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Casey Anthony's Attorney May Try To Get Car Evidence Thrown Out
It looks like Casey's defense attorney might try to get all the evidence in the car thrown out. (10/23/08)


http://www.wftv.com/video/17790182/index.html

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  NBC denies paying Anthonys for interview

October 23, 2008

NBC denies paying Anthonys for interview

Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 23, 2008

NBC News confirmed it paid a "nominal" fee for photographs as part of its coverage of the Casey Anthony case, the same day her parents appeared on the Today show and told a national audience they think their missing granddaughter is still alive.

The Orlando Sentinel asked NBC to address a rumor that it paid George and Cindy Anthony for their interview on the morning broadcast.

A spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail: "NBC News does not pay for interviews. NBC News paid a nominal licensing fee for photos, which is standard in the industry."

She would not say how much NBC News paid.


The Sentinel also asked the Anthonys' spokesman, Larry Garrison, if any member of the Anthony family has received compensation from news or entertainment organizations.

Garrison replied by e-mail, "No family member is receiving money for interviews."

Meanwhile, Texas EquuSearch, the volunteer group that organized a large ground search for Caylee Marie and is preparing another, is looking for current or former members of the military, law enforcement officers or firefighters to serve as team leaders for the next search.

EquuSearch is expecting several thousand volunteers when it resumes its search Nov. 8.

California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said Wednesday he will return to Central Florida to assist in the search, and he has rallied his peers to join.

Padilla said he hopes as many as 500 bounty hunters and bail agents will come to Orange County to search.

"It's a challenge. It's a challenge in the industry to see if we can get the job done," Padilla said. "Bounty hunters do the impossible."

Anyone interested in serving as a team leader can call James A. Copenhaver at 407-897-1184.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,3867930.story

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Nov. 8 Search Planned For Caylee, Kesse
Up To 4,000 Volunteer Searchers Expected

POSTED: 3:47 pm EDT October 23, 2008
UPDATED: 4:43 pm EDT October 23, 2008

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- The latest search effort planned for Caylee Anthony is generating a lot of interest.

An Orlando private investigator who has volunteered to head up the effort to recruit team leaders said he has received over 400 calls since just 5 p.m. Wednesday.

"We're looking for someone with law enforcement background, fire service background, department of corrections -- public service background essentially," said James Copenhaver, private investigator. "Those folks have had some training in the past that they can bring to the table to help us."

The search is being headed up by Equusearch, the same group based in Texas that searched for Caylee in September. The group's leader, Tim Miller, plans to return to Orlando on Nov. 7 to train team leaders. On Nov. 8, the group hopes to send as many as 3,000 or 4,000 volunteer searchers out to look for both Caylee Anthony and Jennifer Kesse -- a Central Florida woman who has been missing since January 2006.

Equusearch is still looking for a search headquarters and determining the exact areas that will be searched. Both the sherriff's office and the FBI are on board with their efforts.

People who are interested in volunteering with Equusearch in the upcoming search for Caylee Anthony and Jennifer Kesse on Nov. 8 call Equusearch at 877-270-9500 or go to their website at www.texasequusearch.org. If you are retired law enforcement, military personnel, or have a background in fire or rescue and would like to serve as a team leader, please contact James Copenhaver at 407-897-1184

http://www.wesh.com/news/17789226/detail.html

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DNA Results Expected In Casey Anthony Case

POSTED: 8:21 am EDT October 24, 2008
UPDATED: 8:29 am EDT October 24, 2008
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned that DNA results in the case against Casey could be released as early as Friday.
Meanwhile, Casey Anthony's defense team is looking for ways to eliminate the strongest evidence against her in the murder of her daughter Caylee. That includes evidence of Caylee's body and chloroform found in Casey's car trunk.

The defense may try to prove that so many people had access to the car during the time it was parked at the Amscot on SR-50 and Goldenrod Road that it's impossible to say, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Caylee is dead and Casey is responsible.


