New Doc Dump Friday, 4/23/10

New Anthony Judge Calls For Hearing
Belvin Perry Takes Case Over From Stan Strickland

POSTED: Thursday, April 22, 2010
UPDATED: 6:30 pm EDT April 22, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony is set to make her first appearance before a new judge next week.

READ: Judge's Order For Hearing
VIDEO: Casey Anthony

Judge Belvin Perry has called for a case management hearing on April 30. Perry took over the case from Judge Stan Strickland after the defense filed a motion asking that Strickland be disqualified over a friendship with a blogger. Strickland recused himself earlier this week.

The hearing will be an opportunity for Perry to call all the attorneys together to make sure he has all the information he needs to get up to speed on the case.

Meanwhile, a new batch of public records related to the case is expected to be released on Friday by the state attorney's office.

The release is expected to include police evidence logs, which may have already been released in a digital format.

Friday's release is also expected to contain witness interviews, but the state attorney's office has not specified who the interviews are with.

Anthony, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony.

Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July 2008. Her remains were found in December 2008 in a wooded area near the Anthony family's east Orange County home.

Anthony is being held at the Orange County Jail on no bond.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/23235798/detail.html

New Interviews, Evidence Out Against Casey Anthony

Friday, April 23, 2010 9:46:01 AM

ORLANDO -- The Florida state Attorney’s Office has release more evidence Friday.Officials said the latest
documents include witness interviews and police evidence logs.

• See the Latest Documents (pdf)
  

Including the new documents, the total page count of evidence released in the case has now topped 14,000.

The new evidence comes as the new judge assigned to the case laid down the law to attorneys on both sides Thursday.

Chief Judge Belvin Perry set a status hearing for next Friday.

In his order, Perry told lawyers to be ready to discuss deadlines and motions that are still pending.Perry also put attorneys on notice about their behavior in the courtroom.

The judge took over for Stan Strickland, who recused himself following accusations of an inappropriate relationship with a blogger.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2010/4/23/new_casey_anthony_evidence.html

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More Evidence Released In Case Against Casey
New Judge Sets No-Nonsense Agenda

POSTED: 9:13 am EDT April 23, 2010
UPDATED: 11:39 am EDT April 23, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Nearly 300 pages of evidence was released Friday morning in the case against Casey Anthony.

The documents include evidence logs, lab work sheets and information regarding hair samples.

The transcript of an interview also suggested Lee Anthony, Casey Anthony's brother, and his girlfriend, Mallory Parker, have believed for a long time that Casey Anthony killed Caylee Anthony.

Meanwhile, in his first move in the Casey Anthony murder trial, Chief Judge Belvin Perry is setting a no-nonsense agenda.

Video | Images | Read New Docs

Perry scheduled a case management hearing for a week from Friday. He also reminded attorneys that it's their responsibility to keep the case moving as quickly as possible.

In his order, Perry said attorneys are expected to follow the rules of courtroom decorum at all times. His appointment has renewed talk about whether he would be more likely to sentence Anthony to death if she's convicted.

Under Florida law, it's up to the jury to make the life or death recommendation.

"The jury can say what they want to, but isn't it the judge who has the final decision?" asked Orlando resident Tim McClosky.

McClosky is like many people. He said he knows Florida has the death penalty, but he's not sure how the system works. If Anthony is convicted, it will be up to 12 people like McClosky to make the call.

"You definitely don't want to make the wrong decision," he said. "I don't know if I could do it, quite honestly."

"It's all up to the jury in the sense that only the jury can recommend death," said former prosecutor Tom Luka.

If Anthony is found guilty in what's called the "penalty phase," Luka, who is now a defense attorney, said it would be the jury's job to weigh the amount of aggravating evidence in the crime versus what mitigating factors Anthony's defense presents.

"Normally the biggest mitigation is the remorse factor," Luka said.

He said, ultimately, it's still up to the judge to make the decision between life and death.

Several attorneys said judges in only the rarest of circumstances overturn a jury recommendation for life, so that life-or-death question really is in their hands. Also, a death recommendation only requires seven of 12 jurors to vote for it, attorneys said.

http://www.wesh.com/news/23242835/detail.html

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New discovery released in Casey Anthony case

Updated: Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 11:28 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 9:07 AM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - New discovery has been released in the case against Casey Anthony.

The state just released about 300 pages of new documents.

Click here to see a gallery of the documents>>>

FOX 35 reporter Holly Bristow is working on these documents right now. She will have a full report during FOX 35 News at 5PM and 6PM.

Click here to see all documents released in 2010

Plus, the new judge in charge of the case wants to meet with the attorneys on both sides.

Judge Belvin Perry scheduled a hearing for one week from today. In the order he signed, he asked the attorneys to, "familiarize themselves with courtroom policy and decorum."

Perry has a reputation of being a no-nonsense judge and being very efficient.

FOX 35 recently got a look at some jailhouse letters written by Anthony. She wrote roughly 50 letters to another inmate in the Orange County Jail. Her defense chose not to fight the release of the documents.

READ: Casey's Prison Letters Part One >>>

READ: Casey's Prison Letters Part Two>>>

The hundreds of pages of letters do not contain a confession, but Anthony frequently complained about her family in the letters she wrote to a female drug dealer she befriended at the Orange County Jail. Anthony also wrote of her profound dislike of her former boyfriend, Jesse Grund, indicating that she was relieved when he informed her that DNA tests proved he wasn't her daughter's father.

“We're not concerned with anything in there. There's no admissions," said Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez prior to the release of the documents.

After the documents were made public, a spokesperson for the Anthony defense team described the letters as, "the natural desire for companionship when isolated for 23 hours a day, and clearly demonstrate Casey's unconditional love for her daughter Caylee."

The inmate who received Anthony's notes, Robyn Adams, told investigators she did not want to "get anyone in trouble," but said a county corrections officer may have helped the women stay in touch, according to prosecution records cited by the newspaper.

"It is obvious in the letters authored by Robyn Adams that her sole purpose and only goal in corresponding with Casey Anthony was to create leverage to get out of prison early," said Liz Brown on behalf of the defense.

What exactly was Adams’ motivation for communicating with Casey is unknown, but excerpts from letters written by Adams to a person outside the jail may shed some light:

“Today the C.O. found a letter that I had written to Casey and I got into a lot of trouble so this will surely be the last of the letters that I receive from her, unless it is by mail when I move to the new place as I promised her that I would write.” Adams goes on to say, “I have to get rid of these notes from Casey so she doesn’t get in trouble too. Do you think one day they’ll be worth anything? Maybe a spot on the ‘Today’ show or ‘Oprah’ if anything comes of it. Who knows? I am her only friend here, but that might be like betrayal, and I don’t want that!”

Orange Circuit Judge Stan Strickland had earlier ordered the letters not be released to the public so Anthony's defense team had time to review the documents and decide whether to challenge their release.

Anthony, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, who was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July 2008. The girl's remains were found five months later near the home Anthony shared with her grandparents. She has pleaded not guilty.

In one excerpt, Casey elaborates on a paternity test she had taken to determine the true father of Caylee Marie.

"Our 'exes' sure are winners aren't they! At least I know, well am 99 % sure, that Cays isn't Jesse's. We had a paternity test done when she was a couple weeks old, and it took forever to get the results back which I've been told shouldn't have been the case ... and according to the paper he brought to my house in late Sept. 05, Jesse wasn't the father. Joy to the world! The strange thing is, Baez asked for him to give a sample of his DNA, and he refused! We wanted to see whether or not the test results from 4 years ago were true. Drama. I despise that loser and I pity him and his self-righteous Christian family. His dad claim's to be the right hand of God. Hate to burst his bubble, but Jesus sits there. I totally know what you went through with Sam's dad. Same exact feelings J's dad had towards me. And no, they aren't Spanish. Something almost worst- Italian. I've always like Italian guys, but I've come to realize that I need to stick to my roots and go Irish. They may be drunks, but at least they cook and know how to properly treat a woman. Can I get an Amen?"

Casey also expresses respect to a fellow inmate that, "you held your ground against the feds. I know that wasn't easy." She goes on to say:

"And again, let the similarities roll on. My situation with living at home with Cays and my folks, staying home all day and going out at night looking for Mr. Right, same exact situation. I don't know one single mom who doesn't try to get their freedom regardless of how old they are. That's one of the biggest things that truly cuts me when I hear them talk about me as a mother-I was a great Mom! And I love my daughter with everything that I have I would give my life to have her back even for minutes."

