Casey Anthony Spoke Of Dead Smell In Car

Friend: Casey Anthony Spoke Of Dead Smell In Car
Documents In Casey Anthony Case Reveal New Details

POSTED: 11:41 am EDT September 23, 2008
UPDATED: 5:07 pm EDT September 23, 2008

Nine days after Caylee Anthony was last seen, her mother contacted a friend
and said "it smells like something died in my car," new documents released
on Tuesday show.

Casey Anthony later told friend Amy Huzenga, "There's definitely part of an
animal plastered on my car," according to a transcript of her interview with
Orange County deputies.

That interview was part of nearly 600 pages of documents released by the
state attorney's office in the case of the missing 3-year-old. Casey Anthony
faces child neglect and other charges and is out on bond awaiting trial.

Many of the documents are text messages and phone records, but they do
include some investigator interviews, including with Casey Anthony's
brother, Lee, and her friend Amy Huzenga.

Hunzenga told deputies that Anthony said her father George had hit a
squirrel but had "gotten rid of it."

Investigators have said that air samples taken from the trunk of Casey
Anthony's car indicate human decomposition. Casey had abandoned the car,
which was later recovered by her parents in a towing yard.

According to Huzenga, before George and Cindy Anthony opened the trunk, the
smell was so bad, they were terrified it was Caylee or Casey in that trunk.

Also, during the interview, Hunzenga said that on June 28, Casey Anthony
showed up at Huzenga's door and asked if the two could go to Target and buy
a gasoline can. During that time Casey told Huzenga that Caylee was at the
beach.

At one point, Huzenga said to deputies, Anthony told her she was barely even
able to see Caylee lately. But Casey then said, "at least she's in a good
place and not involved with all this other stuff," Hunzenga told deputies.

A woman who answered the phone at attorney Jose Baez's office on Tuesday
said Baez was not in and she's referring all media calls to his
spokesperson, Todd Black.

In a telephone interview, Black said the discovery evidence released by the
State Attorney's Office Tuesday contains nothing new and, therefore, Baez is
not going to comment on it. Black went on to say Baez received his copy of
the evidence on Monday and that if there had been any new, condemning
evidence against Casey, "she wouldn't be sitting at home right now" free on
bond.

Black also said a third party has provided the funds to hire an independent
investigative team to chase down leads regarding Caylee's whereabouts. Black
said due to confidentiality agreements, he would not reveal the identities
of the members of the investigative team or the location they're operating
out of. He said the team will focus on looking into leads he believes the
Sheriff's office has ignored.

Meanwhile, a local lawmaker wants to put some new rules in place to keep
protesters away from the Anthony home in East Orange County.

Neighbors are pushing for an injunction to force protestors to stay in an
empty lot, and not in front of the family's house.

Orange County commissioner Linda Stewart said that if that doesn't pass, she
has another plan: Enact a curfew on the neighborhood.

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