more. mishle and i send our thoughts and prayers to their children. former first lady betty ford has died. a family spokesman said her friends friends and relatives are traveling to palm springs to make funeral arrangements and she will be flown to grand rapids, michigan, for burial, next to her late husband, gerald ford. now back to on the record, already in progress. casey anthony kill caylee and threw her remains in a nearby swamp. the defense said caylee drowned in the family s pool. i was an accident, not murder. during the next hour we take you through the twists and turns from the first 911 call to the long list of lies and accusations to the testimony that convinced the jury. her case has gripped the nation. tuesday 25-year-old casey anthony learned her fate. will the defendant rise with counsel. madame clerk, you may publish the verdicts. state of florida versus casey marie anthony. as to the charge of first degree murder, verdict as to count one, we the jury f
jaycee dugard, a message of courage and life. good evening. you may have suspected it was happening, but we confirm tonight the dark underbelly of tabloid journalism and what some of those reporters will do. here s a measure of the outrage. the biggest newspaper in england has been brought to its knees, closing, over. rupert murdoch, whose empire extends to america and includes fox news and the wall street journal, shaken by what the truth turns out to be. so, let s go to jeffrey kofman in london, who tells us about the huge scandal caused by tabloid reporters. jeffrey, good evening. reporter: and good evening, diane. you know, this is truly epic. media barron rupert murdoch s papers here thrive on selling scandal. tonight, his entire global empire rocked by a scandal of its own. one that defies all sense of human decency. the news of the world, for years, the biggest english language newspaper in the world, is dead. a desperate move by the world s biggest media tyc
so all of the work for the prosecution of this case, that means thousands of dollars for lab tests, experts, the prosecutor spent perhaps even more money than the sheriff s department did, just in the six months searching for little missing caylee anthony. so those can all be assigned to be reimbursed by casey anthony. that was all tax dollars that was spent on her now admitted tag of lies about zany the nanny, juliet lewis and jeff hopkins, about working at universal, and about the fact caylee marie was missing when she was lying to urie mellich. all of that costs a lot of money and ecqui search wants to sue her for the one 4u7b grand they spent. 100 grand they spent. bill pill that company has tried to help in missing persons cases like this one. while you were talking, we were seeing protests from supporters, we re not sure
also, we should point out that there s another juror out there, i believe it s juror number 6 according to tmz, he s through a p.r. agency out of raleigh around to a number of news organizations. he will tell his story for a sum in the mid five figures. a little later on, three hours from right now, there will be a sentencing of casey anthony down in that courtroom. same judge. she was convicted on four counts of lying to the cops. she could go free. then again she might have to stay in jail for another year. in the meantime, do you remember marsha clark? she was the prosecutor in the o.j. simpson case in 1996. she gave an interview yesterday which is also very compelling and her final summation was that the casey anthony verdict is worse than o.j. being acquitted. here s what she says. in every case a defense attorney will do his or her best to give the jury a reason to doubt.
america so maybe that s how they can disguise it a little bit better. we need to point out, acorn was defunded by congress because of several scandals. not just not just the undercover thing where there was a 2008 voter fraud scandal and there was a 2009 embezzlement scandal by the founder s brother so they had a long history. look, congress defunded them. now, there s by the way, should we call them b corn now and continue to pay? we re broke, we need to stop doing things like this. right and the gao came out with an opinion last year that said they considered this offshoot completely separate even though it s the same people in the same places now getting the same kind of money. we ll let you ruminate on this story as we tell you what s coming up. should casey anthony be able to turn her pariah status into big profit? next a man who knows the law inside and out. he s trying to stop scott peterson from making money off his dead wife. just when you thought the tsa was too i