CENTENNIAL, Colo.—Jurors watched a video of a man on trial in the death of his daughter as he lied to police about her whereabouts hours after he reported her missing.
Aaron Thompson reported Aarone (AIR’-uh-nay) Thompson missing in November 2005, two weeks shy of her 7th birthday. Prosecutors say Aarone died in 2003.
Thompson told police about how she watched cartoons, ate cereal, and cookies the day she went missing. Investigators became suspicious when he couldn’t provide recent pictures of Aarone.
Defense attorneys said last week during opening statements that Thompson was trying to cover up Aarone’s death at the hands of his live-in girlfriend, Shely Lowe, who died of heart failure in 2006.
Thompson is charged with fatal child abuse.
