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Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D. Rules Caylee Anthony was a homocide

By Art Harris, (c) The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

When a high profile forensic pathologist like Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D., (aka “Dr. G”) calls your client’s daughter a homicide, you’d think defense lawyer Jose Baez would flinch.

Not only that: as the highly respected chief medical examiner for Orange County, Florida, Dr. G. had no bones about calling Caylee Anthony a victim of a violent crime, with the likely murder weapon duct tape; prosecutors have maintained all along her mother allegedly used it to suffocate the two year old after using chloroform to put her out.

Not to mention the statistics about children drowning victims: she’s never seen one in a garbage bag before, further disputing Casey Anthony’s claim her daughter drowned in her parents backyard pool, before her father retrieved the body and possibly dumped it. Read the rest of this entry »

Casey Anthony Detective Yuri “Dick Tracy” Melich Wednesday on the stand

By Tricia Griffith, Guest Writer, The Bald Truth, (c) artharris.com, all rights reserved

Yuri Melich was assigned as is one of the lead detectives early on in the disappearance of Caylee Anthony, a case of major interest for the 33,000 crime buffs who frequent my popular online community, Websleuths, for their daily fix of crime and justice, to offer opinions, angles and often dead on information about a case. Read the rest of this entry »

Caylee Anthony: a shot at justice; Haleigh Cummings waits

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

It’s only a 90 minute drive between Orlando, Florida, where Casey Anthony goes on trial Tuesday for the murder of her two year old daughter, Caylee, and the swampy backwoods of Satsuma, in Putnam County, where the case of another missing and presumed murdered little girl remains unsolved.

For five year old Haleigh Cummings, justice is still a world away.

One big reason: Caylee Anthony’s body was found, along with crucial forensic evidence to analyze, like duck tape (with a little heart sticky) used to cover her eyes and mouth, say prosecutors, a dark stain in the trunk of her mother’s 1998 Pontiac Sunfire that tested positively for chloroform and carpet that “smelled like a dead body” to one of Casey’s parents.

Armed with that and other evidence like hair and fiber tested by the FBI, a cadaver dog handler and photos of the so called Tot Mom partying like 1999 in the 30 days Caylee was missing (but never reported), prosecutors plan to tell the Orlando jury Tuesday it all adds up to murder, plain and simple, that circumstantial evidence will show, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Casey Anthony killed her own daughter.

In the Haleigh case, police say former 17 year old babysitter Misty Croslin holds the key to unlocking the truth, though she now denies knowing anything after numerous stories and four failed polygraphs. She reported Haleigh missing Feb. 9, 2009, and within 30 days, had married the father, Ronald Cummings.
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Haleigh Cummings, 2 years later? Police say, Not!

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

In the last few days, Chelsea Croslin has been phoning anyone who would listen, including The Bald Truth, claiming she had sensational photos a fan had sent jailed sister in law Misty Croslin that purported to show Haleigh Cummings alive and being held captive near Louisville, Kentucky.

“It’s Haleigh!” she declared, frantic. “It’s how she would look two years later if you aged her photos. What if she’s being tortured in some warehouse? I’d never forgive myself if I didn’t try to find her. I’m calling everyone in the media I know.”

She cited a local Louisville TV station, WDRB FOX 41′s story featuring an FBI raid on a man’s house last week when agents armed with automatic weapons executed a search warrant to seize a computer. Croslin, who is married to Misty’s brother, Timmy, claimed the owner had been writing Misty in prison, and included photos of little girls from magazine models and elsewhere “that had to be Haleigh!”

But The Bald Truth has learned The FBI investigation into the Louisville man, Danny Druck, has no connection to Haleigh Cummings. Read the rest of this entry »