Casey told her correspondent, who she often calls "Cookie," or "Muffin," that she experienced a miscarriage a year before Caylee's disappearance:

"It's so frustrating! I had a miscarriage in '07 that only a small handful of friends knew about. I made the mistake of telling Lee, and the week of my 21st birthday. He told my mom. Lovely. I may have a big mouth, but I can keep a secret. Obviously most, people aren't that loyal."

Casey seems to be confident that she will be leaving prison at some point.

"As far as my plans for when I leave, besides trying to entertain your behind until I get to drag you out of wherever, I'm not sure. I'll start getting things together for our RV trips and such. By going home though, I don't think Ill be home. I don't know if I'll be comfortable going back there after everything that's happened. There's much to share, and I promise, before were separated Ill try and fill you in on everything."

Casey writes about past desires to adopt a child:

"I always wanted to adopt a baby or child from another country- is it selfish to want one from Ireland? Accent and all? If I do it someday, I'll adopt local-U.S. wise. So many kids and teens are homeless and that somethings to target. And yes, missing children as well. That's sits too close to my heart and I wish there was something we could do to prevent it."

Casey talks about how she has hidden her emotions from many, but says she trusts her correspondent with secrets, "big and small" :

"When I tell Cays how much I love her, I've always ended it with forever and always. I shall do to this day. I talk to her throughout the day, as I do Daddy, and it brings a sense of peace to my heart. Thinking about it brings tears to my eyes and a smile to my face. I'm an emotional wreck. I've gotten good at hiding how I feel with most people but I can't with you, nor do I want to. I trust you with my life and with my secrets big and small."

Casey alludes to dreams which believes is related to anxiety with her parents:

"Over the past few months, I've been having really vivid dreams, and it's obvious that they are dreams of things that have already happened. I think my Dad used to do the same thing to me but when I was much younger. I can see him in my room exactly the way it was when I was in elementary school, and everything gets fuzzy. But I wake up feeling both sore and sick to my stomach, the way I used to feel growing up. That's part of the reason I haven't been sleeping much or very well lately. Maybe that's part of the reason why I have so much anxiety with my parents."

Casey mentions Zenaida Gonzalez, the nanny she claimed took Caylee, but appears to contradict her accusations in this excerpt:

"You want to know something, I know that Caylee's nanny, the real Zenaida, the girl who was my friend for 4 years, I know in my heart that she's not responsible. And I don't blame her for not sharing her face. Would you want to be sitting here with me for something you didn't do? But outside of myself and my legal team, not a soul knows this. I was going to take Caylee and move away. Unfortunately, my plans got beyond tangled when Zany wouldn't tell me where she and Cays were. I has asked her to take Cays for a few days so I could put the rest of our stuff together, money I had saved new clothes, new everything. That's why I waited to report her missing, because she was and wasn't. I would give anything to go back to that day and to not have let Caylee out of my sight."

Casey tells her pen pal everything -- from the cute dimples on one of her attorneys to her father's suicide attempt. Sometimes she quotes scripture from the Bible. Most of the letters read like notes passed between two high school girls.

“So should I go red or blonde? I’m trying to decide how extreme I want to go with my makeover. I will get colored contacts so I can change up my look from time to time. Who is this Casey Anthony you speak of? If you could change your name, any name, what would it be? I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately.”

Casey notes her disgust with our country’s legal system:

“I’ve seen how selfish some attorneys can be, court appointed or not. Just because someone has money, doesn’t mean that someone not as well off, as you, or my self even, isn’t entitled to have someone fight just as hard, if not harder for their rights. I’m so angry and disappointed in our country’s legal system, it makes me sick.”

Of her father’s suicide attempt, she writes:

“My dad is checking into a facility, almost like a rehab center, so he can continue talking to someone and get some help”

Of Caylee, she writes:

“In a lot of ways, I’m content by the fact that she will never have to have her heart broken, or see the constant negativity that out society breeds, no will she ever be abused or taken advantage of.”

We learn that Casey is also writing a book:

“Started writing a foreword to one of my latest creations: the ‘Lovers and Friends’ book, cleverly stating that it’s not your average ‘Kiss-And-Tell’ story. Inquiring minds want to know and boy are they in for a treat!”

Casey is apparently concerned about 2012:

“Read II Chronicles 20:12. The number 2012 is significant in itself, for I can’t get it out of my head. I read every 20:12 in the Bible, and got a chill when I read this. Is it a sign? Or just reality?”

Some of her notes indicate a mistrust of family members. Of her brother, Lee, she writes:

“I find out that my brother was acting according to scripts, via law enforcement, when he came to visit me back in July and August, and he was reporting back to them with whatever I told them.”

Of her mother, Cindy, she writes:

“Come to find out that she put a trademark on Caylee’s name months back, never told me, and even talked about doing the same with mine. This is the same time she publicly states that she plans on writing a book about this! B-E-T-R-A-Y-A-L!!! I’m so sick to my stomach even thinking about this. I’m the only person who has tried to protect Caylee throughout all of this, and it kills me!”

Casey goes on to say that:

“I’ve officially lost my entire blood-related family in the blink of an eye, in the middle of mourning my daughters death, trying to exonerate myself, and figure out what steps to take in achieving these things, and I get [expletive] over by my entire family.”

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/042310-casey-anthony

Casey Evidence Includes FBI Hair Analysis Docs

Posted: 8:58 am EDT April 23, 2010
Updated: 1:24 pm EDT April 23, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- New details about a hair found on duct tape, which police say was used to cover Caylee Anthony's mouth, were among documents released Friday morning (read them).

DOCUMENTS: FBI Lab Hair Investigation Reports
TRANSCRIPTS: River Cruz's Sister | Guy Clears Name
VIDEO REPORT: Docs Show Evidence On Hair

FBI records show an unidentified hair found with Caylee's remains might have belonged to an investigator, but definitely not Caylee or anyone in her family. The defense will likely use that information to raise doubt about how evidence was handled.

The documents raise more questions than answers, but show how thoroughly the FBI was trying to figure out whose hair, other than Caylee's, was on the duct tape found over her mouth.

Dozens of the documents released Friday show how the FBI was trying to identify the hair that didn't match Caylee Anthony's, which was apparently found on one of the pieces of duct tape found over her mouth. The hair is described as a five-inch long, fine, dark brown strand from a Caucasian

Each of seven investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, whose hair is similar, submitted five head hairs in an attempt to determine whose hair was found on the duct tape. Those investigators were at the scene where Caylee's remains were found.

The records don't indicate whether that hair was ever identified.

Last year, Casey's defense team said that one hair on the duct tape was unidentified at that time. These samples from the sheriff's office were provided two months after that.

The defense could try to use that hair to show the evidence was contaminated or even that the hair came from Caylee's "real" killer, not from Casey. But WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said that hair could have come from an investigator, from someone who transferred it to an investigator, or any number of other ways that have nothing to do with identifying Caylee's killer.

The documents released Friday also included a transcript of an interview with the sister of a woman who claims she had an affair with Casey's father, George Anthony. Cecela Benhaida spoke to investigators on February 18, 2010 (read it).

Another transcript released was a November 2009 interview with Derrick Williams (read it), whose name got connected to the case as a result of his address at the infamous Sawgrass Apartments, where Casey allegedly left her daughter with the mystery nanny named Zenaida Gonzalez. Williams contacted deputies to speak with them in an attempt to clear his name.

A third transcript, an interview with Rozzie Franco, was previously released in early April and involves a conversation Franco overheard at an Orlando Houston's restaurant (read it).

WFTV had expected the released documents to include analysis done by an FBI handwriting expert, but they weren't among Friday's 289 pages. Court records show the defense requested records concerning Lorie Gottesman, who works at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia. Her resume shows she compares handwriting to determine authenticity.

Dozens of letters Casey wrote to inmate Robyn Adams, whom she befriended at the Orange County jail, were released two weeks ago and Casey's family just handed over her journal to investigators.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23242649/detail.html

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Updated WFTV article:

Mystery Hair Disclosed In Casey Documents

Posted: 8:58 am EDT April 23, 2010
Updated: 6:43 pm EDT April 23, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Evidence released Friday could help defend Casey Anthony against charges she murdered her daughter. Discovery documents reveal a mystery hair was collected from the crime scene in the woods and it appears no one has been able to identify it (read them), and an FBI expert left her DNA on a key piece of evidence.

DOCUMENTS: FBI Lab Hair Investigation Reports
TRANSCRIPTS: River Cruz's Sister | Guy Clears Name
VIDEO REPORTS: DNA On Tape | Mystery Hair

The mystery hair could help the defense claim that other evidence in Casey's case was contaminated by investigators, and there’s still their theory that there’s another killer responsible.

