As CNN explains, in Anthony’s 2011 trial, senior researcher at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Arpad Vass, testified that the trunk of Anthony’s car not only smelled like a dead body had begun to decompose there, but that several chemical compounds collected from the vehicle were not consistent with decomposition and present in such a quantity to suggest that decomposed organic matter was likely the source of the odor. Anthony’s defense team claimed the smell in the trunk of the car came from garbage.
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Vass testified on the stand that in their research, he and his colleagues detected high quantities of some 30 compounds on Anthony’s vehicle consistent with decomposition and what Vass characterized as “shockingly high” levels of chloroform. All combined, Vass and his team concluded there was a decomposing dead body in the car. At the trial, Vass said under oath (via CNN), “I can find no other plausible explanation, other than that [a dead body in the car’s trunk], to explain all the results we found.”
