A man who claimed to be innocent after his wife’s death was found guilty after police used evidence from the Apple Health app on his iPhone to convict him.
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As described by The Birmingham News (by Mac Cult), Kat West, Jeff West’s wife, was found dead in January 2018 after suffering a blow to the head. Jeff West claimed that she was drunk and fell while he slept in bed, but the Health app on his iPhone said otherwise.
West told investigators that he fell asleep around 10:30 pm and stayed in bed until 5:15 am, but his Apple Health app showed that he took a total of 18 steps from 11:03 pm to 11:10 pm, a fact that contradicted his claims. Data from Kat West’s “iPhone” showed that she stopped moving after 10:54 pm, corresponding to the time Jeff West claimed to be in bed.
West’s fingerprints were also found on the bottom of the bottle that was used to hit his wife on the head. Prosecutors believed that Jeff, a trained crime scene investigator, killed his wife after an argument over his line of work and then staged the scene to make himself look innocent.
Despite proclaiming that he was not involved in the murder, West has been in prison for three years, while the murder trial unfolds. He has now been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a total sentence of 16 years.