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Dear Hinky Readers,

This thread is reserved for questions for Skye Benhaida.  I ask that you treat this woman with respect.  I am very grateful to her for agreeing to do this.

Skye has explained that she has not been told by law enforcement not to talk to people about what she knows.  She has stated, however, that her sister, River, has been asked not to discuss certain things.  I will trust that Skye will let us know if we ask a question law enforcement would not want answered.

Valhall.

This thread is to continue to discuss the news WFTV broke yesterday about George allegedly having an affair with River Cruz or River Allen.  The question at the top of my list is whether the investigation into the text messages that led to the investigators allegedly interrogating this woman for 4 hours and conducting a polygraph is the very issue the prosecution requested a delay in releasing discovery on a few short weeks ago.

Please contribute your thoughts toward this question and any other aspect of this very strange development.

Valhall.

Huh?

http://www.wftv.com/news/22825765/detail.html

So George’s description of Zenaida closely matches a woman who claims to have had an affair with George?  And George’s chippie has a sister with a last name Benhaida?

Benhaida-fo-faida-fee-fi-fo-faida-Zenaida?

And George allegedly took her for $5000 while they were screwing around?  And he had other chippies, and he took them for money as well?

George is a gigolo?

WTF?

Valhall.

I wanted to take a second look at the statements submitted by the defense that they want excluded as hearsay.  I’m going to put my personal thoughts about these out here just to open discussion on the matter and with hopes that our legal friends will drop by and respond with more knowledge than I have on the possibility of these statements being excluded.  I’ll be using abbreviations for names, so just refer to the defense’s submitted list if you get confused as to who is being referenced.  I want to be clear, that these are just my personal opinions on these.  I don’t claim to know the answer.  But I think doing it this way could lead to some really good discussion if our lawyer-friends get involved.

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GA to SB – We’ll probably get divorced over this. – I don’t think this matters one way or the other.  Will probably get excluded.

GA to SB – The daughter is telling us crap a bunch of lies.  She won’t let us see our granddaughter.  He was still talking about his daughter telling lies.  We thought the car was in Jacksonville. – The possiblity all of these will be admitted for a couple of reasons.  GA and CA both are going to have their credibility brought into question during the trial.  At this point it’s kind of hard tell if that won’t happen by both defense and prosecution – depending on how they swing during testimony.  SB’s recollection of GA’s statements to him could be used to support GA and CA’s account of what they claim KC was telling them.  In other words, their words don’t necessarily hold enough veracity to be taken alone.  SB stands as an outside person who can support that on July 15th they were saying these very things.  Another things is if GA or CA CHANGE their stories, SB can be brought in to state – that’s not the story they were claiming on July 15th.  So while the defense is trying to say this is hearsay because GA is stating what KC was telling him, it becomes supporting information as to the story GA himself was telling on July 15th, and can be used to either support GA’s statements in court, or show that he has changed his story – depending on what GA testifies to.

TB to people – I remember people telling me there was an issue between Ricardo and Casey because she brought Tony – of no value, excluded.

RM to TB – Now you believe on June 9th-10th is the last time Ricardo saw [Caylee] – they are asking TB this.  hearsay.  excluded and they can ask RM himself.

ME to TB – Parts of 5 hour conversation between Melissa and Casey – they are asking TB this.  hearsay.  Melissa ENGLAND (which the defense seems to have not figured out her last name yet) can be asked about this.

GA to BB – Someone broke into the Anthony’s shed and stole some gas – BB will be able to make this statement to verify the events that occurred during that time.

SB to NL – When he opened the door flies came out and there was a bag of trash which he threw away in the dumpster. – hearsay.  This is NL telling what SB told her.  SB can testify on this himself.

MK to people – According to everybody that was the last time she was seen by any of her boyfriend’s friends (referring to Caylee) – hearsay.

TL to CC – Her dad was cheating on her mom. – hearsay.  IF this statement by KC to TL is admitted at all (in order to show the lies being told during that critical period), then TL can testify to it himself.

RM to JG – Ricardo telling Jesse about lies he had caught Casey in. – hearsay.  If this subject is brought up (which all of this may be excluded), RM can testify himself.

AD to JG – Annie telling Jesse about Casey doing things (like getting the Bella – NOT BUENA – Vita tattoo) – hearsay.  If AD’s statements are admitted, AD can testify to what she knows.

Parents of JG to JG – Jesse says he knows what his parents gut feeling is – excluded.  Not even relevant.

CA to JG – Cindy tells Jesse about Casey (“Do you want to be with someone with no high school education…I have to support Caylee”) – this is an interesting one.  It wasn’t stated during the time critical to Caylee’s disappearance.  But it is also interesting that the defense has moved to exclude this.   Apparently CA’s derogatory remarks about her daughter will not be presented in any mitigation during the sentencing phase???

LA to JG – Cindy fights with Casey and chokes her. – hearsay.  LA and CA will be asked about this.

GA to JG – George says they need to get help for Casey. – hearsay.  GA can be asked about this.

LP to JG – Jesse says Padilla says Anthony family knew Caylee was deceased early on. – hearsay (actually double dammit hearsay).  I think the whole thing will be excluded.

YM to LT – Melich called someone on the phone, which Leonard Turtora assumed was Zenaida Gonzalez. – I’m not sure it will be excluded if the phone call was made in the presence of LT, but it will be challenged as LT not actually knowing who was on the phone.  YM can be asked about the phone call.

YM to LT – Turtora says Melich called Cindy regarding Casey. – Again, if the phone call was made in LT’s presence, it may not be excluded but challenged as LT not really knowing who YM was talking to.  YM can be asked about the phone call.

People to RP – I heard some people talk about concrete slabs poured into the backyard at the time. – hearsay.  They can ask GA and CA about the slab being poured.

CA to RP – Cindy told me that Casey has been stealing money. – most likely excluded, and doesn’t bring much value to the murder trial.