VOLUNTEER GROUP RECRUITING MEMBERS FOR SEARCH

The volunteer group that searched for Caylee is looking to recruit new members. EquuSearch wants current or former members of the military, law enforcement officers or firefighters to serve as team leaders for the next search, scheduled for November 8.

The search is expected to attract several thousand volunteers, including 500 bounty hunters and bail agents.


DID CASEY SEARCH FOR CHLOROFORM RECIPES?

Did Casey Anthony kill her own daughter with chloroform? Eyewitness News has learned someone was looking up the recipe to cook up the chemical on Casey's home computer around the same time Caylee disappeared.

There was evidence of high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey's car and sheriff's investigators found that someone on Casey Anthony's computer was researching not where to buy chloroform, but how to make it yourself, which can be done easily.

Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says, if you were up to no good, there would be an advantage to making it as opposed to buying it.

When you Google "how do you make chloroform," more than a million websites are listed with instructions. On the first one, page one had an explicit warning about chloroform's dangers, calling the chemical extremely dangerous and unpredictable and warning never to allow children to come near chloroform.

FBI lab tests show high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey's car, where investigators say Caylee's body had been. And there was a mysterious stain in the trunk along with Caylee's hairs and dirt.

"Another piece of evidence in the circumstantial chain," Sheaffer said.

Sheaffer said it's significant because, if Casey made the chloroform as opposed to buying it, she could have been trying to cover her tracks. Buying it would have generated some sort of record.

"This way certainly, she could argue, 'Alright, I was interested in looking into how to make chloroform, but I never did.' Or, 'That's why you smelled chloroform in the trunk area, because I was experimenting in making it,'" Sheaffer said.

Record or not, the jury would be faced with a compromising question for Casey.

"Why would you need to make chloroform. For what purpose?" Sheaffer questioned.

Last week, the Orange County grand jury heard from the FBI and one of the sheriff's computer investigators and that information is going to be released to the public very soon.


CASEY'S ATTORNEY TO START QUESTIONING WITNESSES

Casey Anthony's defense attorney is going to start questioning his first prosecution witnesses in the case next Thursday. Among those being questioned is an employee at the Amscot on Goldenrod and Highway 50 where Casey abandoned her car in late June, employees from Johnson's Wrecker Service, the company that towed the car from the Amscot, and Casey's ex-boyfriend Tony Lazzaro.

What do they all have in common? They all had access to Casey's car.


OVER $250 DEPOSITED INTO CASEY'S JAIL ACCOUNT

Complete strangers who feel sorry for Casey Anthony are depositing money into her jail account. On Monday, Eyewitness News reported how Casey was lonely in jail with no visitors except her attorney and no money to spend.

Just two days later, she has more than $250. Fifty dollars came from Nola Copeland of California. She's been following Casey's story nationally and, on the phone, she told Eyewitness News she's a good Christian who knows what jail is like and she wanted to make sure Casey could buy the basics like deodorant.

A second woman from Apopka sent Casey $100, but she didn't return calls.

Casey's father and her bail bondsman deposited just over $100 over the last few days.

The jail says inmate accounts cannot hold more than $500. If Casey's account goes above that, the money will be returned to the donor.


FAMILY SETS UP CAYLEE TIP LINE

In spite of the evidence proving otherwise, the Anthony family insists missing toddler Caylee is still alive. A new tip line was up and running Wednesday morning.

Eyewitness News first reported the family's plans to start the new tip line last week, hours after the spokesperson for Casey's attorney admitted on national television that he believes Caylee is dead (read previous report).

The tip line number is: 1-888-231–5618.


CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY JOINS CASEY'S DEFENSE TEAM

Casey Anthony's rookie lawyer is getting some help. Jose Baez doesn't have the credentials to try a death penalty case, so he's enlisted the help of a Miami lawyer who's defended some brutal murderers.

