TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • Casey Anthony immunity deal may be in the works

    Prosecutors Offer To Discuss Immunity To Get Casey Anthony To Talk:

    Rumors abound that the Florida State’s Attorney’s office have offered a limited immunity deal to Casey Anthony in hopes of her revealing the location of her daughter Caylee.

    For once Cindy Anthony doesn’t claim to have all the answers.

    “I don’t know anything about that. We’re not privy to that kind of stuff,” said Cynthia Anthony.

    Casey’s attorney, the esteemed Jose Baez Esq., has said there has been no formal offer and they are just in the discussion stages.

    Casey’s parents also met with investigators again yesterday.

    Family of missing Caylee Marie Anthony seeking personal assistants:

    Meanwhile, George and Lee Anthony, Casey’s father, and brother respectively are requesting applicants for non-paying personal assistant positions.

    Volunteers must be available 24-hours a day, seven days a week and in some cases must be willing to travel.

    George Anthony wants his personal assistant to coordinate volunteer efforts, which means checking emails, distributing fliers locally and nationally, and scheduling volunteers.

    Both must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and work with “little or no supervision.”

    “This is a jack-of-all-trades position that may be cross utilized in all aspects of the search for Caylee as well as any personal need of the Anthony family, as directed by Lee Anthony,” according to the ad.

    The family is also seeking volunteers to staff their tent at Publix on Chickasaw Trail near Lake Underhill Road to hand out fliers and materials. Flier distributors and call center representatives.

    Which leads me to ask a question and I’m not being a smart ass either. Since there are call centers and the like being manned that obviously means there are people who think that Casey Anthony has not harmed Caylee. I would like to hear from at least one of those people. I’m curious to think why you believe the Anthonys. Please send me an e-mail using the contact form linked above. You can remain anonymous and your e-mail will not be published.

    According to this article, the DNA results from the car Casey Anthony was driving are in but the results are not being announced just yet.

    Today Casey Anthony was formally charged with child neglect and filing a false statement.

  • Md. suspect charged with carjacking

    Man, 18, in firearms case faces carjacking charge:

    The kid from Bethesda, Maryland who may or may not have been trying to shoot his teachers is now accused of another crime, carjacking.

    Colin McKenzie-Gude is alleged to have carjacked a 78-year-old man at the mall last week.

    According to this article, McKenzie-Gude carjacked the man on the same day police tried to question him about the plot. His lawyer states this was not an attempt to flee. Uh-huh. Right.

    Anyway, there’s also a dispute of when the crime for the explosives charge happened. The other suspect, the unnamed 17-year-old, has changed his story saying they detonated the explosives in November not July. If that is true McKenzie-Gude could be charged as a juvenile because that would have made him 17 at the time.

    Accused teen had fake CIA ID, map of motorcade :

    McKenzie-Gude also had ‘forged’ CIA identification and another fake ID that said he was Michael Landry, a U.S. contractor with protections from the Geneva Conventions.

    So now he’s now probably looking at federal charges too.

  • Possible plot in Maryland

    Teen in Gun Raid Had Teacher List:

    What do you get when you take a cache of illegally purchased guns, add some explosive devices and throw in a list of teachers’ names and addresses? You get 18-year-old Colin McKenzie-Gude of Bethesda, Maryland.

    It’s unknown yet if this was some kind of murder or school shooting plot. However, McKenzie-Gude’s cache consisted of weapons that were bought by his father for him that are illegal for someone under 21 to own under Maryland law. His father, 62-year-old Joseph L. Gude, was also arrested for buying his son the illegal weapons.

    What muddles things up is that McKenzie-Gude was on the rifle team for St. John’s College High School, a private school in Washington, D.C. The addresses for the teachers were all from St. John’s.

    Then there are the bomb-making materials for which a second teen was also arrested. The second teen is an unnamed 17-year-old from Gaithersburg, MD. It’s alleged that the 17-year-old and McKenzie-Gude detonated homemade explosive devices in the woods.

    And in case you were wondering how much explosives were found…

    Detectives also recovered 50 pounds of chemicals, several gallons of liquid material and components that can be used to make homemade explosives, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

    Too many coincidences if you ask me.

    I’ll bring more to you as details become available and as time permits.

  • E.O. Green shooter to be tried as adult

    Teen accused of shooting gay classmate to be tried as an adult:

    14-year-old Brandon McInerney will be tried as an adult in the shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King at E.O. Green Junior High School.

    King was an openly gay student who got back at the bullying from McInerney by mockingly flirting with him.