The documents indicate the FBI tested the mystery hair against samples from Orange County sheriff's investigators who were at the scene and whose hair could be a match to the dark strand that was found.

The hair did not match Caylee or her family.

The newly-released documents show that a five-inch long, fine, dark brown strand of hair from a Caucasian was found with a piece of plastic from the scene where Caylee's remains were found. The documents show the medical examiner's office investigator isolated it on collection paper while examining the piece of plastic.

Seven Orange County sheriff's investigators each submitted five head hairs so the FBI could determine whether the hair came from any of them. The records don't show whether they ever figured out whose hair it is, but WFTV has learned they haven't.

Could that mystery hair do for Casey what the bloody glove did for OJ Simpson? WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says no.

“’If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.’ This evidence does not rise to that level,” Sheaffer said.

OJ tried on the killer's bloody glove and apparently convinced jurors it didn't fit him. Sheaffer said the defense could try to argue the hair came from a mystery murderer or that the evidence was contaminated, but he says there's a big difference between OJ's case and the case against Casey.

“There is so much other circumstantial evidence indicating that Casey Anthony killed her child. In the OJ case, there was not that quality or quantity of circumstantial evidence,” Sheaffer said.

Generally speaking, a circumstantial case is often considered to be a weaker case, but Sheaffer said there is so much of it in the case against Casey the defense is going to have to raise a reasonable doubt on more than one strand of circumstantial evidence.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23242649/detail.html

Stations focus on mystery hair and what it means to case

posted by halboedeker on April, 23 2010 1:39 PM

The latest release of documents in the Casey Anthony case was the top story on noon newscasts of WFTV-Channel 9, WKMG-Channel 6 and WESH-Channel 2.

There wasn’t a lot new in the documents, but two stations disagreed on a significant point: a mystery hair found near Caylee Anthony’s remains. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree in her daughter’s death.

“The documents raise more questions than answers, but they show how thoroughly the FBI was trying to figure out whose hair, other than Caylee’s, was on the duct tape” found with the todder’s remains, WFTV’s Kathi Belich said.

WFTV anchor Barbara West later said, “The FBI was trying to identify a hair that didn’t match Caylee Anthony’s which was apparently found on a piece of duct tape over her mouth.”

And a WFTV promotional spot talked about “a hair found on a piece of duct tape.”

But the documents released today say nothing about a mystery hair on duct tape. WKMG’s Mike DeForest correctly noted “that mystery hair was found with the Disney bag and the Gatorade bottle.”

The WKMG Web site explains: “When Caylee’s remains were discovered, detectives found a World of Disney bag nearby. Inside the bag was a Gatorade bottle, which contained a syringe and a brown liquid that contained extremely small amounts of the chemical chloroform. … Crime scene investigators placed the items from the bag on a piece of brown paper to take a photo, and the 5-inch-long strand of human hair was later discovered on the paper, the documents show. ”

What could the hair mean to the case?

DeForest offered this analysis: “Casey Anthony’s defense team could certainly use that hair to suggest a stranger was out in the woods near the toddler’s body, but the prosecution will likely argue that detectives collected many items in those woods that are completely unrelated to the case.”

WFTV anchor West noted that the mystery hair was not from Caylee or anyone in her family.

WESH’s Bob Kealing focused on Lee Anthony’s girlfriend, Mallory Parker, and a conversation she had with a co-worker.

“The words jump off the page: Mallory knows Casey did something to Caylee, and she’s sure she killed Caylee,” Kealing read. The tip came from a journalist covering the case.

But when detectives pressed the issue, Kealing added, they “deteremined the context of the alleged conversation between Parker and a co-worker was only that Parker believed Casey killed Caylee and that Casey never confessed the crime to her.”

WKMG’s DeForest promised more today on another jail pal of Casey Anthony. The jail pal is Cecilia Benaida, the sister of a Krystal Holloway, a woman who befriended George Anthony.

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Local 6 Details Mystery Hair In Anthony Case
Casey Anthony Charged With Murder In Daughter's Death

April 23, 2010

A piece of potential evidence in the Casey Anthony murder trial is a hair that was found near where her daughter Caylee’s body was found on Dec. 11, 2008. FBI lab results previously showed the hair did not belong to Casey or Caylee.

Other media have inaccurately reported the hair was found on duct tape with the body.

This is how Local 6 correctly determined where the hair originated.

Page 13846 of the discovery released on Friday contains this information:



That shows the FBI compared the hair to those from evidence technicians who had access to specimen Q107 and found no match -- so it was not contaminated by the evidence technicians.

But what is specimen Q107?

For that, Local 6 went to page 10284 of discovery released in October 2009 and found this:



These FBI lab notes show the Caucasian head hair was compared to Caylee’s (Q59) and Casey’s (K2) and found not to be a match. It also shows where the collection paper that contained the hair came from: H-60518, Item 4, Q91. This is an Orange County sheriff’s evidence number, and Local 6 found it on page 3473 of the discovery released in February 2009.



That proves that Q107 Collection paper (H60518, Item 4, Q91) is referring to the paper underneath the World of Disney bag and Gatorade bottle, found just inches from Caylee’s skull.

For further proof that the sheriff called this evidence number Q91, look to page 3705 of the February 2009 discovery release, and you see this:



Q91 clearly refers to the paper upon which the bottle and bag were photographed. And if you look closely at the lower right-hand side of this evidence photo of the Gatorade bottle, you see what appears to be a hair on the collection paper. Whether it is the “mystery” hair or the animal (rabbit) hair referred to in the FBI lab notes above (page 10284), we cannot say.



http://www.clickorlando.com/news/23246091/detail.html

Is mystery hair found with Caylee as crucial as bloody glove in O.J. Simpson case?

posted by halboedeker on April, 23 2010 6:36 PM

How important is a mystery hair found near Caylee Anthony’s remains? That strand drove a lot of the TV coverage today as 300 more pages of discovery were released in the Casey Anthony case.

The hair does not belong to Caylee or her family members. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in her daughter’s death. The FBI studied hair from seven Orange County sheriff’s investigators to see if the dark strand belonged to any of them.

“The records don’t show whether they ever figured out whose hair it is, but we’re told they have not,” WFTV-Channel 9’s Kathi Belich reported tonight.

Then Belich asked: ”Could that mystery hair do for Casey what the bloody glove did for O.J. Simpson?”

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer supplied an answer.

“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit — this evidence does not rise to that level,” Sheaffer said. “There is so much other circumstantial evidence indicating that Casey Anthony killed her child. In the O.J. Simpson case, there was not that quality or quantity of circumstantial evidence.”

Earlier, Belich had reported that the mystery hair was on the duct tape found with the toddler’s remains. WESH-Channel 2 also reported that the strand was “on the duct tape across Caylee’s skull.”

But the documents released today say nothing about a mystery hair on duct tape. And Belich updated her initial report by later saying: ”A 5-inch-long, fine, dark brown strand of hair from a Caucasian was found with a piece of plastic from the scene where Caylee Anthony’s remains were found.”

WKMG-Channel 6’s Mike DeForest noted the mysterious hair was found in the woods near the toddler’s remains.

“The origin of that hair remains unknown,” DeForest said. ”Casey Anthony’s defense team could certainly use that hair to suggest a stranger was out in the woods near the toddler’s body, but prosecutors will likely argue that detectives collected many items in those woods, including trash, that are completely unrelated to Caylee Anthony’s murder.”

In other Anthony news today:

***Belich focused on the news that an FBI expert unintentionally left her DNA on a piece of duct tape. “The defense could use the FBI’s slip-up to Casey’s advantage,” Belich said.

Analyst Sheaffer predicted that the defense would seek to have the evidence excluded but the court is unlikely to agree.

***WKMG reported that Anthony defense attorneys Jose Baez and Cheney Mason visited the office of Mark NeJame, attorney for Texas EquuSearch. The Anthony attorneys went to look at records of EquuSearch volunteers; the defense had wanted photocopies of the records.

“Twice the judge ruled that the only way for the defense team to see those records was to view them in person at Mark NeJame’s office,” DeForest reported. “For the first time in eight months, the defense finally did that.”

NeJame was out of the office and didn’t want to comment on the situation, DeForest said.

***WESH-Channel 2’s Bob Kealing focused on Lee Anthony’s girlfriend, Mallory Parker, and a conversation she had with a co-worker.

“The words jump off the page: Mallory knows Casey did something to Caylee, and she’s sure she killed Caylee,” Kealing said. The tip came from a journalist covering the case.

