Casey Anthony trial: Jury sees graphic pictures of Caylee's skull, debris at crime scene
Viewers can't see the photos on television, but those in the courtroom can.
Before calling crime scene investigator Jennifer Welch to the stand, Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry warned the jury that it would see graphic pictures this morning.
He also told observers in the courtroom that if they believed they couldn't handle seeing photographs of Caylee Anthony's remains, they should leave the courtroom rather than disrupt the proceedings.
"If you cannot control your emotions, this will be a good time to exit," Perry said.
One close-up picture of Caylee's skull showed strands of damp hair pressed against the skull. The pale, white skull resembles a large shell and appears next to a black plastic bag.
A log rests nearby in the heavily vegetated area off Suburban Drive. Images also showed duct tape stuck to hair matted down against the skull.
Another photo showed a medical examiner's official lifting the skull from the scene. Casey Anthony cried throughout the presentation.
At times she looked away from the screens in front of her, dabbing her face with a tissue.
Her attorney Dorothy Sims rubbed her back and consoled her. Jurors have not showed much emotion during the presentation.
Perry banned the media from showing the pictures on live streams until they are blurred or altered to partially obscure the sensitive images.
Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, left the courtroom before they showed the pictures.
Lee Anthony testimony The brother of accused child killer Casey Anthony returned to the stand this morning in the first-degree murder case and said his sister told him the babysitter held her down by the wrists and took Caylee from her.
This is the first time testimony was given as to how the alleged babysitter Zenaida Fernández-González kidnapped Caylee Marie. Lee Anthony said Fernández-González's sister helped hold Casey Anthony down while they took her daughter.
"She told me that she met Zanny who was her nanny as well as Zanny's sister and her children at Jay Blanchard Park which is here in Orlando," Lee Anthony said.
"During that meeting Zanny held Casey down and told her she was taking Caylee from her and she did that with the help of her sister."
His sister told him the women took Caylee because "Casey was not being a good mother to Caylee or wouldn't be a good mother to Caylee. [They took] Caylee from her to teach her a lesson."
Her brother said Casey Anthony felt "surreal" about the alleged kidnapping. "She was scared and she didn't know what to do," Lee Anthony said.
Lee Anthony told defense attorney José Baez that Casey Anthony told him another story about "Zanny the Nanny."
Casey Anthony said the babysitter would contact her through MySpace, control her so she wouldn't call the police and would make her go places.
His sister told him the women took Caylee because "Casey was not being a good mother to Caylee or wouldn't be a good mother to Caylee.
[They took] Caylee from her to teach her a lesson." Her brother said Casey Anthony felt "surreal" about the alleged kidnapping. "She was scared and she didn't know what to do," Lee Anthony said.
Lee Anthony told defense attorney José Baez that Casey Anthony told him another story about "Zanny the Nanny."
Casey Anthony said the babysitter would contact her through MySpace, control her so she wouldn't call the police and would make her go places. "I don't believe she went into detail about where she would go," Lee Anthony said.
He also said that his sister was never successful in finding Caylee and that Fernández-González never materialized Casey Anthony described the babysitter as a 100-pound, Hispanic woman with dark skin. Investigators said that woman does not exist.
Lee is excused. He did not look at his sister when he left the courtroom.
Deputy Turso first at crime scene Deputy Edward Turso of the Orange County Sheriff's Office was the first official to respond to the crime scene off Suburban Drive on Dec. 11, 2008 where meter reader Roy Kronk had discovered the bag of bones containing Caylee's skull. Baez tried to ask Turso about earlier 911 calls made by Kronk, but the state objected and Perry denied him that line of questioning.
Turso told Baez he went 20 feet into the woods from the street to find the remains.
He said Kronk went past the remains, looked over his shoulder and then identified the remains. "All I remember was a wooded area," Turso said. "I focused on the skull and the garbage bag that was next to it."
He was excused. Computer programmer testimony A computer programmer whose software revealed searches for terms like chloroform, inhalation, death, and neck breaking on a computer at Casey Anthony's home was the first witnesses questioned this morning.
John Dennis Bradley, the CEO and founder of SiQuest Corporation, spoke briefly about how pages are refreshed on a computer. He was dismissed after his brief testimony.
On Wednesday, Bradley said someone searched those terms and others on Google and Wikipedia.
It's unclear who at the Anthony family home on Hopespring Drive actually performed the searches on the computer.
Bradley was among several witnesses with knowledge of programming or computer forensics who testified for the state Wednesday.
Orange County Sheriff's Office computer forensic experts Sgt. Kevin Stenger and Det. Sandra Osborne described the forensic searches they performed on two computers, two digital cameras and Casey Anthony's cellphone.
They testified that they never encountered anyone named Zenaida Fernández-González in Casey Anthony's cellphone, Osborne said. However, they uncovered searches for chloroform.
A second dog handler involved in a search of Casey Anthony's backyard also testified about a cadaver dog named Bones who detected possible human remains in the east Orange County property nearly three year ago.
Osceola Sheriff's Sgt. Kristin Brewer and her K-9 partner, Bones, swept Anthony's backyard in July 2008 to look for evidence of a dead body.
Brewer said Bones gave a "trained final alert," indicating possible human remains in the backyard of the home Casey Anthony shared with her parents on July 17, 2008.
Another Orange County K-9 named Gerus also alerted to a spot close by in the backyard.
Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony.
She alleged that Fernández-González had kidnapped Caylee.
Her defense team argues the child died after accidentally drowning in the backyard pool and George Anthony disposed of the body, a claim which he denies.
The state's theory is that Casey Anthony used duct tape to kill her daughter.
Follow the case on Twitter at @OSCaseyAnthony.
Bianca Prieto of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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