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Awww, looks like Casey Anthony is screwed. A Grand Jury is convening next week which may bring down charges of murder or manslaughter. Perhaps little Caylee Anthony may see some justice served yet.

ORLANDO, FLA. — Casey Anthony could soon face a homicide charge in connection with the disappearance of her daughter, according to broadcast reports in Orlando.

The state attorney’s office plans to present its case next to a grand jury next week, according to the reports from Orlando TV station Local 6. From there, it will be the job of the grand jury to determine if the evidence is strong enough to warrant prosecution.

The reports indicate that it is not known if the state will seek murder or manslaughter charges.

Florida authorities had given Casey Anthony until 9:00 a.m. this morning to cooperate with them regarding the disappearance of her daughter Caylee in exchange for limited immunity, but Casey declined the offer.

Padilla said the focus is still on finding Caylee — alive or dead — a discovery that would significantly aid in the investigation.

“Obviously that would clear up a lot of questions that we have,” Padilla told FOXNews.com.

He declined to comment on which of the various theories, if any, had become the most prominent in the investigation. Detectives have been trying to determine whether Caylee died accidentally, was killed or was kidnapped, as her mother has claimed. Police have expressed serious doubts about the abduction story.

“The key is with the mother, with Casey,” Padilla said. “If there is a cover-up, it would be her — if there is. Right now she continues to not provide any information that is helpful to us.”

Apparently these teenagers picked the wrong vehicle to mess with.

Police said 16-year-old Garrett Burton was with at least one other teenage boy Saturday in the backyard of a home when someone shot him in the head just before 3 a.m. Police have no suspects.

The band at Westland High School, where Burton was a student, played the school’s alma mater in memory of him at Saturday night’s football game.

Whether or not Casey Anthony killed her own baby has yet to be proven, but surely her behavior is not one of a caring or concerned mother. Casey Anthony seems to only care about herself and all evidence so far would suggest that Casey Anthony only cares about herself and getting away with a tragic ending to an innocent girls life. It just didn’t have to be this way. Was this mother so jealous of the love and attention of a little toddler that she just couldn’t be bothered anymore? Such a sad situation.

Meanwhile, DNA tests have come back but have not been released to the public. Something strange is a brewin’ and MT has the feeling the Florida investigators know more than what has been released, hence the formal charges. They just need time to put a case together. Let’s pray that they do.

Casey Marie Anthony, 22, was charged with one felony and one misdemeanor offense, in addition to the child neglect charge she already faced. She will be arraigned on the criminal charges.

Also Tuesday, test results from DNA samples taken from a car driven by Anthony came in and were turned over to investigators.

The evidence was gathered from the trunk of a vehicle that Anthony was using when her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony vanished in mid-June.

A Parkland, Washington man is going to court after police arrested him in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter.

Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrested the 23-year-old Parkland man Tuesday for investigation. Spokesman Ed Troyer says the baby was found dead Friday in her crib.

The man said he was baby-sitting the girl when she fell off a couch. The mother was at work at the time.

Troyer told the Tacoma News Tribune the autopsy showed the baby had skull fractures and blunt force trauma to the body.

If this doesn’t make your face hot and your blood boil and your stomach turn, not sure what will…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Parents facing murder charges in the June death of their 2-year-old son restrained the toddler with duct tape while he stood naked in the corner of the closet, court documents allege.

An autopsy determined that Cortez Johnson died June 25 at University Hospital from blunt force trauma to his head. Prosecutors on Thursday charged the boy’s parents, Horace Johnson, 25, and Keyonda Lumpkin, 26, with second-degree murder. Court documents have also spelled her last name Lumpkins.

According to a probable cause statement, Johnson and Lumpkin blamed each other for the child’s injuries, which included severe burns on his face, neck, lip, arms and genitals; loose teeth; and deep cuts and ligature marks on his wrists.

Police have identified a body found in Wake County, North Carolina as Nancy Cooper, a mom who went missing out for a jog last Saturday.

Police Chief Pat Bazemore, of Cary, N.C., said Tuesday that medical examiners confirmed the body found the previous evening by a man walking his dog miles from Cooper’s home is that of the mother of two young girls.

“The search for our Nancy is over,” Bazemore said. “Nancy was murdered and our investigation is now a homicide.”

Bazemore said no suspects or persons of interest have been identified in the case. Cooper’s husband, Brad Cooper, has permitted authorities to search the couple’s home and vehicles.

