No, Officer, Firefox is not the name of a stripper, it's an internet browser

A bit of fresh news about the Casey Anthony story – remember, the chick found not guilty of killing her baby?

Detectives examined her computer and looked at her browsing history in Internet Explorer, but they neglected to do the same with Firefox. In it there was record of a Google search for “foolproof suffocation”. :smack: The defense knew about it, and were apparently surprised that the prosecution didn’t try to present it as evidence at the trial. And now we know why – the cops didn’t know WTF they were doing with her computer and never found it.

Not to say it would have been enough to convict her, but still…

The item came up in a book written by one of the defense attorneys, who suggested that Casey’s father did the search, looking for suicide methods because he felt guilty about helping Casey hide evidence after the death. I’m no computer expert myself, but aren’t these kind of search records time stamped? Would they know whether the search was done before or after the baby’s death?

They mentioned during the trial that search records are date/time stamped. They had a forensic examiner testify about the computer searches.

After the trial they confirmed there was a bug in the software that reported the searches. It was reporting like 50 hits on chloroform in just a few minutes times. Which is just not possible. The bug was simply counting too many times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/us/19casey.html?_r=0

Anyway, I bet that forensic software is to blame for not checking the Firefox cache.