Thread: Caylee Anthony Case

Originally Posted by LuvBigRip

http://www.myspace.com/cayleeismissing

OMGosh she is so adorable, that poor little girl.

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday that the case of a missing 2-year-old is beginning to look like a homicide, and her mother is a person of interest, though she has not been charged.

Two-year-old Caylee Anthony, shown here in this undated photo, went missing a month ago.

Casey Anthony does face charges connected with lying to investigators, and Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set her bond at $500,000 Tuesday, saying the law did not allow him to hold the 22-year-old without bail.

He said he set the amount extraordinarily high because he was worried about evidence of human decomposition allegedly found in Anthony's yard and car. Her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, has been missing since mid-June.

"Not a bit of useful information has been provided by Ms. Anthony as to the whereabouts of her daughter," Strickland said in ordering the bail. "And I would add that the truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers."

Anthony is charged only with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. Authorities say she did not report the girl missing until last week.

Sheriff's deputies said her car smelled of decomposition, and a cadaver-trained German Shepherd noted a smell of human remains in the car and her yard. They said they found a stain, dirt and what seemed to be piece of Caylee's hair in Anthony's trunk.

"The risk of her flight if she is released on some low bond increases exponentially, especially now that she's heard this additional evidence and that she is their person of interest," said assistant state attorney Linda Drane-Burdick.

Defense attorney Jose Baez requested bond around $10,000. He said Anthony's family can't pay a high bond and she has the right be free while facing only low-level charges.

"This is not a capital case, and if it were they certainly would file it, if they had evidence to," Baez said. "There is circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide, I will give them that. But circumstantial evidence has not made them confident enough to charge her with any specific homicide or kidnapping, or any capital offense."

Anthony's parents became concerned after her car was towed from a check-cashing business where it had been parked for days. She and the child lived with her parents, and she told them she worked as an event planner at an area theme park.

Investigators say Anthony was unemployed, and the woman she claimed was a baby sitter for her daughter seems never to have existed. The two hadn't been home in about a month before investigators were notified that Caylee was missing

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/22/....ap/index.html

I wish they would let me have just 5 minutes with this POS

Originally Posted by PrincessArky

I wish they would let me have just 5 minutes with this POS

I wouldn't even need that long.

Originally Posted by renaissanceman

Whatever this woman is, her parents are at the very least PARTLY responsible for.

Could be that is why she wants to keep her daughter from her mother.

I am going to disagree with you here. If Casey has mental health issues ( bipolar would be a good possibility from what I have read ) or a chemical addiction, then it is hard to hold her parents resposible for her choices as an adult. If Caylee was already GONE it would explain why she had to keep coming up with reasons that the child was not available to speak to her grandparents.

That being said, I realize that the Police have rules they have to follow....

They should call in a concerned parent like me, who has had the benefit of seeing some of the awfulness of war.

I would get the location of her kid out of her inside of 15 minutes without doing any permanent harm.

I was abused as a child. Give me five minutes ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The grandmother of missing toddler Caylee Anthony told a 911 dispatcher July 16 that her daughter's car smelled like a dead body, a tape of the conversation shows.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office released the calls Thursday.

In the first call, Cindy Anthony asked authorities to arrest her daughter, Casey Anthony, Caylee's mother, for "stealing a car and money."

Cindy Anthony indicated to the 911 operator that Casey Anthony stole her car on June 30.

She said she would like to speak to an officer and asked for someone to come to the house.

In the second call, a panicked Cindy Anthony said, "There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there has been a dead body in the car."

She said her daughter just admitted that her granddaughter has been missing for a month.

Throughout the investigation, Cindy Anthony has stood by her daughter, claiming the smell from her daughter's car was the smell of rotting pizza.

Casey Anthony has been in jail for eight days on charges of child neglect. She claimed she knew her child was missing for 30 days, but wanted to conduct her own investigation to spare her parents the heartbreak of knowing their granddaughter is missing.

http://www.wesh.com/news/16980706/detail.html

Grandma is a lying piece of crap! She needs to be jailed along with her daughter & you can include Grandpa too!

The family of an Orlando toddler missing for more than a month won't answer questions about a tip that a new concrete slab was poured in the grandparents' backyard over July 4 weekend, shortly before they reported the child missing.

