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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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 6:49 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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. 6:20 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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 6:16 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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 6:13 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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 12:39 PM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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 12:01 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

NEW AUDIO RECORDINGS RELEASED NEW AUDIO RECORDINGS RELEASED ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 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. 8:14 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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 6:27 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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. 6:22 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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










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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.
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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.

Andover, Minnesota

Andover / Boyfriend, brother charged in killing

Police say woman's injuries weren't consistent with motorcycle crash
By Brady Gervais

bgervais@pioneerpress.com
Article Last Updated: 09/22/2008 10:48:50 PM CDT

Natasha Waalen had made a decision: Her boyfriend had to go.


They had an abusive relationship, friends said. Waalen wanted him gone at the end of the month.


But she didn't get to carry out her plan to split up with the father of her 4-year-old daughter.


Her body was found Friday in what initially appeared to be a motorcycle crash. But investigators quickly suspected that the accident had been staged to cover up a crime and that the boyfriend, Ryan Boland, was responsible.


The Anoka County attorney's office charged Boland, 33, on Monday with second-degree intentional murder and second-degree aiding and abetting a murder. Authorities are holding him on $1 million bail.


Police suspect his brother Timothy Boland, 31, played a role. They arrested him Saturday night in Hennepin County, and he is likely to be charged today. Evidence suggested Ryan Boland had help, the criminal complaint said.


"Preparing the motorcycle and strapping a deceased Ms. Waalen to it, would appear to require extensive time or assistance," authorities wrote in a complaint.


About 12:30 a.m. Friday, police received a call from a woman who found Waalen's body and the motorcycle in the 16800 block of Tulip Street in Andover. Waalen, of Anoka, carried no identification and wore jeans and a tank top. Police found a red "tie-down" — a nylon strap often used to securely hold cargo in the back of a truck — wound around her body and arms.


Investigators said Waalen, 28, sustained injuries that were inconsistent with an accident. She suffered multiple blows to the head. She was found barefoot but had no cuts, scrapes or marking on the bottoms of her feet that would corroborate pressure against the sharp steel footrests of the motorcycle, according to the complaint.

When detectives questioned Ryan Boland, he told them Waalen had about six beers and three tequila shots Thursday night. Then she walked to the garage, planning to leave on her motorcycle, he said. They argued when he tried to stop her, and the motorcycle fell over. But eventually, Waalen left.


Boland said their argument was not violent, but police noticed several scratches and deeper wounds near his neck. Boland said Waalen scratched him when he tried to stop her from leaving home.


She left about 10:45 p.m., he told police. The Anoka County medical examiner estimated she died about 10:40 p.m.


Searches revealed blood in Waalen's attached garage, in Boland's truck and on Waalen's motorcycle, according to the complaint. A portion of a carpeted area in the garage that appeared to be cut out was later found in a Dumpster a half-mile away. The piece, which appeared to have blood on it, matched the carpet in the garage. Parts from a broken orange plastic pressure clamp found in the truck were located at the crash scene.


A friend who had planned to move in with Waalen heard from her about three hours before her body was discovered. She told police that Waalen and Boland had an "abusive" relationship and that Waalen had "finally" told him to move.


Another friend and colleague described the relationship to police in similar terms. Waalen had told the friend she wanted to get a protection order. The friend said she gave Waalen information about child-custody issues last week.


Relatives were still reeling Monday from the double shock of what they thought at first was an accident and later learned was likely a homicide.


They said Waalen, an outdoors enthusiast, enjoyed family expeditions to the cabin every year for the fishing opener. Most of all, she loved her daughter.


"She loved her little girl to pieces," said Jennifer Waalen, a relative. "That just makes it all the more tragic — to know she's being taken from her little girl.
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Brady Gervais can be reached at 651-228-2171.

This just happened over the weekend in Wisconsin.

