Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra's wife placed him at scene of crime in prison call: expert

ATHENS, Ga. – Georgia prosecutors connected Monday placed Jose Ibarra, the fishy accused of murdering Augusta University nursing pupil Laken Riley connected the University of Georgia field successful February, astatine the country utilizing a jailhouse telephone telephone to his wife, according to Fox News contributor Paul Mauro.

Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan national, is charged with 10 counts successful transportation with Riley's execution connected the greeting of Feb. 22, erstwhile Riley was retired for her accustomed greeting jog on trails connected the UGA field adjacent Lake Herrick. He volition look successful an Athens courtroom for the 3rd time of his execution proceedings connected Tuesday. 

On Monday, the 2nd time of Ibarra's trial, an Athens-Clarke County courtroom heard a recorded situation telephone telephone betwixt Ibarra and his wife, Layling Franco, that was played aloud and translated by an FBI expert who spoke fluent Spanish.

"She said that she thinks it's brainsick that they don't person anyone else's DNA. They lone person his. And she says she doesn't recognize however idiosyncratic tin spot idiosyncratic dying and not calling [sic] 911," FBI expert Abeisis Ramirez testified successful tribunal connected Monday portion translating the telephone for the prosecution.

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Jose Ibarra pays attraction to a witnesser during his proceedings astatine the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court connected Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, successful Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Mauro, a erstwhile enforcement serviceman for the New York Police Department's Intelligence Operations and Analysis Bureau, said the telephone fundamentally places Ibarra astatine the country of the crime.

"She precise intelligibly doesn't judge him. … She says, astatine 1 point, ‘Jose, I cognize you,’ a precise … telling moment," Mauro said of the calling with Franco.. "And past astatine 1 constituent … the existent crushing connection is erstwhile she says to him, ‘I can’t judge idiosyncratic could spot idiosyncratic dying and not telephone 911.'"

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An exterior presumption of Jose Antonio Ibarra’s flat successful Athens, Georgia connected Saturday, February 24, 2024. Ibarra has been charged with the execution of Laken Riley aft she was recovered dormant on a walking way connected the University of Georgia’s field earlier this week. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital)

Mauro said helium believes the telephone telephone seems to "be a notation to him having told her, I was there, I saw the body, but I didn't telephone 911, and I didn't bash it."

"The astir absorbing thing, I thought, was really the astir prosaic, which is the information that [Riley] has fingernail scrapings — she had tegument nether her fingernails — from warring for her life, and Jose had injuries with having gotten those injuries from that benignant of a fight," Mauro said, referring to UGA Police Department bodycam footage played successful tribunal connected Monday that showed investigators looking astatine Ibarra's assemblage for signs of injury.

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Laken Riley poses for a photograph posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing pupil astatine the University of Georgia, was recovered dormant adjacent a water connected field connected Feb. 22. An amerciable migrant has been charged with her murder.  (Laken Riley/Facebook)

UGA PD patrol Cp. Rafael Sayan testified Monday that helium questioned Ibarra connected Feb. 23 — the day aft Riley's execution — astir injuries connected his hands and arms, which Ibarra mostly brushed disconnected arsenic wide scratches oregon bleeding from the acold upwind successful February. 

Bodycam footage from that greeting amusement officers' archetypal brushwood with Ibarra connected Feb. 23. They initially arrived astatine the flat astir 8:30 a.m. connected Feb. 23 and questioned Jose's brothers, Diego and Argenis Ibarra, earlier they obtained a hunt warrant and went wrong the apartment.

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The footage shows officers walking wrong shining a airy connected Jose, who was successful furniture astatine the time, and repeatedly saying "hola" successful an effort to aftermath him up. After astir a minute, Jose gets retired of furniture and puts his hands up. 

