Caylee Marie Anthony #98 1/24/09 - 1/26/09

[Leroy]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

BOO    

[Nut44x4]

Interesting comments at the link below......

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The Body in the Trunk
it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car...

Posted: Monday, January 26, 2009

DR. DOUG HANSON
Forensics Contributor

The call came into the Orlando, Florida 911 operator on July 15, 2008 from Cindy Anthony who had earlier reported her granddaughter missing, "I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car”. Over the next few weeks the mystery of what happened to little three year old Caylee Anthony would deepen as investigators tried to sort out the details of the convoluted story that the child's mother and the police's chief suspect, Casey Anthony, would tell about the disappearance of her beautiful, little daughter. Later the grandmother would change her story and say it was a pizza that had been in the trunk for two weeks and had maggots on it that had caused the smell.

What's in the Trunk
Orlando Police investigators said it was definitely the smell of human decomposition they found when they investigated the car both at the home and later at the police impound center. The smell of a decomposing human body is an overwhelmingly putrid smell that can not be mistaken or mimicked by any other smell. That smell is, like the scream of a mountain lion in the dark mountain woods, one of those things you never forget. A smell that makes even the most seasoned investigators sick at times. In addition, two trained cadaver-dogs hit on the car trunk area when brought into the investigation.

Analyzing the Evidence
Samples of air from the car trunk, samples of carpet, and dirt samples from the trunk floor were sent to the laboratory of Dr. Arpad Vass at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee for odor analysis of the organic chemicals in the samples. Dr. Vass' laboratory is world recognized as a leader in the analysis of chemical components found upon decomposition of human and animal bodies. His lab is used by the FBI and works in conjunction with investigators at the Body Farm in Knoxville. Tennessee. The same body farm which is devoted to the study of all aspects of the decomposition of the human body is operated by the University of Tennessee.

Samples of air and carpet were prepared for analysis by gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy analysis. Blank samples of air from around the car, as well as, carpet removed from similar make of car were used to establish background blanks. In addition, a pizza, with mushrooms and pepperoni, was also allowed to decompose and samples were taken from it for analysis. It should be noted that no maggots appeared on the decaying pizza during the decomposition period.

All samples were analyzed and the results compared against a library of over 192,000 known, unique chemical compounds. In addition, the results were compared to chemicals contained in the Decompositional Odor Analysis Database (DOA) which contains 424 uniquely identifiable volatile chemicals from there various stages of human decomposition. Compounding the forensic analysis of a body in a car trunk is the fact that gasoline and its many volatile breakdown products are always present in a car's trunk air and carpet. In addition, cleaners, engine additives, waxes etc may be present in a car and leave behind their unique volatile chemicals. These chemicals can many times mask the results for a specific chemical odor from the decaying body.

The Critical Findings
A total of fifty-four compounds were identified in samples from the car trunk. Of them, eighty percent (43 compounds) were consistent with a decompositional event. It is common to find a number of fluorinated chemical in decaying body samples. These were no found in these samples. However, since the assimilation of these compounds in tissues of the body takes place over an interval of many years, it is likely that a three-year-old child would not have had enough time to accumulate significant amounts of these compounds in her body tissues.

Decomposition can occur under aerobic (oxygen present) or anaerobic (limited oxygen present) conditions. The pattern of volatile chemical present in a sample varies depending on whether air is present or not present. In the analysis of the Anthony's car trunk several of the chemicals identified are consistent with decomposition that occurred under anaerobic conditions. This would be consistent with a body decaying left for a number of days in a car trunk in the hot Florida sun where limited fresh air would be present. When the child's body was finally found in December of 2008 her skeletal remains were found in a black plastic trash bag. If here body was in the car trunk also in the plastic bag them the chances of decomposition by the anaerobic route would be greatly enhanced.

Some compounds revealed in the chemical profile of the air and carpet samples are compounds which are exclusively found with decomposing human bodies and not found with decomposing animal bodies. This essentially rules out the argument by the child's mother that an animal had gotten into her car trunk and died and decayed there. The final decision that the decomposition of a human body had occurred in Casey Anthony's car trunk was based on the analytical results of five specific chemicals. These compounds are all found in the very early stages of decomposition which would be consistent with the fact that the body was removed from the car trunk before the car was found.

The Conclusion
Four of the five compounds can occur with either anaerobic or aerobic decomposition. These compounds are: carbon disulfide, trimethyl trisulfide, dimethyl disulfide, and carbon tetrachloride. The fifth compound, chloroform, is primarily found in situations where the decomposition occurs in oxygen deprived or anaerobic conditions. One of the compounds, carbon tetrachloride, is considered a human specific decomposition marker and is not seen in the decomposition of animal carcasses.

Nearly all of the chemicals found in early stage decomposition were detected in the trunk samples. Compounds usually found in late stage decomposition of a body were not present in the trunk samples. This supports the notion that the body was only present in the car trunk for a relatively short period of time. Several compounds routinely found with decomposing animal remains were not present in the car trunk samples supporting the conclusion that this had been a human body and not an animal in the trunk.

