Monday, November 24, 2008

New Item in Casey Anthony Case: Leonard Padilla Returns to Scene to Do More Work

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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.
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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.

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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

Hennepin County / 'Ridiculous' choices but not a killer, lawyer says
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.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS DEADLY!
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
www. myspace. com/justiceforbarbara


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

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!

CASEY ANTHONY- GRAND JURY IS IN UPDATE INSIDE- AS OF 11:40pM
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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George Anthony Chased Casey In Desperation

Desperate to his find his daughter, George Anthony described how he chased Casey Anthony on State Road 408 in late June -- more than two weeks before Caylee was reported missing to authorities. He said he was tired of her "evasiveness.
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"I saw her leaving [the house] in my wife's vehicle," George Anthony said in an Aug. 4 interview with cops. "I saw her driving up Chickasaw and getting on the 408 ... I'm tired of this.
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He couldn't remember what day it was and suggested investigators check his E-pass records.


"My daughter was driving fast as she could," he said. "I think she knew I was behind her . . . I was trying to stay a reasonable distance, maybe a 100 yards away from her.
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He followed her to Hiawassee and Kirkman roads but lost her.


"I couldn't get over fast enough to find her," he said.


'Where's Caylee?' George Anthony asks

George Anthony also second-guessed a run-in he had with his daughter on June 24 - the day he reported two gas cans stolen from his shed.


He was home when Casey Anthony arrived. She told him that she didn't have much time because she had to be back at work for an event. George Anthony tried to ask her about Caylee's whereabouts.


Casey Anthony told him Caylee was fine and was with Zani.


George Anthony told investigators that his daughter then brought up the stolen gas cans -- saying she heard about what happened from her mother. George Anthony suspected she took the gas cans, which she had done in the past when she ran out of gas.


"I know my daughter is not leveling with me," he said to detectives.


In effort to see if she had the gas cans, George Anthony asked to get some metal wedges out of the trunk of her car.


But she told him no that she would get them.


"She didn't want me going into the trunk of the car," he said.


When he started for her car, she raced past him to get the trunk before he does.


"She said something very crude to me," she said.


She quickly opened the trunk and handed him the stolen gas cans.


He asked her why she had them and his daughter explained how she had been driving to Tampa to visit Zani, George told the investigators.


George Anthony tried to get her to explain why she was going to Tampa and not to work.


"This don't make no sense to me. I'm not going to deal with this right now," George Anthony recalled saying. "Where's Caylee? What's going on? I believe I need to know.
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His daughter replied that she would talk to him and her mother later. And she left.


Tow-truck driver notices car seat

Investigators interviewed the tow-truck driver who picked up Anthony's car at an Amscot check-cashing business.


The car was abandoned at the business, which is at Colonial Drive and Goldenrod Road. It was towed by Johnson's Wrecker on June 30.


Authorities collected hair, dirt and stain samples from the back of Anthony's car. Air samples taken from the trunk showed it once contained a decomposing body.


Tow-truck driver Gary Ridgeway told investigators he noticed the child's car seat and "thought it was irresponsible as hell to be leaving a car like that if you have a child that young.
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Ridgeway said he didn't notice an odor from the car but did add that he had recently gotten over a cold.


Manager notices odor

A sheriff's detective interviewed Simon Burch, a manager for Johnson's Wrecker.


Burch said he noticed the odor coming from Anthony's white Pontiac while it was on the property -- for two weeks -- but didn't think much of it. They often have foul smells coming from vehicles because of spoiled food, garbage and other items that are locked inside.


When Cindy and George Anthony arrived to pick up the car, Burch said Cindy was irritated.


While he and George Anthony walked out to get the vehicle, George apologized for his wife's behavior and also told him about their family's problems.


Burch said Anthony told him, "We'll probably get divorced over this." Anthony said their daughter was telling lies and refused to let them see their granddaughter.


When they got to the car and opened the door, the pungent odor was overwhelming.


"I mean it was, it knocked me back," he said.


"An [sic] then when he opened the car door and that stench come out, by, like my heart dropped because?.he'd been telling me about his granddaughter missing.
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Burch said he and Anthony opened the trunk and found a light bag of garbage. Flies came out and the odor was foul.


