Besides the letters, the discovery includes transcripts of police interviews with potential witnesses and a few invoices from forensic experts hired by the state. Two expert entomologists will face off at the trial regarding their interpretation of the insect activity in the trunk of Anthony’s abandoned Pontiac Sunfire and around the skeletal remains of Caylee. As of last November, the state’s expert, Neal Haskell, has billed the State of Florida $25,551.25 for 101.5 hours of pre-trial work at $200 per hour. He writes in the invoice: “In more than 800 cases over a 25 year period this case generated the highest number of samples I have ever had to analyze.” That’s a hint of what’s to come at a trial laden with forensic evidence.
One that stands out is a 2009 letter from her father, George Anthony, asking to visit her in jail.
"It has been too long to not hear your voice call me 'Papa Joe/Dad.' I need," he wrote, "to hear that from you no matter what. Please let Papa Joe come to visit. You are the boss. You can make it happen. So what if the media gets some of it. It will
Casey Anthony with Daughter Caylee (Personal Photo)
be just you and I - and the conversation is under your control."
In a now infamous high-five, Lee and Casey Anthony once celebrated getting her through a gauntlet of reporters, but Lee Anthony no longer shows up at his sister's court hearings and there were no letters from him.
Casey Anthony: She had one visitor in last 3 weeks, WESH reports
Caylee and Casey Anthony, George and Cindy Anthony, WESH — posted by halboedeker on June, 28 2010 5:41 PM
“The only visit she’s had in more than three weeks is from a mitigation specialist who works for the defense,” WESH’s Bob Kealing reported. “Basically, it’s her job to go in, interview Casey repeatedly, construct a life story to where if she is convicted, it will help the defense argue for life instead of death.”
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