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TAPED TRANSCRIPT OF MR. JEAN COUTY
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY CORPORAL MELICH
CASE NUMBER – 08-69208
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
YM – CORPORAL YURI MELICH
JA – SERGEANT JOHN ALLEN
JC – MR. JEAN COUTY
YM: The date right now is September 15, 2008. The time right now is 1228 hours.
I’m Detective Melich with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. This is in reference
to Orange County case number 08-069208. Uhm, also present is Sergeant John
Allen, of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. We’re here with uh, Jean Couty.
And would you uh, did, please state your name and re…birth date for the record.
JC: Uh, Jean Couty. Uh,
YM: You’re aware this is being recorded?
JC:
I know why it’s being recorded?
YM: Are you aware that this….
JC: Yes.
YM: …conversation…do you have any objection to that?
JC: No, that’s fine.
YM: Okay.
JC:
And then that way…
YM: Real, real quick. Uhm, we had spoken to you, or actually John Allen had spoken
to you some time ago about uh, maybe arguments that you’ve heard regarding
the Anthony household. And if you can kind of explain to us what you’ve heard,
uh, where you were when you heard it in relation to the house. Were you
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outside, were you inside, and what specifically you may have heard. And if you
saw anyone doing anything during the argument if you can kind of…
JC: Well…
YM: …give us an idea.
JC: Okay, just what I heard is uhm, this. The first time was uhm, I was outside
washing the car and she, Casey came out of the house, screaming at her
mother, and uh, calling her mother names.
YM: What kind of names?
JC: Uh, I heard F-you, and, “Just shut up Mom. I don’t want to hear it anymore.”
And uh, that was it. She went for a jog. And then the time after that, or I think
no, before that, I was outside mowing the grass and I had just finished the grass.
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