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Posted on 08/31/2008 9:31:24 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Today Sgt. John Allen with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department confirmed what Channel 9 has been reporting since Wednesday. There was a dead body in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, and that body was Caylee.
Four Orange County Sheriff’s Detectives joined Texas EquuSearch and about two-hundred volunteers Sunday morning in the search for Caylee Anthony.
Orange County Sheriffs and EquuSearch are asking that individuals interested in assisting in the search go to the staging area. That is located at the Holiday Inn Select at 5750 TG Lee Blvd in Orlando.
Casey Anthony awoke in the Orange County jail, Sunday morning. Despite having bond posted on check fraud charges, she's still behind bars.
McDonald’s Bail Bonds of Kissimmee posted bond for Casey on charges related for forgery, theft and using fraudulent information. Detectives say Casey took nearly $700 from a friend and her parents. Investigators said they have images of Casey using checks at a Target store and a Bank of America. Investigative sources also said Casey may be accused of stealing money that was to be used to pay for her grandfather's living expenses in a Mount Dora assisted-living facility.
"She had used names and checks in an account that didn't belong to her," said Capt. Angelo Nieves of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Although bond has been posted on those charges, a Clearwater bonding company revoked an earlier bond that had been posted on charges related to the disappearance of Casey's young daughter, Caylee. The company had put up $50,000 of a $500,000 bond. A company spokesman said that bond might be reinstated next week. Until then, unless someone can come up with $50,000, Casey will stay in jail. The Anthony family previously was unable to raise that money.
JAIL ROUTINE STAYS THE SAME
Casey is back in protective custody, which is where she was in her previous jail stay. She's allowed three visits a week from someone other than her attorney. During her first stay, she would often refuse to see family members when they showed up at the jail.
Casey made a very brief appearance before an Orange County judge Saturday afternoon on the check fraud charges.
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CHAOTIC SCENE AT ANTHONY HOME
The latest drama unfolded Friday night when Orange County deputies took Casey back into custody at her home Friday evening.
Investigators showed up at the family's home about 8:30pm. They led Casey out in handcuffs to the cheers of waiting protesters, some carrying signs and screaming, "Baby Killer!"
The sheriff's office actions infuriated Casey's mother, Cindy.
She said deputies arrived at the house without a warrant and told her they were taking Casey to a safe place.
"They were grandstanding last night. They forced their way into my house," said Cindy. "I thought they were responding to a 911 call I made about the protesters."
Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez agreed, saying, "This is nothing more than an attempt by law enforcement to play mind games with my client. They leaked the arrest to the media and deliberately avoided telling me so she couldn't turn herself in, in a dignified fashion."
The evening's events unfolded after a tense and volatile day at the family's home. Protesters showed up early Friday evening, demanding Casey go back to jail. However, the protests referred to charges Casey Anthony already faces regarding to the disappearance of her young daughter Caylee.
"I think it's been good that she's been re-arrested. Maybe she'll come clean with the truth," said protester Kellie Gerrett.
Also Friday, subpoenas were issued to the Anthony family telling them they may have to testify in a trial scheduled to start on November 17.
GROUP BEGINS SEARCH
A Texas organization that specializes in searching for humans and human remains used dogs, horses, and airboats to search an area near T.G. Lee Road, Saturday, near the airport. The search turned up nothing and leaders of Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery admitted they weren't likely to find much. But volunteers held out hope.
"I'm out here to look for Caylee," said Carrie Wilmer. "Caylee deserves to be buried properly. I'm sorry to say, I don't feel like she's with us anymore. I feel she's with God now."
GEORGE ANTHONY GOES BALLISTIC
George Anthony hit the roof Friday afternoon when two protesters set up camp right in front of his home, throwing chairs and yelling. George's pastor had to hold him back as he unloaded on two men who set up chairs and an umbrella in his card. They came to the house hoping to see Casey hauled back to jail.
"We're just here to watch her be arrested," one of the protestors told Eyewitness News.
As evidence mounts that Caylee is dead, the Anthony family seems to have no end of conspiracy theories. They blame everyone but Casey.
"Maybe someone put a body in the car after it was towed to the tow yard. Why don't you talk to them about their security?" Cindy Anthony said Thursday evening.
The drama even made bounty hunter Leonard Padilla nervous for the media. Padilla had worked with the Clearwater company to post the original bond and had been living outside the Anthony family home in an RV. He pulled out Saturday.
"I don't want you guys sitting there talking to Cindy when she's got a hammer in her hand," Padilla said Friday morning.
STATE ATTORNEY COMMENTS ON DNA EVIDENCE
For the first time, Orange County State Attorney Lawson Lamar weighed in on the evidence in the case Friday. Eyewitness News broke the story Wednesday that DNA evidence reveals Caylee Anthony's body was in her mother's trunk and it shows decomposition that Caylee was dead.
"Law enforcement prosecution throughout all of this has been hoping and praying we find this child a live. That hope has been somewhat diminished by recent forensics," Lamar said.
Despite the evidence, the offer of limited immunity to Casey Anthony remains. An email from prosecutors confirms Anthony's lawyer, Jose Baez, asked for it several weeks ago. The deal means that anything the 22-year-old mother says to investigators would not be used against her in court, only the evidence found.
"The initial thought of offering that level of immunity was that we might gain some information that would lead us to the missing child," Lamar said.
So far, Casey Anthony has not said a word. The State Attorney's Office is waiting for the sheriff's office to send over what's called a "fact package," which includes all the forensic evidence.
Lamar told Eyewitness News he isn't rushing the sheriff's office for that packet. The offer of limited immunity will expire on Tuesday.
CINDY ANTHONY LASHES OUT AT THE MEDIA
Cindy Anthony said she doesn't believe her daughter Casey was responsible for Caylee's death. In fact, she said she doesn't even believe Caylee is dead.
