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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2008, 01:21:33 PM »

Monday, September 15, 2008   Agency » Media Relations » CAYLEE PAGE

We have created this page to facilitate the timely flow of information that pertains to the Caylee Anthony investigation between the Sheriff’s Office and the news media. The information posted at this location will either be in the form of a Media Update, created by the agency’s Media Relations Unit, or in response to a formal public records request.  All information posted as a result of a public records request will be in accordance with Ch. 119, F.S.

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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2008, 03:50:31 PM »

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-casey-anthony-091508,0,7781772.story

Today's updates

Casey Anthony behind bars again
2:15 p.m. Casey Anthony is back in custody after surrendering to authorities at the Orange County Jail. Officials have not released the new charges of the arrest. She is scheduled to go before a judge for her initial appearance Tuesday morning

http://www.local6.com/index.html

BREAKING: Casey Anthony Arrested For 3rd Time
Casey Anthony Arrested -- Again
Woman's Daughter Last Seen In Mid-June

POSTED: 2:06 pm EDT September 15, 2008
UPDATED: 2:25 pm EDT September 15, 2008


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony, the mother of a missing 3-year-old Orlando girl, was arrested for a third time Monday afternoon.

Anthony turned herself in on new check fraud charges, Local 6 News reported.

Watch Local 6 News and stay with Local6.com for more on this developing story.


   

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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2008, 02:12:24 PM »

Sept.18th:  link to 9-1-1 call from Casey to LE regarding protestors:

http://www.wftv.com/news/17497948/detail.html
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 07:17:44 PM »

1st Degree Murder, 7 Count Indictmen, Aggrivated Manslaughter







Count one is first-degree murder.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 07:18:54 PM »

5:20 p.m.: Here are a few more details of the 7 count against Casey Anthony.

The first count is for first-degree murder, a capital offense that is punishable by the death penalty. (State Attorney Lawson Lamar, however, did not say specifically he would seek execution, if Casey Anthony is convicted. He took no questions.)

This charge alleges that Casey Anthony caused the death of Caylee “from a premeditated design” between June 15 and July 16. Those dates correspond to the last time Caylee was seen and when she was reported missing. The indictment offers no other information on how, why or when.

 Count two is aggravated child abuse. This alleges that between the same dates Casey Anthony “did knowingly or willfully…causes great bodily harm, permanent disfigurement or permanent disability to Caylee Marie Anthony…by intentionally inflicting physical injury…or by intentionally committing an act or actively encouraging another person to commit an act which could reasonably expected to result in physical injury.”

Count three is aggravated manslaughter of a child. This count alleges that Casey Anthony caused Caylee’s death by failing to provide “the care, supervision and services necessary to maintain Caylee Marie Anthony’s physical and mental health” or that she did not make “a reasonable effort” to protect Caylee from someone else abuses, neglecting or exploiting her.

Counts four through seven are all “providing false information to a law enforcement officer.” Each count lists a time when Casey Anthony is alleged to have lied to investigators about Caylee. Count four says she lied to Orange County Sheriff’s Office Detective Yuri Melich when she said she worked at Universal Studios in 2008. Count five alleges she lied to Melich when she said she left Caylee with a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez. Count  six alleges she lied to Melich when she said she told two former Universal Studios employees that Caylee was missing. And count seven alleges Anthony lied to Melich when she said she received phone call from Caylee on July 15.
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 07:20:21 PM »

Indictments

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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2008, 07:23:26 PM »

Grand jury indicts Casey Anthony for murder of daughter Caylee Marie

Sarah Lundy, Bianca Prieto and Amy L. Edwards

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5:33 PM EDT, October 14, 2008



Casey Anthony was indicted today on seven charges in the disappearance of her missing daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, including first-degree murder.

She also was charged with:

One count aggravated child abuse
One count aggravated manslaughter of a child
Four counts of providing false info to a law enforcement officer

The decision came after an Orange County grand jury heard more than six hours of testimony from a half-dozen witnesses, including Anthony's father, George Anthony, and sheriff's Detective Yuri Melich, who is heading up the investigation.

Jurors completed their work at the Orange County Courthouse at mid-afternoon. Chief Judge Belvin Perry, who presided over the proceeding, received the indictment shortly before 4 p.m. today but ordered it sealed until Anthony was arrested.

