Overview

• Jurors viewed body-camera footage from inside the Beach City home, with a sergeant testifying that Hartsfield’s calm demeanor during the 2023 medical emergency seemed unusual.
• Investigators acknowledged they failed to collect insulin pens and a glass of juice from the scene, a lapse the defense has seized on in a case centered on dosing and timing.
• Prosecutors presented texts to a realtor in which Hartsfield discussed selling the home and an “exit strategy,” complaining that her husband had burdened her with debt.
• New testimony included a friend who said Joseph’s blood sugar was typically high and that Hartsfield asked whether the insulin level could be detected, as well as an ex’s spouse describing a gasoline incident at a trailer.
• The judge allowed testimony on alleged prior bad acts, including a murder-for-hire claim and arson accounts, and jurors heard the 2018 Minnesota shooting of David Bragg has been reopened with a charging decision still pending.