{"id":797940,"date":"2019-07-24T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/lies-abuse-alleged-in-case-involving-woman-found-in-a-vail-dumpster\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:56:00","slug":"lies-abuse-alleged-in-case-involving-woman-found-in-a-vail-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/lies-abuse-alleged-in-case-involving-woman-found-in-a-vail-dumpster\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, abuse alleged in case involving woman found in a Vail dumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Linnea Marlene Hayda was found in a Vail dumpster in late March 2018. Now a jury will determine whether Hayda, 33, put herself in there and lied to police about it to incriminate her ex-husband, or someone else put her there while she was blacked out.<\/strong>
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EAGLE \u2014 Linnea Marlene Hayda was found in a Vail dumpster on a cold morning in late March 2018. Now a jury will determine whether Hayda, 33, put herself in there and lied to police about it to incriminate her ex-husband, or someone else put her there while she was blacked out.<\/p>\n

The jury of nine women and five men \u2014 12 jurors and two alternates picked after two long days of jury selection \u2014 heard opening statements and testimony from the first witnesses Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Hayda made that story up,\u201d Heidi McCollum, assistant District Attorney said during her opening statement Wednesday. \u201cShe manufactured a story to make it look like she had been attacked by her ex-husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLinea Hayda woke up in complete darkness. She was alone and bound with a bag over her head,\u201d Stacey Shobe, one of Hayda\u2019s defense attorneys with the Public Defenders Office said.<\/p>\n

Hayda claims a contentious relationship<\/p>\n

Hayda claims that when she left work at Axis Sports Medicine in Avon around 4:30 p.m., March 26, 2018, she walked to her car and put her purse inside. She said that\u2019s when someone put a bag over her head, punched her in the face and threw in a car. She claims she did not regain consciousness until early the next morning.<\/p>\n

Police believed her, at first, McCollum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cVail was on high alert. They were looking for someone who had kidnapped a woman and thrown her away,\u201d McCollum said.<\/p>\n

Hayda\u2019s ex-husband had a restraining order against her. The two had been embroiled in a custody battle over their two children. They\u2019d been to court a few days before the dumpster incident, and were scheduled for another court date a few days later. The two children were living with Hayda\u2019s ex-husband in a Vail apartment.<\/p>\n

McCollum said in court Wednsday that Hayda\u2019s intent for putting herself in a dumpster was to have the Vail police arrest her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? Because he has the kids,\u201d McCollum told the jury.<\/p>\n

The dumpster is about 200 yards from her ex-husband\u2019s apartment, just beyond the limits set by that restraining order, according to court statements Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ex-husband did not do it, DA says<\/p>\n

Hayda claims her ex-husband hit her and did this to her. No evidence supports that or anything like it, McCollum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could not have been her ex-husband who did this to her,\u201d McCollum said.<\/p>\n

First of all, no defensive wounds were found on her ex-husband when police spoke with him, McCollum said. His whereabouts were also well accounted for.<\/p>\n

McCollum told the jury that witnesses saw him leave work, saw him walk his dog, saw him pick up his children, and saw him meet with a childcare worker and speak with neighbors. Investigators checked taxi records, bus video, hotel records and tested zip ties.<\/p>\n

The morning Hayda was discovered, investigators found a $20 bill on the ground near her ex-husband\u2019s car, McCollum said. The ex-husband put that money on a silver Volvo next to his car with a note that said it wasn\u2019t his. He added his apartment number to the note, McCollum said.<\/p>\n

Police found another $20 bill on Hayda that morning. Both bills carried marks indicating they had been in Hayda\u2019s wallet.<\/p>\n

Hayda also asked police whether they had found some of her money near her ex-husband\u2019s apartment, McCollum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe acted knowingly. She made this up. Did she receive injuries? Yes, but they did not come from her ex-husband,\u201d McCollum said.<\/p>\n

She banged on the side of the dumpster until she was found by a man walking his dog around 4:30 a.m., March 27, 2018. Firefighters, paramedics and police were on the scene in moments. Zip ties had been wrapped around her wrists and ankles. Zip ties were found outside the Dumpster, under a trash can. They had been cut, Vail Police Officer Nick Deering testified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no evidence that anyone put zip ties on her except her,\u201d McCollum said.<\/p>\n

Not one piece of physical evidence, including those zip ties, was examined for anyone else\u2019s DNA, Shobe said.<\/p>\n

Hayda\u2019s shifting story<\/p>\n

Hayda\u2019s story shifted as police continued to interview her in the hours and days after she was discovered in the dumpster, McCollum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery lead they tracked down indicated that either it did not happen, or it was not her ex-husband,\u201d McCollum said.<\/p>\n

Shobe painted a different picture for the jury.<\/p>\n

Shobe said Hayda suffers from bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, that Hayda\u2019s relationship with her ex-husband was \u201cvolatile,\u201d and that Hayda thought her ex-husband had been following her for the past few weeks, Shobe said.<\/p>\n

After Hayda woke up inside the dumpster, she worked her right wrist free of the zip tie by which she was bound. She remembered she had a lighter in her pocket, Shobe said, which Hayda used it to free her hand. When she did she reached out and touched the dumpster\u2019s metal wall. She began banging on it, Shobe said.<\/p>\n

Shifting investigation focus<\/p>\n

The focus of the investigation shifted quickly, from trying to determine who might have done this to Hayda, to proving that Hayda did this to herself, Shobe said.<\/p>\n

On April 12, 2018, Vail Police asked Hayda to come to the police station to share some new information. Alone in an interview room, Shobe claimed detectives told Hayda, \u201cYou\u2019re lying! You know you\u2019re lying! I know you\u2019re lying! Stop lying! Knock off the B.S. story and tell the truth!\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after that, Vail Police announced that Hayda was being arrested on felony charges including false reporting, violating a restraining order, tampering with physical evidence and attempting to influence a public servant.<\/p>\n

The trial is scheduled to run through next Wednesday before District Court Judge Paul Dunkelman.<\/p>\n

This story is from The Vail Daily.<\/p>\n

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