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I would think a girlfriend wouldn’t just blurt out that they were picking up a random guy that night from the airport unless she’d already discussed at least knowing him already. This is bizarre.Was the picking up Tyson from the airport text message received by Toyah's boyfriend from Toyah's number at 3:17pm sent by someone other than Toyah?
As an obvious POI in the case, Toyah's boyfriend (Mr Heidenreich) got a grilling today by the defence barrister about his alleged aborted (due to their dog running away on the hike) Spring Creek Falls hiking with a friend (Joel Cuman) alibi photos evidence.
Yes I know. This is sounding fishy already.
Especially when you combine that with Heidenreich coincidentally driving past the crime scene and seeing Toyah's car there, before he even knew she was missing.
'Pre-trial hearing: Jack Gardiner tells court about search for sister Toyah Cordingley'
'April 30, 2024 - 2:29PM
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Jack Gardiner, Toyah’s half-sibling, told the court he found out Toyah was missing in the early hours of October 22 because his sister Layna was trying to call him.
He said he went to the house Toyah shared with her boyfriend Marco Heidenreich and got on Toyah’s laptop to look at her Facebook account to see if he could identify anyone called “Tyson”.
Toyah had sent a text message to Marco at 3.17pm that she had to pick “Tyson” up from the airport between 7pm an 8pm and they did not know a “Tyson”.
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'Pre-trial hearing: Marco Heidenreich tells court about search for Toyah Cordingley'
'April 30, 2024 - 4:06PM
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Mr Heidenreich, who shared a house with Toyah at Woree, was vigorously cross-examined by Mr Singh’s defence barrister Angus Edwards KC on Monday.
He has never spoken publicly about Toyah’s alleged murder.
The court heard that Mr Heidenreich last saw Toyah about 1.30pm on Sunday, October 21, 2018 – she had returned from Rusty’s Markets about midday and headed out to walk her dog about 1.30pm.
He left about 15-18 minutes later to drive to Port Douglas, pick up his friend Joel Cuman and hiked Spring Creek Falls.
The court heard on his way he saw Toyah’s car parked at the Wangetti Beach car park.
Mr Heidenreich thought about stopping but had already passed.
The hike at Spring Creek Falls did not go as planned because Mr Heidenreich’s dog ran off and could not be found.
He and Mr Cuman went to their friend Toby Petrack’s house to borrow torches at 7.05pm to keep searching for the lost dog, the court heard.
He was driving back down the Captain Cook Highway about 9.30pm and saw Toyah’s car abandoned in the car park.
Mr Heidenreich told the court he had tried calling Toyah from about 7.05pm but her iPhone went straight to voicemail.
He said he didn’t notice a text from Toyah sent at 3.17pm saying she was picking up a man named Tyson from the airport, and that he did not know anyone called Tyson.
He said he did not notice the text until he was at Wangetti about 9.30pm.
“Her phone was off, it went straight to message bank,” Mr Heidenreich said.
He saw that the car was open and ran out on to the beach.
“I ran up the beach screaming her name, trying to find her,” he said.
He said he ran about 1km up the beach.
“I didn’t really know what to think, I was just worried,” he said.
“I take it you’ve gone quite some distance,” Mr Edwards said.
“Not as far as … she was found,” Mr Heidenreich said.
He told the court he had walked the dogs at Wangetti with Toyah but did not usually walk as far as what Mr Edwards referred to as “the little creek that runs down”.
“You are familiar with the creek because of the following morning when her body was found,” Mr Edwards said.
Mr Heidenreich said yes.
He rang a friend, who told him to call the police, and he did.
“At some stage I realised there was a text from Toyah to me, I did not remember it seeing come through, I assumed I was out of phone range at Spring Falls. She said she had to pick up Tyson from the airport between 7pm and 8pm – I did not know any person called Tyson,” Mr Heidenreich said.
He agreed with Mr Edwards that he looked on Toyah’s laptop at her Facebook account later in the night “to work out who Tyson was”.
Crown prosecutor Nathan Crane asked if he recalled what time it was when it became dark while he was looking for his dog.
Mr Heidenreich could not recall, but sought a torch at 7.05pm and “it was dark some time before that”.
Mr Edwards asked Mr Heidenreich if he was aware metadata on the photographs at Spring Creek Falls, which showed the date, time, and location of the photograph, could be manipulated.
Mr Heidenreich said he was not aware of that.
“Did you or Joel change the metadata?” Mr Edwards asked.
“No, we did not,” Mr Heidenreich said.
“So the metadata should remain accurate?
“Yes,” Mr Heidenreich responded.
He was questioned at length about the nature of his relationship with Toyah and said things were fine between them.
He was asked if he was having a problem in the relationship, if she wanted her independence and wanted to separate and Mr Heidenreich said none of that was the case.
Mr Edwards asked Mr Heidenreich if Toyah had been feeling unwell mentally.
“Not to my knowledge, she was maybe a bit quiet,” he said.
Mr Edwards asked if their relationship remained physical and Mr Heidenreich said it had.
The pre-trial hearing ran on April 29 and 30 in Cairns, and is set to reconvene on June 3.
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A jury trial is set for July 22.'