The young mother, who spent much of the day at her lawyer's office in Kissimmee, was on the road shortly before 5 p.m. when Orange County deputy sheriffs stopped the vehicle in which she was riding on the Beachline Expressway.

She was taken to the Sheriff's Office command center in Orlando and was expected to be taken to the Orange County Jail sometime this evening.

Caylee Marie's body has not been found, but the indictment indicates that prosecutors believe they can prove at trial that her mother killed her. The first-degree murder charge carries a possible death penalty if she is convicted.

"The investigation contains intricate forensics that are on the cutting edge of science," State Attorney Lawson Lamar said after the indictment was unsealed. "We are used to complex forensics and are ready to manage this evidence at trial."

To win a grand jury indictment, prosecutors had to demonstrate only probable cause that Anthony committed the crime. Proving a case beyond a reasonable doubt is the standard for a criminal trial.

Anthony, 22, has been the main suspect for months in the disappearance of her daughter, who was reported missing July 15. The mother told detectives that she last saw Caylee in mid-June when she left the girl with a baby sitter.

When Anthony returned later, both the child and the baby sitter were gone, she said. Authorities have not been able to find the nanny, and they question whether she exists.

Deputies charged her with child neglect a day after reporting her daughter missing.

They also charged her with providing false information, saying she told lies and directed them to dead-ends. Among the lies, they said, was leading deputies to a vacant apartment she said belonged to the baby sitter and telling them she was an event planner at Universal Studios.

Anthony also is facing several check fraud cases. "The case will not be prosecuted by news release laying out our case to further excite the public," Lamar said. "We will properly do our work in a courtroom setting with a circuit judge presiding to ensure a fair trial for the defendant. Remember that this indictment is not proof of guilt, it is a grand jury finding, an accusation."

Anthony's first appearance will be Wednesday either at 8:30 arm or 1:30 p.m.


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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2008, 05:38:47 PM »

October 17, 2008

Breaking News : Caylee Anthony Search Set to Resume
Texas EquuSearch has announced that they will resume the search for Casey Anthony's missing 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, on Nov. 8. According to Tim Miller, founder and director of the organization, it will be the "biggest search in history."

In related news, Leonard Padilla has sought out the aide of bounty hunters from around the United States, who are now planning on coming to Orlando to help out in the search effort.

Investigation Discovery will also be back on the scene in Orlando, bringing you all the latest details
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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2008, 01:49:03 PM »

Forensic Tests: Decomposing Body Was in Car Driven by Caylee Anthony's Mom

Friday, October 24, 2008


Forensic test results released Friday show that hair found in the car trunk of a missing Orlando toddler's mother came from a decomposing body.

Police had already determined that the strands found in Casey Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire belonged to her daughter, Caylee, and said DNA evidence suggested a corpse had been in the car's trunk.

The results of tests, some done at a so-called "body farm" at the University of Tennessee, released by the state Friday morning confirm those theories.

Head hair taken from the trunk is "microscopically similar" to that taken from a brush used on the child, the forensic report says.

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The judge in the case, Stan Strickland, ordered prosecutors earlier this month to hand over documents outlining the evidence collected from the Pontiac's trunk. In addition to the hair, that included air samples and traces of chloroform.

Caylee Anthony was 2 when she disappeared in mid-June, two months before her third birthday.

Her 22-year-old mother was charged with her murder last week, after a grand jury brought a homicide against her.


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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2008, 04:20:53 PM »

Prosecutors: No Death Penalty For Casey Anthony
Source: Not Enough Aggravating Factors To Make Case[/color]

POSTED: 3:57 pm EST November 6, 2008

Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her daughter, Caylee, WESH 2 News learned on Thursday.

A source at the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office told WESH 2 News reporter Bob Kealing on Thursday that prosecutors have decided there are not enough "aggravating factors" to pursue the death penalty.

A defense attorney sent prosecutors a report outlining why the state should not seek a death sentence against Casey Anthony, who faces trial on first-degree murder 

and other charges.


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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2008, 02:44:14 PM »



Divers say they found bag with fingers, toes in it


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PHOTO GALLERY: Divers search Little Econ River for Caylee Anthony


ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- The dive team searching the Little Econ River around Blanchard Park say they located a
plastic bag with fingers and toes weighted down by bricks. 

A second bag with stuffed animals in it was also found.  The area has been roped off.
 
