WFTV Legal Analyst Describes Private Investigators' Video

WFTV Legal Analyst Describes Private Investigators' Video

Friday, January 9, 2009 – updated: 7:02 pm EST January 9,
2009ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- WFTV's
legal analyst viewed the video showing a private investigator for the
Anthony family talking on the phone and digging with a shovel at the
scene where Caylee's body was later found. That private investigator
was caught on camera, but until Bill Sheaffer had a chance to view it,
few details were known about what the video showed."He was
digging in the soil. He had a probe that he was probing in the soil. He
was also picking up items at the crime scene and tossing them aside,"
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said the Anthonys' private investigator, Dominic Casey, picked up what
appeared to be a blanket at the scene and tossed it aside and that it
did not appear Mr. Casey and his colleague, private eye Jim Hoover, who
was behind the camera, were doing a random search.Sheaffer said
Mr. Casey appeared to be focused on areas where there was a
configuration of stones or concrete pavers, not just at the crime
scene, but also at what appeared to be an abandoned back yard where Mr.
Casey was actually digging."Mr. Casey was digging in the area,
actually digging with a garden shovel, in an area where it appeared to
be a black plastic bag sticking out of the earth," Sheaffer said.Sheaffer
said it was obvious Mr. Casey knew the camera was rolling because he
was actually directing Mr. Hoover on where to shoot.Sheaffer
said, back at the scene the second day, Mr. Casey was probing the
ground with a metal rod and not just superficially but deeply enough
that he could have destroyed evidence."It was a metal probe and
if he hit the skull or the bones of that skeletal remains he could have
fractured it, he could have otherwise altered it and it would have
thrown the whole forensic examination of the bones off," he said.Questions
remain about who Mr. Casey was talking to at the scene on the phone and
who told him where to look and what to look for.