She posted no trespassing signs in front of her home to keep the media away Thursday evening, but then continued to talk to reporters (Images | Raw Video). Cindy said she's sick of the media hanging around her home and reporting on the investigation into what happened to her granddaughter Caylee.
"All you guys want to (explicit) do is out my daughter in jail. Not one of you is doing a damn thing to find my granddaughter!" Cindy screamed.
She hammered no trespassing signs in her front yard to make it clear that she doesn't want anyone at her home except Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery (read about EquuSearch).
"We are not asking Casey one question about anything, you know that's the detective's job. She does have an attorney and our job is to be searchers," Miller said.
His organization has found hundreds of missing people and most of them were alive.
"I want him to do a search around here to satisfy all of you leaches, parasites and all of you maggots," Cindy Anthony said Thursday evening.
Cindy's rant came the day after sources informed Eyewitness News that new DNA evidence shows hair and a stain found inside of Casey Anthony's car belongs to her daughter Caylee. The results showed signs of decomposition, which proves Caylee is dead. Cindy Anthony, though. remains optimistic.
I’m deeply saddened but not all that surprised.
Today Sgt. John Allen with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department confirmed what Channel 9 has been reporting since Wednesday. There was a dead body in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, and that body was Caylee.
What makes me angriest about this, is how the media played along from the beginning. Fox was one of the chief offenders. Greta went on TV every night, asking, vapid questions, ‘Where is the little girl....blah blah blah.” Face it, we all knew she was dead. Fox and the rest of the cable nets that played along should be ashamed. The mother should be summarily killed, and the bounty hunter, from SACTO who involved himself to get more famous, also deserves to have his ass kicked as well. Why has FLA become Scumbag central in the last 10 years, it has become what California was in the 1970’s, dirtbag HQ.
End of rant.
Cindy unwittingly describes her own family...
Rest in peace, little Caylee.
Tragedy does not stop at the victims, it can devistate a family. Prayers up to the innocent.
“I’m deeply saddened but not all that surprised.”
Me also...what took them so long ?
Guess I have been watching CSI too much and expected INSTANT results...........not..
So...So...sad..beautiful child.....
I love that the grandparents are being harassed and driven mad. It’s sweet justice, indeed.
Ooh Dear Lord .. Sweet Caylee ..what most suspected
all along. They apparently must have some pretty
strong forensic evidence.
May she be resting in the arms of God.
Today Sgt. John Allen with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department confirmed what Channel 9 has been reporting since Wednesday. There was a dead body in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, and that body was Caylee.
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You’ve got to wonder why they let the search and media go on for so long as if Caylee would be found, somewhere else, alive. Truly a sad ending.
Orlando Sentinel is not reporting her as
dead, but reporting that 2 TV stations are:
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Hurricane Gustav dominated local newscasts Sunday evening, but the stations later offered the latest details on the Caylee Anthony case.
WESH-Channel 2 joined WFTV-Channel 9 in reporting that the little girl is dead.
“For the first time, in a one-on-one interview, the lead detective on the case told us the lab reports indicate Caylee is dead,” WESH reporter Bob Kealing said.
“The information that we got back from the FBI lab indicating that she was in the trunk of that car and that she’s dead certainly is information we take very seriously,” Sgt. John Allen of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said on camera.
But Kealing added that the tests don’t “provide a probable cause” of how the little girl’s body wound up in the car of her mother, Casey Anthony.
Casey Antony is in jail and facing a 9 a.m. Tuesday deadline on a deal of immunity in the case.
WFTV anchor Martie Salt on Wednesday said: “Sources tell Channel 9 that preliminary scientific test results show that Caylee Anthony was in her mother’s trunk and that she was dead. We’re the first to break that information.”
WFTV said Sunday it had received confirmation of the report. On camera, Sgt. Allen said there had been a dead body in the trunk and that it was Caylee’s.
WKMG-Channel 6 reported that a search for Caylee was struggling, because of negative feelings toward the little girl’s mother and family. A thousand people had been expected, but a little more than a hundred joined the search.
“A dismal turnout for what they were thinking would be a community-wide effort,” reporter Tiffany Tift said.
Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit group that looks for people, is organizing the search. “This search is not about the family. The search is about bringing this baby home, whether to live out the rest or her life or to rest,” Mandy Albritton of EquusSearch told WKMG.
In the same report, Sgt. Allen said, “It’s important that we find her, whether she’s dead or alive.”
To help in the search, go to the rear parking lot of the Holiday Inn at 5750 TG Lee Blvd. at 8 a.m. Monday.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/08/second-tv-stati.html
Since when is it the police’s job to alert suspects of impending arrests so that they can turn themselves in?
George and Cindy Anthony obviously loved little Caylee. They also obviously love their daughter Casey.
It would be very hard for a parent of accept that their grandchild is dead. That their daughter actually carried the body of her dead child around in the trunk of her car and that she also disposed of the body of her dead child.
Hopefully the body of Caylee will be found and given a proper burial.
Caylee is now safe in the arms of the Lord where she is loved.
bttt
Thanks for the ping!
Ok, I’m a legal idiot, but it looked to me like they were, in fact, ON HIS PROPERTY?
Personally, were I in his situation, facing those two doofuses, I might just have made the decision to take an assault charge.
“I love that the grandparents are being harassed and driven mad. It’s sweet justice, indeed.”
Err, is that sarcasm?
I’ve had some uncomfortable gut feelings about the grandparents, but I think it’s very premature to say anything like THAT, if you are indeed, serious.
You’ve heard the tapes of the Grandmother pleading with Casey to tell her where the baby is, right?
Oh, what shame...
That sweet little girl...
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