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Lake Underhill, FL– Investigators from Orlando PD and Orange County Sheriff’s Office say a semi-automatic handgun recovered from Lake Underhill yesterday is tied to a homicide. The weapon was located by OCSO divers around 10am while additional undisclosed evidence was collected later in the afternoon.

What they will not say, is in what murder case it may have been used, or who they believe it belongs to.

Sources inside the investigation speaking to blinkoncrime.com have confirmed the gun was located through a tip by an individual known to them, and not an anonymous call in.

Previously reported by blinkoncrime.com, the cases of missing Orange County residents Onda “Chris” George and Tracy Ocasio are still open without arrests, or any clue where they might be. Chris George has been missing since the evening of February 11, 2009 and Tracy Ocasio since the early morning hours of May 27, 2009. 

Tyler Watters, an Ocoee resident, was with Onda “Chris” George when Watters says George drove through some barbed wire, jumped out of the SUV he was driving and ran off into the woods. Watters was the last person to see Chris George alive.

Waiting at a local residence for George and Watters return, was James “Jimmy” Hataway and their respective girlfriends at the time. 

Blinkoncrime.com is withholding their names as they are material witnesses in George’s disappearance.

Both Watters and Hataway were questioned regarding Chris George’s disappearance, and the fact that they staged the return of the SUV after cleaning it out, the next day. Searches for George have turned up empty and no charges have been filed in his case.

Hataway was also last seen with Tracy Ocasio leaving The Florida Tap Room May 27.  Hataway alleges the two returned to his home in Ocoee very briefly and Ocasio left. Tracy Ocasio’s car was found to be parked nearby the next day. Although Hataway has been referred to as a person of interest in Ocasio’s disappearance, no charges have been filed.

Jimmy Hataway is currently awaiting trial in Seminole County on attempted murder charges alleging he attacked an aquaintance after a party. Jury selection was scheduled to begin on April 26^th, but Hataway’s public defender was granted a continuance when they showed up in court that morning. It would appear that we may soon be able to hear a bit more of Hataway’s versions of events. The phone calls he made or received in jail will be released in accordance with Florida Sunshine Laws.

Tyler Watters is currently out on bond for misdemeanor weed posession and felony heroin trafficking, allegedly occuring the day after Hataway’s postponment on 4/27/10.

Coincidently, there was a notice of supplemental discovery on his docket the day before the search of Lake Underhill was scheduled, and then filed just yesterday, his attorney’s certification of conflict and motion to withdraw, following the guns recovery. 

Both Hataway and Watters are due back in court in two weeks.

At this time, It is not known if the tip or the weapon recovery is related to the Ocasio or George cases; check back to blinkoncrime.com for updates to this developing story. 

“You can pretty well predict there’s going to be a life sentence, either a plea and get it over with or have a circus trial and then be convicted and get life,”

– J.Cheney Mason, counsel for Casey Anthony

Well now, there you have it. Words from J. Cheney Mason, co-counsel of the defense team via THE BAEZ LAW FIRM.  Was he co-counsel when he said it? No.  All the more reason to wonder why he would sign on to this case. Yet bet Ms. Simms is happy she did not have a TV when these aired.

Cheney’s prediction of Casey’s trial outcome comments were made the day after Caylee’s remains were located, and OCSO was still onscene, December 12, 2008.

Casey Anthony’s parents were still guests of the THE RITZ CARLTON thanks to ABC, and their Hopespring Drive home was being turned upside down by OCSO ater finding Caylee’s Winnie the Pooh blanket her grandmother conveniently forgot to mention was missing from her room.

“Hopespring” - now there is the boss of all oxymorons in this case.

Tuesday, in the news-less press conference, Mr. Mason forgot his former comments as an “analyst” for local 6 as invited by reporterTony Pipitone.

WFTV Reporter Kathi Belich asked Mason if he recalled being a commentator on the case and concluding that Casey would be convicted.

