TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • More evidence made public during Casey Anthony’s bond hearing

    Grandmother of Missing Florida Toddler Says Her Daughter Left Caylee With Someone Who Betrayed Her:

    The latest in the search for Caylee Marie Anthony is that her grandmother, Cindy Anthony, is now saying that she believes Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, gave Caylee to someone to watch for her then this mystery person betrayed Casey’s trust and took Caylee.

    Just yesterday it was she felt that Casey had done something with Caylee. Grandma changes her story more than I change my socks.

    What’s next? Alien abduction? Drug Lords? Dingos? I hate to make light of such a horrible situation but Cindy Anthony is making it hard not to.

    Casey Anthony Bond Set: $500,000:

    This is the most comprehensive article so far about the whole situation. To me, it’s starting to seem that the whole family is due for an extended stay in the cracker factory. Grandma Anthony has some more great quotes in this article.

    As you can tell by the headline Casey Anthony’s bond was set at $500K. The last I heard she had not bonded out. However, I want to focus on why policed consider Casey Anthony a ‘person of interest’.

    The first thing is when they found Casey Anthony’s abandoned car police say it reeked of ‘decomposition’, there was a stain in the trunk that shined under black light, there was dirt in the trunk, and there was hair in the trunk that they believe is consistent with the hair of Caylee Marie Anthony.

    Police focused on the car when they received the tip from the neighbor that I mentioned before about Casey borrowing a shovel. The article elaborates that in mid-June Casey had her car backed up to the garage when she had asked to borrow the shovel.

    This is all circumstantial evidence but I’m afraid things are not looking so good right now for Caylee Marie’s return. I really do hope I’m wrong.

  • The search for Caylee Marie Anthony gets even stranger

    Casey Anthony’s Lawyer Trying To Get Her Out Of Jail On Bond:

    This article is about Casey Anthony’s lawyer trying to get her released on bond. By the time I post this, she may have already been released. However, there was a quote from the article I found particularly chilling considering the events…

    Cynthia Anthony says Casey has always been a writer and recently the family has been going through her journals, hunting for clues. She said a certain amount of jealousy over Caylee crept into her relationship with her own daughter.

    Crept is the right word because this situation keeps getting creepier as the days go by.

    Where is missing 2-year-old? Her mother may know:

    The Grandmother of Caylee Marie Anthony appeared on the Today Show this morning and I still think she’s too trusting of her daughter. Cindy Anthony believes that her daughter knows who has Caylee Marie but is too afraid to talk to police. She also says that if the police let her talk to Casey she feels she’ll open up to her.

    I think that if someone did take Caylee Marie Anthony that Casey Anthony might have opened up to the cops by now considering all the media attention. If there are actual kidnappers I would imagine that all this publicity would be putting Caylee Marie in grave danger.

    Casey Anthony’s lawyer, Jose Baez, says he knows why Casey isn’t cooperating with police but says he’s not at liberty to say.

    Grandma Defends Daughter, Asks Public for Help Finding Missing Toddler:

    On the other hand, the Orlando police are not so trusting in Casey…

    “We believe Casey knows where the girl is because everything she’s told us so far has turned out to be lies,” Orlando sheriff’s spokesman Carlos Padilla told FOXNews.com on Sunday.

    Grandmother Of Missing Toddler Says Daughter “Has Done Something”:

    It’s amazing the difference a day can make. All the above stuff I wrote earlier in the day but now I’m writing just before I post this.

    Casey Anthony’s mom, Cindy Anthony, has now changed her story and is saying that she believes her daughter did have something to do with the disappearance of Caylee Marie Anthony. The article also delves deeper into the jealousy aspect mentioned above. With another really weird quote…

    “When you give birth to a child, you want to hold that child yourself for the first time. You don’t want to see your mother hold that child for the first time. And unfortunately it was me or nobody, because she wasn’t allowed to hold the baby at that time,” Cynthia said.

    I wonder what that was all about.

  • The problem with safe haven laws

    Who will be left at havens?:

    On one of the stories where I talked about the Safe Haven Laws in most states a commenter brought up the great point is that the reason we still have so many baby dumpings and the like is that the states all have different laws. They have different names for them and different places that babies can be left not to mention different grace periods. Making things even more difficult is that the laws are not widely publicized. Now to make matters even more complicated the vaguest safe haven laws went into effect this past Friday in Nebraska.

    Under the Nebraska laws, there is no age restriction to how old the child being dropped off can be. As with most things that start out with good intentions this will lead to widespread abuse of the laws. According to the article, at least one adoption agency has received inquiries from people who wanted to get rid of their kids who were more than a year old.

    The law is unnecessarily confusing as well. In most safe haven cases a baby can be dropped off at a hospital or police or fire station without any fear of prosecution if the baby is unharmed. It seems like under the Nebraska law prosecution can still happen.

    The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services will take custody of safe haven children and treat those cases the same as other cases of abandonment, said Todd Landry, director of children and family services.

