Blayne Alexander

The Google search on Tim's phone.

searches in google does a google search how long does it take to strangle someone horan asked jay's friend khalid fears about that suggesting tim was interested in choking because jay was as a sexual thrill we pointed out that y'all had conversations about choking and things of that nature in that conversation that's not sexual preference though

Okay.

Horan had Khalid read from one of their text exchanges.

He says, ooh, you like to choke and to be choked?

And your response was?

Heavy on him.

I felt stripped naked that I was sharing my private, intimate conversations with my friend with everybody.

In fact, between the evidence and the testimony, the trial was full of sex talk.

a bit of a shock for the religious crowd.

So a lot of the stuff, I was just like, hmm, Lord have mercy.

Horan implied that Google search could have just been Tim researching a sex act he thought Jay wanted to try.

Maybe, but what about that message Jay sent Tim that the prosecution said Tim perceived to be a threat?

Horan cross-examined the Oxford police chief about that.

But Horan told the jury Tim didn't worry about being outed.

Even his deeply religious minister father said it would have been okay with him.

So was Tim really so afraid of being outed that he murdered Jay?

According to the defense, that was a stretch.

And once again, Horan said, police still had no proof that Jay was even dead.

A painful reminder for the chief.