Orlando (CNN) — Duct tape found on Caylee Anthony’s skull was placed there after the toddler’s body had decomposed, not before she died, a forensic pathologist testified Saturday as the murder trial of the girl’s mother ended its fourth week on a contentious note.
Prosecutors claim Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, used chloroform to make her daughter unconscious then used duct tape to cover her nose and mouth, suffocating her. The girl’s skeletal remains were found in a wooded field six months after her family last reported seeing her.
Dr. Werner Spitz said he believes the tape was placed on the body long after the flesh had disappeared to hold the jaw bone on, perhaps because someone wanted to move it.
Spitz also criticized the Orange County medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia, for conducting what he termed a “shoddy autopsy” by failing to cut Caylee’s skull open to look inside.
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The duct tape was applied pre-mortem because it held the lower jaw together even after decomposition. Dr Spitz was discredited in his view in cross examination.
And people generally believe that?