Casey Anthony car trunk maggots
5-29-11
On May 27th 2011, Casey Anthony’s father, George Anthony, testified that when he went to pick up her car from Johnson’s Wrecker that he smelled the odor of decomposition coming from the car. George Anthony testified that when he opened up the car trunk, he personally saw maggots along with a garbage bag that had a pizza box and Arm & Hammer inside.
I just came across an excellent article that explains that if George Anthony really did see maggots – then that means there was likely no dead body inside of that car!
MAGGOTS DON’T LIVE THAT LONG
The testimony about maggots could prove to be a problem for the prosecution’s theory that the maggots prove that there was a dead body in the trunk of the car, when forensic experts take the stand.
The lifespan of a maggot is four to 10 days, after which it molts into the pupal stage and turns into a fly.Casey’s car had been locked in the impound yard for 16 days and was locked in the finance company’s parking lot three days prior to that. If a decomposing body had been in the trunk of the car, it had not been there for at least 19 days.
That leaves three possibilities concerning the maggots in the trunk of the car: they were dead maggots, they either originated from the garbage in the trunk of the car, not a dead body, or George Anthony is lying about seeing maggots.
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