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Orlando, FL (August 8, 2008)  – The lies of Casey Anthony just keep on piling up like manure covering a gravesite, mixing with the corpse beneath to grow flowers that she hopes will obscure the ugly truth.  The truth is that Casey Anthony has almost certainly murdered her little girl.  Caylee Marie Anthony has been missing, by most accounts, since June 15.  Or June 6th, or 7th, or 9th, or 24th.  The problem begins there and just gets uglier, more convoluted.   But the release yesterday of a new search warrant in the Anthony case exposed many of the lies of Casey Anthony.  As each shovelful of bullshit is pulled away, authorities are getting closer and closer to finding Caylee. 

On Thursday, Orange County detectives released an affidavit for search and a search warrant from Wednesday’s search of the Anthony’s Orlando home.  The information in the affidavit and search warrant shed light on multiple lies told by Casey Anthony while her daughter Caylee has been missing.  Let’s just count them off, shall we?

1.  Casey Anthony told investigators she received a brief call from 2-year-old Caylee about noon July 15, the very day that Caylee was reported missing.  Casey’s cell-phone records were subpoenaed on July 17, and there was no such call made to Casey’s cell.   The two closest incoming calls came from Anthony Lazzaro at 12:13 a.m., and from someone named Kyle about 3:35 p.m.  I am pretty sure Kyle is not called Zanny.

2.  Casey said  that Caylee’s baby sitter, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, had a roommate named Raquel Farrell.  Farrell supposedly worked as a hostess at a T.G.I. Friday’s. Investigators spoke with a T.G.I. Friday’s corporate representative who told them they had no employee by the name Anthony gave under any spelling.

3. Casey said she told Jeffrey Hopkins and Juliette Lewis about Caylee’s disappearance, both of whom supposedly worked with her at Kodak and/or Colorvision for Universal Studios. Detectives learned Kodak had no employment records for either person, that Colorvision didn’t either, and that in fact Casey never worked for Colorvision.

4.  Casey’s been faking emails.  Detectives obtained some of Anthony’s e-mails from Lee Anthony, who turned them over last week.   At least one email appeared to be from a “Thomas.Franck@events.universal.com”.  Thomas Franck does not apparently exist, has never apparently worked for Universal, and Universal doesn’t even have an “@events.universal.com” email server.   Casey was fired by Universal in April, 2006.

5. On July 22, a detective confirmed that the July 15 date on the photos and video of Caylee were correct.  Caylee had been with Cindy Anthony at the assisted living facility where Cindy’s father lives for a visit on that date, thereby throwing the June 7 and June 9 dates out the window.  Further, another witness named Christine verified to police early in the investigation that she had been for a walk with Casey and Caylee on June 13 or 14.  Casey appears to have deliberately muddied the timeline in her daughter’s disappearance.

Those are some pretty big whoppers for the mother of a missing child to tell.  Further, investigators have cleared Zenaida Gonzalez and have said that while multiple women with that name do exist, none of the ones in the Central Florida area appear to have Caylee or know her.  The Zenaida who looked at the Sawgrass Apartments on June 17 has been eliminated as a suspect in Caylee’s disappearance.

Another bombshell was dropped in the search warrant affidavit, when it was reported that Cindy Anthony had washed a pair of grey pinstriped dress pants belonging to Casey.  Laundry in and of itself is not such a big deal, but when that laundry was removed from Casey’s car before the car was impounded for investigation, it becomes a bigger deal.  Especially when Cindy told detectives that she had to wash the pants – because they “smelled like the car.”  The same car on which two different cadaver dogs alerted.  The same car which Cindy herself said “smells like there was a dead body in the damn car.”  The same car that Det. Yuri Melich entered, inhaled, and exited, stating that it obviously smelled of human decomposition.

The warrant for Wednesday’s search covered a number of items of clothing.  We know know that Casey likes pretty good mall clothes in the size 2-5 range and that she was leaving some of them in the home.  We also know that detectives took in supplies for luminol and blacklight testing, that they already have baseline DNA samples for both Caylee and Casey, and that they have hair and a stain sample from the trunk.  We don’t know yet whether the trunk samples match DNA for Caylee or Casey, but my money’s on yes.

I think it’s getting close, kids and demonites.  I think this case is starting to come together.

UPDATE 8/21/08 – Casey Anthony is out of jail today after bail bondsman Al Estes posted Casey’s $500,200 bond on Wednesday.  Casey will be staying with her parents at the family home in Orlando. The bond was executed by Estes, paid by bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his nephew Tony Padilla, and backed by Financial Casualty & Surety Co.   Anthony will have GPS monitoring and will have a member of the Padilla team staying with her 24/7 pending her trial.   Caylee Marie Anthony, 3, remains missing.

Leonard Padilla has said publicly that he expects to have Caylee home and safe within a week of Casey’s release, but Padilla, much like Cindy Anthony, says a lot of things.  Padilla has been highly critical of the Florida bail bonds industry for not stepping forward to bail Casey out before now.

Financial Casualty & Surety Inc., who is backing the bond, released this statement yesterday on behalf of senior veep Robert Sabo : “Personally, I believe that there is no punishment too severe for anyone that harms a child. However, I also believe in our Constitution and the vital function our industry serves in helping individuals with their constitutional rights.”

Casey Anthony is charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanor filing a false report by lying to police officers.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Fay is dumping torrential rain over Florida’s midsection, washing away evidence. No trace of Caylee alive has been seen, no trace of her dead body has been found save the smell of decomposition in the car and in the Anthony backyard.  Orange County says they are still waiting for the DNA evidence to come back from the car.  I really hope Yuri Melich has it up his sleeve and is waiting for Casey to bond out so he can arrest her again – but it’s starting to look a bit like Casey might have pulled off the perfect murder.

I hope Leonard Padilla is right and Caylee will be home soon… but I don’t think Leonard Padilla knows jack about cadaver dogs.

UPDATE 8/25/08 -Holy document releases, Batman!  Over 400 pages of case documents – interviews, affidavits, reports, and search warrants – were released to the public last night under Florida’s Sunshine Law.  Talk about trying your case in the media, well, wow.  We have the links to all the documents (thanks, WFTV!) here: Caylee Anthony Document Discussion.

UPDATE 8/27/08 – Preliminary testing on the air and physical evidence inside Casey Anthony’s car trunk has confirmed the presence of human decomposition. Air samples from the trunk were sent to the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, and those test results confirm that a human body was decomposing in Casey’s trunk.   Hair from the trunk is consistent with Caylee’s, and it appears that the DNA from the trunk is also a probably match to Caylee.  In short:  if the preliminary reports are correct, Caylee Anthony is dead, and was dead in the trunk of her mother’s Pontiac.

Orange County officials are offering Casey a deal:  partial immunity if Casey admits that her daughter died in an accident.  If she takes the deal, information provided by Casey will not be used against her in prosecution. Casey has only 24 hours to accept the deal, and it is contingent upon Casey providing evidence that leads investigators to Caylee’s body.

Casey Anthony met with detectives at her attorney’s office along with her mother Cindy Anthony this afternoon.  Casey left the office at about 3:00 p.m. ET, shortly after investigators arrived to talk with her. Cindy and Jose Baez left the office at about 4:45. No statement has yet been offered about the results of that visit. We’ll keep you updated with more details as we get them.