Monday, December 15, 2008

Forensics Still Sifting Through Caylee's Remains


Will we ever know who killed Caylee Anthony? Sure, we all believe it was her self-centered mom who would do anything to go out and party. But would she go so far as to kill her baby? All the circumstantial evidence points to her. She didn't report her daughter missing for more than a month, she had googled gruesome keywords such as how to make cloroform and other ways to kill.
But it the remains and the forensic evidence that we need to prove, once and for all, that she is the killer. It's so easy for us to say she did it - and even the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming - but the forensic proof is paramount.
So what is going on with the forensic evidence? A Sheriff’s Office spokesman said during a televised news conference that investigators are working very slowly and “deliberately” at the site near the Anthony family home where unidentified remains were found last week.
Capt. Angelo Nieves said the site will dictate how long they will remain — not the investigators.
Nieves said the investigators are sifting and labeling items that have been recovered, but he would not say what those items are.
When asked why investigators are taking such a long time — the remains were found Thursday morning — Nieves said, “They’re doing a meticulous job.”
Nieves said proper experts are being called including an anthropologist, entomologist and botanist.
The authorities are doing the right thing. There is no reason to make haste at this time. They need to do it right!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Child Body Appears To Be Caylee Anthony

The tragic story of a pretty little guy going missing seems to be coming to an end. According to sources a child's body has been found less than a five minute walk from where Caylee Anthony once resided.

Caylee Anthony has been missing for over 5 months. He mother is the prime suspect in the case.

It seems the remains of Caylee Anthony have been found less than a five minute walk from her home in Florida 40 feet from a highway by a meter reader.

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.

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.