Who Is 'Todd Black,' Caylee Case Spokesman?
"Todd Black," spokesman for Casey Anthony's attorney, is really three people.
Feb. 4, 2009— -- The investigation into the murder of Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, already rife with drama and confusion, took another bizarre turn this week when a former FBI agent claimed that a spokesman for the lawyer of the accused murderer appeared to be a man who had served prison time for attempted extortion.
The accusation, first reported by the Orlando Sentinel, follows a series of jarring developments in a child-murder investigation that has included a reported suicide attempt by the victim's grandfather, an unusual 911 call from the victim's grandmother and a still-mysterious "nanny" now suing for defamation.
For months, a person calling himself "Todd Black" has been the spokesman for the attorney for Casey Anthony, Caylee's mother, in Anthony's high profile murder case.
But Todd Black is in fact an alias used by three different people who are working on the Anthony case at Press Corps Media, the company said in a statement released Tuesday. The company said the name is used for security reasons. Press Corps Media has been handling media relations for Jose Baez, Anthony's lawyer.
And now a former FBI agent says an audio recording of a person who calls himself Todd Black sounds like a Gil Cabot, who was imprisoned for attempting to extort a journalist.
Jack Trimarco, a retired FBI agent, said recordings of a person calling himself Black sound like Cabot. Trimarco investigated Cabot in the 1980s and says he listened to hours of Cabot's recorded conversations.
"If that's not Gil Cabot, I'll eat my hat," Trimarco said of an audio recording of Black. "That recording sounded to me like none other than Gil Cabot doing his thing again. I had no doubt that it was him."
The accusation is the latest twist in the case that has attracted international media attention and has left Anthony, 22, on trial for the murder of her daughter. Police searched for months for Caylee after she was reported missing in the summer by her grandmother, Cindy Anthony.
Casey Anthony initially said that a woman named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, who she claimed was Caylee's nanny, was the last person to see Caylee alive after she dropped Caylee off at her apartment. But police later cleared Fernandez-Gonzalez of any involvement with the Anthony family, and she has since filed a defamation suit.
In October, Casey Anthony was indicted on murder charges though police had not yet found Caylee's body. But Dec. 11, skeletal remains that were identified as Caylee's were found not far from the house she shared with her mother and grandparents.
A heart-shaped sticker was reportedly attached to duct tape that covered the girl's mouth when her body was found, according to police documents.
And last month, Caylee's grandfather George Anthony was found despondent and possibly under the influence of medication and alcohol in a Daytona Beach, Fla., hotel, apparently considering a suicide attempt.