AH to TL – Amy telling Tony about what happened with the checkbook and what Casey did. – hearsay.  They can ask AH about the checkbook.

CA and TL – Cindy telling Tony that Casey is going to take all his money and leave him “high and dry”. – probably excluded, and doesn’t bring much value to the murder trial.

CA to BS – Cindy tells Britney about finding the car. – Again, CA’s credibility is going to be brought into question and certain statements made to BS about finding the car may need to be brought out.

CA to BS – Cindy tells Britney Casey steals. – probably excluded, and not much value to the murder trial.

LA to BS – Lee tells Britney Casey gave him a false number. – this is the same as SB’s statements about what GA said, or BS’s statements about what CA said about the car.  LA’s credibility will be brought into question, his story could possibly change, and BS’s statement may be important.

JD to DCo – I was talking to Jonathan last night and he said that she pulled out of the group for a month and half – hearsay, they can ask JD about this.

People to DCo – as much lying as she’s doing whos to say if any of its true – excluded, prejudicial, speculative, opinion, etc.

People to DCo – a fraudulent check she was writing – excluded.  He doesn’t have first hand information about this matter.

YM to JWh – He says that he asked Corporal Melich if the area had already been searched and Corporal Melich said yes it had. – LOL – I’m betting Yuri can be asked about this.

JG to RM – Statements between Jesse and Ricardo. – LOL – makes no sense.  This really depends on the content of the statements.

CA to AH – Statements from Cindy saying that Casey is a liar (no nanny) – EXPECT THIS TO BE IN THE TRIAL.

CA to AH – Statements from Cindy saying Casey bled her dry, ruined her credit. – Again, this can go toward impeachment of CA’s credibility, etc.

CA to AH – Cindy says Casey admitted to stealing checks. – probably excluded.

People to AD – Lying, stealing, she’s obviously not the person I thought she was, turns out I don’t know her at…” – okay, this one is confusing.  If AD is making her own statement about lying and stealing and realizing Casey was not who she thought she was, then this could be admitted.  If it is OTHER PEOPLE making these statements to AD, then it will be excluded.

CA to  SP – Cindy always said that Casey had an excuse for Cindy not being able to talk to Caylee – admitted. -  Crucial evidence in what Casey was telling people during the critical time.

CA to SP – She (Cindy) ended up staying home because she said Casey told her she was coming the next day. – might be admitted if Cindy changes her story.

RK to KCrutcher – He says Roy Kronk told him “she told me she was close, she was really close” but did not tell him who SHE was. – if the defense goes down the “Roy Kronk did it path”, this could be admitted.

JG to AR – He told me that she tried to tell him he was the father because I guess she got with him you know when she was pregnant or right after…” – excluded, hearsay, and irrelevant.

JG to AR – “But I guess she tried to tell him that he was the father of the baby or at least that’s what he said but he was just as out of it as she is” – excluded, hearsay, and irrelevant.

Someone else to DB – All statements. – many of them excluded not just because they are hearsay, but because they aren’t relevant…BUT the following:  “Cindy complained to her about Casey not watching Caylee.” and “Cindy told her about having to get the car and how it was a mess.” and “Cindy told her she thought someone had been swimming in the pool.” and “Cindy told her someone was in the yard again.” – Could be admitted.  I am amazed that the defense has two statements listed with Debbie Bennett in which Cindy is referencing Zanni, and they want those excluded.  One of those statements is “Cindy mentioned Zaney (sic) a lot.”  I guess they are ditching the existence of Zanny and Casey’s story of a kidnapping Zanny, and going with Kronk at this point.

Just about all the statements attached to Richard Cain – I don’t see how they can get these excluded.

LG to MCa – Lauren Gibbs called Sports Authority and they told Lauren that they never heard of Casey. – excluded.  Lauren can testify about this.

CA to MCa – Cindy felt like Casey wasn’t being motherly. – most likely excluded as it deals with Cindy just voicing her feelings.

CA to MCa – Cindy and Casey fought about Casey going out. – this might be admitted.

Unidentified people to MCa – She heard about Casey liking multiple guys. – excluded.

AH to MCa – Casey stole from AH. – excluded.

CA to CCr – Cindy said Casey worked at Universal. – may be admitted, depends on timeframe of statements.

DB to CCr – Argument on Father’s day at Anthony home. – excluded.

People to CCr – He head about Cindy getting the car. – excluded.

CA to CCr – Cindy told him Casey wasn’t really talking to her or that she would make excuses and say Caylee was sleeping when Cindy would call. – admitted.  Again, in case Cindy changes her story.

CA to CCr – Cindy told him Casey said Caylee was in Tampa and with Zenaida. – admitted if needed – if Cindy changes her story.

CA to CCr – Cindy said Casey was with Jeff. – admitted if needed.

CA to CCr – Cindy said Casey told her about Jeff. – not sure, depends on exact statement.

CA to CCr – Cindy discussed all the times she was supposed to meet Jeff and didn’t (and the excuses given). – may be admitted since Jeff is one of the people Casey claimed knew about the kidnapping, knew Zanny, etc.

CA to CCr – Cindy discussed the letter that said the car had been found. – I don’t see the importance.

CA to CCr – Cindy said it smelled like a dead body in the car. – admitted, because I think Cindy is going to do the whole “I didn’t mean what I said in the 911 call” maneuver.

CA to CCr – Cindy said car seat was still in the car; clothes and toys too – admitted if needed.

CA to CCr – Cindy said Caylee’s favorite doll was still in the car. – admitted if needed.

CA to CCr – Cindy said she didn’t know Casey was pregnant.  Cindy said Jesse was the father first.  Cindy told him that Casey and George were always at each other. – probably excluded, not much relevance.

RK to EC – All statements. – I don’t see anyway they can get this excluded – especially if they try the “pin it on Kronk” defense.

