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In court, defense attorney Robert Sanger asked Jane Doe about phone calls between her and Benjamin Randall on Sunday afternoon, February 18 – less than two days after the incident. According to Doe’s phone records, she had called Randall at 4:43 p.m. for 82 seconds, though without Randall’s records – which neither Sanger nor the prosecution subpoenaed – it is impossible to ascertain whether the two spoke or Doe left a voicemail message. (Barron’s failure to subpoena Randall’s records is particularly curious in light of her subpoenaing several months’ worth of cell records for both Eric’s friend Krystal Giang and his girlfriend, Yesenia Prieto – neither of whom, unlike Randall, were ever under suspicion. Text messages for everyone seem to have slipped under even the prosecution’s radar.) Doe said she did not remember making that call.
Sanger asked whether she remembered the call Randall made to her one minute later, at 4:44 p.m., lasting 146 seconds. Doe answered no, she didn’t remember, then said, “But if that’s the call I think it is, it’s when I told him I didn’t want to see him for a while and I explained to him what happened.”