower and back.

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