People to ID – He heard Casey smoked p ot and popped pills. – excluded.

AD to ID – Not true that Casey did Xanax. – excluded, AD can testify to this.

MP to ID – Caylee is missing. – admitted, but then what does it matter?

LA to ID – spread the word that Caylee is missing – same as above.

BSn to ID – Casey told Brandon…blah blah blah – excluded and irrelevant.

AD to SD – All statements – excluded.

People to SD – All statements – excluded.

LA to SD – Lee told him it was probably cops calling… – excluded and who cares???

LA to RG – Lee said Brandon Snow… – excluded and irrelevant.

BSn’s parents to RG – Brandon Snow’s parents said Casey and Brandon only dated for two weeks. – excluded and irrelevant.

LP to RG – Both statements. – excluded.

JG to RG – Richard relays a conversation with Jesse regarding why Casey asked him for a gas can. – excluded, they can ask Jesse.

Let’s cut to the chase – all of RG’s statements listed – excluded.

RK to CGibson – Roy and David had discussed… – excluded.  If the defense pushes the need for these conversations to be revealed RK and David can testify.

Statements made to DC – most of them will probably be excluded with the exception of:  JH and DC “discusses the convo between him and Hoover about coming back to the…” – if this pertains to the wood search and the defense plays the “body wasn’t there card”, any and all discussions between JH and DC will be admitted.  Along with statements made to DC by Ginny Lucas, and vice versa…basically anything involved with DC’s searches in that area would come into play.

Police Department Officials to Tammy Uncer – She talks SOLELY about the incident of bringing Casey to watch TV… – I think it will be excluded.

JG to AR – Jesse said that Casey told him that he (Jesse) was the father… – excluded.

KD to AR – Both statements – excluded.

All statements listed as various people making statements to NLe – excluded.

CA to MM – Cindy threatening to take custody of Caylee. – admitted.

CA to MM – Cindy was way pissed, furious pissed. – not sure of the context, may be excluded.

LA to MM – I heard she took her out of TGI Fridays. – excluded.

RK to ARoberts – All statements from RK talking about Caylee’s remains. – may be admitted depending on nature of statements and whether defense tries to blame Kronk for something.

Valhall.

The old thread is beginning to load much too slow, so I thought I would create a new one for random discussions on the Casey Anthony case.  You may read the old thread here.

Valhall.

Casey Anthony’s defense team has submitted a list of statements made by Casey and others that they are wanting declared as hearsay or as prejudicial and omitted from being entered into evidence during trial.  The defense has basically bunched these statements in categories that they believe show they are prejudicial or hearsay.  Those categories are:

• Characterization of Anthony Family Relationships
• Characterization of Casey as liar
• Hearsay
• Contents of Trunk
• Double (dammit) Hearsay
• Characterization of Casey as bad mother
• Characterization of Casey as thief
• Remains of Caylee
• Jesse (Grund) as father of Caylee
• Casey pregnancy
• Roy Kronk tip
• Characterization of Casey as drug user
• Characterization of Casey as frequent partier
• Hearsay (psychic) – (which must be a special subset of double dammit hearsay when a psychic is involved)
• Casey stealing (versus Casey being characterized as thief?)
• Casey’s second pregnancy
• Finding of Caylee Remains

Now, the ones that are “characterizations” or about Casey’s pregnancies pretty much boil down to – they don’t want anybody saying anything about Casey, or the Anthonys.  UNLESS, that person is going to say that Casey was a good mother and the Anthony family was a good, wholesome family, and they were all fine, upstanding individuals.  I think we can all see the problems with the defense trying to make that play out.  While I have no doubt they can find SOMEONE who will make these statements about Casey and/or the Anthony family, the problem is they are going to get cross-examined.  I don’t see that part of the witness-box time going well for the defense.  In other words, the defense can’t put Amy Huizenga or Maria Kissh on the stand and ask “Did you think Casey was a good mother?” to which they probably would answer yes, without the prosecution getting up and asking “Did Casey take Caylee to parties where there were [fill in the blank - drugs?, smoking?, drinking?, etc.]?  Did Casey leave Caylee unattended? (to which the answer is going to be yes)

As to whether Casey is a thief – that really doesn’t play too much into whether she murdered Caylee or not.  But at the same time, the defense isn’t going to have too many options in showing Casey to have integrity as far as being self-sufficient, employed, a manager of finances, etc.  And, again, any attempt to portray her as possessing these qualities is just going to open the door to the prosecution asking the right questions to the same witness and bringing out the fact that Casey didn’t work, didn’t financially support Caylee, and most likely lead to the revelation that the way she supported her own lifestyle (because that’s where all the money went – Casey, not Caylee) was through unapproved appropriation of funds!  What a nice way to say – stealing!

To avoiding characterizing Casey as a liar, I say good luck.  The problem the defense has with this is that Casey’s lies are part of her crimes.  They “bleed over” into the cover up of the truth of what happened to Caylee and they contaminate the formal investigation.  While the defense may be successful at preventing the presentation that Casey appears to have been a liar-extraordinaire for many years prior to Caylee’s death, they are not going to be successful at suppressing the fact that for a critical 31 day period in which Casey claims her daughter was kidnapped; claims she had no knowledge of her daughter’s whereabouts or welfare; and did not report either of those “facts” to the authorities, she lied to her family, her friends, and her casual acquaintances concerning where Caylee was.  Nor are they going to be able to suppress that she never has tried to correct the record on any of those events.

