Posted on 12/18/2008 6:58:34 PM PST by autumnraine
Florida police investigating the disappearance of Caylee Anthony say they are re-interviewing a county water meter reader who earlier this month discovered what likely are the girl's remains, but they deny that the person is a suspect in the girl's death.
The worker found bones Dec. 11 near the Orlando home where then 2-year-old Caylee lived with her mother and maternal grandparents. He also had called in a tip to police on Aug. 11, 12 and 13, telling them to look in the same are for the remains, police said.
Orange County Sheriff's officials say they believe the unidentified tipster was in the area on Dec. 11 following up on his own tip when he discovered the remains.
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I have some red flags going up here...
Greta discussing it now...
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this reminds of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” (that I had to read in high school) where the guilty party couldn’t stand being guilty.
Odd development ping
Seems to me that the wide swath of the bone field indicates that animals moved them, doesn’t it?
Is it confirmed they’re all human? Because animals have to die someplace.
The guy reported the cops did not follow up..
I am sure he went home every night waiting for the news to say a body has been found in the woods..
The police are at fault here..
Protect and serve my ass....
It would be a tragedy if the mom, if guilty, got off cause of a mistake by the cops. I assume the mom is guilty because of her behavior.
Well, FWIW, I’d wait to see if those remains are indeed Caylee’s. As for the small bones, if that wooded area was a local pet cemetary, then some of those bones may not even be human and they’re gonna need an anthropologist and maybe even a taphonomist to sort it all out.
Me too. Funny, this comes out after Casey gets a dream team.
The day he just happens to take that leak, Casey’s with her lawyer and the grandparents are out of town. More coinkydinks, or should the cops be making sure the meter guy isn’t working for the defense...
Unless this guy and the mother were in on it together.
By staging the body [duct tape] it throws everybody off and you start thinking Adam Walsh instead of Susan Smith.
This body was meant to have been discovered months ago.
What a guy won’t do for sex and love....
A gift to the Defense lawyers.
This guy will be tried by her Dream Team.
Yipes...the meter reader and the killer mother?
Casey will make millions on the book and movie rights and Greta will cover this for the next 3 years. ha.
I mind my own business and ignore any bodies I find.
>What a guy won’t do for sex and love....<
You can same the same about women, especially teachers for some reason.
Richard Jewell, I believe.
I’d like to know who the deputy was on the third call. No one has mentioned that a deputy was fired from the department when it was learned he knew Casey very well, spent time with her and emails.
Well...you’re right. We’ve already established that she’s a sex addict...to have your dead child in the trunk while you’re out ‘hooking up’ with somebody.
This case is a weird one.
She ain’t getting off...
The cops do not follow up on every anon call.
I guess they are busy chasing gangbangers,drug pushers or going for doughnuts..
New development/Orlando Sentinel tonight — crime scene photo shows what might be Caylee’s book:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Good points.
One word:
REWARD
I think this guy was thinking he might be lucky enough to collect the reward offered by Padilla. So he just kept on phoning in “tips”, hoping to hit the Bingo.
Maybe not the most noble of motives, but rewards don’t require noble motives.
Did investigators find Caylee Anthony’s book at search site?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/orl-caylee-anthony-book-121808,0,4088611.story
Not a suspect? Yea, sure. Lawyer up and do it fast.
You mean she will give up the Scott and Lacy Peterson story?
I quit watching her at all after about a year of that.
Odd. Very odd. However, I still believe the mother is guilty. The smell of death in her trunk and failing to report her little daughter missing for so long cinches it for me.
((((My suspect meters just pegged)))
I do believe the LEOs down there just got their #1 or possibly #2 suspect.
He called in the tip line on the same area as he walked by the same garbage bag over and over and the police came out and never checked out the garbage bag. Must have been too messy for them to get into the swampy underbrush and they didn’t bother.
He didn’t just call in with random places.
ping............
I do that all the time.......
That's Barney Frank's line. lol
But why would a murderer keep calling in tips to find a body he or she put there?
Wow you don’t appear to like cops much -
I agree.
The cops screwed up. The Defense will jump on this.
If Casey’s fingerprints are all over the place on stuff, she’s still screwed. I want NO DOUBT that Casey did this. She did do it.
From your link:
3 days, 3 calls
A sheriff’s official offered this outline of the three tips by the utility worker in August:
— On Aug. 11, the meter reader called the sheriff’s office communication center to report a bag on the “right side” of the road near the intersection of Suburban and Hopespring drives. The meter reader was not there when a deputy arrived. The officer cleared the scene.
— On Aug. 12, the worker called Crimeline, which collect tips on unsolved crimes. That information was documented and sent to a detective, who made a note that the area had been searched by a cadaver dog and the tip was closed out.
— On Aug. 13, after the worker called the communication center again, two deputies responded to the area — each arriving separately — and they met with the meter reader. At least one deputy checked the woods and cleared the scene for a second time.
Cops screwed up!
This is so disturbing because I’ve felt the LE has done such a great job so far. The initial claim was the utility worker saw the bag from the road - so why didn’t he take LE straight to the bag when they met with him on the third day?
This case has just taken a major turn from ordinary made-for-TV movie to epic Gone With The Wind proportions.
Nancy Graceless must be in heaven.
This all sounds odd, but I have a theory. It is possible that the meter reader was actually playing detective on his own. This case horrified so many people on so many levels- the meter reader worked in the area of Caylee’s house and may have been actively looking for her body all this time. He likely wouldn’t say that- for many reasons but that is what I think he was doing.
I have to admit if I lived in the area I would have had a sharp eye for things I thought were amiss; I would not have set out to find her body- but I would want it found and if I thought I saw something or had an idea I would likely tip the authorities. I think most of us would in that situation, no one wants to think about a child especially just being dumped somewhere.
As no good deed goes unpunished I am sure this man will be drug through the muck of the trial but I do understand why he got involved.
Anthony Rusciano was Casey's cop friend that was fired from the force.
Now we need to know the date he was fired.
The deputy was fired Aug. 22, 2008, which means he could possibly have been the deputy who answered the tip on Aug. 13....
"Why" is anyone's guess at this point.
This clearly pegs suspect meters due to the fact that it appears to be the same individual that is trying to get the LEOs attention multiple times, and it turns out he is the one that eventually just walks up and finds the remains.
Trust me, this is either one of the biggest law enforcement screws up of all time, or this individual is very involved in this caper.
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