Apparently Joran screwed up again and the very same person who secretly videotaped his ‘confession’, Peter R. de Vries managed to get undercover reporters to trap him again. He set it up so that a couple of folks posed as sex industry bosses in the Netherlands looking to import Thai girls for prostitution and van der Sloot promised to supply them with the girls. He has been living in Thailand since the case was closed again last year, supposedly going to school.

Jennifer Joyce Kesse (born May 20, 1981) is a woman who lived in Orlando, Florida, and has been missing since January 24, 2006.

A graduate of Vivian Gaither High School in Tampa, Kesse attended the University of Central Florida in Orlando, graduating in 2003 with a degree in finance. She was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority; her former sorority sisters have led many searches to find Kesse.

When she disappeared, Kesse had relocated permanently to Orlando. She was working at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company in nearby Ocoee and recently bought a condominium, where she was believed to be last seen. She was expected to come into work on January 24, but never showed up. On January 26, Orlando police found her Chevy Malibu in an apartment complex about one mile from her residence.

Orlando police have released few clues publicly in the case, but have photos of a “person of interest” with whom they would like to speak. The person is seen in frames from a security video at the complex where Kesse’s car was found. The frames were taken the day Kesse was reported missing. The FBI was called in to help determine the person’s size and gender, but could only say the person was someone who was about 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-5.

Police also said at a February 21 news conference that they believe someone other than Kesse drove her car to the complex where it was found. They have not called the “person of interest” a suspect, but only say he or she is someone who was in the area when the car was dropped off.

The reward for information leading to her recovery was $115,000. An anonymous donor, however, set a deadline of March 19, 2006 for $100,000 of the reward, which would only have been given for the safe return of Kesse. The $15,000 remains available through Central Florida Crimeline.

The missing woman has received national press attention in the United States, first by news reports in her home state of Florida, then by national exposure on Good Morning America on February 8. Over 1,000 people helped in a search party which first met at the Mall at Millenia southwest of downtown. On February 13, Greta Van Susteren, on her FOX News show, interviewed Kesse’s parents with John Walsh from America’s Most Wanted. As a result of the exposure, Kesse’s story is now on the America’s Most Wanted website, which broadcast the case in mid-February 2006.

In August of 2007, it was reported that her photo (which had been extensively distributed) was being used on dating websites.

On April 3, 2008, the Orlando Police Department released two new photos: one showing Jennifer Kesse’s four-leaf clover tattoo (which is on her left hip just below her bikini line, about the size of a quarter) and a brown purse that she was believed to be carrying when she was abducted.

On Friday, May 2, 2008, The Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed Senate Bill 502 – “The Jennifer Kesse and Tiffany Sessions Missing Persons Act”. It is now on the way to the Governor’s desk for his signature. This Act was the direct result of the Kesse and Sessions Families working with Florida lawmakers to ensure that the missing persons laws in Florida are enhanced.

On Tuesday, July 1, 2008, the television series 48 Hours Mystery had a special episode featuring Jennifer Kesse’s case. The episode was entitled “Vanished”.

Jennifer Kesse is still considered missing and endangered by Orlando Police, FBI, Orange County, Florida Police, FDLE, NCIC and NCMA. The person of interest has now been made into a prime suspect with the release of video captured the day of Jennifer’s disappearance of that person driving her car, parking it, getting out and walking away, never looking back. The car was parked in the Huntington on The Green condominiums visitor’s parking lot.

Full details can be found at FindJenniferKesse.com. There is still a $10,000 reward from the family on the idenity and whereabouts of the Prime Suspect as well as a $15,000 reward from Crimeline in Orlando for information leading to Jennifer’s whereabouts. The Kesse Family tip line, which the Family owns and retrieves tips from daily, is 407-722-2162 and the Crimeline number is 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).

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Update August 29th 10:50PM – Casey has been rearrested for writing bad checks.

Updated August 29th 5:33PM

Casey Anthony’s bond revoked, to return to jail on Saturday?

Updated August 28th 2008 5:25PM

Tests show that a decomposing body had been kept in Casey Anthony’s Trunk. More details here.

Latest updates can be found here.

Update – August 20th 10:23 pm

Casey Anthony will be getting out of jail tomorrow. More info here.

Update – August 18th 2008 9:01 pm

I am now posting any updates to the case on the main page of the site. You can find them by clicking the home link, subscribing to my RSS feed, or if you just want Caylee news you can check the Caylee Anthony category page. Although I won’t update this particular entry except in the case of extremely important breaking news I will leave the comments open.

Update – August 15th 2008 7:30PM

I just shot an email off to Leonard Padilla requesting an email interview. I doubt he will respond, particularly as I have been pretty snarky about the whole family but you never know. I do have a couple of questions in mind but if any of you guys have specific questions you would like asked, leave them in the comments and I will ask them should he or one of his staff provide the interview. Thanks…

Leonard Padilla and Robert Disk have a pretty cool site about what they do and some of the fugitives over here.

