The state attorneys office has released the Casey Anthony forensic report. According to this report, they found a hair in the trunk of her car “exhibits characteristics of apparent decomposition at the end.” This hair is similar to the hair found in Caylee’s hair brush.
The report also notes that chloroform residue was found on a spare tire cover inside the trunk of the car.
Here’s the Forensic Report
(CNN) – Evidence consistent with human decomposition was found in the trunk of a car belonging to a Florida woman charged with killing her 3-year-old daughter, according to a forensic report released Friday.
“Both odor analysis and LIBS results appear to be quite consistent with a decompositional event having occurred in the trunk of the vehicle,” said the report from Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, noting that the results were preliminary.
Testing indicates that the decomposition could be human, the report adds.
Casey Anthony, who drove the car, was arrested this month and charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee.
Caylee was last seen in mid-June, but Casey Anthony waited about a month before telling her family the child was gone.
LIBS is laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, one of the techniques used in chemical analysis.
Testing was conducted on air and carpet samples from the vehicle. The tests indicated “the presence of the five key major compounds associated with human decomposition,” the report said.
The tests also found “an unusually large concentration of chloroform” in the trunk, according to the Oak Ridge report. Chloroform can be used to render someone unconscious. However, trace amounts of chloroform were also found on a control carpet sample, the report said.
The report also says evidence of possible decomposition was found on a hair located among debris in the trunk. The hair is “microscopically similar” to one recovered from Caylee’s hair brush, the report said, but “a more meaningful conclusion cannot be reached as this is not a suitable known hair sample.”
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The report was released by prosecutors as part of the case’s public record. Prosecutors said they would not comment further on them.
Todd Black, a spokesman for Casey Anthony’s attorney, Jose Baez, said the evidence does not link Casey Anthony to any criminal behavior.
“There’s nothing in those reports that links Casey Anthony to any wrongdoing with her daughter, Caylee,” he said.
Casey Anthony was arrested October 14 in a traffic stop after a grand jury indicted her on seven counts of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to police.
If convicted of the capital murder charge, she could face the death penalty or a life sentence.
Police and prosecutors have said little about the case, but hundreds of pages of documents and investigative reports have been released.
They indicate that Casey Anthony went to nightclubs, entered “hot body” contests and text-messaged her friends while her daughter was missing. Copies of cell phone and text records released to the public show that she hardly ever mentioned Caylee during the time just before and after the girl was reported missing. And in May, just before Caylee disappeared, her mother referred to the girl as “the little snot head.”
Casey’s mother, Cindy Anthony, called the sheriff in Orange County, Florida, on July 15, saying her daughter wouldn’t tell her where Caylee was.
Casey’s brother, Lee Anthony, also pleaded with his sister to tell him where Caylee was, according to police documents. She told him she hadn’t seen the child in “31 days.”
When questioned, Casey Anthony gave conflicting statements to police, including some that were later disproved, accounting for the charges of providing false information.
She claimed that she dropped Caylee off with a baby-sitter, but when police checked out her story, they learned that the address Casey Anthony supplied belonged to an apartment that had been vacant for weeks. The woman Casey Anthony named as her baby-sitter told police she did not know her.
Investigators have said cadaver dogs picked up the scent of death in Casey Anthony’s car and her parents’ backyard. A neighbor told police Casey Anthony had asked to borrow a shovel.
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Preliminary air quality tests conducted by the FBI found evidence consistent with human decomposition and chloroform in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, investigators previously said.
Further analysis of Casey Anthony’s computer found that she had visited Web sites discussing chloroform, as well as Internet searches of missing children.
Headlines tonight. The investigation reveals mom Casey ignores deadly chloroform warnings, warnings that were right in front of her eyes, before allegedly cooking up the highly toxic chemical solution. As the state`s theories on little Caylee`s death emerge, the defense strategy is revealed, as well, the tot mom`s defense now seeking to have all evidence connected to mom Casey`s car, including DNA from hair plus evidence of human decomposition, thrown out of court. The defense begins questioning state`s witnesses, all focusing on the car, as critical FBI lab results to be delivered tomorrow morning, including that chloroform discovered by the FBI in mom Casey`s car trunk.
