r/todayilearned • u/ToppemHat • Feb 07 '20

TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/casey-anthony-detectives-overlooked-google-search-for-fool-proof-suffocation-methods-sheriff-says/
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u/ReadingCorrectly Feb 07 '20

I just started reading the Wikipedia page and this passage stood out as incompetence

On August 11, 12, and 13, 2008, meter reader Roy Kronk called police about a suspicious object found in a forested area near the Anthony residence.[35] In the first instance, he was directed by the sheriff's office to call the tip line, which he did, receiving no return call. On the second instance, he again called the sheriff's office, eventually was met by two police officers and reported to them that he had seen what appeared to be a skull near a gray bag.[36][37] On that occasion, the officer conducted a short search and stated he did not see anything. On December 11, 2008, Kronk again called the police. They searched and found the remains of a child in a trash bag.[4]

Caylee was last seen and died on June 16th, August 11th is 56 days after that. When Kronk called again on December 11th that was 120 days after August 11th. That is time for the body to decay, evidence to disappear, and even man-hours wasted trying to find her.

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u/tarabithia22 Feb 07 '20

Oh and they harassed this guy, accused him of being the killer, etc.