From the Orlando Sentinel:
Casey Anthony trial is delayed after defense team member told judge her teaching schedule would prevent her from being able to go to trial in three months, according to WFTV.com.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The October 12 date for Casey Anthony’s first-degree murder trial has been cancelled after a Tuesday morning meeting between the defense, prosecution and the judge. Eyewitness News was the only media at the meeting at the Orange County courthouse.
Defense team member Andrea Lyon told Judge Stan Strickland her teaching schedule would prevent her from being able to go to trial in three months. Judge Strickland cancelled the October 12 date and scheduled a status hearing on the first-degree murder trial for January 21.
“So, I’ll go ahead and strike that October trial date and we’ll set this status slash pretrial in January,” Strickland said during the Tuesday morning meeting.
Casey Anthony is accused of killing her young daughter Caylee and dumping her remains near the Anthony family home.
Additionally, the judge said that he wants an affidavit from Amy Huizenga showing she wants to invoke her right to a speedy trial in the check fraud case that the prosecution wants to move forward on. Casey is charged with stealing her friend’s checkbook and buying personal items with forged checks.
Lyon, the defense’s death penalty qualified attorney, also told Judge Strickland that she plans to file several motions after Labor Day, but details of those motions were not given.
A date of death and a motive
“She’s the best mistake you ever did?”
That was Detective Eric Edwards’ question after coaxing information from Lee Anthony during his July 29 interview last year. That’s what good detectives do, they get information out of you in ever so subtle ways. Lee and Edwards were discussing whether there was a genuine wedge between his mother and Casey. The detective was poking and prodding his way through Lee’s brain. He acknowledged there was competition between the two, and resentment. “That my mother has been the provider for Caylee, even down to the extent that my mother was the first person to hold Caylee when she came out of the womb. So my, my mom is convinced that my sister holds some, some kind of resentment to her.”
Edwards continued, “So outside looking in, a child has a child and the first person to hold is the mother, that’s not really receptive to the whole idea anyway because she’s looking down at her because it was a mistake? So maybe some resentment towards that, which you just said?”
“Uh-hum.”
“And then now constant, constant statements that you’re unaware when they happened that…”
“Uh-hum.”
“… ‘She’s the best mistake you ever did?’ So it’s harsh, harsh judgment almost?”
“Sure.”
“And she’s living under the thumb of that?”
“Sure. Absolutely.”
Detective Edwards was really getting into it. He and Lee were developing a rhythm and Lee seemed to be comfortable in his surroundings. Later in the interview, Edwards asked Lee to describe the things he picked up from Tony Lazzaro’s apartment the night Casey was questioned.
“Okay, so you went and you picked up. Give me that list of items again.”
“Sure. Uhm…”
“From Tony’s apartment at Sutton Place.”
“Yes… I went and picked up my mom’s laptop… a very large uhm, leopard print duffel bag that had all of her clothing and items uhm, in there. Uhm, a uhm, a backpack, a white backpack with a kind of a, you know, a pattern or you know, a symbol on that uhm, that also had some more clothing items in there.”
There were wall to wall cops at the Anthony home that night. Squad cars were parked everywhere, up and down Hopespring Drive. Everything in that house was being controlled by law enforcement. George would have had to be a sharp, sharp man to pay attention to the bags Lee brought back from Tony’s at 2:25 in the wee hours of July 16. It was a late night, for sure, but there was a lot more to come and plenty of life changing events in the lives of all of the family members.
Towards the end of the interview, Lee relayed the story George told him about the 16th of June being the day he watched Casey and Caylee leave and that was the day she moved in with Tony. The significance of this is that it was Lee telling the detective before George did, and he did so in such a nonchalant, matter of fact manner, hardly like it had been previously rehearsed and long before the 15th or 16th became a hotbed of controversy to so many bloggers. George was just telling his son that he was positive of the day and he did so for his own peace of mind.
Lee also noticed there was nothing in Lazzaro’s apartment or in Casey’s bags that indicated Caylee was ever there; no clothes, no diapers, no crackers, no juice containers. Nothing. It was as if she had just disappeared. Does that sound like a cover-up to you? It reiterated what Cindy had said in her interview on August 4.
