The call was made on July 1st and was found in the dump of data from the cell phone tower. It was, in fact, the first link between the murder and the Adelson family. In the last trial Ms. Cappleman described it like this:
Meanwhile, law enforcement is still putting together more information about the Prius and the killers. They have gotten a search warrant for all the phone numbers that interacted with the cell tower consistent with people being 1n the area of Premier gym at the time that we know they were there. so, literally, every cell phone that interacted with those towers during that hour period of time. And they cross-referenced all of that data with Mr. Markel and his in-laws. so, basically, have any of the phone numbers that appear on that tower around the time that we know the suspects were at the gym been in contact recently with Dan Markel or with his in-laws or with his ex-wife? The purpose of that was to try to see if there was any link there. And combing through all this data and putting it all together was a very tedious task. But they did find one number with a south Florida exchange which was present both in the area at Pre -- of Premier gym at the time that the killers were there and was linked to a single phone call on July 1st, 2014. so about 17 days before the murder, this number that was at Premier gym, from south Florida, contacted Harvey Adelson. So, the father-in-law of the deceased, husband of Donna Adelson, father of Wendi Adelson. And that number that contacted Harvey Adelson and that was also present at the gym on our date 1n question belonged to Sigfredo Garcia, the defendant 1n this case, AKA Tuto, T-U-T-0. It's a lot. And an examination of Garcia's call logs showed a frequent contact with another number, which also was present on our -- what we're calling tower dump. So, all those numbers that interacted with that cell phone tower at Premier at that time. Another number, no connection with the Adelsons that we found but a frequent caller of Sigfredo Garcia is Luis Rivera. That phone number was also present at Premier at the time that our suspect vehicle was there.
To this day, nobody is sure what this phone call represents. It appears to be either a hang-up or possibly a voice-mail trigger, but we don't know, and we certainly don't know why Garcia would call Harvey Adelson's phone. We may hear an explanation when he takes the stand during the defense case. In the last trial the defense tried to argue that the call was proof there was some connection between Garcia and the Adelsons, thereby disproving the prosecution's claim that Katie Magbanua was the sole link between the dental family and the murderers.