Police confirm that Caylee Anthony is dead, and that it was her decomposing body in Casey’s trunk

From WESH-TV:
For the first time on the record on Sunday, Orange County investigators acknowledged that recent FBI lab tests confirmed that Caylee Anthony’s body was in her mother’s trunk and that the child is dead.
Evidence from a Central Florida body farm showed that an odor emitted from Casey Anthony’s car’s trunk was human decomposition. A [...]

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Anthony family confronted by questioning protesters

I ran across the following disturbing video, and I have to say, I’m worried.  This could turn very ugly, very quickly, especially with George Anthony’s temper and the fact that there are men yelling at his wife like that in front of their own home.

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Casey Anthony back in jail indefinitely after bond revoked

The bonding company, which put up the $500,000 bond for Casey Anthony, mother of missing child Caylee Anthony, revoked that bond earlier today.  The charges covered by that bond were child neglect, making false statements, and obstructing the investigation into her daughter’s disappearance.
Casey Anthony was arrested on new charges of uttering a forged instrument, fraudulent [...]

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Update: China Arnold found guilty of microwaving baby to death

This is an update on a previous article.
In Dayton, Ohio, 28-year-old China Arnold has been convicted of aggravated murder for microwaving her one-month-old baby, Paris Talley, to death in 2005.
Prosecutors said that Arnold intentionally put her baby in the microwave oven and cooked the child to death, following a fight with her boyfriend.
During [...]

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Is Casey Anthony being arrested on more serious charges?

A group of cops just showed up at the Anthony home, and escorted Casey out of her parents’ home, possibly in handcuffs. They took her away in a police car.
UPDATE 8/30:  Casey Anthony was arrested on financial fraud charges, and the bonding company has revoked her original bond.  http://elfninosmom.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/casey-anthony-back-in-jail-indefinitely-after-bond-revoked/

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Caylee Anthony: Courtroom video from bond hearing

My Fox Orlando has posted courtroom videos from the Casey Anthony bond hearing.  Click on the links to view the videos.  NOTE:  These videos are rather long, so I suggest that you hit play, then hit pause once it starts, wait a few minutes so it can buffer, then hit play again.
Cindy Anthony testimony
George Anthony [...]

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Wicked Gibson Rocks!

Here’s an improvisational jam by ElfNino’s best friend Wicked Gibson.  They play guitar together a lot, but WG videotapes his sometimes.   Lucky for us, because he’s amazing.

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Tests confirm Caylee Anthony is dead; Padilla to revoke bond

According to sources closely linked to the investigation, testing on a stain and hair samples taken from Casey Anthony’s car trunk have revealed that Caylee Anthony is dead.
Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, who became involved in the case because he believed Caylee was alive and felt Casey Anthony would give him the clues necessary to find [...]

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Air Samples show decomposing human body was in Casey Anthony’s trunk; Casey offered immunity deal

As first reported by readers “Clifton” and “Mel”in the comment section of the thread about the 400+ page Discovery documents, (thanks, Clifton and Mel!!) air samples showed the presence of human decomposition in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car.
From My Fox Orlando:
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sources close to the investigation of missing 3-year-old Caylee [...]

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We were named as a WordPress “Blog of the Day”!

I was so tickled this morning to wake up and see that my entry on the 400 pages of Discovery released in the Casey Anthony case was listed today as a WordPress “Blog Of The Day” as well as “Top Posts“.  Given that there are about 4 million WordPress blogs with zillions of posts, that’s [...]

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Casey Anthony Discovery Released – read the official evidence on the case

I hope readers following the Caylee Anthony case have a lot of free time on their hands, because you’re going to need it.
Today, the State Attorney’s office released the discovery in the case against Casey Anthony. All 437 pages of it. This is the same documentation which her attorney, Jose Baez, will receive [...]

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Half-ton woman indicted for child murder “too fat for jail”

Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, age 27 of La Jola,  Texas, stands accused of killing her two-year-old nephew.  A Grand Jury decided that she should face charges of murder and injury in connection with that death in the case of little Eliseo Gonzalez Jr.
There’s a little problem with putting her in jail or even taking her to [...]

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“Cops Cases & Clues” on Caylee Anthony case

Each of these videos is about ten minutes long. Though not new – they seem to have been aired a couple of weeks ago – they contain some things that I have not seen elsewhere, including a full-length interview with George and Cindy Anthony, explaining what happened the night they found Casey but not [...]

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Dog saves abandoned newborn from near-freezing weather

This is one of the coolest dog stories I’ve heard in a very long time.
From CNN:
A dog sheltered a newborn baby abandoned by its 14-year-old mother in a field in rural Argentina until the boy was rescued, a doctor said Friday.
A resident of a rural area outside La Plata called police late Wednesday night to [...]

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Medical student busted after FBI tip reveals he was starting his own “family” of child sex slaves

I recently was referred to a blog, now no longer available except in cache, which contained some extremely disturbing information on it.
If you are under the age of 18, you shouldn’t be here anyway, but definitely stop reading now. This is not for the young, or for the faint at heart.
The blog in question [...]

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Lori Drew attorney seeks Megan Meier medical records

From Kansas City:
ST. LOUIS | A lawyer representing a woman accused of having a role in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide is seeking the girl’s mental health records, claiming a medication switch shortly before her death may have caused her suicide.
Documents filed Tuesday in federal court in California [...]

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Sometimes, sanitizing just isn’t enough

I hated reading about this, because I love Burger King food. Or maybe this just explains their extra flavor when compared to other fast food burger joints? Ick.
The above video shows Timothy Tackett, a Burger King employee in Xenia, Ohio, taking a bath in a Burger King kitchen utility [...]

