All Things Texas EquuSearch

He is suuuuuuuuch a disgusting jerk! Stuffing your face with chips while doing a tv interview.

Watch for the around 5:13.

He is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo rude to KB.

Baez Pressed by WFTV on EquuSearch Docs:

http://www.wftv.com/video/25303092/index.html

OMG...I was on Suburban Drive...does that mean that I can be questioned???...If everyone that was on Suburban gets hauled/supoened to court to testify it's gonna be a longer than expected trial...Kathy sure knows how to get bozo's dander up...at-a-girl Kathy...drive those questions home....

Estee, did you search with TES? If not, I don't believe the defense would have any knowledge of your presence there on Suburban Drive.

I just can't see JP giving the OK for the defense to "expand" their investigation of all these people they say they have found that were in that area.....

Fear not!!!!

After watching the WFTV video where Kathi B. is trying to get some answers from JB... well, let me just say, in case I haven't before..... Baez is a complete Donkey's ASS. He has zero class!

It's actually pretty funny to watch how Kathi can get to him....

Estee wrote:OMG...I was on Suburban Drive...does that mean that I can be questioned???...If everyone that was on Suburban gets hauled/supoened to court to testify it's gonna be a longer than expected trial...Kathy sure knows how to get bozo's dander up...at-a-girl Kathy...drive those questions home....

Estee, you are not the only one concerned. Maybe this will ease your fears.

This is a message from Mark Nejame: It seems he and his office have gotten numerous calls and emails from TES searchers who have been called. As I understand it some of these calls have been from private cell phones and the searchers are now concerned that the defense has their number in the cell phones memory. Some have felt their concerns were being trivialized by Mr. Nejame......this is in response to those concerns.

We've spent endless hours working through this, so trivializing we're not. It's been the whole basis of our objections is to protect the searchers. However, our position cannot be trivialized by them...Judge Perry was absolutely leaning towards allowing them more access...my belief is so that they wouldn't have a basis for appeal or a new trial. Reading that, we designed a compromise that would gut that issue for the defense but still provide anonymity to the searchers. People may complain, but no names have been made public. The last thing the searchers would want is for Casey to have an appeal granted when/if convicted and the appellate court rule that the files are to be made completely available and accessible. We've effectively stopped that. Thanks once again and feel free to keep getting the word out. Remember, multiple TES volunteers are in the room, monitoring all calls and all this is overseen by the Magistrate the entire time. No notes are being taken so there is no way to relate the numbers called to any of the specific names or searchers. A TES volunteer is overseeing every call and making sure the limitations in the court order is complied with.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5658764&postcount=1430

Casey Anthony's defense to ask for more time to review Texas EquuSearch documents

By Jacqueline Fell, Reporter
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:39 PM

ORANGE COUNTY -- Casey Anthony's defense team will ask a judge for more time to review documents with Texas EquuSearch and look for potential witnesses.

On Monday and Tuesday, the defense called volunteers looking for anyone who might have been in the area months prior to where Caylee Anthony's remains were eventually found.

At the watchful eye of an appointed magistrate, the defense called hundreds of volunteers and said they found about 150 people who said they were in the Suburban Drive area.

Read more: http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/october/158954/Casey-Anthonys-defense-to-ask-for-more-time-to-review-Texas-EquuSearch-documents

http://www.cayleedaily.com/2010/10/documents-damage-casey-anthony-defense/

Question concerning Laura Buchanan/TES documents

Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Valhall

WFTV recently published an article entitled Documents Could Damage Casey Anthony Defense in which they discuss the Texas Equusearch documents that show Laura Buchanan was with a TES search group at Blanchard Park on September 3, 2008 when she claims she was at the location on Suburban Drive where Caylee’s remains would ultimately be found. With that article they included a link to previously released TES documents which place Laura at Blanchard park. On pages 2 and 4 of that linked pdf are the TES “Field Team Activity” forms for the search at Jay Blanchard Park.

My question is whether any of you have determined why these two documents are the same only with additional (and different) information written in for the two versions? Does TES use carbon copies and pass copies of the same form to different “leaders” of a TES search group? I have included a composite image of the two forms demarcating the locations on the two versions of the TES documents that appear to be identical. (Click the image for a full-size view.)

Read more: http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/10/12/caylee-anthony-case-question-concerning-laura-buchanantes-documents/

Casey Defense Witness Backs Out Of Questioning

Posted: 5:40 pm EDT October 12, 2010
Updated: 6:41 pm EDT October 12, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A key witness, who could help defend Casey Anthony, backed out of being questioned under oath about falsifying documents, but Texas EquuSearch volunteer Laura Buchanan can't avoid prosecutors forever. She's under subpoena and she will have to answer their questions under oath about whether she made up a document to help Casey.

