Private Investigator Hired By Anthony Family Continues Search

As the Orange County Sheriff’s office released new documents in the case of missing toddler Caylee Anthony Wednesday, the Anthony family’s private investigator Dominic Casey of D&A Investigations continued to follow up on one of the more recent sightings of the toddler who has been missing since this past June, the one from two weeks ago at the Florida Mall in Orange County. 

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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has said their investigation shows the Caylee is dead — so they’re no longer following up on tips of live sightings. 

Over the past four months hundreds of calls have come in with possible Caylee sightings however and D&A has followed up on leads in at least 8 Florida cities including Orlando, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Coral Springs and Gainesville, Clearwater and Tampa.  Some sightings have lead the private investigative team out of state to Nevada, Texas, Virginia, California, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, and North Carolina.

So while the Sheriff’s department and prosecutors continue to prepare to try Caylee’s mother Casey Anthony on murder charges, D&A investigations said they’re in this until the end, and they’ll keep following up on leads until Caylee is home

FOX 35 News    Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008, 7:46 PM EST

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What Do You Think About Cindy?

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Open Thread The Nancy Grace Show 11/26

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700+ Additional Discovery Documents Released

Court documents show “neck breaking” and “household weapons” were some of the Google searches performed on a computer accessible to Casey Anthony, mother of missing toddler, Caylee.

 
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Excerpts from Anthony discovery documents

Closer analysis of the documents reveal that not only were Google and Wikipedia sites used for web searches, but other websites such as  blogspot, sci-spot.com,  druglibrary.org and instructables.com were also used for searching words or the string of words: “making weapons out of household products,” “choroformhabit,” “chloroform,” “how to make  chloroform,” and “chloro2.”

Casey describes babysitter as “definitely someone I trust”

 Anthony told authorities she had left her daughter with a baby sitter in June and the two were gone when she returned from work. She says she spent the next month trying to find her daughter and didn’t call authorities because she was scared. Investigators say they have poked several holes in her story.

Through instant messaging, an acquaintance of Casey’s inquires about her babysitter.   Excerpts are taken from an exchange on Sunday, July 13 — three days before Caylee was reported missing — between Casey and Youriev Donov, 24, of Orlando:

CA: i didn’t ever want to live in an apartment, but i don’t think getting a house is the best idea … not right now

YD: yeah good idea, so what do u do when u work? with the kid that is

CA: i have a nanny. i love her.

YD: nice.  how much do they charge?

CA: we’ve been friends for over 6 years. definitely someone i trust.  it just depends.  i pay her a lot more than most nanny’s make. it’s worth it though

YD: yeah i understand

CA: she’s a friend. between myself, and one of my coworkers, its her main source of income

And in another exchange on Monday, July 14:

CA: [expletive], even outside of a relationship, i’m probably not in the best spot either

YD: why?

CA: i’m pretty hung up on tony, and realistically, if he moves back to new york next year, my relationship will end. sucks to know that inevitably, unless i were to drop everything, i’m going to love someone close to me

YD: then why dig a deeper whole [sic]?  i couldn’t do that to myself

CA: that’s why i’m torn right now

“I am the dumbest person and the worst mother”

Caylee had not been seen for several days. 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. 

The following is what appears to be fragments of Yahoo web mail recovered from Casey’s computer.  It reads:

“can’t sleep, stupid hot flashes wake me up then I start thinking about you and Caylee.  Dad said he went to work at 9am and got home at 630p, he said he did not come home in between.  I don’t know who or what to believe anymore.”   The email goes on, “You told me everyday that you were going to call me and you haven’t but you choose to call when you know I won’t be home.  What the hell is going on?  I’ve tried not to bug you to death but I still haven’t gotten to see pictures of Caylee or gotten to speak to her.  It’s been over a month now. Am I ever going to see her again?  Are you still with Jeff?  Are you going back to work”?    The author of the email goes on to write, “I’m not sure how much longer I can continue on this day to day course.  I’m going freakin nuts not knowing what’s going on with you.   I had a breakdown at work, can’t take much more.”

