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.
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