However, in the peculiar instance of Cody Allen Wade, an Indiana murderer, this technological accident actually aided law enforcement in apprehending a dangerous criminal. Wade, in a grave mistake, neglected to terminate a call after leaving a voicemail, consequently unveiling an audio recording of him committing a heinous act of murder.
From The Daily Wire:
An Indiana man was sentenced on Wednesday to 85 years in prison for the 2020 murder of his mother’s boyfriend.
Cody Allen Wade, 33, was on parole for arson on June 18, 2020, when he stabbed Carl Haviland to death. On that fateful day, Wade left a cookout and went to a man’s house, whom he told he was about to kill someone.
Wade then went to his mother’s house and called her, but she didn’t answer, and he left a voicemail. Wade, however, failed to hang up after leaving the voicemail, so he ended up recording himself as he stabbed Haviland to death in front of his mother.
“The defendant repeatedly stabbed Carl Haviland not only in front of the defendant’s own mother but did so in spite of her efforts to physically prevent him from committing the crime,” Clay County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Pell wrote when sentencing Wade, according to People Magazine.
Clay County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Zach Clapp said prosecutors played the recording Wade accidentally left on his mother’s phone for the jury during his trial. The jury ultimately found him guilty of the murder after a four-day trial.
You can imagine how ecstatic the prosecutors must have been upon uncovering this evidence.
It's basically impossible to uphold your innocence when an actually recording exists of you committing the crime.
