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Casey’s Lawyers Question Volunteer Searchers

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:28:32 AM
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Drew Tate 11/24/2009

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ORLANDO -- Casey Anthony's defense team wants to know how many people searched the wooded area where Caylee's remains were found.

The group Equusearch said 32 people looked there, but the defense has found at least two more.

Before Texas Equusearch was even in the picture, a man we talked to was here in these woods before Caylee Anthony's remains were discovered.

Casey's defense team filed a motion yesterday showing their hand.

They're trying to find anyone and everyone who was in these woods because they're trying to prove Caylee's body wasn't here until well after Casey went to jail.

"There's two different times I was out there with different teams," said Drew Tate.

Tate considers himself an outdoorsman. That's why when Caylee Anthony first was reported missing in mid July last year, he got curious and started searching around in the woods near the Anthony family home.

"We lifted up everything in our area and there's no doubt we would have found it if it was right where we were," Tate said.

Tate was here two days in July that first week, and then he returned in November with the Texas Equusearch group. He volunteered with them an entire week.


"It was the last day of the search we tried that area," Tate said. "We searched all over. Right as we were eating lunch they canceled it .. we were close that time."

Drew says he doesn't believe he was close to where the remains were found.

Two sworn statements, however, from other volunteers attached to yesterday's defense motion indicates those volunteers were close and they don't think Caylee's remains were there when they were there in September.

Drew says he examined anything he felt suspicious.

Tate said if he had seen a canvas bag, "I would have opened it, I would have seen it."

Drew says he was probably closest during his first search in July.

I should have smelled it at least the first go around .. we were close enough .. maybe we would have found something.

Tate says no one from the defense has talked with him about his searching. And Equusearch attorney Mark Nejame says he wants to speak out on the motion but he wont until early next week.

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