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GRIM. That's the only way to describe Week 3 of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial. Anthony, 25, is charged with murdering her her toddler daughter Caylee in 2008. This week, the prosecution paraded a veritable marching band of expert witnesses that seemed to inch the Party Mom ever closer to death row. Gruesome videos, bugs, what animals did to Caylee... it was all there.
The Chicago Tribune has a day-by-day roundup of the week's doings in a Florida courtroom:

MONDAY: Dr. Arpad Vass, a top scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, testified about human-decomposition-odor analysis and how the concept was applied to samples from Casey Anthony's car. Defense attorney Jose Baez questioned Vass about a possible financial incentive for getting the science of odor analysis accepted in the courts. Vass said he could see 15 percent royalties if a device he helped design is sold and marketed to law enforcement.

TUESDAY: Orange County Deputy Jason Forgey explained how police dogs are trained to detect human decomposition and what happened when his K-9, Gerus, got involved in the Casey Anthony case and alerted authorities to a possible site of decomposition. Dr. Michael Rickenbach, a forensic chemist examiner with the FBI, told jurors that he was surprised that residue of chloroform was detected on fabric from a spare tire cover taken from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car because the chemical usually dissipates quickly.

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