Monday, November 24, 2008
New Item in Casey Anthony Case: Leonard Padilla Returns to Scene to Do More Work
From: ~♥~ Praying for Princess Caylee~♥~
Date: Nov 24, 2008 7:36 PM
Casey Anthony case: Leonard Padilla returning to town
http://blogs. orlandosentinel. com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/11/the-anthony-cam. html
Leonard Padilla is returning to town. A donor has provided $50,000 to help the bounty hunter continue his search for Caylee Anthony.
That development was the main news this weekend in the Casey Anthony case. She is charged with first-degree murder in her toddler's disappearance.
"People might call him crazy, but bounty hunter Leonard Padilla says he's planning an exhaustive new search of the bottom of the Econ River in hopes of finding Caylee Anthony's remains," said Bob Kealing of WESH-Channel 2.
WFTV-Channel 9 reported that Padilla would not identify the donor. (Padilla is pictured.)
Another Padilla search in Blanchard Park was a false alarm -- "a frenzy," WFTV called it -- that received exhaustive live TV coverage earlier this month. Kealing reported that Padilla has not taken a lie-detector test yet about that search. To WESH, Padilla repeated that he did not plant evidence in that unsuccessful search.
WKMG-Channel 6 and WFTV-Channel 9 looked again at George Anthony's interviews this summer with the FBI interrogators. Those tapes were released Friday and received extensive scrutiny that day.
The Anthony camp isn't saying a lot about George's eye-opening comments this summer. Then he said he had smelled what seemed like a decomposing body in Casey's car.
"We'll make a statement later this week," an Anthony family spokeswoman told WRDQ-Channel 27 (whose news is produced by sister station WFTV).
That comment came at a prayer vigil Sunday night, and WRDQ noted that it had kept "a respectful distance" from the Anthonys.
On Monday morning, WFTV promised to be at the Anthony home all morning to try to get a comment from the family.
The case moves to court Tuesday when a judge hears motions from Jose Baez, Casey's attorney, who seeks more evidence from the state.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
George Anthony Caught Casey Stealing 'Money Time and Time Again.
From: ~♥~ Praying for Princess Caylee~♥~
Date: Nov 23, 2008 10:18 PM
George Anthony: Casey raided Caylee's piggy bank
Casey Anthony stole cash out of her mother's purse, hacked into her bank account and went shopping with her credit cards, her father said.
Even her 2-year-old daughter's piggy bank wasn't safe.
Anthony raided Caylee Marie's change bank and nearly emptied a savings account established for her, George Anthony told an FBI agent during a videotaped law-enforcement interview this summer.
And if the young mother wasn't stealing money, she was borrowing it, her father said.
TV Guy Hal Boedeker's commentary on the Casey Anthony case coverage On Friday, the State Attorney's Office released the July 31 interview with George Anthony and an Aug. 7 session with his wife, Cindy. Much of the information they told investigators, in separate interviews, has been mentioned in previously released case documents.
George Anthony told an FBI agent he had a feeling that his 22-year-old daughter, who has since been charged with killing Caylee, wasn't really employed as an event planner at Universal Studios. The job was one of many lies she is accused of telling her family and law enforcement officials.
Even though Casey and Caylee lived with George and Cindy, who provided for them, Casey was always borrowing or stealing money, George Anthony said. He said he shared his doubts with his wife and daughter, but Casey always had an excuse for needing money.
Anthony said Caylee's savings account was up to $300 or $400 at one point. At the time of the interview, the balance was probably $5, he said.
Casey paid her several-hundred-dollar phone bill with her mother's money, somehow accessing her account information, the father said. He also recalled a time when he found out Casey owed one of her friends $400 or $500.
The family already had a history of financial problems.
George Anthony told investigators he fell for an e-mail scam promising him money in a foreign account.
He was unemployed at the time because of a knee injury and thought it would be a quick fix to their financial woes. Anthony told the agent he maxed out their MasterCard at $10,000 and that the family was about $30,000 in the hole. He still receives calls for unpaid bills.