BILL SHEAFFER: Analysis Of Witness No-Show
VIDEO REPORT: Witness Backs Out

Investigators are looking into allegations that Buchanan falsified records to make it appear as though Caylee Anthony's body was not in the woods near her house on Suburban Drive in September 2008. That was three months after Caylee disappeared, and three months before she was found.

Buchanan was to be deposed by prosecutors for a second time Wednesday about those records. However, Tuesday, Buchanan backed out saying she was ill.

Read more: http://www.wftv.com/news/25370431/detail.html

She backed out because she's been backed into a corner with nowhere to go. She has to either lie under oath or admit that she falsified documents.

Laura Buchanan contracts Tighty Syndrome and cancels depo

Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Valhall

Laura Buchanan, the defense’s key and sole witness so far to refute the standing water that over 20 eye witnesses have attested to being present on Suburban Drive in the late days of August and into September has called in sick the day before her schedule sworn deposition. Sources (most likely unreliable but when Laura Buchanan is concerned who cares, right?) have reported she came down with a severe case of “Tighty Syndrome”. That’s when you realize you’re in a tight spot and you need R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

Read more: http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/10/12/laura-buchanan-contracts-tighty-syndrome-and-cancels-depo/

P.I. Accused Of Witness Tampering In Casey Case

Posted: 4:25 pm EDT October 20, 2010
Updated: 6:20 pm EDT October 20, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A private investigator working for the defense is being accused of witness tampering, WFTV was told by two EquuSearch volunteers Wednesday. They said both witnesses gave similar stories.

VIDEO REPORT: P.I Accused Of Witness Tampering

Defense private investigator Jeremy Lyons is being accused by two EquuSearch volunteers of trying to change their testimony about searching the scene where Caylee"s remains were later found. One has already been deposed by the defense and the other has given a statement to investigators.

Lyons was in court recently examining EquuSearch records. He keeps a low public profile, but behind the scenes, he's talking to EquuSearch volunteers who are not happy about it.

Read more: http://www.wftv.com/goinggreen/25455422/detail.html

I imagine that the whole trial will be a game of semantics...It never ceases to amaze me the way people can twist words around to mean what they want them mean...A simple yes or no can be the answer, but given the question either answer can lead to incrimination...LEADING question?...don't elaborate...say what you mean and mean what you say...a long silent pause prior to the answer makes one think that one is trying to change the answer...when in fact it could mean that one is trying to understand the question...Rapid fire questions can be confusing and sometimes result in a mistatement...Mr. Lyons sure has a way of running with what he is told...Look how his innocent (?) questioning of MD backfired...And he never did get his story straight...

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Tim Millers Daughter LAURA MILLER.

I have never read this story of Tim Miller's life....... It touched me deeply. Wanted to share:

In 1984, Tim Miller's life was profoundly altered. His daughter, Laura, was missing. The last time anyone had seen the 16-year-old was at a local convenience store, talking on the phone. When Miller discusses what happened to Laura, he likes to start at the beginning, because she did not have an easy time in this world and her murder was just one of many things that had happened to her.

Laura Miller
"Laura had a lot of struggles in her life," he says. "When she was six months old, she got very sick and we almost lost her. She was in a coma for a day and a half, but then she came out of that and her fever went down. She seemed all right, but years later she had a seizure, because the fever had left scar tissue in her brain. So for about seven years we struggled with her seizure problem. Then eventually she grew out of it and became an A and B student. She loved music and sang all the time. She was popular in school and had a lot of friends. It looked like she would be all right."

But she wasn't. When Laura was eleven, she came down with the flu, which gave her yet another high fever, with the return of the seizures. "Her whole life was kind of stripped away from her," Miller muses. The family felt disheartened by this set-back. But the worst was yet to come.

The Millers moved to a new house, and Tim and his wife worked different shifts. One day he went to work, while Laura's mother took Laura to the payphone at the local convenience store so she could talk with her boyfriend, Vernon. When her mother asked her to hurry up because she'd be late for work, Laura wanted to continue talking. "It's only half a mile," she said. "I'll walk."

That seemed all right. It was the middle of the day and Laura knew her way back. But she didn't come back. When her parents returned home from work, she wasn't there.

"We didn't think a lot about it," says Miller. "We just figured Laura got home early, and her and Vernon took a walk. But then Vernon showed up without her and we asked where Laura was. He said he had talked to her on the phone, but he hadn't heard from her since. That's when we started getting concerned. We looked all over that night, and then we drove all over the neighborhood."

The next morning they went to the police department to file a missing person's report, but the officers dismissed Laura as a probable runaway. Miller said that was out of character for her and also noted that she had a serious seizure disorder and needed her medication. The officers had a response: girls her age were smart and could find what they needed on the street. That made little sense to Miller, but he did not know how to get them to do something.