"In the back of my head I'm going, 'That isn't rotten garbage.' You know I know what rotten garbage smells like.
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Burch said the odor was similar to a car in which a man committed suicide.


They opened the bag and found papers and he thinks a pizza box inside. Burch tossed the light-weight bag into a dumpster.


The car didn't have any gas in it, but Anthony brought his own gas can. Burch said Anthony was very polite and again apologized for his wife's behavior.


Burch told the detective they do very few removals from Amscot and thought it was odd someone would run out of gas in a parking space there.


Investigators later recovered the garbage from the dumpster, after Anthony told them it had been thrown there.


Anthony's boss warns her about partying

In a deposition, Anthony's former boss at Kodak, Mike Kozak, said he once talked to her about her partying habits.


Kozak, who had a photo-imaging contract at Universal Orlando, told detectives that on one occasion he had told her that she can't manage people during the day and then go out partying at night.


Anthony worked there for a 5-to-6 month period in 2004-05, but left after giving birth to Caylee. She was in the manager-trainee program and Kozak said she got along with the crew, but she was young.


"We actually thought kind of highly of her,'' he said.


Anthony shares frustration with former deputy

Anthony Rusciano, the deputy fired from the sheriff's office for concealing his intimate relationship with Casey Anthony, is identified as nyitaliano3 in instant message conversations with Anthony.


Rusciano had shared racy instant messages with her that included comments from Anthony about leaving 'the little snot head' (Caylee Marie) with her grandmother or the babysitter.


Anthony's frustrations appear to stem from spending too much time with her daughter and "having to rely on other people," the messages show.


"Seriously, spending the day with caylee [sic ] , is 10 times more exhausting, than working a 12-hour event," she writes to Rusciano. The former deputy refers to Caylee Marie as "the offspring" in one message.


She also expresses sadness, but doesn't explain the reasons.


"I'm sad, I've been sad all day...I've been sad for days," her instant message read. She goes on to write, "I was feeling a bit bitter, for a few days, so things I wrote, probably reflected what I was feeling then...it's just proving to me that I need to start looking out for numero uno more often.
"

In other conversations, Anthony tells Rusciano that she is searching for a house for her and Caylee Marie and that she plans to look at a property off Dean and Curry Ford roads, while her parents are on vacation with her daughter.


She alludes to problems at work in her text conversations with Rusciano, but detectives confirmed that Casey Anthony did not have a job.


11:59 a.m. : In Anthony's instant-message chat with nyitaliano3 in May, the main thrust of their converstation is a desire to see each that evening after being apart for three weeks.


But Anthony tells nyitaliano3 that she is having trouble finding somone to watch Caylee.


Her mother can't watch Caylee because she hurt her neck while landscaping with her father that weekend, she tells nyitaliano3.


She told nyitaliano3 she can't drop Caylee off with her nanny until that person gets home.


During the course of their converstation, she tells nyitaliano3 the nanny has been delayed because of traffic, a stop at the store and to pick up her dog from old roomates in Ovideo.


11:15 a.m.: The documents released this morning show authorities unsuccesfully searched Anthony computers -- both Casey Anthony's and her mother, Cindy's -- for evidence of contact with a woman Casey Anthony said took her daughter in June.


Detectives have said they do not believe Anthony's story that she left her daughter with a woman by the name of Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, a person Anthony said was a nanny.


"No photographs, video, email, instant message chat or any other type of communication with a Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez was discovered on either computer," the computer forensics reads.


However, in a sexually suggestive instant-message chat May 3 between Casey Anthony a person identified as "nyitaliano3,'' Anthony mentions a person she calls "Zani.
"

"i'm playing phone tag with both Zani & my mom," Anthony wrote.


The documents released today also include a computer conversation with drug references between Anythony and two other people.


When someone wrote that "I can hit up my friend annie for some xanax,'' Anthony replied: "we'd be a good time"

9:30 a.m. The Orlando Sentinel has received hundreds of pages of legal documents related to the Casey Anthony case today.


