'What if I told you I killed her?'

PROVO — Before Andy Bird married, he and his buddy Timmy Brent Olsen went country dancing several times a week — and together they crashed a lot of parties across Utah Valley.

One day, the two men were hanging out and working on Bird's coin collection when the subject of Kiplyn Davis came up.

"What if I told you I killed her," Olsen said.

Bird called Olsen a liar.

"When I said that, he ... got right in my face and told me that I didn't know what he was capable of," Bird said.

Bird was one of several people who testified Thursday during the third day of a preliminary hearing in 4th District Court. Olsen and Christopher Jeppson are charged with murder in the death of Kiplyn Davis, who disappeared May 2, 1995.

Davis' body has not been found.

On the stand, Bird also testified that Olsen was known for spinning yarns.

"Tim would tell stories about how he would beat somebody up and it was (actually) reversed," Bird said. "He would make big stories out of nothing. He was a good storyteller, always good for a laugh. The majority of what he was saying was ... fictional."

"Do you think Timmy Olsen made up stories for shock value?" asked Dana Facemyer, Olsen's attorney.

"At certain times, yes," Bird said.

Maevonna Johnson testified that Olsen shocked her during a barbecue at her home in 1999. Davis' name came up, she said, and Olsen cursed, called Davis a name and said he knew where her body was because he'd killed her.

Johnson said the comment scared her. She eventually went to the police.

Brooke Bosserman, who dated Olsen for several months, told prosecutors that Olsen told her "that him and a few friends and (Kiplyn) had skipped school, gone up to the mountains, and they'd gone for a walk."

"They got in an argument, he took care of her then went back,"

Facemyer asked her if Olsen had been drinking the night of that conversation.

"He probably was," Bosserman said, noting they had been at a bar.

Jeppson's ex-wife, Jeanine, was questioned for several hours about what Jeppson allegedly told her in response to the question, "What's the worst thing you've ever done?'"