Digital evidence shown to jurors in Zimmerman murder trial

Posted on April 25, 2019

By WJBC Staff and WMBD-TV

BLOOMINGTON – The gun that killed Pam Zimmerman was never found despite police searching murder defendant Kirk Zimmerman’s home, car and workplace. However, prosecutors believe Zimmerman may have killed his ex-wife with a gun he bought outside of Illinois.

The prosecution can’t confirm Zimmerman had a weapon because there was no weapon registered to him in Illinois, nor did he have a firearm owners identification card.

Prosecutors suggest Zimmerman may have traveled to Indiana to buy the gun.

Thursday, prosecutors put BPD Digital Forensic Detective William Lynn on the stand.

Lynn was tasked with retrieving all of the electronic devices from Zimmerman to digitally determine his whereabouts and online activity in the days leading up to the murder.

Evidence shows Zimmerman went on Mapquest and dragged the map screen, with his mouse, to Lafayette, Indiana.

Zimmerman supposedly did this on Oct. 24, the exact date he supposedly received a FedEx letter from Pam asking him to pay child support.

Because major highways are depicted in the all of the dragged images, the prosecution believes Zimmerman, in an effort to not leave a trail, did that dragging to figure out a route to Indiana without actually typing out the address.

This information was recovered from both Zimmerman’s work and personal computers.

However, the lead detective on the case, Tim Power said earlier this week, he went to Lafayette, Indiana after BPD discovered the information, but Power says no one there can attest to visually seeing Zimmerman or his vehicle.

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