From WFTV newsroom:

Orlando, FL -Casey Anthony hyperventilated when she was told Caylee’s remains had been found. That’s just one of the many blockbuster details released Wednesday in the case against Casey.

Pictures of the crime scene, photos of evidence taken from inside the Anthony family home and hundreds of hundreds of pages of documents were released Wednesday.

According to the documents, investigators found a bag inside the family home that matches the bag that contained Caylee Anthony’s remains. Among the documents and images, there’s also some cryptic words from Casey Anthony’s dairy.

Investigators found evidence from the Anthony home that matched evidence found with Caylee’s remains, including a laundry bag.

One of the most disturbing things that was released Wednesday was a page from Casey’s diary dated June 21 (read journal entry), five days after Caylee disappeared, where she wrote, “This is the happiest I have been in a very long time. I hope that my happiness will continue to grow.”

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George Anthony, father of Casey Anthony, was reported missing, early Friday morning after threatening suicide. He was later found at a Daytona Beach motel.

The Anthonys’ attorney, Brad Conway, said George was okay. He was taken into custody under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows the state to hold people involuntarily pending a psychiatric evaluation.

The lead investigator in the case and several Orange County sheriff’s deputies responded to the house of George and Cindy Anthony late Thursday night. His family had grown increasingly concerned when George missed a scheduled meeting Thursday afternoon.

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From WFTV newsroom:

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – New documents were released Thursday in the case against Casey Anthony that reveal what George and Cindy Anthony told investigators in the hours and days after Caylee Anthony was reported missing.

The State Attorney’s Office released 500 pages of new documents in the case Thursday and they show that George Anthony told investigators he felt something was wrong from the very beginning. The documents focus a lot on interviews George and Cindy Anthony did with sheriff’s deputies.

When sheriff’s investigators questioned Casey’s father George nine days after Caylee was reported missing, George told them he had “bad vibes” the very first day he got his car back and smelled the smell in the trunk, a smell, he said as a former law enforcement officer, he knows and would never forget.

Casey’s father George told investigators, “I don’t want to believe that I have, have raised someone and brought someone in this world that could do something to another person. I don’t want to believe that.” 

George also told them, “I, I, I believe that there’s someone dead back there and I hate to say the word human. Um, I hate to say that.” 

George told them, when he opened the trunk of the car, he said to himself, “Please don’t let this be my Caylee.”

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From WFTV newsroom:

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Did Casey Anthony kill her own daughter with chloroform? Eyewitness News has learned someone was looking up the recipe to cook up the chemical on Casey’s home computer around the same time Caylee disappeared.

There was evidence of high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car and sheriff’s investigators found that someone on Casey Anthony’s computer was researching not where to buy chloroform, but how to make it yourself, which can be done easily.

Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says, if you were up to no good, there would be an advantage to making it as opposed to buying it.

When you Google “how do you make chloroform,” more than a million websites are listed with instructions. On the first one, page one had an explicit warning about chloroform’s dangers, calling the chemical extremely dangerous and unpredictable and warning never to allow children to come near chloroform.

FBI lab tests show high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car, where investigators say Caylee’s body had been. And there was a mysterious stain in the trunk along with Caylee’s hairs and dirt.

“Another piece of evidence in the circumstantial chain,” Sheaffer said.

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A childhood friend of Casey Anthony spoke out Thursday on CNN’s Nancy Grace about what Cindy Anthony told her the day after Caylee was reported missing.

“The morning of the 16th, when I talked to Cindy, she told me that she believes Casey was guilty of something. She did not know what, but she didn’t care if it meant that Casey ended up behind bars for the rest of her life as long as she got Caylee home,” said Brittany Schieber.

Friday at 10:00am, the State Attorney’s Office is releasing the 2 hour long videotaped interview, with Caylee’s grandmother Cindy which was done two weeks after she reported Caylee missing. They will also release text messages, hundreds of documents and cell phone records.

Schieber also said that from June 9 until Casey was arrested in July, she was constantly texting her about going out and she could not understand how Casey had so much free time when she had a 2-year-old daughter.

Prosecutors are also releasing Casey’s computer records, which show that Casey deleted Yahoo mail and some photographs of Caylee.