Miami criminal defense attorney Terence Lenamon has joined the Casey Anthony defense team. Two of the three high-profile murderers Eyewitness News knows he's defended are on death row. The other is serving five consecutive life sentences.

Terence Lenamon would not talk to Eyewitness News on Tuesday. He's now part of accused killer Casey Anthony's defense team. She could face the death penalty for the murder of her daughter Caylee. Her attorney, Jose Baez, is not qualified to handle death penalty cases, but Lenamon is.

Lenamon is a highly-rated defense attorney. Still, two of three high-profile murderers he's defended in recent years are on Florida's death row.

One of them is known as "The Miami Strangler." Harrel Franklin Braddy, 59 was sent to death row last year for literally feeding little Quatisha Maycock to the alligators in the Everglades after strangling her mother and leaving her for dead. The jury voted 11-1 for death. Braddy had already been convicted of choking a corrections officer. Lenamon had tried to convince the jury the little girl's murder was not intentional, but "a horrible mistake."

Two months ago, a jury voted 8-4 to send another of Lenamon's clients to death row, 31-year-old Wadada Delhall, for murdering a key witness who testified against his brother in a murder case.

One of his high-profile Miami murder clients did escape the death penalty. Cesar Mena, 29, a member of the so-called "Orlando Boys," who raped and killed Ana Maria Angel and stabbed her high school sweetheart, is serving five consecutive life sentences.

Casey's defense attorney keeps insisting Caylee is still alive, even though a grand jury indicted her for premeditated murder after hearing the evidence the FBI and Orange County sheriff's investigators have against her. That evidence includes DNA from the trunk of Casey's car showing Caylee's decomposing body had been in it.

If Caylee's body is not found before trial, it's unlikely Baez will need help from a death penalty-qualified attorney, because without a body there probably would be no push for the death penalty.

http://www.wftv.com/news/17793661/detail.html

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Forensic test results in Casey Anthony case could be released this morning
Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
8:45 AM EDT, October 24, 2008

Some forensic test results in the Casey Anthony case could be released by the state this morning. These results could include tests that were done at the body farm in Tennessee. Sources have said air samples taken from the trunk of Anthony's car showed that the trunk once held a decomposing body.

Earlier this month, Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ordered the state to turn over reports dealing with evidence found in the trunk, including traces of chloroform, hair stands and air samples.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-casey-anthony-test-results-102408,0,3710436.story

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Read the forensic results from the FBI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee regarding Casey Anthony's trunk and other parts of her car.

This PDF includes documents released by prosecutors in the Casey Anthony case. The document has been edited to remove personal information such as dates of birth and phone numbers.

Please be patient while the document loads; there are 34 pages of evidenc

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-casey-anthony-documents-102408,0,5346622.htmlpage

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DNA Results Released In Casey Anthony Case

POSTED: 8:21 am EDT October 24, 2008
UPDATED: 11:07 am EDT October 24, 2008


ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News obtained the forensic report released late Friday morning in the case against Casey Anthony.

The report details findings from FBI tests on items found inside Casey's car, including DNA results on hair samples and forensic testing of debris and clothing (read details).

Among the results is confirmation that a hair sample found in the vehicle "exhibits characteristics of apparent decomposition." The report also says that hair is "microscopically similar" to hair investigators took from Caylee's hairbrush, but couldn't confirm it was conclusively Caylee's.

DNA testing done on that piece of hair and compared with a sample provided by Casey confirmed that neither Casey nor Caylee can be "excluded as the source of the hair," because the "mtDNA sequences ... are the same."


http://www.wftv.com/news/17793661/detail.html

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Forensic Report: Evidence Of Decomposition, Chloroform In Casey's Car

POSTED: 8:21 am EDT October 24, 2008
UPDATED: 1:10 pm EDT October 24, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Scientists who conducted forensic tests in the Casey Anthony investigation concluded that human decomposition and evidence of chloroform were present in the trunk of Casey's car, according to the report released Friday

The report details findings from FBI tests on items found inside Casey's car, including DNA results on hair samples and forensic testing of debris and clothing (read details).

