Remains Found Are Those Of Caylee Anthony
Breaking news in the case of missing toddler Caylee Anthony…authorities have confirmed that the remains are hers:
“It is with regret that I’m here to inform you that the skeletal remains found December 11 are those of the missing toddler,” said Dr. Jan Garavaglia, the Orange County medical examiner.
The remains were confirmed to be Caylee’s through a DNA match, authorities said.
Garavaglia said the cause of death was homicide, but she could not determine how Caylee was killed.
Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including first-degree murder in the June disappearance of her daughter.
Authorities said they called the jail where Anthony is being held to let her know about the discovery.
Caylee’s remains were found last week a half-mile from Casey Anthony’s parents’ home, in the area where a meter reader first directed police.
At the news conference, Garavaglia said that the remains were completely skeletonized and that no tissue was present. She said there was no trauma to the bones before Caylee’s death.
There is to be another news conference where the meter reader is expected to be identified:
At a separate news conference Friday, police are expected to identify the meter reader who, they said Thursday, called the department four months ago, directing them to the site of the remains three times.
At a Thursday news conference, Capt. Angelo Nieves, a Sheriff’s Department commander, said investigators were looking into whether the tips, called in August 11, 12 and 13, were properly followed up.
In one of those phone calls, the meter reader reported seeing a gray bag on the side of the road, Nieves said. On August 13, a deputy responded to the site and did a “cursory search” but found nothing, Nieves said.
Nieves said police were getting more information from the tipster and the deputy who responded to the tips. He said the department was investigating the “thoroughness” of the deputy’s response but would not identify the deputy.
The meter reader “is not a suspect,” Nieves said. “He is a credible witness.”
Nieves’ latest announcement is raising questions about whether police missed several chances to find Caylee’s remains.
The meter reader is not the only one, or the first, to have pointed police toward the site containing the remains.
KioMarie Cruz, Casey Anthony’s childhood friend, also told police to investigate the same wooded area near Hidden Oaks Elementary School a month before the meter reader, according to CNN affiliate WFTV.
In an interview with detectives, according to WFTV, Cruz said that she and Anthony “pretty much used to hang out there most of our time,” would “snack on food for hours” and went there to “get away from our parents.”
The Sheriff’s Department followed up on that tip, but the wooded area was covered in floodwaters, preventing a search. Nieves said the water may have been present at the time of the meter reader’s tips as well.
Nieves also said Thursday that searchers combing the site after the skull’s discovery had found “significant skeletal remains” consistent with those of a small child on the outer perimeter of the search area.
The area will be enlarged, and processing and searching of the site will continue, probably into the weekend, he said.
Hopefully now this poor child can have a decent burial and justice can move forward to put away the only person suspected in her death; and no matter what we might think about George and Cindy, they have now definitely lost their granddaughter. They have my prayers as they grieve.
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Sounds like the deputy in question failed to properly follow up on the leads from the meter reader. Had the deputy followed through, it would have saved the community a lot of grief and money. Bet someone loses their job over this.
Comment by Joanie — December 19, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
As far as Caylee’s mother goes, that lieing murderer should rot in jail.
As far as the police fumble with the calls, they should be fired and held accountable for all the money and grief they cost that town and FIRED.
Comment by JUSTICE MUST PREVAIL — December 20, 2008 @ 10:58 am
This happened in OJ, everyone thinks of the police and investigations running perfectly like in your favorite TV shows – but its not like that. These people are human and they make mistakes, get lazy,
and sometimes dont follow up where they should. They also can do a great job and put their lives in danger every day as well. So it happened, but Im with Nancy
Grace, we have found Caylee and that is what is important. Now, if Dr. G can get tests back from hair and bone, we might know how she died. There was no trauma to the bone, meaning that she could very well have had chloroform used on her.
Comment by Elaine 16 — December 20, 2008 @ 11:29 am
stick “tot mom” casey in general pop, instead of coddling her, she will then decide to talk.
