LIVE UPDATES | Forensic anthropologist takes the stand for defense on day 29 of Chad Daybell trial

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8:58 a.m. Boyce says an evidentiary ruling needs to beryllium made extracurricular nan beingness of nan jury. Jurors are leaving nan courtroom while nan matter is discussed.

8:54 a.m. Bartelink says ample portions of nan skeleton were missing. Prior asks Bartelink astir his acquisition moving pinch burned remains. Bartelink says he has done experiments pinch a deceased assemblage to spot what happens erstwhile a assemblage is burned. Multiple pallets – 4-5 – akin successful size to a ample bonfire – were brought successful to pain nan body. Wixom asks for a sidebar.

8:52 a.m. He lists of nan assemblage parts that are missing – her arms, legs, a ample information of nan ribs. Boyce asks Prior for a speedy sidebar.

8:50 a.m. Bartelink prepared a study connected their findings. “We recovered location were definite areas of Tylee Ryan’s remains that were absent,” Bartelink says. Prior shows an illustration of a skeleton connected nan scene. He asks Bartelink to constituent retired parts of Tylee that were not recovered.

8:48 a.m. Bartelink went pinch 2 colleagues to nan Rexburg Police Department to analyse Tylee’s remains successful December. The 3 forensic anthropologists spent a time analyzing and identifying nan remains.

8:45 a.m. Bartelink has testified successful 7-8 trials. Prior contacted Bartelink’s agency to place nan remains of Tylee Ryan.

8:43 a.m. Bartelink has learned astir burned quality remains and has personally assisted connected complete 100 pain remains cases. He assisted successful nan World Trade Center recognition efforts and his squad is nan main squad who does occurrence unfortunate betterment for wildfire victims successful California.

8:41 a.m. Bartelink america a professor of anthropology astatine Chico State University. He is nan head of nan CSU-Chico Human Identification Laboratory. Prior asks him to explicate his master background.

8:38 a.m. Jurors person taken their seats. Prior calls his adjacent witnesser – Dr. Eric Bartelink.

8:35 a.m. Prosecutors Lindsey Blake, Rob Wood, Ingrid Batey and Rocky Wixom are seated astatine their table. There are astir 20-30 group successful nan assemblage today. Boyce is connected nan bench.

8:22 a.m. In nan courtroom and nan bailiff reminds everyone not to return photos aliases grounds successful nan courtroom aliases successful nan courthouse. No hats aliases sunglasses tin beryllium worn successful nan courtroom. Chad Daybell is wearing a bluish dress garment pinch a reddish tie. He is seated adjacent to Prior and they are whispering to each other.

8:20 a.m. It’s time 29 of Chad Daybell’s proceedings and defense lawyer John Prior is expected to remainder this morning. Rocky Wixom said yesterday that prosecutors intend to telephone rebuttal witnesses for 1.5-2 days.