Police Find the Second Phone the Bloody Sword Defendant Told Them About and It Is Empty | Pt 22

Isaac Apodaca told the detective exactly where to find the phone that would clear him. So the police went and found it. Grace Jennings was twenty two. She was killed with a sword in a detached garage in Santa Fe, and the woman who swung it has already pleaded guilty. Isaac Apodaca never touched the weapon. For three years his answer to the messages on his phone has been that they were never his, and this is the segment where you watch that answer get built, in real time, in a police interview room, on the day Grace died. Sergeant Javier Vigil goes through the phone with him, message by message, and Apodaca has an explanation for every single one of them. He is calm and he is quick. Then Vigil scrolls to one he cannot explain, and something happens that has shaped this entire case ever since. He tells the detective there is a second phone. And the explanations that follow are worse than saying nothing at all. The barn where the screams cannot be heard is a horror movie. The list made specifically for you is a grocery list with beets and currants on it. I am wanting to see you do this means go to sleep. Sergeant Vigil never raises his voice. He just reads them back to him and asks what each one meant, and lets the jury do the rest. Watch what he does with the detail, because this is the pattern of the whole day. He does not say it vaguely. He gives the model, the storage size, the case it is in, and exactly where it is sitting. And then watch what the State does about it. WATCH WITH JUSTICE 0:15:18 There is another cell phone, he says, that he did not tell them about. A Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, 512 gigabyte, clear case, on top of the fridge in the garage, logged into the same Facebook account. Kiara has been using it, he says, to text herself from his account and ruin his life. 0:36:49 Vigil stops taking the explanations. And Apodaca admits it: he knew it was going to happen. That night. Listen to how quietly he says it. 0:37:41 Then it gets worse for him. He tells the detective that Kiara had been planning to kill Grace since 2020, that he had known about it for two years, and that he had been in counselling because of it. Grace asked to come over that night, and he let her in anyway. 1:23:21 This is the moment the case turns. The State recovered that second phone, exactly where he said it would be, on the refrigerator beside the bed. They extracted it. There was no data on it. None at all. 1:25:28 And the reason he gave for wanting Grace dead, the 2017 attack he said she orchestrated, is checked too. Vigil went looking for the police report. There isn't one. 1:33:18 The jail calls, in his own voice, to his mother. I know I'm innocent. I know I didn't do anything. And then, weeks later, the sentence the defense will build the rest of this trial on: that confession is a bogus confession. 1:48:31 The jury is gone, and the State stands up with one more thing. On Friday night, hours after the judge told him not to, Apodaca made eight attempts to call his mother from the detention centre. Watch what it costs him: the judge orders him into administrative segregation for the rest of the trial, and because the clerk's office has closed, he stamps the order in open court and sends it to the jail himself. 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 the 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