"I should have known better; it was stupid," he said.
But Anthony didn't tell his wife about the scam.
"I did lie to my wife about that," Anthony divulged. Anthony said he told Cindy he lost the money gambling.
During another part of the interview, Anthony told investigators his daughter never graduated from high school and had tried to conceal her pregnancy from them. Since Caylee's disappearance in June and Casey's arrest a month later, the Anthonys also have learned their daughter brought men to the house when they weren't home.
Earlier this year, Casey stopped hanging out with her longtime friends and spent time with new ones her parents did not know.
Anthony, a former law-enforcement officer, again detailed the day he picked up his daughter's Pontiac from the wrecking yard and noticed a pungent odor that came from inside.
"I've smelled that odor before. It smelled like a decomposed body . . . You don't forget that odor.
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Sheriff's investigators say evidence from the trunk proves it once held a decomposing body.
Casey Anthony faces a list of charges, including first-degree murder. She also has been accused of lying to law enforcement and stealing checks from a friend and then going on a spending spree.
She told authorities that she left Caylee with a nanny who cannot be found.
George Anthony told the FBI that Caylee never mentioned any nanny and didn't recognize the name Casey gave for the woman. Nor did the child recognize names of other people she supposedly spent time with.
Anthony said his daughter's stories weren't adding up, especially when he found out she stole gas cans from their home in June.
FBI Special Agent Scott Bolin asked Anthony what held him back if his instincts were telling him something was awry.
"My wife telling me to calm down; you're not a detective anymore," Anthony replied.
Asked whether he thought Casey is hiding something, Anthony said yes.
"It boils down to this, my daughter knows what's going on and she's not saying a word. It boils down to all that," he said. "We keep on going round and round . . . and it's frustrating.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Another Bad One in Minneapolis-St. Paul
First testimony today for Matthews, accused of strangling his girlfriend
By David Hanners
dhanners@pioneerpress.com
Article Last Updated: 10/16/2008 10:21:51 PM CDT
Zachery Otis Matthews is guilty of making "horrific, cruel, unthinkable decisions," but he isn't guilty of killing his former girlfriend last December, his lawyer told a jury Thursday.
In his opening statement in Matthews' murder trial, defense lawyer Michael Colich told jurors that when his client arrived home and found Kristine Catheryn Larson's body stuffed in a closet, he panicked and committed one bad decision after another.
Chief among those missteps: He put the St. Paul Park woman's body in her car, drove it to Minneapolis, parked it in an alley, set it afire and then lied to police about it.
"Zachery Matthews made horrible mistakes in the case," Colich said. "But what the state will not be able to prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt is that Zack killed Kristine Larson.
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Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Stephen Redding had hinted at the someone-else-did-it defense in his opening statement and said Matthews killed Larson because she'd found a new boyfriend.
"Most murders are committed by people who know their victims," he said. "There is no Mr. X. There is no bushy-haired stranger. There is only Zachery Otis Matthews.
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Matthews had fathered a child by Larson and had abused her, he said. And strangling her with a shoelace — pulled so tightly it was embedded in the skin of her neck — was the definitive act of abuse, the prosecutor told jurors.
"When his efforts to dominate and control failed, he exercised the ultimate control and domination. He murdered her," Redding said.
Matthews, 22, of St. Paul, sat attentively during both opening statements. While the prosecutor spoke, the defendant at times jotted notes on a legal pad and whispered once or twice to his attorney.
Redding and colleague Therese Galatowitsch will begin presenting their evidence this morning. Testimony in the trial, before Hennepin County District Judge Lloyd Zimmerman, is expected to last a week.
Matthews, originally charged with second-degree murder in Larson's death, was indicted later on two counts of first-degree murder. One count alleges he killed with premeditation; the other alleges he killed in an act of domestic abuse.
