I am confused. When JA was asking the ME to describe the circumferential thing...I thought he was asking about the skull being in the dirt....that it was all the way around the head. I didn't realize he was talking about the duct tape. ARe we sure?
TIA
Right - Steve Hanson said the "circumferential" thing was about the debris around the skull being up to the eye sockets and all the way around the skull.
Gary Utz said the tape comes around to the side, the 3 pieces of tape were attached to each other, and he had to cut away hair to release the tape.
He said the adhesive backing of the Henkel tape had separated from the fabric portion of the tape, and Ashton circled the backing.
The fabric portion of the tape was adhered to Caylee's hair and mandible, along with plant roots.
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part 7
Steve Hanson
move on to CL # 211
addl photo of skull showing duct tape and relationship to one plastic bag
(17:40) the skull position - was the portions of skull beneath level of leaf litter or ground around it? not sure about dirt - but
imbedded in vines and leaves and ground debris
appears from photo the
debris was up to mid eye socket level? yes
(18:25)
where debris line around skull - draw on photo
(19:05) debris ...circumferential around skull
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part 9
Gary Utz
(9:05) CV #221
photo of tape after removed
describe what looking at - what the tape looked like after I separated it from the rest of the remains, it is the grey or silver tape, you can see that there's been quite a bit of
separation of layers of the tape, and much of the fabric backing is completely separated from the tape itself
by the fabric backing do you mean this part I've just circled
was that tape taken into evidence and released to representatives of the FBI
(10:27) shows him evidence package KN - labelled with unidentified skeletal remains, number for this case, date and my initials
is that the bag into which the tape was placed when you released it to the FBI? yes
next photo CW #
close up photo of emblem on tape