2012-11-26

Investigators overlooked critical evidence in the disappearance of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. The Florida sheriff’s office in charge of the case missed evidence that someone in the Anthony home did a Google search for “fool-proof” suffocation methods on the day Caylee was last seen alive. Orange County sheriff’s Capt. Angelo Nieves said Sunday that the office’s computer investigator missed the June 16, 2008, search. The agency’s admission was first reported by Orlando television station WKMG. It’s not known who performed the search. The station reported it was done on a browser primarily used by the 2-year-old’s mother, Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of the girl’s murder in 2011. Anthony’s attorneys argued during trial that Casey Anthony helped her father, George Anthony, cover up the girl’s drowning in the family pool. WKMG reports that sheriff’s investigators pulled 17 vague entries only from the computer’s Internet Explorer browser, not the Mozilla Firefox browser commonly used by Casey Anthony. More than 1,200 Firefox entries, including the suffocation search, were overlooked. Whoever conducted the Google search looked for the term “fool-proof suffcation,” misspelling “suffocation,” and then clicked on an article about suicide that discussed taking poison and putting a bag over one’s head. The browser [...]

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