Sticker, Clothes Found With Toddler's Remains

Jan. 21, 2009 — -- The adhesive residue from a heart-shaped sticker was found on the duct tape on Caylee Marie Anthony's body in December, according to new reports released today by the Orange County, Fla., State Attorney's office.

Investigators noticed the "perfect shape of a heart" that appeared to be "consistent with the adhesive side of a heart-shaped sticker" on a piece of duct tape that covered the toddler's mouth, according to the affidavit, written by Detective Yuri Melich.

The sticker appeared to have been "intentionally" placed on the duct tape, Melich wrote.

While the sheet from which the sticker came from was not found at the scene, according to the affidavit, investigators did locate a small heart-shaped sticker similar in size to the residue found on the duct tape in the area where the body was found.

Also found at the scene was a small shirt, size "3T," a small pair of white shorts with vertical stripes, size 24 months, and a "Winnie the Pooh" blanket.

Melich wrote that when authorities arrived at the scene it looked as though the remains had been put in a cloth laundry bag prior to being placed inside a plastic bag.

The remains were found Dec. 11, 2008, less than a quarter mile from the home she shared with her mother and grandparents, by utility worker Roy Kronk.

The discovery of the child's body brought closure to a mystery that had dragged on for nearly five months, when the girl's mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, told police on July 15 that her daughter had disappeared a month earlier.

The day after she reported the child missing, Anthony was arrested on charges including child neglect. During a bond hearing July 22, authorities named Anthony a "person of interest" in Caylee's disappearance and said they were treating the case as a potential homicide after they discovered "evidence of decomposition" in the trunk of a car that Anthony had driven.