Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony (54 page)

Mario Perez and Arlene Zayas, your tireless support was the key to our ability to present this case in a competent and professional manner

Professor Bernard “Andy” Raum, thank you so much for all of the advice and assistance in the case.

To Yuri, John, and Eric, the investigative team from the sheriff’s office that I have spoken of so often in these pages, and Nick Savage and Karen Cowan of the FBI. You guys are amazing; you put heart and soul into the case. You did everything you could. You should be proud.

To the ladies and gentleman of the crime scene unit, who spent countless hours of work sometimes braving snakes and poison ivy to find Caylee and give her remains the respect they deserved. I salute you all.

My thanks to Mark NeJame, whose behind-the-scenes assistance in dealing with the EquuSearch issues really made our job so much easier.

To Lisa Pulitzer, thanks for helping me tell this story and making me sound halfway intelligent. Thanks to Martha Smith for pitching in as well. We would have been at this till Christmas without you. To my editor at HarperCollins, Matt Harper, thanks for staying on me and putting the final polish to our words.

Last, to all the well-wishers and supporters who sent us their kind words—my eternal thanks.

A
BOUT THE
A
UTHORS

Jeff Ashton recently retired from a thirty-year career as a prosecutor in Orlando, Florida. He is the most experienced homicide prosecutor in the history of Orange County and a veteran of more than seventy successful homicide prosecutions. He lives in Florida.

Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for the
New York Times
and author of more than a dozen nonfiction titles, including
New York Times
bestseller
Stolen Innocence
(with Elissa Wall) and
Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery
.

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REDITS

Cover photographs by Red Huber/
Orlando Sentinel

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OPYRIGHT

IMPERFECT JUSTICE
. Copyright © 2011 by Jeff Ashton. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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ISBN 978-0-06-212532-3

EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062125361

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Table of Contents

Dedication

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About the Authors

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