A college student, who allegedly killed his roommate, used his iPhone to ask Siri where he should hide the body. What is even more chilling is that Siri replied.
Pedro Bravo, 20, is charged with drugging and strangling roommate Christian Aguilar inside his SUV in September of 2012. The murder was fueled by jealously over Aguilar dating the defendant's ex-girlfriend, Erika Friman.
The Florida teen told Siri that he needed "to hide my roommate" on the last day the two men were seen together.
"What kind of place are you looking for?" Siri responded. The iPhone app jokingly tells the murder suspect several locations. "Swamps? Reservoirs? Metal foundries? Dumps?"
Bravo decided on a forest.
Detectives testified that they found proof of this question on the suspect's phone, the evidence presented in screenshots in Tuesday's trial. The murder suspect asked Siri where he could hide the body on Sept. 20, 2012, when he was seen outside a Gainesville Best Buy on surveillance video.
Detective Matt Goeckel of the Gainesville Police Department said Bravo used his phone's flashlight on nine occasions the night of the murder. According to the phone's location points, Bravo lied about where he was that night.
Aguilar's body was found 22 days later. According to the medical examiner, Aguilar was strangled with a belt and was found with pieces of duct tape around his wrists.
Bravo's lawyers say there is no way to confirm Bravo asked the question because the screenshot of the Siri search is among hundreds of pictures from the suspect's phone.
The jury heard Bravo's interrogation tapes in court on Monday, where he admitted to seeing Aguilar on the night he was murdered.
"He got out of the car and I fought him and after that, I remember going in the car and I remember seeing him in my rear-view mirror while I was driving away," Bravo says. Police believe he drove away with the body.
The trial is expected to conclude this week.