Among the results is confirmation that a hair sample found in the vehicle "exhibits characteristics of apparent decomposition." The report also says that specific hair is "microscopically similar" to hair investigators took from Caylee's hairbrush, but couldn't confirm it was conclusively Caylee's.

DNA testing done on that piece of hair and compared with a sample provided by Casey confirmed that neither Casey nor Caylee can be "excluded as the source of the hair," because the "mtDNA sequences ... are the same."

Tests also confirmed "residues of chloroform" within a spare tire cover found inside the trunk of Casey's car. "Residues consistent with chloroform" were also found within the left and right side trunk liner. The report says no other chemicals were detected within those items.

Odor tests that were conducted on the carpet inside Casey's car concluded that 80 percent of the chemicals identified were "consistent with decompositional events." The results of the FBI's Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) on the same carpet concluded that "while these are still preliminary results ... both odor analysis and LIBS results appear to be quite consistent with a decompositional event having occurred in the trunk of the vehicle."

The report also clarifies that the tests conducted appear to point to human decomposition and not animal. Meanwhile, a hair fragment the FBI found on the shovel Casey borrowed from her neighbor days after investigators believe Caylee was murdered, but that hair did not match Caylee or Casey.

The report's final conclusion is that the results of the tests and comparisons indicate "that a portion of the total odor signature identified in the Florida vehicle trunk is consistent with a decompositional event that could be of human origin."

The details of the report released Friday are probably part of what the grand jury heard last week before indicting Casey, but it's not all of the evidence. The thousands of tips that were called in on the case are expected to be released soon and Eyewitness News has learned the vast majority of them are from psychics.

http://www.wftv.com/news/17793661/detail.html

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DNA test results in Casey Anthony case released
Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
12:02 PM EDT, October 24, 2008

Prosecutors this morning released the forensic test results completed by FBI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory labs in connection with the case against Casey Anthony, the mother accused of killing her daughter Caylee Marie.

Investigators have not found Caylee's body, but Anthony has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge alleging the child is dead.

The FBI lab tested items found in the trunk of Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire, including a hair strand, pieces from a tire cover and the trunk liner.

Here are some of the findings:


 

• The root of the hair showed signs of decomposition. A comparison to hair taken from Caylee's brush and DNA taken from Anthony showed that neither the mother nor the daughter could be excluded as the source of the hair.
• Pants, skirts and shirts taken from Anthony's home showed no signs of hair with decomposing roots.
• Residues of chloroform were found on a tire cover in te trunk.
• A hair fragment was found in the label on the handle of a shovel Anthony borrowed from a neighbor in mid-June, about the time Caylee is supposed to have disappeared. The hair was too small for microscopic comparison but DNA analysis found it did not belong to Casey Anthony or Caylee.
• No fingerprints were found on the shovel.

Air samples and pieces of carpet from the trunk were sent Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to determine whether there was signs of decomposition. The lab has been doing this type of research since 2002 and has developed the Decompositional Odor Analysis database.

Here are some of the results:

• The test showed early decomposition products and five major compounds associated with human decomposition.
• A portion of the total odor signature from the trunk "is consistent with a decompositional event that could be a human origin."
• There appeared to "an unusually large concentration of chloroform -- far greater than what is typically seen in human decomposition."

However, the results do not rule out the "remote possibility" that a variety of products and materials -- items not in the trunk when vehicle was discovered -- could have affected the overall chemical signature.

Anthony, 22, is being held without bail in the Orange County Jail. She has insisted that her daughter was taken by a baby sitter who has not been found.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-casey-anthony-dna-results-102408,0,7783945.story

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Scientists: Air Samples From Casey Anthony's Car Show Decomposition
Woman Charged With Murder In Daughter's Disappearance

POSTED: 10:55 am EDT October 24, 2008
UPDATED: 11:22 am EDT October 24, 2008


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Scientists said air samples from the car trunk of Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter Caylee, contain evidence of body decomposition.

