The case of Caylee Anthony, the missing 2-year-old Florida girl whose mother has been charged with murder, is still captivating people across the nation.
On Friday, authorities released forensic results that show a hair found in the mother's car trunk came from a decomposing body. Previously, they said the hair was microscopically similar to a hair taken from Caylee's brush.
Caylee, right,disappeared in June. Her mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, left, was charged with murder last week after a grand jury indicted her.
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I'm curious as to how they tell that. If the hair came from the child while she was alive and had been in the trunk for all those months, would it still have decomposed? If so, how do they tell if the hair came from the girl alive or dead? Seriously, this is a legitimate question. I'm not trying to second guess the police-- just wondering how they tell.
Posted by: Elizabeth | October 24, 2008 at 02:56 PM
this is really getting out of control, she just needs to be a mother and an honest person and tell what she did to her child... so people are just sick in the head
Posted by: texas | October 24, 2008 at 06:47 PM
It could have had some skin in the hair or something?
Posted by: Angie | October 24, 2008 at 09:37 PM
It is extremely sad and upsetting to know that women have the power to have children and also have the power to ruin the child's life. This woman needs psychological help and needs to be put away for the rest of her life.
Posted by: Trish | October 25, 2008 at 03:59 PM
I'm guessing that the root area of the hair strands contain traces of cadaverene and/or putrecine--amino acids present in small quantities in living persons, but abundant byproducts of decomposition.
Posted by: MyNameIsNobody | October 25, 2008 at 05:10 PM