Casey Anthony Back In News Due To Google Search

Just when you thought it was over, the media finds away to bring Casey Anthony back into the spot light. According to Tony Pipitone with WKMG Local 6, The Orange County Sheriff's Department overlooked a vital piece of evidence in the case. Apparently, somebody in the Anthony household searched for 'fool proof' suffocation methods, something that could have changed the outcome of the trial.

Pipitone lays out the following timeline in his article...

  • At 2:49 p.m., after George Anthony said he had left for work and while Casey Anthony’s cellphone is pinging a tower nearest the home, the Anthony family's desktop computer is activated by someone using a password-protected account Casey Anthony used;
  • At 2:51 p.m., on a browser primarily Casey Anthony used, a Google search for the term "fool-proof suffocation," misspelling the last word as "suffication";
  • Five seconds later, the user clicks on an article that criticizes pro-suicide websites that include advice on "foolproof" ways to die. "Poison yourself and then follow it up with suffocation" by placing "a plastic bag over the head," the writer quotes others as advising;
  • At 2:52 p.m., the browser records activity on MySpace, a website Casey Anthony used frequently and George Anthony did not.

In case you need a recap of the story, Casey Anthony (a resident of Orlando) was accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008, and was acquitted in 2011. Many people were upset with the acquittal, seeing it as a horrific miscarriage of justice. Anthony has since disappeared from the public eye, but the impact on the local psyche seems like it will be here for awhile.

Will the case is still very hard to talk about, especially in the Orlando area, should we be mentioning this new evidence a year after the trial or should we just move on? Why do you think this evidence was left out of the trial?  Even the idea of new evidence presenting itself seems irrelevant, as Anthony cannot be tried twice for the same offense (see the Double Jeopardy Clause).



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