Caylee disappeared in June but has not been found.

Authorities on Friday released a report from a Tennessee lab that found five compounds consistent with body decomposition. Tests found evidence of decomposition on a hair strand found in the trunk, described as "microscopically similar" to one found on Caylee's hair brush.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty in the death of her daughter.

http://www.local6.com/news/17794859/detail.html

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Among the findings:

/ Analysis of air samples from Casey’s trunk indicates decomposition “that could be of human origin” and have “an unusually large concentration of chloroform.” The report, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, do not indicate animal decomposition. Several of the compounds in the air samples are associated with a type of decomposition found when someone is deprived of oxygen.

/ A hair found on the left side of Casey’s trunk liner “exhibits characteristics of apparent decomposition” and “is microscopically similar” to a hair from a hairbrush belonging to Caylee. DNA tests, however, could not say whether the hair came from Casey Anthony or Caylee Anthony.

/ Parts of Casey’s trunk liner and spare tire cover shows “residues of chloroform.”

/ Other hair found in the trunk did not exhibit decomposition.

/ No hair showing apparent decomposition was found on pants and skirts. Although it appears this part of the report refers to Casey’s clothes, it does not specifically say.

/ Hair found on a shovel did NOT come from either Casey or Caylee, according to a DNA test.

http://www.wesh.com/download/2008/1024/17794777.pdf

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Hard Evidence Confirms Decomposition In Casey Anthony's Car
Reports Also Confirm High Levels Of Chloroform

POSTED: 12:06 am EDT October 25, 2008
UPDATED: 12:14 am EDT October 25, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hard evidence released on Friday showed that at some point there was definitely a dead body in Casey Anthony's car.

The same report also showed that there was a strong presence of chloroform. Both findings confirm information sources previously revealed to WESH 2 News about missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony's mother.

A chemist explained what the findings could mean for the 

investigation.

"This is what our tissues are made of," said chemist Dr. Jeff Flowers about the findings inside Casey Anthony's trunk. "This is a horrid thing to talk about, really."

Flowers said, after reading through the report from a body farm in Tennessee, he believes compounds found in the air in Casey Anthony's trunk point clearly to human decomposition.

"They did not base this on one or two positive identifications, but on many," Flowers said. "So it's very strong evidence in my mind as a chemist (of) decomposition of a body in the car, of a human body in the car."

In addition to evidence of human decomposition, scientists at the Tennessee body farm also found unusually high levels of chloroform.

"These are higher than what they might expect from decomposition products, and that means they have to have been put there artificially by a human being," Flowers said.

Also released Friday were tests from an FBI lab that conclude a strand of hair found in Casey Anthony's trunk showed signs of decomposition at the root, and under a microscope it appeared similar to hair taken from Caylee's hairbrush. But the sample was too small to draw a conclusion.

A DNA test on the same hair strand confirmed it came from either Casey or Caylee Anthony.

The body farm also said it found compounds that could indicate the decomposition took place in anaerobic conditions, meaning without oxygen, but Flowers said it's not strong evidence.

"One theory, if you've been following the case, is that she was buried somewhere else and then transferred into the car," Flowers said. "But it's pretty speculative."

Todd Black, the representative for Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said the release of the documents do not show any proof that Casey Anthony harmed her daughter.

A representative for Orange County Jail said a pastor from Eastside Baptist Church met with Casey Anthony for about three hours Friday morning.

http://www.wesh.com/news/17800136/detail.html

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Forensic Test Confirms Decaying Body In Casey's Trunk
Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:27:10 AM

ORLANDO -- Forensic test results released by the state Friday in the case against Casey Anthony confirm a decomposing body was in the trunk of her car.

The results came close to five months since Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee, disappeared in June.

According to the report, nearly all of the compounds present in early human decomposition were detected in air samples from the trunk.

