Casey Anthony Trial Update: Caylee's remains in woods just 2 weeks, says botanist - CBS News

by mom_in_il Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:02 pm

June 21, 2011 12:18 PM
Casey Anthony Trial Update: Caylee's remains in woods just 2 weeks, says botanist
By Camille Mann

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(CBS/WKMG/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - Dr. Jane Bock, a forensic botanist, testified for the Casey Anthony defense today that 2-year-old Caylee Anthony's remains could have been in the woods for as little as two weeks before they were discovered in December 2008, a much shorter time period than prosecutors allege.

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"I have looked at photographs taken by the medical examiner and the Sheriff's Office crime scene investigators and visited the recovery area and read documents about the case," Bock said, reports CBS affiliate WKMG.

She said she believes the remains were in the wooded area near the Anthony family home for about two weeks, explaining that roots could have grown through the bones, skull and a laundry bag in two weeks. Prosecutors have said Caylee's remains had been in the woods since the summer of 2008.

State prosecutor Jeff Ashton pressed Bock about leaves that were collected around the remains, asking her if it was possible for the leaves, which he said were at varying levels of decay, to have been there for more than two weeks, reports the station.

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