During George’s interview with detectives on August 4, he described one of the backpacks as white with monkeys (see page 7 of OCSO Search Warrant.) This is the same basic description Lee gave of the item. You can say anything you want about George and Lee lying to investigators to help Casey, but it makes no sense. It makes no sense because if a motive had been in place for months or years, the date of death is not all that significant when the discrepancy comes down to only a matter of hours between June 15 & 16. How would this possibly help Casey’s defense? No one is questioning who did it. To argue with their testimony would be nothing more than a feeble attempt to prove that Casey did not have a previous motive and she acted out of anger on the 15th and that would render premeditation and the death penalty useless for the most part. Trust me, the state knows what it is doing and there are reasons why one date in particular stands out.
A Beautiful Life
When Casey sauntered into the Cast Iron Tattoo shop on July 2 of last year, artist Bobby Williams had no idea how much that day would end up meaning to him for the rest of his life. He was the one who tattooed Bella Vita, or Beautiful Life, on Casey’s left shoulder, the focus of investigators who filed a motion to take close-up pictures of the tattoo from her jail cell. He said that Casey came in and was there for about an hour. She acted very normal and most of the time he was working on her tattoo, she was on the phone with Tony Lazzaro in New York. No big deal. He said she never mentioned her daughter, not that there was anything unusual about it at the time because no one knew she was missing. So, all this time she was frantically searching for Caylee, she had time for a tattoo about a beautiful life. Trust me folks, this is a revelation. It shows premeditation. She had planned the murder and the tattoo was but one of the fruits of her labor.
“It’s definitely, definitely strange now that you put two and two together and the child’s missing and she comes in and gets something like that,” Williams told FOX35. “And she acts totally normal? Yeah, like nothing happened? It’s like is it because she’s living a beautiful life or beautiful life because her daughter is missing?” Yup. Definitely. For sure. He added that he didn’t get any sense that Casey was looking for a child or worried.
A Motive
In my opinion, all of this and plenty more evidence illustrated a desire to rid herself of her daughter and to celebrate afterward. She longed to be free and away from her family. She deliberately set forth in motion a series of actions that took care of her “problem” once and for all. She hated her mother. She detested her father. She accused her brother of sexual abuse, and she stole from everyone. All the while, everyone enabled her.
To be plain and simple, she wanted to be free from all responsibility, she wanted to run away with a man and start all over again and she wanted to bring her family down. She wanted to destroy them. She felt that her mother must suffer because of her own suffering inside and it was the best way to pay her back. It was a cleansing and a methodical ritual. In its wake, she purposely left her family empty-handed and in shambles. Therein lies her motive, and her tattoo was clearly a declaration of her success. No more Mom. No more Dad. Best of all, no more Caylee. This is what the state will show, that it was a long term effort and not one single incident that set her off. It was a culmination.
The Date of Death
It is interesting to note that on none of the major networks, here in the Orlando market and nationwide, is there a discrepancy over the day Caylee was last seen. They all go with June 16 and there’s a reason for that, which I will get to. It is only in the world of blogging and, perhaps, on some of the forums dedicated to this crime, that June 15 surfaces. This is strictly based on the allegation that Casey and her mother had a huge argument over stolen money, taken from her grandparents, who Cindy had just spent a good part of the day with. No way was this the first time Casey and her mother fought. They had done it thousands of times, but more importantly, this was also the last time Cindy ever saw her grandchild. She left early the next morning for work. Nowhere is it mentioned that Cindy noticed Casey’s car missing as she drove off. Oh, my God! Where is Caylee?
In order for the June 15 theory to come to fruition, a whole set of motions must drop into place, with no deviations. I never bought into this theory because it’s too wild to imagine everything falling into this complex order and besides, it is not the official line. Not one person in the State Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, or anyone affiliated with the crime has made mention of this conspiracy theory and that George Anthony lied about the day he last saw Caylee alive. If no one officially affiliated with the case has strayed from June 16, why are others? From comments on my own blog and elsewhere, thousands of people believe the 15th was the day because no one could prove it wasn’t. That is the basis for their argument. And gut feelings for some. As much as I protested and begged for one little shred of information that the 15th was for real, I got nothing in return other than suppositions on their part and material from Florida that more or less linked the death to the 16th. Why did the State of Florida not choose to pursue any conspiracy propagated by George, Cindy and Lee? Because they already investigated it and found it to be without without merit.
