{"id":798080,"date":"2019-07-29T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369302"},"modified":"2019-07-29T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T05:53:28","slug":"ex-husband-of-vail-valley-woman-didnt-stash-her-in-a-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/ex-husband-of-vail-valley-woman-didnt-stash-her-in-a-dumpster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-husband of Vail Valley woman: \u2018Didn\u2019t stash her in a dumpster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Linnea Hayda’s ex-husband denied her implications that he abducted her and dropped her in a dumpster near the Vail apartment where he lived.<\/strong>
Randy Wyrick \/ randy@vaildaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

EAGLE \u2014 Police arrested Linnea Hayda three times on misdemeanor domestic violence charges before she was found in a Vail dumpster, according to testimony Monday in her felony trial.<\/p>\n

After she was found, Hayda attempted suicide twice in two weeks, she was found unconscious and hospitalized for a drug overdose and was involuntarily placed under a psychiatric hold, according to testimony.<\/p>\n

Hayda\u2019s most recent ex-husband, with whom she has two children, was back on the stand Monday in District Court. Hayda claimed that on March 26, 2018, her ex-husband abducted her from an Avon parking lot when she was leaving work, put a bag over her head, threw her in the back of her car, zip-tied her wrists and ankles and dropped her in a dumpster near the Vail apartment complex where they once lived together.<\/p>\n

Vail Police and prosecutors with the District Attorney\u2019s Office claim none of that is true. They say Hayda put herself in that dumpster, concocted her story to implicate her ex-husband in an effort to manipulate a custody battle and then lied to police about it.<\/p>\n

\u2018Didn\u2019t stash her in a dumpster\u2019<\/h3>\n

Her ex-husband, who took the stand just before noon Friday, testified for the rest of the day Friday between starts and stops by both legal teams and wrapped up his testimony at 10:15 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Thea Reiff and Deputy District Attorney Johnny Lombardi sparred over questions, with Reiff digging at the Vail Police Department\u2019s investigation and Lombardi drilling holes in Hayda\u2019s version of events.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you stash Ms. Hayda in a dumpster?\u201d Lombardi asked Hayda\u2019s ex-husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you have zip ties with you on March 26, 2018?\u201d Lombardi asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

During his testimony, Hayda\u2019s ex-husband said Hayda was arrested three times for domestic violence, pushing him in front of their children.<\/p>\n

He said all three times he was scared for his children\u2019s safety, as well as his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter her third arrest for domestic violence in front of my children, I wanted this relationship to be over,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On the day Hayda claims she was abducted, March 26, 2018, she was under protection orders to keep her away from her ex-husband and the Vail apartment where he lived with the children. He was under one restraining order to keep him away from her. He had custody of their two children.<\/p>\n

In custody hearings before the dumpster incident, Hayda asked for unsupervised visitation with their children. Her ex-husband and his attorney cited her mental instability in objecting to that request.<\/p>\n

Ann Parmalee is an attorney and child guardian in dependency and neglect cases, representing the \u201cbest interests of the children,\u201d she said. She was appointed to oversee the case between Hayda and her ex-husband in 2017.<\/p>\n

She testified she was in a hearing on March 20, 2018, with Hayda and her ex-husband regarding Hayda\u2019s visitation rights. She met with Hayda\u2019s ex-husband in his apartment on March 26, 2018, at 6 p.m. \u2014 after he picked up the children from their West Vail daycare.<\/p>\n

If Hayda\u2019s ex-husband had been arrested and charged with kidnapping and attempted murder, it would be \u201cvery relevant\u201d in her decisions about the best interests of the children, she said.<\/p>\n

Christopher Cox lives in Silverthorne and works with Vail Health as an emergency room nurse and supervisor. He was working on the morning of March 27, 2018, when firefighters pulled Hayda out of the dumpster and paramedics brought her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

When she was able to speak one of the first things she said is, \u201cJeff did this!\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

His whereabouts accounted for<\/h3>\n

Prosecutors say witnesses have accounted for Hayda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s whereabouts during the incident.<\/p>\n

Monday morning her ex-husband testified that on that March afternoon, he clocked out from his job as a cook at the Shaw Cancer Center in Edwards around 4 p.m., drove straight home, took a shower and walked his dog. He said he did not stop in Avon, as Hayda claims.<\/p>\n

He picked up his children from daycare in West Vail at 5:15 p.m. Director Cindy Lagace testified that he signed out the two children for the day.<\/p>\n

Reiff took aim at the Vail Police investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers did not ask if you put Ms. Hayda in the dumpster to push her over the edge,\u201d Reiff asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not put anybody in a dumpster,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

Reiff asked if police asked him if he had any drugs that would render Hayda helpless.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not take DNA swabs of the rear compartment of your car,\u201d Reiff asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was more than a year ago. I cannot recall every question asked,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

Meredith Mueller works at Axis Sports Medicine in Avon, where Hayda was an employee. Mueller said Hayda worked a normal shift on March 26, but did not come to work on March 27. Hayda came to the office around 6:30 p.m. that day and spoke with Mueller.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said she had spent the night in a dumpster,\u201d Mueller said.<\/p>\n

Christopher Piper also testified Monday. He said he and his family were in Vail for a spring break ski trip on March, 27, 2018 \u2014 staying in a seasonal rental apartment above Hayda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s apartment. Piper was asleep when his son came into the bedroom, saying there was a police officer at the door. Piper said the Vail officer asked if they had heard any fighting or shouting from the unit below them.<\/p>\n

Hayda\u2019s ex-husband testified Friday that he\u2019d found a $20 bill in the parking lot the morning of March 27, 2018, and assumed that it was something dropped by the Pipers staying in the rental above him. He said renters drop things all the time and he wanted to set a good example for his son, so he left a note and envelope with the $20 bill in it on Piper\u2019s car, pinned by the windshield wiper.<\/p>\n

Piper testified that the note said, \u201cFound these items on the ground. Thought they might be yours.\u201d It was $20 bill and a roll of garbage bags.<\/p>\n

He pulled the $20 bill out of the envelope, unfolded it and noticed it was stained with what appeared to be red ink, Piper said.<\/p>\n

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Linnea Hayda’s ex-husband denied her implications that he abducted her and dropped her in a dumpster near the Vail apartment where he lived.Randy Wyrick \/ randy@vaildaily.com EAGLE \u2014 Police arrested Linnea Hayda three times on misdemeanor domestic violence charges before she was found in a Vail dumpster, according to testimony Monday in her felony trial. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 13:17:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}