Cell phone records include text messages in which Casey calls herself “the worst mother,” and calls Caylee a “little snothead,” according to the documents.  Here are a few excerpts from a text exchange between Tony Lazzaro and Casey Anthony through a Blackberry device on July 16 — the day Caylee was reported missing:

CA: I’m so sorry for not telling  you what happened .. we obviously need to talk. I need you .. and i love you more than you know.

TL: Where is Caylee?

CA: I honestly don’t know ..

TL: I don’t know … R u serious?  When did u find out?

CA: I’ve been filing reports all night and driving around with multiple officers looking at old apartments i had taken her to.

TL: Y wouldn’t you tell me of all people I was ur boyfriend that cares about you and ur daughter.  Doesnt make sense to me Why would u lie to me

CA: I lied to everyone. What was i supposed to say? i trust my daughter with some psycho.  How does that look?

TL: Idk  what to say .. I just hope your daughter is okay and im gonna do watever to help ur family and the cops

CA: i was put in handcuffs for almost 10 minutes and sat in the back of a cop car. The best thing and most important person is my life is missing.  I am the dumbest person and the worst mother.  I honestly hate myself.  The most important thing is getting caylee back but i truly hpe that you can forgive me .. granted i will never be able to forgive myself.

TL: Who is this zanny nanny person

CA: Someone i had net [sic] through a mutual friend almost 4 years ago. She used be my buddy  jeffs nanny before she became mine.  i’m scared

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Gag Order Denied

A judge on Wednesday denied the state’s request for a gag order in the case.

 A state attorney had requested that Circuit Judge Stan Strickland limit statements by prosecutors, defense attorneys, Orange County investigators and the family of Anthony, although lawyers for both sides had agreed that any gag order should be more narrowly tailored.

 Orange County Assistant State’s attorney Jeff Ashton said at Tuesday’s hearing that the girl’s grandparents, Cindy and George Anthony, should be able to discuss their belief that Caylee is alive and their efforts to find her.

 Defense attorney Jose Baez said the state has leaked much more information. But Ashton detailed several national television appearances Baez made that he said were designed to influence jurors.

 Ashton said that to let it continue would “make it virtually impossible for us to find an impartial jury in the state of Florida, much less Orlando.” “There’s a lot of hot air, but not a whole lot of law,” Baez said of Ashton’s presentation. 

Baez said the First Amendment prohibits the government from ordering people what to say except in the case of “clear and present danger.”

 In his rebuttal, Ashton cited a Florida Supreme Court ruling that says a judge could impose the order for good cause, not just danger.

 ”If I go out in front of the cameras right now and say Caylee Anthony is dead, that would be grievous,” Ashton said. “That’s not my job.”

 An attorney for a local television station said a gag order now would be moot because there has been so much media coverage giving both guilty and not guilty views.

 Strickland also quashed defense subpoenas for several television reporters.

 Prosecution and defense attorneys’ arguments sometimes grew heated, causing Strickland to admonish both benches.

 ”This in enough,” Strickland said, exasperated. “Someone’s facing life imprisonment. Let’s act like we’re supposed to.”

 Anthony told authorities she had left her daughter with a baby sitter in June and the two were gone when she returned from work. She said she spent the next month trying to find her daughter and didn’t call authorities because she was scared. Investigators say they have poked several holes in her story

Channel 6 News     UPDATED: 12:19 pm EST November 26, 2008

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Documents Show Casey Anthony Searched Neck-Breaking On Computer

Newly released court documents show Casey Anthony searched for information on chloroform, types of shovels and neck-breaking on her computer in the time before her young daughter Caylee disappeared.

 The documents show Casey searched those items in March, at the same time she was also looking on missing children web sites. Casey reported her daughter missing in June. Casey claims she left Caylee with a babysitter but that person has never been found and Casey now stands charged with Caylee’s murder.

Some of the information found on Casey’s computer also related to the chemicals peroxide, acetone and alcohol, which can be used to make chloroform.

 Traces of chloroform were found in the trunk of Casey’s car, along with DNA evidence that suggests the dead body of Caylee had also been in there.

 Investigators say they found that Casey’s mother Cindy was not at home when the searches were done. They say she was at work but that her father, George, was not employed at the time.

