Un Apple Watch could help the Australian police solve a murder that happened in 2016, the American company's smartwatch containing information that could lead to the conviction of a woman. The victim of a murder that happened in 2016 was wearing an Apple Watch when she was killed, and based on the data analyzed by forensics, a person was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Myrna Nilsson is the name of the victim of this murder, the crime taking place in September 2016, and her daughter-in-law, Caroline Nilsson, declared for the police that some men with whom she had an altercation in traffic that day were to blame. According to Caroline, those men would have entered the house by force and would have killed her mother-in-law, but forensic experts have a completely different opinion after investigating the data from the Apple Watch.
Apple Watch could help the Police solve a murder
According to the data taken from the Apple Watch, forensics determined the date of the murder with an accuracy of approximately 7 minutes, and the data contradicts Caroline's statements. According to the prosecutor coordinating the investigation, Caroline would have given a false statement, and an Australian judge found her right and decided that the daughter-in-law of the murdered woman should be remanded in custody.
"Ms Matteo said a forensic expert had analyzed the dead woman's Apple smartwatch and had narrowed the time from when she was attacked to when she died to a seven-minute window. The prosecutor said if those timings were accepted then it contradicted statements from the accused that her mother-in-law had been involved in an argument with her attackers for about 20 minutes."
The data taken from the Apple Watch confirms the statement regarding the alleged altercation with some men in traffic, but not what Caroline says about the forced entry into the victim's house. It is not known exactly what kind of data the criminalists analyzed to reach the conclusion that the victim's daughter-in-law lied in her statements, but if a judge ruled in favor of the prosecutor's office, it is clear that they are convincing.
