Open Thread for the Nancy Grace show 12/1 (is it December already?)

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I’m putting this thread up a little early cause I have to go run some errands.

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Cindy Anthony Says Someone Hacked Her Email Account

Cindy Anthony says someone hacked into her email and sent out messages and documents containing sensitive information about the case. WFTV reporter Kathi Belich received four of the emails herself, but when she realized something didn’t seem right about them she forwarded the emails to the FBI.

 Now, the FBI is investigating.

The Anthonys have used their home computer to email their spokesman, their private investigators and others about the case, but they say someone accessed their account when they weren’t even home during the holiday weekend.

 Cindy Anthony hammered the point home earlier this year that people were going too far and she was trying to protect her home turf. But over the Thanksgiving weekend, she says someone broke through the boundaries in a more underhanded way, by somehow getting into her Yahoo email account, gaining access to her messages and even confidential documents pertaining to her daughter Casey’s defense and sending them out posing as Cindy.

 Kathi Belch received four of them on Friday. One of the emails involved the Caylee hairbrush story Eyewitness News broke last week. It seemed odd that Cindy would send Kathi such apparently personal and sensitive information.

 Kathi text messaged Cindy right away and forwarded the emails to the FBI, which is already investigating an allegation that Cindy gave investigators the wrong hairbrush when they were trying to get a DNA sample for Caylee.

 Cindy told Kathi she had not sent any emails and Monday said she had been locked out of her account over the weekend and said Yahoo found someone in Ocala who might have gotten in.

 ”It would be a connection between Ocala and Orlando or several protesters that we did run background checks on throughout that period. As to me saying it would be attributed to them, not what I’m saying, but possibly an Ocala to Orlando,” said Dominic Casey, Anthonys’ private investigator.

 The FBI asked Eyewitness News not to reveal the details of emails because of their investigation. They include exchanges between Cindy Anthony and her spokesman, her private investigator, and even the PR person for Kid Finders, angry with Eyewitness News after exposing their founder has a criminal background.

 ”This is an extreme invasion of privacy of delicate, sensitive information,” Dominic Casey said.

WFTV.com News     Monday, December 1, 2008 – updated: 5:29 pm EST December 1, 2008

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George Anthony, “I’m still in shock”

The grandparents of the 3-year-old Florida girl who has been missing since June held a candlelight vigil on Sunday evening as part of a nationwide ceremony. Cities across the country held similar events.

The Kid Finders Network and George and Cindy Anthony, the grandparents of Caylee Anthony, hosted the event at the Eastside Baptist Church in Orlando.

During the vigil, new photographs of Caylee were shown to those who attended in both a slide show and a video presentation.

“I’m still in shock,” George Anthony told FOX 35 in an interview following the event. “Everyone keeps saying I should see someone to talk to. Maybe I will eventually. Maybe I will tomorrow.”

Anthony also expressed concern over investigators’ lack of interest in a possible Caylee sighting. In recent days, cell phone pictures, taken by a woman at an Orlando-area mall, show a little girl who resembles the missing toddler.

“I’m really sorry the Sheriff’s Office gave up so soon. They gave up days after, and I’m sorry about that,” George said.

George and Cindy’s daughter, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, has been charged with first-degree murder and faces life in prison if convicted of killing Caylee. She has pleaded not guilty.

The little girl was last seen on June 16, but her mother did not report her missing until July.

The toddler’s body has not been recovered.

MORE NEW CAYLEE PHOTOS HERE:  Images: National Vigil for Hope (MyFoxOrlando)

FOX 35 News Monday, 01 Dec 2008, 1:34 PM EST

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Family Shows New Caylee Pictures

New pictures of Caylee Anthony, who has been missing since mid-June, were released by her grandparents at a prayer vigil Sunday night. One of the pictures shows Caylee in a Princess Lea costume, a gift from her uncle, Lee Anthony

George and Cindy Anthony said they will continue holding prayer vigils until their granddaughter is found. Their daughter, Casey Anthony, 22, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in her 3-year-old daughter’s disappearance.

 E-mails released last week by authorities as part of the discovery process in the case showed a private exchange between Cindy Anthony and her brother, who said he does not believe Caylee is alive.

 ”I didn’t even know about them until they got aired. I was a little bit shocked, but it is what it is. I can’t change it. It’s out there. It’s a shame that family members sometimes pile on other family members. It’s a shame,” George Anthony said.

 George Anthony said the family celebrated Thanksgiving and had a place setting for Caylee at their table, something he said was difficult to deal with emotionally.

 He said he will drive around Central Florida on Monday while pulling a mobile billboard featuring Caylee

SEE NEW CAYLEE PICTURES HERE: http://www.local6.com/slideshow/news/18177283/detail.html?s=1;s=1;p=news&dm=ss&tn=b

Channel 6        8:02 am EST December 1, 2008

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