Casey Anthony Trial: Car air sample was "overwhelmingly strong," says "body farm" doctor - CBS News

June 6, 2011 5:27 PM
Casey Anthony Trial: Car air sample was "overwhelmingly strong," says "body farm" doctor
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(CBS/WKMG/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - Dr. Arpad Vass, one of the state's key witnesses in the Casey Anthony murder trial, testified Monday that the odor of human decomposition in an air sample taken from Anthony's car was "extremely, overwhelmingly strong."

Vass, a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, also known as the "body farm" for its study of human decomposition, ,pioneered a novel technique for detecting human decomposition from air samples, reports CBS affiliate WKMG.

Vass testified that the odor of human decomposition is different than the smell of animal decomposition.

"I jumped back a foot or two," Vass said of the odor he detected when opening a can containing an air sample from Anthony's Pontiac, reports the station. "It was shocking that strong of an odor could be in that little can."

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