The documents, including several CDs, are being released by the State Attorney's Office in response to a public records request.


The CDs show images from Anthony's Photobucket photo-sharing Web site, as well as photos from a file titled, "Anything But Clothes Party." Another CD includes a July interview with Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of missing Caylee Marie.


The documents also include a computer forensic report and multiple cell phone records.


* Investigators seized Casey Anthony's laptops as well as computers and cameras belonging to George and Cindy Anthony.


The investigators' reports show that Casey Anthony's computer files included an image titled "girl" which depicts a drawing of a little girl with long straight hair and in a striped shirt staring up at a teddy bear that is hanging from a hangman's noose.


The caption reads: Why do people kill people, who kill people, to show people that to kill people is bad?


FROM ORLANDOSENTINEL. COM ON SEPT.
25:

Audio interviews of Anthony's brother, boyfriend released

1:25 p.m. The Sheriff's Office just released the recorded interviews between detectives and numerous people close to Casey Anthony.


Detectives interviewed her brother Lee Anthony, Anthony's most recent boyfriend, Anthony Lazzaro, and her ex-fiancé Jesse Grund.


Click to hear Lee Anthony's interview

Click to hear Anthony Lazzaro's interview

Click to hear Jesse Grund's interview

Click to hear Jesse Grund's second interview

NeJame: No truth to rumors of movie deal
9:55 a.m. The attorney representing the parents of Casey Anthony today denied that his clients have struck a deal with LMN for the rights to the story of their daughter and missing granddaughter, Caylee Marie.


"The first time I heard of any such thing was when I received a phone call from a reporter," said attorney Mark NeJame, who is representing George and Cindy Anthony. "We have not uttered one word or had one conversation with anybody from any media outlet...regarding negotiations or a deal.
"

LMN, formerly known as Lifetime Movie Network, is owned by the Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation.


A publicist for LMN also rebuffed the allegations.


"There is no truth to the rumor that [Lifetime Movie Network] has optioned any rights to the story of Casey Anthony and her daughter Caylee Marie," publicist Neil Schubert wrote in an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel.


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FROM THE SEPT.
25 PRINT EDITION OF THE ORLANDO SENTINEL

A woman caught up in the disappearance of Caylee Anthony filed suit Wednesday against the missing 3-year-old's mother, saying the parent's statements to investigators have ruined her reputation.


Zenaida Gonzalez, 37, of Kissimmee, contends she never met Casey Anthony, the girl's mother, who told investigators that a woman by that name took the child in June. Detectives have since said they do not believe Anthony's story.


Since news of the case broke, Gonzalez has been questioned about whether she killed, kidnapped or sold the missing girl.
She's been threatened as well, said her attorney, John Morgan of Orlando. T-shirts proclaim, "The Nanny Did It," he said.


"Zenaida Gonzalez did not ask for her name to be put into this mess, but Casey Anthony made the mistake of her life by making her [Gonzalez] the person she decided to pull out of a hat," Morgan said.


A spokesman for Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's attorney, did not return a call for comment. Gonzalez referred all questions to Morgan.


Morgan said he thinks the lawsuit may unravel the highly publicized mystery. He hopes to subpoena the missing girl's grandparents and possibly force them to reveal more about what Casey Anthony told them about the child's whereabouts.


"Zenaida Gonzalez is going to prove who's behind this case," Morgan said. "What Zenaida Gonzalez wants, what America wants, is the truth.
"

Anthony, 22, was arrested July 16 after her mother -- Caylee's grandmother -- called authorities to report the child missing. She told detectives that she left the child with her baby sitter at an apartment complex. No one named Zenaida Gonzalez lived there, but a woman by that name had inquired about an apartment, investigators said.


Caylee has not been found. Her mother, meanwhile, is facing charges that include child neglect and giving false information to law enforcement.


The lawsuit, filed in Orange-Osceola Circuit Court, alleges that Casey Anthony knew what she told Orange County deputy sheriffs about Gonzalez was false.


"The conduct of defendant, Casey Anthony, exceeded the bounds of decency in a civilized society and was such that a person of normal sensibility upon hearing what she did would exclaim 'outrageous,' " the complaint states.


