B]Chloroform levels extremely high, expert says[/B]
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By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
3:52 p.m. EDT, March 24, 2011
Arpad Vass, senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is testifying about his extensive research in buried body decomposition as well as surface decomposition.
Anthony's team is trying to stop air-sample evidence used in her murder trial.
Vass said Detective Melich contacted him about this case.
"He had some odor issues in the trunk of the car," he said.
Vass said in hundreds of such samples he'd collected through the years he'd never seen chloroform levels that high. His reaction, he said, was "surprise."
Vass says the amount of chloroform found in the air sample from the car was too high to be just from decomposition of a human body. "I don't think so," he said when asked by Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton. "It's much greater than that."
He estimated the levels found to be 10,000 times greater than normal human decomposition levels.