The case of Casey Anthony is far from over, thanks to Marcia Clark's new A&E docuseries Marcia Clark Investigates the First 48, which will premiere on Thursday.
"My mission in the show is to stand up for the victims, and I mean victims in the broadest sense," she told the Daily Beast. "Those who have been wrongfully convicted as well as those who were wrongfully acquitted or never charged. Everybody who was done wrong in some way I want to be able to stand up for, and call bullsh*t where necessary, and get the truth out."
The new series will show Clark in her true element, trying to solve mysteries during the first two days of infamous cases by interviewing the people involved. Clark, a criminal lawyer who came into the spotlight 23 years ago as the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, will first tackle the case of Casey Anthony.
Anthony was acquitted of the murder of her daughter, Caylee, in 2008. After being reported missing for more than 30 days, Caylee's remains were found inside a trash bag in the woods near the family's Orlando, Florida home.
A six week long trial was held in 2011 in which prosecutors sought the death penalty. Much like Simpson's case, Anthony's trial took over cable news and her acquittal came as a shock to those who watched.
During an interview with Dr. Oz, Clark said there was proof that Anthony was involved in her daughter's death. Clark noted that said the prosecution expert only went through one browser in his search of Anthony's computer.
"The prosecution expert only searched one browser. There were two browsers, Firefox Mozilla and Internet Explorer. They only searched Internet Explorer," Clark told Dr. Oz. "The defense expert, however, searched both browsers and found something the prosecution expert missed."
Clark said the same thing in January about the "tot mom's" case when she spoke to reporters at the at the Television Critics Association press tour. Clark said she had re-examined the book written by Jose Baez, Anthony's lawyer, after the case.
In his book, Baez wrote that an hour before Caylee died, someone searched for "foolproof suffocation" at 1:51 p.m. on the family computer. Baez claimed that it was Anthony's father, George, who performed the search because he was "feeling suicidal." Baez has said Anthony did not kill her daughter, and Clark's claims are just part of a publicity stunt.
Watch Clark analyze Anthony's and other notorious cases during Marcia Clark Investigates the First 48 Thursday at 9 p.m.
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