More than 280 pages of documents were released today including interview transcripts, FBI tests results and Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) property forms of listed items collected from the scene where two-year-old Caylee Anthony’s body was found.
Among the transcripts is a taped interview with Cecelia Benhaida, who served five months in the Orange County Jail and passed a few letters back and forth between Casey Anthony and a couple of inmates. Benhaida told detectives that as a “trustee” in jail, she would clean Casey’s cell and that initially she would give her “nasty looks” because she knew why Anthony was in jail. Subsequently, she was nice to Casey, she said, as all the other inmates “would be screaming murderer, um, you know just mean things to her”. She said that she felt that Anthony needed one person that she “can just say “hello”.
Benhaida told detectives that she believes her sister, River Cruz (Krystal Holloway) did have a romantic relationship with George Anthony, Casey’s father, at one point. They met, she said, at a Kids Finders Network event when Cruz had gone over to console George.
“They took the numbers down, they was talking on the phone a lot and um, she (Cruz) told me that he (George Anthony) had been at the house a few times…she had given money a few times. Um, and she also told me that she had been over to his house”, Benhaida told detectives.
Benhaida said Cruz had mentioned that George said Caylee’s death was an accident.
The documents released today also contained FBI tests of hair and fibers.
Numerous items have been collected from the death investigation scene, among them an unidentified strand of hair. Hair samples of several detectives working the Casey Anthony case have been tested, the documents show.
Among the items collected from the death investigation scene are: a canvas bag; black plastic bag; bones–1 radius, 1 rib, 1 vertebra, 2 teeth, 1 clavicle bone; miscellaneous pieces of black plastic bags; and numerous other items.
Casey Anthony is charged with first degree murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. She has pleaded not guilty and sits in the Orange County Jail awaiting her day in court. The trial has been set for May 2011.
If convicted, Anthony could face the death penalty.