Gonzalez is asking for unspecified damages exceeding $15,000.


Casey Anthony knew the names of Gonzalez's two children and gave a description of her vehicle. Morgan said he thinks Anthony obtained personal information that Gonzalez left while visiting an apartment complex as a potential renter.



Source:
http://www. orlandosentinel. com/news/local/orange/orl-casey-anthony-caylee-documents-092608,0,6419224. story

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Cindy Anthony Theorized That Her Daughter’s Friends Had Caylee

Cindy Anthony Theorized That Her Daughter's Friends Had Caylee

More information, including documents and a videotaped interview, is released in the case of a missing Orlando girl...

http://www.local6.com/video/17566782/index.html

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casey could be charged in Caylee’s disappearance in weeks

casey could be charged in Caylee's disappearance in weeks


Body: From: ~Boomer! Sooner! Your LIFE is NOT worthy of envy!~
Date: Sep 26, 2008 6:35 PM


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Without a body, witness or confession, investigators looking into the case of missing toddler Caylee Anthony said they're piecing together a circumstantial case like a large puzzle.

And they said they're working to fill the holes that they believe Anthony's attorney will try to punch through their case.

On July 16, Orange County investigators used Anthony's own statements as evidence to charge her with child neglect and making false statements. She admitted her child had been missing for one month and she did not go to police for help.

"The horrible thing that happened is -- this is the honest to God's truth -- of everything that I've said, I do not know where she is," Anthony said.

She also admitted that she lied to investigators during their attempts to find Caylee.

"I placed her under arrest," Orange County Sheriff's Office Detective Yuri Melich said.

At Anthony's first bond hearing two weeks later, Melich dropped a bombshell: Anthony was a person of interest in her daughter's disappearance.

"They found hair samples in the trunk of the car that were similar in length and color to that of Caylee. They also found a stain inside the trunk of the car that came up under black light that is questionable that we need to process," Melich said.

On the stand, Melich also said there was an overwhelming stench of death in the car.

"In my experience, the smell that I smelled inside that car was the smell of decomposition," Melich said.

According to other sources, lab tests have been ongoing as recently as this week to "triple check" that evidence. Investigators said they're confident those tests will provide "iron-clad proof" that Caylee's body was in the trunk of the car, how her body was positioned and that strands of her hair fell out after she died.

Investigators have also confirmed that high levels of chloroform were in the trunk, and they said they're close to determining the dates someone researched chloroform on Anthony's computer before Caylee disappeared.

One investigator said there's still a critical element missing: a definite motive and criminal intent for why Caylee's body got in the trunk.

Anthony and her lawyer, Jose Baez, have said all along that she dropped off Caylee with a babysitter in mid-June. Neither the child nor babysitter has been seen since.

"She has absolutely no idea where Caylee is," Baez said.

In a matter of weeks, investigators said they plan to arrest Anthony in connection with Caylee's disappearance.

When asked about the possibility that Caylee was buried in the back yard of the family's home, investigators said they believe if the toddler's body was there, it was later moved, and after a thorough investigation of the yard, they believe it was unnecessary to dig there.

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the search on caseys computer website visit

casey computer found she searched missing children websites
Body: From: ♥Little Miss Caylee♥
Date: Sep 26, 2008 5:03 PM


ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News dug through hundreds of files on Casey Anthony's personal computer Friday and found she had been looking at missing children websites long before Caylee disappeared.


Investigators released images found on Casey Anthony's computer they called "graphics of interest" in the case of her missing toddler.
An anti-death penalty image, showing a little girl that even looks a bit like Caylee, has a caption that reads: "Why do people kill people, who kill people, to show people that to kill people is bad?"

A quote from rapper Tupac reads: "You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened. Or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the [expletive] on.
"

Both images appeared on Casey's computer just days before she was arrested for lying to investigators. Images included something Casey had tattooed after Caylee disappeared, photos of Casey draped in a flag at an "Anything But Clothes" party and Internet conversations she had with men suggesting Caylee interfered with Casey's sex life.


