At 12:45 AM, July 16, 2008, Yuri Melich was briefed about missing 2 year old Caylee Anthony and began his investigation. At 8:09 PM, 19 hours 24 minutes later he arrested Casey Anthony for neglect of a child, giving false official statements and obstruction of a criminal investigation. What LE discovered within the first 22 hours is what they based these charges on. The first sign that computer forensics might play a part in this investigation is within those first hours and on page 3 of the first release of discovery. Melich states that “they”, meaning either the maintenance man or the manager of Sawgrass apartments, ran several names through their system and discovered Zenaida Gonzalez looked at an apartment on April 17, 2008. Of course, we now know that this is incorrect. It was June and not April, according to the guest card, also collected by Melich. This is one day after the assumed day Caylee went missing, although at that time they thought it was June 9 and not June 16.

The purpose in starting here is to show that from the very first hours there was carelessness and mistakes that permeated this investigation, with more than a few involving the digital forensics. He drove Casey around so she could show him various locations that Zenaida and her mother, Gloria lived but all he did to confirm or deny this is ask a couple of neighbors if they ever heard of her. I guess he expected the same neighbors to still be there and know all their neighbors from 2 years prior. As I’ve shown in another post, Gloria Gonzalez did own a condo in this area, discovered through a simple computer search of Orange County properties by name.

Melich’s report was written about a half an hour before Casey’s arrest. Also used to support her arrest, is the fact that at Universal Studios ran some names through their computer database and led him to believe Casey was lying about her, Jeffry Hopkins, Juliette Lewis and Zenaida Gonzalez working there. He didn’t bother asking them if there was any other contractor that might have an employee database connected to Universal Studios as subcontractors and didn’t bother specifying if this JH had Dale or Michael as a middle name.

At 4:11 am on July 16, about 3.5 hours after Melich is briefed, he conducts a recorded interview with Casey. She told him Jeffrey’s middle name and that he last worked for Universal about 10 months prior. http://www.wesh.com/download/2008/0912/17458604.mp3 But still, even with this knowledge, Melich didn’t think it necessary to ask if they had any subcontractors connected to Universal. If he had, perhaps he wouldn’t have been so quick to assume that Juliette Lewis or the others didn’t exist and all those emails were fake. If the foundation of an investigation is flawed or based on lies how can it reveal the truth?

The Work Emails

At 1:20 pm that day they interview Casey in a conference room at Universal Studios. She told them she lied about working there. I wish they hadn’t cut the interview off in the middle because the last thing I hear is her saying is, “Caylee’s been here. Maybe we could talk to security…and she is cut off as the recording ends mid sentence. But she had named some people she worked with and her brother even produced emails from the home computer that appear to be work related. But Turtora, Universal Orlando Investigations, depended on a website designed for public use to provide the information he gave Melich, that there is no East Coast VP Markenting/Sales. What a strange way to investigate the various departments that make up Universal, since the only information on that page is a link to contact email and phone number for information on events. The police notes say that all of the mails are fake but the only one that may be for sure is thomas.franck. I sent a test mail out to a couple of the yahoo addresses and they came back saying the account was closed. You can’t close a nonexistant account.

Heather McDonald apparently talked to Lee and confirmed she worked with Jeffrey that had a son Zac, and Juliette. In fact, her myspace comments even include one dated May 3, 2008 from Casey talking about her Black Jack phone, the one she said had some important numbers on it. http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewComments&friendID=17154421&page=6&state=1007!50!5!212689025!8800610

Here is evidence she worked with Heather, just as she said.

Here her name is Hunt now but I’m sure her maiden name is McDonald, based on the friends list, comments and this blog entry: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=17154421&blogId=271469376 You’ll see a familiar face or two in her friends list too.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

New Job

Current mood: happy

Alright guys so i’ve officially left Universal. I’m exstatic that i finally took the step, saw my potential and took it!!!!

I will begin training to become a Store Manager for Blockbuster on Monday. I’m extremely excited. This is a new adventure for me, more money, better benefits and the people seem great. The DM has been there for 20yrs and was a Store Manager first, so hes been in our shoes unlike my other DM and company in which all they wanted to see was $$$$$$$, didn’t care about the future of their managers and lives of their managers. Anyway if any of you are still with that unnamed company, GET OUT!!!! Its a waste of time and energy. Anyway just thought i would let you all know i’m finally on my way to really creating a career for myself!!!!

Love you all and hope to see you renting some movie :) :)

The email addresses begin on hand numbered pg 403 of the first released discovery. They are:

thomas.franck@events.universal.com invalid

When I originally checked out this email address I found the same Canadian website that Melich was told about. There are a couple of ways that events.universal is possible. If someone at the Canadian site had access to the dashborad they could create a subdomain called events and it would look like that email address. It is quite easy to spoof email addresses though, as you can see here http://fakesend.com/ and other places. He could simply send fake emails with events.universal.com as the server.

She had said her boss was Tom Manley but the head of events was Tom Mattson. Frank McKeever, alias Thomas Franck is the acting boss of “East Coast” operations, in the email that Lee gave to LE. He is entry #161 in Casey’s sim memory. There are a series of texts initiated by him on July 10, one from her on the 11th and one from him on the 12th.

A myspace comes up searching for thomas.frank@yahoo.com , close to the email address shown, but I doubt this person has any connection to Frank McKeever. There wasn’t anything with the actual address spelled franck or at event.universal.com. It is quite easy for internet scammers to create any address, even a fake ip. They can also access control over a person’s phone or computer. Myspace and other sites like it are a common turf for scammers, pedophiles and other seedy characters. They usually don’t use their real photo or name either. But Frank M does seem to like the personal attention at least some of the time. The address above may not be the author of the emails, or he could be, but Frank John McKeever, alias Thomas Franck is surely the right one. The clearest photos are his mug shot: https://www.lcso.org/asp/inmatepublic/mugshot_booking_detail.asp?bookingnumber=67905 It is a felony charge in Lake county. There OC clerk only show multiple traffic infractions, other than this and a small claims case in Lake Co. Here is his most recent criminal case, felony theft: http://doris.clk.co.st-johns.fl.us/obts-web/asp/cr_charges.asp?gin=178437 It looks like it was dropped so I would assume he paid back his customers. He seems to be a master of disguise, one of his charges being impersonating a police officer.

Courtesy of ZubenElSchemail