Police reveal suspicious computer searches on mom Casey`s computer were actually do-it-yourself chloroform recipes. That`s right, the tot mom, Casey, reads up on how to cook up chloroform all at the time little Caylee goes missing, this as grandparents George and Cindy insist when mom Casey was caught on camera partying, it was before Caylee vanished. But the actual photographer confirms mom Casey out celebrating even at a “hot body” contest after Caylee`s gone.
Nearly 1,000 tips pour in. The Anthonys` private investigator is zeroing in on what they say are two new leads, one outside the state of Florida. And still not a single visit to the jailhouse by grandparents George and Cindy, this as complete strangers who say they feel sorry for the tot mom put money in her jail account. But tonight, where is Caylee?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Was missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony killed with chloroform? Well, according to affiliate WFTV, investigators say someone was researching how to make the potent chemical on her mother`s computer around the same time the little girl vanished. Investigators found high levels of chloroform and evidence of a decomposing body in the trunk of her mother`s car.
CINDY ANTHONY, GRANDMOTHER OF MISSING TODDLER: There`s something wrong. I found my daughter`s car today, and it smells like there`s been a dead body in the damn car.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The forensic evidence in Casey Anthony`s car trunk, Caylee`s hairs, which investigators say came from her dead body, and air tests showing signs of human decomposition is the strongest evidence so far. And the specifics will go public very soon. It appears the defense team plans to attack that evidence, possibly trying to show that it could have been compromised at some time between when it was parked at the Amscot and when it was parked here at the sheriff`s evidence garage. Cindy Anthony has even suggested that someone planted someone`s body in the trunk while it was here at Johnson`s (ph) Wrecker Service in east Orlando.
CINDY ANTHONY: I smelled rotten whatever it was, something decomposing in there. Maybe someone put a body in the car after it was towed to the tow yard.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — The Anthony family has launched a new tipline for leads in finding their missing granddaughter Caylee. The number is 1-888-231-5618.
Despite the fact that George and Cindy Anthony haven’t seen their granddaughter in more than 4 months they are convinced that Caylee is alive.
On Wednesday the Orange County couple appeared on “The Today Show” and told host Meridith Viera that they are sure they will find her.
Meanwhile their daughter Casey Anthony remains in the Orange County jail charged with murder. Prosecutors say there’s enough evidence to convince them that Caylee is no longer alive.
Casey Anthony will be arraigned on Tuesday where a judge will formally charge her in the murder. She has already pleaded not guilty.
Up To 4,000 Volunteer Searchers Expected
The latest search effort planned for Caylee Anthony is generating a lot of interest.
An Orlando private investigator who has volunteered to head up the effort to recruit team leaders said he has received over 400 calls since just 5 p.m. Wednesday.”We’re looking for someone with law enforcement background, fire service background, department of corrections — public service background essentially,” said James Copenhaver, private investigator. “Those folks have had some training in the past that they can bring to the table to help us.”
The search is being headed up by Equusearch, the same group based in Texas that searched for Caylee in September. The group’s leader, Tim Miller, plans to return to Orlando on Nov. 7 to train team leaders. On Nov. 8, the group hopes to send as many as 3,000 or 4,000 volunteer searchers out to look for both Caylee Anthony and Jennifer Kesse — a Central Florida woman who has been missing since January 2006.
Equusearch is still looking for a search headquarters and determining the exact areas that will be searched. Both the sherriff’s office and the FBI are on board with their efforts.People who are interested in volunteering with Equusearch in the upcoming search for Caylee Anthony and Jennifer Kesse on Nov. 8 call Equusearch at 877-270-9500 or go to their website at www.texasequusearch.org. If you are retired law enforcement, military personnel, or have a background in fire or rescue and would like to serve as a team leader, please contact James Copenhaver at 407-897-1184.
