Hmmm - you may have misunderstood some of my comments....which was re the bags - would the Anthony's routinely buy heavy duty garbage bags for their garbage? It's not like they have to carry it very far. I don't buy the more expensive heavy duty ones because our dumpster is just behind our building and we have special orange ones for leaves and things like that. And I doubt FCA specifically bought heavy duty ones for Caylee. I do have tie bags but they are just regular ones.
The whole conversation was about leakage vs time in the trunk as we were doing speculation from 2.6 days to 5 or 6 and the stain in the trunk. Plastic is not bio-degradeable at any strength, so despite being torn apart by animal activity - it should still be in very good shape.
I was hoping someone else would try the experiment....one experiment does not a stastic make..:floorlaugh:
I did not misunderstand your comments. What type of bags were confiscated from the Anthony home, and what type of bags Caylee's remains were in, is information that
if specified in the docs (which I do not recall), can most likely be found searching online.
Many of us will recall a video from late summer/fall of 2008 showing George emerging from garage to curbside via his driveway, carrying out trash bags with yellow ties that IMO look
similar to the ones found on Suburban Dr. in Dec. My
guess would be that LE/SA considered the remains-scene bags and the Anthonys' similar-looking bags a match.
Guess. No link.
Correct, trash bags for the most part are not biodegradable. I noted that the ones found with Caylee's remains appeared to be heavy-duty in part because they were still in such good shape after six months out in the elements. I have seen with my own eyes that plastic bags
do degrade somewhat with physical wear-and-tear and lengthy exposure to the elements. (Plastic bags in the ocean break down rather quickly, for instance.) After six months outdoors, IMO a typical lightweight kitchen-type trash bag would not look as pristine as those in the evidence photos -- JMO of course.
It also made sense to me that a person intending to contain a body in a trash bag would probably not do so if the only bags available (i.e. in the home) were thin or lightweight bags. Again, JMO. Speculating.
I have no horse in this race, LOL. My post was intended to augment the discussion, nothing more. I have no need to prove my opinion that they appear to have been heavy-duty bags, or else I'd be searching all over the Internet trying to nail it down.
As has been mentioned, we do not have accurate information regarding Caylee's weight, what type of bags were used, whether or how or how long/far they were carried with her body inside, whether they were carried inside the laundry bag, whether they were doubled immediately or later, when or whether they were placed in the laundry bag and/or trunk, what the conditions were inside the trunk when the bags were inside, etc. Even Vass and Haskell gave nonspecific ranges: 0.7 to 2.6 days for the decomp leakage, and 3 to 5 days spent in the trunk based on insect activity, respectively IIRC.
It's admirable to be curious and want to figure out what happened to Caylee IMO. But not knowing what the variables might be, IMO it would be hard to achieve a reliable result or arrive at a definitive conclusion. That is only my feeling; I do not judge those who feel differently or wish to explore possibilities through experimenting and speculating.
Respectfully, I will not be discussing this topic any further for the time being, so please don't consider me rude for not replying.
Thanks for understanding.
