Jury Hears Josie Dikeman Lying To Police In Initial Statement | Pt 19

Police body cam was rolling the morning her six-year-old son was found dead. The State played the interview, and what she said did not match the records. Lt. John Williams was the ranking investigator at the La Crosse County home the morning six-year-old Alexavier Pedrin was found dead. He turned on his body camera and sat down with Josie Dikeman to ask her what happened. He was off the case two months later. Watch the State's redirect after the defense cross. Williams walks the jury through the gaps between what Dikeman told him on camera and what the records actually showed. Then watch the defense come back. Williams Mirandized her out of caution that morning because of the number of officers on scene. She did not have a lawyer. The interview the State just played for the jury is what came out of that conversation. The defense cross is what came out of two months of investigation before he was off the case. WATCH WITH JUSTICE 5:43 to 32:55 - The first body cam clip plays. Williams walks into the home and sits down with Dikeman. She gives him the timeline of the night before, the medications she takes, the bag of old prescriptions she says her son may have gotten into, and her account of finding him on the floor with white foam at his mouth. 40:32 to 47:25 - Two more body cam clips play. Dikeman asks for the no-contact order to come down so the boy's father can come home, and volunteers that the father had handed her his marijuana the night before. Williams tells her on camera he is not going to charge her with marijuana. 49:02 to 1:14:56 - Defense cross opens. Christopher Zachar walks the lieutenant through everything Dikeman told the truth about, then pivots to the pill bottle the State sent in for DNA without standards from either suspect, the residue inside that bottle never tested, and the possible pill fragments on the boy's pillow the lieutenant says he is hearing about for the first time on the stand. 1:14:57 to 1:46:51 - The cross builds. The lieutenant says on the record he was quietly removed from the case and offended by the prosecution. The DCI agent testified at the preliminary hearing that the boy's father was a person of interest. The videos of the father being violent on Dikeman's phone were never reviewed. The drug-transaction text on the father's phone two days before the boy died was never followed up. 1:46:51 to 2:03:12 - The defense walks the jury through Dikeman's phone activity the night the boy died. A 9:15 p.m. selfie with her younger son, both smiling. Texts planning a first date the next day. Hundreds of hours of jail phone calls between the boy's biological mother and the father that nobody listened to. 2:03:12 to 2:22:00 - The State's redirect. ADA Torbensen pulls a text Dikeman sent her own mother in July 2021 asking if she wanted to try Xanax. Williams agrees that meets the definition of a drug dealer. The only-one-person-could-have-done-it timeline laid out clean. The white foam versus the black foam the deputy saw. The body on the floor versus the body on the bed. Thirteen minutes searching a small bedroom for a child four feet from the bed. 2:22:00 to 2:41:00 - The defense recross and the State's re-redirect. The Xanax text was eighteen months before the boy died. Williams says the State's working theory just laid out is, in his own words, partly something he is hearing for the first time on the stand. COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/wi-... Complete case overview including charges, timeline, key players, and legal analysis. Start here if you are new to this case. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/cov... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • Wisconsin v. Josie Dikeman — Full Trial Li...   No Breaks Edition:    • Wisconsin v. Josie Dikeman — No Breaks Edi...   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • Wisconsin v. Josie Dikeman — Trial Podcast   Key Moments and Testimony:    • Wisconsin v. Josie Dikeman — Key Moments &...   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #DikermanTrial #SecretsInTheHome