The report specified the chemical compounds detected are specifically human, and do not belong to a dead animal -- or rotting pizza, as the Anthony family had suggested.

Test results from the FBI showed a decomposing hair found in the trunk is "microscopically similar" to hair recovered from a hairbrush belonging to 3-year-old Caylee.

The reports also confirmed traces of the the potentially deadly chemical chloroform were also found in the car trunk.

A second hair fragment was found on a shovel Casey Anthony borrowed from her neighbor days after investigators believe Caylee was murdered, but that hair did not match either Casey or Caylee.

"From what I've heard, it can only be one of three people: The neighbor who the shovel belonged to, who we don't know whether or not he's been tested; Casey Anthony's boyfriend; or Casey Anthony's father," said defense attorney Richard Hornsby.

The samples showing decomposition, however, could be the weakest link in the case, because it is new scientific research that only started in 2002.

Hornsby said he most surprised about how clean the trunk was, and believes a second suspect will surface.

"If the hypothesis that Caylee was in the trunk is true, whoever helped Miss Anthony was very intelligent, and I would have to think they had some law enforcement background," Hornsby said.

"Today's released information proves absolutely that there has never been and still isn't any connection with Casey Anthony having committed any crime," said a spokesperson for Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's attorney. "Ms. Anthony, her mother and father, and Jose Baez continue to believe Caylee is still alive." See previous story.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2...ylee_case.html

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FBI, Oak Ridge lab tests on Casey Anthony's car released
Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 25, 2008

Prosecutors released Friday forensic-test results completed by the FBI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in connection with the case against Casey Anthony, the mother accused of killing daughter Caylee Marie.

Investigators have not found Caylee's body, but Anthony, 22, is charged with first-degree murder. She remains held without bail in the Orange County Jail. Since her daughter, then 2 years old, was reported missing July 15, the single mother has insisted that Caylee was taken by a baby sitter.

Friday's reports confirmed what was leaked to the media weeks ago: that the trunk once held a body and that traces of chloroform were found. Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, requested these reports for weeks and a judge ruled earlier this month that the state must turn them over to Baez.

The media-management firm representing Anthony's attorney issued a statement:


 

"Today's released information proves absolutely that there has never been and still isn't any connection whatsoever with Casey Anthony having committed any crime. Ms. Anthony, her mother, father and the Baez law firm continue to believe that Casey's daughter is still alive."


FBI lab at Quantico
Investigators sent samples -- including hair strands, a tire cover and trunk liner -- taken from Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire to an FBI lab in Quantico, Va. Here are some of the findings:

*A hair strand found near the left side of the trunk liner showed signs of decomposition. This is detected by the hair's "postmortem banding," or the appearance of an opaque microscopic band near the root of hairs from a decomposing body.

A comparison to hair taken from Caylee's brush and DNA taken from Casey Anthony showed neither the mother nor daughter could be excluded as the source of the hair.

*Other hair strands found in the trunk showed no signs of decomposition.

*Pants, skirts and shirts taken from Anthony's home showed no signs of hair with decomposing roots.

*Residue of chloroform was on a tire cover in the trunk.

*A hair fragment was found in the label on the handle of a shovel that Anthony borrowed from a neighbor in mid-June, about the time Caylee is thought to have disappeared. The hair was too small for microscopic comparison, but DNA analysis found it did not belong to Casey Anthony or Caylee.


Oak Ridge National Lab
A section of carpet and air samples from the trunk were sent to Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory to determine whether there were signs of decomposition. The lab developed the Decompositional Odor Analysis Database.

Here are some of the results:

*The air samples showed five major compounds associated with human decomposition. A portion of the total odor signature from the trunk "is consistent" with a decomposing body that could be human.

*There appeared to "an unusually large concentration of chloroform -- far greater than what is typically seen in human decomposition."

*The results do not rule out the "remote possibility" that a variety of products and materials -- items not in the trunk when the vehicle was discovered -- could have affected the overall chemical signature.