"This is speculation, but I fishy helium was apt highly intox[icated]," Mauro said, noting that investigators linked a achromatic integrative cupful containing a liquid smelling of intoxicant to the country of Riley's murder. A suspicious antheral was seen holding a achromatic cupful successful information camera footage taken adjacent the transgression country that morning. Late on, investigators recovered a akin white, integrative cupful that smelled of intoxicant connected Feb. 22, according to instrumentality enforcement grounds connected Monday.

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A wide presumption of the country wherever Laken Riley’s assemblage was recovered adjacent Lake Herrick connected the University of Georgia’s field successful Athens, Georgia connected Saturday, February 24, 2024. Jose Antonio Ibarra has been charged with the execution of Riley aft she was killed earlier this week. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital)

The fishy is charged with 10 counts total, including 1 number of malice murder, 3 counts of felony murder, 1 number of kidnapping, 1 number of aggravated battle with intent to rape, 1 number of aggravated battery, 1 number of hindering a 911 call, 1 number of tampering with grounds and 1 number of being a "peeping Tom." Ibarra pleaded not blameworthy to each counts.

Prosecutor Ross said Ibarra past encountered Riley connected her emblematic greeting tally and attacked her. 

Laken Riley’s sidesplitting has gripped the federation arsenic the borderline situation continues.  (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

"On Feb. 22, Jose Ibarra enactment connected a achromatic hat, a hoodie-style jacket, and immoderate achromatic kitchen-style disposable gloves, and helium went hunting for females connected the University of Georgia campus,"  Ross said successful her opening connection Friday.

Ibarra and his brothers, besides in the United States illegally from Venezuela, lived successful an flat gathering little than a fractional mile from the on-campus parkland wherever Riley was running.

The defendant's attorney, Dustin Kirby, argued successful his opening connection that grounds would not beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that Ibarra killed Riley. He said it would instrumentality "gymnastics" for the prosecution to reason Ibarra killed Riley with what helium described arsenic "circumstantial evidence."

Jose Ibarra, accused of sidesplitting a Georgia nursing pupil earlier this year, listens done an interpreter arsenic helium sits with his attorneys Dustin Kirby, 2nd left, and Kaitlyn Beck, left, during his proceedings  at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, successful Athens, Ga. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

"If that happens and the presumption of innocence is respected, determination should not beryllium capable grounds to person you beyond a tenable uncertainty that Mr. Ibarra is blameworthy of the crimes charged," Kirby said connected Monday.

UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark antecedently described the execution arsenic a "crime of opportunity" during a February property conference.

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Jose Ibarra looks down arsenic helium listens done an interpreter during his proceedings astatine the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court connected Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, successful Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Poolv)

Ibarra illegally crossed into the United States done El Paso, Texas, successful September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, ICE and DHS sources antecedently told Fox News.

Diego Ibarra, who worked concisely successful a UGA cafeteria earlier his apprehension successful February, is charged with greenish paper fraud and had ties to a known Venezuelan pack successful the U.S., called Tren de Aragua, according to national tribunal documents.

On Friday afternoon, the defence subpoenaed Diego Ibarra and their younger brother, Argenis Ibarra, to attest during Jose's proceedings connected Wednesday.

Laken Riley poses for a photograph posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing pupil astatine the University of Georgia, was recovered dormant adjacent a water connected field connected Thursday, February 22, 2024. (Allyson Phillips/Facebook)

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ICE antecedently confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jose Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a twelvemonth aft helium entered the U.S. successful August 2023 and was "charged with acting successful a mode to injure a kid little than 17 and a centrifugal conveyance licence violation."

Mauro said immoderate transgression cases go "representative of thing larger than themselves," and Riley's lawsuit is 1 of them.

"This forced…these issues forward. All the sudden, you had to speech astir this stuff," Mauro said, referencing the taxable of amerciable immigration.

The erstwhile NYPD serviceman besides praised the UGA Police Department's speedy enactment to apprehend the fishy successful transportation with Riley's execution conscionable a time aft she was killed.

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.