Mamta Kafle Bhatt: Day 10 of the Naresh Bhatt Murder Trial in 20 Minutes

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: so what's going on with this case as far as you know what's what's the allegation or what's happened [00:00:08] Speaker ?: so what's going on with this case as far as you know what's what's the allegation or what's happened [00:00:08] Speaker 1: so what's going on with this case as far as you know what's what's the allegation or what's happened [00:00:35] Speaker 2: oh once like you know my wife missed you know like uh and then a lot of you know like people around this community and then our people somebody saying like missing because you know like i don't know where she goes but she had like a third or four times you know that's sometimes you're going back and forth back and forth back and forth where uh sometimes in the fall shorts and we see a hand [00:01:01] Speaker 3: reached up in this section what area is that uh it's the glove section and that is at 43 seconds of the video what kind of gloves are these uh gloves you purchased uh just generally what [00:01:20] Speaker 4: kinds of gloves were in that section regarding gloves they can be um hard gloves [00:01:30] Speaker 3: heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty [00:01:48] Speaker ?: heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty [00:01:48] Speaker 3: heavy-duty [00:01:49] Speaker ?: heavy-duty [00:01:49] Speaker 3: heavy-duty [00:01:50] Speaker ?: heavy-duty [00:01:50] Speaker 3: heavy-duty [00:01:52] Speaker ?: heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty heavy-duty [00:01:53] Speaker 3: heavy-duty [00:01:56] Speaker ?: if you could have a seat please did you um [00:01:56] Speaker 3: were you able to take a screenshot of that individual video in reference to um the selection of gloves um what you're doing here we see you get up where are you going i'm gonna ring him up so you're gonna ring him up uh was he purchasing something yes he was what was he purchasing gloves what kind of gloves garden gloves and do you recall the conversation you were having with the defendant he asked about pricing okay and what specifically about pricing did he ask you he just asked where what were the different prices between the two gloves he had so you had two gloves correct how many did he end up purchasing just one um and what color was the glove he purchased if you recall i do not recall other than the pricing for the gloves did did you talk about anything else [00:03:07] Speaker 5: no [00:03:12] Speaker 3: and how did you pay for the gloves in cash stopping that at 1 minute 19 seconds if I may approach the witness you may I'm approaching you and handing you what has been it has 343 e recognize that yes myself and the defendant is it a true and accurate a screenshot of the video we just saw yes and there's a tight date time and stamp on there is that correct and accurate yes now you had an interaction with that individual we saw in the video if you were to see him again would you be able to identify him yes can you take a look around the courtroom and tell us if you see him yes and can you please point him out and describe an article of clothing he's wearing right here on the right side of me he's wearing a suit a black suit I would ask the court [00:04:29] Speaker 5: to note the identification the record will reflect that she identified the defendant [00:04:35] Speaker 3: and those are all the questions I had for this witness it's just an image that we [00:04:40] Speaker 6: received with the request and what does this photo contain images of vehicles looks [00:04:47] Speaker 7: like maybe rain license plates and what in the in the front most facing on this screen what vehicle are we looking at the Tesla the blue Tesla and what if any [00:05:01] Speaker 6: license plate does this Tesla have it looks like a Virginia license plate three eight [00:05:07] Speaker 7: thanks sir and scrolling down to page six what if anything are we looking at on that page it looks [00:05:18] Speaker 6: like the same image to me the blue Tesla a red Honda and the same license plate and were [00:05:27] Speaker 3: you able to independently verify what information did you input in this portal I entered the the [00:05:34] Speaker 1: registration for the vehicle owned by it's a blue Tesla owned by Naresh I may [00:05:43] Speaker 3: publish Commonwealth Exhibit 323 thank you've been admitted you may [00:06:04] Speaker ?: you may be admitted you may be admitted you may be admitted you may be admitted you may be admitted to the [00:06:17] Speaker 3: you may be admitted you may be admitted you may be admitted to the you may be