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Updated: 5:36 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 | Posted: 5:19 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008

Anthonys Have Yet To Report Email Hacking Claims To Police

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —

Cindy Anthony and her private investigator Tuesday had still not reported their claims that someone hacked into her email account and sent unauthorized messages to Eyewitness News and other people.

Eyewitness News broke the story Monday evening. The FBI is now investigating after the emails were reported to them by WFTV reporter Kathi Belich.

The Anthonys' private investigator told Eyewitness News they are outraged and planned to report the intrusion, to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

As of late Tuesday afternoon, though, they had not.

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A member of Casey Anthony's defense team says he predicts that her trial will be delayed. Doctor Lawrence Kobilinsky talked about a possible delay Monday night on CNN's Nancy Grace show.

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Casey's murder trial is scheduled for January 5, but Kobilinsky said the defense team may need more than a month extra. Defense experts haven't even had a chance to look at the key evidence.

CINDY SAYS SOMEONE HACKED HER EMAIL ACCOUNT

Cindy Anthony says someone hacked into her email and sent out messages and documents containing sensitive information about the case. WFTV reporter Kathi Belich received four of the emails herself, but when she realized something didn't seem right about them she forwarded the emails to the FBI.

Now, the FBI is investigating.

TEAM COVERAGE: FBI Investigating Cindy's Claim

The Anthonys have used their home computer to email their spokesman, their private investigators and others about the case, but they say someone accessed their account when they weren't even home during the holiday weekend.

Cindy Anthony hammered the point home earlier this year that people were going too far and she was trying to protect her home turf. But over the Thanksgiving weekend, she says someone broke through the boundaries in a more underhanded way, by somehow getting into her Yahoo email account, gaining access to her messages and even confidential documents pertaining to her daughter Casey's defense and sending them out posing as Cindy.

Kathi Belch received four of them on Friday. One of the emails involved the Caylee hairbrush story Eyewitness News broke last week. It seemed odd that Cindy would send Kathi such apparently personal and sensitive information.

Kathi text messaged Cindy right away and forwarded the emails to the FBI, which is already investigating an allegation that Cindy gave investigators the wrong hairbrush when they were trying to get a DNA sample for Caylee.

Cindy told Kathi she had not sent any emails and Monday said she had been locked out of her account over the weekend and said Yahoo found someone in Ocala who might have gotten in.

"It would be a connection between Ocala and Orlando or several protesters that we did run background checks on throughout that period. As to me saying it would be attributed to them, not what I'm saying, but possibly an Ocala to Orlando," said Dominic Casey, Anthonys' private investigator.

The FBI asked Eyewitness News not to reveal the details of emails because of their investigation. They include exchanges between Cindy Anthony and her spokesman, her private investigator, and even the PR person for Kid Finders, angry with Eyewitness News after exposing their founder has a criminal background.

"This is an extreme invasion of privacy of delicate, sensitive information," Dominic Casey said.

CASEY, CAYLEE #2 SEARCHED NEWS STORY

It's a sign of just how much the story of Casey and Caylee Anthony has captured the country's attention.

On Monday, Yahoo.com released its list of the top news stories searched on its site in 2008 and Caylee and Casey Anthony was the second most popular news search.

Yahoo said the most searched news stories in order were on hurricanes, Caylee and Casey Anthony, election 2008, Pakistan, pregnant man, China, Iraq, Shelley Malil, Patrick Swayze and Afghanistan.

Previous Stories: December 2, 2008: Casey Defense Team Member Predicts Trial Delay December 1, 2008: Cindy Anthony Says Someone Hacked Her Email Account December 1, 2008: Casey, Caylee Anthony 2nd Most Searched News Story On Yahoo November 28, 2008: George Refuses To Give Up Hope That Caylee Is Alive November 27, 2008: Casey Documents Talk Of Chloroform, Neck-Breaking And Incest November 26, 2008: Cindy May Face Obstruction Of Justice Charges November 25, 2008: FBI Investigating Email That Could Land Cindy In Jail November 25, 2008: Casey Anthony's Attorney Fights State's Gag Order Request

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