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Trolls and bullies cry to the Queen when they get what’s coming to them

Everyone who has had a blog with comments has run into trolls, internet bullies, and general-purpose wackjobs. Sometimes they seem harmless at first, and sometimes they jump in with both feet immediately.
Sometimes bloggers will take them at face value until it becomes clear that they are not to be taken seriously. Sometimes bloggers [...]

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Jello Bombs, anyone?

For a while, I was covering some very weird stories in one particular area, within about an hour from where West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky meet.  It started with the Duct Tape Bandit.  While while looking for an update on our favorite idiotic criminal, it expanded to a story about a cop running over a [...]

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Woman first to clone pet dog is a fugitive who once kidnapped a young Mormon missionary and made him her sex slave. No, I’m not making that up.

From Yahoo News:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.
Joyce Bernann McKinney was charged in Carter County with criminal [...]

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Updates on Caylee Anthony disappearance

Cindy Anthony, grandmother of Caylee (and mother of Caylee’s mom Casey), spoke with reporters today. She maintains that her daughter is innocent, and is in jail because she is protecting Caylee.
Even as innocently as we try to be careful in what we might say that could tip someone off, that might think oh my [...]

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The horrific life and death of little Danieal Kelly

Every once in a while, I run across a child abuse/neglect case which makes me so angry that it takes me a little while before I can calm down enough to write about it.
I ran across such a report last week. I was, however, pleased to see that the Grand Jury recommended, in [...]

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Mercades Nichols is at it again

Mercades Nichols, one of the girls arrested for attacking and seriously injuring another girl, beating her unconscious then waiting for her to regain consciousness so they could beat her for another thirty minutes, and videotaping the entire episode of violent stupidity for YouTube, has been arrested again.
She was already out on bond, posted by the [...]

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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive

Casey Anthony is, of course, the mother of missing two-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony.  Caylee had been missing for a month before anyone called police, and many suspect Casey Anthony has killed her.  Casey Anthony is currently being held pending $500,200 bond, and even if she posts it, she will be forced to wear a GPS [...]

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67-year-old woman arrested after punching cop in the face

Melbourne, Florida (The Weekly Vice) — Betty Daniels Gayle, a 67 year old Melbourne, Florida woman was arrested and charged with battery on a police officer after she punched a police officer in face.
According to police, officers were first called to Ross Department Store Monday after receiving a complaint that a customer was being [...]

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George Anthony tells Greta that Casey stole gas cans from shed

The following is a partial transcript from On The Record With Greta Van Susteren. You can read this blog’s complete coverage of the Casey Anthony case concerning her daughter, missing child Caylee Anthony, by clicking here.:
VAN SUSTEREN: Are these the sheds were there was some report something was stolen from the sheds or broken [...]

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Amicus Brief filed in support of Lori Drew’s motion to dismiss charges

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have filed an amicus brief in support of Lori Drew’s motion to dismiss the charges against her.
Lori Drew is, of course, the Missouri mother who pretended to be a cute boy named “Josh” on MySpace, so she [...]

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Official documentation on Caylee Anthony disappearance gives insight into the case not covered by media

After receiving and reviewing court and police documents related to the disappearance of Caylee Anthony, some items really struck me as having not been covered at all by the mainstream media, despite the easy availability of the records.
You can click on the links to see the actual documents in PDF format. My discussion of [...]

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Death Row inmate claims he’s too fat to be executed

From CNN:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he’s too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.

CAPTION: Death row inmate Richard Cooey says executioners would have trouble finding [...]

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“A New Face For Marlie”

Last night, the Discovery Channel showed a documentary on 13-year-old Marlie Casseus of Haiti. Marlie has a disease called Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia, which caused the bones of her face to grow to enormous size.
Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia is a disease in which the bones which are affected grow uncontrollably, and in an uneven pattern, causing [...]

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David Spates: Defending Mama

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Talkin’ With Dave: 420-pound eight-year-old

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My first YouTube video ever

Jake Porter wrote an entry a couple of days ago, in which he mentioned Gene Chapman’s song “Missed the Gist of Jesus’ Promised Land”.
For those unfamiliar with Gene Chapman … he is the self-described “American Gandhi”, the world’s only living multiple death-faster, and a self-styled exorcist of inanimate objects who once tried to set himself [...]

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Meet the troll who made the “Megan Had It Coming” blog

Excerpt from excellent New York Times article on computer trolls (free login required to read entire article, but definitely worth it):
In the days after the Megan Meier story became public, Lori Drew and her family found themselves in the trolls’ crosshairs. Their personal information — e-mail addresses, satellite images of their home, phone numbers — [...]

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Robby Guppy isn’t quite so popular anymore

Robby Gubby, a 17-year-old high school football star from Pulaski, NY, who played lineman position and was an all-around popular guy at school, had an 18-month old daughter which, strangely, no one at school seemed to know he had.  The child’s mother dropped the baby off with him last weekend and …. well, let’s [...]

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As if the stench and inconvenience is not enough, here’s yet another reason to not ride a Greyhound bus

(CNN) — A 40-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Friday in connection with the stabbing and beheading death of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus, authorities said.

Caption: Police investigate the scene near Portage la Prairie, Canada, on Thursday.

Vince Weiguang Li of Edmonton, Alberta, stood silent before a judge Friday in the Provincial Court [...]

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Inbox Insanity: Illuminati created L.A. earthquake?

[doveofo] Illuminati Earthquakes on West Coast USA
July 31, 2008 7:55 p.m. PDT
Hello Dear Friends and White Knights,
The 5.4 earthquake which occurred in the Los Angeles area this week was not a natural event.
For many years, certain scientists and Illuminati have known how to create earthquakes. The lluminati Bush government ordered the Los [...]

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