Thread: Caylee Anthony Case

Attorney, Bounty Hunter Now Say Casey Anthony Staying Home

POSTED: 11:59 am EDT August 29, 2008
UPDATED: 1:00 pm EDT August 29, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- There was a surprising change of plans late Friday morning when Casey Anthony's attorney announced, with bounty hunter Leonard Padilla at his side, that Padilla will not be taking Casey Anthony back to jail, something he'd been insisting as recently as 30 minutes earlier.
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The surprising change in plans comes on the same day Padilla insisted Casey Anthony would be returned to jail Saturday.
"She's going back to jail on Saturday and she can sit there and decide what she is going to," bounty hunter Leonard Padilla told Eyewitness News on Friday morning.
Those plans changed in a matter of minutes though and, shortly before noon, Casey's attorney explained.
"I guess the breaking news is that Casey will not be surrendered by Mr. Padilla," attorney Jose Baez announced late Friday morning. "It was really about the two of us [Baez and Padilla] just sitting down and discussing it and going down to the root of the problem."
Padilla told Eyewitness News the main reason he initially decided to revoke Casey's bond was for safety concerns after receiving threats directed at her. That appears to have been the focus of the discussion Baez had with Padilla before the announcement, an announcement that was made public before Casey had even been told.
"We determined that they are legitimate security concerns and that's why he wanted to have her taken back. After discussing what we could do to address those, Mr. Padilla has agreed to not surrender the bond. I'm not going to address [what we're doing], because that would, of course, affect security," Baez explained.

CINDY ANTHONY LASHES OUT AT THE MEDIA
An angry and frustrated Cindy Anthony told Eyewitness News that Caylee isn't dead, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
"Cindy [Anthony] said her granddaughter is not dead. Is she in denial?" WFTV reporter Daralene Jones asked Leonard Padilla on Friday morning.
"Yes, totally. Yes, absolutely. And I would be too if I kept saying the same thing I said when I came out here and I'm not delusional to that extent," Padilla said.


CINDY LASHES OUT
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Cindy Anthony said she doesn't believe her daughter Casey was responsible for Caylee's death. In fact, she said she doesn't even believe Caylee is dead. She posted no trespassing signs in front of her home to keep the media away Thursday evening, but then continued to talk to reporters (Images | Raw Video).
Cindy said she's sick of the media hanging around her home and reporting on the investigation into what happened to her granddaughter Caylee.
"All you guys want to (explicit) do is out my daughter in jail. Not one of you is doing a damn thing to find my granddaughter!" Cindy screamed.
She hammered no trespassing signs in her front yard to make it clear that she doesn't want anyone at her home except Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery (read about EquuSearch).
"We are not asking Casey one question about anything, you know that's the detective's job. She does have an attorney and our job is to be searchers," Miller said.
His organization has found hundreds of missing people and most of them were alive.
"I want him to do a search around here to satisfy all of you leaches, parasites and all of you maggots," Cindy Anthony said Thursday evening.
Cindy's rant came the day after sources informed Eyewitness News that new DNA evidence shows hair and a stain found inside of Casey Anthony's car belongs to her daughter Caylee. The results showed signs of decomposition, which proves Caylee is dead. Cindy Anthony, though, remains optimistic.
"Maybe someone put a body in the car afterwards, check with the security," she said.

I hope the bonding agent pulls it... I agree he is a waste just trying to get more tv time..

A Texas group of volunteers plans to join the search for Caylee Marie and has set up a command center in the Lee Vista area.

Though the group, EquuSearch, has not started searching yet, director Mandy Albritton said they will focus on areas overlooked by investigators.

They use horses, dogs, choppers, divers and other resources to search for missing people. One of their tools is a remote-controlled plane that shoots pictures over wooded areas and bodies of water. "We came in at the request of the Anthonys and in cooperation with the Orange County sheriff's office," Albritton said. "Our mission is search and rescue and we are still hoping that we will find Caylee alive."

Miller and more than a dozen volunteers have been arriving in Orlando this week to help search for the missing toddler. Albritton and others set up the command center in the parking lot behind the Holiday Inn, off T.G. Lee Boulevard, near the Orlando International Airport. More volunteers are expected over the weekend from Miami-Dade County.

Coming at the request of the Anthony's..... uh-huh! And they still hope to find her alive.... what being raised in the woods outside the Orlando Airport by panthers. Maybe a family of aligators adopted her....
Grandma & Grandpa should both be arrested and taken to jail. Charged with some sort of conspiracy / failure to cooperate., because they knew / KNOW that that baby is dead!