Here is what the theorists propose:
1 ) Cindy and Casey had a big, bang-up fight over stolen money on the night of June 15, 2008.
2 ) The neighbors specifically heard Cindy and Casey argue on that date.
3 ) Casey stormed out of the house, dragging Caylee along with her.
4 ) Casey killed Caylee that night. That is a fact.
5 ) Casey remained extremely close to the house in order to maintain cell phone pings that placed her in or near the house.
6 ) George called Lee after 11:00pm to find out where Casey and Caylee were. Not all are in agreement on this one.
7 ) Lee lied to investigators.
8 ) Cindy lied to investigators.
8 ) George lied to investigators.
10 ) Casey spent the night in her car, in the sweltering summer heat of Florida, talking on her cell phone.
11 ) Casey remained in her car in the hot, steamy summer weather until 2:00pm the next day and specifically in the neighborhood, until George left for work. All cell phone pings came from the vicinity of the house.
12 ) Casey had her cell phone car lighter adapter, knowing she would need it.
OK, I’ll readily admit that anything is possible and this case has surely proved that, but I just don’t believe it because it detracts from the real motive and focuses more on an act of irrational behavior on one given night and without a whole lot of premeditation. It is rendered into one emotional outburst. If true, the state would not be seeking the death penalty. It would have been a crime of passion and more difficult to prove it was planned beforehand and with malice. Also, looking at the list, one might understand how much would have to fall into place for this to work and wonder why no one closely tied into the investigation has detailed this approach. Granted, the state has not shown all of its cards, so instead, I explored in areas where the sun does shine: document dumps. I took a direct route to a very, very credible source.
Shown below is a piece of paper, as close as I can get on a Web site, with a date that will tell you what the State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony thinks. Someone asked me for something with the June 16 date on it, so here it is. Bear in mind that this document has Dr. Jan Garavaglia’s signature attached to it. The date listed on page two is based on data supplied by law enforcement to the Orange County Medical Examiner’s office. It was after careful examination by investigators that this determination was made. Investigators do not randomly pick out a day of the month. They do not make up dates based on how bloggers think. They thoroughly looked into the possibilities of many different dates and this is what they concluded. Pay careful attention to the heading because it begins with the word FINDINGS, nothing else, and that word carries a lot of weight. No what ifs, no arguments and no speculation. The entire report is based from that date forward. This, my friends, is what the prosecutors will walk into the courthouse with come trial day and until further notification, this is the official stand on the last known date Caylee was seen alive as recognized by the authority of the State of Florida. This is Caylee’s autopsy report. Please observe that it does not say June 15 or any other date whatsoever:
Read it yourself. To verify my finding and to prove I did not alter this document, you can read it at the WESH PDF link on page 2.
END OF STORY.
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Caylee’s Memorial Site Today
July 9, 2009 · 169 Comments
I had been planning on taking a trip down to Suburban Drive and the old Caylee Anthony memorial for a week or so, but I either didn’t feel up for it that day, I got busy doing something else, or it rained. This time of year it rains almost every day as fronts from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean converge on what is commonly referred to as Central Florida. It’s hot, it’s humid, and it’s dangerous as thunder roars it’s warnings throughout the region. Central Florida is often called The Lightning Capital of the World and for good reason. Many days it rains so hard you can’t see past your nose.
Yesterday, I decided it would be a good day for a ride. Gee, I need to get out more. By the time I left, it was already clouding up and rain was threatening to come at any moment, but people in Florida learn from the beginning not to let a little rain damper their plans. On the way, the rain did come, but one of the fascinating things about living here is that there can be a torrential downpour on one side of the street but not the other. Yes, that is true, and yes, I have seen it myself, several times. I figured that by the time I got there, it would be clear enough to take a look around. You learn to sense rain, believe it or not, and you get to know how to read clouds.
One of the funny things that plenty of people don’t know or understand about this state is the climate. Unless you’re a glutton for punishment, you do not stay outside for long periods of time. During the day, the sun beats down so hard on you, it can be deadly. I stopped sunning myself years ago and just from going in and out, I have a tan that comes from years and years of doing just that. In and out. Spending 5 minutes at a time, many times, day after day. It really adds up. At night, it can be brutally humid. The earlier rain is condensing and you can almost feel the vapor as it evaporates into the sky. There is no such thing as a cool summer night in Florida. Plain and simple, it’s hot. Even as the night temperature drops, the heat of the day brings steam off the ground. Bugs are out. Florida bugs. Unless you are in a populated area, like downtown Orlando, the critters rule the night. You itch. You scratch. What was that? Sometimes it’s imagined. Most of the time it’s not.
