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On May 18th, 2017, the judge declares a mistrial. No verdict, no closure. Katie is in
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legal limbo, still charged with murder, and prosecutors aren't about to let things go. Five months later, in
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October, they bring Katie to trial again. Now, the theory is the same, but this time the prosecution has a new ace
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in the hole. As they prepped for round two, investigators re-examined Adam's laptop,
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and they realized that one of the phone backups on it wasn't from Adam's device,
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it was from Katie's. In August 2015, so just weeks after Mary died, Katie had plugged her iPhone into
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Adam's laptop, and without meaning to, she triggers a full backup, preserving everything on that phone at the time,
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including stuff that she later deleted.