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Nov 13, 2008 by Gabby Girl
ORLANDO, Fla. – Divers searching for a sign of missing toddler Caylee Anthony on Thursday found a plastic bag with toys and small bones weighted down by bricks, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said.
Inside the bag were two toys and bones the size of fingers and toes, diver David Badalai told WESH 2 News. There also was a shamrock, which Padilla said was a favorite symbol of mother Casey Anthony.
The bag, Balalai said, was held underwater by two bricks.
While law enforcement, including the FBI and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office headed to the scene, divers continued to pull items out of the water. The Sheriff’s Office plans a media briefing later this afternoon, but told WESH 2 News reporter Bob Kealing that the bag is of no value as evidence, and its lead investigator in the case left the scene.
From the air, Chopper 2 pilot Dan McCarthy said divers could be seen going down into drains and handing bags and other items up.
There is no confirmation whether the bones are human or animal. Padilla and Badalai said the bag appeared to be underwater for some time on the muck at the river bottom.
The discovery about 2 p.m. today came on the second day of searching the Little Econlockhatchee River around Blanchard Park on Thursday for any sign of Caylee.
Casey Anthony is in Orange County Jail awaiting trial on first-degree murder and other charges. Prosecutors said she killed her daughter, who has not been seen since June.
“We’re going to keep going forward until the lead wears out,” Padilla said.
Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother, said her attitude is not changed by the discovery in the search for her granddaughter.
“Until I see someone comes to us with concrete evidence that this is Caylee, it’s just another rollercoaster ride,” said Anthony, who has been critical of Padilla in recent weeks over his visibility in the media and comments about his suspicions about Casey Anthony.
“This could just be another one of Leonard’s antics,” Anthony said.
The family has continued to say they will believe Caylee Anthony is alive until proved they are wrong.
Cindy Anthony said Thursday the family received a tip that someone saw Caylee in a Coral Springs McDonald’s in South Florida.
Padilla said the discovery of a shamrock in the bag is significant, because Casey Anthony had many shamrocks in her life. He said she has a shamrock tattoo and a shamrock sticker on her car.
Previously released photos of Casey Anthony show the shamrock tattoo on her back and wearing a shamrock necklace.
The search was organized by Padilla, who sent nearly 40 divers back into the water to search for the missing toddler. Thursday’s search is much larger than Monday’s.
Padilla said he focused on the park and river because a cross was found nearby that Padilla said contained decorative beads like those in Anthony’s home.
Ruby
11/14/2008
2:46 am
#258
Strange that Tim Miller talks about the largest search ever conducted on Nancy Grace show.
The donations are pooring in, who knows how much.
Then he finally shows up and goes to the Tabu club owned by Mark Nemagii to hold a meeting.
He then gets a nice donation from Mark and decides the bones are easily overlooked because they are small.
he will come back later he has other important things to do.
He then backs out of loaning Leonard the divers he promised to search blanchard park.
This is what Leonard said on Nancy Grace last night, but thank god some nice people from black water donated their time.
These men are professionals when it comes to dark murky water and human remains.
Leonard was not paid any money and he stayed to do the job even after he was disapointed in Tim Miller for leaving him here in Orlando.
Tim did say he would return another time I guess that would be after the date to decide if Casey would get the death penalty.
I believe she will go to court again in the end of November so it would be in her best interest if the body was located after that date not before.
I believe they were going to base the death penalty on a body,human remains.
Tim said he would have no problem finding Caley and he had just located a woman remains that had been missing for years.
Then he mentioned using a machine he was going to use to surch for Caley that cost 125,000 and Nancy cut him off.
Tim sure did a big 360, I wonder how much money Mark donated to equua search since he is a millionair.
They said Mark donated money to equaa search this weekend when Tim was in town .
I wonder if someone could check and find out if he did and how much.
I wonder if mark is part owner of kid finder, because he is very rich and he is partners with alot of business.
It was mentioned that Tim collected 30,000 when he was here this weekend .
I wonder if it was a single check from one rich person or lots of people.
I hope it turns out to be Caleys bones and its over with she can have a memorial service and stop the big lies.
I dont know how they can say its not human bones when they really didnt check once they got there.
Besides the Diver thought it was human bones and they called the police to come and check them out.
I thought they needed a anthropologist to decide if it was human or animal remains.
I don’t think a detective or police officer can make that decision.
I can’t believe Mark Nemajii took this case he is so expensive and high rated with a good Name.
I wish Mark would give me some money he has to much and needs to share it with the poor people.