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[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony: Witness says she's very likable, but a whacko
posted by halboedeker on Sep 4, 2009 4:31:00 PM
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You can read the latest words about Casey Anthony, but it means more to hear them.

Tracy McLaughlin, an associate of bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, watched Anthony in the days after the young mother bonded out of jail and went home. McLaughlin's warm, friendly voice enlivens her recollections about Anthony, who is charged with the first-degree murder of daughter Caylee. McLaughlin's voice filled newscasts today.

WESH-Channel 2's Michelle Meredith succinctly summed up the news: "Casey rarely talked about the charges against her. According to Tracy, Casey mainly talked about Casey."

Then WESH played McLaughlin's take on Anthony. McLaughlin told investigators: "The sad thing is ... I really kind of liked her. Just cause I fell sorry for whackos or something. But she's a very likable girl. She is ... if she wasn't so ..."

McLaughlin didn't finish the thought.

Anthony also wondered about trying to raise money for her defense by signing photographs or going on Howard Stern's radio show. "But he's want to know my bra size and if [defense attorney] Jose [Baez] was hitting it."

Article:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/en...says-shes-very-likable-but-a-whacko.html#more

 

[nachomama]

http://www.wftv.com/news/20723700/detail.html

TWO HEARING NEXT WEEK IN FRAUD CASE

As they prepare for her murder trial, Casey's defense lawyers will head to court next week for the civil case against her. Two hearing are set next week in the defamation suit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez.

Gonzalez is the woman with the same name as the babysitter Casey claimed took off with Caylee.

On September 8, Casey's attorney will ask the judge to dismiss the civil case, or at least postpone it until after her murder trial.

The next day, there will be a hearing to compel George and Cindy Anthony to answer questions that they refused to answer during their deposition.

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony: Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla stirred up Anthony family when he arrived
California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla got upset about pizza delivery after he bailed Casey out of jail, audio interviews show
5:11 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2009
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Three people who were among the closest to Casey Anthony after she first got out of jail last summer told investigators that Anthony -- while her 2-year-daughter remained missing -- was jovial and overly concerned with her public persona.

Interviews with colorful California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, his nephew Rob Dick and their associate Tracy McLaughlin were among investigative findings released Friday by Florida prosecutors in their first-degree murder case against Anthony.

The State Attorney's Office released two DVDs and a CD full of lengthy audio files, cell phone photos of Caylee Marie and also home video from a private investigator who was working with Anthony's family to find the missing girl.

Some other highlight's from Padilla's interview:

Padilla asked Lee Anthony if his sister took any drugs. "[Lee Anthony] got a little perturbed about it," Padilla said. He did not elaborate on whether Lee Anthony answered to the question.

"This is the kind of nut I didn't need to talk to," Padilla said of Lee Anthony. "There were times when it just didn't ring that he was being on the level with us."

Padilla told investigators Casey Anthony would "wiggle her little butt coming out of that attorney's office." He said her demeanor never changed since she left the jail.

Padilla said Casey Anthony told fellow bounty hunter Rob Dick that she didn't realize she was going to be a celebrity, but then realized how newsworthy she had become.

"Maybe I should take pictures, autograph them and sell them," Padilla said Casey Anthony had told Dick. "I could make a lot of money."

Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...y-anthony-case-padilla-090509,0,3155005.story

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony: Bounty hunter's assistant says Casey was jovial after jail release
More discovery evidence is released Friday in the State Attorney's against Casey Anthony.
5:07 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2009
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Tracy McLaughlin said one night, the topic of GHB -- known as the date-rape drug -- came up. McLaughlin asked Casey Anthony if she knew what the drug was and its effects.

"She said like roofies . . . or chloroform," McLaughlin said. "Roofies" is slang for Rohypnol, a date-rape drug.

McLaughlin said that statement was made before chloroform ever came out publicly as being linked to Casey Anthony's car. McLaughlin said it didn't mean anything to her at the time.

Other revelations from Friday's discovery: Casey Anthony also liked being on TV, McLaughlin said. It was a game to her.

"She liked the attention," she said.

"It was just unbelievable," she said. "It was like she'd gone to Iraq or something and just got back. So there's still nothing about Caylee."

"She'll tell a story and she has such a belief in herself. She has no grasp on reality. This is where her problem is. She has no grasp."

"It was like it was competition. She wanted the limelight. It was sad. You couldn't talk about anything else. It just had to be her."

"She didn't talk about Caylee at all."

Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...anthony-court-discover-090409,0,7143553.story

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony: Witness says she was cold, talking chloroform
posted by halboedeker on Sep 4, 2009 5:52:17 PM
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Casey Anthony's defense team didn't want the public to hear interviews that the FBI conducted with Leonard Padilla and his team.

"Now we know why," WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Martie Salt said.

Belich said McLaughlin was "stunned by Casey's stone-cold reaction to a finding that air in her trunk showed signs of human decomposition."

Anthony looked at the television and said a lot of people had access to the car, McLaughlin told investigators.

When Anthony learned hair consistent with hers and Caylee's came from a dead body, her reaction was even colder, Belich said. McLaughlin said Anthony said, "I'm alive."

During a conversation about drugs that in high doses can knock out a person, McLaughlin brought up ether.

Anthony mentioned chloroform.

The significance of that conversation?

"That was before any reports about Casey's computer searches about the potentially deadly chloroform or reports that traces of chloroform were found in her car trunk," Belich said.

WFTV also highlighted developments in the defamation case against Anthony. Anthony's team will seek the dismissal of Zenaida Gonzalez's defamation suit on Tuesday. On Wednesday, there will be a hearing to compel George and Cindy Anthony to answer questions they refused to earlier.

Article:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/en...ss-says-she-was-unemotional-uninterested.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Padilla: Casey never shed tear over girl
Updated: Friday, 04 Sep 2009, 8:21 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 04 Sep 2009, 8:21 PM EDT
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California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his colleagues said in police interviews released Friday the 23-year-old mother acted "chirpy" and "perky" after her release from jail. The interviews were released by the State Attorney's Office in Orlando. An e-mail to a spokeswoman for Anthony's attorney was not immediately answered.

In one police interview, Tracy McLaughlin, who was part of the bail bondsmen team, said Anthony didn't appear to have a grasp on reality. For instance, Anthony had McLaughlin wear a watch on her ankle to match the monitoring device that Anthony was wearing.

McLaughlin also described Anthony as narcissistic yet likable. McLaughlin was with Anthony around the clock in the days after she was released from jail in August 2008 to protect the bail bondsmen's investment in Anthony.

"I'm thinking, 'She's not even upset. Not a word about her daughter,"' McLaughlin said. "It was unbelievable."

Article:
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/090409_Padilla_Casey_never_shed_tear_over_girl