Update – August 15th 2008 7:15PM

I knew I recognized the name Leonard Padilla from something other than Julie Padilla. He’s on a show called Bounty Hunters on National Geographic Channel. I wonder if they will be filming while they are with Casey. Seems like even more of a PR ploy now.

Padilla has said though that they are doing this because they want to find the baby. As I mentioned earlier there is always the off chance that Casey is telling the truth or even if she’s not they might be able to find the location from her.

Update – August 15th 2008 5:45PM

Police have discounted local media reports that they had traced cell phone calls made by Casey to a remote area near the airport according to FOX news. Orange County detectives says that the reports of mobile phone calls made by Casey Anthony from a remote area around the time that Caylee was last seen are bullshit.

Updated – August 15th 2008 5:30PM

I’ve been waiting on this. Apparently Casey Anthony is finally going to make bail after all. Leonard Padilla is a bounty hunter from California and his nephew Tony Padilla is a bail bondsman. They are hoping to have Casey Anthony out on bail by Monday. Thanks for the info Jane. I appreciate you guys helping to keep me apprised of new events in the case.

According to Central Florida News 13:

ORLANDO — A California bounty hunter and a bail bondsman are expected to be coming to Central Florida to bail out Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, 22.

News 13 spoke with bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, and his nephew, Tony Padilla, who is a bail bondsman.

They said they’ll be flying into Orlando International Airport Sunday afternoon, and will try to schedule a meeting with Casey’s lawyer, Jose Baez.

They said they are hoping to post the $500,000 bond on Monday.

The Padilla’s said they’re doing this to “find the baby.”

It means that the Padilla’s think they can find Casey and recover the reward as well as get back their bond. I am assuming they plan on sticking to Casey like flies on shit. It’ll be a bitch if she can ditch them and get away…There’s always the extremely remote and unlikely chance that she’s actually telling the truth about at least one thing and that Caylee is alive and she knows who has her…

Then again monkeys might fly out of my ass at any time. It’s certainly more likely than Casey Anthony telling the truth about anything even remotely related to the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter.

According to the Orlando Sentinel Tony Padilla Bail Bonds is affiliated with a Houston Texas based company, Financial Surety, which is licensed in Florida. That’s how it’s legal for the California company to assist with her bond.

Leonard Padilla’s family has been in the bail bond business for three decades and handled several high profile cases. He believes the child is alive and that Anthony is not a flight risk, he said.

“We want to see Caylee found,” Leonard Padilla said.

The Anthonys also have a spokesman now. Larry Garrison is speaking on behalf of the Anthonys. He was a spokesperson in the Natalee Holloway case as well as in the John Mark Carr case. Carr was the guy that lied and said he had killed JonBenet Ramsey.

I did a quick search and it has nothing to do with this case whatsoever but apparently Tony Padilla made a $4800 donation to the Julie Padilla for Congress campaign in 2006 so they are obviously no strangers to the media.

Keep on sending me updates. I appreciate it and will repost them here for you folks!

Updated August 15th 2008 1:55PM

Police have been using Casey Anthony’s cell phone records to zero in on where she was spending time, particularly in the three day period from June 16th-18th. Here is the log of calls that has so far been released:

Casey’s cellphone calls on June 16th, 2008

3:03pm – George Anthony’s Cell (67 min to the next call) *Casey’s father
4:10pm – Cindy Anthony’s Work (1 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother
4:11pm – Cindy Anthony’s Cell (2 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother
4:13pm – Cindy Anthony’s Cell (1 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother
4:14pm – Cindy Anthony’s Work (5 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother
4:19pm – Anthony Lazzaro (2 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s Boyfriend
4:21pm – Jesse Grund (3 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s ex-Boyfriend
4:24pm – Cindy Anthony’s Cell (8 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother
6:32pm – The Anthony Home (1 minute to the next call) *Casey’s mother and father’s house
6:33pm – Voicemail (33 minutes to the next call) *
7:06pm – The Anthony Home (14 minutes to the next call) *Casey’s mother and father’s house
7:20pm – Amy Huizenga (? anymore calls after that) *Casey’s close friend at the time

June 17th’s Tuesday’s records were not revealed

June 18th Casey’s Call Log

12:33pm – The Anthony Home
12:34pm – Cindy Anthony’s Cell
12:35pm – The Anthony Home
12:36pm – George Anthony Cell
1:09pm – Cindy Anthony’s Cell
1:11pm – The Anthony Home

Obviously if there is anything LE thinks is pertinent they are going to leave out, such as the calls from the 17th.

I’ve been hanging out over at WebSleuths Forums and the links below pertain to official documents and information in the case. Thanks to LoraKai for posting them over in the forums. I have blatantly stolen them and reposted here. Head over to WebSleuths and take part in the discussion if you have anything good to share.