But when detectives pressed the issue, Kealing added, they “deteremined the context of the alleged conversation between Parker and a co-worker was only that Parker believed Casey killed Caylee and that Casey never confessed the crime to her.”

Later, Lee Anthony’s attorney denied that Lee or Mallory suggested they suspect Casey Anthony is responsible for Caylee Anthony’s murder.

“He is in support of his sister all the way,” attorney Tom Luka told Kealing.

Lee Anthony has said Casey never confessed or suggested she knew what happened to her daughter, Luka added.

“He’s obviously waiting to see what happens, if there’s any more evidence comes out,” Luka said. “But as it stands at this moment, he is 100 percent behind his sister.”

Lee Anthony has immunity from prosecution for anything he testifies to as long his stories are truthful and consistent, Luka told Kealing.

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Corporal Edwards Orange County Sheriff's Office in the room with..Corporal Yuri Melich, Orange County Sheriff's Office, Sergeant John Allen, and ma'am? Cecila Benhaida. Speak up for me please... Cecila Benaida. Will you spell your name for me.

CB C-E-C-E-L-I-A B-E-N-H-A-I-D-A.

CE And your date of birth?

CB Eleven/2/71.

CE Today's date is 2/18/2010, it's approximately 10:50 A.M. Can you

raise your right hand for me please? Do you swear to tell the truth

today?

CB Yes.

CE Okay, and you're here freely you came here voluntarily?

CB Yes.

CE Okay. We'd had.. we'd done kind of a pre-interview with you. We met

yesterday. Sergeant Allen and I showed up on your front porch and

we spoke to your sister. What's your sister's name?

CB Krystal Holloway.

CE I'm sorry?

CB Krystal Holloway.

CE And Krystal um, is known to... the reason we met you was due to the Anthony

homicide case investigation. You're aware of that?

CB Yes.

CE Okay. Krystal's also know by what name?

CB River Cruz.

CE River Cruz. Okay. Um, you and your sister came here yesterday or the last night

and we interviewed her. Um, and we had some questions for you regarding your

knowledge of how your.. ah, how Krystal was involved with George Anthony and the

Anthony situation. And what I'd like to do is just stop talking, which is hard for me.

And ah, let you explain that to us in your own words.

CB Um, where am I starting?

CE Ahhh...

CB At the beginning?

CE ...well we'll leave that, we'll leave your visit to the jail until., we'll come back and

get that. So, just let me know what your personal knowledge of your sister um, and

her involvement with the Anthony's.

CB Well, they.. from my understanding they were friends and I believe it was a little

more then friendship. From what I was seeing. The um, the texts, the letters, the

cards, the gifts. I.. I..

CE Okay.

CB .....assumed.

CE Between her and ...

CB That she... her and, her and George. I.. I.. I'm assume..

SA Alright...

CB ...I assumed at that point that they had some type of affair.

CE A physical relationship?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative).. Yes.

CE Okay. Did you see George at the house, your house?

CB Um, yes.

CE How many times?

CB Twice.

CE When was that?

CB Oh it was after I um, should I say...

CE Pardon me?

CB Should I say that word? It was after I came out of jail.

CE Yeah that's fine.

CB Okay.

CE Yeah please yeah after you came out of jail.

CB Yeah.

CE Okay. And that was when?

CB Um, it was after Jan.. it was January um, like '08.

CE Hmmm, that would've been...

CB '07?

CE ...'09.

CB '09.

CE Yeah from our conversation.

CB Right, right, right okay.

CE Yeah, 'cause you.. you.. yeah 'cause you'd been out about a...

CB A year yes.

CE ...a year.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE So, January '09.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE Okay. So, from January '09 to present was it shortly after you were released that

you saw George at the house twice? Or was it ...

CB Yes.

CE ....last week or...

CB On no that was after I was released that he had came over.

CE Now had your friend ah, your sister been friends with him prior to you being

released from jail? This...

CB She was friends with him while I was in the, in the prison, in the jail, in the jail

she... I don't know if she befriended him or he befriended her. But while I was

incarcerated that's when she became friends with him.

CE And you, when did you learn of that friendship?

CB After I came out of jail.

CE So, while you were, while you were in the Orange County Jail you had no

knowledge of your...

CB No.

CE ...your sister...

CB Nope.

CE ....and George Anthony? Okay, when you first came out how did your sister

approach you and tell you that she had become involved or was friends with the

Anthony's?

CB Because I stated to her, she was asking me what I was doing in the jail and I

stated to her that I was cleaning ah, my.. my job at the facility what my job was and

that I happened to be feeding and talking to Casey.

CE Casey Anthony?

CB Yes and then she told me that, that's funny I'm friends with the father.

CM And what did she tell you about the friendship with the father or the family what

was...

CB The same day I was released.

CM No, no, what did she tell you? How did she meet or what., what.. what kind of a

friendship was it?

CB She told me... she told me that they met at a tent um, something about Kid

Finders Network, my sister was doing something with them and either he was

standing there and that moment either.. I'm not sure what happened, but he was..,

he.. she went over to console him. That was the first moment that they became

friends.

CM And did she say how., how., how that became a friendship as opposed to just an

acquaintance? How they got to know each other and what they did?

CB Um, she was inviting him, they was inviting each other. They took the numbers

down they was talking on the phone a lot and um, she told me that he had been at

the house a few times. She told me that he.. she had given money a few times. Um,

and she also told me that she's been over to his house.

CM And this is all before you got out of jail?

CB Yeah and..

CM So...

CB and after.

CM So, by the time you got out of jail they had already established a friendship?

CB Right.

CM And she had already started.., was she giving money or loaning money, do you

know?

CB No, she was giving him money.

CM How much money we talking about?

CB If you're asking me I think all together I would say about, I'd say about five

grand all together..

CM And do you know what that money was suppose to be used for? CB Not sure.

CM But did she tell you why she was giving him money?

CB I couldn't understand that.

CM Did she tell you that?

CB Um, she just would say, he didn't have any money. Oh, one time I did know that

he.. he asked her I think for eight hundred dollars he asked her for eight hundred. And

um, there was a problem with her getting, retrieving it. And um, I think it was like a

few days later she end up giving it to him. I remember that.

CE How did she get the money that time?

CB Um, I think it was um, either the tax or the baby.. She's got people in New York

that she you know they give 'em money.

CE Child support?

CB Um, not child support but the father was sending money and you know Jeff gives

her money too.

CE Just to go back. When they first met why did your sister opt to use the name

River Cruz?

CB That's um, sh... we never like our names. We was adopted. Um, she went by

River that's something that my father used to call her. I used to stare at the sky

all the time so I kind of just adopted the name Sky. So, we just went with it.

CE Okay so it's nothing that she generated for this particular ...

CB No.

CE ...occurrence?

CB She's been that... that has always been her last... her name.

CE River.

CB It's like mine, Sky.

CE Where'd the Cruz part come from?

CB Um, have to ask her that one.

CE Okay.

CB I think it's one of the um, one it's a character. A singer or something.

CE Okay so she just chose not to tell them her real identity.

CB Right. She would never go under, like me, I've never, nobody really knows my

name.

CE Ok. Sorry Yuri I wanted to...

CM No that's fine.

CE ... make sure that we understood why she... And she's still known to

George is my...

CB Yeah.

CE ...understanding as River.

CB He has no idea what her real name is. He doesn't know her as Krystal

Holloway.

CE Okay. Does um, her boyfriend's name is Jeff is correct?

CB Yes.

CE What's Jeff's last name?

CB Allen.

CE Jeff Allen?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE Um, was Jeff aware of the friendship with the Anthony's?

CB He was aware of it yep.

CE But not the depth of the friendship?

CB No. And not, I don't think that he knew about the money part either.

CE Well, does he know now?

CB I don't think so.

CE Okay, 'cause I know from conversing with her there's some... she seems to be a

little reluctant to out with certain things and we're...

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE ....just trying to establish may why that is.

CB Because probably afraid that she's going to lose him.

CE Lose Jeff?

CB Jeff, right.

CE Over the involvement with George?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE Did she give you specifics, because it appears that she's heartbroken?

CB That's where., that's., that's where I was.. I was.. I was believing that they

had an affair. Like she never came out and said it. But the ... the reactions was

everything. Like I couldn't understand why her heart was so broken.

CE Urn, you say you saw George twice at the house. And, and um, have you

been to the Anthony's home yourself?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE Okay. You been there with, with ah, I keep wanting to call her River, but Krystal?

CB Krystal yes.

CE Okay so you visited the Anthony home with Krystal.

CB The day that I got out, the next morning.

CE Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB She took me over there to meet them.

CE Did you...

