Forensic Investigator Testifies: Sheila Agee Deleted Texts After Daughter In-Laws Murder

The prosecution's narrative of control and coordination took a chilling turn in this afternoon session of Day 1 as the courtroom heard from Escambia County digital forensic investigator Eric Haynes. His testimony wasn't dramatic. It didn't need to be. The data spoke for itself.

As Haynes explained to the jury, Sheila Agee’s phone had been subjected to a full forensic extraction using advanced tools like Cellebrite and GrayKey. What investigators found wasn't just metadata or scraps. It was a full record of communications with Keith Agee, the man who moments earlier had walked into a Home Depot and shot their daughter, Brooklyn Sims. Most damning: a key text message was deleted at exactly 1:59 p.m., shortly after the murder. But thanks to forensic recovery tools, it was retrieved.

And it wasn’t just August 11. The jury learned that all messages between August 3rd and 11th had been recovered, copied, and provided to the State. Though the content of those messages hasn’t been read into the record yet, the implication is clear: Sheila had something to hide.

Haynes walked jurors through how deleted messages remain buried in the phone’s memory long after being "erased" by the user. His calm, methodical demeanor made the technology accessible. The courtroom was quiet as the timeline clicked into place: Brooklyn was shot. Keith surrendered. Sheila deleted the message.

Earlier in the clip, jurors heard from witnesses including Tiana Thomas, a Home Depot employee who watched the fatal interaction unfold, and Britney Bishop, a crime scene technician who described the precise location of shell casings and projectiles along Aisle 52. Each testimony layered forensic fact over emotional weight.

Then came Jennifer Hall, the crime scene tech who recovered Keith Agee's discarded 9mm Glock, along with his phone and T-shirt. Officers Anthony Odum and James Parsons filled in the rest of the arrest and recovery story, tracing Keith from the IMAX parking lot where he surrendered back to the gun left on the roadside.

But it was Haynes who gave the jury something that can’t be unseen: the cold data footprint of a mother trying to erase her digital link to the killer just moments after the fact.

✨ Check out these key moments:
00:00 – Court resumes after recess
01:20 – Tiana Thomas sworn in; describes seeing Keith tap Brooklyn
03:40 – Thomas hears gunshots; Brooklyn falls
04:45 – Describes Sheila’s strange behavior
08:55 – Britney Bishop sworn in; explains crime scene response
22:20 – Bishop identifies shell casings, projectiles, phone
31:55 – Bishop confirms autopsy attendance and evidence recovery
37:14 – Officer Odum testifies about Keith’s arrest at IMAX
45:13 – Jennifer Hall collects weapon, shirt, and Nissan Sentra
1:01:25 – Eric Haynes testifies about digital forensic extraction
1:06:28 – Confirms phone number and texts from Keith’s phone
1:10:30 – Admits messages between Brooklyn and Sheila
1:16:39 – Haynes confirms deletion timestamp: 1:59 p.m.

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