Documents – The Affidavit

Documents – The State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony – The Charges

Documents – Casey Marie Anthony vs. The State of Florida – Bond Reduction Petition

Documents – Warrant to Search The Anthony Home

Documents – Emergency Motion To Block Calls From Media

Documents – Casey Anthony Jail Visitation Log June 17th – 26th 2008

Documents – Casey Anthony Jail Visitation Log June 24th – Aug 3rd 2008

Documents – Subpoena Myspace and Facebook

Documents – State of FL vs. Casey Anthony – Motion To Set Bond

Documents – Orange County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Report

Documents – Burglary Report Filed By George Anthony – The Gas Cans

Documents – Letter of Cooperation From Casey and Atty. Baez

Documents – Attorney General’s Written Response



A List of Online Audio Files



George Anthony’s Audio Plea To Find Caylee

Phone Call – Cindy, Lee, Kristina and Casey

Phone Call – Lee, and Casey 7/26

Phone Call – Lee, and Casey 7/26

Phone Call – Lee, and Casey 7/30

911 Calls #1

911 Calls #2

911 Calls #3



Videos of Conferences, Interviews, Press Coverage etc.



Caylee’s Video

Caylee Marie Anthony Case – George Anthony Testifies

Fox News Interview With George Anthony

Greta OTR Interview with Cindy Anthony “07-21-08″

Greta OTR Interview with Tony Lazzaro Friend “07-31-08″

Greta OTR Home Interview with Cindy Anthony

Greta OTR Home Interview with George and Cindy Anthony #1

Greta OTR Home Interview with George and Cindy Anthony #2

Greta OTR Home Interview with Cindy Anthony About The Father of Caylee

Greta OTR Mark Fuhrman Timeline

Greta OTR Interview with Cindy Anthony Backyard

Press Conference Carlos Padilla

Cindy Anthony on the M&J Show 7-29-08

Fox News Interview With Lee Anthony

Fox News Interview With Lee Anthony #2

CBS.com News Interview With George and Cindy Anthony

Larry King Interview With Cindy Anthony

Larry King Interview With Jose Baez

Nancy Grace Zenaida Gonzales “I’m Not That Zenaida”



This Person on YouTube has an ongoing collection of videos



Images Collections – Casey, Caylee etc.



View Caylee’s Printable Kid Finders Network Flyer

The J.P. Chatt and Caylee Comparison Photos





Other Misc. Web Links



http://www.orlandosentinel.com

Orange County Sheriff Updates and Docs

Orange County Clerk Of Courts

Breaking Story – August 14th 2008 6:15PM

One of the commenters just left this:

Eyewitness News Reveals Remote Area Casey Anthony Made Call From
POSTED: 5:11 pm EDT August 14, 2008
UPDATED: 5:23 pm EDT August 14, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. — Woods and water are the perfect place to hide a body and the one place no one reported Casey Anthony ever visited until now. Channel 9 uncovered what could be a major break in the Caylee Anthony case.

June 17 is the day after little Caylee was last seen alive and it’s the same date that Eyewitness News tracked Casey Anthony’s location to an area near the Orlando International Airport. From a satellite map the dense woods and ponds around the airport. The more information investigators get, the more locations come into the picture.

Channel 9 has learned that the day after Caylee disappeared, Casey was in a somewhat remote area just a few miles from the Anthonys’ home. Channel 9 has learned doc uments show that, for some reason, Casey Anthony came to the area less than ten minutes and less than five miles from her parents’ Lee Vista home. There are acres of woods and scrub and there’s lots of water. By day, there’s very little traffic that comes through the area and not much lighting at night.

Channel 9 has obtained maps showing how many AT&T cell phone towers there are in two key areas investigators are focused on. There are 15 cell towers within a ten mile radius of Caylee Anthony’s grandparents’ house, where Caylee’s grandfather said he last saw her alive on the afternoon of June 16.

There are 37 AT&T cell phone towers within ten miles of the apartment where Casey said she last saw Caylee alive on June 9, sometime between 9:00am and 1:00pm when she dropped Caylee off with the babysitter on her way to work.

It’s known that Casey had no job and that Caylee did not disappear on June 9. Caylee’s grandmother had stuck with Casey’s version about June 9 until detectives confronted Cindy Anthony with video she herself had taken of Caylee during a visit with her great-grandfather in Mt. Dora on Father’s Day, June 15.

“I couldn’t remember going on father’s day because I go almost every week but I don’t take Caylee that often,” Cindy Anthony said during Casey’s bond hearing.

“Are you lying to investigators? Purposely misleading them?” WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Cindy on Thursday.

Cindy didn’t reply verbally, but shook her head.

WFTV Channel 9 Eyewitness News

Also thanks to whomever anonymously posted it here in the comments.

