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In the trial's second week, the prosecution called various members of Casey's family to the stand.<ref name="Battaglia"/>{{rp|1588–89}} George was their first witness, and, in a response to their questioning, he denied having sexually abused his daughter.<ref>{{cite news|first=Walter|last=Pacheco|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130235914/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/defense-bombshell-caylee-anthony-drowned-in-family-swimming-1494437.html?printArticle=y|url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/defense-bombshell-caylee-anthony-drowned-in-family/nLsfB/|archive-date=January 30, 2013|title=Defense bombshell: Caylee Anthony drowned in family swimming pool|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> Both George and Casey's then-boyfriend testified they did not smell anything resembling human decomposition in Casey's car when she visited them while Anthony was missing,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Reuters]]|title=No smell of human decay in Casey Anthony's trunk: witness|first=Barbara|last=Liston|date=May 26, 2011|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crime-anthony/no-smell-of-human-decay-in-casey-anthonys-trunk-witness-idUSTRE74P6QZ20110526}}</ref> but George said he did smell something similar to human decomposition when he went to pick up the car on July 15.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jacqueline|last1=Fell|first2=Adam|last2=Longo|first3=Kelli|last3=Cook|url=http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/may/252672/|title=Day 4: George Anthony questioned about smell in Casey's car|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805124349/http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/may/252672 |archive-date=August 5, 2011|work=Central Florida News 13|date=May 27, 2011}}</ref> Cindy testified that her comment to {{nowraplinks | [[9-1-1]]}} that Casey's car smelled "like someone died" was just a figure of speech,<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jacqueline|last1=Fell|first2=Adam|last2=Longo|first3=Kelli|last3=Cook|first4=Christine|last4=Webb|url=http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/may/254277/|title=Day 6: Casey Anthony jury hears 911 calls, Cindy in tears on stand|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814025450/http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/may/254277 |archive-date=August 14, 2011|work=Central Florida News 13|date=June 8, 2011}}</ref> further noting that she had made "exaggerated" claims on the phone in an effort to get the police to respond quickly.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/15/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html|title=Judge allows 911 tapes in Casey Anthony trial|work=[[CNN]]|date=July 16, 2010}}</ref>

The third week was chiefly devoted to forensic analysis.<ref name="Battaglia"/>{{rp|1589}} The prosecution called software designer John Dennis Bradley, who testified that, based on a program he used to recover deleted searches, someone using the Anthony computer — he could not specify who~~, of course~~ — had searched for "chloroform" 84 times.<ref name="Chloroform">{{cite news|first=Lizette|last=Alvarez|title=Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial|work=The New York Times|date=July 18, 2011|access-date=July 18, 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/us/19casey.html}}</ref> (After the trial, Bradley publicly reported that this number was an error attributable to a bug in his program, and that the computer, in fact, contained only one search for "chloroform".<ref name="Chloroform"/><ref name="Bradley-backtracks">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/anthony-trial-witness-john-bradley-backtracks_n_905119.html|title=Casey Anthony Trial Witness John Bradley Backtracks After Blasting Prosecutors|first=David|last=Lohr|date=July 20, 2011|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=September 17, 2014}}</ref>) Two police-dog handlers indicated that their dogs had detected human decomposition, one in Casey's car<ref name="Bigbee">{{cite news|first=Ivy |last=Bigbee |title=Casey Anthony Trial, Day 12: K-9 Handler Testifies Cadaver Dog Detected High Alert of Human Decomposition |publisher=[[Discovery Channel|Discovery]].com |date=June 8, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2011 |url=http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2011/06/casey-anthony-trial-day-12-k-9-handler-testifies-cadaver-dog-detected-high-alert-of-human-decomposit.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615072836/http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2011/06/casey-anthony-trial-day-12-k-9-handler-testifies-cadaver-dog-detected-high-alert-of-human-decomposit.html |archive-date=June 15, 2011 }}</ref> and the other in the Anthony's backyard.<ref name="Dogs">{{cite news|first=Kyle |last=Hightower |title=Anthony trial: Internet searches focus of the day |publisher=seattlepi.com/[[Associated Press]] |date=June 8, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2011 |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Anthony-trial-Internet-searches-focus-of-the-day-1414863.php }}{{Dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Chief medical examiner [[Jan Garavaglia]], for the prosecution, testified that she determined Anthony's manner of death to be homicide based on physical and circumstantial evidence, including the fact that Anthony's death had not been reported and that chloroform had been found in Anthony's car, noting that even a small amount of chloroform could result in a child's death.<ref name="Dr. Jan">{{cite news|first=Kyle |last=Hightower |title=Prosecutors focus on duct tape in Casey Anthony trial |agency=[[Associated Press]]|via=[[The Daytona Beach News-Journal]] |date=June 11, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2011 |url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/florida/2011/06/11/prosecutors-focus-on-duct-tape-in-casey-anthony-trial.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714062215/http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/florida/2011/06/11/prosecutors-focus-on-duct-tape-in-casey-anthony-trial.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}</ref> On cross-examination, Garavaglia admitted that toxicology tests on Anthony's bones came up negative for "volatile chemicals", but she maintained her opinion that the death was not an accident, given the lack of a report.<ref name="Dr. Jan"/>

Human identification laboratory director Michael Warren presented an animation featuring pictures of a still-living Anthony with her mother that were superimposed with Anthony's decomposed skull and the duct tape found with the body.<ref name="Dr. Jan"/> Warren said it was his opinion that the duct tape had been placed on Anthony prior to her body's decomposition.<ref name="Dr. Jan"/> FBI latent-fingerprints examiner Elizabeth Fontaine said that she had observed the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on the duct tape found with Warren, though by the time she tried to photograph the outline, it was no longer visible.<ref name="Herald">{{cite news|title=FBI expert found heart shape on Caylee Anthony duct tape|newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=June 14, 2011|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/fbi-expert-found-heart-shape-on-caylee-anthony-duct-tape-20110614-1g17s.html}}</ref> Fontaine said that she had not found fingerprints on the tape, though she had not expected to.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/casey-anthony-trial-csi-finds-heart-shape-caylees/story?id=13830078|title=Casey Anthony CSI: Outline of Heart Decal On Duct Tape|first1=Bryan|last1=Lavietes|first2=Janice|last2=McDonald|date=June 13, 2011|work=[[ABC News]]}}</ref> And FBI [[hair analysis#In forensic toxicology|hair analyst]] Sebastian Shaw said that a hair discovered in Casey's trunk belonged to Anthony and displayed root banding; Shaw said that a study he had been running and had expedited for the trial had "so far" shown that such banding only occurred post mortem.<ref name="Herald"/> Finally, over defense objections to scientific reliability, [[Arpad Vass]] of the [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] reported that [[Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy|air-sampling procedure]] performed in the trunk of Casey's car indicated decomposition and chloroform.<ref name="AP Vass">{{cite news|agency=[[Associated Press]]|title=Technique never used before introduced in Casey Anthony trial|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2011/06/08/technique-never-used-introduced-casey-anthony-trial/15900968007/|via=[[Florida Times-Union]]|date=June 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lundy|first=Sarah|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2008-10-25/news/casey25_1_casey-anthony-decomposition-anthony-attorney|title=FBI, Oak Ridge lab tests on Casey Anthony's car released|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 25, 2008|access-date=August 13, 2011|archive-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321174140/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2008-10-25/news/casey25_1_casey-anthony-decomposition-anthony-attorney|url-status=dead}}</ref> The defense noted that Vass had been unwilling to share his proprietary database and that his forensic technique had never previously been used in a criminal case.<ref name="AP Vass"/>