I thought she had something going there too! You know,Lee was all "Go Casey!" then poof! He suddenly gets all,no comment.What is that about? I really think he knows something he's not telling but it's a potential migraine trying to figure THAT out.

Still think George and Cindy are closet cases with mondo sized secrets. That kid didn't accidentally drown! Bull! If it had been some kind of accidental drowning,Casey would have called the cops/911 and had a big old "WAAAA HELPPPP!" and then proceeded to turn it into The Casey Anthony Show complete with Oprah interview.She would have made Susan Smith look small time in comparason. Then she would have been off scot free to go out and party as much as she wished without needing a sitter. This wasn't an accidental drowning.I can't believe the defense thinks the jury is going to buy that crap.   

Ok this comes from Nancy Grace so....yeah.

(CNN) -- The Casey Anthony murder trial ended an hour and a half early on Thursday, with Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. telling members of the media in the courtroom that Anthony was ill.

Jurors were not told why the trial ended early Thursday, and Perry asked them not to speculate. He said court would be in recess until Friday.

After the jurors left, Perry spoke to members of the media in the courtroom, saying that Anthony was ill and that neither the prosecution nor the defense had any comment on the matter. The judge asked reporters not to question either side about it. The details of Anthony's illness were not given.

During a short break before the announcement, Anthony drank a bottle of water quietly as attorneys spoke together and went back to Perry's chambers, according to In Session's Michael Christian. She was escorted out of the courtroom during the break, then brought back in, but lay her head down on her arms at the defense table. She did not stand as the jurors left the courtroom.

 

Earlier Thursday, testimony centered on the recovery of the skeletal remains of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, from a wooded area in December 2008. Anthony cried as photographs of the remains were displayed in the Orlando courtroom and avoided looking at the screen where they were displayed.

Anthony, 25, faces seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading investigators. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.

The toddler's family last saw her on June 16, 2008, but no one alerted police until July 15, when the girl's maternal grandmother tracked down Casey Anthony and demanded answers.

Prosecutors allege Casey Anthony used chloroform on her daughter and suffocated her by putting duct tape over the little girl's mouth and nose. They allege she put her daughter's body in her car trunk before disposing of it. Caylee's skeletal remains were found on December 11, 2008, less than a mile from the home of Casey Anthony's parents.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty and denied having anything to do with her daughter's death. Defense attorney Jose Baez has said that when all the facts are known, it will become clear his client is innocent.

As the photographs were displayed Thursday, jurors heard testimony from Orange County Sheriff's Office crime scene technician Jennifer Welch, along with Steve Hanson, chief investigator for the medical examiner's office, and Gary Utz, Orange County chief deputy

Welch detailed items found with the little girl's remains, including a black plastic bag, an off-white canvas bag, a red plastic Disney bag, a pair of shorts, a blanket and "clothing remnants." Duct tape could be seen on the facial region of the skull, she testified.

Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, were not in the courtroom while the photos were shown Thursday.

Jurors also heard a recording of a 911 call in which a utility worker reported that meter reader Roy Kronk claimed to have found a skull at the site where the remains were found.

Questioned by Baez, Welch agreed that it was paramount that a crime scene or remains not be tampered with, saying it could affect an investigation.

Numerous photographs were introduced into evidence of the skull, along with the duct tape on it and other items found at the scene, such as the canvas laundry bag.

Utz testified the skull had its jawbone, or mandible, still attached, which was relatively rare given the stage of decomposition. The duct tape, he testified, was helping keep the jawbone attached, along with hair on the

Thursday morning, jurors heard testimony from Casey Anthony's brother, who testified that his sister -- out of jail on bail the month after Caylee was reported missing -- told him an alternate version of how the little girl was kidnapped by her nanny.

He said his sister told him in August 2008 that she had met the nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, at an Orlando park along with Gonzalez's sister. Casey Anthony told him that Gonzalez held her down and told her that she was taking Caylee from her because she wasn't a good mother, "to teach her a lesson," Lee Anthony said.

Gonzalez also warned her not to go to the police, according to Casey Anthony's account.

Lee Anthony recalled his sister saying, "she couldn't believe it was happening, and it felt kind of surreal to her," he testified. She said she did nothing to stop her child from being taken, he recounted, because "she was scared and she didn't know what to do."

His sister told him that, from time to time, Gonzalez would contact her through Casey Anthony's MySpace page and direct her as to what to do and where to go. She went to the locations, she said, in hopes of seeing or retrieving her daughter but was never successful in finding her.

Casey Anthony's account, as related by Lee Anthony, differed markedly from the one she gave authorities after Caylee was reported missing. She maintained to police she dropped the child off at the nanny's apartment that morning and never saw her again.