    27 LGBT activist groups had requested that McInerney not be tied as an adult.

    McInerney faces life in prison if convicted.

  • Pieces of the puzzle – The latest on Caylee Marie Anthony

    Cindy Anthony and attorney Jose Baez both appeared on the Today Show yesterday. Nothing of any substance was said.

    Casey Anthony has requested that only her Mom, Dad, and brother may visit her in jail. No reason was given for the request. The Anthony family has also met with the FBI. Casey’s parents had a 45-minute meeting with her which gives another quote from Cindy Anthony…

    “I think I’ve put almost everything together last night,” Cindy Anthony said. “The pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together.”

    Except that Mrs. Anthony is working on an entirely different puzzle than the rest of us.

    Casey Anthony could be let out of jail in the next few weeks if she doesn’t raise the money for her bond.

    Orange County Sheriff’s are hoping to have the DNA results back soon of the hair and fluid found in the trunk of the Casey Anthony was driving that smelled of decomposition. Investigators are also going through Casey’s credit card and phone records to trace her steps during the time that Caylee has been missing.

    David Lohr of Investigation Discovery has a post up with criminal profiler Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin who describes Casey Anthony as a ‘dark damsel’. She gives a great quote which sums up this case in a nutshell.

    “The hallmark of a good predator is that she constantly tells lies. If you clutter the truth with enough of what’s false, no one can tell what is real,”

    Like I said yesterday we all had the friend that lied all the time and lied so much they started believing their own lies.

    Thanks to Laura for that link.

    CSI’s removed two bags of evidence from the Anthony home that are believed to contain Casey Anthony’s clothes.

  • Eric Hainstock still blaming everyone else

    Eric Hainstock: Free at last:

    This is an article from the alternative weekly in Wisconsin called Isthmus. In it are a series of letters that Eric Hainstock wrote to the publication. For those of you who may not remember Hainstock was 15 when he shot and killed Principal John Klang of the Weston Schools. Hainstock was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 2037.

    In his letters Hainstock sort of takes responsibility for his actions…

    Hainstock says some people in prison have told him he’s “cool” for having killed his principal. He corrects them: “No, I’m not. I took a life. He can’t go to his daughter’s wedding. He can’t walk her down the aisle.”

    But for most of the article, as usual, he blames his situation on everyone but himself…

    “When I was 15 years old I shot my high school principal. I never meant for this to happen. He grabbed me from behind and I got scared. I was already pretty stressed, so that freaked me out even more. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming Mr. Klang for grabbing me. But I am blaming him, the teachers, social services and the school as a whole for never listening to me…. No one ever listened.”

    The article goes on about how much he learned in prison but I guess he still hasn’t learned that everyone is responsible for their own actions. The article also says that he likes prison more compared to his old life. I’m glad that was arranged for him.

  • Surrounded by drama – The latest on the disappearance of Caylee Marie

    Family Of Missing Girl’s Mom Meets With Investigators For 6 Hours:

    Casey Anthony’s parents met with investigators for six hours telling the investigators what Casey had told them. The always talkative Cindy Anthony wouldn’t comment on what she talked to investigators about but as usual, she had something to say to reporters…

    “My daughter may have some mistruths out there or half-truths, but she is not a murderer. You all are sucking the life right out of me every day, having to remind everybody that this is what it’s all about,” Cindy Anthony said while holding a flier of Caylee.

    I’m not saying that Cindy Anthony has committed any crime but she sure does act like it by blaming everyone but her own daughter.

    There was also another phone call between Casey Anthony and her brother Lee released but I didn’t find it interesting at all.

    The article also states that People Magazine is doing a story about Casey Anthony and spoke to some of her friends…

    In the article, friends said, “She would complain about her mother and how she was trying to run her life. But then a few days later, she’d say how much she loved her mother and father.”

    A friend who has known Anthony since middle school describes her as “immature and strange at times.”

    The friend also said she is always surrounded by drama, according to the article.

    I think we all know someone like that. They’re usually just selfish at heart but it manifests itself in some of the most destructive ways possible.

  • Memorial Middle shooter avoids trial

    No trial for school shooter:

    Thomas White’s mother has told the media that her son has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial.

    White was the kid who fired off a round into the ceiling of Memorial Middle School in Joplin, Missouri. The gun he had was his father’s MAC-90.

    Without seeing how that evaluation came about I can’t comment on the legitimacy of the findings. However, I can comment on what Norma White said to the press.

    “He just doesn’t speak like a child would talk,” she said. “It’s a little hard to understand (him) sometimes, and also a little bit of rocking back and forth and he has no memory – very little memory of being a child. He’s asked ‘what was I like as a child?’”

