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Karen Swift case: Investigators await autopsy report, have evidence

It’s been over a month since Karen Swift’s body was located by two men near Bledsoe Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee.  There still has been no autopsy report released to the investigators working this homicide investigation.  Dyer County Sheriff Jeff … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 32 – 06/30/11

Oy Vey!  Or as Roger Miller sang in Disney’s animated Robin Hood, Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, GOLLY WHAT A DAY!  Yesterday began with Ann Finnell on the phone arguing a couple of motions.  One to reconsider a prior motion and the new … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Review of trial week 4

This past week saw the State rest on the presentation of their case.  At that time it appeared the defense believed the witness stand now belonged to them.  The week ended with Judge Perry setting them straight that it did … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 22 – 06/18/11

Dr. Tim Huntington.  That’s the wrap up for yesterday.  One defense witness, on the stand, all damned day.  He came in as a bug expert, he morphed into a jack of all trades, he left deflated. Dr. Tim Huntington is … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 12 – 06/07/11

Yesterday’s proceedings began before the jury entered the court room.  Jose Baez argued, based on the defense’s anticipation that Dr. Arpad Vass would be taking the stand, that testimony of Dr. Vass should not be allowed to be admitted yet.  … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 10 – 06/04/11

Yesterday began with the jury seeing for the first time more of the jailhouse videos between Lee, George and Cindy with Casey.  The last to be shown was the August 14th, 2008 video of the jailhouse visit between George, Cindy … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 5 – 05/28/11

The most compelling evidence heard yesterday was that of Simon Birch who was acting manager of the impound lot Casey Anthony’s Pontiac Sunfire was taken to when it was towed from the Amscot parking lot on June 30th, 2008.  Mr. … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Dr. Vass’s work…in, maybe

The long awaited court ruling concerning the admissibility of Dr. Vass’s work on human decompositional gas signatures and the use of air monitoring samples to determine the possibility of a human decomposition event was issued today by Judge Perry.  While … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Chloroform in

Like finding manna on the ground, we receive a daily serving of justice from the Ninth Judicial Court of Florida in the form of a righteous ruling.  Yesterday’s serving came in the form of a denial to the defense’s motion … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Baez, get on that pig and hold on tight!

Cognitive dissonance. It’s typically defined as the uncomfortable feeling we get when the information we are processing is in conflict with an idea we have, or a paradigm we hold as “true”.  In essence, it is what our internal “Hinky … Continue reading

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