The divers were hired by  Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla and have been  combing the waters of Little Econ River to find the remains of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony.

Padilla says the 30 to 40 divers were hired from Black Water Divers. There are approximately five divers in the water at the time, searching for any signs of the toddler. The dive team is specialized searching areas that are extremely dark, and they said they are going to search until they find Caylee.

Padilla says this is no longer a search, but a recovery mission.

Earlier this week, Padilla said he was no longer going to look for Caylee. He said that his work was done and he had no plans to return to Central Florida.

On Tuesday, Padilla said he gave the FBI evidence that proves Caylee was dumped into the river. He refused to detail what evidence he says he found.


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Orange County Officials: Divers' Findings Not Related To Caylee
Orange County authorities say a dive team's discovery in an Orlando river is not related to the Caylee Anthony case.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Divers searching for the remains of Caylee Anthony on Thursday said they discovered a garbage bag containing bones and toys in a river at an Orlando park, but Orange County authorities said the findings are not related to the missing girl case.
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A team from Blackwater Divers led by celebrity bounty hunter Leonard Padilla conducted the search in the Little Econ River at Blanchard Park in Orlando.

But Orange County sheriff's Sgt. John Allen said the finding was not related to the missing girl and the sheriff's office was not sending out its dive team.
 

It is not known if the bones were human.


"There's a couple of small toys in the bag. One of them is a clover-type shaped item -- green -- and we know that Casey was big on clover-shaped items. So I told them to shut it down and get the sheriff's office out here," Padilla said.

FBI agents inspected the items, Local 6 News reported.

"We came out here to find Caylee, but you don't want to find her," Padilla said while crying. "But that's the truth of the matter. We think we have."


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Sheriff: Child's Skull Discovered In Wooded Area Near Anthony Home
Caylee Anthony Last Seen In Mid-June

POSTED: 9:10 am EST December 11, 2008
UPDATED: 1:37 pm EST December 11, 2008


ORLANDO, Fla. -- A utility worker on Thursday found the skeletal remains of a child in Orange County in a wooded area located less than half a mile from the home of George and Cindy Anthony, whose 3-year-old granddaughter, Caylee, has been missing since mid-June, authorities said.
The remains, located inside a garbage bag, were discovered by the worker around 9:30 a.m. near South Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive, less than four-tenths of a mile from the Anthonys' 

home on Hopespring Drive.


Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary confirmed that the skull of a child had been recovered.

Orange County sheriff's deputies said it's too early to tell if the remains are that of Caylee.

Local 6 News reporter Jessica D'Onofrio confirmed that the remains are likely that of a girl. D'Onofrio said the worker saw the garbage bag, opened it, saw the remains of a child and called 911. The skull was found nearby, and there was duct tape in and around the garbage bag, D'Onofrio reported.

"Deputies did respond to that area, and once we were on the scene, we determined that we do have the remains of a young child. Obviously, our concern is that it's in close proximity to some recent activity in that part of the county, and it's incumbent upon us to determine what we have," said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons, referring to the Casey Anthony case.

The age and gender of the remains are not known.

The area of the discovery has been blocked off, and FBI agents, along with sheriff's detectives, are investigating the wooded area.

Tim Miller, the leader of EquuSearch, a Texas-based group that has performed numerous searches for Caylee's body, said he talked with FBI agents, who told him that they believe the remains belong to Caylee.

"It would be inappropriate to speculate," Orange County sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves said. "Our investigators are on scene, evaluating and processing the situation. It's very early."

Nieves said that George and Cindy Anthony have been notified about the discovery.

Leonard Padilla, a bounty hunter who initially bailed Casey Anthony out of jail and searched for Caylee, said, "It's a bittersweet day."

"We drove by (the wooded area where the remains were found) dozens of times. We heard that there were searches going on in that area," Padilla said.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is also working with officials of an elementary school located near where the remains were found to coordinate an orderly dismissal.

Buses taking students from Hidden Oaks Elementary will be escorted to and from the school so as to not interfere with the crime scene, Orange County school officials said.

Cindy Anthony first called authorities in July to say she hadn't seen Caylee for a month and her daughter's car smelled like death.

Police immediately interviewed Casey Anthony and said that everything she told them about her Caylee's whereabouts was false.