Everything Casey did in the month that Caylee was missing and not reported go toward her state of mind, her consciousness of guilt, and her intentional acts to cover up that Caylee could NOT be accounted for.  And that’s the main problem the defense has.  While they have every legal right to request that Casey’s prior bad acts – or in this case, prior bad living – not come into play in trying to paint their client as…she is (lol), the problem is that her WORST period of behavior is in the month that is critical to the cover-up of her daughter’s murder.  That month is not filled with “prior bad acts” but with contemporaneous, connected bad acts.  Part and parcel of the reason Caylee was not reported missing for a month, evidence was allowed to be destroyed with time and exposure, and the true nature of Caylee’s death destroyed for prosecution purposes ARE Casey’s lies and bad behavior in that month.  And as we’ve covered in a prior article, The Power of Circumstantial Evidence, there is precedence that intentionally not reporting your crime in order to make it “go away” doesn’t sit well with jurors, or with appellate judges!

Now, let’s turn to the hearsay that they want suppressed.  Here’s where they create a true sticky-wicket due to the double-edged manner in which this could cut.  Let’s just give an example of how this will hurt the defense’s only “strategy” we have hints of to date.  On page 4 of the list of statements the defense has filed they want excluded is

Cindy tells Britney Schieber about finding the car.

The defense wants this declared hearsay and excluded.  The problem is this means that one of the defense’s bulleted reasons in support of moving to have Kronk declared a suspect in Caylee’s murder…

A statement indicating that Mr. Kronk knew of the location of Caylee Anthony’s remains and indeed may have had possession or control of them in November 2008, weeks before he alerted law enforcement on December 11, 2008.

…becomes hearsay as well.  And to be clear, this isn’t JUST a bulleted line item in support of declaring him a suspect.  This is THE reason for wanting to declare him a suspect.  This is the alleged phone call Kronk was supposed to have had with his son in November.  The sword cuts both ways.  If Cindy making any statements to anyone about her thoughts on the events surrounding the finding of the car is declared hearsay, anything Kronk said to anybody about his thoughts on what he had reported in August becomes hearsay as well.  Which utterly destroys the defense’s only rabbit hole they had to hide in (not).

And there are many more examples that can be made to show how the defense’s move to declare statements of certain nature hearsay will have an extremely crippling effect on their attempt to establish Caylee’s body was NOT on Suburban Drive during the period from August to December, 2008, and that Kronk may be connected with the entire murder!  This two-edged hearsay sword will literally cut the legs out from under the defense team.

But let’s back up and talk about how trying to avoid “negative characterization” of Casey is going to hit them.  If Casey’s propensity to party with her child present is excluded, so will Kronk’s propensity to do the ol’ duct tape, hot-monkey sex thingy.  If Casey’s inability to tell the truth, even when the truth is better for all involved, is excluded, the allegations that Kronk playing World of Warcraft is some type of bizarre evidence he can’t tell fantasy from reality will be excluded.  If Casey’s characterization as a “bad mother” is excluded, Kronk’s “possible” (serious…POSSIBLE) history of inappropriate behavior with young girls (which by the way has so far been based ENTIRELY on the “double dammit hearsay” category) will be excluded.

Which leads to the final cut – that is the majority of the only strategy the defense has hinted at so far (i.e. pinning it on Kronk) will lay like so many bad scenes from a B movie on the editor’s floor.  Basically what you’re left with in the defense’s motion concerning naming Kronk a suspect is the title and the signature page.  All the guts kind of fall out.

Valhall.

BOMB-F***ING-SHELL!

The Caylee Marie Anthony murder HAS BEEN SOLVED!  (not)  We can expect the release of the felon Casey Anthony concerning the charges of the murder of her own child within minutes. (not)  Was it Joy Wray who solved this case?  NO! Was it O’Town Finest?  NO! Was it slick-dick Dom?  NO! It was none other than the notorious crime fighter and mystery solver James L. McIntyre.

Who the hell is James L. McIntyre?

[The following desription of "MADD-McSnort James L. McIntyre drunk-driving disbarred lawyer" appears to NOT be of the same "Aveeno-girl obsessed 'I see dead people' James L. McIntyre" who has submitted correspondence to the Judge in the Casey Anthony case.  I have sent correspondence to the Uber-sleuth, crime-solving James L. McIntyre in Minnesota who has a hankering for the Aveeno girl and who claims to have McIntyre Consulting asking him to confirm that he is or is not the disbarred lawyer.  But Maura has supplied sufficient information when looking at the age of Minnesota Aveeno-loving McIntyre to convince me they are most likely not the same person.  As Maura points out, he would have had to have passed the Massachusetts bar at the age of 21, and that's highly unlikely.  I will share whatever response I get from Minnesota McIntyre.  I have placed the questionable portion of the article in italics and parentheses for the time being. P.S.  This has not deterred my use of the nickname Mc-Snort...]

(If he IS the James L. McIntyre from Massachusetts, he’s a lawyer or was, or may be again, but it’s real unclear as to which is true.  At least once, for sure, he was a lawyer.  Then he got drunk, drove drunk and killed a guy.  He got convicted of manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide and causing bodily injury while operating a vehicle recklessly and negligently while shit-faced drunk.  THEN, he decided drinking wasn’t working out well for him so he got busted for snorting cocaine.  Well, at least he had cocaine on him.  He could have been shoving it in his ear for all I know (I doubt it) – but he had cocaine.  Of course, some where in this mix he lost his license to practice law.

After that he served time in prison, swept floors for community service and lived with his daddy.  Then his brother (who still had his law license) said he’d take him on as a partner and the benevolent Justice Cown, in October 2000, reinstated this mullet-head’s ability to lawyer.  I’m not sure what happened after that, but it doesn’t appear he has his “lawyering license” anymore, so he could have been snortin’, drinkin’ or just bein’ himself for all I know.)