This case of the tragic death of a small child demonstrates how continuing advances in forensic chemical analysis are aiding the investigators in developing clues and the prosecutors in developing effective prosecutions of criminals who commit these sort of heinous crimes.

http://www.officer.com/web/online/Investigation/The-Body-in-the-Trunk/18$45105

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[Blue Moon]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

What?  Did she really?

[crazybabyborg]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

They dropped the investigation, Boo!

HI!!!

[Deenie]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

I must have missed this ... obviously 
Ms Cindy is going to Divorce " George" ?

[Puzzler]

According to the article, his wife Cindy has visited at least once, what a wonderful, loving wife.

She was probably told to stayaway after his blood pressure went off the charts!

Maybe the doctors would not let family members visit George for a while, or maybe have limited the visits

Or, maybe George didn't want to see family. JMO JSM

Yes, you're right and the doctors wouldn't let anyone in that George did not want to see.

and ... there is always that CIRCUS that follows them wherever and whenever they go in public..
i am sure the lawyer probably thought going might be not a good idea..
also...she wouldnt have any FIRST HAND knowledge of ANYTHING george might SAY to her ...in this state....

who knows... i cant figure out why they dont visit their MOTHER OF THE YEAR daughter in jail, who they BELIEVE is INNOCENT...

The way I understood it was that Casey is angry that George testified in the Grand Jury hearing and because of that, she refuses to see George and Cindy.  Also, a part of it is, I'm sure, is that Baez doesn't want anything events where Casey can be caught on video saying anything to anyone.

No need to go visit if you can't get in to see KC.

[Puzzler]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

   Cindy filing for separation????

[crazybabyborg]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

I must have missed this ... obviously 
Ms Cindy is going to Divorce " George" ?

I didn't know Cindy had filed for seperation!

[no rose colored glasses]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

What?  Did she really?

How did I miss this. And what great timing.

[trimmonthelake]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

What?  Did she really?

How did I miss this. And what great timing.

Interesting. 

[heykim]

According to the article, his wife Cindy has visited at least once, what a wonderful, loving wife.

She was probably told to stayaway after his blood pressure went off the charts!

Maybe the doctors would not let family members visit George for a while, or maybe have limited the visits

Or, maybe George didn't want to see family. JMO JSM

Yes, you're right and the doctors wouldn't let anyone in that George did not want to see.

and ... there is always that CIRCUS that follows them wherever and whenever they go in public..
i am sure the lawyer probably thought going might be not a good idea..
also...she wouldnt have any FIRST HAND knowledge of ANYTHING george might SAY to her ...in this state....

who knows... i cant figure out why they dont visit their MOTHER OF THE YEAR daughter in jail, who they BELIEVE is INNOCENT...

The way I understood it was that Casey is angry that George testified in the Grand Jury hearing and because of that, she refuses to see George and Cindy.  Also, a part of it is, I'm sure, is that Baez doesn't want anything events where Casey can be caught on video saying anything to anyone.

No need to go visit if you can't get in to see KC.

LINK please

[orbison11]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

cindy filing for seperation,,,what did i miss?

orb

[Puzzler]

NG asking what kind of security the hospital has so that no one can sneak up on George and take a picture or listen in to him talking.

[crazybabyborg]

Hey Boo? Where did you see that Cindy had filed for seperation? TIA!

[Leroy]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

What?  Did she really?

How did I miss this. And what great timing.

Interesting. 

OH I hope its true!  Cindy is going to live a very lonely life....and she fully deserves that!

[Puzzler]

According to the article, his wife Cindy has visited at least once, what a wonderful, loving wife.

She was probably told to stayaway after his blood pressure went off the charts!

Maybe the doctors would not let family members visit George for a while, or maybe have limited the visits

Or, maybe George didn't want to see family. JMO JSM

Yes, you're right and the doctors wouldn't let anyone in that George did not want to see.

and ... there is always that CIRCUS that follows them wherever and whenever they go in public..
i am sure the lawyer probably thought going might be not a good idea..
also...she wouldnt have any FIRST HAND knowledge of ANYTHING george might SAY to her ...in this state....

who knows... i cant figure out why they dont visit their MOTHER OF THE YEAR daughter in jail, who they BELIEVE is INNOCENT...

The way I understood it was that Casey is angry that George testified in the Grand Jury hearing and because of that, she refuses to see George and Cindy.  Also, a part of it is, I'm sure, is that Baez doesn't want anything events where Casey can be caught on video saying anything to anyone.

No need to go visit if you can't get in to see KC.

LINK please

Sorry, I don't have a link...it was posted in SM, though it was not recent.

[crazybabyborg]

Did Nancy Grace just do an imitation of the way a squirrel sounds?? 

[islandmonkey]

Hey Boo? Where did you see that Cindy had filed for seperation? TIA!

IIRC~nykaties myspace or does she go by BB-11........she had a long post about how CA is having an affair with Dom Casey and wanted a divorce

[BooMonkey]

Ok, so I know about GA not getting out
All Ants not cooperating
Caylee doll
Dom and Cindy doing the horizontal tango
Cindy filing for separation
What's this about JB off the hook?

BOO    

Hey Leroy!!!