Casey Anthony said she left Caylee with a baby sitter named Zenaida Gonzalez at an Orange County apartment complex, and the two were missing when she returned to pick up Caylee. Detectives said the baby sitter was nonexistent and the apartment where Anthony said she had last seen Caylee had been empty for months. Anthony also lied about where she worked, detectives said.

As the case unfolded, troubling details emerged. Photos of Anthony partying after her daughter went missing surfaced. Friends said she was a habitual liar, but they also said that she was a good mother.

Earlier this month, the Orange County state attorney turned over almost 800 pages of documents, which showed someone at the Anthony home had done Internet searches for terms like "neck breaking" and "household weapons."

In mid-March, someone used the Anthonys' home laptop to search Google and Wikipedia for peroxide, shovels, acetone, alcohol and chloroform. Traces of chloroform, which is used to induce unconsciousness and also a component of human decomposition, were found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car during forensic testing, the documents said.

Orange County jail officials also released several hours of videotapes of visits between Casey Anthony and her family from July and August, when she was arrested on neglect and other counts but before she was charged with first-degree murder.

During the taped visits, Anthony's parents tell her they're trying hard to find the little girl. Anthony does not appear to add information to aid that search beyond her account that a baby sitter took the girl.

Last week, prosecutors announced they would not pursue the death penalty for Anthony.

The Orange County State Attorney's Office said in a news release last week that "it is not in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida" to pursue the death penalty against Anthony.

Pretrial Hearing

Meanwhile, Local 6 has confirmed that a motion for a change of venue has been prepared by Baez, but the motion has not yet been filed.

A pretrial hearing was held Thursday morning in the first-degree murder case, and Baez waived his client's right to a speedy trial, and the case was moved to the court's March docket. A status hearing was scheduled with a tentative date of Jan. 15. Anthony's trial had been scheduled to begin Jan. 5.

Anthony did not appear at the hearing.

Computer Password Code

Local 6 News continues its investigation into the case as reporter Tony Pipitone deciphers the words and figures Anthony used to communicate with her family from jail.

In a jailhouse visit in July, Lee Anthony, Casey Anthony's brother, seemingly played the role of family detective, but she did not offer much information until he mentioned computer passwords.

"Any meaning behind the passwords that would be clues to any of this?" Lee Anthony asked.

"Yes," Casey Anthony replied.

"Does that include the MySpace sign-in passwords as well as the computer passwords?" Lee Anthony said.

"The computer passwords, no. MySpace and Facebook, yes," Casey Anthony said.

"All right, so there is meaning behind those?" Lee Anthony said.

"Yes," Casey Anthony said.

"Password for that is?" Lee Anthony asked.

"Cays234," Casey Anthony said.

But less than an hour later, Casey Anthony gave her mother, Cindy Anthony, a different answer.

"I don't know your MySpace password," Cindy Anthony said.

"Facebook account (is) timer55 (and the) password is the same as my MySpace," Casey Anthony said.

"I'll let you elaborate if you want to. If not, it's OK," Lee Anthony said.

"Move on to something else. We'll cover that by other means," Casey Anthony said.

The siblings met again in a jailhouse visit three days later, and Casey Anthony communicated with her brother via Baez.

"Do you got anything for me outside of what I've already heard?" Lee Anthony said.

"Did you guys get my messages from Jose?" Casey Anthony asked.

"Yes," Lee Anthony said.

"That's where I'm leaving it , so," Casey Anthony said.

Two days later, on July 30, Cindy Anthony told the FBI that she had figured out her daughter's password code for timer55.

"She told Lee the other day timer55 means that she has 55 days," Cindy Anthony said.

"Fifty-five days from when, as Casey now claimed, mystery baby sitter Zenaida Gonzalez and her sister threw her down in Blanchard Park and took Caylee to teach her a lesson," Pipitone said.

"Fifty-five days to Caylee's birthday, and she said Caylee would be returned on her birthday," Cindy Anthony said.

Caylee's birthday is Aug. 9, which is 55 days after June 16, the day Casey Anthony was last seen with Caylee.

"And that, at least according to Cindy, was the code in Casey's password," Pipitone said.

Mall Video Sought

Baez is seeking a court order for surveillance video of a reported sighting of Caylee.

Baez said that a photograph taken by an unidentified shopper with a cell phone camera, showing a girl who resembles Caylee Anthony playing at a Florida mall five months after she was last seen, led to the request.

