FBI & Oak Ridge Lab RESULTS - Released 10/24/08

[b]Read the forensic results from the FBI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee regarding Casey Anthony's trunk and other parts of her car.





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DNA test results in Casey Anthony case released

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
12:02 PM EDT, October 24, 2008

Prosecutors this morning released the forensic test results completed by FBI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory labs in connection with the case against Casey Anthony, the mother accused of killing her daughter Caylee Marie.

Investigators have not found Caylee's body, but Anthony has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge alleging the child is dead.

The FBI lab tested items found in the trunk of Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire, including a hair strand, pieces from a tire cover and the trunk liner.

Here are some of the findings:
• The root of the hair showed signs of decomposition. A comparison to hair taken from Caylee's brush and DNA taken from Anthony showed that neither the mother nor the daughter could be excluded as the source of the hair.
• Pants, skirts and shirts taken from Anthony's home showed no signs of hair with decomposing roots.
• Residues of chloroform were found on a tire cover in te trunk.
• A hair fragment was found in the label on the handle of a shovel Anthony borrowed from a neighbor in mid-June, about the time Caylee is supposed to have disappeared. The hair was too small for microscopic comparison but DNA analysis found it did not belong to Casey Anthony or Caylee.
• No fingerprints were found on the shovel.

Air samples and pieces of carpet from the trunk were sent Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to determine whether there was signs of decomposition. The lab has been doing this type of research since 2002 and has developed the Decompositional Odor Analysis database.

Here are some of the results:

• The test showed early decomposition products and five major compounds associated with human decomposition.
• A portion of the total odor signature from the trunk "is consistent with a decompositional event that could be a human origin."
• There appeared to "an unusually large concentration of chloroform -- far greater than what is typically seen in human decomposition."

However, the results do not rule out the "remote possibility" that a variety of products and materials -- items not in the trunk when vehicle was discovered -- could have affected the overall chemical signature.

Anthony, 22, is being held without bail in the Orange County Jail. She has insisted that her daughter was taken by a baby sitter who has not been found.

Read the report here.

Kiwi here: RE: 6/1/10 hearing - Body Farm info...Admissible in court: (*Also posted on main blog....)

http://askthewhiffguys.com/research/case-studies/forensic-pathology-device-sniffs-out-dead-air/