His Response In pertinent part:

“… I Don’t recall making any such statement..”

O No? We DO.

 AFTER Caylee Anthony’s remains were recovered

…” All that talking and the press interviews.. the parents going on this show and that show, the lawyer (Baez) going on different shows established they have no credibility whatsoever..” 

What was expected to be announced at the 9am scheduled press conference this morning, that Roy Black, of William Kennedy Smith and Rush Limbaugh acquittal-fame, had signed on to join the defense team representing Casey Anthony in the charges against her for allegedly murdering her 34 month old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony was apparently a false rumor. Sources inside the case have confirmed to blinkoncrime.com that the rumor started from within The Baez Law Firm.

Watch the Press Conference at 9am LIVE here.

Jose Baez did announce the addition of 2 new lawyers to the case, Ann Finnell and Dorothy Clay Simms.

Baez refused to answer any questions about attorneys not currently with the defense team when asked about the rumor swirling Mr. Black’s possible participation.

There has also been a substitution in the civil case against Casey Anthony brought by Zenaida Gonzalez through her legal team headed by John Morgan.

*Reposting this today in tribute.   It took me 9 years to finally write about it last year,  I don’t imagine I have anything to add.  Except this- Never Forget this day, tell your babies to tell their babies.  Tell them how proud this great nation is of it’s grace and poise in the face of this atrocity.  Be vigilant.*

At 8 am I was humming up I-287. I had just tuned in the FM to Elvis Duran and the Z Morning Zoo because Howard was discussing his last night’s escapades and as usual, it simultaneously made me blush and wonder who else was listening to it.  Siriusly.

My first distinct recollection is always the color of the ethereal sky that day.  I recall the color exactly.  I do not know if my cellular memory is now my SIM for the event, but it was a vibrant water- color diluted indigo with a transparency I do not think one could replicate if they tried.

It was brilliant.  It was extraordinary.  It was the ultimate in aerial visibility clearance for evil, I will never forget.

I was headed to my office about 20 minutes outside the city via Route 3 to pick up our graphic artist for a meeting with a client on Water St.

I was buzzing through the presentation in my head in the hopes I could stay succinct,  DTCC was not one for banter or frivolousness.

I remember being distracted from my gaze out the windshield by an excited and tonally ominous radio voice:

“Did you see that? What the F*ck was that, what in the…”-

Radio silence for a few minutes.  I never thought for a second we were under siege.

In retrospect, I recall thinking; “I just turned off Howard to NOT hear about some topless whatever in the lobby: I am not feeling shenanigans this morning.”

Once back on- air, the program resumed.  It was announced that a plane had accidentally flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

To be honest, given my client base and frequency of trips into NYC and surrounding areas, this “accident” rose only to the level of commuting nuisance.   The probability of logistical snafu however,  was now a pressing reality.

I called Scott, my CGI savant and told him I felt we might be late for our meeting due to traffic concerns going through the tunnel.  We agreed not to be open to rescheduling for another day, but to push back the meeting time.

You already know what happened next. Within minutes the second plane hit the South tower- we were under attack.

I write those words.    I relay them to others.

However, in  hindsight, there was definitely a- not- to- be- believed quality to what was happening and how it related to the world I knew.

The F-16’s zinging overhead moments later triggered a few more pangs of reality.  Earsplitting reality, to be precise.

By the time I  arrived at my office,  staff was standing around the conference room plasma exhibiting each person’s individual and outwardly- noticeable nervous ticks.

We were however, united in our various and personal looks of fear.

Nobody knew where this was going as our computers at our cubes were dinging in the background with RSS feeds and emails announcing the end of the world.     We were cemented to the live action, the white noise simply reminded us it was as bad as we suspected.

I gasped with my hands over my mouth as I saw the tower fall.   I don’t remember who it was, but a woman screamed.

I remember thinking it was like a Godzilla and Rodan image,  with the exception that there were people on video jumping from the building and it gripped me in my waddle.