Dna On The Shoelace / On the evening of Dec. 19, a Minneapolis woman arrived home from work and pulled into her alley driveway to find Larson's Buick parked in it. When she looked into the car, she saw flames, and when she and a neighbor put out the flames, they discovered Larson's body.
Someone had placed her face-down in the back seat, then set the car on fire using pages torn from a phone book as fuel. During jury selection, lawyers asked potential jurors whether they would have problems viewing graphic crime-scene photos.
Police questioned Matthews the next day, and he said he'd spent the entire previous evening in his apartment. But when police checked his cell phone records, they showed it had been used to make two calls through a cellular tower near where the body was found. Later, they would find Matthews' DNA in skin cells left on the ends of the shoestring around Larson's neck.
Before police confronted Matthews with the information, he had spent time grieving with Larson's family. They noted that, overcome with emotion, he had fallen to the floor in tears.
"We all comforted him. He comforted us," one of Larson's sisters said afterward.
When investigators questioned Matthews again, he changed his story. This time, he said he had come home and found Larson's body stuffed in a closet in his apartment. She was already dead, he said.
In his opening statement, Colich said Matthews panicked when he discovered Larson's body and responded with "a ridiculous thought process." As for the DNA on the shoelace, Matthews left it when he grabbed it and tried to undo it, Colich said.
Matthews left the couple's then-2-year-old son unattended in his apartment while he disposed of the body.
At the time of Matthews' arrest, he was three months shy of completing a year of court conditions imposed in a fifth-degree assault case in Washington County. Among the conditions: undergo anger-management counseling, submit to a chemical dependency evaluation and avoid any contact with Larson's mother, Deborah Tilson.
Tilson had sued Matthews in Washington County court in Stillwater for custody of the child. An evidentiary hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 18.
Family members had said Larson and Matthews had a sometimes-good, sometimes-rocky relationship. They had lived together for a time, but she moved back in with her mother about six months before her death.
At the time of her death, Larson was taking bartending classes, and she had talked to family members about one day becoming a nurse or a therapist.
David Hanners can be reached at 612-338-6516.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Domestic Violence is Being Remembered in October.
Body: OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH!
But, domestic violence occurs every day. Moreover, many victims of domestic violence do NOT survive! Domestic violence does not discriminate...it kills women, men, teenagers, children, and babies (both born and unborn). Domestic violence kills people of all ages, religions, races, ethnicities, and cultures. It, also, kills people without regard to their socioeconomic status and/or profession. Likewise, men and women (including teenagers) whom have murdered the aforementioned are of every race, religion, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status and/or profession, respectively.
I would like to know if you are doing something in October to help raise awareness of domestic violence. If you have not considered doing something, will you? It could be something as simple as posting bulletins with news stories from your community, reposting bulletins about domestic violence, or organizing a candlelight vigil for a victim from your community. If you are hosting or attending an event in October, please send me the event information and I will circulate the information via bulletins! I will compile a list of events, no matter how large or small the event might be, and send it out often.
Photographs and information about each victim, below, were submitted by the victims' family members, close friends, and/or law enforcement officers.
The descriptions of what happened to each of the victims are graphic. This is intentional, because sometimes...seeing is believing!
www. justiceforbarbara. com
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Be Sure to Look up these Websites and Watch these Slideshows.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Another article on Casey Anthony
Caylee Anthony's Mom, Casey Is Back in Jail with NO Bond
Posted on October 15th, 2008
by Jan Barrett .
this was taken from this site
http://www.bloggernews.net/118170
A grand jury handed down a seven–count indictment yesterday against Casey Anthony, mother of the 2 year old Caylee Anthony that has been missing since mid-June. The indictment includes first degree murder, which is possibly punishable by death in the state of Florida if convicted, and aggravated child abuse in the disappearance of her daughter.
Casey is being held this time with no bail set because the count is considered a capital offense. She has been booked into the Orange County Jail.
The first degree murder charge states that between June 15 and June 16, 2008 Casey did from premeditated design, effect the death of Caylee Marie Anthony, according to State Attorney Lawson Lamar. Including in the indictment are counts of aggravated manslaughter and providing false information.