Shocking and Scarey.
Date:	Sep 23, 2008 1:07 AM
Subject:	Kelly Dahm lay dead for hours in boyfriend's car (MN-WI)
Body:	A parked car, a body inside ... unnoticed Kelly Dahm lay dead for hours in boyfriend's Chevy in Hudson, Wis. By Kevin Harter kharter@pioneerpress.com Article Last Updated: 09/22/2008 11:26:29 PM CDT For much of Saturday, the body of Kelly Lynn Dahm lay slumped over in a car in the parking lot of a St. Croix County government building in Hudson, Wis. And nobody noticed. Children and families played in a nearby park that sunny day. Building workers, including those with the county sheriff's office, came and went. It would take one Woodbury man's strange behavior miles away to raise an alarm. Police suspect Christopher S. Ledesma repeatedly shot and killed Dahm, of Maplewood, in broad daylight, then begged a ride back to Minnesota. "It is baffling why he did this," Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen said Monday. Ledesma's behavior Saturday alarmed his family, who called police. Woodbury officers arrested him on a probation violation and went looking for his car. Hudson investigators found it — with Dahm's body inside — about 10:30 p.m. Dahm's grieving family said Monday the couple had an on-and-off relationship. She was 19, he is 29. They met while working at a restaurant in Woodbury. Even though he was married, Dahm and Ledesma lived together for a short time before she left to live with her parents. But Dahm continued to "hang out with Chris" this summer, said her mother, Michelle Dahm. The family had its concerns, she said. "He had two different sides," she said. "He could be perceived as soft-spoken at times, but he was also very controlling. " In between interviews with investigators, Michelle Dahm struggled with her emotions while recalling her daughter. "She made everything better," she said of her middle child. "She was always so excited and wonderful to be around. " Her daughter had "a sparkle and an impish smile," she said. She loved movies and animals, and was active at Tartan High School, where she played softball and took part in the annual Relay for Life cancer fundraiser. She went on to study a year at Minnesota State University-Mankato before returning to the Twin Cities. Investigators haven't determined a motive for the killing or why her body was found outside the St. Croix County Government Center, Jensen said Monday. It is the courthouse where Ledesma was convicted of first-degree reckless injury in 1996. He was released after four years in a state prison. He was barred from carrying a weapon after his release. Ledesma's family called Woodbury police about 8 a.m. Saturday. When officers arrived at a Meadow Lane home, they found Ledesma standing outside and arrested him. A handgun was found nearby. Woodbury officers asked Hudson police to help find his car, a 2000 Chevrolet. It was spotted in the center of a parking lot near the main entrance of the two-story government center, which rarely has parked vehicles on weekends. Dahm's body was in the passenger's seat, slumped over the center console, Jensen said. She had been shot several times. Dahm's cat, named Drama, was found unharmed in the car, Dahm's mother said. A handgun, shell casings and the car have been taken to the Wisconsin Crime Lab in Wausau. "We are very confident we have the weapon and the shooter," Jensen said. Ledesma was being held on probation-related charges in the Washington County Jail. Hudson officials expect to turn over the results of their investigation to the St. Croix County District Attorney for charges by Friday. Dahm's body went unnoticed for hours despite the highly visible location. The parking lot is directly across the street from Hudson Middle School, playing fields and a public park crowded with children and families on the last day of summer. And St. Croix County Sheriff's patrol cars entered where the car would have but would not have passed it to get to the sheriff's office. The muffled sounds of gunfire from the nearby Hudson Rod and Gun Club, though, are not unusual on weekends. Despite the circumstances, Jensen said: "We have several solid witnesses." But he declined to say what they saw or heard. While it has not been determined how Ledesma got from Hudson to Woodbury, police said they suspect he called for and got a ride from an unsuspecting friend or relative. Ledesma's wife has been questioned, Jensen said, but investigators so far believe she had no involvement or knowledge of the killing. Dahm's death is believed to be the first homicide in Hudson since the slayings of a funeral home operator and an assistant in 2002. Kevin Harter can be reached at 651-228-2149.

4 year old Rose Pizem in Israel.