The photo was submitted to a tip line in the ongoing search for Caylee.

Baez wants the Florida Mall in Orlando to turn over all of its surveillance tapes from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. on Nov. 16. In a motion filed Monday, he asked a court to subpoena them. No decision has been made yet.

Caylee hasn't been seen since mid-June, but Casey Anthony did not report her daughter missing until mid-July. The child's body hasn't been found.

Baez wants access to the tapes because "in spite of the first-degree murder charges faced by Ms. Anthony, this is still a missing persons case."

"The inability to act could hinder the prompt and safe recovery of Caylee Marie Anthony," Baez wrote.

A call to Florida Mall's director of security was directed to the mall manager, who was not immediately available for comment.

The state's attorney's office did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Prosecutors have routinely declined comment on developments in the case.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story
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EquuSearch's leader said sheriff's office investigator thinks the remains found today belong to missing toddler Caylee Marie Anthony.

Tim Miller, the founder and director of EquuSearch, said the remains "appear to be Caylee, but with any case, we have to wait until a positive ID is made."

"It looks like finally it's over with," Miller said.

Orange County deputies said a meter reader found the remains of a young child this morning in the area of S. Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive -- less than 1/4 mile from the Anthonys' home on Hopespring Drive. Spokesman Jim Solomons of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the remains were found in a bag.

 
Todd Black, the spokesman for Casey Anthony's defense attorney, said the utility worker picked up the bag and a skull rolled out of it. Residents said duct tape was found around the skull, but those reports have not been confirmed by law-enforcement official.

"We certainly hope it isn't [related to the Anthony case]," Black said. "If it is, it is a sad day."

Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary is at the crime scene and said, "we are trying to put it all together." The sheriff also said there are no other cases of missing children in Orange County.

Beary said the FBI was notified and their investigators told him the discovery is a top priority for the agency's lab.

Dr. Lee Jantz, coordinator of the forensic anthropology center at the University of Tennessee, told the Associated Press that it is more difficult to identify a child's body than an adult's.

Jantz said the first thing medical examiners will do is compare photos of the child with the skull, in hopes of making a bone structure comparison. In high-profile cases the DNA of the bones will also be tested.

Anthony's defense attorney Jose Baez, walked out of Orange County Jail shortly after 1:33 p.m. and he was surrounded by media cameras and reporters. He would not speak about the remains. He said he would comment later today.

EquuSearch volunteer Deborah Smith said she searched the area three times and had "a bad feeling" because Anthony had mentioned her daughter was nearby.

"It still feels like she's, she's close to home," Anthony told her brother Lee Anthony in a recorded telephone conversation in July. "That's still my best feeling at the moment."

Smith said the area where the remains were found is "really wet and steep and there's lots of snakes back there."

Three-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony was reported missing July 15. Anthony was indicted in October on first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to law enforcement.

Anthony is being held without bail at the Orange County Jail.

Cindy and George Anthony have insisted that their granddaughter is alive.

Captain Angelo Nieves of the sheriff's office said investigators "right now cannot confirm the sex of the child." Nieves said lead investigator John Allen called George and Cindy Anthony about the discovery. The Orange County Jail was also notified.

Nieves said forensic detectives are inspecting the remains. A medical examiner and FBI detectives are also at the scene.

Sheriff's office patrol cars are blocking Suburban Drive at Hopespring Drive. Yellow crime scene tape surrounds a section of woods near the intersection.

EquuSearch spokeswoman Mandy Albritton said their workers did not check that location earlier because it was submerged in water when they had looked in September. When they returned in November, the site had been fenced off.

Check back for updates.

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« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2008, 01:44:21 PM »

A good summary

Orlando Sentinel (Florida)
 
December 16, 2008 Tuesday
 
WILL TINY CLUES LEAD TO CAYLEE ANSWERS?
 
For five days, federal and Orange County authorities have toiled in the woods where a child's skull was discovered in a plastic bag.

Investigators hauled out boxes of brush and dirt. Crime-scene technicians on their hands and knees combed through debris. Others shook soil through sifters, searching for any tiny particle that might help determine whether the remains are of missing Caylee Marie Anthony.

Five long days -- and yet the work has just begun.