During the news conference Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary specifically stated that even though the indictment came he is still making finding Caylee his primary objective. "Despite the charges filed against Ms. Anthony today, I want to remind everyone we have not achieved our primary objective in this investigation. We have not recovered little Caylee Anthony. We will continue to do everything we possibly can to recover Little Caylee," said Beary. "The grand jury has concluded that little Caylee is deceased."
Meanwhile Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's attorney expresses his feelings about word of the grand jury proceedings being leaked. During his press conference, with Casey by his side, Baez blames the sheriff's department and media for trying to smear his client. He claims that all the leaks in this case would cause any panel to think Casey is guilty without hearing all the facts and then he went on to say he thinks it is all politically motivated.
"I understand there is an election going on, and I understand that those days are numbered, and I understand that Casey Anthony is public enemy No. 1 and that the State Attorney's Office and the sheriff's department are under a great deal of pressure to close this case. I don't think Lawson Lamar would and I certainly hope Lawson Lamar would not, utilize a missing child to keep his job," said Baez. He did add that the truth about this case and his client's innocence will all come out in time.
If that was the case then why make the public wait. If there was a so called truth then why let this charade go on? Hell why did they let it begin? If they know something that can prove Casey is innocent they should have told it at the beginning instead of holding back. I suppose Casey wanted to make sure her face was plastered all over the world so she would be famous no matter where she went. I know if it were my daughter missing I wouldn't have been able to keep quiet for two seconds and I certainly would be working 24/7 with no sleep, no make-up, no tattoo's, no partying and absolutely no sex trying to find her.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office also said that Casey didn't turn herself in like Jose Baez said she would do if there was an indictment. Captain Angelo Nieves said that his deputies were following her after the indictment was handed down while she was in the vehicle with her mother. Cindy was videotaped cutting across two lanes of traffic as she was trying to lose a few television crews that were following them. Then she cut across a shopping center and drove through parking lots. Sky 6 caught Cindy jumping out of the vehicle on the road as she was shaking her finger at the driver of a television van as she was walking down the road. She got back in her vehicle and drove to a no fly zone near the airport. Cindy then pulled over under an overpass and Casey got out and got into a full size gray sport utility vehicle and it drove off. Undercover police stopped the SUV and arrested Casey on the spot. CNN's Nancy Grace show revealed that the SUV belonged to Casey's bail bondsman.
Jose Baez's spokesman, Todd Black said that Casey left with her mother so they could spend some time together. Sheriff officials knew at all times where Casey was. Black said that the bondsman was taking Casey to jail. Larry Garrison, a spokesman for the Anthony family said in an email that Cindy Anthony was taking her daughter to meet with Baez for him to turn her in as agreed. Before they could arrive at the jail deputies stopped them and arrested Casey on the Beachline Expressway.
There are reports that an audio of the grand jury's secret proceedings in this case was mistakenly sent outside the courtroom and to all media outlets plugged into the courthouse system.
"I don't know what was listened to or what was heard until time that it was turned off," Orange County Chief Judge Belven Perry said. "Everyone who may have heard needs to govern themselves accordingly."
Perry stated that the court administration is to blame for this. He said it has nothing to do with the state attorney's office.
When Baez was told about this he said, "This should have been a secret proceeding. There is so much that should not have been leaked and has. It is making a joke of the whole situation. It's a sad day for justice." He is going to be researching to find out whether or not the breach could impact the murder indictment.
Judge Perry warned anyone who heard anything that they should not reveal what they learned under threat of contempt of court. The state attornet's office says that they do not think the breach will have any impact on the indictment .
Also on Nancy's show Tim Miller was asked if the search for Caylee would resume now that her mother has been arrested and Tim told her he didn't have any choice now. He said Caylee needs to be found and brought home, so yes he will begin the search again but he didn't say when. He did say that this will be the largest search on record for them.
