Baez claims 'anti-Casey spin' in WKMG report on Anthony computer searchesBy Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel
4:39 p.m. EST, November 20, 2012
A highly promoted local television report set to air this evening will center on Internet searches that authorities didn't know about during the high-profile trial of Casey Anthony, according to the lead prosecutor in the case.
Prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick confirmed in an email to the Orlando Sentinel that someone used the Anthony family computer to search for "foolproof suffocation" on June 16, 2008, the day Casey Anthony's father said she left the family's home with Caylee for the last time.
In the notorious 31 days which followed, Anthony's parents repeatedly sought to see their granddaughter — and, authorities say, Casey Anthony repeatedly lied about her whereabouts.
Though computer searches were a key issue at Anthony's murder trial, the "foolproof suffocation" term never came up. Anthony's criminal defense attorney, Jose Baez, later wrote about the search in his book, "Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story."
Burdick wrote that the Orange County Sheriff's Office has confirmed "there was a computer search on 'foolproof suffocation' on 6-16-08 that they did not find." Burdick stressed that this information "is not 'new,'" as it was already published in Baez's book months ago.
However, she confirmed that she "did not know about it before or during trial."
WKMG-Channel 6 has been promoting an expose by investigative reporter Tony Pipitone, advertised to contain evidence "that could have changed the jury's mind" and "points right at Casey," which is set to air tonight at 11 p.m.
Pipitone's reporting is not the first done on the searches, but he told the Sentinel that his report tonight will reveal new details not previously reported, such as that prosecutors didn't have "98.7 percent" of the browser information from June 16, 2008, at trial.
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