Posted on 08/28/2008 8:01:16 AM PDT by freespirited
Eyewitness News was informed Thursday morning by bounty hunter Leonard Padilla that he's beginning the process of having Casey Anthony's $500,000 bond revoked after details emerged that suggest missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony is dead. Padilla said he's working to determine the process and hopes to begin it Thursday afternoon or Friday.
Leonard Padilla told Eyewitness News that in the last 24 hours since the DNA test results became public he's received numerous threats to Casey's life and thinks she's be safer in jail.
"As far as you're concerned, she's going back to jail?" WFTV reporter Daralene Jones asked Padilla on Thursday morning
"As far as I'm concerned, it has to be that way. Like I said, the safety issue," Padilla told Eyewitness News on Thursday morning
DNA TEST RESULTS SUGGEST CAYLEE IS DEAD
Orange County detectives were expected to meet with the State Attorney's Office to discuss new evidence in the Caylee Anthony case. A source close to the investigation confirmed for Eyewitness News, that FBI test results show hair and a stain in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car belong to her daughter, 3-year-old Caylee Anthony. Eyewitness News was also told the evidence found proves that she is dead.
The State Attorney's Office also confirmed on Wednesday that Casey Anthony was invited to their office to shed light on the disappearance of Caylee. The State Attorney's Office is not revealing details about the offer of limited immunity. Eyewitness News has learned there is a time limit on that offer, however.
Eyewitness News spoke to a forensic expert to find out how investigators are able to use DNA to determine that a dead body was in Casey's trunk.
"Just putting the hair under the microscope one can tell the difference between a normal hair root and one that's been infected with bacteria after death," stated forensic expert Michael Baden.
Baden is a forensic pathologist who worked extensively on the OJ Simpson case. He also said the inside linings of the mouth and nose release fluid when they begin to decompose and that fluid can also be identified by DNA.
Investigators from the sheriff's office and the FBI met with Casey Anthony on Wednesday afternoon at her attorney's office. Cindy Anthony was also there. Casey only met with investigators for about 10 minutes and said nothing when she departed. Cindy Anthony left later in the afternoon, followed by the investigators. An investigator went to the Anthony's home but only stayed for a few minutes.
The sheriff's office, though, is not commenting on the forensic developments and issued the following statement late Wednesday afternoon: "Preserving the integrity of the investigative details of a case of this magnitude is paramount to its successful conclusion. We are unable to comment any further on information that has recently surfaced regarding the Caylee Anthony investigation. Any future returns in regards to evidence or submissions pertaining to this case will remain privileged or exempt unless the release of such information will be beneficial to the investigation or if it becomes a matter of public record in a legal proceeding."
It was Caylee's grandmother Cindy who first expressed concern about the disgusting stench that came from the trunk of Casey's car. It came during a 911 call when she reported Caylee was missing.
"It smells like there was a dead body in the damn car," Cindy told the dispatcher.
Cindy Anthony went on to change her story and say rotting pizza was behind the smell.
BOUNTY HUNTER QUESTIONS DECISION TO POST BOND
Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla reiterated to Eyewitness News on Wednesday night earlier comments he'd made about the decision to post Casey's bond. Padilla's nephew, a California bondsman, put up $50,000 to free Casey Anthony. Padilla said his nephew decided Wednesday night to revoke that bond.
"I was wrong," said Padilla. "The people were right that said I should have left her in there."
When asked where he thought Caylee was now, Padilla answered, "You know, the car was parked next to a dumpster. I would hate to think the worst. God, it's terrible to think she'd be at the local garbage dump. It's terrible to think that."
In an interview Tuesday night on CNN's Nancy Grace, Padilla said he doesn't think he would have bonded Casey Anthony out of jail if he had read the information contained in 400 pages of documents released related to the case.
"After reading it, I don't believe I would have talked my nephew Tony Padilla into posting the bond. And I don't think I would have come to Orlando after reading that. I mean, I'm still hoping that little girl's alive, but there's a lot of information in those 400 pages that would lead those people to believe something different," bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said during an interview with CNN's Nancy Grace.
The released court records reveal how Orange County Detective Yuri Melich grilled her, saying she could seem "cold, callous and a monster who doesn't care, who's just trying to get away with something." He told her Caylee "may not be the way we or the way your family last remembers her. We need to find out from you where Caylee is. This, this, this right now is just, this has gone so far down hill and this has become such a mess."
Casey replied, "Uh-huh." Then Melich said, "We need to end it. It's very simple. We just need to end it." Casey answered, "I agree with you. I have no clue where she is."
The documents also show Casey's parents actually led investigators to search a new depression in the dirt near their backyard pool after they had done their own search and that they had their own lawyer the day after her arrest. The documents include a poem Anthony wrote on July 7, eight days before she reported her daughter missing: "What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies."