Ryan Ramos, who went missing after his father allegedly shot his mother and abducted him has turned up safe at a church in Mexico. Lonnie Ramos, his father, was killed in a car accident.

Ryan Ramos was found alone Sunday in a Mormon church in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and was expected home in Orange County on Monday, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. He had been missing since Wednesday, when his father, Lonnie Ramos, allegedly shot his estranged wife in the face during a custody exchange and took off with their child, authorities said.

On Monday, authorities announced that Lonnie Ramos, 46, had been killed in a car accident in Juarez, Amormino said. He did not have any other details.

The boy was in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, awaiting a private flight to Southern California, Amormino said.

Police say a Georgia man became enraged that his daughter wanted to divorce her husband and murdered her.

[Chaudhry Rashid, a] 54-year-old, who is of Pakistani descent, kept his head down as charges were read, and appeared to have difficulty understanding instructions from the judge, possibly the result of a language barrier.

His two sons were also in attendance, watching their father from seats in the rear of the courtroom, joined by two others. Rashid waved to their corner as he shuffled slowly out, impeded by the shackles.

The 25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an arranged marriage. Police said Kanwal hadn’t seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for months.

MeLisa Cleary, of Mackinaw, Illinois, was reported missing last Friday. Her body was discovered on Monday by railroad workers, and police are suspecting that Cleary was murdered.

Stewart Umholtz, the Tazewell County state’s attorney, said there is at least one suspect in the case, but no one has been arrested.

Meanwhile, an Amber Alert was issued for the woman’s three children Tuesday morning, but they were found safe shortly before 2:30 a.m. at the Super 8 motel in Peoria with their father, Daniel Cleary, and a woman who has not been identified.

Authorities had been looking for Daniel Cleary since Monday afternoon to speak with him.

Umholtz would not say whether Daniel Cleary was questioned by authorities after he was found, but said he was not in custody Tuesday. It would not be unusual to question the husband, Umholtz said.

The trial of Neil Entwistle, who is being charged with shooting and killing his wife and infant daughter, begins today.

Authorities say he fired two .22-caliber bullets into his wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, then fled to his family’s home in Worksop, England, because he was despondent over mounting debt and dissatisfied with his sex life.

In the days before the killings, authorities say, he conducted online searches for information about murder and suicide.

Entwistle, 27, insists he loved his family and was so horrified at finding them slain that he returned to England to be with his parents. He said he didn’t call for help because it was obvious they were dead.

A mother and her boyfriend in Santa Ana, California have been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of the woman’s 4-year-old son.

Police Sgt. Tony Miranda says the boy appeared to have been beaten. His mother, 24-year-old Gabriela Mariana Morales, and her live-in boyfriend, 37-year-old Alberto Guzman, were being held on $1 million bail.

Police say officers went to the couple’s apartment Friday and found the boy in full cardiac arrest, with bruises and head trauma.

The boy’s 9-year-old brother and 7-year-old sister were home at the time and may have witnessed the beating.

Police were called to a home in Roselle, Illinois where the found a gruesome scene — a man, his wife, and their 7 year old son had been shot to death. Statements made by police officials seem to imply this was possibly a murder suicide.

Though police provided few details, they said the investigation is confined to the house and a killer is not believed to be at large. Police said that there were no signs of forced entry and that a handgun was found at the scene.

The woman’s mother called police about 11:45 a.m. after finding her daughter in the second-floor master bedroom of the house in the 700 block of North Woodfield Trail. The woman had gone to the home to check on her daughter after she missed a doctor’s appointment, police said.

The parents of an infant boy that was found dead are being considered the main suspects by police.

Police thought they were responding to a domestic call on the west side, but when they arrived at the home on West Poplar near Colorado they found the father walking out of the home with the dead baby in his arms. The mother bolted out the back door.

Police say the baby boy had visible injuries; trauma to his back, nose and mouth area.

When asked what happened, the father refused to cooperate with police.

Becky D’Aoust, the mother whose teen was charged with attacking her with a hammer has died from her injuries.

The death has shaken neighbors and brought tears to the eyes of friends close to the D’Aoust family.

“It’s horrible what has happened to this family,” said neighbor Lori Erlenbach. “They were a good, close family. That’s all that needs to be said right now.”

Neighbor Arthur Moreau, who earlier said he would be acting as the D’Aoust family spokesman, hung up on a reporter yesterday when asked to talk about the D’Aousts.

Officers were called to the home on Canyon Lake Drive near Pinetree Drive just before 9 a.m. and found Becky D’Aoust on the kitchen floor with a serious head injury.