This is the last time I will mention the subject until I need to reference it again, but keep in mind that Casey had to stay in her car from the night of the 15th until 2:00pm the next afternoon. Cell phone pings proved she was there in the neighborhood, very close to the house from the evening hours of Sunday through 4:00pm on Monday and, absolutely, no one saw her; none of her neighbors in that close-knit area. If she killed her daughter at around 11:00pm as is the assumption, she went nowhere. With daytime activity at the school, she risked exposure if she parked her car near those woods. Summer recess does not mean no one is there, as one of yesterday’s photos will show. No one has come forward up to this point to say they saw her anywhere around the neighborhood. This also means that Casey had to have remained in her car at least 15 hours, in the vicinity of the house, from the time of the killing until her father left for work the next day and no one reported seeing her. In the stifling, hot and humid Florida summer. That’s if and only if Casey went back to the house at all. If she didn’t, that would change the time frame to over 17 hours in her car, until she reached Anthony Lazzaro’s apartment in Winter Park, where pings showed she went. If you firmly believe George lied about seeing Casey and Caylee leave on the 16th, which is certainly a possibilty, keep in mind that it could also be true that Casey sneaked back into the house later that night of the 15th or wee hours of the 16th, making no noise, and she remained hidden in her room until George left for work and, of course, he didn’t find that unusual at all seeing her car in the driveway, where she always parked straight in. No knock on either of the bedroom doors to make sure everyone was OK and no stirring. No peeking in to make sure everything was in order. No cell phone rings and no talking. It’s also interesting to note that the Anthonys access their house through the garage door and when asked by detectives, Lee stated that the front door was never used by anyone until July 15, when the place looked like an OCSO squad room.
I must state, in all fairness, that it did not rain on the 15th but Orlando International Airport registered 1.15 inches on the 16th. As I mentioned, it can rain in one spot and not in another and it can be a downpour. This is not to say anything about how much rain other areas, including the Anthony neighborhood, got that day or at what time of day. Here, it is not unusual to get 2 inches of rain in 15 minutes and moments later, the sun is shining brightly. Either way, the heat and humidity didn’t leave town whether it rained or not. The high was 92 on Sunday and 89 on Monday. Not unbearable, but not remotely comfortable enough to spend the day in a car. The nightly lows were 70-71 degrees and I assure you, that was around 4 or 5 in the morning. (1) Again, I cannot emphasize enough about the humidity and around these here parts, we call it a heat index, meaning that at 90 degrees, it feels like 100 or more.
One of the areas that’s been in the back of my mind for some time is the property just south of the wooded lot where Caylee’s body was found. A very credible commenter asked about it, too. On Google Maps, it looks like a developer had gone in to build homes, but stopped. You can see work had been done, but nothing else. Could Casey have driven there the night of the 15th and killed her daughter? That was an obvious possibility, so I decided to take a look and see if Casey could have been there and done that. It looks like the perfect spot to commit a murder and all of the cell phone pings would register right there by the house on Hopespring. My objective in this report is to look at the facts. I have no desire to cover-up the truth. You can decide what you want to believe. For sure, from that map, Casey would have had all the privacy in the world.
I didn’t have a clue about what I’d find. I relied on the Google map like every other blogger. South of the Suburban Drive intersection at Chickasaw Trail, there’s a street called Hastings Beach Blvd. That’s the only way to get to the place. I headed east and turned north on Florence Harbor Drive. That’s the street that dead ends into the woods. What I found were houses. Nothing but houses. Lots of them all around me, left and right. If you look at the arrow, it points in the direction of the photo I took of the spot (BELOW). The street ends at a cul-de-sac, one that stops you in your tracks with a chain link fence that says stay out, in so many words.