He has solved many crimes (in his own mind).  Pig-dog farmer-killer Pickton case. (not)  He’d have already solved the JonBenet Ramsey case if they would have just let him. (not)  And he knows the answer to a lot of other crimes as well! (not)  Like who killed Jodi Sue Huisentruit.  And he’s found valuable evidence concerning the Jennifer Odom murder. (not)  Of course, only he knows the answers. (not)

And such is the case with the Caylee Marie Anthony murder. (not)

We’ve seen James “Lyin” McIntyre before.  He passed emails to slick-dick Dom and Cindy and he’s posted on numerous blogs and discussion boards using various aliases for some unknown reason….all the while an avid supporter of Casey and her innocence and her FREEDOM!  Now that goal is in sight. (not)

So, how did he bust this case?  Well, it’s simple.  He emailed the Orlando Sentinel all the goods.  Because THAT’S where the goods get sent when you know the truth about a murder case. (not)

This is what he said:

Zenaida “Zani” Fernandez-Gonzalez

is

Gloria Fernandez-Gonzalez, 28 years old.  Evicted from Apartment 210 of Sawgrass apartments on February 25, 2008.

Hold the check – uhhh, no she wasn’t.  On page 53 of the discovery released on August 25, 2008 it clearly states that the tenants evicted from Apartment 210 of Sawgrass apartments were Stacy and Joseph Oaks???  No “Gloria”, no “Fernandez” and no “Gonzalez” (or Gonzale if you’re Cindy Anthony).  And why are we talking about a “Gloria” Fernandez-Gonzalez?  I thought Zanny’s name was “Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez”.  I mean that’s what Casey Anthony, at her moment of opportunity to enlist assistance in finding her daughter, who had been missing for 31 days according to her, told the detectives repeatedly.  In fact, she even put it in her written statement.  No – there’s no “Gloria” in there.  The only place “Gloria” comes up is in the name Casey gave the investigators for the name of Zenaida’s mother.  And Zenaida’s mother can’t be 28 years old.

Uber-sleuth McIntyre answers this for us. (not)

He’s talking about Gloria Fernandez-Gonzalez Jr! Yep – the first hispanic woman in history to take the “junior” title.  Why?  Because her mother’s name is Gloria Fernandez-Gonzalez Sr…that’s why!

Oh wait – I thought Zanny’s hyphenated name was because of the joining of her mother and father’s last names.  How could her mother have the same hyphenated last name?  Unless…INCEST! That’s what has led Zanny (aka Gloria) to do what she’s done.  Her mother conceived her in an incestuous relationship with…her own father and her husband’s brother!

But wouldn’t that mean it should be Gloria Fernandez-Gonzalez-Fernandez-Gonzalez Jr?  or Gloria Fernandez-Fernandez-Gonzalez-Gonzalez Jr?  Or maybe Gloria Fernandez²-²Gonzalez² Jr?  I’m not sure at this point.  But I still don’t see “Zenaida” in this mix, double mix, or remix.

Now Gloria moved in with her sister Daisy.  But here’s the rub – we haven’t got a clue whether this was Gloria Jr (aka Zenaida, aka Zanny) or Gloria Sr.  ONE OF THEM died their hair blond and they were at the airport and Wanda Wery and her son saw them on July 2, 2008.  Whichever Gloria this was is 5′7″, 135 lbs when Wanda saw them.  And Mensa-McIntyre says Airport Security will CONFIRM.  But here’s the problem.  For some unknown reason this evidence – which is key in solving the Caylee Anthony murder – was turned over to Justice Jose R. Rodriguez who is presiding over the CIVIL case with Zenaida Gonzalez. Why the hell this would have wound up with a civil court judge nobody knows, BUT madman-McIntyre claims Justice Rodriguez sealed it! (not)

Here’s what McIntyre claims:

Casey Marie Anthony DID NOT murder her daughter, she is INNOCENT!  Her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony was KIDNAPPED!  Orange County Circuit Court Judge Jose R. Rodriguez has the proof.  He sealed BOTH the Police Sergeant’s written report AND the Orlando International Airport’s security camera flash card.  The flash card is approximately 3.5 by 3.5 and has video evidence that clearly shows the KIDNAPPING of Caylee Marie Anthony by Zani The Nanny a.k.a. Gloria Fernandez-Gonzalez Jr.  Age 28.

Okay, we’re clear now – it’s Gloria-Zanny-Zenaida-Fernandez-Gonzalez Jr that bleached her hair blond.  BUT, how did the kidnapping take place in the Orlando Airport???  What was Casey doing there?  Why didn’t she tell the detectives that GZZFGJr kidnapped Caylee at the airport???  It doesn’t make sense! And why does a civil case judge have these records???  And what does 3.5 by 3.5 mean?  If that’s millimeters, that’s a little-bitty camera!  If it’s feet, it’s frigging huge – it could have footage of all crimes committed since the Bay of Pigs went bad!  And WHY did a judge presiding over a civil suit that didn’t even get filed until September 24, 2008 have evidence on a murder investigation in which the investigators went to the airport and reviewed the surveillance video on July 24, 2008! How does this happen?!

I smell a conspiraseh.

But wait, the evidence is compelling.  Gloria Gonzalez (Jr?) crashed her car near Tampa, Fl on June 23, 2008.  She drives a silver four-door 2008 Ford Focus with New York Plates! This has got to be her!  An earlier attempt at kidnapping (with her sister Samantha Gonzalez (not born by incestuous relationships and therefore no need for superscripts)) failed at Jay Blanchard Park on June 16, 2008! Victor Fernandez is Gloria-squared’s step-father and he and his half-brother Hector hid Gloria-squared (aka Zanny) and Caylee.  Gloria Sr left him over it!

The body – that was found in the swampy area on Suburban Drive – is that of “Baby Doe” who was murdered by her steroid-using father in spite of Baby Doe’s mother and grandmother (whatever the hell that means).  The murder was cold and premeditated. (actually, this may be the first part Mc-snort got right).

“CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY WAS KIDNAPPED BY NANNY/BABYSITTER THAT CASEY MADE THE MISTAKE OF TRUSTING”. (in the airport after she had already tried to kidnap Caylee once in Jay Blanchard Park – maybe Casey gave Zanny-Gloria-squared a mulligan).