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There was evidence of high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car and sheriff’s investigators found that someone on Casey Anthony’s computer was researching not where to buy chloroform, but how to make it yourself, which can be done easily.
Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says, if you were up to no good, there would be an advantage to making it as opposed to buying it.When you Google “how do you make chloroform,” more than a million websites are listed with instructions. On the first one, page one had an explicit warning about chloroform’s dangers, calling the chemical extremely dangerous and unpredictable and warning never to allow children to come near chloroform.FBI lab tests show high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car, where investigators say Caylee’s body had been. And there was a mysterious stain in the trunk along with Caylee’s hairs and dirt.”Another piece of evidence in the circumstantial chain,” Sheaffer said.Sheaffer said it’s significant because, if Casey made the chloroform as opposed to buying it, she could have been trying to cover her tracks. Buying it would have generated some sort of record.”This way certainly, she could argue, ‘Alright, I was interested in looking into how to make chloroform, but I never did.’ Or, ‘That’s why you smelled chloroform in the trunk area, because I was experimenting in making it,’” Sheaffer said.Record or not, the jury would be faced with a compromising question for Casey.”Why would you need to make chloroform. For what purpose?” Sheaffer questioned.Last week, the Orange County grand jury heard from the FBI and one of the sheriff’s computer investigators and that information is going to be released to the public very soon.
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A spokesperson from the Orange County Corrections Department said Casey Anthonydid not place a commissary order Wednesday evening, and has missed out on her chance to until next week.
aseycurrently has $251.26 in her inmate account. The money has been deposited by her father, a bail bonds group and two other persons whose relationships to Casey, if any, are unknown. She was allowed to place an order for up to $70 worth of items. It is not clear why she turned down her opportunity.
The items she can purchase include shampoo, underwear, shoes, a bible, batteries and assorted candies.
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Casey’s defense attorney’s Jose Luis Garcia and Jose Baez both visited her at the jail Wednesday evening. They had overlapping visits and spent about one hour with her.
Her family has not scheduled any video visitations at this time.
There was evidence of high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car and sheriff’s investigators found that someone on Casey Anthony’s computer was researching not where to buy chloroform, but how to make it yourself, which can be done easily.Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says, if you were up to no good, there would be an advantage to making it as opposed to buying it.When you Google “how do you make chloroform,” more than a million websites are listed with instructions. On the first one, page one had an explicit warning about chloroform’s dangers, calling the chemical extremely dangerous and unpredictable and warning never to allow children to come near chloroform.
FBI lab tests show high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car, where investigators say Caylee’s body had been. And there was a mysterious stain in the trunk along with Caylee’s hairs and dirt.”Another piece of evidence in the circumstantial chain,” Sheaffer said.Sheaffer said it’s significant because, if Casey made the chloroform as opposed to buying it, she could have been trying to cover her tracks. Buying it would have generated some sort of record.
“This way certainly, she could argue, ‘Alright, I was interested in looking into how to make chloroform, but I never did.’ Or, ‘That’s why you smelled chloroform in the trunk area, because I was experimenting in making it,’” Sheaffer said.Record or not, the jury would be faced with a compromising question for Casey.”Why would you need to make chloroform. For what purpose?” Sheaffer questioned.Last week, the Orange County grand jury heard from the FBI and one of the sheriff’s computer investigators and that information is going to be released to the public very soon.
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Complete strangers who feel sorry for Casey Anthony are depositing money into her jail account. On Monday, Eyewitness News reported how Casey was lonely in jail with no visitors except her attorney and no money to spend.
Just two days later, she has more than $250. Fifty dollars came from Nola Copeland of California. She’s been following Casey’s story nationally and, on the phone, she told Eyewitness News she’s a good Christian who knows what jail is like and she wanted to make sure Casey could buy the basics like deodorant.A second woman from Apopka sent Casey $100, but she didn’t return calls.Casey’s father and her bail bondsman deposited just over $100 over the last few days.The jail says inmate accounts cannot hold more than $500. If Casey’s account goes above that, the money will be returned to the donor.
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