Casey Anthony trial: Jurors look at photos, hear from crime-scene, insect experts - OS

Casey Anthony trial: Jurors look at photos, hear from crime-scene, insect experts
By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
8:44 p.m. EDT, June 11, 2011

Excerpt:

After two days of emotion-jarring testimony, prosecutors on Saturday largely shifted back to the more-mundane science behind their case to convict Casey Anthony of her daughter's death.

Neal Haskell, an expert in forensic entomology from Saint Joseph's College in Indiana, testified that flies and fly larvae found in materials collected from Casey Anthony's car trunk were signs that a decomposing body had been there.

He said the bugs were attracted by fluids from a body that probably spent three to five days in the car. The flies were among the trash, especially paper towels, left in the Pontiac's trunk.

"I associated the presence of flies with the presence of a substance on the towels," Haskell said. "It was most likely decompositional fluid."

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