Tim’s testimony would have been that on March 11, 2009, he confronted Jennifer in person because she had not made the first of two payments for March rent, which was past due. Tim knew she had received her child support money by that day, and we have the following proof in the form of a child support deposit receipt she left in the rental house when she finally moved out in June of 2009:
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Jennifer Astle’s abandoned child support receipt showing that on March 6, 2009 she received $430
The police investigation consisted of a secretly recorded phone call used to get Tim to make any admission in order to bring charges against him. After coercing Tim into saying a statement later characterized as an admission to abuse, Jennifer immediately addresses the March rental payment. In this phone call, she claims she has made the payment but will make no more due to the abuse allegations. At this point, this is the third call, after about two hours of interrogation. Tim is mentally broken and devastated, and doesn’t confront her on it further:
Unredacted Phone Call Transcript recorded March 24, 2009, Volume (Call) 3, p. 18 line 19- p. 19 line 11
Jennifer was claiming this on the phone because Detective Ginger Fittings was sitting right next to her during the call, and had not asked or found out that Jennifer owed Tim thousands of dollars. Fittings already thinks Tim is a lying perpetrator, so she doesn’t bother to see if Jennifer skipped the payment like Tim claims she did in this conversation. If she would have checked the bank account, she would have found no payment was made by Jennifer at all in March of 2009:
Bank Account for rental payments from Jennifer to Tim, showing no payment made by Jennifer (“Counter Credit”) in the month of March 2009 like she claimed on the controlled phone call or to Detective Ginger Fittings. (Full document)