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Google location data and CCTV footage eventually led police to Denver Chance’s body after his alleged murder.
Chance, 43, was last seen on February 24, 2019 before being reported missing three days later.
Police found her body inside a white chest freezer at an address in Kingseat, south of Auckland, on March 10, 2019.
Jay Christopher Lingman is on trial before Judge Melanie Harland and a jury in Auckland High Court.
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Lingman is charged with murdering Chance on or about February 24, 2019, a charge to which he has pleaded not guilty.
At the beginning of his trial, Lingman pleaded guilty to three counts related to the possession of Class A, B, and C drugs, including cocaine and MDMA for supply or sale.
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Denver Chance was last seen on February 24, 2019 before being reported missing.
On Thursday, police experts gave testimony at Lingman’s trial, explaining how Google’s location history tracked his phone to the Linwood Rd area in Kingseat, and how CCTV saw him travel there the day Chance was seen. alive for the last time.
Police technical specialist Kerry Baker told the court that a backup copy of Chance’s iPhone was found on his MacBook at the Mairangi Bay property where he lived when he was still considered a missing person.
It allowed the police to track the movements of his phone, as his phone has never been recovered.
His phone rang several times along Linwood Rd, the street where Lingman lived.
The last location for Chance’s phone was at 11:33 pm on the night of February 24, 2019 and a location was never found again.
The crown says that Lingman was holding Chance’s phone after his death.
The officer in charge of CCTV, Police Officer Brooke Chambers, led the jury through an abridged version of the images obtained for the investigation.
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Police searched Jay Lingman’s property in Kingseat after phone data located Denver Chance there.
About 1,500 hours of footage was reviewed, Chambers said.
CCTV footage shows Chance and Lingman’s vehicles moving during the day.
At 4.03pm, Chance is caught arriving at Torpedo 7 in Manukau before purchasing a pair of black pants for $ 99.99 and leaving at 4.37pm.
At 5.18pm, Chance’s vehicle pulls up at the Te Hihi Auto Court gas station on Linwood Rd.
He leaves before returning to the gas station at 5.23 pm. Chance does not get out of his vehicle, but returns in the direction of Lingman’s house at 5.26pm.
Just 19 minutes later, Lingman’s vehicle is seen in CCTV footage of the Kingseat fruit and vegetable store driving away from his address at 5.46pm.
Chambers told the jury that Chance’s car never made it to the grocery store, so it was apparent that he had stopped somewhere between the gas station and the grocery store.
Lingman’s house was between the two locations.
Crown prosecutor Gareth Kayes told the court that Google’s location data had pinged Chance’s cell phone in the vicinity of Lingman’s home at around 5.50 p.m.
In Crown’s case, Chance was killed between the time he left the gas station and when Lingman’s vehicle was seen passing the greengrocer, Kayes said.
On Wednesday, The Crown opened by saying that Lingman shot Chance six times from behind while Chance was at Lingman’s front door.
Investigators found no real connection between the two men, other than their link to illegal drugs.
After shooting Chance, The Crown says Lingman invited his son to dinner at a Thai restaurant and the next day bought a white freezer chest where Chance’s body was left until police found him two weeks later.
Defense says Lingman shot Chance in self-defense.
Defense attorney Steven Lack told the jury that both men were drug dealers and Lingman was Chance’s client.
Chance believed that Lingman had “scammed” him and went home, enraged and armed with a pistol.
“It was shoot or get shot,” Lack said.
The trial continues.
