Attorneys for men accused of killing Kiplyn question truthfulness of testimonies

PROVO — Defense attorneys for two men accused of killing 15-year-old Kiplyn Davis continue to assert that memories in 2007 can't usurp the power of original testimony in 1995.

Tuesday was the second day of a preliminary hearing in 4th District Court for Timmy Brent Olsen and Christopher Jeppson. Both are charged with first-degree felony murder. Davis' body has not been found.

FBI agent Carlos Villar, who is working with Spanish Fork Police on the case, testified that he got differing stories over time from Olsen and Jeppson regarding their whereabouts on May 2, 1995.

Jeppson first told Villar he had been installing a sprinkler system with Olsen and another friend. Later, he switched stories, saying he had been at Spanish Fork High School all day, working on lights for a school stage production.

Olsen's original story about the sprinkler system also morphed over time into him working with friend Scott Brunson, who was roofing a shed for his parents.

However, defense attorney Dana Facemyer pointed out that these differing stories came out in interviews some 16 months after the day of Davis' disappearance, May 2, 1995.

Brunson took the stand in the late afternoon and testified that he originally lied to officers for Olsen, telling them he had been working with him on the shed.

However, after testifying to a grand jury and taking two polygraph tests, Brunson changed his story and confessed that Olsen had only visited his house twice that day, once in the morning and once in the early evening for about 15 minutes.

The case will continue Thursday at 8:30 a.m.