Open Thread The Nancy Grace Show 10/29

For those of you watching the Nancy Grace show while at your computer. Here’s your thread to discuss the show while it’s on and others can follow

Note: Some of the regulars here on the site are named Nancy. Inevitably, during our Nancy Grace open threads, someone wanders onto this site and starts chatting up one of our regulars thinking they are talking with Nancy Grace.

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: To Be Posted When Available

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Statement From Todd Black and Casey Gets More Money

Todd Blacks Statement about the Search and Scott Peterson Letter:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/acrobat/2008-10/43101437.pdf

 EXPERTS TO HELP WITH CAYLEE SEARCH:

The search for Caylee Anthony is expected to get a boost from a new list of experts. Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said 100 pathologists and retired law enforcement officers have committed to joining the search for the toddler’s body. The Texas EquuSearch team plans to resume its efforts on November 8.

WOMAN FROM CALIFORNIA SENDS CASEY $75 

A third complete stranger has donated cash to Casey Anthony’s jail account. A woman from California sent Casey $75. 

Eyewitness News was unable to contact Michelle St. Clair of Spring Valley. She’s the second Californian to send Casey money. Another woman, in Oxnard, California, told Eyewitness News last week she felt sorry for Casey. 

A third stranger, from Apopka, also sent money last week. The donations bring Casey’s jail account to $326.

WFTV.com News  October 29, 2008

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Casey Rented Movie About Murder On Day Caylee May Have Died

SEE CASEY INSIDE STORE, BLOCKBUSTER SURVEILLANCE: 

http://www.wftv.com/slideshow/news/17841181/detail.html

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — June 16 is the date Caylee Anthony likely died. Eyewitness News retraced Casey Anthony’s steps on that fateful day and talked to the man who saw Casey just hours after Caylee’s death. 

“No emotion, no tears and no regrets,” is how Casey was described on that day of death, when she rented a movie about a kidnapper and killer just hours after, detectives believe, she murdered her daughter. 

Never before seen surveillance photos show accused killer Casey Anthony and her boyfriend walking into an east Orange County Blockbuster (see map) just before 8:00pm on Monday June 16, just hours after her daughter Caylee was last seen alive by Casey’s father at home. 

The new photos show Casey without Caylee, arm in arm with her boyfriend, after they chose two movies to rent. One rented was “Untraceable,” about a kidnapper and killer. The other was “Jumper,” about a mother who abandons her 5-year-old child, who then can teleport himself. 

“They came in, went out,” Johnny French told Eyewitness News. “Brought the movies back on time just like everybody else.” 

French rented the movies to Casey and her boyfriend that night. He said there was nothing about the couple that stood out as unusual. 

“They seemed normal and she seemed fine. If there was something wrong it would have stood out. I just don’t remember them doing anything unusual,” French said. 

Casey’s phone records show she made seven phone calls in the three and half hours between 2:45pm and 6:15pm that afternoon, the time during which investigators think Caylee may have died. Two were made to Arden Villas Apartments off University and Alafaya, apparently to friends. Casey’s ex-best friend, Amy Huizenga, told investigators Casey called her that day and said she needed to find a place to live. 

Caylee’s grandfather told investigators the last time he saw Caylee was at 12:50pm on June 16. He remembered her sunglasses and her ponytail as she left with Casey, who claimed they were spending that night at the nanny’s. 

“That’s the last time I saw my granddaughter,” George Anthony told investigators. 

Investigators say Casey stayed on the east side of town, as usual, during the six hours or so between when Caylee was last seen alive and she showed up her with her boyfriend, but her exact whereabouts are unclear.

 
WFTV.com  Wednesday, October 29, 2008 – updated: 5:18 pm EDT October 29, 2008

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Report Claiming Casey Received Letters From Scott Peterson Refuted

ORLANDO, Fla. — The California Department of Corrections told Local 6 News on Wednesday that a published report stating that convicted killer Scott Peterson has been writing Casey Anthony is false. 

The Orlando Sentinel, citing sources, said it is not known if Anthony, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, has responded to Peterson. 

A spokeswoman for the California Prison System said the report is “not true” and that officials know with “100 percent certainty” that Peterson, who is on death row, did not write a letter to Anthony

Peterson was convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, three years ago. Laci Peterson was reported missing in December 2002 from her Modesto, Calif., home.

 ”We have no knowledge of any communications between Orange County inmate Casey Anthony and California inmate Scott Peterson. There is no public record which would reflect or confirm such communications. All mail coming into the Orange County Jail system is screened for contraband, money, and other security-related issues. Policy forbids Orange County inmates from writing each other, but there is no prohibition against writing or receiving mail from inmates in other correctional institutions,” Allen Moore of the Orange County Corrections Department said in a statement. 

Todd Black, spokesman for Anthony’s attorney, Jose Baez, said Anthony has not been corresponding with Peterson.

 ”It is wholly false that convicted murderer Scott Peterson is writing to Casey Anthony,” Black said in a statement. “Attorney Jose Baez is in possession of the letter in question, and it is from an entirely different individual.” 

Channel 6 News UPDATED: 2:57 pm EDT October 29, 2008

Update 10/29/08 :  Further inquiry by the Orlando Sentinel indicates that the story may have originated with Anthony, who told a corrections officer she had received letters from Peterson.  

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Scott Peterson writing Casey Anthony in jail

11:44 a.m. Todd Black, spokesman for attorney Jose Baez, said that Casey Anthony has not been corresponding with California death row inmate Scott Peterson.

Baez screens his client’s mail and would know if such correspondence had taken place. Black declined to say who is writing to Anthony.
10:15 am. California death-row inmate Scott Peterson has been writing letters to Casey Anthony in the Orange County Jail, sources told the Orlando Sentinel.

Peterson was convicted three years ago of killing his wife Laci, and unborn son, Conner. Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant at the time, was reported missing in December 2002 from their Modesto, Calif. home. The bodies of Laci and the unborn child washed ashore in April 2003 in the San Francisco Bay. Peterson was charged in their deaths after the bodies were found.
Peterson was sentenced to death in 2005 and is being held at San Quentin State Prison. Peterson has maintained his innocence.

The content of the letters was not clear, and it’s unknown whether Anthony has responded to him. There is no known connection between Peterson and Anthony, other than the similarities in their cases.

Orange County Jail spokesman Allen Moore said inmate correspondence is not public record. A spokeswoman at San Quentin said inmate letters were not part of California public record laws. Orlando Sentinel October 29 2008

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