Authorities were never able to find the nanny. They did find a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Casey Anthony or Caylee and later sued for defamation.

"Zanny never materialized?" Baez asked Lee Anthony Thursday. "To this day, no," he replied.

Lee Anthony also testified Thursday that he was the one searching the Internet on the Anthony family computer July 15 and 16, 2008. A computer examiner testified Wednesday that no searches for Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez were found on the computer until July 16 -- dealing a potential blow to Casey Anthony's claims to authorities that she was frantically searching for her daughter in the month before her disappearance was reported.

Computer experts testified Wednesday that in March, someone using the desktop computer, located in the home Casey Anthony shared with her parents, searched for terms including "chloroform," "inhalation," "how to make chloroform" and "head injury."

The searches were found in a portion of the computer's hard drive that indicated they had been deleted, Detective Sandra Osborne of the Orange County Sheriff's Office testified Wednesday.

However, she told jurors, deleted material remains on a computer's hard drive and can be retrieved until it is overwritten by new data. It had not been overwritten on the Anthonys' computer, she said, and "a complete Internet history" was obtained.

It appears the computer user first searched for "chloraform" on Google and received results for "chloroform," said John Bradley, owner of the software development company that created the software used to retrieve the data. One of the search results was from Wikipedia.org, which was accessed, he testified.

On the other terms, he said the user either typed those terms in to search, or in some instances may have clicked on hyperlinks on the Wikipedia site.

Bradley agreed with Baez's assertion that the links do not tell jurors what was on the websites accessed, and that some sites could have been jokes or information on self-defense. He also agreed he could not say how closely the user was examining the websites or whether a user was looking at multiple browsers.

There were two user-created profiles on the computer, but Osborne told Baez she could not tell who performed the searches.

Despite her assertions, prosecutors allege Casey Anthony was not looking for her missing daughter during the month before police were notified of her disappearance. Anthony's former boyfriend, friends and acquaintances who saw her during that time recalled her shopping, eating out, going to parties and hitting nightclubs, but all of them testified she never mentioned her missing daughter and none of them noticed any change in her demeanor.

Her mother testified that Anthony had moved out of her parents' home about the time Caylee went missing, offering little in the way of explanation, and that when she inquired after Caylee, she was told Caylee was with her nanny, Gonzalez.

Earlier in the week, jurors heard testimony regarding a foul odor emanating from Casey Anthony's trunk. A scientist testified that compounds associated with human decomposition were found there, and a cadaver dog handler testified that his dog "alerted" to the trunk.

-- Edited by annarocket on Thursday 9th of June 2011 03:41:12 PM

The remarks at the end of the day are approching the close of the prosecution and into the beginning of the defense's case.

Casey was reportedly shunning her eyes and lowering her face when jurors were being shown crime scene photos of the remains of Caylee,one of her skull and a member of the unit's forensic team holding her tiny skull. [the skull was amonge blurred images shouwn on tv and the internet.] Fortunately,and I pray to my Heavenly Father those phose photos do not wind up on the internet.Can anyone say JonBenet Ramsey? HELLO?

I do not know how you feel but I invite you to comment as you wish.But for myself,I believe that Casey is lying,and has lied about so much and so many things that I'd be suprised if she can keep any of this strait in her own mind at that point.I'd just die to get a shot at interviewing her. Can you guys see that one? Annarocket VS Casey Anthony for the title showdown? It would be like the last sceme in Gladior where Russell Crowe and Joquiem Phoenix go all balls out in the Roman Colleseum! But I digress.

I'm thinking by the very lastest the case will get the jurt by Friday and the prosecution will have the case by Monday. We'll see,guys.        

Miss Casey,Miss Casey,do you sleep well tonight? Do you sleep the quiet breathing of the peace of one who knows she will be free this time next week or do you lie awake in fear,wondering if you will be forever destined to look over your shoulder for the one sociopath to avenge poor Caylee and send you to the afterlife?

I can not help but wonder.

You guys would not believe the absolute insanity my email has gone with the vote 9 to 1 that the jury made an ingross incalculation against Casey but finding her not guilty except for 4 counts of lying to the police. Her release date has been set at July 17,2011. Obviously,it has not been said where she will go or where she will stay but wherever it it,Casey,you may rest assured that the deeds of our lives follow us throughout and into the afterlife where the judgement of what happened to little Caylee will sit squarly upon your shoulders.

May God help you on that day.    

Our god is a loving and forgiving god. That is not always what Christians want. We must trust in God's will and for whatever reason, he willed things this way. He may have different plans for those involved in this case, as difficult as that is for the rest of us to see or understand.

