A Florida sheriff's deputy has been fired because of his unsatisfactory response to a meter reader's repeated phone calls to check out woods where a missing toddler's body eventually was found.
Casey Anthony told a judge Wednesday that her agreement with an attorney who is defending her against accusations she killed her 2-year-old daughter does not allow him the rights to sell her story to collect legal fees.
The defense team for Casey Anthony, the Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, last summer, hinted Monday that they will attempt to use the “Sam Sheppard” defense, suggesting that someone else killed the child.
A judge on Friday denied a motion from Casey Anthony's defense attorneys to remove prosecutors from her murder trial but ruled that the defense team can inspect woods where the remains of her slain toddler were found. Casey Anthony is charged with killing her daughter, Caylee, who was 2 when she disappeared last summer.
At one time, it was impossible to imagine that Casey Anthony could have done any harm to her daughter, Caylee. But one of the people who knew Anthony best said he no longer knows what she could have done.
Skeletal remains found in the woods are the Florida 3-year-old who has been missing since June, but they don't reveal any clues about how she was killed, a county medical examiner said Friday. A utility worker stumbled upon the remains last week, less than a half-mile from where the girl lived. DNA tests confirm that the remains match Caylee Anthony's genetic profile, said the medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia.
Prosecutors looking to convict a central Florida mother in the death of her missing daughter are waiting to find out if they have the crucial evidence they need: a body.
Prosecutors have DNA tests and hair samples. They have testimony about "the smell of death" in the trunk of the suspect's car.
Casey Anthony tried to give her missing 3-year-old daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn't let her, according to legal documents that paint the 22-year-old Florida woman as a perplexed, scheming and unbalanced person who repeatedly defended obvious lies in police reports.
George and Cindy Anthony appeared on nationwide television Wednesday. Cindy said Casey, 'feared for all our lives.'
The State Attorney's Office has decided to seek the death penalty in their murder case against Casey Anthony, WFTV in Orlando reports.
The State Attorney's Office has decided to seek the death penalty in their murder case against Casey Anthony, Eyewitness News learned Monday afternoon. She's the Orlando mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
The deputy who investigated a call for service from the man who ended up finding Caylee Anthony's remains was fired by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, but he refused the termination and will keep his job until an appeal is heard.
The state released three DVD's Monday containing video, audio, photos and documents in the Caylee Anthony murder investigation. INSIDE: New photos and documents .
I know -- this is total and complete tabloid territory. I think this scenario is twisted and gross, but possible.
"Full disclosure: I hate CNN et al's obsession with missing kids, murdered mommies, shark attacks, other tear-jerking, fear-mongering stories that, while tragic, really seem more the purview of local news.
Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's attorney, said Wednesday that he has seen the videotape of Casey Anthony in jail when she found out a child's remains were found near her home Baez said he has seen the tape and it may compromise the attorney-client privilege.
Investigators arranged to videotape Casey Anthony's reaction in jail when she learned that a child's remains were found near her family's home, a source told WESH 2 News exclusively on Thursday.
The damning trail of physical evidence linking Casey Anthony to the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee may have grown stronger with the release of 1,100 pages of investigative information, some of which could link Casey to her daughter's death.
The Casey Anthony defense team revealed their defense strategy on "The Today Show" Friday morning. They have adopted one used by renowned defense attorney F.
The distraught grandfather of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony sent his family and friends text messages saying he "did not want to live anymore and that he wanted to be with Caylee," according to a police report.
Every day we learn more about the Caylee Anthony case than we really want to know, this, as the crime of maternal filicide, the killing of a child by its mother, is just too bizarre, too insane, and too repulsive for most to wrap their emotional arms around.
More details surface regarding the remains of little Caylee Anthony. Details include what the child was wrapped in, what items were found with her little body and what the next steps are in the findings.
New details both graphic and heartbreaking are released to the media today in Orlando. Little Caylee's body was bound by duct tape that had a heart shaped sticker placed on it. More items and details also revealed.
The Orange County meter reader who found Caylee Marie Anthony's remains has received a $5,000 reward from a local lawyer.
The Orange County deputy sheriff accused of not properly following up on a tip in the Caylee Marie Anthony case was temporarily reassigned this morning, according to an agency spokesman.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Private investigator Dominic Casey claims a psychic was the mystery caller on the phone with him while he searched the wooded area where Caylee Anthony's remains were found.
The attorney for the Anthony family feels that might be the best option.
- It's some of the biggest evidence yet in the case against Casey and Eyewitness News and WFTV.com were the first to obtain the video of an Anthony family private investigator at the crime scene a full month before Caylee's body was found
WFTV's legal analyst viewed the video showing a private investigator for the Anthony family talking on the phone and digging with a shovel at the scene where Caylee's body was later found.
- Casey Anthony was publicly seen Thursday for the first time in nearly three months and it was a legal snafu that dragged her out of her jail cell and into court.
A judge berated Casey Anthony's defense team at the courthouse Tuesday. Her lawyers are trying to delay her deposition in the civil suit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez until after her murder trial.
Investigators carried away several bags and boxes of potential evidence from the home of Caylee Anthony's grandparents on Saturday, shortly after they finished searching woods nearby where the toddler's body was found.
We now know what most have believed for the past eight days. The human remains found less than ½ mile from the Anthony home are those of missing Caylee Anthony.