Update – August 14th 2008 5:55 AM

Sorry about the lack of updates yesterday afternoon.

Law Enforcement must be growing tired of the Anthony’s efforts to spin the media in their conspiracy theories and lies. They came out yesterday and announced that if the information doesn’t come from them it’s not true. So far that has seemed to be the case.

“The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is not going to put information out there that’s not going to benefit finding the child,” Chief Mark Strobridge said. “We are not going to try this case everywhere else but in a courtroom.”

In what has become her usual fashion Cindy Anthony had a response to that announcement.

Asked about Thursday’s statement, Caylee’s grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said that her family is as trustworthy a source of information as the Sheriff’s Office.

“Unless you hear it from us or the police, it’s not true,” Cindy Anthony said. “We are only going to state the facts. Anything else is speculation.”

I came across a story yesterday evening over at WESH in Orlando. A couple that lives in an apartment complex in the area claims to have pictures of Caylee Anthony and says that just as soon as they contacted the police the people disappeared.

According to the Moseleys two men, a woman and a little girl were staying two doors down from them in the apartment on Anderson Street. They last saw the girl on July 17th.

“What happened there, I don’t know, but he came back and told my wife that the child is identical to Caylee, and that the only difference was her nose,” Ronnie Moseley said.

Orlando police called this a false sighting, meaning that the hair and some facial features do not match Caylee.

Grandmother Cindy Anthony went to Moseleys house to look at the photos.

“I don’t know. The police have the pictures. It looks like it could be, but we never saw her face. The shape and everything looks like her, but she had a hat on so it was hard to see,” she said told WESH 2 News.

LYNX said the video for the particular bus route on July 10 has been recorded over.

Later on Wednesday, Cindy Anthony said the Orange County Sheriff’s Office told her that the child in the Moseleys’ photos had been located and she is not Caylee.

Investigators urge the public not to get discouraged by this sighting that turned out to be false, and to continue to report any information.

So was it a real sighting or are the Moseleys mad because police told them it was not Caylee and so they decided to get their fifteen minutes of fame in the media?

Police are also still combing through Casey Anthony’s cell phone records hoping to track where she was during the time when Caylee disappeared. Sometimes the records will show where a person was, for instance if you are in the middle of a call when it’s handed off to a new cell tower.

Investigators called Casey’s parents and brother victims in this case. That’s why they were careful when addressing George Anthony’s claims on Tuesday that Caylee was kidnapped and that the family may even be watching the people responsible. Investigators said if they receive any credible information that would help them find Caylee they would bring it to the public immediately.

Cindy Anthony said the family is out doing its own investigation and looking into tips and leads, including possible tips about the missing baby sitter who, Casey Anthony said, has Caylee.

The story over at WESH has quite a bit of information as well as an updated timeline.

Update – August 12th 2008 3:05PM

According to Randi Kaye on Anderson 360 George and Cindy Anthony want Casey out of jail so that she can give them whatever information it is that she’s holding back. Bullshit. That’s as bad as the damned psychics that are looking for Caylee. George Anthony and Cindy Anthony say that they have an idea of who has taken Caylee and they are watching them. Whatever.

Lee Anthony was scheduled to meet with his sister this morning at 9AM and in a turnaround he has canceled his visit with her but gave no reason. According to a jail supervisor his visit may be rescheduled for later in the week. According to WESH in Orlando Jose Baez says that the family is just trying to protect Caylee because tapes of the video visitations are made public.

Sounds like even more horsecrap to me.

I’ll try and post more of the day’s updates this evening.

Update – August 11th 2008 9:30PM

There are several items I want to post from today, let’s go through the list:

1. Jose Baez, the attorney for Casey Anthony says that the disappearance of Caylee Anthony is “eerily similar” to the disappearance of Maddie McCann in May of 2007. I got the info over at Local 6 News in Orlando. Sure, they are similar in that they were both toddlers that disappeared but that’s pretty much where the similarities disappear. At least in Portugal while they don’t have a suspect there was a man seen leaving the area carrying a girl that looked like Maddie. Although they might have been at a resort or apartment, the parents were remiss in leaving their children at home and they are both due a serious smackdown for being so fucking stupid. Since they recklessly endangered their child I guess maybe the cases are somewhat similar. The big difference is that the McCanns, while being irresponsible didn’t kill or cause their child to disappear. It’s pretty clear that Casey Anthony either killed, caused to be killed or allowed her child to be taken from her and has lied about it ever since. Jose Baez is just trying to spin it to garner some goodwill for his client so that when she goes in front of the jury there will be some reasonable doubt.

2. The Orange County jail has released the contents of a new phone call from Casey Anthony to her brother Lee:

“Hey Case,” Lee Anthony said.

“Hey, I need a favor,” Casey Anthony said.

“Sure,” Lee Anthony said.