This is it people.  We’ve wasted our time looking at the facts.  We wasted our time looking at the whole “why did she go partying instead of telling someone her baby was missing?”.  We wasted our time with the entire “ick, there’s decomp gases and hair in the trunk deal”.  And we have wasted our time with the fact that Caylee’s remains were found bagged in trash bags that match those at the Anthony home, a laundry bag that was previously at the Anthony home but is now missing, with a Pooh blanket that was at the Anthony home but is now missing, and with three pieces of duct tape over her skull that match duct tape on the Anthonys’ gas can and on their posters, and seen in an almost full roll at their command center BECAUSE….

Casey, after thwarting an attempt by the evil duo Zanny-Gloria-squared and evil-sister-Samantha in Jay Blanchard Park hid Caylee for 16 days while lying to all her friends about where Caylee was.  To this day no one knows where Casey hid Caylee for those 16 days! At the end of those 16 days Casey went to the airport on July 2nd to…do something, but we have no idea what…and Caylee was kidnapped right there on video by bleach-blond Gloria-squared-Zanny!  And if that evil rotten Judge Rodriguez would just unseal the 3.5 by 3.5 thingy he has…

this could all be over. (not)

Valhall.

An area that I haven’t addressed in the forensics reports released to date concerns the results from the air monitoring performed on samples taken from Casey Anthony’s trunk.  These tests were conducted by Dr. Arpad Vass, Dr. Marc Wise, and Dr. Madhavi Martin at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  This testing was very thorough, and worked to establish if any of the items present in the car (such as the trash bag contents, and the trunk liner itself), as well as things that were alleged to be in the car (such as decomposing pizza) or on the car (dead squirrels) could have caused the presence of gases known to be associated with human decomposition and which were detected in the air testing of the liner samples.

A first step in reviewing this report is to establish how these tests were conducted, and what control measures were used to ensure valuable returns.  The tests were conducted on air samples retrieved from sealed bags (called Tedlar bags) which contained samples of the stained liner from Casey’s trunk.  The sealed bags containing the samples were placed in an oven at 35 degrees C (95 degrees F) for two days to facilitate outgassing of the volatiles trapped in the carpet samples.

ORNL then employed a technique called “cryo-tapping” to condense the emitting volatiles to a concentrated level.  In other words, they condensed the concentration of the volatiles so they could detect them  in a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS).  (We’ve covered the GC/MS technique in prior articles.)  Cryo-tapping involves cooling the gases coming off the sample using cryogenic nitrogen and oxygen.  This results in the gases turning to condensation (liquid).  (This is like when you drink a glass of iced tea and water drops form on the outside of the glass.  The cold ice in the glass has caused water vapor from the surrounding air to condense into liquid water on your glass.  That’s what they are doing in cryo-tapping, only the droplets are not water, they are volatiles like Methanol, Ethanol, etc.)  The oxygen and nitrogen are vented off and then the resultant condensate, which contains the volatiles of interest, is reheated.  As the condensate is reheated the volatile gases flow to the GC/MS and are detected.  It’s kind of like distillation-reverse-distillation – if you will.

They also employed Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) in analyzing the carpet samples.  LIBS uses a laser, aimed at the surface of the sample (in this case carpet), that vaporizes an extremely small spot on the sample.  When the laser vaporizes the spot on the sample it creates a plume consisting of the elements contained in the sample.  As these excited elements fall back to their unexcited state they emit light (in fact, the laser creates a burst of plasma).  Optic detectors pick up this light, which will be made up of many wavelengths associated with the different elements that are creating the light.  The detected signals are then plotted in the frequency domain where the wavelengths of the different elements that made up the light can be detected.

Any time forensic work is performed there must be control samples to which the results are compared.  In this case, the control samples used were:

• trunk liner samples from another 1998 Pontiac Sunfire found at a junkyard (referred to as the “control carpet”),
• a piece of mushroom and pepperoni pizza allowed to decompose (and it’s noted that this was done even though no pizza was found in Casey’s car),
• air samples from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where the samples were stored and prepared,
• a trip blank taken in Florida (remember a blank is a “negative control” – in other words, it’s a vial with just air in it),
• an air sample from the Florida Forensics Unit garage where Casey’s car had been stored,
• air samples from a piece of the control carpet upon which a dead squirrel was allowed to decompose,
• air samples from a blanket in which a 3 year old child (baby ManyWhiteHorses) had been wrapped and left in a trunk for 3 months (this is the “positive control” – positive because they know darned well human decomposition took place for this sample, and not only that but it was a child, and it took place in a closed trunk).

Now, the results are compiled into one massive table at the end of the report (pages 20 and 21 of the pdf).  The table can quickly begin to resemble one of those “magic eye” posters where you just hope you can go into a trance and what you need to see pops out at you, so we’re going to break the results down into manageable chunks so that we can understand the importance of the results.  In the far left-hand column of the table in the report are the volatiles detected in the air samples from Casey’s trunk.  The second column is entitled “Is compound listed in Decompositional Odor Database?”.  We’re going to use this column to weed down the table to that information we care about, which would be the volatiles detected in Casey’s car that are listed in the database for human decomposition.  This is what we get:

Decomposition gases detected in air testing of samples taken from Casey's trunk liner.

Now, let’s begin to step through the controls ORNL used to discern whether these gases could be coming from items in the car (or items alleged to be in the car).  First let’s see which of these gases could be associated with the non-existent decomposing pizza.  The way ORNL obtained the pizza data was to take a piece of carpet from the control trunk (the 1998 Pontiac from the junkyard) and place a piece of the pizza on top of it and let it decompose.  (As a rule of thumb, when we are looking at the data from external sources, such as the pizza, gasoline, etc.  we will  eliminate any chemicals that are noted as a firm “Yes” in the column for that control object {in this case the pizza column}, but we will not eliminate gases that are noted as a qualified “Yes” in which it is noted that the chemical was detected in the control object at a level “significantly less than” the level detected in Casey’s trunk samples.)  So here are the volatiles that get eliminated if there was a rotting pizza in the trash bag:

Decomposition gas list after gases detected in decomposing pizza are removed.