To verify my finding and to prove I have done no Photoshop manipulation, go to the Bing Web site and view a much newer version of the same location. I stopped and asked a man getting out of his car if these homes were here before the Caylee Anthony murder and he said, “Oh, yeah. I’ve been here a couple of years.” I asked him about the fence. How long has it been there? “As long as I’ve lived here.” To the best of your knowledge? “Yes.” He was getting groceries out of his trunk and I didn’t want to bother him with any more questions.
This should allay all theories that Casey killed her daughter here unless she slaughtered her in full view of people’s houses. No one saw or heard a thing, but in itself, it would have been a huge risk. From this point, I drove to Suburban Drive to take a look around. Bear in mind, this is not to dissuade people from theorizing any manner or time of death. This is to just show you, from a Floridian’s perspective, what it’s like here and for you to decide what is feasible and what isn’t. You can take this information and do whatever you want, but it is real and it is true. It may fit in your criteria for either of those two days in question.
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That was the business part of my trip. The rest was pleasure, although there is nothing pleasurable about the death of Caylee and where her body was dumped. As I left the Florence Harbor area, I got back onto Chickasaw and headed up to the intersection of Suburban, turning right. The next series of photos will speak for themselves unless I added a notation. The first one shows me heading to the location on foot. I parked my car about 100 feet away. The school is straight ahead, where Suburban dead ends.
The above photo is the actual site of the memorial. Take a look into those woods now and tell me what you see. What was once taken, the land has swallowed back up. Imagine if all of those stuffed animals remained there to get rained on. Weeds would have strangled poor Teddy or he would have drowned by now. Below is a different perspective.
The next photo is a view just to the right of the above one. It shows the back fence of the property on the corner of Hopespring Drive. The back yard runs along Suburban.
(ABOVE) It is here that I believe Casey accessed the woods, between the fence and the brush. This is pretty much what it would have looked like when the killer disposed of the body. Only, it was dark, for sure, but she knew her way around. You can see a small break in the woods beyond the brush. That was an entry point and not far from where Caylee’s remains, most of them, were discovered. Just to the left of this photo is the memorial site.
(ABOVE) About 30 feet to the left of the memorial is a look down into the woods. It’s interesting to note the area is still fairly free of growth. That tells me the team of dedicated and thorough examiners left no stones unturned and the ground has not yet recuperated. If you look closely, you’ll see a potted plant of some kind, most likely plastic, and a possible spot where bones were found. What you probably cannot see is that the ground is pretty saturated. At this time, it is not flooded, but in other photos the ground has a few inches of water. Remember, the side of the road drops down into the woods.
There were other pockets where tedious work had been done. Bones were scattered over a half acre when crews went in.
The next photo (BELOW) was taken just to the left of the above one. This or the one above is as close as I can get to showing you a very good idea of where Roy Kronk poked his head into the woods. It looks inviting, doesn’t it? That area was under water then, and parts of it are today.
What did he see back in those dog days of August?
Continuing west, I found the infamous FOR SALE sign that most of us saw plastered all over the Internet after news broke that the owner had put up an asking price of $89,900.
I cleared away some of the growth and I did it for a reason. It has nothing to do with trying to help the owner sell the property.
From that point, I headed back to my car, towards Hopespring. This next shot gives you another look at the back property fence and along the road. It is another angle showing how it almost backs right into the woods. If you look closely, you can see the roof of the house on the corner, the Gonzalez home. Next to him lives Zenaida Almodovar. Hmm… Zenaida? Gonzalez? Close to home? (See Creepy Cryptic Casey)
As I drove away, I was pointed in the direction of the school…
I asked a deputy manning the barricades during the recovery last December if the area down by the school was regulary patrolled. He told me it was. All schools are routinely checked throughout the night. The gated entrance is always kept locked, too.
Remember I mentioned there was a reason why I cleared out some of the growth around the sign? Believe it or not, there’s a method to my madness.
I took this back to my car and placed it into a sack.
In Memory of Caylee Marie Anthony
To everyone, friend or foe, I offer you this and I promise you my intention is honest and true. I have absolutely no other motive. If you e-mail me your address, I will send you a leaf as a token of remembrance. This will be something from the site of the original memorial. You can place it in a book or do what you please. I want nothing in return, no envelope, no stamp. This is purely a gesture of kindness in honor of little Caylee Marie Anthony. My adress is marinadedave@yahoo.com.
Afterward, I will destroy your address.
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