 The new records also show that Casey told her parents during a jail visit that her message to “Zenaida,” the mysterious nanny, was “she (Zenaida) needs to return Caylee” and “I forgive her.”

 Casey hinted that she told Cindy long ago that she might have given someone a key to their house but didn’t say who.

 Casey also gave a description of Zenaida: she’s 5-feet, seven inches tall, had curly brown hair that had been straightened, weighs 140 pounds, and has brown eyes, and a lot of money.

 The documents also show there was no rotting pizza in the trunk of Casey’s car. Cindy has long claimed a horrible smell that detectives have described as the smell of death, was due to a rotting pizza.

  
WFTV.com News  Wednesday, November 26, 2008 – updated: 12:14 pm EST November 26, 2008

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Cindy’s Reaction To E-Mail

Cindy Anthony was on the defensive Wednesday morning after Eyewitness News uncovered an email showing that she may have knowingly given investigators the wrong evidence. In the message, Cindy wrote to former family spokesperson Larry Garrison that she gave investigators Casey’s hair brush instead of Caylee’s brush, which they wanted for a DNA sample.

 Cindy Anthony said that she told investigators that the brush that was given to them was used by Caylee and Casey. The FBI and Eyewitness News’ legal analyst said Cindy Anthony could face obstruction of justice charges.”Did you purposely give investigators the wrong hairbrush?” asked Eyewitness News Reporter Jeff Deal.

 ”No absolutely not,” Cindy responded.

 When Eyewitness News obtained an email from Larry Garrison, it was handed over to the FBI because of the explosive evidence inside. The email says Cindy gave investigators the wrong hairbrush when they asked for Caylee’s brush in late July to compare DNA from her hair to the hair they found in Casey’s trunk, where it smelled of death.

 Eyewitness News told the FBI about it and now they’re investigating whether Cindy has tried to sabotage the investigation. Our reporter confronted Cindy about the email and she said she did not purposely give investigators the wrong hairbrush.

 ”Did I go around and find all the hairbrushes? No, but it wasn’t deception,” said Cindy.

 Cindy Anthony tries to give the appearance that she’s cooperating with investigators, but Eyewitness News has learned she and her husband George have been stalling for weeks to answer their follow-up questions in the investigation.

 Then Tuesday, a controversial email surfaced. It appears that the Anthonys’ former spokesman, Larry Garrison, says he confronted Cindy by email about why she gave Casey’s hairbrush, instead of Caylee’s hairbrush, to investigators who wanted a DNA sample.

Garrison said Cindy’s emailed response was: “I never lied. I just never went to my bathroom to get the hairbrush that I used only for Caylee.”

 Cindy believes Garrison is behind the leak, calling it sour grape because the family recently fired him after finding out he was collecting money for interviews. She said she’s not worried about any legal trouble.

 ”Are you afraid of getting arrested?” asked Jeff Deal.

 ”I’m not afraid. I’ve received no calls from the FBI or Sheriff’s Office. They know I handed that brush, I told them it was Casey’s,” Cindy responded.

 Eyewitness News passed the email along to FBI Special Agent Nick Savage, who told Eyewitness News Tuesday: “The appropriate weight will be given to this like all other information received. Law enforcement will address this matter as it relates to the investigation.”

 Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Scheaffer told Eyewitness News the obstruction of justice statute could apply.

 ”If she knowingly gave the investigators the wrong hairbrush, then I think there’s enough elasticity in this statute that one could bring a charge of obstructing justice,” Schaeffer said.

 Cindy Anthony told Eyewitness News that she’s not afraid of being arrested. Eyewitness News also found out that it is unlikely the Anthonys would be charged since they lost their granddaughter, but the issues could affect their credibility if they try to defend Casey in court.

 So is this “obstructing justice?” Eyewitness News looked up the legal definition: “An attempt to interfere with the administration of the courts, the judicial system or law enforcement officers, including threatening witnesses, improper conversations with jurors, hiding evidence, or interfering with an arrest. Such activity is a crime.”

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WFTV.com NEWS   Wednesday, November 26, 2008 – updated: 8:42 am EST November 26, 2008

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