Comment by sally — December 20, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Casey’s early lies would ask us to believe that there were facts she couldn’t reveal because they would put Caylee in danger. What’s her excuse for not talking now? Isn’t nice the way Jose Biaz can toss slurs at the police while it’s clear he lies through his teeth whenever he speaks. I hope some day “what goes around, comes around” for him.
Someone should tell him it’s his job to defend her, but that doesn’t mean he need to offend a whole lot of decent people.
Comment by jack — December 20, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
Unfortunately for Casey, she is not only an “very unpopular client” but her attorney isn’t any more well liked by the public than she is.
That young woman is a danger to society. I hope the jury will see fit to lock her away and save us all. Who knows what she’d do next.
Comment by Karen — December 20, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
Everyone is jumping all over the police department when in fact they are not the ones who wrapped that little girls head in duck tape and garbage bags and dumped her in the woods! THOUSANDS of people (complete strangers) were looking for this baby for months to no avail. All while the Anthonys’s and Casey did nothing but continue to lie and mislead law enforcement and FBI officials in their efforts to find Caylee. Now the Anthony’s are asking for immunity for making “misleading statements”?
How very sad for Caylee. Even in death, she is still surrounded by the dysfunction that most likely caused her death.
Comment by Kimi — December 21, 2008 @ 10:18 am
It is true that people expect real life to be like their favorite cops-n-robbers TV show, and that’s unfair to all the police officers who compentently do their job. However, that doesn’t excuse the fact that a suspicious bag was reported THREE TIMES over a three-day period in an area where Casey was known to frequent and in the area where a missing toddler lived, and the deputy didn’t do anything about it.
I’m related to Joe Schmoe The Ragpicker from up the road and even I would think to look in the bag.
Comment by k — December 22, 2008 @ 12:58 am
Well, you have to wonder if they guy called three times why he didn’t look in the bag himself if he was that convinced something was there.
I’m pick up that bag just to put it in the trash if I found it in a park just to make sure it wasn’t interfering with the search if it was nothing.
Maybe it was visible at times and not at others. Perhaps we’ll find out a bit more about this later.
I’m very happy the body was found. The Anthony family needs that closure. And we need fewer talk shows talking about “tips.”
Comment by Karen — December 22, 2008 @ 1:20 am
I don’t know about you, but in this day and age I ain’t picking up no bag that I find without rubber gloves and hand sanitizer.
Plus, haven’t the authorities been saying all along, that if you find anything, don’t touch it or pick it up or disturb it?
Comment by k — December 22, 2008 @ 1:24 am
It is hard to know what I might have done if I had found a mysterious bag in the vicinity of the Caylee search, but I think that I might have been inclined after the first or second call to LE with no apparent response, to open the darned thing and see what was inside. I am inclined to think that curiosity would have gotten the better of me, despite what directives were given out regarding finding anything suspicious. But like I said, I don’t think I would have done this right away, but maybe after it seemed like the tips were being ignored…
Has anyone heard anything recent about Casey’s current disposition? I know what a stupid question this is, but has she said anything?
Rest in Peace, precious little Caylee. You are home.
Comment by glp — December 22, 2008 @ 9:09 am
Well, I think that is exactly what the meter reader eventually did. Took a stick and poked the bag. Eventually, if no one listens after following directions, why not?
Comment by Karen — December 22, 2008 @ 11:35 am
Merry Christmas to all!!!
Comment by Jeff — December 26, 2008 @ 12:36 am
Kimi; I’m in total agreement w/you. EVERYBODY was looking for Caylee.
I remember seeing on tv that Casey said all she wanted to do was get out of jail so that she could go look for her daughter. Then she was bonded out.And I saw the one guy, from Equusearch (don’t remember his name) who said that he’d stayed in the Anthony’s home for 4 days. During those 4 days, he says, Casey did not mention Caylee’s name even once. Maybe morbid curiosity, but I’d like to know what Casey and her family talked about, if not Caylee.