Digging through Casey's Internet history, Eyewitness News discovered evidence she was surfing missing children web sites months before Caylee disappeared. She visited one more than a year ago. Ironically, now Caylee's picture takes center stage on that same site.


There were also Internet conversations detailing Casey Anthony's drug use. In one, Casey said she "can hit up my friend Annie for some Xanax" and promised "we'd be a good time.
"

The computer records also revealed that, starting in June, Casey's computer was used to search for Zenaida Gonzalez, the mystery nanny. The question now is whether she was trying to get background information on the woman, who she would later accuse of being the person who took Caylee

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Video Of Cindy Anthony Interview Released By Detectives part I,II,III

Video Of Cindy Anthony Interview Released By Detectives -- Part I

An interview between detectives and the grandmother of a missing 3-year-old Orlando girl is released.


http://www.local6.com/video/17566675/index.html


Video Of Cindy Anthony Interview Released By Detectives -- Part II

An interview between detectives and the grandmother of a missing 3-year-old Orlando girl is released.

http://www.local6.com/video/17566731/index.html


Video Of Cindy Anthony Interview Released By Detectives -- Part III

An interview between detectives and the grandmother of a missing 3-year-old Orlando girl is released.

http://www.local6.com/video/17566782/index.html

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This was found on Casey’s computer...(repost) thanks for sharing

From: ♥Little Miss Caylee♥
Date: Sep 26, 2008 1:13 PM


This was found on Casey's computer...



"Why do people kill people, who kill people, to show people that to kill people is bad?"

I have never read a sentence IN MY LIFE that has 'kill' in it SO MUCH

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more documents release 9/26

Letter Casey Anthony wrote to Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary on August 14, 2008

http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/092608lettertosheriff/1/lg/CaseyLetterToSheriff_Page_3.htm

Evidence and incident reports related to Casey Anthony case

http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/092608evidence/1/lg/Evidence_and_incident_reports_Page_29.htm

Instant messages between Casey Anthony and "nyitaliano3" (i guess this is tony messenger and casey

http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/092608instantmessages/1/lg/instant_messages_with_buddy_nyitaliano3_Page_12.htm

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NEW AUDIO RECORDINGS RELEASED

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Detectives released new audio recordings Thursday of their interviews with three men in Casey Anthony's life, her brother, her lover and her ex-fiance.

It has been 72 days since Caylee Anthony was reported missing. Detectives believe she's dead.

Documents have already been released of what some of the men in Casey's life have said, but Thursday's audio recordings reveal how they said things and hear their attitudes.

Casey's brother Lee Anthony told investigators he did not believe Casey when she said the terrible smell in her trunk came from two dead squirrels under the hood. Lee told investigators his first indication that something was terribly wrong was noticing the horrible smell wafting from Casey's car trunk.

"The trunk was open. The windows were rolled down to what I assume ventilate the horrible smell that I had just, just, uh, smelled for the first time," he said. "It was, it was, it hit you like a, a wave. I mean it was, it was, whatever it was it was very potent."

Once their mother brought Casey home, he said he tried to get Casey to tell them exactly where Caylee was, but all she would talk about was how her mother Cindy nagged her about what a bad mother she is.

"That's when she opened up to me and said, uh, 'Mom has, um, thrown in my face many times before that I'm an unfit mother and, you know, maybe she's right. Maybe I am.' She offered up to me for the first time that, um, my mother has referred, said to my sister that, um, even though Caylee's been the best thing and the best mistake that she was indeed a mistake, that she was Casey's mistake," Lee told investigators.

Lee also told investigators that his sister Casey got irritated when he pressed her for Caylee's whereabouts.

Cindy Anthony also did her own questioning before deputies arrived. Lee said his mother got upset and physically frustrated with Casey at times.

"Actually that was the first thing she asked her, she said, 'what have you done?' My mother kind of hit her fist on the bed and said 'we could've found her a month a go. Why did you wait?' And at that point my sister's done crying," he said.

Lee said, at first, Casey insisted Caylee was with the nanny, but never mentioned the name Zenaida to him. He told her their mother was calling law enforcement and, when officers got there, they would press her to show them where Caylee was and Lee said that's when Casey cried and admitted she hadn't seen Caylee in 31 days.

