Casey Anthony's former lawyer Jose Baez is certainly dropping some memorable quotes in his new book. Among them? That he felt her car smelled like a corpse.
In Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story Baez recalled looking in the car trunk, where prosecutors believed her daughter Caylee’s body was hidden.
“I could smell something rotten," he wrote. "I had been to a morgue before and my first impression was that this smelled like a dead body."
"I smelled something else, a chemical-like substance. If you took a good strong whiff, it almost hurt your nostrils. 'Oh my God,' I thought."
"'I’m going to have to talk to Casey about taking a plea.'"
Casey insists she did not murder Caylee, and a jury found her not guilty one year ago today, despite various witness accounts of her Pontiac Sunfire.
George Anthony, her father, testified that when he went to pick up the car from the impound lot, he smelled “something that you would never forget.”
He said a prayer hoping he wouldn’t find Caylee’s body when he opened the trunk; he did not. Amazingly, her mother had about the same reaction.
Cindy Anthony told a 911 dispatcher in 2008 that, "I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car!”
How did Baez work around this seemingly damning evidence? By proving that whatever his suspicions might be, it wasn't conclusive evidence at all.
Forensic expert Henry Lee said on the stand after examining the car, “You never know whether it’s decomposing garbage or a decomposing body.”
“I was extremely relieved,” Casey’s attorney wrote in the book, saying this was the answer he was looking for.
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