22 December 2008
Caylee case: New search of grandparents’ home
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ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) — Investigators carried away several bags and boxes of potential evidence from the home of Caylee Anthony’s grandparents on Saturday, shortly after they finished searching woods nearby where the toddler’s body was found.
Flowers are placed Friday at a makeshift memorial in the wooded area where Caylee’s body was found.
George and Cindy Anthony were home when the search warrant was served at 3 p.m., a spokesman for the Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s office said. Their daughter, Casey, who was the child’s mother, is being held at the Orange County jail, charged with her daughter’s murder.
It was the third such search of the Anthony home in the 10 days since the child’s remains were found. The spokesman, Angelo Nieves, would not describe the items taken other than to say they were "of evidentiary value."
Just minutes before the search of the Anthony home began, investigators concluded their painstaking search of the scene where a county meter reader found a plastic bag containing the skull of a small child on December 11.
Other skeletal remains, including bone fragments as small as a pea, were uncovered after investigators marked off grids and sifted through the underbrush, leaves and dirt.
The remains were identified as Caylee’s on Friday through DNA, and her death was ruled a homicide.
A large crowd of onlookers gathered as authorities left the search area on Saturday, CNN affiliates reported. The area was marked with "No Trespassing" signs, and a surveillance camera was installed, affiliate WFTV reported. The investigation has now shifted from a missing-persons search to a homicide prosecution.
Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including first-degree murder in the disappearance and death of Caylee, who was 2 when she vanished last summer.
The mother’s defense team had claimed since her October indictment that the child might still be alive, even claiming witnesses had spotted Caylee since her disappearance.
The defense team has fought unsuccessfully in court for access to the autopsy, the forensic evidence and to the scene where the remains were found.
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Nieves, the sheriff’s spokesman, said the defense was notified at 11:30 a.m. that the scene would be released. But, Nieves said, attorney Jose Baez told him the defense would not be responding to the scene.
The formal identification of the remains "has really cut the legs out of the defense," Stacey Honowitz, an assistant
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