In the interviews released of Jesse Grund, Casey's former fiancé, he told investigators he thought, if Casey were to hide Caylee's body somewhere, she would have put her in the playhouse behind Cindy and George Anthony's home.

"She totally loved the playhouse. Every time I would go inside and play with Caylee, right to the playhouse. Every time she spent a lot of time out there with grandparents and with Casey. If something were to happen to her, I believe that would be the first place she would have put Caylee," Grund told investigators during the interview in July. "If she wanted to place Caylee's body somewhere that would be the first place that she would have put her."

Grund went on to tell investigators that Casey was a liar.

"We can all tell, for the last couple of years, is that Casey is an effective liar. I would describe it as diabolical the way she lies," he said.

Casey Anthony's most recent ex-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro, told investigators that two weeks after Caylee had disappeared, Casey's dreams had been haunting her.

"She, uh, would wake up or wake me up either in the middle of the night or I would just wake up in the middle of the night and see that she was sweaty in bed and I would ask her why and she would say that she would have nightmare, she was having a nightmare or something' and then would bring up the nightmare pertaining to our relationship," Lazzaro told investigators.

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Lawsuit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez against Casey Anthony

Lawsuit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez against Casey Anthony Text messages sent to Amy


http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/092408zenaidalawsuit/indexGallery.htm

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Text messages sent to Brittany Scheiber from Casey Anthony

On July 24, 2008, Brittany Scheiber presented her cell phone to investigators so that text messages from Casey Anthony could be extracted.

Data was removed from the phone using a third party computer software.

Data removal was supervised by computer forensic examiner Det. Sandra G. Cawn with the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

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This really makes me sick. This guy should have gotten the chair. Instead, he got 29 years.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: PRAYING FOR ANSWERS
Date: Sep 23, 2008 7:01 PM


Stepdad Cesar Rodriguez gets maximum sentence in Nixzmary Brown's death
BY SCOTT SHIFREL and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Friday, April 4th 2008, 3:33 AM


Ward for News

Assistant District Attorney Ama Dwimoh successfully prosecuted Cesar Rodriguez.

He showed no remorse and got no mercy.


Confessed child abuser Cesar Rodriguez was sentenced Thursday to the maximum - up to 29 years in prison - for the sick torture death of stepdaughter Nixzmary Brown.


In an emotional hearing, Rodriguez, 29, stuck to his story that he didn't kill the 7-year-old two years ago - his wife did.


"I loved Nixzmary," he told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Hall.


"I can honestly say I'm being accused of something I did not do . . . but I will take responsibility.
"

Rodriguez did not apologize for tethering the frail second-grader to a hard chair with duct tape or making her use a kitty litter box as a toilet.


"I'm just sorry for causing everybody any emotional pain or distorted memories about the child," Rodriguez said.


"I'm not mad at anyone and I will do my sentence.


"This life will give me another chance. If, in the end, God gives me enough life to show to this court how wrong this makes that judgment, I wish to prove that someday.
"

Unswayed by his claims of innocence, Hall slapped Rodriguez with the max of 25 years for first-degree manslaughter and tacked on 11/3 to four years for unlawful imprisonment.


It means Rodriguez could be nearing eligibility for Social Security before he walks free - but it could have been worse.


After a two-month trial, jurors acquitted him of the top charge of second-degree murder, which could have gotten him life.


Several jurors attended the sentencing in support of prosecutors.


"I wish it could have been murder," juror Janice Richardson said afterward. "He should have gotten life.
"

In asking for the harshest sentence, prosecutor Ama Dwimoh told the court she spoke with Nixzmary's brother, Javier, the night before.


"He hopes that he [Rodriguez] is so frail and weak when he gets out of jail that he can't hurt any other children ever again," he said.


"He'll miss her forever. She was his sister and he loved her and she wasn't bad. . . . He knows, as he says, she's with the angels now.
"

Pleading for leniency, defense lawyers continued to hammer at the prosecution's handling of the case and practically accused the jury of misconduct.