“Can you get a hold of Jose and have him come see me as soon as he can, like today at some point?” Casey Anthony said.

“Yeah, let me give him a call,” Lee Anthony said.

“Yeah, if you could do that, I would greatly appreciate it,” Casey Anthony said. “You know, give my love obviously but I only have a minute to talk so…”

“OK, yeah, I’ll do that right now,” Lee Anthony said.

“OK, I appreciate that,” Casey Anthony said.

“All right, love you,” Lee Anthony said.

“Love you too,” Casey Anthony said

3. The motion before the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach to lower Casey Anthony’s bond has been denied for a second time. Her lawyers filed the motion last week trying to seek a re-hearing for Casey. The court did grant Anthony’s lawyer’s request to keep the motion sealed. I would be interested in finding out exactly what is in the motion that her attorneys want to keep from the public eye.

4. George and Cindy Anthony were back at the sheriff’s office again today to speak to investigators. According to Cindy Anthony the visit had been scheduled last week.

5. Casey is scheduled to have another visit from her brother at 9AM tomorrow morning. I wonder if she is going to cancel this one too? She has already canceled two family visits in the last week.

6. The psychics are starting to come in the case now. Gale St. John has a team called the “Body Hunters” that have been featured on CourtTV, Discovery Channel and Larry King Live and they were supposed to be blind driving around the area today to try and find Caylee. Seems like a lot of fucking mumbo jumbo to me. They also took two search dogs with them. Apparently Ms. St John has a couple of TV shows so this kind of heavily reported case should be good for her ratings. Whatever. I don’t necessarily disbelieve in stuff like that. I am a big believer in the fact that some people just can sense stuff that the rest of us can’t but I tend to be skeptical about folks involved in the public eye I suppose.

In her defense, they did help to solve the Stacey Hendrickson murder but then again you can’t be wrong all of the time. I don’t really know enough yet about this group of people to judge them but I do know that most of the forums I read don’t have a lot of good things to say about the Body Hunters and won’t even post the link to their site.

7. The Body Farm up at the U of Tenn is going to be testing some air samples from Casey’s car. There is some pretty cool research that goes on at the body farm and they have really helped out in a lot of cases with new technology such as being able to find evidence of human decomposition from air samples.

That’s it right now. I haven’t had the chance to check the comments for new info yet but will be shortly. If you have any other links and info please feel free to share them with us there.

Update – August 10th 2008 9:30 PM

For the second time this week Casey Anthony has canceled a visit at the jail from her family. Her parents were scheduled to visit her at 9PM this evening and she has not given a reason for canceling the meeting. It’s pretty obvious though. Everyone is seeing through her lies and maybe she is accepting the facts of what she has done now.

The hair and DNA samples are complete now and have been turned over to law enforcement agencies.

I don’t normally post these but someone from Websleuths put up a Caylee tribute on YouTube yesterday so I thought it deserved a link.

Casey apparently had quite a web presence. It’s not that uncommon. Heck, you can find me all over the web myself. Luckily I haven’t killed anyone yet I guess. Here are some of the links:

• http://caseyomarie.stumbleupon.com/
• http://community.webshots.com/user/caseyomarie (but the pics are gone now)
• http://www.nutsie.com/member/view_member/398165
• http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2908750 (it’s a weird thread)

It seems as though whenever anyone on the major forums posts a link to photos they are being taken down very quickly…

Update – August 9th 2008 8:45PM

Kind of sucks. Caylee Anthony is three years old today. If she’s still alive and that’s a pretty long shot.

Cathy posted a link over to WESH in Orlando in the comments. I don’t think they mind, it just means more traffic for them I’m sure. Anyhow, they have updated their story here.

Casey’s boyfriend, Tony Lazarro, spoke to WESH 2 on Friday.

Lazarro is the one person that Casey pleaded to speak with when she called her family’s home from jail.

His cell phone now has a message on it saying that he has no comment for members of the media.

When Lazarro spoke to WESH 2, he said he is surprised by the amount of media attention he is getting. He said he hasn’t spoken to Casey at least since her arrest, and that he is considering filing a lawsuit for protection against the media

More updates tomorrow. I will actually get home at a decent time tomorrow afternoon (he crosses his fingers).

Update – August 8th 2008 2:40PM

I’ve had a busy couple of days and thus have not been updating the story on this case so there is quite a bit of new information but nothing that would be good news for Caylee. Quite a bit of it has been posted in the comments in one form or another thanks to several commenters including Cathy. Keep letting us know about new leads in the case as you folks hear them.

According to the Orlando Sentinel Casey Anthony’s attorneys filed a motion this morning for another hearing in the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach. They are asking the appellate court for a reduction or reconsideration in the $500,200 bond that was set by Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland. The court file is still with the judges so I don’t have any other information on that.

