Casey Anthony: ‘Bones’ and skepticism for the Anthony defense team

Casey Anthony: ‘Bones’ and skepticism for the Anthony defense team

posted by halboedeker on December, 1 2010 6:22 PM

Best-selling writer and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the Fox drama, is among the expert witnesses listed by the Anthony defense team. Reichs is also a producer on “Bones.”

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The trial is scheduled to begin in May.

Anthony attorney Cheney Mason made a surprising claim earlier this week, to WESH-Channel 2, that the defense had found 15 to 20 volunteer searchers who say they didn’t see the toddler’s remains “exactly on the spot” where they later were found. The claim would seem to back up the defense contention that someone else dumped the child’s remains in the woods after Anthony was jailed.

Mason said he present the list of witnesses to the court Friday.

Yet WESH’s Bob Kealing tonight explained skepticism about Mason’s claim. “If those people were not exactly sure where they searched along that long, densely wooded stretch of Suburban Drive, their claims may be easily discounted,” Kealing said.

Orlando attorney Richard Hornsby, who provides analysis for WESH, said, “I highly doubt he found anybody that said they were in that exact spot, and until he presents a witness list and those people are actually under oath and say that, I would be very questionable with anything he claims.”

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