If Casey Anthony had any kind of feelings towards her daughter she would come clean and tell the truth now. Who cares if it is not in her best interest to talk now? If she is found guilty she may never see freedom again anyway, so why not do this for Caylee. Why worry about saving her own neck now?
Baez made a statement that literally made me sick to hear during his press conference. "Casey has been going through a nightmare. She has a missing child and she is also someone's child. This family had to withstand something unlike anyone has ever seen. We just ask that everyone respect that and everyone understand what Casey Anthony is going through."
He said if the evidence is what it is supposed to be, it will withstand the rigors of cross examination. He actually warned the people not to jump to any conclusions. "I sincerely believe when we have finally spoken, everyone and I mean everyone will sit back and say, Now I understand and that explains it," he said as he ended the news conference.
I know if she were my daughter that is what I would be telling her. It is time they put Caylee's needs first instead of Casey's. Casey is an adult that makes her own decisions. Caylee was only a 2 year old that had no choice in what happened to her life. It is time that Casey releases Caylee and lets her rest in peace by giving her the justice she deserves.
Caylee Anthony, I pray that soon you will get the justice you need to end this nightmare and you can go with the angels who will protect you forever now. The world loves you honey.
Jan Barrett
Update: Casey Anthony appeared in an Orange County Court before a judge this morning with her attorney, Jose Baez, wearing a blue prison jumpsuit and didn't say a word during the the less than a minute that she was there, only to nod as the charges were read to her and then she was led away. She will be arraigned in about 30 days.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Casey Anthony is in Jail with No Bail! Hallelujah!
Current mood: blessed
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=7644189&version=1&locale=EN-US
11:30- video of today -Cindy freaking out Cindy jumps out of her car runs to the news crew van -at the traffic light-and pound on window and screamed - Holly will not get another exclusive interview- then she gets into her suv while the grey suv/van pulls up on the curb and goes around traffic and the light to take Casey away....of course police seen the underpass exchange and all and pulled them over and arreted Casey minutes later. Cindy was in her green car. Why was Cindy so violent mad? Because they caught Casey tryong to be hidden in a vehicle-guess we know where casey got her temper from - this family is so passive agresive- Cindy assulted this van/window......
*George is reported to be at home.
9pm- Fl. time update- Nancy Grace revealed- Cindy was driving her suv with Casey and stopped under a bridge and transfered Casey to a waiting grey van-(maybe bail bondsman) this alarmed the hidden police following- so-they pulled the van over and placed Casey under arrest. No one knows what was going on but my opinion was casey wasmeeting to give a paid interview as the son of sam law may take affect once she is under arrest. jmhp......Tim Miller said he is resuming his search and it will be bigger than any other search he has ever done in this world now that the LE has proven Caylee is deseased. Forensic evidence so-far- seems to be the body farm smell test.....dna has not been revealed as of yet.....George- seems to be mia- a friend of his did say he recently left home for 2 days.....Also- Florida Law requires Lawyers to have atleast 5 years experience as a leadtrial lawyer- Jose does not meet the qualifications therefore a lead couselor will have to be assigned and Jose to take 2nd chair. Casey can not rep herself- but they are asking for the state to pay for her legal defense and investigators etc....
Prayers for Caylee- Peace-
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/live/mobilecam.html
live cam in front of the anthony home
panel took 30 minutes to deliberate- george testified for an hour.Panel was 19 people and atleast 12 had to come back with a yes bill.
CASEY ANTHONY- GRAND JURY IS IN UPDATE INSIDE- AS OF 4:30PM
Grand Jury decided that Caylee is dead- Cindy is calling around shopping selling her story to the highest bidder- I kid you not- breaking news is coming- sounds like Cindy will be giving interviews for pay all night and all over the news channels in the morning- aka licensing photographs and video for pay-aka- pay for interviews......Cindy wants to profit off of Caylee....Casey wants to represent herself with Biaz at her side so the state of Florida has to pay for her defense and running of test/forensic and professional testimonies.....breaking news....5:15pm.....
http://www. wftv. com/video/17713555/index. html
LIVE FEED - I THINK?
