Stephen Matthews, the former Denver cardiologist sentenced last month to 158 years in jail , tried to erase text conversations and videos with some of his victims from his cellphone, according to the prosecutors in the case, who spoke to CBS News Colorado following the sentencing.
Senior Denver Deputy District Attorneys Bree Beasley and Victoria Kelley said they found text conversations Matthews had with victims — and videos — on different electronic devices but not on his phone.
“I think there is enough evidence to say that he was definitely getting rid of things on his phone,” said Kelley, during the on-camera interview.
“Was he doing it well? No,” she said. “We had evidence he was moving stuff around he didn’t think we’d get,” said Kelley.
“We knew he was deleting some text messages,” she said.
Beasley concurred, saying, Matthews “was manipulating some of the data that was on his phone” with some messages recovered from other devices that “we knew were deleted” from his phone.