Casey’s Defense Interviews Kronk’s Ex-Wives

Defense Witnesses re Roy Kronk

Jill Kerley Talks About Kronk (ex-wife)
http://www.cfnews13.com/MediaPlayer2...0About%20Kronk

April Applegate Hensley Interview (daughter of RK's ex-wife)
http://www.cfnews13.com/MediaPlayer2...ey%20Interview

Crystal Sparks Interview (ex-wife)
http://www.cfnews13.com/MediaPlayer2...ks%20Interview

By Willoughby Mariano, Orlando Sentinel

6:18 p.m. EST, November 20, 2009
Video recordings of the ex-wives of the man who discovered the remains of
slain toddler Caylee Marie Anthony suggest her mother's defense team is
trying to cast doubt on the credibility of a key witness.

The interviews, which were released this morning, cast Roy Kronk as a
deceitful man willing to resort to violence. Kronk was a meter reader
when he found the remains on Dec. 11.

The interviews were conducted by an investigator for murder suspect Casey Anthony's defense team. She faces a first-degree murder charge in her daughter's death. The state is seeking the death penalty

In the videotaped interviews, both of Kronk's ex-wives say he was
violent towards them. No police reports or other evidence were provided
to bolster their claims.

Crystal Sparks, who said she married Kronk in 1982, had a son with Kronk before they divorced.

Jill Kerley said she was married to Kronk in the early 1990s. She lives in Tennessee.

Information on Sparks' town of residence was not included in the recordings. She works for the U.S. Coast Guard as a member of a team that makes Coast Guard policy, she told the investigator.

Posted: 4:47 pm EST November 20,
2009Updated: 10:49 pm EST November 20,
2009
Comment On This Story ››ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Not only is Casey Anthony's defense team trying to blame Roy Kronk for killing Caylee, new videos released Friday (watch it | images) show lawyers are trying to dig up every speck of dirt they can on him.Kronk
is the meter reader who found Caylee's body in the woods near Casey
Anthony's house last December. Eyewitness News reported Thursday night
the defense team wants to label Kronk as a suspect and it wants the
sheriff's office to investigate if Kronk really killed Caylee.KRONK'S EX-WIVES: Raw Video | See Images
KRONK'S ESTRANGED SON: Also Answered Questions
VIDEO REPORT: Interviews With Ex-Wives
SHEAFFER BLOGS: His Take On Defense TacticsKronk’s
bitter ex-wives have accused him of almost everything but the Kennedy
assassination and the 9-11 attacks, but they were not questioned under
oath and the defense did not provide one iota of evidence to support
any of the allegations, no police reports, nothing.One-by-one, former meter reader Roy Kronk's ex-wives and their bitter children made wild accusations.“Sometimes
he'd walk in when I was putting my clothes on,” said April Applegate
Hensley, the daughter of one of Kronk’s ex-girlfriends. “I told him I
was tired of it and jokingly he said, ‘Turn to animals and I'll
videotape it.’”But she also said Kronk supported her
terminally-ill mother and that he brought the only discipline into her
troubled life, which she resented.“I pulled back. He hit the
door, broke his wrist,” ex-wife Crystal Sparks said during the
questioning. “He threw me up against the back of the door ... He was
not a good dad.”Sparks told the defense Kronk exposed their
6-year-old to porn. She couldn't remember whether she filed for a
protective order and couldn't explain her email praising Kronk for
finding Caylee Anthony's remains saying he did a good thing.“Given the opportunity, he probably would've killed me,” ex-wife Jill Kerley said.But ex-husband Roy Kronk didn't kill her, though she says he duct taped her hands, kidnapped and beat her.“He probably was the one who murdered Caylee Anthony or had something to do with it,” Kerley said.“I deem these tactics as despicable,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.Sheaffer
says it's telling that the defense private investigator did not
interview Kronk's bitter exes under oath, which makes them worthless.“Very
clumsy investigating technique or it was deliberate not to go under
oath, because they might not have gotten the same responses,” Sheaffer
said.The biggest problem with all the accusations is that they
have nothing to do with Caylee Anthony's murder. He says it's a hard
sell that Kronk murdered Caylee, pretended to find her remains,
collected a reward and set himself up for a possible death sentence.“How absurd does that sound when I say it? Absurd,” Sheaffer said.It's not uncommon for bitter exes to do this.“You bet they see an opportunity for their 15 minutes of fame and to, in fact, pay back,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.Sheaffer
points out that, if the defense team repeats unsubstantiated
allegations like this outside of court, they could be sued. They didn't
during their morning network blitz Friday, which tells him they have no
evidence to back them up.“Well, what happens to a cornered animal? They just lash out, lash out, lash out,” Sheaffer said.Kronk's
attorney said the defense never asked Kronk specific questions about
these allegations Thursday when they had him under oath and could’ve
pinned him down while they had the advantage of surprise. Sheaffer says
it's another indication that this is another media stunt without any
evidentiary or legal substance.Roy Kronk said he first found the
plastic bag containing Caylee's body in the woods near the Anthony home
in August, but a deputy didn't take him seriously and really didn't
investigate. So he called deputies back into the woods again on
December 11 and that's when they took a close look and found Caylee's
body.Kronk's estranged son told the defense (watch it)
he thought Caylee's remains were found last November, not December,
which the defense twisted into Kronk having prior knowledge. The
problem with that is that another meter reader told Eyewitness News he
was the one who told Kronk about Caylee's neighborhood; Kronk was not
familiar with the area.Kronk worked for Orange County until last month, when he was fired during a dispute over a shoulder injury.