Monday, September 22, 2008

The events leading up to Rose’s death December 2007: Rose comes to Israel to live with her mother, Marie-Charlotte Renault, and her lover - who is Rose's paternal grandfather - Ronnie Ron, as a French court accepts allegations that she had been abused by her biological father, Benjamin Pizem, in France. May 2008: Rose goes missing, while the extended family is led to believe she has been sent off to a boarding school. June 2008: Rose's maternal grandmother reports her missing to French authorities July 23, 2008: Rose's paternal great-grandmother Vivian calls child welfare services in Israel and asks them to check on Rose's wellbeing. No illegal activity is suspected, as Vivian still believes that Rose was sent to a boarding school. The National Council for the Child alerts the Netanya Welfare Department to the case. August 3: Great-grandmother Vivian files a missing persons report with police. August 4: At the request of Rose's biological father and paternal grandmother, the French Embassy asks the Netanya police about Rose's condition. August 6: Two social workers visit Rose's Netanya home. A doorman claims he has not seen Rose in about a month. The social workers sense something is wrong and ask Netanya police to visit the family. The police visit them that night. August 12: Police arrest Marie Renault and Ronnie Ron at their home and send their two younger daughters to foster care. The police discover that Rose does not have a bed or very many possessions. August 26: Ron admits to killing Rose three months earlier by striking her in the head. He claims he did not intend to kill her, but once he realized she was dead he was too afraid to confront her mother, so he told her he had sent her to a French boarding school. Ron tells police he dumped her body in a suitcase in the Yarkon river. Police begin searching the river. Sometime in August: Marie Renault's lawyer tries to get the charges against her dismissed due to lack of evidence, however the judge informs her that there is sufficient evidence showing that Renault knew of Rose's death. August 27: After a week of failed searches, police fear that Ron is lying about the whereabouts of Rose's body. August 29: Rose's biological father Benjamin is questioned by a French judge. August 31: The search for Rose's body continues on land as well as in the Yarkon River and the Mediterranean Sea. September 2: A Ramle court prepares to charge Ron with Rose's murder although her body is still missing. September 4: Marie Renault claims that she is sorry and shocked at Ron's actions. Says she wants "her baby back. " September 8: Ron now denies that he killed Rose, claiming he only admitted to the murder under pressure from police, and the last time he saw her she was alive. September 11: Divers find red tote bag containing what are presumed to be Rose's remains in the Yarkon River, several hundred meters from where Ron claimed to have dumped the body.

This one is in England. What is up with people these days?

RE: father gases his 2 young children and then hung himself
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AN anguished mum frantically dialled 999 to report her ex's threat to kill their young daughters — but it was too late.

Cops arrived at the man’s caravan home within minutes last night but found the girls, aged one and three, smothered inside.


Their father, named locally today as David Cass, who had custody of them for the weekend, had called his estranged girlfriend to make his chilling threat, saying: “I can’t live without them.
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He was found hanging nearby at the garage where he had worked and where the caravan was parked.


Mr Cass, 32, had been an employee at Paynes Road Car Sales in Southampton, for the past four years, his boss, John Martin, said.


Mr Martin said Mr Cass had seemed depressed over the last few weeks because of relationship problems with a woman, who lives in the Fair Oak area of Eastleigh, Hampshire.


He told reporters that Mr Cass handed in his notice on Friday, adding: “He said to me he was going away and he had a plan. I said ’Don’t do anything stupid'.
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A source said: “It is an appalling tragedy. They (the children) were suffocated.
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Police sources said the man had phoned the children's mum threatening to kill them before she dialled 999.


Officers launched an immediate search.


The bodies were found at 6.51 last night.


The youngest girl is believed to be called Ellie.


A friend of Mr Cass, Paul Timberlake, said he was stunned about what had happened.


“You would never have thought this of him,” he said. “He was such a nice bloke, he’d do anything for anyone and was very helpful and he absolutely loved his children.


“I saw him two weeks ago and he was fine but I know he was having wife trouble.


“I’ve spoken to my daughter who is friends with the mother and she told me that this was the first weekend he’d been allowed to have them (the children) since the split.


“Everyone is stunned and no-one can believe it.
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The garage, in the Shirley area of Southampton, was sealed off as police and forensics teams examined the scenes.


Horrified George Taylor, 55, who lives just yards from Paynes Road Car Sales, said: “It is just a sad world we live in. It is just terrible.
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A police spokesman said: “Officers attended the car sales garage where they discovered the bodies.


“They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths and are now tracing and informing next of kin.
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Late last night three bunches of flowers had been left at the garage entrance.


Post mortems are expected to be held today.


The weekend horror was the latest a tragic string of killings of children by their fathers.


Brian Philcox, 52, gassed himself, daughter Amy, seven, and three-year-old son Owen on Father’s Day this year.


In April 2007 Dafydd Field, 52, was found dead in his prison cell days after killing his son Jethro, six.