CENTENNIAL — Aaron Thompson of Aurora is on trial in Arapahoe County District Court for the death of his daughter Aaroné, who was reported missing in 2005. The girl would have been 6 years old at the time of her disappearance. Her body has not been found.
Electronic devices cannot transmit from the courtroom, but The Denver Post is providing trial updates when possible.
11:57 a.m. Court recessess for the weekend. Back on Monday morning.
11:45 a.m. Prosecution plays a recording of a phone conversation between Shelley Lowe and her friend, Tabitha Graves, who is working with police. The recording is from May 11, 2006, the day before Lowe, Thompson’s live-in girlfriend, died of heart failure.
Graves has been working with police to help them secretly tape Lowe. In this call, Lowe is suspicious of her friend.
“Is there anything you have to tell me?” Lowe said.
“No, is there anything you need to tell me?” Graves said.
9:53 a.m. Graves testifies on the stand that Lowe told her in late summer or early fall of 2004 that Aaroné died in her sleep more than a year earlier.
The two had the discussion at City Park in Denver after Lowe said she had something to tell Graves.
Graves said Lowe told her that when Aaroné didn’t come down for breakfast one day, Lowe went to check on her and she wasn’t breathing.
Lowe said she shook Aaroné to try to revive her then screamed for Thompson.
“Aaron said, ‘What did you do? What did you do?’ and Shelley said, ‘I didn’t do anything,’ ” according to Graves.
At that point, according to Graves’ testimony, Thompson asked Lowe to leave the room. He closed and locked the door, Graves said, then said he stayed with Aaroné’s body for several hours.
“I was in shock,” Graves told the jury.
Afterwards, Thompson took Aaroné body and was gone from the home for two days, Lowe told Graves.
“I asked her how come she didn’t call police,” Graves said. “She said, you know, they could take my kids from me.”