The State Attorney's Office released the more than 400 pages of documents Monday. Eyewitness News found out Casey wanted to give little Caylee up for adoption before she was born, but her mother, Cindy Anthony, was against it. Casey's own mother called her a sociopath and warned friends to stay away from her. Casey's ex-fiancé told detectives she had deleted more than 200 pictures of her with her daughter Caylee that were posted online.
According to the transcripts, hours before Casey's arrest one detective told her, "Caylee's out there somewhere and her rotting body is starting to decompose." Casey replied, "I know my mom will never forgive me. I'm never going to forgive myself because there's that chance that I may not see Caylee again and I don't want to think about that."
The documents also show investigators grilled Casey about what happened to her daughter, telling her after the lies she told them they were thinking either she "gave Caylee to someone that you don't want anyone to find out because you think you're a bad mom or something happened to Caylee and Caylee's buried somewhere or in a trash can somewhere and you had something to do with it."
Casey kept insisting to investigators the last time she saw Caylee was June 9. The detective told her, "The longer this goes the worse it's gonna be for everyone, everyone."
Casey kept insisting she doesn't know what happened to her except that she was last with Zenaida the nanny, who no one knows. She also told investigators she's absolutely petrified.
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The truth will out.
It s obvious that the child is dead. The questions now are where is the body and what was the cause of death?
My first thought after reading this is that “this chick is gonna run”
Would sound better if he said he was revoking the bond because he thinks she is a murderer, rather than for HER safety! Geez!!!
Thanks for the ping!...............
If this Bounty Hunter had waited a few days more for the results and hadn’t been such a camera f***er, this calamity would never have happened. He just had to get the attention and knew he was working in a small time frame until the preliminary results were out.
Sad to say, the mother killed her, or there was an accident that caused her death. And they decided to try to cover it all up. And the cover-up is unraveling.
Oh, Barbara Streisand! "Padilla the Bounty Hunter" isn't in the cards and the expense is eating them up, right? For this publicity stunt, the court ought to make them continue the bond, but I doubt they'd protect her well - if there is a credible threat at all.
No sympathy for Padilla - he and his firm joined the circus willingly.
I suspect his motives in freeing her were for his benefit...
From my post on another thread:
IF they find the body, and
IF they can get blood sample (doubtful at this point), and
IF they get a positive for Xanax or other drug
THEN Casey will be in even bigger trouble than if she had just let her die in a hot car.
THAT may be why it took so long (1 month) to report the “disappearance”.
DAD knew that that amount of time, minimum, needed to elapse so that
NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF MANNER OF DEATH could be determined by the coroner.
ADD to THAT the INVESTIGATIVE TIME and the
POSSIBILITY (probably real) that Casey
BURNED the body in
ADDITION to the natural decomposition and possible animal (gators, buzzards, etc.) devouring the remains
Casey MAY GET OFF ESSENTIALLY SCOTT FREE!....................
But now, revoking her Bond would benefit him more.
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Yeah, he's jealous of "Dog" and wants his own TV show too! LOL
Padilla’s work is done. He will go back to CA and wait for producers to call him about his new tv show.
This just pegged my Creepy-Meter.
Apart from this beautiful little girl’s death the scariest fact is that the prosecutor’s office has OFFERED LIMITED IMMUNITY to the “mom”.
Homolka, Homolka, Homolka
Padilla was the subject of a bounty hunter documentary produced in Sacramento YEARS ago. I remember it well because one of his employees “accidentally” shot a bail jumper escaping on a motorbike. The employee said he was just trying to scare the perp by firing the rifle over his head. Classic.
I don’t remember the name of the documentary.
Ten people see me push you out of an airplane without a parachute over the ocean. I can be charged and convicted of murder.
If forensic experts prove that there is DNA from the little girl showing she is dead -- taken from the trunk of her mother's car -- that would go a long way to hanging a murder conviction on dear old mom.
She may not get off at all. A lawyer in Tennessee, Perry Marcy, was successfully prosecuted for the murder of his wife, Janet March, despite the fact that no evidence of foul play or even a body was ever recovered.
According to the article there is plenty of evidence to say that the child is indeed dead. The prosecutor now has to come up with a viable reason why and the motive behind the mother’s lies.
My guess is that the mother was probably partying, passed out and either left the baby in the car to die or she wandered out to the pool and drowned. Instead of facing up to what she had allowed to happen, she began the cover up. Initially, she didn’t know what to do so she left the body in the trunk for a few days until the stench became too much and then she either buried the body somewhere remote or tossed her baby’s body into a canal to be eaten by turtles, fish and gators. And now she is telling one lie after another to try to get away with it.
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