As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to take a look at the evolution of the narrative surrounding TD's death on 18-19 Oct 2019. Rather than re-watching all the testimony, I went back through East Idaho News'
Live Updates for various witnesses, so if I've missed something, let me know!
Singling out the witnesses who had information from CD about what happened to TD on that evening/morning, here's what I've found.
In Row 1 are the witnesses, in order of when they heard CD's narrative.
BLUE = officials who did not know TD
PURPLE = locals who did know TD well
GREEN = friends/relatives from Springville, who may not have seen TD in awhile
In Row 2 are the dates/times when they received information from CD, color-coded by day.
The next section are the most common story elements that were consistent. Those details I color-coded by the general time they were said to take place. Someone may not necessarily remember an exact time when something happened, but you would expect them to remember whether it was BEFORE going to bed (GRAY), AFTER going to bed (WHITE), or when they woke up in the morning (YELLOW)
The next section is what the witnesses -- after talking with CD -- believed the cause of death to be
And the final section just highlights some of the additional "pre-existing" symptoms that CD claimed TD was suffering from. (Emma provided the info that TD was "slowing down," thus the little comment marker in the corner of those cells)
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Some observations:
- TD's coughing and vomiting gradually get pushed back, from the "middle of the night," to when she went to bed, to earlier that day. The "official" story told to the coroner has her vomiting 2.5hrs
later than the story told a few days later at the viewing.
- While the terms "pulmonary oedema" and "pulmonary ebolism" could simply have been mis-remembered (either by CD himself or by the witnesses), the fact that he told two people that TD had choked to death seems very odd, especially now that we
know her cause of death was asphyxia.
Question:
- Have we heard from anyone
besides Prior that Garth brought Tammy some fast food that evening? I feel like he might have just thrown that in there to muddy the waters, but I feel like that would actually hurt rather than help CD's case; after all, who feels like eating McDonald's when they're sick? Not to mention, it throws out there the question of when Garth came home and whether he saw Tammy before bed.