As he looked frantically for possible avenues, he learned about a girl whom the police had found six months earlier, murdered and dumped somewhere off Calder Drive. He returned to the police station, and the officer with whom he spoke assured him that the murdered girl, Heidi, had worked in a bar, implying that whatever she got she was asking for. To them, it had been an isolated incident.

"Well, then about three days later," Miller says, "I found out that Heidi had lived only four blocks away from us." So he went back to the police and asked if they could at least tell him where Heidi had been found so he could go there and search the area himself. They refused to provide information, saying it was private property.

After five days without hearing from Laura, Miller knew in his heart that she was dead. "I didn't have a clue what to do. I think I tried to drink myself to death. I couldn't work. I lost my job. Laura's mother and I didn't have the best relationship and it certainly got worse. Every time our phone would ring, or someone would drive by the house slowly or knock on our door, I got heart palpitations. I didn't know if they were bringing me good news, that they'd found Laura and were bringing her home, or if they were bringing bad news that she was dead."

But for more than a year and a half, no one brought any news.

A year and a half dragged by with no information, and Miller was so depressed he contemplated suicide. Finally, he checked himself into a hospital for six days. That's where he was when he finally received some information: In the newspaper was an article that reported the discovery in a local field of the remains of two females. Some kids riding dirt bikes had smelled a foul odor in the area of Calder Road. The corpse they found had been dead four or five weeks, so it was fairly decomposed. When the police went to investigate, about six feet from that body was a set of skeletal remains. That meant that within two years, three dead girls had been left there. Apparently a serial killer had used the area as a dumping ground.

Laura's mother went down to the police station and said, "One of those girls could be my daughter." They requested some of Laura's clothes for a hair sample and her dental X-rays. After an analysis, one set of remains proved to be Laura's.

"I blamed the cops," Miller remembers. "I didn't think they were doing their jobs. If they would have gone out there the first day I asked them to, Laura would still have been dead, but there might have been evidence."

Miller went into another tailspin. He felt angry and guilty all at once. "I was the father," he recalls about his state of mind, "I was supposed to protect her and take care of her, and I had failed. I failed by not doing the right job, by not searching. I failed by not going to Heidi's family's house to find out where they'd found her. If I would have done that, maybe I would have found Laura tied up; maybe she would have been alive and I could have saved her. Or maybe I would have found her and it wouldn't have been months after the animals got to her. I beat myself up because I didn't do enough while Laura was missing."

At the same time, he felt a sense of relief. "Now at least I knew. I didn't have to worry about the heart palpitations every time the phone rang."

Still, the discovery and identification were only the start. Next came the investigation. "We had to answer questions about who Laura's friends were and who she hung out with." Worse, the police withheld information. "Even at the time she was found, they would not tell us where. The newspapers said it was the same field where Heidi had been found, but they wouldn't show us where it was. So Laura's mother and I went out and we found it on our own. We walked the fields and finally saw the little flags marking the crime scene. I learned then that her body had been scattered over a twenty foot radius. I was speechless at that time, just numb. I just couldn't believe it."

Miller and his wife wanted Laura's remains for a burial, but the coroner asked to keep them a while longer, and Miller agreed. He wanted to learn how Laura had died, but to his chagrin, the police kept the remains for another three years. But that still wasn't the end of it.

Police Misconduct
The Millers were finally allowed to bury Laura, but when they received the autopsy report, they were concerned enough about what it said to exhume the remains. They discovered that they had received only 28 bones, and then realized that some of Laura's remains had been sent to a medical facility for research. Although the officials said the remains had been sent in error, it was clear that they had profited, so Miller hired an attorney and sued them for $16 million. He won, but they appealed. Miller just wanted all of Laura's remains for burial, so he agreed to drop the suit if they returned the bones. "Finally we got to bury her and really say goodbye." But it had been an emotionally draining ordeal, and yet one more episode of police misconduct in the case.
Miller also learned that Laura and Heidi had both disappeared from the same convenience store pay phone, which meant that, had the police paid attention to him when he'd first filed the missing person's report, Laura might have been found alive. This realization made the ordeal much more painful. The police response clearly had been unconscionable.

Then there was more turmoil. As often happens when a child dies, Miller and his wife separated and divorced. He entered Alcoholics Anonymous and received counseling. "It was very painful but each day got better, unless there was new information or there were new leads." Then he'd remember and feel the pain all over again.

By 1991, he had stabilized, but then another set of female remains was found in the same area off Calder Road. The police developed a suspect, who worked for NASA, but in the end, the case went nowhere. Miller did not get the resolution for which he hoped. But his ordeal did evolve into an unforeseen benefit to himself and many others.

INFO GATHERD FROM: http://www.trutv.com/index.html

Just want to thank you, kh, for this insightful biopic of Tim Miller...What a truly incredible man...

He really is, isn't he? kh