The next thing we’re going to do is look at what detected volatiles are also present in gasoline, because we know Casey had stolen gas cans in her trunk and we have to determine if these detected gases came from the fumes of the stolen gasoline.  We’ll eliminate anything that shows up in gasoline and give the benefit of the doubt that it is the origin of those volatiles.

Decomposition gas list after gases detected in gasoline are removed.

Now, the car sat in the Florida Forensics Unit garage where it was processed, and where the carpet samples were retrieved from its trunk.  So in order to rule out any gases that could have been in the garage itself, and therefore be from an external source (i.e. the air in the garage), we will eliminate anything detected in the tests of the garage air samples.

Decomposition gas list after gases detected in Florida Forensics Unit garage are removed.

The next thing we ought to do, in order to give the defense all the leeway we can give them, is to look at our “negative control” (i.e. the “empty” vial) and eliminate any gases that show up in it.  That way we have ruled out if our spectrometer is picking up on something that may not be there, or if the element is at detectable levels in the ambient air of Florida.

Decomposition gas list after gases detected in trip blank are removed.

We will now eliminate any volatiles detected from the samples taken of the contents of the trash bag retrieved from Casey’s trunk.  This is actually being very charitable to the defense because the air flows both ways in the trunk!  To eliminate the trash bag volatiles is to say the trash bag contaminated the trunk air and completely ignore the fact the trunk air could have contaminated the trash bag air.  In addition to that, we have the evidence that napkins with adipocere on them were in the trash bag, so this is a very generous move on our part.

Decomposition gas list after gases detected in trash bag are removed.

We should also eliminate any gases that are detected in the “control carpet” which was taken from the other 1998 Pontiac from the junkyard.  No need to show a table on this one, because there are no common gases in the control carpet that haven’t already been eliminated.  Then the last step we’ll take in “cleaning up” the data is to remove any of the human decomposition gases detected in the air samples of Casey’s trunk liner that came in at “trace” levels.  That way we’re not dealing with any “iffy” returns.

Decomposition gas list after those detected at "trace" levels are removed.

We do not have the actual results of the analysis performed on the decomposing squirrel, but we do have the following statements within the report:

Results of this analysis shows very little similarity to the Florida carpet sample.  No sulfur compounds, chloroform or carbon tetrachloride were detected in the sample.

So now that we’ve been extremely conservative in purging the results of the analysis of Casey’s trunk, and can now have a high degree of confidence that we have not included any volatiles that could have come from sources other than a human decomposition event, let’s compare our remaining gases to that of the positive control; the air samples from the blanket that wrapped baby ManyWhiteHorses.

Decomposition gas list compared to decomposition gases detected in positive control sample.

The air samples tested from Casey’s trunk actually show the presence of a greater number of human decomposition gases than the positive control sample taken from a blanket that is known to have been around the decomposing body of a 3 year old child who was left in a trunk for 3 months.

Valhall.

I’ve been both blessed and cursed by my friendship with Muzikman (insert rocker emoticon here). I’ve been blessed by the fact that he has sent me complete copies of discovery releases, often containing materials not uploaded by the media. I’ve been cursed by the fact that the additional detail occupies a lot more of my time than it probably has any right to do so.

With that preamble, I’m ashamed to say I’ve spent some time off and on over the past year looking at the contents of Casey’s Photobucket account – all 12,000 images, 351 MB worth. I’ve been trying to decide whether or not it has any bearing on this case.

According to the Photobucket image time stamps, Casey began uploading images on April 3, 2007 (incidentally, this is right around the time that Casey ended her engagement with Jesse). That day she posted 994 images, the very first being the icon shown on the right.

She did not upload every day, and could go many, many weeks between uploads. But when she did upload images, she would do so hundreds at a time in rapid succession – say one every two seconds. This tells me Casey would harvest images from the web over a period of days or weeks, organize them on her computer, and then upload them en-masse to her Photobucket account. And Casey definitely organized the images before they were uploaded, as the images were often grouped into themes such as “whores” or “rainbows” or “farts”.

As for her themes, there were a number of them. Major themes were tatoos, sex, partying, whores, bitches, House (the TV show), boyfriends and lost love. Minor themes were usually some variant of the major themes, such as flirtatiousness being a sub-theme of sex or whore, depending on the specific image.

The media certainly played up the fact that she uploaded lots of “disturbing” skull and heart images, focusing on the uploads that took place in June and July, 2008. However, from what I can see she was uploading images like that from the day she first got on Photobucket. The image on the right is one of a dozen or so uploaded that first morning. Also, I see images like that all over myspace and other sites frequented by young adults these days. It seems part of their current culture. I truly have not been convinced the images have any link to the murder or premeditation. I believe Casey simply thought they were cool.

Casey, however, uploaded far, far more than images of skulls and hearts – or party pictures. She liked to upload what I will simply call “cute sayings.” Nearly all of them fall into two categories. One category is made up of wistful and often cliche-filled views on love, boyfriends, and broken hearts. The other category is humor – often sophomoric humor. Very often this has a high vulgar content.

Some examples of the first category (think sugary and sappy):

You do make me happy

Love is like a glass door. Sometimes you don’t see it, and it smacks you right in the face.

Please don’t pretend you care, then crush my feelings into little bite-sized pieces for you to eat up with a side order of my dignity covered in self-respect sauce.

Examples of the second category (think Family Guy and South Park):

Don’t hate me because I am beautiful, hate me because I have huge boobs

If you’re happy and you know it, Drop your pants

When life hands you a lemon, say ‘oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?’

