Open Thread The Nancy Grace Show 11/07

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:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/07/ng.01.html

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Audio Of George Anthony Released

Friday, authorities released audio of the George Anthony taped interview conducted at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on July 24, 2008.

In the sit down interview with the two men leading the investigation into Caylee’s disappearance, among the things Anthony told detectives was that his daughter’s trunk smelled like there had been a dead body in there. He went on to ask them if they found something to let him know because he’d want to be the one to break the news to his wife Cindy and son Lee

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 George Anthony Audio Here:   http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/My…1&locale=EN-US

 

Fox 35 News

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5,000 Possible In Search For Caylee Anthony’s Body

It’s a search that’s expected to include an army of thousands. Preparations were being made Friday afternoon in the massive search for the remains of Caylee Anthony. 

Members of the group EquuSearch were in the air Friday mapping out a search for the body of Caylee Anthony. Organizers hope as many as 5,000 people will help look for the little girl’s remains during the search this weekend.

 EquuSearch had two aircraft up in the sky over Central Florida on Friday, photographing search locations to put photos with the maps before thousands of volunteers, lead by 250 team captains, head out first thing Saturday morning. 

Volunteers will cover about a 25 square-mile area, mostly locations near the Orlando International Airport where Casey Anthony’s cell phone indicates she traveled during the days after investigators believe Caylee was murdered and before Casey was arrested. 

If Caylee’s body is not found by Tuesday, EquuSearch said it will decide whether to come back again. It said it has searched as many as seven times for one victim and it’s successful about a third of the time, having found 300 victims so far. 

“The weather’s right, the water’s down, the vegetation’s down. We have the right equipment. With a little bit of luck, we’ll be able to find Caylee and bring closure to this community,” said EquuSearch founder Tim Miller.

The command post is near the corner of Judge Road and Shadowridge Drive, almost directly north of Orlando International Airport. The search is set to begin at 8:00am Saturday and they are expecting as many as 5,000 people. If you want to be one of them, you can show up Saturday morning at the command post.

 WFTV.com News Friday, November 7, 2008 – updated: 12:52 pm EST November 7, 2008

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“Search of the Century” to begin this weekend

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — Texas Equusearch is gearing up for the biggest search in their history this weekend as they look to find missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony – dead or alive.

This is the largest search we have ever conducted, it is very exciting,” Gary Peterson said who is second in command of the Equusearch Group of Texas. He says they are ready to find information that has lead to the disappearance of the missing toddler.

 

“Everything is going extremely well,” Equusearch President Tim Miller said.  With 250 Team Leaders in place and more than 3,000 volunteers from 30 different states, Equusearch officials are confident they will have made major accomplishments.

Among the volunteers is California Bounty Hunter, Leonard Padilla.  “I believe we will find Caylee by Monday,” Padilla said. He arrived at the Orlando International Airport Thursday eveningHe too will receive special training for this search. 

On Friday, Peterson says Equusearch officials will be meeting all day with team leaders and officials from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to get a game plan in place and map out the exact locations of the 130 areas they want to target.

“We get very involved in these cases, and this one is dear to my heart, for all of us and we want closure for everyone involved,” Peterson said.

If you are interested in being a volunteer, you may print out and complete the volunteer registration agreement form which will speed up the registration process on the day of the search.                                                                                                                                                                  __________________________________________________________________________________________________

Palm Beach College students to join search for Caylee

By Scott Travis | South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Twenty-five students and two faculty members are to head to Orlando today to examine items found during a search for Caylee Anthony. The volunteers would preserve the crime scene and inform authorities of anything that might be helpful to the case, said Paul Friedman, associate professor and chairman for the crime scene technology department. They plan to return Saturday night.

Police say Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, killed her daughter, but no body has been found since the girl was reported missing in June.

About 4,000 people from around the country will be involved this weekend, Friedman said.

 

 

 

 

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Mental Illness May Determine Fate Of Mother Of Missing Caylee Anthony

The mental health of Casey Anthony, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, could be the key to determining her fate, according to a Local 6 News report.Anthony, 22, remains jailed and is scheduled to go to trial in January. Caylee was last seen in mid-June but was not reported missing until a month later. 

Anthony has undergone two psychological evaluations, but the reports have been sealed by the judge who ordered the tests after Anthony’s arrest in July.

 Local 6 News investigative reporter Tony Pipitone interviewed Lake Mary psychiatrist Dr. Ryan Hall, who has not examined Anthony and could not comment to her specifically, but he has studied women who have killed and their motivations for the killings

“You have to look at the motivation — why they’re doing — why they think they have to (kill their own child),” Hall said.  Psychiatrists focus on five general reasons, Hall said. 

Altruistic, which was explained as the person doing the child a favor. 

Psychotic, when the killer is having hallucinations or delusions. 

Accidental, which usually result from abuse. 

Revenge, getting back at someone, usually a spouse or the child’s parent. 

Unwanted child. 

Hall said that only in extreme cases can the killer be found not criminally responsible for the death. ”You have to have a severe mental illness, and two — due to the severe mental illness — you have to not realize what you were doing was wrong,” Hall said. Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who is in a psychiatric hospital after drowning her five children because she said she was battling Satan before calmly reporting the deaths to police, is an example of that type of person, Local 6 News reported. 

Pipitone said the prosecution of Anthony thus far seems closer to that of Susan Smith, who let a car containing her two children roll into a lake, where they drowned. Smith blamed carjackers who never existed, and she’s serving a life sentence in South Carolina. 

“She was interested in an individual, (and) he said he didn’t want to be with a single mother. She killed her two kids. There was concealment, it was planned out, she made false statements to police, she was trying to avoid detection (and) she knew what she’d done was wrong,” Hall said. 

Read Full Article Here:  http://www.local6.com/news/17927572/detail.html

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