Sarah Lundy can be reached at slundy@orlandosentinel.com 407-420-6218.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-casey2508oct25,0,5047582.story

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Dr. Baden on Foxnews just now:

The large amount of chloroform found is too much to be from decomposition.

The banding on the hair proves that Caylee is dead and could have died from the chloroform.  The banding of the hair means that the skin was already decomposing. 

The FBI report PROVES Caylee is dead.

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Judge Expected To Accept Casey Anthony's Written "Not Guilty" Plea

POSTED: 6:49 am EDT October 27, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony is not required to be in court Tuesday for her arraignment. She is accused of killing her daughter Caylee who was reported missing in July.

Eyewitness News first reported that Casey Anthony entered a written not guilty plea on October 17, which means she does not have to be in court Tuesday when a judge is expected to officially accept her plea.

The judge may also set a trial date for the murder case against Casey.


EVIDENCE OF DECOMPOSITION, CHLOROFORM IN CASEY'S CAR

Scientists who conducted forensic tests in the Casey Anthony investigation concluded that human decomposition and evidence of chloroform were present in the trunk of Casey's car, according to the report released Friday.

http://www.wftv.com/news/17808566/detail.html

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Here is the link to the documents of the information that came off Casey Anthony's computer
http://www.cfnews13.com/uploadedFiles/21%20Computer%20Forensics%20Report.pdf

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Casey Anthony Trial Date Set, Could Cost Taxpayers

POSTED: 4:50 pm EDT October 27, 2008
UPDATED: 5:32 pm EDT October 27, 2008
Most likely, the trial won't happen at the Orange County courthouse. No one can say how many 10s of thousands of dollars the investigation has already cost. Moving the trial could put taxpayers on the hook for tens of thousands more, maybe even for Casey Anthony's defense.

Even if accused killer Casey Anthony does not have to fight against a death sentence, her trial for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee could last two weeks. That would mean two weeks' worth of hotel room bills for the judge, court deputies, prosecutors and at least a few investigators.

"A change of venue adds expense across the board," said WFTV legal analyst William Sheaffer.

Hotel rooms at between $100 and $125 a night. Any travelling witnesses will add to the cost, plus $36 a day for meals and 45 cents a mile for transportation.

Casey has hired private Kissimmee attorney Jose Baez, but William Sheaffer said she still could ask taxpayers to pay her defense costs, even if one of them has received money for national news coverage.

"There are a number of transactions that you can engage in in order to make sure that the money doesn't go directly to Casey Anthony," he explained.

Sheaffer said the defense will probably have to hire highly-credible and most likely expensive experts to refute the FBI lab evidence against Casey. It could cost at least $50,000. He said the judge would press her for proof she couldn't afford it.

"It's signed under oath, for what that means in this case," Sheaffer said.


CASEY'S PARENTS ATTEND MISSING CHILDREN CEREMONY

The grandfather of an Orlando girl who disappeared in June says a ceremony held for missing children at Florida's Capitol was "gut-wrenching."

George and Cindy Anthony joined 13 other families and Gov. Charlie Crist at the annual Missing Children's Day commemoration Monday. Cindy Anthony said the other families in attendance offered comfort and inspiration.

The couple's granddaughter, Caylee Anthony, has not been seen since June. Their daughter, who is Caylee's mother, has been charged with killing the girl. Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Cindy Anthony said her family continues to believe Caylee is alive.


JUDGE EXPECTED TO ACCEPT CASEY'S 'NOT GUILTY' PLEA

Casey Anthony is not required to be in court Tuesday for her arraignment. She is accused of killing her daughter Caylee who was reported missing in July.

Eyewitness News first reported that Casey Anthony entered a written not guilty plea on October 17, which means she does not have to be in court Tuesday when a judge is expected to officially accept her plea.

The judge may also set a trial date for the murder case against Casey.

On Friday night, Casey's attorney, Jose Baez, visited her at the Orange County jail. No one else has visited her since then and no other visits are currently scheduled.