Love like a movie star, Party like a rock star, Fuck like a porn star

I’m not a gynecologist but I’ll take a look

No matter what was going on in her life, Casey continued to upload quotes and sayings that fit within those two categories. That is, until May, 2008. Beginning in May, it seems she basically stopped uploading written messages of personal philosophy and stuck with graphics and photos. The two images below were the last ones posted, at the beginning of May:

Later, one image  of that ilk was uploaded on the 24th, and another four on June 26, but that was essentially it:

That is not to say she stopped collecting them – which I will get to in a moment.

Casey’s Photobucket behavior change in May was not her first. I also noticed a significant change in her January 4, 2008 uploads. Mixed in with the typical shallow / superficial / sophomoric one-liners are a bunch of quotes and sayings (some quite lengthy) focusing on “getting the most out of life”. For example:

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints. To handle yourself, use your head, to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others, you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Friends, you and me…you brought another friend…and then there were three…we started our group…our circle of friends…and like that circle…there is no beginning or end…yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride…

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again.

Here’s to life. Hanging out, making out, sneaking out, passing out. Whatever happens, happens. No regrets.

Now, up to that point in time Casey’s uploads said very little about “life”, and the quotes she chose to upload were never this long unless, of course, they oozed sarcasm and included the word “f*ck”. So seeing them sprinkled in with the typical dreck caught my attention. I began to wonder … did Casey make a new year’s resolution around taking control of her life?

There were a couple of other quotes uploaded that day that sounded vaguely familiar:

Every story has an end, but in life every end is just a new beginning.

Live for today

Those quotes reminded me of:

Every day is a brand new beginning

Carpe Diem – Seize the day

Which of course were written in the infamous diary that the prosecution may or may not have possession of (at least Brad Conway put the offer on the table on live TV with Larry King). The question that popped into my mind: does the ” ‘03 ” written on that page refer to “2003″, or does it refer to “page 3″, or perhaps “January 3″? January 3 seems somewhat plausible.

But it gets better.

The history files for the laptop computer released by OCSO in September 2008 only went back to July 6, and they recorded mostly file accesses on the laptop hard drive rather than internet surfing activity. That seemingly does us no good because we cannot see where Casey was surfing, and neither do we have a copy of the hard drive to see what she was looking at. Here is an example of what I mean:

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/bobby/Desktop/artwork/music-notes-circle.jpg

However, Casey – creature of habit that she is – was downloading images off the internet to be uploaded at a later time to Photobucket, and the act of saving a file on the hard drive was recorded in this history. By taking the file name of the image and searching for it in Google, one might be able to see what it was she had downloaded. Now, if she saved a file with the name “1.jpg” from the internet, that does not do us a lot of good. There are millions of images with that name. Finding the right “1.jpg” without having the laptop in our hands is impossible.

But what about an image with the name music-notes-circle.jpg? Think maybe we can narrow that one down pretty quickly? Of course we can. And using that approach, we can determine that there were some images downloaded to Casey’s laptop in July, 2008 (but never uploaded to Photobucket) that offer the following philosophy (all saved on July 10):

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

“I will wait for you” modified to “I will forget you”

Let go of what you think you know

Now the above could have been about Tony and her feelings regarding him possibly moving to New York after he finished up with school.

There was a rant I ran across that could have been penned by Casey herself (saved July 14):

She lives life to the fullest.
She doesn’t let go of hope.
She doesn’t care what anyone has to say anymore.
She loves singing in the shower.
She likes trying new things.
She likes to have fun.
She makes the best of each moment.
She does what shes gotta do.
Shes like no other.
She totally adores her bestfriends.
She smiles for the ones she loves.
She knows that her only competition is the mirror.
Shes been miss juged.
Shes been hurt plenty of times.
She has so much anger in her.
She smiles but inside she feels shes dying.
Shes begging for all the drama to come to an end.
And I bet you had no clue about her?

There were, of course, a couple graphics of interest ( saved July 13 and July 10, respectively):

And one final quote (one of the very last items she saved to the laptop, on July 14):

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance; take it. If it changes your life; let it. Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

The above seemed to echo the sentiment in “page two” of the diary:

I have no regrets, just a bit worried. I just want for everything to work out okay. I completely trust my own judgement & know that I made the right decision. I just hope that the end justifies the means. I just want to know what the future will hold for me. I guess I will soon see. This is the happiest that I have been in a very long time. I hope that my happiness will continue to grow. -I’ve made new friends that I really like. I’ve surrounded myself with good people. -I am finally happy, let’s just hope that it doesn’t change.

So I am left wondering: did Casey decide at the beginning of 2008 that, come hell or high water, from that moment forward the world would be focused on Casey?

Well, I did some updating to the blog this morning.  I’m hoping these changes make things more user-friendly.

1.  I finally fixed it to where the “Recent Comments” will show up in the top left-hand sidebar when you are in an article.  It used to not be there except for the front page.

2.  I moved the “Recent Posts” list to the lower left-hand sidebar.

3.  I added “Your Unread Comments” on the right-hand sidebar.  If you do not delete your cookies, then when you revisit the blog this will list all of the discussion threads in which there have been new comments made since your last visit.  The title of the thread in which the comments have been made will be followed by a number in parentheses, like (10).  That means there are 10 new comments.  If you click on the number inside the parentheses it will take you to the first unread comment in that discussion so that you don’t have to hunt for where you were last.

Of course, if you delete your cookies, then all bets are off.

4.  This also works off your cookies – there is now a little indicator square at the top of each comment.  If it’s grey then it is a comment that was there last time you visited.  If it’s yellow, it’s a new comment.

5.  I added a “Related Posts” function that will show up at the end of each article (just before the comments).  This should list 5 articles that may be related to the article you are reading.

Hope these changes help!

Valhall.