Casey Anthony trial week in review: June 13-18

A look back a testimony in the Casey Anthony trial from June 13 to 18. The Orlando mother is charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008.

MONDAY

An FBI technician testified she used ultraviolet light to observe the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on duct tape found with Caylee Anthony's remains, but the shape disappeared before it could be photographed.

An FBI hair expert said a hair found with the remains could be a match to a hair found in Casey Anthony's trunk. However, a PowerPoint presentation he prepared to explain postmortem hair banding was not allowed by the judge.

TUESDAY

A tattoo artist testified he etched "Bella Vita," Italian for "beautiful life," on Casey Anthony's back on July 2, 2008, before Caylee was reported missing and two weeks after the date the defense has acknowledged the toddler died.

A forensic expert said heart-shaped stickers were found in Casey Anthony's bedroom, but the investigator didn't testify whether the items were linked to a similar outline observed on tape found with Caylee's remains in woods near the Anthony home.

Prosecutors introduced a sticker found at the crime scene attached to a piece of cardboard near the skeletal remains. Jurors asked for a closer look at it.

Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, took the stand for the third time. She cried when asked about a photo of Caylee wearing the shirt later found with the remains. Cindy Anthony said she never saw Caylee wear the shirt.

WEDNESDAY

Prosecutors rested their case.

Defense attorney Cheney Mason argued for acquittal but was denied.

THURSDAY

The defense began presenting its case.

An FBI DNA examiner testified she tested Caylee's uncle and grandfather for paternity of the toddler. The tests excluded Lee and George Anthony as the child's father.

The technician, Heather Seubert, noted that several items of evidence submitted by the prosecution showed no signs of DNA, blood and semen. Under cross-examination, Seubert said the absence of blood did not indicate there wasn't a homicide.

Seubert said the duct tape found attached to Caylee's decomposed skull was contaminated during testing by another technician.

Another FBI technician admitted it was her DNA on the tape, but she didn't know how it got there. She also detailed her inability to locate any traces of the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on the tape, despite subjecting it to advanced video enhancement.

FRIDAY

The defense's forensic entomologist testified there was a small amount of dead flies – not the hundreds he expected with decomposition – in Casey Anthony's car trunk or where the remains were discovered.

The insect expert, Timothy Huntington, said the smell coming from the trunk was consistent with a bag of trash and trash-feeding insects. He also said a stain on the trunk's carpet did not resemble human decomposition stains he had seen.

Under a heated cross-examination, the bug expert agreed with the prosecution's entomologist in that the body was kept someplace about three days before it was taken to the woods. He also said it was possible the body was inaccessible to the flies.

SATURDAY

Renowned forensic expert Werner Spitz testified that the autopsy done on Caylee by Orange County was "shoddy" because examiners did not cut open the skull. Spitz, a consultant for the defense, did a second autopsy on the remains.

Spitz said specks of decomposition sediment inside the left side of the skull indicated the girl's death was not necessarily a homicide.

Spitz said the duct tape found with the skull was not applied until after her body had decomposed.

Spitz suggested that the position of hair found with the child's skull might have been staged when it was photographed in the medical examiner's office.