Casey Anthony Pleads Not Guilty As Search Teams Plan Return

Casey entered a written plea of not guilty Friday to her first-degree murder charges for the death of her daughter Caylee. That means Casey will not have to show up for her arraignment hearing.

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Also Friday, Casey's lawyer made a discovery request to get legal access to the evidence in the case that helped indict Casey and Eyewitness News learned the group EquuSearch is headed back to Central Florida to look for Caylee's body.

EquuSearch really wants the community to turn out and volunteer for the search. They had set up shop near Orlando International Airport, because Casey was making the rounds in that area during the days immediately after Caylee disappeared.

The weather's dried up a bit, so EquuSearch is coming back to search again starting on Saturday, November 8. They are hoping for more success this time, even though they're sure now that Caylee's been murdered.

An area of Boggy Creek Road, about five miles from Casey Anthony's house, could be one of the locations that makes the list when EquuSearch comes back to Orlando with the grim task of looking for the body of Caylee Anthony.

EquuSearch founder and director Tim Miller said Friday he plans to come back in early November to map out locations for the search with detectives from the Orange County Sheriff's Office. They will prioritize locations and it's possible they will re-search some areas. But, still, they are going on educated guesses, because they say only Casey knows where she left Caylee's body.

EquuSearch said it's expecting about a thousand people to come back and help this time.

A grand jury believes Caylee was murdered by her mother, but Miller says there is still a lot of interest in helping investigators find Caylee's body. Prosecutors believe they have a strong case against Casey even without the body, but the search will continue, not just because of the investigation but also for the family's sake to bring closure.

In September, about 2,500 volunteers searched large areas around the Beachline Expressway and the Lee Vista area near the Anthony's home and Orlando International Airport, in some cases, because Casey's cell phone records show her breaking routine and inexplicably travelling through some remote areas.

CAR BAEZ WANTS TO TEST IS STRIPPED

One of the things Casey Anthony's attorney wants is to run his own forensics tests on Casey's car. But Eyewitness News talked to sources Friday and they said Jose Baez's team won't find much left. They said the car has already been stripped down for the most part.

The judge said Baez could take his own air sample tests, but the parts of the trunk stained by a dead body have been removed and are at the lab.

MYSTERY PR MAN SAYS CAYLEE IS DEAD, BACKTRACKS

Casey Anthony's defense team is backtracking after they finally admitted, on national TV, that Casey's daughter Caylee is dead.

"This is a very serious case, involving not just the loss of the life of this little girl, but the loss of whatever is going to happen with Casey Anthony," Todd Black said on CNN Wednesday night (Hear It All).

Black is Casey's attorney's spokesman. Not only is he trying to take back his words, so is the attorney and Casey's family.

Todd Black, the spokesperson for Casey Anthony's legal team, admitted on national television late Wednesday that Caylee Anthony is dead. Eyewitness News reached Black by phone Thursday and he denied that is what he meant. He insisted the Baez legal team is confident Caylee is just missing and Casey had nothing to do with her disappearance.

"I did not say that on national television. I responded to what someone else said," Black told Eyewitness News (full interview).

He scrambled for more than five minutes during the call, coming up with different excuses and explanations about what he meant by the comment. But, the bottom line is, he admitted what investigators have long said.

George Anthony brushed it off Thursday morning before he hit the road to drive around the billboard with his granddaughter's picture on it, because he still believes she's alive.

"I don't know why someone would say something like that when everything is circumstantial," George said.

A spokesperson for George and Cindy Anthony called the statement made by Todd Black, someone who's supposed to be on Casey's side, inappropriate.

"If he said something like that and that's what he meant then he shouldn't be representing, working for, Jose Baez because that's an inappropriate statement," said Larry Garrison, Anthony family spokesperson.

The family told Eyewitness News they are even setting up a new tip line that should be ready by Thursday night or Friday. Volunteers from all over the country will help.

WHO IS TODD BLACK?

Eyewitness News has been doing some digging to try to find out exactly who Todd Black is, but he doesn't have a professional track record or paper trail. He works for Press Corps Media. The company claims to have more than 200 employees and an $11 million profit margin, but Press Corps Media doesn't even have a website.

Todd Black has never appeared on camera, only doing interviews over the phone.

ATTORNEY JOSE BAEZ DEFENDS TODD BLACK

Whoever Todd Black is and whatever he looks like, Casey Anthony's defense attorney, Jose Baez, says Black is still working for him and Baez on Thursday also tried to explain Black's comment and tried to downplay the impact of what Black said.

Baez Talks 101608 BAEZ SPEAKS OUT Watch Raw Video Baez said that Black's comments were taken out of context and that he said it after some jokes were being made about the case to bring back the appropriate gravity to the conversation.

"There were jokes being made about the case. I don't see how anyone could be joking about the case of a missing child or a case of first-degree murder and that is what I believe he was referring to," Baez said during a Thursday afternoon press conference (watch it).

Baez tried to convince reporters that his mysterious PR man, who never shows his face, wasn't really saying Caylee is dead; he was saying the case involves accusations that Caylee is dead.

"Todd Black is not a lawyer. He doesn't sit in on our meetings. He doesn't sit in on our client conversations," Baez said.

Black's comments came after a caller to a CNN Headline News program asked how Casey could party right after her little girl disappeared. Black never answered that question.

"Todd Black still does work for us. In my opinion, he has done a very good job," Baez told Eyewitness News.

Baez said he wants to make it clear that the defense team believes that Caylee is alive and that it's still getting new leads about her whereabouts that are being shared with law enforcement.

"My case looks extremely good if we find Caylee," Baez said.

Baez also said Thursday that he has a death penalty qualified attorney on his team, but that attorney remains as mysterious as PR man Todd Black, because Baez won't say who it is.

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