Lee Anthony, Casey’s brother went to visit her in jail today and she refused to leave her cell and see him. She’s been in jail for a few weeks now and this is the first time she’s refused to see one of her family members. Possibly because of all of the new damning evidence that’s turning up. It may all be circumstantial but once there is a ton of it things start looking bad.

There is a retention pond near the Anthony’s house on Hopespring Drive and right now Orange County Sheriff’s divers are searching it. Supposedly they haven’t had any tips or evidence but they are doing it as part of their monthly training. I guess one of them must have said “Hey guys, instead of our normal training lets go looking for dead little girls” WTF?

Here’s a map of the area. The retention pond sits just north of Lee Vista Blvd and judging by the photos from the street view at Google Maps there are houses or town homes that sit between the road and the retention pond.

The retention pond is just south of the Anthony’s home, which looks to be right in the same neighborhood, just a few streets over as a matter of fact.

Orange County detectives also released some more details yesterday concerning the search warrant executed at the house earlier this week. They took around a dozen articles of clothing from the closet as well as stuff Caylee had used such as toothbrushes, a comb and an oral thermometer. They also collected court ordered DNA samples from Casey Anthony in jail the same day. I don’t understand why it’s taken them so damn long to take the samples in the first place.

In addition to the clothes taken by Orange County the second visit to their home by the Crime Scene Technicians was because Cindy Anthony had called them to turn in a pair of pants and two pairs of shoes that she had removed from the car and washed because they stank like the car before reporting Caylee missing.

On a weird side note authorities from Orange County met with former lawman Mark Fuhrman for about a half an hour “meet and greet”. They won’t release any further details in that but Fuhrman was a highly decorated detective with the Los Angeles Police Department prior to the O.J. Simpson debacle.

He was on Greta Van Blustery’s show Wednesday and said he had learned about a “flurry” of phone calls made from Casey Anthony’s cell phone to her parents and friends on June 16th when she would have been alone at the house with Caylee.

Cathy and others have mentioned several items that I have also posted about Casey Anthony and the web of lies that has been spun. Among them are some of the following,

Casey Anthony told investigators she received a brief call from 2-year-old Caylee about noon July 15, the day the child was reported missing. Investigators subpoenaed Anthony’s cell-phone records and found no such call. The two closest incoming calls came from her boyfriend at 12:13 a.m., and from someone named Kyle about 3:35 p.m.

Anthony told investigators that Caylee’s baby sitter, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, lived with a woman who worked as a hostess at a T.G.I. Friday’s. Investigators spoke with a T.G.I. Friday’s corporate representative who told them they had no employee by the name Anthony gave.

Anthony said she told two people about Caylee’s disappearance, both of whom supposedly worked with her at Kodak for Universal Studios. Detectives learned Kodak had no employment records for either person.

Detectives obtained some of Anthony’s e-mails and found one that appeared to be from a worker at Universal Studios, where Anthony said she worked as an event planner. The supposed sender of the e-mail, about an upcoming Universal event, does not work for the company and the e-mail domain of the sender’s address was invalid.

I did finally see a copy of the subpoenas to Facebook and Myspace, which you can view in PDF format

here. It asks for “Any and all internet usage activity of record, whether current or deleted from the internet user’s page, including but not limited to: private messages, page comments, friends, friend requests, blogs, bulletins, IP addresses from visitors viewing profile, etc., which pertain to CASEY MARIE ANTHONY. (Profile URL: www.myspace.com/kayseeomaree).

Updates – August 7th 2008

Orange County detectives as well as a crime-scene technician have been back out at George and Cindy Anthony’s house again. They spent about an hour and left just before noon with another large bag of evidence. They aren’t commenting on what it is that they found and removed from the house but things certainly aren’t looking good for the Anthonys right now.

Just got home from Open House at the kid’s school and saw a report where the crime lab technicians went back out to Caylee Anthony’s grandparent’s house this afternoon. Being as how both of the other posts were getting a bit long I am going to close comments there and start updating this thread instead with any new information. According to the Orlando Sentinel:

Crime scene technicians and investigators working the Caylee Anthony disappearance just arrived at the Anthony’s home. A couple of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office crime scene vans pulled up to the house on Hopespring Drive shortly after 2:40 p.m. The technicians walked out wearing blue gloves and carrying a box resembling a tackle box. They also carried a roll of black paper or fabric into the home. When asked what they were looking for, one of the detectives told reporters, “We’re working on it.”

Not a lot to work with but it sure does give one plenty to think about. Either they are just fishing for evidence or they have reason to believe there is more evidence at the house we don’t yet know about. The story has been updated at the Sentinel and according to Sgt John Allen of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department they had just finished executing a search warrant and left with five or six bags about half an hour ago.

Yet, all I can think about is little Caylee’s birthday. She’s supposed to turn 3 this Saturday. Right now, Caylee should be deciding which princess dress she wants to wear. She should be pressing her nose against the glass of the bakery counter, trying to figure out which cake has the most icing. She should be holding big crayons in her tiny hands to color invitations. But Caylee doesn’t even seem to be the focus anymore. Rather, this is crime as entertainment. A simple-minded distraction.

