Casey Anthony Murder Charge - Casey Anthony, the mother of missing toddler Caylee Anthony, was indicted on a murder charge by an Orange County, Florida grand jury today.
The Casey Anthony murder charge news broke suddenly at 4:00 p.m. after a day of grand jury testimony from forensic experts and Casey Anthony’s parents.
The grand jury returned an indictment for the capital crime of murder, but did not identify the defendant. The court will not name the defendant until she is taken into custody.
It’s unclear where Casey Anthony is at this time, but her attorney Jose Baez was driving Casey to her parent’s home to meet her 4:00 p.m. curfew.
Baez promised at a news conference this afternoon to deliver Anthony to jail if she was indicted for the murder of her daughter.
And that’s the latest news on the Casey Anthony murder charge.
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October 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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October 14th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Casey did not return home:
4:24 p.m. Cindy Anthony showed up at the house without Casey Anthony. The pair left Baez’s law office together about an hour. She believed to have switched cars somewhere along the way. It’s unclear where she is at this moment.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Casey Anthony, who spent much of the day at her lawyer’s office in Kissimmee, was on the road shortly before 5 p.m. when Orange County deputy sheriffs stopped the vehicle in which she was riding on the Beachline Expressway.
She was taken to the Sheriff’s Office command center in Orlando and was expected to be taken to the Orange County Jail sometime this evening.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
A grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators about the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, State Attorney Lawson Lamar said. The mother is being held without bond.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Sheriff’s officials are trying to figure out where Casey Anthony was headed Tuesday afternoon when deputies pulled over the vehicle she was riding in on the BeachLine.
An agency spokesman confirmed that at some point in the afternoon, before deputies stopped and caught Anthony, she changed vehicles under a highway overpass in east Orange County.
Anthony’s mother, Cindy Anthony, reportedly pulled her vehicle over at Narcoossee Road and State Road 417, and Casey got out.
Casey Anthony then got into a full-size grey SUV, which drove off.
It is unclear who owns the grey SUV and who was driving the vehicle.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 am
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:41 am
“Neck breaking” and “household weapons” were among the Google searches done on a computer available to the mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, newly released court documents show.
The 3-year-old girl’s mother Casey Anthony is behind bars on first-degree murder, manslaughter and other charges. She has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting a January trial. She faces life in prison if convicted of killing Caylee.
Someone performed the Internet searches on the Anthony family home computer. Casey Anthony, 22, lived with her daughter at her parents’ house in Orlando until shortly before the tot vanished in mid-June.
On March 17, someone searched for “peroxide,” “acetone,” “alcohol,” “shovels” and “lost numbers,” as well as how to make chloroform, on the same computer using Google, according to the documents.
Traces of chloroform, which is used to induce unconsciousness, were found in the trunk of Anthony’s car during forensic testing by a Tennessee lab.
Cell phone records include text messages in which Casey calls herself “the worst mother,” and Caylee a “little snothead,” according to the documents.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Caylee Anthony Body Found
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 large plastic bag.
Todd Black, the spokesman for Casey Anthony’s defense attorney, said the utility worker picked up the bag and a skull rolled out of it.
Residents said duct tape was found around the skull, but those reports have not been confirmed by law-enforcement official.
“We certainly hope it isn’t [related to the Anthony case],” Black said. “If it is, it is a sad day.”
Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary is at the crime scene and said, “we are trying to put it all together.” The sheriff also said there are no other cases of missing children in Orange County.
Beary said the FBI was notified and their investigators told him the discovery is a top priority for the agency’s lab.
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.
Anthony is being held without bail at the Orange County Jail.
Cindy and George Anthony have insisted that their granddaughter is alive.
Captain Angelo Nieves of the sheriff’s office said investigators “right now cannot confirm the sex of the child.” Nieves said lead investigator John Allen called George and Cindy Anthony about the discovery. The Orange County Jail was also notified.
Nieves said forensic detectives are inspecting the remains. A medical examiner and FBI detectives are also at the scene.
Sheriff’s office patrol cars are blocking Suburban Drive at Hopespring Drive. Yellow crime scene tape surrounds a section of woods near the intersection.
EquuSearch spokeswoman Mandy Albritton said their workers did not check that location earlier because it was submerged in water when they had looked in September. When they returned in November, the site had been fenced off.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Remains Linked To Caylee Anthony
A medical examiner found a connection between the skeletal remains of a child and the house of missing Florida girl Caylee Anthony, the local sheriff said Friday.
Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary said the Anthonys’ home was searched early Friday after the medical examiner found “some clues that came out of the remains” that “linked (them) to the house.”
Police also said the body seemed to be the same age and size as Caylee.
Beary declined to elaborate on what clues were discovered. The property was also searched Thursday night.
“We took some things out of the house that the forensic people are very interested in,” he said.
Asked if he believed the remains were Caylee’s, Beary told NBC’s “Today” show: “My gut says yes, but I have to wait seven to 14 days for the DNA analysis to absolutely make sure.”
There are also no other similar missing-child cases in the area.
Meanwhile, a judge denied defense attorneys’ request Friday to have their own experts present during testing of the remains and the autopsy.
Circuit Judge Stan Strickland said he believed defense representatives would interfere with medical examiners if they were in the room during the identification of the body and the determination of a cause of death.
Lawyers also were in court in an effort to preserve the evidence collected Thursday.
Investigators were hurrying to identify the skeletal remains of the small child, found in a wooded area near the Anthony family home.
A team of medical examiners and detectives hoped the bones, discovered by a water meter reader, would help them solve the 6-month-old mystery of the child’s whereabouts.
Caylee, who would have turned 3 in August, was last seen in June. Her mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony is behind bars and charged with her murder.
Beary said his detectives and the FBI would work around the clock and through the weekend to identify the child.
“Now the investigation continues,” Beary said. “There is a lot of lab work to do. There is a lot of DNA work to do. There is a lot of crime scene work to do.”
The worker stumbled upon the bones in a bag bound with duct tape less than a half-mile from where Caylee lived with her mother and grandparents in Orange County, Fla., near Orlando.
There were reports that a skull with duct tape around the mouth area rolled out of the bag when the utility worker picked it up. He had apparently gone into the woods to relieve himself.
Casey Anthony was indicted in October on first-degree murder and other charges, even without a body. She has insisted that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn’t report her missing until July.
For the past several months, Anthony’s family, police and volunteers from around the country have searched for the little girl. They had overlooked the wooded lot where the skull was found first because it was flooded after heavy rains and later because it was fenced off.
• Anthony Trial Would Be One to Watch, Attorneys Say
Allen Moore, a spokesman for the Orange County jail, said Casey Anthony was told about the discovery. She was placed under psychological observation, not suicide watch, and remains under protective custody.
Sheriff’s spokesman Angelo Nieves said officials told Caylee’s grandparents about the find.
A spokeswoman with the state attorney’s office said it would reserve comment until the investigation was complete.
• Plastic Bag, Duct Tape Could Yield Vital Clues
The child’s grandmother first called authorities in July to say she hadn’t seen Caylee for a month and her daughter’s car smelled like death.
Police interviewed Anthony and said everything she told them about her daughter’s whereabouts was false. The baby sitter was nonexistent and the apartment where Anthony said she had last seen Caylee had been empty for months.
Last week, prosecutors announced they would not pursue the death penalty for Anthony. Earlier Thursday, before the remains were discovered, a judge had delayed her trial from January to March.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:07 am
i think she sould burn in hell! Casey i mean! she knows the whole truth!! this makes me sick! THAT POOR BABY!