admitted I am going to publish what has already been admitted as Commonwealth Exhibit 323 you could take a look at this you recognize the first page of this yes ma'am I do and is this the response you received after asking for certification from flock yes ma'am now how did these images affect your investigation in this case as I stated [00:07:13] Speaker 1: before the timeline had a lot to do with it but also location so these two specific responses or hit as we refer to them occurred in Fairfax City and they occurred between two locations that we were already looking at so one being the Walmart only highway and the other being the Fairfield crossing apartment [00:07:33] Speaker 3: do you know that by another a street name wickersham wickersham way and part of this is why you you went to the Walmart only highway as well as that apartment complex yes the blue shirt with the orange shirt on record will reflect that what [00:08:03] Speaker 8: aisle is the defendant in right now so that is the chemical aisle so there are household chemicals on the right and then you'll see the paper products which is the toilet paper paper towel on the left continuing to play [00:08:27] Speaker 3: now pausing this at the 21 second mark we see the defendant at the end of the aisle furthest away from the the aisle where he appeared from initially what what [00:08:40] Speaker 8: is he looking at there so that is the end of that aisle and that would just be [00:08:48] Speaker 3: paper products on the left now at the 28 second mark where does the defendant go so [00:09:03] Speaker 8: this aisle is chemicals household chemicals on both sides so this would be all of the cleaners minus laundry detergent this would be all household [00:09:12] Speaker 3: cleaners and for purpose of the record is it the aisle on the right-hand side of the video yes mayor meadows continuing to play at 28 seconds now we just saw the defendant select an item what particular items are in that [00:09:53] Speaker 8: specific section if you can recall so it would be spray cleaners like Clorox cleanup it would be the disinfecting wipes Clorox Lysol disinfecting wipes that [00:10:07] Speaker 3: would be that section right there continuing to play at 54 seconds now we just saw him select something approximately at the one-minute mark what section would that be that is air fresheners what particularly what kind of air [00:10:31] Speaker 8: fresheners so it would be all of them that would be Febreze so what he just chose was Febreze yes ma'am what the defendant purchased okay so the first item is the Christmas tree shaped strawberry cart air freshener then it's 409 carpet cleaner the dove white is a four pack of body wash soap the G V stands for great value disinfectant that would be the wipes the three pack of wipes there are plug-in oils which is the air freshener and then another plug-in air freshener Febreze air freshener spray two pack a spray bottle of Lysol a bunch of bananas and a 20-pound bag of rice [00:11:36] Speaker 9: green to the right or to the left is that clothing donation bin it's the side where he walk just [00:11:50] Speaker 2: walking walk out you just walk out that side is the bin the direction of the man in the yellow shirt he [00:11:56] Speaker 9: walked in the direction of towards the red donation bin yes thank you can we're at 30 minutes and five seconds did you see what the man in the yellow shirt just did with [00:12:09] Speaker 8: the trash can I throw something in the can [00:12:14] Speaker ?: Thank you. Thank you. [00:13:14] Speaker 9: At 29 minutes, at 30 minutes, sir, the man in the yellow shirt, what do you see him doing on this interactive Zoom? Putting, like, a newspaper-like thing inside? Inside what? Grass bin. It looked like you put a newspaper inside the trash can. Yeah. Thank you. [00:13:45] Speaker 4: He would immediately want us to come back. He didn't want her leaving the apartment at all, basically. [00:14:12] Speaker 7: And he said he would tell you to come back. What, if anything, did you hear him say when you were out? [00:14:17] Speaker 4: He would text me and he would just say, go back. [00:14:21] Speaker 7: Did you tell Naresh that you were going out to begin with? No. How did Naresh know to text you that you were out? [00:14:38] Speaker 10: Well, Mamta would respond fairly quickly on her laptop, and when she was gone, she couldn't. [00:14:49] Speaker 7: Was there an incident on Strawberry Lane? There was, yes. And could you describe to members of the jury what incident that was? [00:14:58] Speaker 10: Sure. Mamta was close to running out of space. [00:15:05] Speaker 7: Going back a little bit, Ms. Navarro, did you