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Remains Of Young Girl Found In Orange County

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Thursday, December 11, 2008 – updated: 10:46 am EST December 11, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The remains of a young girl have been located in east Orange County in
location less than a half-mile from the Casey Anthony's parent's home.Eyewitness News has learned
a meter reader discovered a bag in the area of Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive (see map),
around three-tenths of a mile from the Anthonys' home.According
to information obtained by Eyewitness News, when the meter reader
picked up the bag a skull fell out. The Orange County Sheriff's Office
has confirmed to Eyewitness News that the body is a young girl.It is not clear at this point
whether the body could be Caylee Anthony.This is developing and WFTV.com will have new details posted immediately.

Investigators Search Anthony Home After Remains Found

Thursday, December 11, 2008 – updated: 9:43 pm EST December 11, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Investigators searched through the home of
George and Cindy Anthony, Thursday night, after a child's remains were
found near their home in the morning.

Investigators removed the remains of a young child from a site less than half a mile
from the home of Casey Anthony's parents' east Orange County home.
Casey's attorney spoke to the media Wednesday night but didn't offer a
lot of insight into the case (watch Baez speak).

After several hours of combing over the scene, detectives loaded the remains
in a white medical examiner's van and took them away.

BAEZ SPEAKS: Casey's Attorney Makes Comment
REACTION: Sheriff Beary | Leonard Padilla | Tim Miller | Legal Analyst | Forensics Expert
CHAOS OUTSIDE HOUSE: Raw Video | See Images
AT SCENE: Ground Images | Aerial Images | Raw Aerial Video

About 9:30am, an Orange County water meter reader, who had gone into the
woods to relieve himself, discovered a bag about 20 to 30 feet off the
sidewalk in the area of Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive (see map), around
three-tenths of a mile from the Anthonys' home (map from location to Anthonys' home).

According to information obtained by Eyewitness News, when the meter reader
kicked or picked up the bag, a skull fell out. The Orange County
Sheriff's Office has confirmed the remains are from a young child.
Investigative sources told Eyewitness News there may have been more in
the bag than just a skull but they wouldn't elaborate.

"We are assuming they are the remains of a victim," said Orange County Sheriff's
Office spokesman Jim Solomons.

It is not known whether the remains are those of Caylee Anthony.

Deputies set up a perimeter near a small retention pond. Heavy rain pounded the
scene, making the investigation more difficult. FBI agents and agents
from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were also on the scene.

Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary said the area had been underwater during
previous searches, so it was not surprising the remains hadn't been
found before (watch Beary press conference).
Equusearch founder Tim Miller, who heads up a group that searches for
bodies, said his volunteers had searched the area before but that it
was full of water and an ATV had stirred up mud and muck and made
visibility poor.

When asked if the remains could be those of any other child, Beary responded,
"Not that we know of."

Eyewitness News reporter Kathi Belich said sources told her they were taking this
very seriously and would expedite DNA tests to determine if the remains
were indeed Caylee's. Investigators told her they were "very
optimistic" they had found the missing girl. Beary said the FBI had
told him experts at its lab in Quantico, Va. would work through the
weekend on the case if necessary.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony,has been charged with murder in connection
with the case. She is currently in the Orange County jail."She met with a corrections
officer psychologist, and was reviewed and placed on psychological
observation. However, that is not suicide watch," said jail spokesman
Allen Moore.Casey has been visited by her attorney, Jose Baez..
(Baez At Jail: Raw Video | See Images). Wednesday night he spoke to reporters.
"I realize the circumstances as they are would lead most people to believe
these are Caylee’s remains. But people have been wrong before," said
Baez. He said Casey was upset at the news of the discovery and had
asked for a sedatve. But he wouldn't go any further. "I’m not ready to
disclose any kind of communications I had with my client," he said.Baez has
filed an emergency motion (read motion) for a court hearing at 11:30am
Friday morning. He wants to be present for any forensic testing on the remains.


ANTHONYS RETURN TO ORLANDO

George and Cindy Anthony, Casey's parents and Caylee's grandparents, flew back
to Orlando from California after appearing on Larry King Live,
Wednesday night. On the program they continued to defend their daughter.

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EXPERTS REACT

Dr. Michael Baden, a forensics expert, said DNA tests would likely confirm what other
evidence at the scene would tell investigators (watch Baden interview).
For example, detectives said there was duct tape on the bag and the
skull that were found. Baden said detectives would be able to match
that tape and bag to other tape and bags they had previously gathered
from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.

"They can tell the age and height of the child. They'll have a good sense of if it's Caylee. The
DNA will just confirm the evidence," Baden said.

Tim Miller, founder of the Texas-based search group Equusearch, said he had been
called by law enforcement officials and told they believed they had
found Caylee Anthony (watch Miller interview).

"The words were, 'Tim, it looks like we got her,'" said Miller. "I'm
surprised. It was one of them cases I thought would have never been
found ... I thought the best thing that would ever happen is that one
day we could go to a funeral and say good-bye to this little girl ...
and it looks like that will happen.

""I'm just overcome with emotion and grief right now," bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, who has
been a major part of search efforts to find Caylee's remains, told
Eyewitness News shortly after the discovery was made (watch Padilla interview).

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Thank you for this info, Mom...LP was so choked up, like all of us..He's a human being..He made an effort..more than her own family...Thank you..Tomorrow is another day closer to justice..IMO

Bags Of Evidence Removed From Anthony Home

Friday, December 12, 2008 – updated: 8:39 am EST December 12, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Investigators obtained a warrant to search
through the home of George and Cindy Anthony after a child's remains
were found near their house Thursday morning. They pulled several boxes
and bags of evidence from the Anthony family home late Thursday night (watch raw video).

Friday morning, Sheriff Kevin Beary appeared on Good Morning America to
discuss Thursday's findings (watch Beary on GMA).

"I know you can't go into detail, but there was something that was found
that made you want to search the grandparents' home?" GMA's Robin
Roberts asked Beary."Oh, absolutely," Beary said.

TEAM COVERAGE: Investigators Pull Evidence From Home
EVIDENCE REMOVED: Watch Raw Video
SHERIFF ON GMA: "Absolutely" Reason To Search
BAEZ SPEAKS: Casey's Attorney Makes Comment
CHAOS OUTSIDE HOUSE: Raw Video | See Images

Friday morning, deputies, the medical examiner and Tim Miller of EquuSearch,
who had looked for Caylee Anthony previously, returned to the scene of
the remains discovery. Investigators were expected to arrive, as well,
to continue combing through the wooded area in search of more evidence.

On Thursday night, Eyewitness News was at the Anthonys' home in Orange
County as deputies spent hours inside processing the scene.
Investigators removed three vacuum cleaners, notebooks and papers from
the house on Hopespring Drive.

Orange County sheriff's deputies
told Eyewitness News that they'd be back Friday morning to continue
their search of the Anthonys' home.

Neighbors said that after Thursday's gruesome discovery of a child's remains
nearby they expected the crowds, but they don't believe there will be any protesting.

"I think it's going to be different, like showing their support for the family and everything,"
said neighbor Joyce Dickens.

The Anthonys will not return to their home until deputies have finished their search.

Meanwhile, Casey's attorney, Jose Baez, filed an emergency motion (read motion)
Thursday, because he wants to be present for any forensic testing on
the remains. The court hearing to discuss the motion will be held at
11:30am Friday (Hearing will be shown live on WFTV.com).