CB The news crew was there. They weren't home, but we was at um, she called

him, she called George and he told her to come ... for us to come back later on. And

when we came back later on that's when I met him.

CE You got to meet George and Cindy?

CB Um, no I think it was just George that I met that day. The following few days I

think it's after is when I met, is when I met Cindy.

CE You went back over there?

CB Um, my sister bought her flowers. There was, there was a reason why she

bought flowers. I think it was Mother's Day I'm not sure. But they were left on the

um.. No, Cindy.. she called Cindy and asked her if she got the flowers Cindy, said no.

And um, it was that the flowers were delivered two days after it was suppose to have

been delivered. And when, when she finally got them that's when she called my sister

and then we went over there and met them.

CE Who would be at the home when you would visit. Normally?

CB It was just George and her.

CE Did you ever visit the home while Casey was there?

CB No, I didn't know Casey.

CE Other then...

CB Before then.

CE Okay.

CB I didn't know, I didn't know them at all. I only knew them after I came out of the

jail is when I knew them.

CE Okay. So, you've never seen Casey in her home?

CB No.
CE Um, You had said that there was one time that you visited the Anthony home by

yourself. Can you tell me about that again.

CB I went after my sister had broke down crying off of a text that she sent him and

he didn't respond to it. I took the cell phone and I sent him a text and it was not a

pretty text, but I waited for his response and he didn't. And my sister was hurt and I

took the car and went over his house. And Cindy was there George wasn't there.

CE And what happened?

CB I knocked on the door and told her when she came to the door I told her that she

was full of shit her and her family was full of shit. And I didn't appreciate what she did

to my sister. And that she was lucky that I couldn't get myself in trouble anymore.

She told me get off her property.

CE What did.. did you ask her for money back or...

CB No.

CE ...did you mention the money?

CB No, didn't mention any of it.

CM You say you went to the house and then you said that they were full of shit. What's

that pertaining to? Why did you go there as opposed to just not answering the text

message how's that (Inaudible)...

CB Because my sister at that point she was looking for, she was to me she was

looking for him to respond to the, to the text. They were supposed to have met, he

put her off like twice. And the third time that there was a text he said that he was

coming, he was on his way. And um, he gave her some type of lie and found out that

he never came to gate, he wasn't there and my sister was furious. That's when I took

the text.. that's when I took the phone I sent him a text I sent him a text, I waited for

him to say... I.. I specifically wrote something to the effect like, as much as sister did

for you this is what.. this is how you repay her you can't even um, you can't even

respond to a text that's nice. And he didn't respond to my text, which pissed me off

from watching my sister crying. That's why I left and went to her house.

CM But why would you say they're full of shit as opposed to just why you stand uh,

why you standing us up? 'Cause to me that's a little bit different saying someone's full

of shit.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM Why that you thought certain things. Just 'cause they don't text you back and not

shown up makes it...

CB Because she was suppose to be.. he was., there was.. it was three times that he

put my sister off. He put my sister off three times.

CM That he stood her up?

CB Right, he stood her up three times.

CE After this memorial?

CB Yes.

CE After this service?

CB After that.

CE Okay, so, let me.. so, we stay on track. This, this um... I know what Yuri's

getting at. But I'm gonna show you some images that we downloaded from the phone

and they're dated um, 8/9 of 2009.

CB Okay.

CE Um, and if you viewed these imagines they're on page 41 of 78.

CB Uh-huh. (Affirmative)

CE The first image is, looks it appears to be George speaking on a podium.

CB I snapped that shot.

CE You did?

CB Yeah.

CE Okay can you tell me about that as we go down?

CB The, the next, the next one is I.. my sister Krystal, River and Anthony I snapped

that.

CE Image 49?

CB I snapped that shot.

CE Okay.

CB I sat behind them. Them two were crying at this, in this photo them two. He was

crying to her. They both were crying and I snapped that shot.


CE Okay.

CB The bottom one um, my sister wanted a picture of all three of us and there was a

lady that was there she took the picture of all three of us.

CE Tell me about that day. What., where., where is that and what is that event?

CB Um, this day was a private., it was only maybe like 30 people, 40 people that

were invited to this um, this a balloon gathering for Casey.

CE Now there was a, there was some kind of function after that?

CB Yes.

CE What, what happened there?

CB Um, there was, there was um, there was a vigil and they had um, inside the

church they, a few people stood up and said something. There was a preacher that

was there. Um, after that ceremony we was led outside in the back and there was

some balloons that they let out in memory of Case... um...

CM Caylee.

CB ....Caylee. And um, after that we was all brought into another room where they had

cake and um, drinks.

CM How long after that would you say was the time when you went and confronted

Cindy? Or went to confront George and then confronted Cindy?

CB I think, I think it was about a week after that this happened. After I snapped

these shots I think it was about week.

CM So, in that, in hat week time frame he stood your sister up three times?

CB Yep.

CE Okay so, if that is 8/9/09.

CB Yeah.

CE Okay, 'cause I'm looking at the text on 12/16 of '08 earlier the, the year

prior.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE There's a text message number text number 88 from it says George..

CB This was the...

CE ...Anthony.

CB ...this is the beginning I think this... yeah this was when, this was before

this.

CE Right.

CB This text was before these shots were taken.

CE Just thinking about you, I need you...

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE ....in my life.

CB Right.

CE Okay. Alright, so chronologically then so, to go off what Yuri is saying, this, this

friendship's occurring, you're inviting to personal type family functions to include...

CB Right.

CE the memorials and the services and things of that nature.

CB Right.

CE And George earlier the year prior is saying he needs her in his life.

CB Right.

CE But now it seems like after this service um...

CB That's when everything went down yeah.


CE She's cut out...

CB Actually they was um...

CE Sorry.

CM That's alright.

CB I think I'm not sure you guys have to ask my sister, but there was one.. I think

that she was supposed to give him some money and she didn't. And I believe that's

what led to her and him.. or him not texting her back.

CE How much money did she say?

CB I'm thinking it was four hundred. I'm not sure, but I believe it was four hundred.

SA So, are you saying ..

CB That was the last one.

SA ...the money stopped and then the friendship stopped?

CB Yeah that's why I said she was full of shit when I said they were full of shit

not her. You guys were full of shit. Your family's full of shit.

CM Did you ever loan them any money?

CB No.

CM It was just your sister?

CB Yep.

CE Where.. and I asked you earlier I apologize. Where did the money come from?

CB A vane... vary.., her son's father, her boyfriend, her tax. Um, son..

CE She had a savings account?

CB Um, not sure see I was in jail so I'm not really sure. But um, she does get an

allowance and stuff so.

CE From Jeff?

CB From Jeff, she gets money from her son who's 19.. 18 um, he sends her money.

The kid's father sends her money and I know that she had like I think it was

twenty-three hundred from um, the tax.

CE Income tax return?

CB Yes. Uh-huh. (affirmative).. There's credit cards that she has where if you want

to pull those there's the flowers that were sent. Um...

CE You said she'd given Cindy some gifts. What type of gifts were those?

CB She bought Cindy um, a pendant a diamond um, piece that goes to her um, to a

chain. It was a diamond I think it was ah, something from um, I don't know it was a

diamond piece pendant. She got she bought her that and she bought..

CE Was she upset about seeing that on television? Did she say anything to you

about that? That Cindy had worn that on a particular show?

CB I can't remember.

CE Okay. What did... did Cindy ever tell you at any time that she was unaware that

George was getting money from your sister?

CB No, never told me that.

CE Cindy didn't tell you that.

CB No.

CE Okay. Um, want to go into the jail part?

SA Before you do that I have one question about this. This cell phone, I look at the

cell phone records there's a there's three Georges or there's a George Anthony and a

number for George Anthony. Um, looks like it was..

CB One, there's another George.. I.. I play paddle ball.

SA Okay.

CB And he's my coach so.

SA Okay so, so, this George..

CB That's George.

SA ....and this is not a number.. another number for George Anthony. It's a different

George?

CB It's., it's a J-O-R-G-E?

SA No, this is a G-0-R... It's look here, look, look hereon page 6 and correct me...

CB It should only... I think there should only be like 2.

SA But my question is, do we know if this G-E-0 and George and George Anthony

are those three different numbers for George Anthony? Or are they three different

people? Or do you know the answe-r?

CB No those are three different people.

SA Okay thank you.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CE Sky, before we um, I mean me, today.. last night I asked you and your sister

mentioned in the interview that the (Inaudible)... that George Anthony had written her

letters?

CB Yes.

CE And you guys brought one to us today. I'll.. I'll get with your sister on this, we'll

have her sign a property form. I just want to, this is the letter that your sister

delivered us, to us today?

