"Earlier this afternoon, a meter reader who used to work with Roy Kronk was called to the stand today in Casey Anthony's first degree murder trial.
David Dean, who testified after Kronk was excused, was asked to help Kronk out on that day in August when Kronk first reported seeing something suspicious in the woods near the Anthony home.
"I told him I felt the girl's body was in there,'' Dean said. Kronk told Dean and others what he thought he spotted. But then, the skull became secondary to a dead snake they found
"Everything turned on to the snake afterwards," he says.
Kronk, who discovered Caylee Marie's remains while working as an Orange County meter reader, testified today how he initially tried to alert authorities about his discovery of Suburban Drive in August."
REPORTER ANTHONY COLOROSSI; THE ORLANDO SENTINEL;
A backgrounder on this high profile Florida case cane be found on Wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony
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"Defense attorneys are attempting to have the judge allow a couple of corrections officers to testify on Casey Anthony's demeanor while in jail, but the judge said no," the Orlando Sentinel story by reporter Anthony Colorossi published earlier today under the heading, "Casey Anthony trial: Defense asking to allow corrections officers to testify: This is happening outside the presence of the jury before court is adjourned for the day," begins.
"Defense attorney Jose Baez called two corrections officers to the stand outside the presence of the jury this afternoon, presumably to have them testify about how she was happy and cordial to them all the time she has been in custody," the story continues.
"But the judge will not allow those witnesses, he said, citing relevance.
Earlier this afternoon, a meter reader who used to work with Roy Kronk was called to the stand today in Casey Anthony's first degree murder trial.
David Dean, who testified after Kronk was excused, was asked to help Kronk out on that day in August when Kronk first reported seeing something suspicious in the woods near the Anthony home.
"I told him I felt the girl's body was in there,'' Dean said. Kronk told Dean and others what he thought he spotted. But then, theskull became secondary to a dead snake they found
"Everything turned on to the snake afterwards," he says.
Kronk, who discovered Caylee Marie's remains while working as an Orange County meter reader, testified today how he initially tried to alert authorities about his discovery of Suburban Drive in August.
He also described how he returned to vacant lot in December to look at what he thought might be askull.
Kronk wasn't sure what it is, and placed his meter-reader stick in theskull's right eye socket to move it slightly.
"I apologize for doing so, I did not know what it was. I gently pivoted it up. I never lifted it off the ground," Kronk said. "That was a very horrific thing for me to find, obviously."
He immediately called a supervisor.
"I said I needed him there immediately. I had found a human skull," Kronk said.
He admitted some anger for being yelled at by a deputy months earlier when he earlier called authorities out to the scene and they could not find the skull.
Kronk said he told authorities in August that he spotted something that looked like a skull in the woods near the Anthony family home. His co-workers were more interested in a dead rattlesnake.
Kronk told defense attorney J. Cheney Mason that he spotted something that "appeared a little odd to me" when he stepped in the woods off Suburban Drive in August 2008.
The item was something he thought looked like a skull, and he contacted law enforcement to check it out. He said he never came closer than 30 feet to the object.
He said it was near a fallen tree with a white board down across it. There was a gray bag there, too. He identified in court the site on a hand-written drawing of the scene.
Kronk says he cannot say how far the site was from the edge of the road. He says he never took deputies who came out to meet him on Suburban to the exact spot.
When he went there on Aug. 11 and 13, 2008, Kronk said he didn't smell anything peculiar."
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The story can be found at:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-trial-day-30-20110628,0,6543072.story
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;