They said one of the jurors claimed he was threatened by his fellow panelists when he wanted to vote for a lesser charge. "I will stand by this statement until the day I drop dead - that there has been no justice in this courtroom," defense lawyer Jeffrey Schwartz said, accusing prosecutors of withholding evidence until the last minute.


"I'm not saying Mr. Rodriguez is innocent of everything . . . but Mr. Rodriguez is innocent of much of what he is convicted of today.
"

Spectators didn't see it that way.


"I hope you die in jail," one shouted as the sentence was imposed. "Murderer!" railed another.


sshifrel@nydailynews.com










----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Friends of Caylee, Praying for you, we love you
Date: Sep 23, 2008 3:57 PM


Defense Opens Its Case in Beating Death of Girl



By MARC SANTORA
Published: February 16, 2008
Cesar Rodriguez has admitted brutalizing his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Nixzmary Brown — beating her with his hands and a belt, plunging her head into cold water, lashing her to a wooden chair to discipline her, and finally leaving her, naked and starving, on a cold floor.




John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
The defense’s first witness, Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky.

But as his defense team began to present its case to a jury in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Friday, it sought to raise doubts about whether he was the one who delivered the blow that killed the girl and suggested that investigators had not paid enough attention to the girl’s mother, Nixzaliz Santiago.


Saying the prosecution resulted from a “one-sided, lopsided investigation,” Mr. Rodriguez’s chief lawyer, Jeffrey T. Schwartz, told reporters after Friday’s court session that he would keep hammering away at that theme.


“I am calling this terrible police work,” he said.


Still, nothing presented in court Friday contradicted the central thrust of the prosecution’s case. Instead, the defense used its opening witness — the only one called Friday — to try to raise questions about why investigators did not try to prepare a full DNA profile for Ms. Santiago although they did for Mr. Rodriguez.


Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, of the Department of Sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, noted that two items analyzed by police experts — a pair of green sweat pants and duct tape — showed traces of female DNA.


“Without the profile of Ms. Santiago,” those traces were not useful, he told the jury.


Dr. Kobilinsky acknowledged on cross-examination that there was not enough DNA evidence on those two items to match an individual profile even if one had been available.


Later, the prosecutor, Ama Dwimoh, told reporters that a DNA profile of Ms. Santiago had not been prepared because there were not enough traces of DNA on any of the items to allow a match.


Dr. Kobilinsky’s testimony, she said, did nothing to undermine the case against Mr. Rodriguez.


“Nixzmary died a slow death,” she said. “And the people she called Mommy and Daddy failed to get her prompt medical attention.


In the courtroom, the prosecution sought to turn Dr. Kobilinsky’s testimony to its advantage, using his reference to the “passive transfer” of DNA to once again go through the catalog of evidence of Nixzmary’s dismal life and death.


The chair she was tied to with a nylon rope was hauled onto a table in front of the largely female jury, and Dr. Kobilinsky was asked if there could have been “passive transfer” of DNA to the ropes that bound her ankles.


There could have been, the witness said.


“Would it be fair to say that if someone were thrown up against the wall, their blood would end up there?” a prosecutor asked, pointing to a photo of a blood-spattered wall.


A pillow with blood stains was another example of “passive transfer,” Dr. Kobilinsky acknowledged. Same for the blood on duct tape that bound Nixzmary and the blood on the belt she was beaten with.


Finally, there was the litter box that the girl was forced to use as a toilet, the prosecution’s last example of passive transfer of DNA.


Mr. Schwartz said afterward that the defense was not likely to call character witnesses for Mr. Rodriguez but would keep raising questions about the investigation and the failure to focus on Ms. Santiago.


Ms. Santiago has also been charged with murder in her daughter’s death and is to go on trial later.


The prosecution maintains that the two acted in concert in the girl’s death.


Earlier this month, after Ms. Santiago invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself, the judge ruled that she could not be compelled to testify at her husband’s trial.


Nevertheless, although she has been absent from the courtroom physically, Nixzmary’s mother has been a constant presence, invoked often by the defense and Mr. Rodriguez’s main hope in deflecting blame.


Rest In Peace  rip