M

 

I live about 15 minutes north of Orlando... this case gripped our state and the nation for so long... I remember the very beginning of this whole mess, I was sitting at work and it blasted through the TV and was all over the news... years later I'm still gripped and praying for new evidence to bring justice to this tragic event...

I just want an answer for Caylee, an answer for what really happened and I want to know how a murder can just be left with so many untidy ends ? There is no closure... yes the defense says Caylee drowned, but that's not an end to the pain everyone is now involved in...

I have from the very start thought Cindy and George knew more than they were letting on. I don't mean to say that they were a part in the death of Caylee, I just think there is no way they wouldn't have gotten it out of Casey knowing how much they adored that little girl.

I lived far enough away that the media wasn't a thorn in my daily life, but it was everywhere when you turned on TV and Radio. I had actually volunteered to go search with the group that was on ATVs, but we weren't the group so famously publicized by all the drama with Equisearch and all.

I went through so many emotions and frame of minds with the who was guilty of what through out the years. I don't know that I believe Casey could have intentionally hurt Caylee and been a monster like was theorized on TV. I think it was a tragic accident that she handled horribly. But I still have my days where I flip flop and think she knowingly failed to protect Caylee. It's all so emotionally complicated for me.

I agree Anna. And I think Cindy was doing anything and everything she could to find out exactly what happened to Caylee. And I think Casey's lawyer did whatever he had to do to get her off. We will never know what actually happened to Caylee. At least she's where no one can hurt her anymore.

I can't believe the people who I heard talking today in reference to Casey Anthony. This older lady and what I assume was her middle aged daughter were actually commending Baez for "creating such a cluster**** that it led to Casey's freedom". They went on for about 5 minutes talking about how it was amazing that they kept everything drenched in doubt and that if they had taken a logical approach she very well could have been sentenced, which to them would have been a tragic outcome.

I don't have a personal cross to bare with this whole thing, but for someone to talk like that and be so absolutely smug about their opinion was REPULSIVE to me.

People are intitled to their opinions and feelings, but I found these two women to be absolutely enraging to me and they made my skin crawl. I'm usually not one to care or waste time on things that don't directly change my life or make a difference in my routine, but I felt so strongly about it that I had to express it somewhere.

What made me so mad was the WAY they talked. There is no way I can ever convey it so that anyone understands why I'm so enraged withouth having them hear it for themselves.

I totally agree with you Billie,and that brings us to the Email Of The Week:

Dear Annarocket,

Casey Anthony has been found not guilty by a jury of her peers.Does that mean you are going to stop pile driving her into the ground? You and that pack of wolves you are leading at your message board just want somebody to tear down,vigalante style.At one time it was Scott Peterson,then Joran VanDerSloot,now it is poor Casey Anthony.That woman lost her baby! Lay off her!  Gosh,you must not know what it's like to lose a loved one because you are one cold hearted .

Dennis Deane,Orlando,FL

Gee Dennis.If you've been reading this message board since back in the Scott Peterson days,you had to have seen (and conviently ignored) our work for the West Memphis 3,The Ronald Goldman Foundation For Justice and our work investgating cold case files for the FBI. If that makes me "one cold hearted " then I'll plead guilty for that and ask you:what have you done to enact change in the justice system or even in your community as a resident of the United States? If you want to call me out,you'd better be prepared to lay your cards on the table,little man.       

Casey lost my sympathy when it came to light that while she was "so concerned" about her "missing" child, she was out partying and drinking. I heard she has had to return to Fl for some kind of hearing, and that she's already had death threats against her. If someone carried it out, I wouldn't cry for her.

She honestly has no chance at any kind of safety here in Florida. Why her lawyers think she is going to stay here and live a peachy life in one of their condos is beyond me.

Chaney Mason received so many threatening phone calls to his home phone that his wife was wanting to pack up and leave town for a while. I imagine Baez has had the same amount if not more threatening behaviors confront him.

Murder is wrong, but hey we've just seen exactly how to get away with it...

I have a friend taking classes at the local community college and she is in a domestic violence class. One of her peers claims he dated Casey for months and she was mentally unstable to the max. I guess they were talking about people's experience with domestic violence and he cashed in on the opportunity to be a part of the fame. He told the whole group about how he had to replace a bedroom door because he went in to take a call from his family member and Casey was so mad and insistant that he was doing something wrong that she started kicking in his door...

Where the HxLL was this guy at the trial ???

I've heard tons of other instances of when she had outbursts in public but none that really mention or seem to have happened with Caylee around.