He’s right you know. Does that mean I am going to stop writing about? Hell no. If we keep the case in the public eye long enough and there is any slim chance in hell that Caylee Anthony is still alive then I want every damn person in America to know her face and call when they see her. I don’t think she’s alive though unfortunately. As I mentioned in my other posts, I think Caylee is worm dirt now. If there are angels then she is with them and if Casey Anthony had anything to do with it I hope she rots in jail to a ripe old age. Killing’s too good for her. I’ve emailed Scott Maxwell. Just to thank him for the article. It really points out some things about today’s media. Are we (bloggers) imitating the media or is it the other way? Loose accusations and statements with no backup information are a couple of examples. I expect that from non-paid normal folks but I guess I am a bit old fashioned and expect the truth from the “descendants” of Walter Kronkite, Tom Snyder and other folks like that.

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Update August 29th 10:50PM – Casey has been rearrested for writing bad checks.

Updated August 29th 5:33PM

Casey Anthony’s bond revoked, to return to jail on Saturday?

Updated August 28th 2008 5:25PM

Tests show that a decomposing body had been kept in Casey Anthony’s Trunk. More details here.

Latest updates can be found here.

Update – August 20th 10:23 pm

Casey Anthony will be getting out of jail tomorrow. More info here.

Not yet but it’s apparently happening as soon as early next week. A bail bondsman from California that has ties to a company license to operate in Florida will be bailing Anthony out of jail on Monday or Tuesday if his plans go well.

Will Anthony lead the bail bondsman to little Caylee? Is the bondsman just in it for the reward or does he really think that Caylee is alive and that Casey isn’t full of shit? I really see this as a PR effort on the part of the bondsman Padilla but maybe I am just too cynical.

The Anthony family also has acquired a professional spokesperson, which should cut down seriously on the media gaffs by Caylee’s grandparents.

More information and current discussion is going on here.

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It’s been several months since anything has come up in this three year old investigation which has since been closed by Aruban authorities. I ran across a story over at Greta Van Susteren’s blog just a little while ago. She received a translation of an article from Diario that talks about a new witness that has come forward in the case. I found the original article. It’s here if you are interested.

If you will recall, the chief prosecutor reopened the investigation last year late in the summer and then at the end of the year closed it again and said that they would not prosecute the three young men suspected of being complicit in Natalee Holloway’s untimely demise.

According to what I got out of the article below. Hans Mos was not happy with this new witness and was very hostile toward him. That could mean any number of things and may or may not be true. I do know one thing, from some of my reading in the Casey Anthony case I heard the rumor that some folks from Texas EquuSearch might be back in Aruba again as recently as last week doing another search. Related? Who knows. Certainly not me but it might be.

The content of the translated article is below.

JORAN SEEN FULL OF MUD WALKING NEAR THE DAM WITH ONLY ONE TENNIS SHOE ON HIS FEET

THE DAM AT MONSERAT GETTING NEW ATTENTION IN THE NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE

ORANJESTAD (AAN) Perhaps many will say today that God is great, and in a meticulous way does His work so that every crime has hidden clues so that the solution may be reached. Today it has gone so far that DIARIO can reveal officially to the people that at last a masculine witness has come forward.

This witness felt he could no longer hold back, and at last gave his complete declaration as to what he saw at the end of May 2005, at 4 oclock in the morning, from the window of his living room.

Due to his fear of reprisals, he only gave to the local authorities a partial statement, in other words that he saw Joran walk past his house at 4:05 a.m., walking strangely because he only had one tennis shoe on.

The local authorities, principally Prosecutor Mr. Mos , was acting very hostile towards this witness, and that made the witness hold back the totality of his story to him as to what happened.

Nevertheless, with the American investigators and to his lawyer he gave the complete story, not just the part regarding Joran alone. Parts of the complete story will appear later in the DIARIO.

But, the first aspect of the story of this witness, immediately created suspicion by the Americans. Even though he lives at about 1.9 kilometers from the Fishermen Huts, his declaration can have important implications to complete this big puzzle.

The Americans wanted more assurances and asked the witness to travel to the United States, where one of the most trusted experts in Polygraph Examinations, the famous John S. Swartz, made the test with him, to determine whether this Aruban witness was lying.

He passed all the examinations perfectly, and John S Swartz is convinced that this witness is telling the truth about what he saw at 4 a.m. in front of his house.

Even though Prosecutor Mr. Mos and also the Van Der Sloot family want to or not, this gives a complete turnaround in the whole investigation. Today DIARIO focuses on the first part of the declaration of the witness. What is being published today is what the local authority (e.o. Prosecutor Mos) know from him, since they have his signed declaration.