The indictment unsealed late Tuesday listed seven charges including First Degree Murder, Aggravated Child Abuse and Manslaughter of a Child. The other four charges have to do with Anthony 'knowingly and willingly' misleading investigators.
GRAND JURY - BOTTOM LINE- DEATH PENALTY CASE- CHARGE WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER-CASEY IS IN CUSTODY- ARRESTED-NO BAIL- Prosecution has 45 days to decide to seek the death or life.
http://www.wesh.com/breakingnews/index.html
4:05 p.m.: State Attorney Lawson Lamar did not speak with the media after the presentation of the true bill to Judge Belvin Perry. Because the defendant who was indicted is not in custody, the judge sealed the indictment. Lamar said it was a captial crime — one punishable by death. We won't know more for a bit, perhaps as is expected, Casey Anthony is taken into custody. She is at her parents' house.
The judge did agree at this time that the defendant will be head on no bond.
http://www.wesh.com/video/17713278/index.html Jose Biaze press Conference
Last night I wrote a blog after I hand typed a transcript from Cindy Anthony raw video interview in which she accuses politicians of using Casey/Caylee for political gain…..
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http://www.wftv.com/download/2008/1014/17711048.pdf
This is a press release from Cindy Anthony PR FIRM after reading it all I could say is OMG; OMG- every time I think the family could not get any more crazy insane they one up themselves – they are so far gone from reality words can not describe it. It leaves you wonder if they are trying to write a new version of reality for their movie deal? It is not Casey's fault it is all about how politicians are using Caylee to gain re-election because one can only get re-elected with a dead baby not a live baby- I kid you not this is what the statement says…..read it. Then read my transcript of CA in yest. blog.
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http://www.wftv.com/video/17705716/index.html
George and his Attorney gave a brief statement- Tuesday Morning
"Good Morning everyone, George Anthony is here today to do really the incomprehensible and that is to testify truthfully before a grand jury considering their investigation in their consideration homicide charges against his daughter concerning his beloved grand daughter Caylee Marie I am sure the enormity of that does not escape anybody and respectfully we ask that all of you be compassionate understanding as George is getting ready to do the unimaginable um George does have a few words to say before we proceed"…George: "This is going to be very hard for me to do my focus is always on my granddaughter and always will be I love my daughter I love my wife and I love my son I want everyone to have prayer for all of us today especially my granddaughter if someone could take a moment out at 11 o clock this morning and 11 o clock tonight to just pray for her that's all I am asking for that's all I can say thank you all" ….to be clear – they never said testify against his daughter!!
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Why is Cindy blaming everyone and acting like a lunatic? I get this question all day long….here is my response….
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People with a normal sense of society norms will answer with – "My mom would beat the crap out of me- drive me to jail, and then visit every Sunday"….people who are sociopaths believe they are the victims- that is why Cindy behavior is looking more and more like Cindy is also a sociopath- for sure she is a narcissist control freak...and liar.
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If Cindy can blame politicians, News media, Jesse, Amy, TonE, Drug Traffickers, Gangs, Nanny; Puerto Rico, anyone BUT Casey….Cindy gains control back....if Cindy was to believe Casey killed Caylee then Casey takes back all control again from Cindy....then it is back to Cindy begging Casey for information/body.....leaving Casey to control Cindy but if Cindy promotes the fake story that the nanny took Caylee then everything is the nanny's fault and Cindy can control everything and everyone...in Cindy's world it is all about control.
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The Anthony's are clearly not normal in society's standards for acceptable social behavior that is why sociopaths are called anti social behavior. They wake up and re invent a new reality every morning. They blame everyone...they view themselves as the victim.
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POOR GEORGE - SAVE GEORGE- CAMPAIGN COMING SOON!!
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JUSTICE FOR CAYLEE
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Friday, September 26, 2008
This is More about Caylee Anthony, and They are Getting Closer
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