CB Yes.

CE Okay and you're gonna maybe go back to the house today and help her find...

CB Yeah.

CE ... the others?

CB Yeah.

CE Um, and we can sequeway into the fact that you yourself may have something

that um, Casey had given you while you were in jail?

CB Yeah, it was ah, um, I think you are the type of... it was um, I have to find it. I'll

look for it though. It was a thank you um, letter.

CE Okay, Yuri's gonna probably go more into depth about the time that you had

spent down there in the jail and got to know her.

CM Before we go into the jail there's a couple of questions I wanted to go on what

Eric talked about. Did George ever talk to you about the case?

CB No.

CM Did George ever talk to you and Krystal.. or I'm sorry, you and River, you and

Krystal...

CB Yeah.

CM ...about the case like (inaudible) frustration that was or was not being done? Or

what he was he was doing that law enforcement wasn't?

CB I really never held... I mean I've held a conversation with George. But just in ah,

it would never have to do... it had nothin'... never to do with the case. I didn't feel

close enough to him. But my sister is the one that would know more about that.

CM What did your sister tell you about conversations she had with George about this

case?

CB Um, as far as what I found out last night?

CM Well in general...

CB Or just...

CM you know just.. just what did...

CB I...

CM ... what will your sister tell about what she talked about George.

CB Well she, she never, she never, you know after that situation... after the last,

after I went to the house and stuff that I said. I went back to my sister she was still

mad at, I was furious. 'Cause that's when I found out that she had given him all that

money. So, I told her at that time I didn't want to speak to her about him anymore. I

don't want to hear anything that has to do with George. Um, and that was it. So, I

didn't.. we hadn't said anything to each other until you guys came knocking on the

door yesterday.

CM And...

CB So...

CB ... and after we left?

CB But.. and so after you left she was in panic mode and kept telling me, um, there's

stuff that I know. And I'm like well whatever you need to know you need to talk to the

officers. But I said is it him and she didn't say... she was like, no. And I said, it's her?

And she didn't say anything. So, I said it is her. And I said I knew it was her.

CM Her meaning?

CB The mother, the.. Cindy.

CM Hm.

CB And I said, she was like no I can't, I can't say anything. And I said, whatever

you, whatever you know this is a child that's the child that's dead you need to talk for

her.

CE It's Cindy or it's Casey?

CB I'm sorry.

CE You said it's her.

CB Meaning the.. Cindy. I was trying to ask her if she knew, if she knew anything

and when I said is it him meaning, did he have something to do with it? She told me

no. And I said so, it was her, meaning Cindy. And she didn't say anything she just

closed up. So, that's when I said whatever you know you need to tell them. And she

was worried how you guys found her and, and um, well you know what she told you

last night. But um, what I did... she did tell me that he did tell her that um, it was

something about an accident. There was a comment that she made I don't know word

for word. But she can tell it to you, but she did say something that he said, it's

something about an accident. Accident...

CM Accident a car accident or...

CB No the death, the child being killed by accident.

CM What, what did she tell you respect to an accident though? What did George say?

Did he say he thought it was an accident or he knew it was an accident? What did she

tell you? What did Krystal tell you?

CB That's what I'm saying she.., it was it.. the way she said it she said, oh he said to

her um, some.. something about it being an accident. It.. it.. it was., or flew off the

handle and it was an accident, was how she said it.

CM And the way she's saying you believe it to be George describing what happened to

Caylee the child?

CB Yes.

CM And how that someone flew off the handle and as a result..

CB And it was done.. Right.

CM ...Caylee got killed?

CB Right.

CE And did she describe to you how that may have occurred?

CB She didn't tell me, I didn't get too much... I told you I would talk to her last

night.

CE Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB She was really tired. This morning we just flew up and we just you know got up.

But um, if you guys don't get it from her today I'll grill it out of her and I'll figure and

I'll find out.

CE What else did she tell you that she knew?

CB um, oh she told me that um, she.. I believe she was either there or she.. he told

her about it after it happened when he grabbed I think it was Casey that she

grabbed.. that he grabbed by the neck or the morn. I'm, I'm not too sure. Like this

case is not really something that I'm. So, when she talks about it I kind of just listen,

but the on... so, I.. I don't know if she said the father grabbed Casey

or he grabbed the mom by the throat. And I'm not too sure if she said that she was

there or he called her after and told her.

CE So, she may have been there?

CB Yeah I'm not sure you have to ask her.

CE Or he...

CB I don't know if she was...

CE ....called her after the fact that..

CB It's one of the two, but I know that she knows about it.

CE Okay. Did she say why George grabbed whoever it was that he grabbed?

CB Um, she might've I can't.. I can't bring it up I don't... I'm not...

CE That's fine.

CM Is there anything else that she told you about conversations with George that you

can remember now? As far as last night after they left?

CB Last night we didn't really, she was just in panic mode and she was just scared.

I.. my main thing was trying her... not to have a seizure last night. So, I didn't

question her too much. I didn't say anything. The only thing that she did admit to me

is that he said to her that something about it being an accident. And she also

mentioned to me last night that um, either she was there or he called her after he put

his hands on her.

CE She was there meaning Krystal was there?

CB My sister, yeah either my sister...

CB Or he called.

CB ...was there at the house when it happened or he called her after and told her

what he did.

CE Okay. Do you know a Zenaida Gonzalez at all?

CB No I don't.

CE Did they ever talk about Zenaida Gonzalez at all?

CB Yeah.

CM To you?

CB Well, Krystal has.

CM What about George? George in your presence talked about her at all? CB Um...

CM About they were dealing to try and find out who this person was?

CB You know they was, they was always conversating I just never was., you know I

felt awkward um, that here I was just come out of jail. And to meet the parents of this

girl who's murdered her child. So, I really wasn't in all to that. I.. my thing was I was

just there to... 'Cause I knew that my sister, I knew that the friendship... I knew

about the friendship. So, my.. I was just supporting my sister.

CM When you say George would visit. In the times that he visited after you got out of

jail said he goes to your house two times. Was he alone or ...

CB Yeah he was always alone.

CM Ah, was does Jeff Allen live at the house with you guys?

CB Yes.

CM Okay, was Jeff Allen present at the time?

CB Not those times.

CM What about the times that you weren't there was.. Krystal says, George came over

several times before that.

CB Yeah.

CM And times after that.

CB Hm.

CM did Krystal ever tell you who was at the house or was it just she...

CB It was just...

CM ...and George?

CB ...always her and him and, and I think Brittney, her daughter was there maybe

one or two occasions when she might've just not felt whatever (Inaudible)...

But most of the times it was between the hours from 10 o'clock to 2 and that's when

Jeff was gone.

CE Where would Jeff be?

CB At work.

CE Dealing with his rental properties or ...

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative).. He's got an office... well now it's in Maitland, but it used

to be on Lee Road.

CE So, he had a set time during the day that he would be gone?

CB Yeah he's out of the house everyday no later then 9... He gets up at 8:20 he

takes his shower, he lets the dog out and he's out of the house no later the 9:05.

CM So, he usually works 9 to 5? Banker's hours?

CB About 9 he, between 9.. he comes home between 1.. 1 and 1:30.

CM I want to go into the jail part. You said you were incarcerated. Do you remember

when you were arrested when you went to the Orange County Jail?

CB I believe it was August 16th.

CM Of 2008?

CB Yeah.

CM And you left just.. you spent five months you say?

CB Yeah,

CM Out in January?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM And do you remember what pod or what cell you were in? What division you were

in?

CB Yeah I can't it's um...

CM Well let's make it easy. Were you in the same cell block as Casey Anthony? The

same unit that ...

CB Same building?

CM ....Casey..

CB On no not the same unit.

CM Okay.

CB I was a trustee.

CM Okay. And in your times of being a trustee you mentioned to us before hand that

you I guess got to know Casey or clean her cell?

CB Right.

CM Walk me through that again. I know you already told it once, but ... But how did

you become a trustee and how'd you end up ...

CB Oh um...

CM ...meeting her?

CB ... I became., because um, I didn't want to just sit around the jail and just do

nothing for five months. So, I got applied for the trustee job and I got that. And in

the beginning um, like I told him. Um, I didn't really like her because I knew what she

was there for. So, I was kind of like being, not mean to her , but like lower the eyes

and giving her nasty looks and stuff. Um, it was I think two months after me being

there I started reading the bible and um, I know you're not supposed to judge

anyone. And so, I chose not to judge her and not that I befriended her. I kind of guess

I did um, I was trying to be nice to her. I kind of felt bad that all the inmates there

were in that building in that one block. Would be screaming murderer um, you know

just mean things to her.