EVIDENCE OF DECOMPOSITION, CHLOROFORM IN CASEY'S CAR

Scientists who conducted forensic tests in the Casey Anthony investigation concluded that human decomposition and evidence of chloroform were present in the trunk of Casey's car, according to the report released Friday.

The report details findings from FBI tests on items found inside Casey's car, including DNA results on hair samples and forensic testing of debris and clothing (read details).

Among the results is confirmation that a hair sample found in the vehicle "exhibits characteristics of apparent decomposition." The report also says that specific hair is "microscopically similar" to hair investigators took from Caylee's hairbrush.

"The hair found in the trunk establishes that Caylee's dead and that her dead body was in the trunk of the car. Even if they don't find the body, it's enough evidence, scientific evidence, to establish that she's dead," said Dr. Michael Baden, nationally-renowned forensic pathologist.

DNA testing done on that piece of hair and compared with a sample provided by Casey confirmed that neither Casey nor Caylee can be "excluded as the source of the hair," because the "mtDNA sequences ... are the same."

Tests also confirmed "residues of chloroform" within a spare tire cover found inside the trunk of Casey's car. "Residues consistent with chloroform" were also found within the left and right side trunk liner. The report says no other chemicals were detected within those items. Coupled with evidence that someone on Casey's computer was researching how to make chloroform, it could explain how Caylee was murdered.

"That would indicate that chloroform has to be considered as a cause of the baby's death," Dr. Baden said.

Odor tests that were conducted on the carpet inside Casey's car concluded that 80 percent of the chemicals identified were "consistent with decompositional events." The results of the FBI's Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) on the same carpet concluded that "while these are still preliminary results ... both odor analysis and LIBS results appear to be quite consistent with a decompositional event having occurred in the trunk of the vehicle."

The report also clarifies that the tests conducted appear to point to human decomposition and not animal. Meanwhile, a hair fragment the FBI found on the shovel Casey borrowed from her neighbor days after investigators believe Caylee was murdered, but that hair did not match Caylee or Casey.

The report's final conclusion is that the results of the tests and comparisons indicate "that a portion of the total odor signature identified in the Florida vehicle trunk is consistent with a decompositional event that could be of human origin."

The details of the report released Friday are probably part of what the grand jury heard last week before indicting Casey, but it's not all of the evidence. The thousands of tips that were called in on the case are expected to be released soon and Eyewitness News has learned the vast majority of them are from psychics.

http://www.wftv.com/wrdq/17815663/detail.html


Murder trial date:  February 9, 2009

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Defense Attorney Says Evidence In Casey Anthony Case Weak At Best
Caylee Anthony Last Seen In Mid-June

POSTED: 3:39 pm EDT October 27, 2008
UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT October 27, 2008


ORLANDO, Fla. -- The day before the mother of a missing 3-year-old Orlando girl will officially be arraigned on murder charges, a veteran defense attorney said the evidence in the case is weak at best.

Casey Anthony will be arraigned on a first-degree murder charge in the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter, Caylee, who was last seen in mid-June.

Anthony has already entered a written plea of not guilty, and is not required to be in court.

Attorney Diana Tennis said she is not sure the state's case against Anthony is solid.

'There's a big difference between interesting science evidence and evidence that actually gets to a jury," Tennis said.

Authorities on Friday released a report from a Tennessee lab that found five compounds consistent with body decomposition. Tests found evidence of decomposition on a hair strand found in the trunk, described as "microscopically similar" to one found on Caylee's hair brush.

"This whole talk about the 'body farm' and these interesting tests that this one organization is doing is very, very fascinating. It may be good information, but it's also possible that the jury is never going to hear about it," Tennis said.

Tennis cited the example of lie-detector tests, which law enforcement agencies consider credible but courts do not.

"No matter how good the science may be, that doesn't mean the judge is going to let the jury hear about it if it's not completely trustworthy," Tennis said.

http://www.local6.com/news/17815086/detail.html