I am a gallows- humor- gal, and as each update came across the wire or through Matt Lauer’s voice, my fight or flight response was hedging into first gear.

The missing planes, the crash into the Pentagon and the crash into the field in Somerset, PA were all kind of background trauma in anticipation of would be next.

I think of it as “fear legos”- nobody wants to think of what it will look like when it is finished.

It took another solid hour for my psych to win over the “I am going nowhere but directly in front of a news source at all times” paranoia, which had set in.

It dawned on me if there was going to be a mass exodus across the bridges and out of the city, I would be trapped for hours.

Although I opted to leave the office and head home for the 90-minute commute, I never turned my phone on.

I had already checked the kids, had our daughter picked up from preschool, got the call from the parents checking on my whereabouts from the office.   I was cognizant of wasting my cell battery all of a sudden.

As I sped my way back to 78W, I passed 3 New Jersey State Police barracks as I do twice daily, however, this time there were patrol cars and NJSP SUV’s and paddy wagons parked in every possible orifice and spilling onto the shoulder.

It was clear that every available Law enforcement Officer was called in for a briefing.

I pushed the pedal to 90. No self-respecting officer is going to waste their 9/11 participation by writing me a ticket, I told myself.

If I had to define one of the foremost panic-stricken markers of this day, it would be the observations on my ride home.

As horrific as I knew in my heart the attack on our people, on our soil, was going to play out, the feeling that we were bracing for what was coming next was unavoidable and emotionally paralyzing.

The epitome of terrorism-  I was terrorized by the current terror, and terrorized at the fear of new terror.

My memory of heading home that day, to bunker down with my family in the safety of suburbia felt like I was being shot through some cosmic tunnel I just wanted to be able to see the end of.

For reasons I still do not understand, I stopped at a grocery store I had never been to, 40 minutes from home and filled 2 carts without a thought of what needed immediate refrigeration or what the hell I needed bulk packs of every size battery for.

I picked up the kids, ordered my husband home and waited for the world to end *LIVE* on Fox and CNN. For almost every American, it did.   At least the world as we knew it.

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On what is Kyron Horman’s 8^th Birthday, the Skyline School, where Kyron was scheduled to begin the third grade, is buzzing with the start of the years activities without him.

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In response to the disappearance and presumed abduction of the bespectacled herpetologist; Skyline has implemented a myriad of mandatory safety features as well as a state of the art security camera system. While complete with facial recognition capability, one face it will not be recognizing today, is that of Kyron Horman.

Although missing since the morning of June 4, 2010, there have been no updates from the many State and Federal agencies participating in the criminal investigation of his disappearance since August 12, 2010. 

Adding to the mounting concern about the status of Kyron’s fate are the words of his own parents, Kaine Horman and Desiree Young.

“The police will not stop until they find Kyron and the harder they have to search–the harder this will get for you,” wrote Young. “You will go to jail and whoever has been helping you will have to talk police or they will go to jail.”

It is clear from Kaine and Desiree’s comments that they believe Terri Horman, Kyron’s step mom, is at least partially responsible for Kyron vanishing. While they stop short of naming any possible accomplices, Rod Underhill, the chief deputy district attorney of Multnomah County, Captain Jason Gates, Detective Bob O’Donnell of the Multnomah County Sheriff Office have sought the publics help to flush them out. Multnomah County Chief Deputy District Attorney Rod Underhill said a witness, or witnesses, have reported seeing someone else by the Hormans’ extended-cab pickup while it was parked in front of the school between 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. on June 4, the day Kyron disappeared. In what was characterized as a slip-up, methinks that that Kyron’s Mom told us that someone was actually Kyron.  

While Terri Horman is holed up at her parents newly refinanced home in Roseburg and under the mortgage-sized retainer protection of Stephen Houze; she is awaiting the September 21st contempt hearing  for allegedly violating an order that she not disclose the “sealed” reasoning for, or contents of,  the current restraining order in effect against her.

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