CM Right.

CB And I felt like she needed just, just one person that she can just say hello that

wouldn't give her a nasty attitude. And I, I.. that's where I became.., that's where I

came in at.

CM And what was your roll in, what were you doing in her pod, in her area as a trustee?

CB I had to clean the whole block as far as each cell. I had to when she was giving

her hour out she would only take a shower and I had to give her uniform while she

was in the, in the shower I had to go clean her, her cell.

CM Okay, just normal trustee stuff? Nothing...

CB Yes.

CM ...different then you would normally do as a trustee?

CB No. Huh-uh. (Negative)

CM And I guess during that time frame you got to speak with her or...

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM ...ah, not a relationship, but you got acquainted ..

CB Right.

CM ...with her? (inaudible)..

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM And tell me about that acquaintance.

CB Um, I would just ask her if she was alright if she needed anything, how she was

doing. Um, we never really, I never really, I never spoke to her about her family. I..

she.. I would just tell her that I seen your parents on TV. And 'cause she wasn't

allowed, that block wasn't allowed to have the television on. So, she would ask how

her morn and her father would look. And you know I would in return would answer, oh

they look fine. Or I seen your brother on TV. Um, just whatever I seen on TV. We

really weren't allowed to talk to her, but there were certain officers that I was cool with

at that time, that didn't have a problem with me just talking to her. So...

CM And that's talking through the closed door?

CB Yeah. Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM Okay. When, when you were in he jail getting to talk to Casey. Did you have

any idea that your sister was friendly with the Anthony's?

CB I had no idea that she....

CM Did she call you and let you know that...

CB I had no communications with her.

CM Okay, so you had no idea that your sister was talking to the Anthony's at the

time?

CB I had no idea.

CM When, did Casey ever ask you to do anything for her while you guys were at the

jail?

CB Just to pass a letter.

CM A letter or letters?

CB Two letters I passed for her.

CM Okay. And who were these letters from?

CB The girls upstairs that was above her.

CM What um, you mentioned before there was a girl in your...

CB In my dorm there was one in my dorm and two up in her dorm.

CM Okay. The girl in your dorm do you remember her name?

CB I think her name was Martha. I believe her name was Martha.


CM Is she a white girl, black, Hispanic?

CB No Spanish.

CM Do you know what she was in for?

CB Murder.

CM The one in your dorm was?

CB Yeah.

CM Okay. And what about the other two girls that were in her dorm? Do you

remember?

CB I.. I.. I remember them because I..

CM Were they in jail...

CB ...asked 'ern um...

CM ....what they were in for?

CB I think one, one was came out I believe it came out was like a butch whatever,

gay whatever. She looked like a boy.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB It showed a picture I know about yeah.

CM And how many notes would you say you passed from the girl that was in your

dorm to Casey?

CB I did that twice in my dorm.

CM From your dorm to Casey?

CB Right. Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM And how about...

CB And there was a clipping, I sent too her.. well that I, I gave to her.

CM Newspaper?

CB A clipping, yeah of a news clipping.

CM Well do you remember what it was about? I know it's kind of hard but... CB

Um, the Anthony case.

CM Okay. And that was from the girl in the other dorm? The one in your dorm? CB My

dorm. Right.

CM To her. And the ones that were in... so two notes from that one to Casey. What

about the ones that were in her dorm? Do you remember how many notes back and

forth?

CB No I think that ah, I'm gonna just say maybe three or four times I did that.

CM Okay. From them to Casey. What about from Casey to them?

CB Um, from Casey to them was twice.

CM Okay. What...

CB And the girls I think maybe two or three times upstairs.

CM So, two from Casey about two to three from the people up top?

CB Right.

CM What about one of the other dorm? How many times did she send letters in?

CB Ah, we.. I did that... well, it was once on her behalf and once on my behalf.

CM Okay, so Martha or the one from your dorm sent one, then you sent one.

CB Then I sent one.

CM And yours was, what?

CB A card um, it was a Christmas that one of the girls drew something and it was

just um, like a feel better kind of little drawing. And in return um, she tried to give

me, she tried to pass me one. But they had commissary that day and I couldn't get it.

So, I had to wait till the next following morning to get it. But she sent me a um, a

letter, which I told him I would try to get it. I'm almost sure I have it 'cause I, that

took everything. I have not been in that bag since I came out of the jail.

But I, I'll give it to you it's something like thank you for being there. In fact there's

um, on the TV one of the things um, she's on there talking to her parents. And she's

saying, well I met a girl who's here and she's very nice. And she's about the only one

that I talk to.

CE That..

CB That was me.

CM The.. how would you pass notes to her?

CB Um...

CM You're not gonna get in trouble for telling...

CB ...I was...

CM ....us.

CB Okay. Um, I would when I was sweeping all the letters would be rolled up like

um, you know just rolled up.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB And um, the girls sometimes would tie it real tight and I would put it on

the floor when I get next to her cell I'd slid it under her door.

CM And how would she get letters to you?

CB Um, when I would pass her um, her meals she, you know would pass it

through the little cubby hole thing. And when I'd give it to her she'd give it to me and

I'd put it in my sleeve.

CM Okay. Did she ever give you anything other then letters?

CB No.

CM Were you ever told to bring her anything other then letters?

CB No just ah, letters the clipping and the card that I send.

CM Did anyone from the outside of the jail tell I'll give you something, say hey

give this to Casey?


CB Never.

CM Did anyone inside the jail aside from the three in.. and other inmates you

talked about ever tell you hey, give this to Casey?

CB Um, no. Huh-uh. (Negative)

CM Any corrections officer ever state anything like that?

CB No. Never.

CM Okay. As far as CO's are concerned they, they, they didn't tell you go

communicate with her? Go pass ...

CB Oh no..

CM ...these to her?

CB ...we weren't., like they was certain, there was like this one officer who was

just strict. So, when she was there Ms. Cox, I didn't play with her.

CM Okay.

CB But the other ones that I became cool with Ms. Hall I think her name was

Ms.Hall. There's Ms. Rivera and there's another dark skin officer I don't remember her

name. But um, they were cool so and I was there for a long time.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB So, they just... they would eye me but you know just not really eye me.

CM They would., they wouldn't be on top of you?

CB No.

CM Get away with giving her the notes?

CB Yeah.

CM I want to show you pictures I just want you to tell me if these people look familiar

to you at all.

CB Okay.

CM By all means I'm not saying that you know them or don't.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM But if they do I'd like you to tell me if you do.

CB (showing photo of Maya Derkovic) I don't know 'em.

CM No?

CB Huh-uh. (Negative)

CM Okay, give that back.

CB (showing photo of Robyn Adams) She kind of looks familiar but... I don't... She

was in the jail?

CM I'm just asking if you know her.

CB I don't know her face kind of looks familiar, but she was not standing out to me.

CM Okay. So, the only note that you have, you may have that thank you note you said

you have that for us?

CB Yep.

CM Do you know, did Casey tell you or do you know of anyone in the jail that she

was actually friends with that may have been communicating with her?

CB There was a sergeant like I was telling the detective, there was a sergeant

that would come every morning. And he was um, he used to come every morning at 8

o'clock. I have to be there at 8, so he would come like 8, between 8:30 and 9 o'clock.

He would walk with the nurse and the psychiatrist and he was always knocking on

doors to make sure...

SA Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB ...that you[re alive and if you need anything, you need your medicine or

whatever. This one, this one particular he was a sergeant he would always pop her

gate and he would just conversate with her.

CM Uh-h

SA Pop her gate you mean...

CB Open her, open her cell.

SA I got you. Okay.

CM You have your computer up here? CE Ah, over on my desk.

SA What do you need?

CE A David photo.

SA Of?

CM The two girls, or one of the girls.

SA Which one? You mean write down the information and I'll go. I get somebody

to...

CM I'm trying get you a better photo of one 'ern

CB Okay.

CM Here you go.

SA Okay.

CM Thanks Sarge.

SA Okay.

(Sergeant Allen left to get photograph to show Cecelia)

CE Gonna be a question... oh go ahead and stop the flow on the jail part.

CM Now (Inaudible)... Did Casey ever talk to you about the case?

CB Never.

CM She..

CB Oh well no she., she would ask um, how just how her parents was. Um, if

I've seen them on TV. Um, um, nothing about the child though.

CM She share ah, talk to you about being aggravated? Um...

CB Oh yeah she was always just pissed off. She was..

CM About what?

CB About her being in there. She didn't want to be in there.