They just took her away live on Nancy Grace in handcuffs

Investigators took Casey Anthony --- the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Marie --- back into custody Friday night as people gathered outside her home jeered, calling her a murderer and baby killer.

Orange County sheriff's officials say the latest arrest stems from $746.87 in checks a friend accused her of stealing in July, and not the disappearance of her daughter.

The 22-year-old mother showed little emotion as she walked out of her parents' east Orange County home with her wrists handcuffed behind her back and was placed in the front seat of an unmarked patrol car.

Anthony, who was wearing a T-shirt that read, "Have you seen me?" with Caylee's picture on the front, was taken to the sheriff's headquarters before being transported to the Orange County Jail.

Her mother, Cindy Anthony, stood at the door calling someone on a cell phone.

Casey Anthony's attorney, José Baez, later said law enforcement is more interested in making his client look bad than finding the missing girl.

"This is nothing more than an attempt by law enforcement to play mind games with my client," he said in a statement. "They clearly wanted the media to capture my client in the worse possible light."

Many in the crowd clapped at seeing Anthony taken away by authorities around 8:30p.m.

"I'm happy that they finally took her," said Theresa Rider, 71, of Orlando who went to the house because of nightmares she had about the case.

Like Rider, many in the crowd showed up at Anthony's Hopespring Drive home out of frustration that Casey Anthony was free. She was released last week after a bounty hunter from California helped post her $500,200 bail.

Several came with signs that read, "Rot in Jail," and "Who is the bigger liar? Cindy Anthony or Killer Casey? May God have mercy on you."

Earlier in the evening, Cindy Anthony came outside to talk to a woman who was chanting, "Casey Anthony is a murderer!" She invited the woman who identified herself as Kittie Gonzalez to come inside to sit and talk, but Gonzalez refused.

Gonzalez asked Cindy Anthony if she asked her daughter where Caylee is located. "Yes, and she doesn't know," Cindy Anthony replied. The crowd continued to yell as Cindy Anthony went back inside.

"She deserves to go to jail," Ashley Griffin, 23, of Christmas said, standing on the sidewalk in front of the Anthony house with a sign.

James Harris, 15, who came with his sister and mother from Christmas, agreed. "The baby is dead," he said.

Those milling about Hopespring Drive watched as more than a half-dozen patrol cars pulled up shortly before 8:30 p.m. The lead detective --- Yuri Melich --- went inside with others. They emerged less than 10 minutes later with Anthony.

The allegations of stealing checks were first mentioned when Anthony was arrested on July 16 for child neglect and filing a false statement to law enforcement.

Her friend, Amy Huizenga, 24, filed the complaint with Orlando police after she found checks missing from her car, which she had loaned to Anthony.

Detectives say Anthony stole checks and cashed five of them --- three for purchases at Target, one for groceries at Winn-Dixie and one for $250 in cash. The total amount was $746.87.

She was being held Friday night on charges of uttering a forged instrument, fraudulent use of personal information and petty theft. Bail was set at $3,000.

Orange County Sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves said there is no significance to the timing of the fraud charges. Detectives simply finished investigating the case.

"What we want to accomplish is to get to the bottom of Caylee Marie Anthony's disappearance," he said.

This capped a day that started out with members of a Texas-based group of volunteers organizing to help in the search for Caylee.

A group of volunteers is expected to convene today near the Anthony home in the Lee Vista area at 8 a.m. to begin searching for Caylee, said Mandy Albritton, director of Texas EquuSearch, an organization that searches for missing people.

Albritton said other volunteers are welcome, as are donations of water, ice and food. Volunteers have to be at least 18 years old, must bring their drivers license and need to wear long pants.

The group will focus on areas overlooked by investigators. They use horses, dogs, choppers, divers and other resources. One of their tools is a remote-controlled plane that shoots pictures over wooded areas and bodies of water.

"We came in at the request of the Anthonys and in cooperation with the Orange County Sheriff's Office," Albritton said. "Our mission is search and rescue, and we are still hoping that we will find Caylee alive."

More than a dozen volunteers have been arriving in Orlando this week, and more are expected during the weekend from Miami-Dade County.

One searcher expected to be joining in the search for Caylee is Beth Holloway Twitty, whose daughter Natalee Holloway was reported missing disappeared during a high-school trip to Aruba in 2005.

The search command center is located in the parking lot behind the Holiday Inn Select, 5750 T.G. Lee Blvd., near Orlando International Airport.

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