I’d heard it reported, probably on NG, that the day before Caylee vanished, Cindy and Casey had had a fight/argument, whatever. I never heard what that was about. Does anybody know?
About the Anthony’s admitting they’d made “misleading statements” and volunteered to be re-interviewed by LE and to tell the truth for immunity. Has that happened? I haven’t heard anything.
Then there are a couple more things I want to comment on; In the jailhouse visits with her parents, Casey told her mom that “everything will make sense when Caylee is found.” Oh yeah? Make sense to who? She also said that there were things she just could not talk about because it could bring harm to Caylee and/or the Anthony family. I don’t know why I should even expect there to be an addendum to Casey’s statements to her parents, because she lies about everything. On the other hand, should she actually follow up her statements about “everything will make sense…” and now she should be able to divulge all the things she couldn’t talk about before, it would be quite interesting to hear what she might have to say. Sometimes I feel I am fascinated by the lies this monster spews from her mouth. I think part of it is that I find it hard to imagine that a mother would murder her child, and I just can’t wrap my head around how a mother could do such a thing. But for the record, I fully believe that Casey did murder Caylee. The question I have is “Why?”
Comment by Kitt — December 27, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
Kitt~
As for the fight that reportedly occurred the day before Caylee’s disappearance, I have heard it reported that Cindy had been seeing a therapist that was encouraging her to administer some tough love to Casey, and force her to move out, and also to pursue custody of Caylee. Apparently, even Cindy was tired of dealing with Casey’s crap… but I think Cindy was apprehensive of making Casey leave because she knew that in retaliation, Casey would take Caylee, whether she actually wanted her or not. I think this was the gist of the argument the night before, although admittedly, I am only restating things I have others speculate about, which leaves room for a lot of error in my reporting. Sorry if any of this is inaccurate. Don’t want to be out here spreading garbage, you know?
Like you, I would LOVE to hear Casey’s follow-up’s to her ludicrous statements about how this would all make sense, and how she couldn’t reveal ANYTHING for fear of endangering Caylee… but like you said, no fear of getting any explanations from Casey, the sociopath that she is. If she was tight-lipped before, no chance she is going to come clean now.
My initial fear in this case that I have become painfully emotionally involved in, was that Caylee would not be found alive. Now, my fear is that her family first and foremost, then all of us concerned well-wishers who have followed this case from day-one, will never actually know the TRUTH about what happened to this precious angel, because so much of that relies on her purely evil mother. I guess I will have to place my hope in God, the justice system, and forensics to nail that witch to the proverbial cross on which she belongs.
God be with little Caylee. Rest in peace.
Comment by glp — December 29, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
I tried not to let myself become too involved emotionally w/this case as well. It didn’t work to well:( Celebrated Christmas w/ a heavy heart. Prayers to all involved physically & emotionally. May God have mercy on Casey.
p.s. hugged my kids a little bit harder.
Comment by kimmers — January 1, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
I was just wondering what everyone thinks about the Anthony’s seeking immunity for their cooperation? I was also wondering what everyone thinks about the allegations that these two private detectives hired by the Anthony’s may have known about the whereabouts of Caylee’s body long before she was found? Jose doesn’t want the investigators questioned because they could “give up defense secrets” and incriminate Casey.
Comment by Kimi — January 2, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Have followed little Caylee from July. Guess we all have heavy hearts right now. Casey will have to live with the knowledge that she can never bring Caylee back. No-matter how many stories she makes up. Hope she lives a very very long time.
Comment by debbie — January 2, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Amen to that. Death would be too easy.
Comment by glp — January 5, 2009 @ 9:33 am
I just heard that they found some clothing, a Winne The Pooh blanket, some kind of iron on stickers and a toy with Caylee’s remains. BUT WORSE they found a heart shape sticker had been stuck to the duct tape over her mouth!!!!!
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