CM Okay. Was she taking it hard or was she kind of light about it or..

CB Um, in the beginning she was hard with it. Um, towards my, towards the end of

my.. my stay there she was just sleeping a lot like all day.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB Like she.. I.. I'm the one that breakfast, lunch and dinner I brought over to them.

And I couldn't leave until I was there from 9.. from 8 o'clock to 6 o'clock. So, I

couldn't leave until after, after 6 everyday. This was everyday like Monday

through Sunday I never got a day off. But um, towards the end she was just sleeping

a lot.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB Um, I'm assuming that she was on some type of medicine 'cause the nurse

would come over.

CM Did she ever, she ever simply told you A, the cops are doing something wrong.

Or I would do this? Did she ever talk about Caylee at all?

CB She just said that she, she wasn't., she didn't have.., she wasn't Huh. She just

said that she shouldn't be in there is what she said. She didn't want to be in there.

CM I don't think anyone really wants to...

CB Yeah.

CM ... be in jial. But ah, so aside from that any other conversations as far as what

she would be doing if she were out? She would go and look for Casey? CB Um, no.

CM Or Caylee.

CB Nope. Huh-uh. (Negative) Nothing like that. I did tell her that they did have her

on TV with um, something about her taking some type of co... some cocaine of some

pictures about it. And she laughed at that so.

CM She laughed at it?

CB Yeah.

CM Did, well you were obviously there after the body was found. The body was found

back in December.

CB Yeah.

CM Middle of December.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM Did you, you were still bring her food after that?

CB Yeah I delivered the food.

CM Did her attitude change after that, after the body was found?

CB Yeah it um...

CM How would you describe it?

CB Just... I don't know like one moment she would be um, fine like how my sister

was yesterday. One moment she would be fine. And ten the next moment she'd just

be stuck on space. Like she just be spaced out. She wouldn't.. she just, she was

literally just sit in her cell and just stare at the wall. She had these two, two pictures

of Cay.. Casey on her...

CM Of Caylee?

CB Of Caylee of her, the baby. Of, on her.. it was like um, something that was just

photocopied. And um, maybe somebody sent her. Oh she did tell me about money

being sent to her.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB From different people.

CM Did she ever tell you about her attorney? She was pleased with her attorney or

had any issues?

CB I had no, never said anything about that.

CM Never talked about it.

CB Nope. Huh-uh. (Negative) Huh-uh. (Negative)

CM She ah, complaining say anything about her parent?

CB Not to me. Never to me. She just asked um, I told her I did see the parents on

TV. She did ask me how they looked. I told her..

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB ...they look fine.

CM What about after you got out of jail and you need up meeting the Anthony's. Did

they... obviously learned that you were in jail with their daughter.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM What was their reaction? Did they kind of pump you for information asking you

how she was doing? Or...

CB Um, my sister didn't want it. She didn't want me to talk to them. She didn't want

me to tell them. 'Cause me and my sister different, I don't care, my sister does. And

she didn't want me to say anything to him about, about um, anything bad about her. I

really never didn't have anything bad to say. But as far as I did tell him that, I did

know your daughter inside. And I'm the one that she's the one that was talking about

when.. he asked me if I treated her fine. I said I never not you know didn't ever treat

her bad.

CM And this is Cindy and George you're talking about?

CB No George. And I was in the process of telling her.. him that um, how the girls

were treating her and my sister stopped me and told me that he couldn't handle that

for me not to say anything.

CM What was his reaction? Did he pump you for in... If I hadn't seen my daughter.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM In 6 months.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM And you got out in January. So, we're talking January, February now.

CB Right.

CM She was in jail since October without any visits. I would be asking a lot of

questions. How's she doing, how's she look, how she eating.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM And all that. Did George ask you any of that?

CB No he didn't ask of it. He didn't ask me.

CM So, you were the directing action to her daughter?

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM To their daughter?

CB Right.

CM And...

CB My sister hid a lot of it. I don't know what my sister told him. But I know when,

when me and my sister talked about it. Um, she told me not to say, she specifically

told me, George couldn't handle it. Do not say, do not tell them you know about how

the girls was treating him.. I mean treating you know the girls in the cell they would

yell murderer, you child killer. He.. my sister told me not to tell him that because he

couldn't handle it.

CE Hm.

CM But he never asked?

CB Never.

CM Regardless what your sister would say. He could've asked right there's was

opportunities there he could..

CB Yeah.

CM ...said, well you saw her today tell me how she's doing?

CB I told him she was fine that's it.

CM And he never pulled you aside or tried to pull you aside or...

CB No because the attitude I had towards him. I had an attitude towards them

anyway. Because I from the beginning already knew they full of shit.

CE What was Cindy's attitude when she saw your sister with George? How did she

respond to that?

CB She to me always was eyeing my sister anytime them two were together she

would eye them. So, I don't know if there was a trust thing with.. I.. I don't know

what the extent of what she knew. But I don't think she knew all the times that he

came or he was corresponding with my sister.

CM Did you ever have cause to talk to her about Casey and get the same question with

George? Did Case.. she ever... did Cindy know you were in jail with Casey? CB

Yeah she knew it.

CM So, after you were out you had a opportunity to be with Cindy.

CB Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CM Did she ever pull you aside and ask how her daughter was doing? How she's

feeling?

CB No because I.. I gave them, I gave really here and him sometimes attitude. Like

it...

CM Right off the bat?

CB Yeah. Right off.

CM They still didn't try to approach you and say listen.

CB No because I believe my sister...

CM Regardless of what you think.

CB Because when I.. I.. my sister told me... we're not the same. And she's not, my

sister's not, her telling them, my sister is not gonna she's not, she's not like me.

CM Did George or Cindy ever ask your sister to do something ah, to make anything up.

Make up a web page ah, to help them with anything in this case aside from getting

money?

CB Not that I know of.

CM So, she never, she wouldn't, she never showed any concerned to you about "hey,

they asked me to write this on a web page or start a web page or write these letters

pretend I'm someone else?" Anything like that..

CB No, Krystal.. I mean if anything was mentioned Krystal would always be like, oh

I'll do it. You know or like with the buttons or the shirts and stuff.

CM Uh-huh. (affirmative)..

CB It was always if it was mentioned my sister would be like, okay I'll do it.

CM Okay. I'm gonna show you another picture. This is a picture of one the people I

showed you. I want to make that clear. But tell me if that looks.. 'cause that was the

one that you said may look familiar, but you're not sure.

CB (showing DAVID photo of Robyn Adams) Yeah she does look familiar I just don't

know where I know her from.

CM That's okay. You mean you may or may not know it because the picture that I

showed you obviously is different then that. I wanted to make sure that you saw her ..

CB I just...

CM ... in two different lights.

CB I don't know where and her face is familiar I just, I don't know where I know her

from though.

CM That's fine.

CB I didn't... think it was the jail though.

CM Okay that's fine.

CB I'm not sure.

CM Like I said I wanted to just throw the pictures out and see if you recognize these

people. Ii got nothing else.

CE You raise your right hand. Swear that everything you said today is true?

CB Yes.

CE Freely given?

CB Yes.

CE it is ah, approximately 11:34 A.M. Thank you.

THIS TRANSCRIPT HAS BEEN REVIEWED FOR ACCURACY

Signed this 18th day of December, 2010.

CORPORAL YURI MELICH, OCSO DEPUTY SHERIFF

i just had a thought.. stick with me, it is not finished yet... lol

IF KC's defense team wants to use the "hair dont fit, you must acquit" defense, and put a HUGE amount of weight into the mystery hair found at the scene (that WAS NOT) on the duct tape, they are going to have to concede that EVERYTHING at the scene of the remains is linked to the KC case. they will not be able to make the argument both ways... i am SURE, they are going to use the defense that ANYONE could have put the gatorade bottle containing chloroform in those woods, but they will want to INCLUDE the mystery hair.. you cannot have it both ways, either the scene was contaminated, or it was not... i personally do not think that finding a hair in the woods is a big BOMBSHELL.. anyone and their sister could have been in there both BEFORE and AFTER caylee was placed there.

i just think they are making a mountain out of a molehill... but again, just an unfinished thought.

I agree that it should work both ways. The defense won't want the Gatorade bottle with chloroform used against them, but they will want the mystery hair used for Casey's defense. The hair most likely isn't from Caylee's killer, but the defense will constantly be grasping at straws because they don't have anything valid that casts a doubt on Casey's guilt.

They've already grasped at straws by getting one or two "searchers" to say that Caylee's remains weren't at the site they were eventually found at before Casey went to jail for the last time. That, of course, would have been impossible to determine because of the flooding.