BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – A Brown County judge is expected to spend the weekend considering whether to allow Fitbit data as evidence in an upcoming murder trial.
George Burch is accused of killing Nicole VanderHeyden in May 2016, but his legal team wants to point the finger at her boyfriend Douglass Detrie.
District Attorney David Lasee is prosecuting the case, wanting to use Fitbit data to show Detrie was not involved.
“The fact that the Fitbit device is registering only 30 or 40 steps during that entire timeframe clearly rebuts the defendant’s position.”
But Defense Attorney Lee Schuchart isn’t so sure.
“I haven’t heard a single piece of admissible evidence to lay the foundation of why that evidence is reliable.”
Burch’s story involves Detrie walking three miles from the Bellevue field her body was found to his Ledgeview home.
Another motion hearing is set for February 1, with jury selection starting February 16.