Sheriff's officials said Monday that the lot, a quarter-mile from the home of the child's grandparents, could remain a crime scene for several more days as the evidence crews and various experts, including an anthropologist, an entomologist and a botanist, search methodically for more clues.

After that will come weeks of careful laboratory work designed to make sense of what investigators have found. Already, pieces of the remains have been sent to the FBI lab in Virginia. More will follow.

Forensic experts say the process of identifying a decomposed body -- especially a child -- is not easy, and finding out how that child died can be an even greater challenge. DNA typing, bone inspections, toxicology tests and trace-evidence analysis are just some of the work to be done in the coming days.

"It's just like an archaeological excavation in some cases," said Bill Schneck, founder of Microvision Northwest, a forensic-consulting company in Washington state.

Investigators want to confirm whether the bones belong to Caylee, who disappeared in June. Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, 22, insists her daughter was kidnapped by a baby sitter, but a grand jury has charged her with killing her daughter, who was 2 when she disappeared.

For now, there is no solution to the puzzle, just many new pieces and players:

Medical examiner

Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia must make the final decision -- who is the child in the woods off Suburban Drive and how did the youngster die? She'll get assistance from a slew of scientific experts.

Typically, the medical examiner starts by separating evidence from the body, said Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Bell, who is not associated with the case.

"If there's clothing, clothing comes off. If there's other stuff that's on the body, that will get removed. Everything gets documented, photographed," Bell said.

Sheriff's officials have not disclosed what they found with the child's bones, some of which were inside a plastic bag. But a sheriff's source disclosed Monday that additional bones were found elsewhere in the woods during the weekend.

Often, investigators rely on dental records to confirm an adult's identity, Bell said. But when dealing with young children who have not been X-rayed, DNA will be key, he said.

A sample of DNA, a person's unique genetic blueprint, can be extracted from a hair, a piece of bone or a tooth. The medical examiner collects the sample, then bags it and sends it to a lab.

The examiner then conducts an autopsy, studying the remains to determine the cause of death. Having a skeleton with little or no soft tissues makes the job more difficult.

DNA

DNA found in the nucleus of a cell from the remains can be compared with samples of Caylee's DNA collected at her home.

However, getting a good sample can be more difficult when dealing with a decomposing body left outside for months, said Margaret Wallace, associate professor at John Jay College in New York City.

If nuclear DNA is not available, authorities can turn to mitochondrial DNA, found elsewhere in the cell. This is DNA passed from a mother to her children. Mitochondrial DNA from the remains would have to be compared with samples from Caylee's mother. This would determine whether the dead child was related to Anthony.

DNA is a prominent identification tool, but it's not the only one.

Forensic anthropologist

The skeleton can hold many answers.

Donna Boyd, a professor of anthropology at Radford University in Virginia and co-director of the school's Forensic Science Institute, said the first step for a forensic anthropologist investigating a set of remains is to make a list of what bones are found.

From this, the anthropologist creates a biological profile. With adults, authorities can figure out age, sex, racial type and stature. Children are more difficult because they have not developed as much.

Sex and race are nearly impossible to determine, she said, but age is possible by looking at the size of the bones and teeth.

Bones can be examined for evidence of trauma. Anthropologists can determine whether these injuries, such as broken bones, occurred before the person died, around the time of death or afterward, Boyd said.

Choking isn't as easy to detect. However, a specific bone in the throat can break if strangled -- serving as a red flag to investigators, she said.

What happened to the remains after death can be just as important. Animal bite marks and potential water damage are studied.

"It helps you understand where the remains have been and what happened to them," Boyd said.

Trace evidence

While many experts focus on the body, others try to piece together a story from everything found around the remains.

Investigators sifting through the soil may be looking for fabric from clothing, bone fragments, plastic, rubber from shoes and even duct tape, said Schneck of Microvision Northwest, a trace-evidence expert who has been featured on the TV show Forensic Files.

"If they know what she was wearing, they might be able to find some clothing fragments," Schneck said. The clothing might help provide identification before DNA results come back.

"Duct tape could hold a treasure trove of stuff -- fingerprints, hair and fibers," Schneck said.

The ripped edge of duct tape also can be matched to the roll it came from, even if it has since been used, Schneck said. Investigators have not said whether they have found duct tape in the Anthony home.

The soil could be an important clue, Schneck said.

When someone buries a body, soil often gets on the suspect's shoes and the tools used to dig the grave. Once the burial is done, the dirt can end up in another place, such as the suspect's home.

