Also, wouldn't the coroner be able to prove that Abby's body was moved to place the phone back underneath her body? If there was no evidence of her being disturbed (which it doesn't seem like there was) then that physically cannot happen?
I agree with you completely. It does not make logical sense to take the phone, which has evidence on it of BG, plug headphones in, use it somewhere, keep it on airplane mode (but don't unlock it to put it into airplane mode) so it doesn't track that it is moving, do whatever with it other than unlock it but don't delete the BG video, and then return it to the scene of the crime. It makes zero sense.
But then didn't it ping off of a tower at 4am and the headphone jack was removed at 10pm?? so if airplane mode was deactivated at 10pm, why didn't things come through until 4am?
JMO
Just a sidenote - but airplane mode does not help as phones have onboard passive GPS
So even if it were somehow possible to put the phone into airplane mode without that being logged, the phone would still log steps and lat/long IMO
There is simply no way around the conclusion that the apple health tracked the phone to its final resting place and there is no further activity
This is why the defence until 5 mins ago was claiming the phone was turned off until 4.30am - it's the only way to move the phone without logging steps and location changes