Day 13 of the case against Casey Anthony was filled with key Internet searches as several computer examiners testified about evidence they had retrieved from a computer inside the Anthony home.
John Bradley, CEO and founder of SiQuest Corporation, testified that someone inside the home searched for 'chloroform' and 'neck breaking' on Google and Wikipedia.
Bradley also listed the following items that were searched: Internal bleeding, ruptured spleen, death, self-defense, chest trauma, and inhalation. These terms were gathered from a computer program he helped develop that reconstructed the Internet history of the hard drive from the Anthonys' computer.
Defense attorney Jose Baez, in his cross-examination, argued that Bradley was marketing his program for a financial gain. He even went as far as going to the defense table, picked up a laptop and read off Bradley’s website description to the jury.
State attorney Linda Drane Burdick asked Bradley how many times chloroform was searched on the website, www.scispot.com.
“According to the history, 84 times,” Bradley said.
Earlier, Sgt. Kevin Stenger also testified and discussed searches of 'chloroform' he recovered from Internet histories in the Anthonys' computer. The computer forensic expert also discussed searches and log-ins that were made to the social networking site MySpace.
“Somebody did a search, a specific search for the term chloroform, and then subsequently went to a different website,” Stenger said.
“Which is MySpace?” Baez asked.
“That’s correct,” Stenger replied.
Sandra Osborne, a computer examiner for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, was the second person to testify.
Osborne testified about what she found on the Anthony family’s computer. When she looked through the computer, she found references to Zenaida Gonzalez, who Casey claimed was Caylee’s nanny. She said someone did an online search for Zenaida Gonzalez on July 16, 2008. Someone had searched for chloroform as well.
Earlier, Casey looked down as prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick questioned the first witness, Sgt. Kristin Brewer, a K-9 handler with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
When her dog, Bones, was in training school, Sgt. Brewer said he had no misses.
“He performed fairly well,” Brewer said. “The instructors said that they saw no problem in his searching ability.”
On Tuesday, one handler said his dog, Gerus, detected a dead body smell in the trunk of Casey’s car and near her daughter Caylee’s playhouse in the backyard.
“He gave a final trained alert in the southeast corner of the yard,” Orange County deputy Jason Forgey said.
Caylee got the playhouse for her second birthday. Prosecutors believe Casey may have tried to bury Caylee’s body near the playhouse, but put the body in her trunk instead.
Casey Anthony is accused of killing her two-year-old daughter Caylee, and dumping her body in the woods near her home. She has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.