ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence released Friday unveiled new details about the secrets in Casey Anthony's family. Who really is Caylee's father? And George Anthony's alleged mistress told investigators all she knew about the case against Casey.
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The evidence includes the interrogations of the alleged mistress and there were a couple of things we'd never seen or heard before.
One of them was Casey's father's alleged mistress telling investigators what George told her about how Caylee was killed and why he was apparently lying to them and to the public. While she says she was divulging some of her former lover George Anthony's deep secrets, she revealed some of her own.
Her real name is Krystal Holloway, but says she created a new name, River Cruz, and a whole new life to escape her past. She said even George didn't know; he thought she was an illegal immigrant.
Holloway reluctantly told investigators what she says George told her: that, at first, when he said Casey's car smelled like a dead body he didn't think Casey had murdered Caylee, but later he changed his mind.
"I caught him on a bad moment and he was crying and he said, 'Look, it was an accident. It just snowballed out of control,'" Holloway told investigators.
Holloway also spoke of George losing his temper.
"There was one time that he was really pissed and he threw her up against the wall and choked her,"
"OK. Do you know why he threw her against the wall and choked her?" Sgt. John Allen asked.
"Because he said, 'I know you killed her. What did you do to her?' And he choked her and Cindy had to get George off of, off of Casey.
"How do you know this?" Allen asked.
"He told me," she said.
Holloway told detectives George wanted to throw Casey out of the house when she was back home after bailing out of jail.
"Because it was too many lies," Holloway told investigators.
But she says George then lied to investigators and to the public about someone else murdering Caylee.
"He didn't want to have to lose his other kid. He lost one," she said.
Holloway also told investigators Casey's brother Lee knows she killed Caylee.
"Because George said his son does not understand why," Holloway told investigators.
Casey's letters to jail pen pal Robyn Adams were also released. About Caylee's father she wrote: "Am 99% sure that Cays isn't Jesse's. We had a paternity test done." She and her family tried to cast suspicion on Jesse Grund, her former fiance. Even if she knows who Caylee's father is, she's never made it known publicly.
LETTER: CASEY WANTS TO ADOPT AFTER RELEASE
Inmate letters revealed something stunning about Casey. She wrote about wanting to adopt a child after she gets out of jail. It's one of the things in documents released Friday.
READ: Casey's Letters To Inmate Pen-Pal
In Casey's letters to her jail pen-pal Robyn Adams, Casey wrote:"I always wanted to adopt a baby or child from another country." But said, if she does adopt, she'll adopt in the United States.
Casey also wrote she can keep a secret. The identity of Caylee's father could be one of them, if she knows. She wrote how a paternity test ruled out ex-fiance Jesse Grund.
EVIDENCE REVEALS EQUUSEARCH CONTROVERSY
One of the audio recordings released is an interview prosecutors and Orange County Sheriff's Investigators did with Texas EquuSearch volunteer Joe Jordan, who told them another volunteer was making up stories and falsifying documents to help Casey.
EquuSearch volunteer Laura Buchanan is the focus of the information released Friday in the murder case against Casey Anthony. Buchanan, who is under investigation now for allegedly creating false documents concerning her search for Caylee, is accused by volunteer Joe Jordan of trying to get him to change his story about searching the exact area where Caylee was later found.
"I was a little questionable about this woman, so I asked her not to contact me again," Jordan says in the audio interview (hear it). "She told me she was working with Baez and they wanted me to come in and talk to them."
Buchanan was trying to convince Jordan that he searched the exact area where Caylee was found three months earlier and saw nothing. He told investigators he only spent about five minutes in the general area, because much of it was under water.
Jordan told investigators he could not search the exact area because of the flooding, but that the defense team's private investigator, Mortimer Smith, showed him a document he didn't recognize that contained erroneous information about his searches on Suburban Drive.
Among the evidence released Friday, there was also a voice mail message (hear it) from inmate Maya Derkovic left for investigators in which she claims she has information about Casey Anthony. Investigators later interviewed her and she told them Casey spoke of using chloroform on Caylee and that she resented the relationship her mother, Cindy, had with Caylee.