The composition of the soil differs greatly from one place to another. Schneck looks at bacterial composition, minerals and color of soil when comparing them. If soil from the crime scene shows up at the suspect's home or car, that is good indication, he said.

Early on, investigators found soil in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. It's unknown where that soil came from or if it has been tested.
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« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2008, 02:34:13 PM »

Medical Examiner Says Remains Are Caylee's
Friday, December 19, 2008 – updated: 2:23 pm EST December 19, 2008


The remains found in a wooded area near the home of George and Cindy Anthony have been positively identified as their granddaughter, Caylee.

"This identification was made from nuclear DNA taken from the remains and compared to a known profile of Caylee Anthony," Dr. Jan C. Garavaglia said. "There was no trauma to the bones prior to the death. The manner of the death in this cause is homicide. The cause of death will be listed as homicide by unknown means."

Caylee's mother, Casey, is in the Orange County jail, charged with her daughter's murder.

The announcement was made at an afternoon news conference. Dr. Garavaglia said a substantial amount of Caylee's skeleton was found. She said investigators combing over the scene had done a very thorough job, noting that some of a child's bones are as small as a pebble.

More tests are coming in. The Medical Examiner's office said reports from a botanist and anthropologist would come in at a later date.

The remains were found near the Anthonys' east Orange County home last Thursday by a county meter reader. The discovery site is about a quarter of a mile from the house. (map from location to Anthonys' home)

The meter reader has been identified by investigative sources as Roy Kronk, an ex-military man who lost his wife to cancer a year ago. He's expected to appear at a 3:30pm news conference. Steve Triggs, Director of Communications for Orange County, said the meter reader has been a county employee for a relatively short time. Triggs said Kronk is being represented by outside counsel at the county's expense

Kronk's role in the case has raised issues because the Sheriff's Office admitted Thursday that he had first notified them and Crimeline on August 11, 12 and 13, that he'd spotted something suspicious in the woods.

The Sheriff's Office is currently investigating at least three deputies who responded to the scene but cleared it without finding anything. In the August 13 visit, Krunk even accompanied detectives to the scene.

Officials aren't releasing the names of any of the deputies involved, but they are under administrative investigation.

Sheriff's investigators say Kronk is not under investigation.

"He is not a suspect in this case," Captain Angelo Nieves said. "He is a credible witness and we consider him so at the Orange County Sheriff's Office."

Despite the fact that investigators could have found the remains four months ago in better shape and prevented all the expense to taxpayers of the exhaustive search that's gone on, investigators said they feel very confident about the evidence they have and that it strengthens their case tremendously.


FAMILY NOTIFIED

Dr. Garavaglia said Casey Anthony had been notified about the determination by a jail chaplain. Garavaglia also said Cindy Anthony had been notified.

Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary defended the long investigation and many searches for the body saying, "I don't put price tags on finding a little child… I think this has been an open wound in the community and I think we can put some closure to this wound… No child should have to go through this."

An FBI spokesman said his agency had investigated more than 400 leads nationwide and there were no other suspects besides Casey Anthony. Orange County detectives investigated more than 5,600 leads.



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« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2008, 06:49:32 PM »

Crime scene open; another search warrant served at Anthony home 
 
Last Edited: Saturday, 20 Dec 2008, 6:11 PM EST 
Created: Saturday, 20 Dec 2008, 5:30 PM EST 
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- There were two new developments in the case of toddler Caylee Anthony Saturday.

Saturday afternoon detectives cleared the crime scene where the remains of the toddler were found December 11. Detectives and crime scene technicians spent over a week in the wooded area looking for clues. The area is less then a half a mile from the home of Caylee’s grandparents George and Cindy where the toddler and her mother Casey lived.


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Immediately after detectives cleared the scene a crowd of onlookers made their way down the street to the area.

Orange County Sheriffs Captain Angelo Nieves warned however that deputies would still be patrolling the area. They also put up no parking signs and warned that cars that parked near there would be towed or cited. 

Casey Anthony is currently in the Orange County Jail and has been charged with murder.

Soon after the crime scene was cleared, detectives served another search warrant at the Anthony home. Technicians spent about two hours retrieving items inside the home before leaving. Captain Nieves said that the search was a result of additional clues that had been found at the crime scene.
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