An FBI special agent testified Monday that electronic location data seems to place Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the man accused of killing her in the same wooded area at the time of her death. Meanwhile, prosecutors also played a recording of Ibarra being grilled by his wife about the case during a jail phone call.

Georgia prosecutors placed Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley, at the scene of the crime on the morning of Feb. 22.

The man on trial for murder in connection with the February 2024 death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly in high spirits, at times giggling, when he was taken in for questioning by investigators, prosecutors alleged in court on Monday.

Testimony resumed Monday in the trial of the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration during this year's presidential campaign.