WHAT'S NEXT IN THE CASE?
The case against Casey is headed back to court on Monday and Casey will be there. The judge will hear a motion about the death penalty filed by Casey's defense team. Her lawyers want their witness list in the penalty phase of the trial to be sealed. The hearing is set for Monday afternoon at 1:30pm.
CASEY DEFENSE COUGHS UP MORE INFO ON EXPERT TESTIMONY
After being ordered, again, by Judge Perry to provide specifics on what the defense experts would actually be testifying on, attorney Jose Baez filed a more detailed response that gives bullet-points on 12 different experts and elements of what they'll testify on.
Botanists and forensic scientists will try to prove there's no way state expert witnesses can know how long Caylee Anthony's remains were in a wooded area near her home. Baez plans to use the experts to create a timeline to show that Caylee's remains were moved, possibly while her mother sat in jail.
JUDGE: BOTH SIDES MUST GIVE EXPERT INFO
Judge Belvin Perry wasted no time handing down his order over expert testimony in the case against Casey Anthony, applying the same rules to both the prosecution and defense.
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Casey Anthony was in court Friday for the 5:00pm hearing in the fight over her defense team's expert witnesses. While 5:00pm was an unusual time for a court hearing, it was the only time everyone could agree on.
Casey smiled as she walked into the courtroom (see images | watch video) just after 5:00pm wearing a striped blue and white long-sleeve, button down shirt and then sat down next to her attorney, Jose Baez, at the defense's table.
Prosecutors say Jose Baez is not playing nice and has refused to give up more information about his expert witnesses. Prosecutors in the case against Casey want to know exactly what expert witnesses for the defense will talk about when they reach the stand in her murder trial.
"I quite frankly don't know why we're here," Baez told Judge Perry after the state put forth their reason for wanting the hearing. "I think this is a huge waste of time that could have been resolved with a phone call."
Last month, Judge Perry ordered Baez to hand over a detailed list of what his expert witnesses would be testifying too, but assistant state attorney Jeffrey Ashton says that list wasn't good enough.
But Judge Perry wasn't going to waste much time on the back and forth bickering over the subject and issued an order that applies to both sides.
"Since ya'll can't seem to agree and can't seem to understand what I meant the last time. This is what I'm going to do," Judge Perry said less than 15 minutes into the hearing. "Where experts have not prepared reports of examinations or tests, both the state and the defense are required to provide the following … the expert's curriculum vitae, qualifications of experts, the expert's field of expertise or medical specialty, a statement of the specific subjects upon which the expert will testify and offer opinions, the substance of the facts to which the expert is expected to testify, and last but not least, a summary of the expert's opinion and grounds for each opinion … All of this must be completed by 3pm on December 23."
WFTV obtained back and forth emails between Ashton and Baez where the prosecutor told Baez to send a more in-depth list. Instead, Baez responded with a condescending tone.
For instance, he wrote next to Dr. Henry Lee: "He inspected the car and was at the evidence inspection and inspected the scene. All of which, you already know".
For Dr. Jane H. Bock, Baez wrote: "Inspected the scene and will testify about botany. Please tell me you knew this."
"This response is almost juvenile in its context and I would expect the court is going to compel Mr. Baez to comply with the court's order," Sheaffer said.
Now both sides are being forced to 'get along' and provide expert reports as ordered.
Previous Stories: December 16, 2010: Casey Defense Coughs Up More Info On Expert Testimony December 10, 2010: Judge: Both Sides Must Give Expert Info In Casey Case December 6, 2010: Casey's Defense Gets EquuSearch Documents December 2, 2010: Attorneys In Casey Case Get Into Email Dispute November 30, 2010: Casey's Defense Won't Have To Reveal Expert Costs November 25, 2010: Casey's Defense Wants To Seal Witness List November 18, 2010: Funding For DNA Tests Granted In Casey Case November 17, 2010: Testimony From Key Casey Witness Could Be Falling Apart November 16, 2010: Casey Defense Looking At EquuSearch Docs Again
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