    That means trying to identify the child’s parents and family and, if the parents can be found, assessing whether the child should be reunited with them.

    I thought the whole point of safe haven laws were to protect the children and not reunite them with the parents that abandoned them.

    I can almost guarantee you that this law will be abused and it won’t prevent baby dumpings from happening, unfortunately.

    There needs to be a federally uniform safe haven law since the states can’t seem to get it together and for the most part, have not prevented baby dumpings.

  • Did Caylee call?

    100 Leads Actively Pursued For Missing Girl; Caylee Just Called, Says Grandmother:

    The grandmother of Caylee Marie Anthony, Cindy Anthony, is saying that the missing girl spoke on the phone with her mother, Casey Anthony, last week.

    “Casey got a phone call (saying) ‘Hi mommy’ for just a brief second,” Anthony said. “And when Casey said, ‘Put an adult on the phone Caylee,’ the phone went dead.’”

    I can’t say for certain but that sounds like second-hand information that was given to the grandmother by Casey Anthony.

  • More on the search for Caylee Marie Anthony

    A neighbor of Casey Anthony claims that she borrowed a shovel about a month ago. Investigators have taken that shovel into evidence.

    Meanwhile, Casey Anthony’s lawyer is claiming that Caylee Marie is in either Miami, Charlotte, NC, or New York City but would not elaborate.

  • Casey Anthony doesn’t report daughter missing

    Girl Missing 5 Weeks Never Reported Lost; Mother Says Doing Own Search:

    So say you were the mother of a 2-year-old girl and she suddenly goes missing what would be the first thing you do? Probably call the police right? Not 22-year-old Casey Anthony of Florida. According to local police her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, has been missing for 5 weeks and police weren’t notified until the grandparents of Caylee Marie called because they were concerned about their granddaughter’s safety.

    When questioned by police Anthony said that she was conducting her own investigation for her child and the reason she didn’t go to the police is that “she saw movies and reports” about other people who went to the police got hurt.

    Anthony hasn’t been exactly forthcoming with any details or honesty for that matter. She refused to tell a judge where her daughter is and she’s been handing a line of bull to the police according to the article. She claims that she last saw her daughter with a babysitter. The alleged baby sitter’s home had been empty for 5 months and when questioned the alleged baby sitter says she never sat for Anthony. Also, Anthony claimed employment at some place she never worked at.

    Just on my gut instincts, I have some theories as to what happened but I won’t discuss them here since I don’t want to jinx the investigation. All I’ll say is that I’m afraid this story won’t have a happy ending.

  • Bobby Brewster pleads guilty

    Another Plea Deal in Megan Williams Case:

    It’s been a while since there’s been any news about the Megan Williams torture case out of West Virginia. There are so many suspects I’ve lost track of who has been sentenced and who hasn’t.

    Bobby Brewster has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree sexual assault, malicious assault, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping or holding hostage. Under the plea, he’ll go to prison for at least 13 years and possibly up to 40.

    In case you needed a reminder on why this case was so bad here it is…

    When Brewster was indicted in February, Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham said Brewster stabbed Megan Williams in the leg two or three times, and “by threat of force, coercion or compulsion he required her to perform oral sex [on] his mother, Frankie Brewster.”

    And that was only the tip of the scumberg.

  • Russell Frantom sentenced

    Teen accused of planning Columbine-style attack at Penn sentenced:

    Russell James Frantom IV was sentenced yesterday for his part in a plot to attack Penn High school in Indiana. He was told he could be held in juvenile detention until he’s 21. So I guess it wasn’t much of a sentence but more like a suggestion. Anyway, he’ll be spending some time in a “boy’s school”.

    He apologized and said he would have never gone through with the plan. Uh-huh. That’s what they all say.

    Even his mom is happy with the sentence…

    “I feel comfortable with the decision. I think he can go on and learn from his mistake and come out a stronger person and maybe a better person. That’s what i can hope for,” Kelly Stetler tells NewsCenter 16.

    We can only hope.

    No word if he’ll testify against his interstate cohort Lee Billi.

  • Mutant king gets probation

    Newark man who threatened Columbine detective given probation:

    So if some guy in his late 20’s from Ohio e-mailed threats to a police officer, claimed he knew a mass murderer, then claimed the mass murder was his idea what kind of sentence do you think he would get? You’d think he at least get a few years for violently threatening a cop right? Wrong!!!!

    Patrick Gauchel threatened one of the Jefferson County Sheriffs who investigated Columbine and all he got was five years probation, a $750 fine, and has been banned from the internet for 5 years.

    Add Judge Thomas Marcelain to the list of judges that must be on crack. At the very least this nutbag, Gauchel should have been sent to the squirrel factory for an extended stay.

  • Johnson fit to stand trial

    Jonesboro shooter fit to stand trial:

    Mitchell Johnson, he of the Jonesboro infamy, has been ruled competent to assist in his own defense for his upcoming theft trial. I don’t see why this was an issue since he was competent for his federal weapons trial.

    His trial date has been set for October.