But the next publication which will appear in the DIARIO, will reveal more than the authorities in Aruba know. This is something that the local witness did not dare tell the local detectives nor to the prosecution that received him in the beginning. He was too afraid to do so. But, to the Americans he did give his complete declaration, and he passed a Lie-Detector test in the United States to prove that he was telling the truth.

JORAN’S CLOTHES WERE FULL OF MUD WHEN HE WAS WALKING NEAR THE DAM AT MONSERAT

First part of the new revelations by the witness

ORANJESTAD(AAN) A new witness who has proven to be speaking the truth, is bringing the long-awaited clarity in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in May 2005 in Aruba. At last, after studying the new revelations of the witness during the last few months, now DIARIO has gotten the results back from the U.S. about the first part of his declaration.

DIARIO again wants to put emphasis on the fact that Prosecutor Mos has knowledge of this part, but doesn’t know what he did with it. The second part which will appear soon in the DIARIO contains information that the Prosecution of Aruba has no knowledge of at this point, simply because every time the witness gave his declaration he was pushed into a corner of fear for reprisals.

This witness, a man born in Aruba, went to the United States where he took and passed a polygraph test successfully.

THE WITNESS SPEAKS:

It was on the night of the 30th of May 2005 that he was asleep in his room at his house, when he was awoken by the sound of numerous dogs barking out of control and in very menacing tones.

The witness opened his eyes, looked at the watch and saw that it was 4:05 in the morning.

Listening to the direction from which the sounds of the dogs were coming, he went to the living room of his house and observed what the dogs were barking at with such urgency.

Under a street lamp he saw a person walking in the direction of his house. He was coming from the sports field of Nacional, near the Dam of Monserat, going in the direction of the hotels. The person on foot passed under the following street lamp and the witness saw the person very well and clearly. He was a notably tall, thin, masculine, white skin, short dark hair, a relatively young man who looked like a Dutchman.

He also saw the form (profile) of his head and one side of his face.

The clothes he had on was a red tee shirt and long clear colored pants .

Remarcable was that this person was walking with a limp, and here is where the witness saw that he lacked one tennis shoe. He calculated that from the way he was walking, he was missing the tennis shoes of his right foot.

Another thing that he noticed was that the person was breathing heavily, as if he had been running for quite a while. His chest was heaving up and down rapidly.
CLOTHES WERE WET

The witness continued to declare (and proved with his test that he was telling the truth) that the man he saw had on wet clothes, and had a notable stripe of muddy waters that reached to his chest, about 5 centimeters more or less over his flannel.

The stripe on his flannel showed clearly that from the muddy waters going down his clothes were completely wet.

At first the witness thought that this person had beenin a fight and ran away so as not to receive any more blows. The side of his face that the witness noticed, however, did not show any signs of blood or blows. But, due to the fact that the person did not once look over his shoulder to check if anyone was following him, and continued to walk with his head down and, with accelerated v elocity, the witness thought that he was involved in something else and not in a fight.

The person continued to walk in front of his house until he lost him from sight, and in no instance did the man look up or back, and continued to walk in the direction of the hotels.

All this happened in about 1 minute.

After he lost the person from sight, the witness sat in his living room for about 15 to 20 minutes before he went back to sleep.

(DIARIO COMMENT: Here something else happened, that the witness did not reveal to the local authorities, but well to the American investiga tors. In our next publication DIARIO will reveal what else the witness saw that eventful morning. The Polygraph test he took proved that here too he was telling the truth!)

The witness woke up and went to his work at about 11: a.m. Then the news about Natalee’s disappearance was on the radio and he found out that there was a tourst teenager who did not make it back to her hotel. He immediately remembered what he saw a few hours earlier

After the news became bigger, and they began to arrest the wrong persons, the witness felt discouraged to come forward, and after he saw that the young man Joran van der Sloot in the news, he recognized him immediately as the person he saw walking past his home.

After he found out that the father of the man was a lawyer and studying to become a judge, and that he was an intimate friend of a high ranking police officer, he felt totally discouraged to come forward with what he saw.

On top of that, knowing that the Aruban judicial system is totally in the hands of the Dutch, he forced himself to keep quiet. This lasted for over 2 years, until the end of 2007, when he felt he had to tell about what he saw, and so he came forward slowly, to explain what he saw in front of his house, which is situated at about 500 meters from the Dam of Monserat at Noord

He also got himself a lawyer, because the case was so big and he needed advice.

In the meantime, the Americans, with police permission, made a sonar test of the Dam of Monserat in the beginning of this year, when the level of the water was low. DIARIO has found out that this test discovered 15 objects of interest and that they could define only 3 of them.

IN another article, DIARIO will show how Prosecutor Mos paid little attention to this witness and on the contrary, tried to discredit him. This makes you wonder: Is it true that they want to protect van der Sloot cost what it may?