Casey Anthony, pictured in an undated Orange County Sheriff's Office file photo. On October 14, 2008, a Florida grand jury indicted Anthony on charges of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. (UPI Photo/Orange County Sheriff's Office) |
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 8 (UPI) -- A forensics expert testified at the Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony he found evidence of Internet searches for chloroform on a computer in her home.
Computer forensics expert John Bailey's discovery of Google and Wikipedia searches for "chloroform" and "How to make chloroform" on the desktop computer supports authorities' contention that Anthony used sleep-inducing chemical to subdue her toddler daughter, Caylee, before suffocating her by wrapping her head in duct tape, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
The Internet searches also would indicate premeditation since they occurred about three months before Caylee's death in 2008, the online newspaper said.
Authorities say the child's body was then placed in the trunk of Anthony's car for a time.
An FBI forensic chemist had testified Tuesday he found chloroform residue in the car, though under cross examination he acknowledged household cleaning products contain chloroform.
Bailey, who developed a software program used by law enforcement to identify Internet activities on a computer hard drive after they've been deleted, said Wednesday he also discovered search words such as inhalation, alcohol, peroxide, head injuries, ruptured spleen, chest trauma, internal bleeding, neck breaking, death, hand-to-hand combat and self defense.
During cross examination, Bailey agreed the amount of time spent searching for "chloroform" was only a few minutes during two specific days, and he said someone had used Anthony's home computer to visit a particular Web site dealing with the making of chloroform 84 times.
In other testimony Wednesday, a Florida police dog handler told the court her K-9 partner detected possible human remains in Anthony's back yard.
Sgt. Kristin Brewer of the Orange County Sheriff's Office told jurors her dog, Bones, gave a "trained final alert," indicating potential remains, on July 17, 2008. But no remains were ever found at that location, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Anthony, 25, is charged with first-degree murder.
The spot where Bones gave the signal was near Caylee's play house and the area where Orange County Deputy Jason Forgey's dog had detected clues. The next day, Bones found nothing.
Defense attorney Jose Baez, cross-examining Brewer, said the dog could have been reacting to tissue or fluid from another human.
Following Brewer, Detective Sandra Osborne, a computer examiner with the sheriff's office, began testifying about a probe of Anthony's cellphone.
