Test Results Due Back in Casey Anthony Case

August 01, 2008

According to a spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, DNA test results from Casey Anthony's car will be completed next week.

Forensic technicians are currently examining human hair, bodily fluid and other evidence that was found during a search of her vehicle. The evidence first came to light during Anthony's bond hearing, when Corporal Yuri Melich testified about a "bad smell" in the trunk of Anthony's car.

"There was a very bad smell in the car," Melich stated. "Briefly, just before I came into the Child Abuse Division, I was a homicide detective for two years with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, and in my experience, the smell that I smelled in that car was the smell of decomposition."

Meanwhile, Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, told Local6.com that he is angry with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, specifically Deputy Carlos Padilla, who told Nancy Grace that Baez had asked for immunity for Anthony.

"The police have just leaked one thing after another," Baez said. "I don't know. Carlos Padilla wasn't there."

Investigation Discovery called Padilla today, but he was unavailable for comment.

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Comments

[Diana]

The fusian pictures have been removed but someone else was quick enough to repost them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/equalizeyou/

What a sleaze.

[nika]

no doubt they got the results many days ago. probably they were conclusive in all the negative ways they could be. ---i.e. caylee was dead in that trunk & in the back yard, etc.

but they are waiting to release the findings until they have to --formally charge casey to keep her in jail.

and thats why they are doing all these interviews w/ the family now--because they anticipate when the results are in the family will have a greater conflict helping with a trial against casey instead of what is now a supposed search for caylee.

[MILLIE]

SHE KILLED THAT BABY WHEN THEY GOT DRUNK AND MAYBE THEY DID SOMETHING TO CAYLEE AND CASEY IS TAKING THE BLAME FOR HIM NOT TO GET IN TROBLE

[renee]

I to believe she did something to that precious child.. some people do not desrve children. and I believe to with the grandmother covering up washing evidence she also is involved..her stories change like she changes her underwear..and now to bring the great grandmother into it that caylee called her also that day... what is the grandmother trying to cover up... come on get on with it find a body and serve them with something... this is a waste to listen to a bunch of lies these people keep feeding everyone..

[Judy]

I haven't heard anybody say what Casey spent $45,000.00 on when she used her mother's stolen credit card. They could trace the purchases to find out where all she traveled to spend that money and I'll bet little Caylee was strapped in her car seat all the time Mommy went shopping!! If Casey had credit cards, why did she have to break in her parents' shed and steal gas cans??? She also stole $700 from a friend of hers. What did she spend that money on? Does Mom Casey have a drug problem that we don't know about? I have mulled over every piece of information in this case and it still boggles my mind with so many unanswered questions. I find it strange that Tony, the boyfriend, wasn't more concerned about where Caylee was during the month that Casey was living with him. What bothers me the most is why Casey's mother "CINDY" did not bother to check on any of these people that Casey claimed were "babysitting" Caylee. I would have insisted on at least meeting them and perhaps checking out their living quarters -- especially Zenaida Gonzalez since she was the one most talked about by Casey. And why didn't little Caylee ever talk about this Zenaida person? I know when my son was little and I had to place him with a babysitter for me to go to work, he knew her name and talked about her all the time. ANOTHER question I have about Casey is when she told her parents or whoever she was going to "WORK", where was she really going SINCE SHE HAD NO JOB!! Could she have been running drugs for somebody? Was she prostituting? She had to spend her days somewhere. And where was Caylee because we all know by now that there never as a real babysitter. Someone please check out these things and post them somewhere on the net to give me some piece of mind. I'm going nuts over this case.

[Abby]

It is difficult to say what she did with all the money. Random speculation really doesn't help find Caylee but it is a look at what Casey was doing and where she was traveling. I agree it doesn't make any sense about the gas cans or stealing the money from her friend Amy. It probably has something to do with her psychological pathology. She was telling friends that she worked and while at Tony's she was preparing meals and dressing well (re: photos). More than likely she needed the cash to support her lies. I think that when it came to her child she did not want to make it complicated; after all she had a new boyfriend and stealing from friends, borrowing cars and stealing gas cans all played a role in erasing her child. I'd say that now it's equally as important to not implicate herself any further by telling lies. The next phase of this investigation will see Casey Anthony bring new meaning to Silence. When she was telling lies she was in terrible trouble but the flip side-Silence- has gotten her out of jail and she knows that this is the way to stay out of jail for the next couple of months. When she goes to trial on November 15th she knows she's looking at 5-6years and this she probably will do as long as she never says another word about her child.Once the forensics are released (DNA,etc) than that will be the opening for the DA-the EVIDENCE speaks to all the issues. Had she come forward and told the truth in June it might have been better for her.
In the end though, I do feel terribly sad for this young woman-something happened to this child. I wish someone would bring her back if she is alive. If not, why would anyone allow their flesh and blood to be abandoned-who could be so heartless.

[Vowel_Movement]

Jesus Ortiz is supposed to be the bio father but he is not!

I cannot believe the speculation and hype and the smarmy appearances of the Grand Parents in this mess. What a couple of waste of times. At least the Law Enforcement Community is being professional and keeping mum, unlike the cluster in Boulder Colo. a few years ago.

If George Anthony is a former "retired Peace Officer of the high ranking kind" he must have been a Nimrod of a cop. He certainly reared one psychotic pathological lying, good for absolutely nothing daughter.

Unbelievable to everyone except the liberal press who are constantly playing Hearts and flowers the world’s smallest fiddle. I suggest that the theme and lietmotiv for this story should be from Delierance, yup, they should be playing dueling Banjos from Deliverance. The whole famdamly is obvious a gaggle of inbred psychopathic Maroons in a single family residence here. Daughers a druggy and probably a Meth Queen.

I have a slew of grand kids and if I go without hearing from them every couple of days, I'm on the phone to just say hello. The grandparents are amaningly transparent. There are a lot of former Police admin types out there whose entire career was about personal image etc. It sure could be if this guy was one of those L.U.M.P.S. [Little upwardly Mobile Police Supervisors] he wouldn't have known what to do in the first place because like the Grand ma, it is all about them...not Caylee. I wanted to retch when Grandma Anthony gave a tour of the house to Greta like she was Jacky Kennedy showing off the White House. Most of the Smarmy LUMPS I have known have their home lives run by harridan shrew like wives like old termagant Mrs. [Jacky "O" Wanna be] Anthony is turning into.

[Diane]

Well, the results are in from the Body Farm. Human decomposition in the trunk....not a big surprise, but very disturbing and sad. Casey has been offered a partial plea deal, but has not accepted it yet or provided any info on her daughters whereabouts. Unfortunately, this is how most of us knew this tragedy would end up.

[denise]

if that was my daughter i would probably hurt her every day of her life till she told me what she did with that precious baby i don't think i would want her in my house or my life you know where that baby is quit being all about yourself and be a women and a MOTHER and face the people how can you look in the mirror everyday and act like you don't know where she is you are a sick person you can get help if you will only be a human being and let someone help you i'm BEGGING you please be a real MOTHER and accept what you or someone else did to little CAYLEE

[jean]

I wonder why we don't hear about Casey Anthony's cell phone records. If she claims to have called Zanaida then wouldn't it show on her records proving conclusively she called or whether this was just another fabricated story.