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Skylar Richardson's doctor testifies about the last appointment he had with her before she gave birth to her daughter; prosecutors stress the importance of the OB-GYN visit just weeks before she gave birth.
Police treated Skylar Richardson's house as a crime scene since she was accused of killing her newborn; the State claims that Skylar Richardson killed her newborn because she had no intention of being a single, teenaged mom.
On the stand, the coroner recalls his team hiring an independent anthropologist to determine the age of the human remains recovered in the defendant's backyard; prosecutors bring in a state lab technician for the DNA evidence.
The jury hears from the crime scene investigators who dug up the remains of baby Annabelle; prosecutors state Skylar killed the baby, but she claims Annabelle died at birth.
Prosecutors bring in a second OB-GYN to testify; the defendant had gone to Dr. Casey Boyce weeks after her daughter, Annabelle, had been born; Dr. Casey Boyce testifies that Skylar told her that Annabelle was a stillborn.
Crime scene photos are introduced in court; on the stand is the coroner who arrived at the backyard of the defendant's home to confirm baby remains that had been dug up.
Skylar Richardson's defense team drills the forensic pathologist who did the autopsy on Annabelle, the defendant's baby; according to Susan Brown, all signs point to homicidal violence.
The jury listens to the defendant's accounts of what led up to the death of her baby, Annabelle; the state plays a video-recorded conversation between Skylar Richardson and her parents that happened at a police station.
An emotional police interrogation is played in court; jurors hear the defendant tell police that she did not intentionally kill her newborn, Annabelle.
A police lieutenant takes the stand; John Faine conducts the first video-recorded police interrogation of the defendant weeks after she gave birth to her baby, Annabelle; the newborn's remains are found buried in Skylar Richardson's backyard.
Dr. Susan Brown had done the autopsy on Annabelle, Skylar's newborn; this forensic pathologist concludes that the baby died of a homicide and this was not a natural death, as the defense claimed.
Dr. Susan Brown and her forensic pathology team do their best to put all the skeletal remains together in this case; the remains were dug up in the backyard of the defendant's home.
Homicidal violence is the conclusion from the forensic pathologist about the death of baby Annabelle; her mother, Skylar Richardson, is on trial accused of killing the newborn, which she denies.
The jury learns how old baby Annabelle was when she died, according to the State's latest expert on the stand.
The issue of intrauterine growth restriction or IUGR is the big focus in Skylar Richardson's murder trial; on the stand is Dr. Kim Brady, an expert in the field of maternal fetal medicine.
The last minutes of Skylar Richardson's second police interrogation is played out for the jury; she gave police two interviews two months after Annabelle, her newborn, allegedly died as a stillborn.
Jurors hear details about Sklyar Richardson's pregnancy; she told the investigators that she delivered the baby all by herself in her bathroom; prosecutors bring in a medical expert who believes that Annabelle was most likely healthy at birth.
Prosecutors recall back on the stand the Lieutenant who worked on this case; the State introduce the second police interrogation of the defendant, over the death of her newborn, Annabelle; both police interrogations appear to be emotional for Skylar.
Skylar Richardson's lawyers have more questions for the lieutenant who looked into the murder of her newborn daughter; the Defense accuses police in manipulative interrogation tactics to get Skylar to answer questions alluding to the notion.
In the second interrogation, the lieutenant pushes the defendant to admit that baby Annabelle was alive for a moment after she was born; two police officers plead with Skylar Richardson to tell the truth as to what happened to her newborn.
Five days is the duration between the two interviews Skylar Richardson gave to police in the weeks after her newborn, Annabelle, passed away; jurors watch the entire second interrogation conducted by the lead investigators on this case.
The State rests its case; the defense team tries to convince the jury that Skylar Richardson did not intentionally kill her daughter, Annabelle, moments after she was born; jurors learn more about the defendant's family dynamics.
On the stand is an examiner who extracted information from the defendant's phone before, during and after Annabelle was born and subsquently died; prosecutors try to show the jurors that Skylar Richardson hid the pregnancy to cover her tracks.
A digital forensics examiner reads for jurors text messages Richardson sent out in the days leading up to the death of her baby girl, Annabelle.
Skylar Richardson's former boyfriend, Brandon Saylor recalls to the jury that he had no idea she was pregnant with baby Annabelle even when he took her to the senior prom; Brandon claims he found out about the pregnancy with everyone else.
Dr. John White, the Defense's OB-GYN, claims Skylar was not healthy because of her eating disorder; he concludes that Annabelle suffered poor growth in her mother's womb causing her to be stillborn.
Skylar Richardson's father tells the jury that she kept her pregnancy, delivery and attempted burial of Annabelle as a secret from her family; Dr. John White reviews the medical records, case notes and police interviews to establish his opinion.
The Defense's OB-GYN expert explains to the jury how stillbirths occur in deliveries; on the stand, Dr. John White indicates that Skylar Richardson's description of Annabelle when she was born was similar to what happens in the case of a stillborn.
Low caloric intake and nutritional deficiency is the diagnosis the defense's medical expert gave of Skylar Richardson while she was pregnant; Dr. John White claims Skylar was an unhealthy mother who likely delivered a stillbirth child.
The cross-examination of the defense's medical expert continues; on the stand, Dr. John White, an OB-GYN, claims that by the time Annabelle was born into the world she had already been dead by stillbirth.