Exclusive: Can Oak Ridge science be trusted in Casey Anthony case? - CFNews13

Exclusive: Can Oak Ridge science be trusted in Casey Anthony case?
By Adam Longo, Reporter

Originally published Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Last Updated: Monday, June 6, 2011

Excerpt:

There is a connection between the Casey Anthony case and the search for bodies at Charles Manson's last hideout.

The cold case investigation involves a deserted ranch in a remote area of California.

Scientists who examined that case are the same ones who studied the air samples from Anthony's car.

After we put in a public records request, it took almost three months and a county commission vote for News 13 to get a copy of these law enforcement sensitive reports prepared for authorities in California.

A cold case detective and a police dog handler wanted to know if there were more missing victims from the Manson era buried on a ranch near Death Valley.

So he contacted scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee for their help.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office CSI unit sent air samples from the trunk of Anthony's car to the lab, which literally does groundbreaking work.

A select group of scientists study human decomposition at a facility near the University of Tennessee dubbed the "body farm."

Oak Ridge scientists prepared a report for the Anthony case. They wrote:

"A portion of the total odor signature identified in the Florida trunk vehicle is consistent with a decompositional event that could be of human origin."

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