Lead Detective Admits No Physical Evidence Puts Isaac Apodaca in the Bloody Sword Garage | Pt 23

For four days the State talked and nobody talked back. Today the defense finally stood up, and the first man they put a question to was the detective who built this entire case. Sergeant Javier Vigil is the lead detective in the Bloody Sword murder trial. Grace Jennings was killed with a sword in a detached garage in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kiara McCulley is the one who swung it, and she has already pleaded guilty. Isaac Apodaca, her friend, is on trial for first degree murder anyway, because the State says he built the whole thing through his phone. That is the question this trial turns on: can text messages make you a murderer, when your hands are clean? Vigil is the man who decided the answer was yes. On Day 4 the State questioned him for more than six hours. The defense asked him nothing at all. Today they asked him everything. Watch what the defense is really doing, because it is not one question, it is a pattern. Pay attention to the questions themselves. A defense attorney has seen discovery you never will, and where they choose to spend twenty minutes is a map of where they think this case is soft. Then listen to what comes back. Some of these answers are a flat no. Some of them are I do not recall. Those are not the same thing, and the difference is the whole ballgame. --- WATCH WITH JUSTICE 0:00:06 to 0:04:49 - Before the jury is even in the room, the State asks to let its forensic psychiatrist sit and listen to the co-defendant testify. The defense fights it and loses. Remember this ruling, because it shapes everything that happens after the break. 0:04:58 to 0:37:07 - The defense takes the interrogation apart piece by piece. Vigil told Isaac on camera he was not a suspect and had done nothing wrong. Now he has to explain what changed and when. Watch him refuse the word interrogation every single time it is offered to him, and watch what he concedes he was never trained to do. 0:37:14 to 0:44:56 - It's over, Isaac. It's over. You need to own it. The defense reads his own words back to him and asks whether he was hunting a confession. Vigil says no, and then says something I did not expect him to say out loud. 0:44:57 to 0:50:10 - This is the moment the whole day was built toward. The defense asks the lead detective whether there is any physical evidence at all tying Isaac Apodaca to the killing of Grace Jennings, and whether anything places him inside that garage. The State objects. The judge lets the answer stand. Listen closely to what he says. 0:50:18 to 0:58:19 - Now the defense turns the sword around. Vigil confirms Isaac told him Kiara threatened him with a butterfly knife, a dagger, and a sword, dragged the blade across his face to see if he would flinch, and pressed something sharp into his back through the early morning hours. All three weapons were hers. 0:58:20 to 1:14:02 - Everything the investigation did not do. Blood on the door of the house that was never tested. A second phone that gave up nothing. And the detective's own certainty that this could not have happened in the time Isaac claimed, set directly against what the State's own medical examiner told this jury. 1:24:21 to 1:32:27 - The State gets up and starts rebuilding. This is the most important stretch of the day for the prosecution, and they land real punches. Watch how they answer the messages Isaac swore were not his, and decide for yourself whether it is enough. --- COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://justiceisaprocess.com/nm-v-ap... Complete case overview: the charges, the timeline, the people at the center, the pretrial rulings that shaped this battlefield, and the legal questions that will decide it. Read this before you watch a minute of testimony. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://justiceisaprocess.com/coverag... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • NM v. Isaac Apodaca - Live Broadcast   No Breaks Edition:    • NM v. Isaac Apodaca - No Breaks Edition   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • NM v. Isaac Apodaca - Case Story Trial Pod...   Key Moments and Testimony:    • NM v. Isaac Apodaca - Key Moments and Clips   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #SantaFeSwordMurder #Apodaca