    I’m not saying she’s full of crap but I think she does have a flair for the overly dramatic. If it is true then why didn’t she get her son help? Why did it have to take her son firing a gun in school for her to finally do something about it?

  • The latest in the disappearance of Caylee Marie Anthony

    Who Are The Players in The Caylee Saga?:

    Some new ‘mystery people’ have been introduced into the disappearance of Caylee Marie Anthony.

    We already know about Zenaida Fernandez Gonzales, the alleged baby sitter of Caylee Marie. Now we have two more names to add the mystery list. Those names would be Jeff Hopkins and Juliet Lewis. Those people are the ones that Casey Anthony allegedly told about the disappearance of Caylee Marie. She allegedly worked with these people at Kodak/Universal.

    WOFL has found a Hopkins family that know the Anthonys but were asked by the Anthonys not to say anything. Then Lee Anthony told them that Jeff Hopkins is from a different Hopkins family.

    They have not been able to locate Juliet Lewis at all.

    Police have not been able to locate Lewis or Zenaida Fernandez Gonzales. Is it a coincidence that all these people can’t be located? I don’t believe in coincidence.

    Photos Show Missing Florida Girl’s Mother Partying at Club:

    Fox News claims that they have photos that show Casey Anthony partying at a club after Caylee’s disappearance, The photos can be viewed by clicking on the above link.

    One of Casey Anthony’s attorneys, Micheal Walsh, disputes that the pictures were taken after Caylee’s disappearance. How many lawyers does she have anyway?

    However, as I posted before there have been witnesses that say Casey Anthony was partying like she didn’t have a care in the world during 4th of July weekend. That is while Caylee was missing.

    The article also states that the FBI is considering taking over the investigation.

    Grandmother: ‘I believe we’re going to find Caylee:

    We haven’t talked about Grandma Cindy Anthony lately. She was on Larry King last night during her latest stop on her whirlwind press tour.

    King: Why did you turn your daughter in?

    Anthony: Well, a little background, Casey had gone on an extended trip, kind of trying to figure out — she’s 22. We were talking about when it might be the right time for her and Caylee to move out. Her trip just kept getting extended and extended, which was really not a red flag, I mean, the trip itself. There would be a few days at a time that she would go and stay with friends. She went from a couple different friends, and I never got a chance to speak with Caylee during that time.

    She’s either lying or the dumbest woman in America. Do you know what a lot of 22-year-old women like to do? That would be partying. And I know some people are going to say “But she’s an adult what’s her mother supposed to do?” There comes a time as a parent even if your child is legally adult that you need to intervene when your kid is screwing their life up.

    Here Cindy Anthony talks about the mysterious baby sitter…

    Anthony: No, it’s not that type of kidnapping, sir. This person loves this girl and wants to have her as her own. That happens all the time. That happened not too long ago. In Orlando, Florida, someone stole the baby right out of a hospital.

    Is it me or does Cindy Anthony seem to be citing a lot of ‘precedent’. It’s almost like she’s getting her explanations from Lifetime movies of the week.

    Stolen gas cans may be linked to Caylee Anthony disappearance:

    According to the article, someone stole two cans of gasoline from George Anthony’s shed around the same time Caylee is believed to have disappeared. Combine that with the shovel that Casey Anthony borrowed from a neighbor and the dirt found in her car this is not looking too good for all involved.

    Inmate’s ‘Ex-Boyfriend Has Missing Girl’ Story Can’t Be Verified:

    An inmate in the same jail as Casey Anthony is making a claim that Anthony said that her ex-boyfriend has Caylee. 20-year-old Travis Nichols says he talked to Casey while they were in nearby holding cells.

    “I asked her through a holding cell, ‘What’d you do with your baby?’” Nichols said. “She said, ‘I didn’t do nothing. My ex-boyfriend has her.’”

    The Sheriff’s office believes that Nichols’ story is fake.

    No Bond Reduction for Cindy Anthony:

    Also, Casey Anthony’s bond was not lowered. It still stands at $500K

  • Zarate confession ruled admissible

    Judge rules Randolph man’s murder confession admissible:

    Jonathan Zarate’s videotaped confession to the killing of Jennifer Parks will be allowed into evidence. Superior Court Judge Salem Ahto ruled today that Zarate was not coerced into giving a confession and was read his Miranda rights six times which he gave consent for each.

    Today (the 30th) is the third anniversary of Jennifer’s murder. Let’s get this trial started already and bring some much-needed justice to the Parks family.