Caylee Update - Oct 2 2008

(October 02, 2008)

My Sept 29 entry said that the FBI lab tests on the Anthony car trunk had come back with such results that crime blogs were reporting that Caylee Anthony is dead; I wrote that I read the transcript of the press conference, and at no time did the Orlando police chief Nieves commit to anything so officially certain. However, ABCNews reported that police issued a statement saying FBI lab tests "along with additional evidence that has not been made public, leads investigators to the belief there is a strong probability that Caylee [Anthony] is deceased."

So, it's a "yes" on the decomp showing up in air samples from the car trunk, another "yes" on the hair as definitely being Caylee's, and a "yes" on chloroform. It is not looking good for little Caylee's chances. At this point the crime expert David Lohr, who maintains the most complete case timeline culling from various official sources, has reverted to calling Caylee "two year old" because it is now assumed that she never made it to her third birthday, which would have been August 9th.

Yesterday, October 1st, Casey Anthony was formally upgraded from the milder "person of interest" in the case to "suspect," meaning the proverbial gloves are off and the cops have named her, if not charged her, with being involved in a crime.

I wrote that mom Casey Anthony has been, from day one, accusing a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez of kidnapping Caylee, and that news reports said there are about 400 women named Zenaida Gonzalez in the area. I used www.whitepages.com myself and found over 35, both spellings of Gonzalez and Gonzales. The Kissimmmee, FL Zenaida, a real flesh and blood human (as opposed to a figment of Casey Anthony's warped imagination) appeared on Nancy Grace's program yesterday. She and her lawyer talked about her lawsuit against Casey Anthony. This poor woman has had her phone number posted online (in the document dump last week) and has been harassed non-stop; she even lost her job because of the case.

Two computers and two cell phones of Casey Anthony's were confiscated and processed by forensic computer investigators. Despite Casey's claims to the contrary, there were not dozens of attempts to call or email anyone named Zenaida. There were exactly zero attempts to call or email anyone named Zenaida. There was, though, a Google search for that name.

The computer dump also showed there were searches for and time spent on "missing child" websites in the weeks BEFORE Caylee went missing.

Now, any mom could be looking at missing child websites for perfectly innocent reasons -- to get tips on how to protect a child, what to do first if your child goes missing, where to get a child fingerprinted for security reasons in case they ever do get kidnapped, and so forth. But if Caylee's body does turn up, the existence of this fact would go a long way towards proving premeditation. I myself have been assuming that Casey accidentally overdosed Caylee with chloroform. But say she was looking up ideas on how to get rid of the child? "Accidental" goes right out the window.

Outside the Anthony house, the protesters are still rallying despite the neighbors begging a judge to remove them.

I cannot imagine what is going on INSIDE the Anthony house.