have conversations with Naresh about Mamta? [00:15:15] Speaker 10: I saw him briefly at the baby's birthday party, but I didn't speak to him very much. [00:15:26] Speaker 7: After Mamta was reported missing, did you talk to the defendant about where Mamta was? No. Did he approach you at all? Only at the birthday party. And what, if anything, did he approach you at the birthday party about? [00:15:45] Speaker 10: The second leader did tell me something. [00:15:49] Speaker 7: And what did he tell you at the birthday party? [00:15:53] Speaker 10: I didn't want to be alone with him, so I never found out. [00:15:59] Speaker 9: Defendant's house. Yes. Did you go inside of the defendant's house on Sunday, August 4th? [00:16:05] Speaker 11: Yes. [00:16:05] Speaker 9: Tell the jury what it is you saw, what you did inside of the defendant's home. [00:16:10] Speaker 11: OK, so I went to his house inside, he said come in, and we seated on his sofa, like black color, and he signed the paper, and I gave him cash 1900 and 100 extra for the utility. I gave him 2K, and he said, like, he needed a little help. I said, OK, what kind of help? He said, like, can you drive me to the bank nearby? And I said, OK, and I take him, him and his daughter, and we went to the bank. I don't know what he did there. Maybe he deposited or something. After he finished there, he said, like, he's going to buy some croissant for his daughter, and he walked out near a store. Like, you know, if you see, hey, come bring your family, we'll get together, but no. [00:17:21] Speaker 9: And in the text message exchange between you and the defendant, you didn't ask about MAPTA, correct? No. And he didn't volunteer and tell you anything about MAPTA in the text messages either, correct? No. On Sunday, August 4th, did the defendant ever say anything about MAPTA being missing? He didn't say it. No further questions. [00:17:46] Speaker 7: Is this witness excused? Yes. All right, sir. [00:17:49] Speaker 9: To my recollection, they were not embedded directly with our team. [00:17:55] Speaker 3: Now, throughout the entirety of the searches, the task completed on August 30th, 2024, was anything of evidentiary value collected in reference to this case? [00:18:08] Speaker 9: No. [00:18:11] Speaker 3: Please answer any questions, counsel may have. [00:18:15] Speaker 8: Ross? Ross? [00:18:17] Speaker 1: On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being you're not honest at all, you lie about everything, and 10 being you're a unicorn and you don't lie about anything. You never lie, right? How would you put yourself? No, I never lie. You never lie? Never lie. [00:18:36] Speaker 2: You know, sometimes, if it's like completely or some scenario, like joking, that's fine, you know, usually I don't lie, don't lie. [00:18:45] Speaker 1: Okay. So, you would put yourself like an 8 or 9? Maybe 10. Or maybe 10? Yeah. Okay. So, what about as far as being responsible? No, what do you mean this for? Like responsible, do you do what you're supposed to do? You pay all your bills on time? [00:19:01] Speaker 2: Yeah. If I... In these seven or eight years, I have never paid, even like paying for the late fee, even like paying for the interest for any, you know, like late payments, stuff like that. Yeah. Whatever. [00:19:14] Speaker 1: Okay. In seven or eight years. All right. What would you say are your three great... [00:19:19] Speaker 2: ...baby, whatever she want to do, let's let her do, that's why she's sometimes happy with me and then, but, you know, mother is mother. [00:19:27] Speaker 1: Yeah. [00:19:28] Speaker ?: Yeah. [00:19:28] Speaker 1: Okay. So, as far as this situation that's going on now, has she ever left like this before? Yes. For how long? [00:19:41] Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, I do not remember. She would, like, she did, like, three, something, three, four times. Yeah. And, uh, one, only one time is the, like, longest time, you know, she went to the foster and, uh, uh, before that, before, yeah, before that, a couple times, you know, like, here, where I left my baby now, um, they, those are our friends and then go stay in the house. [00:20:11] Speaker 1: Okay. [00:20:12] Speaker 2: And what's the longest she was ever gone for? I do not remember. A couple of weeks, not a couple of weeks, somewhere like, like that, 10, 15 days, something like that. [00:20:23] Speaker 1: Like 15 days? [00:20:25] Speaker 2: I do not remember exactly. I need to figure that out, but I... [00:20:28] Speaker 1: Well, was it for, like, one night or was it for lots of nights? [00:20:31] Speaker 2: Lots of nights. Okay. [00:20:33] Speaker 1: Yeah, not one.