The remains found near the Anthony home are similar in size and hair color to Caylee Anthony, a defense team attorney said Friday.
Linda Kenney Baden said Casey Anthony’s lead attorney, Jose Baez, got that information from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office after the remains were discovered on Thursday less than a half-mile from the Anthony home.
Baez was told “the anthropological measurements on the child for her being Caylee Anthony, that the hair color was correct, and they were proceeding as if this were little Caylee,” Baden said during a hearing on Friday over access to evidence from the remains.
Prosecutors, however, said they have not made a tentative identification of the remains, which were discovered by a utility worker about 9:30 a.m. on Thursday. In his 911 call, the worker mentions finding a skull, which WESH 2 and NBC sources said showed evidence of duct tape on the mouth.
Investigators said Friday it could take up to two weeks to positively identify the remains.
Baden’s announcement in court was one of the latest twists in the case against Casey Anthony, who is charged with killing her daughter, Caylee, sometime before she reported the 2-year-old child missing in July.
Also Friday:
- Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary said something at the crime scene where the remains could be linked to the Anthony house. Investigators removed bags of evidence from the home overnight, including three vacuum cleaners and a small pillow.
- The FBI was sifting through buckets of dirt on Friday from the scene where the remains were found.
- Cindy and George Anthony returned to their east Orange County home Friday afternoon, but made no comment to the media. They left about 5:30 p.m., again without talking to reporters.
- Judge Stan Strickland denied a defense motion for access to the autopsy of the remains.
The remains were found about one third of a mile from the Anthony's home on Hopespring drive. Casey Anthony stayed at the home with Caylee before Caylee went missing.
Beary, who appeared on "The Today Show" Friday morning to discuss the discovery, said Casey Anthony is on a psychological watch at the Orange County Jail and that he thinks the remains are Caylee's.
"My gut says yes, but I have to wait seven to 14 days for the DNA analysis to absolutely make sure. Just like we always have to, we are going to be waiting for facts," Beary said when Matt Lauer asked him if he believes the remains are Caylee’s.
During a news conference Thursday evening, Baez confirmed that Casey Anthony was upset when she found out about the remains and requested a sedative at the jail. Sources described Casey Anthony's reaction as an anxiety attack.
After a hearing Thursday morning, Casey Anthony's trial was pushed back until March.
I'd have an anxiety attack too if the dead body I had hidden showed up. But my mother and grandmother would have beaten the truth out of me within days of even suspecting one of my boys was missing. I couldn't have gotten away with them not seeing the boys for a month (The pair lives with us.)
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