More Evidence To Be Released In Casey Anthony Case on Fri., 12/17

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The defense team for Casey Anthony handed over more than 300 pages of information to prosecutors in the case on Thursday.
Attorneys from both sides of the case had argued in court about whether the defense should be forced to tell the prosecution about their witness testimony in the upcoming trial.
Judge Belvin Perry decided to require both sides to provide details about what expert witnesses would be saying when they take the stand at the trial.
Also on Friday, prosecutors are expected to release more documents to the public, including jail letters and videotaped interviews with law enforcement.
Watch for details on WESH 2 News and WESH.com.

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Lisette we can always count on you for the latest updates. Thank you. I believe this will be the first time the Defense has released anything if my memory serves me right.

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Evidence released by prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony on Friday includes a photo of George Anthony with the woman who claimed the two had an affair.
River Cruz said in March she became intimately involved with George Anthony after Caylee Anthony's disappearance.
Cruz said her phone contained pictures and text messages that she said was evidence of the affair.
Cruz also claimed that George Anthony said the death of his granddaughter was "an accident that snowballed out of control."
George Anthony's lawyer at the time, Brad Conway, said the affair never happened. He said authorities were investigating the claims.
"The Sheriff's Office is doing an investigation. They're thorough. They're serious about this, and they're going to interview and take statements from anybody that has information relevant to the death of Caylee Anthony," Conway told WESH 2 News in March.
The evidence released on Friday contains photos, text messages and the contact information that the Orange County Sheriff's Office dumped off of a Samsung phone earlier this year.
It's not clear whom the phone belongs to, but the photos from the phone include images of Cruz with George and Cindy Anthony.
One of the text messages from the phone is from a number listed in the contacts as George Anthony. The text message from Dec. 19, 2008, said, "Just thinking about you! I need you in my life."
Remains were found off of Suburban Drive on Dec. 11 of that year. The remains were identified as Caylee Anthony's on Dec. 19.

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Just-released evidence in the Casey Anthony case include letters from Anthony to a woman she befriended in jail about paternity tests that were taken to determine the identity of Caylee's father.

The letter says at least one person – one of Casey Anthony's former boyfriends, Jesse Grund – was ruled out as the father.

It doesn't appear as if Casey named the father in the letter addressed to then-Orange County Jail inmate Robyn Adams.

Anthony also rehashes a version of what she said happened to her daughter – a story investigators have said is not true – that the young mother gave Caylee to nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, and that the two later vanished.

The girl's remains were found in December 2008 in a vacant lot a short walk from the family's home in east Orange County. Investigators say Anthony killed the little girl.

Other details released today include letters from Anthony complaining about having seizures in jail.

Casey confides in her jail pal that she had a miscarriage in 2007. She told her brother, Lee Anthony, about it and he told their mother on her 21st birthday.

Casey also said, "One of the biggest things that truly cuts me when I hear them talk about me as a mother – I was a great mom! And I love my daughter with everything that I have. I would give my life to have her back even for five minutes."

Such handwritten letters from Anthony to Adams have been released in the past. Investigators learned that while together at the Orange County Jail, Adams and Anthony secretly wrote each other letters and had clandestine chats.

Adams, a convicted drug dealer, is now in federal prison. The two exchanged notes -- sometimes every other day -- through a book, Do Away With August.

Other evidence released today includes photos, video and audio recordings.

At least some of the images on a DVD released this morning appear as if they were pulled from someone's Myspace.com account. It's unclear whose account they are from or why they are significant.

The release is yet another step for the defense and prosecution they gear up for the start of next year's trial against the Orange County woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. This is a breaking news story. Check back later for updates.

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I wonder who this little girl is? :scratch:
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The woman in the purple blouse in the photo where Cindy is looking up into the sky is River Cruz.

Posted: 7:34 am EST December 17, 2010
Updated: 4:11 pm EST December 17, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Evidence released Friday unveiled new details about the secrets in Casey Anthony's family. Who really is Caylee's father? And George Anthony's alleged mistress told investigators all she knew about the case against Casey.

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The evidence includes the interrogations of the alleged mistress and there were a couple of things we'd never seen or heard before.

One of them was Casey's father's alleged mistress telling investigators what George told her about how Caylee was killed and why he was apparently lying to them and to the public. While she says she was divulging some of her former lover George Anthony's deep secrets, she revealed some of her own.

Her real name is Krystal Holloway, but says she created a new name, River Cruz, and a whole new life to escape her past. She said even George didn't know; he thought she was an illegal immigrant.

Holloway reluctantly told investigators what she says George told her: that, at first, when he said Casey's car smelled like a dead body he didn't think Casey had murdered Caylee, but later he changed his mind.

"There was one time that he was really pissed and he threw her up against the wall and choked her," Holloway told investigators.

"OK. Do you know why he threw her against the wall and choked her?" Sgt. John Allen asked.

"Because he said, 'I know you killed her. What did you do to her?' And he choked her and Cindy had to get George off of, off of Casey.

"How do you know this?" Allen asked.

"He told me," she said.

Holloway told detectives George wanted to throw Casey out of the house when she was back home after bailing out of jail.

"Because it was too many lies," Holloway told investigators.

But she says George then lied to investigators and to the public about someone else murdering Caylee.

"He didn't want to have to lose his other kid. He lost one," she said.

Casey's letters to jail pen pal Robyn Adams were also released. About Caylee's father she wrote: "Am 99% sure that Cays isn't Jesse's. We had a paternity test done." She and her family tried to cast suspicion on Jesse Grund, her former fiance. Even if she knows who Caylee's father is, she's never made it known publicly.


EVIDENCE REVEALS EQUUSEARCH CONTROVERSY

One of the audio recordings released is an interview prosecutors and Orange County Sheriff's Investigators did with Texas EquuSearch volunteer Joe Jordan, who told them another volunteer was making up stories and falsifying documents to help Casey.

EquuSearch volunteer Laura Buchanan is the focus of the information released Friday in the murder case against Casey Anthony. Buchanan, who is under investigation now for allegedly creating false documents concerning her search for Caylee, is accused by volunteer Joe Jordan of trying to get him to change his story about searching the exact area where Caylee was later found.

"I was a little questionable about this woman, so I asked her not to contact me again," Jordan says in the audio interview (hear it). "She told me she was working with Baez and they wanted me to come in and talk to them."

Buchanan was trying to convince Jordan that he searched the exact area where Caylee was found three months earlier and saw nothing. He told investigators he only spent about five minutes in the general area, because much of it was under water.

Jordan told investigators he could not search the exact area because of the flooding, but that the defense team's private investigator, Mortimer Smith, showed him a document he didn't recognize that contained erroneous information about his searches on Suburban Drive.

Among the evidence released Friday, there was also a voice mail message (hear it) from inmate Maya Derkovic left for investigators in which she claims she has information about Casey Anthony. Investigators later interviewed her and she told them Casey spoke of using chloroform on Caylee and that she resented the relationship her mother, Cindy, had with Caylee.


WHAT'S NEXT IN THE CASE?

The case against Casey is headed back to court on Monday and Casey will be there. The judge will hear a motion about the death penalty filed by Casey's defense team. Her lawyers want their witness list in the penalty phase of the trial to be sealed. The hearing is set for Monday afternoon at 1:30pm.

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