Caylee Marie Anthony's grandmother would neither confirm nor deny the tip about the fresh concrete received by local WFTV Eyewitness News in Orlando, according to the station.

Orange County Sheriff's detectives said they didn't know anything about the reported addition to the property, which they searched last week with cadaver dogs. The toddler was reported missing last week.

"We do yard work around our house all the time and our yard has been completely looked at," Cindy Anthony told WFTV Thursday morning. "I feel very confident. The sheriff's office knows everything that we've done in that yard over the last year. We've disclosed everything. If they had any concerns, I would think they would have followed up on it already."

Orange County, Fla., sheriff's detectives told FOX News they weren't aware of a recently-poured block of concrete.
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Search for Missing Caylee Also Thursday,
Cindy Anthony said there have been two reported sightings of 2-year-old Caylee in Georgia and she believes her granddaughter is with someone heading to Charlotte, N.C.

"We know where she's at," Cindy Anthony told FOX News Thursday before pleading with the person she believes has the child to turn back. "Please don't take her further into the mountains. It looks like she's headed northeast in Georgia close to the North Carolina border. ... This is all very encouraging right now."

Her plea came after her husband, George Anthony, asked the public in an audio message for help in finding their granddaughter before her third birthday. She was last seen on Father's Day, June 15, and reported missing exactly a month later.

In the recording, broadcast Wednesday and arranged by the Never Lose Hope Foundation, George Anthony tells listeners that the reward for information leading to Caylee's whereabouts is now $225,000 — a $100,000 increase thanks to local businessman Peter Benevides, according to MyFOX Orlando.

He describes the little girl as being 3 feet tall with big, hazel eyes and brown hair.

"She could be anywhere," he says. "Please help me and my family bring her home for her third birthday."

Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Marie Anthony, remained jailed in Orange County, Fla., Thursday. Earlier this week a judge set her bond at $500,000, 10 percent of which her family is trying to raise for her release.

Police haven't named a suspect in the child's disappearance, but have called Casey Anthony a "person of interest," after saying they detected the odor of human decomposition and found dirt and strands of hair similar to Caylee's in the trunk of a car driven by Casey Anthony.

Cadaver dogs searched the grandparents' property last week after a neighbor told them Casey Anthony borrowed a shovel around the time her small daughter was last seen. Casey and Caylee were living with George and Cindy Anthony, reportedly until the time the toddler vanished.

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Prosecutors have said the case could be turning into a homicide investigation; defense lawyers have conceded that there is enough circumstantial evidence to point to a possible killing, but there isn't enough to charge Casey Anthony with a crime.

On Wednesday, Cindy Anthony disputed investigators' claims about detecting the scent of human decomposition, suggesting instead that it was the smell of old food or garbage they'd picked up instead.

"Do me a favor," she said. "Put a little piece of pizza or any piece of garbage in your car today and leave it shut up for 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 days in this heat and then come back to me in 19 days and tell me what it smells like."

Cindy Anthony discounted the decomposition testimony after she received a tip that a child matching Caylee's description had been seen at the Orlando International Airport boarding a flight to Atlanta.

Cindy Anthony said the tip was from a woman who lives in Orlando and was left on her voicemail. The grandmother said she called the woman back and they talked.

The tip was even more credible because the person reported that the little girl pronounced her last name the same way Caylee does, Casey Anthony's defense attorney Jose Baez told FOX News.

The caller claimed to have seen Caylee board the flight with an older woman. When she talked to the woman and child, the youngster apparently said her name was Caylee "Antony," pronouncing it without the "h" the way the missing child's grandparents say she does.

The caller was to meet with Orange County Sheriff's detectives to produce a composite sketch of the woman seen with the girl, according to Cindy Anthony.

Click here for photos of the bond hearing from MyFOXOrlando.com.

Casey Anthony has been in prison since last week, when she finally reported her toddler daughter missing July 15 at her parents' urging. She was arrested on charges of child endangerment, making false officials statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.

Detectives have said that almost nothing Casey Anthony has told them about her child's disappearance has checked out to be true. They haven't even been able to get information about the child's father, who Anthony has said is dead, Orange County Det. Yuri Melich testified at her bond hearing on Tuesday.

Cindy Anthony has reportedly said little about Caylee's dad, other than he was never married to Casey Anthony, had no involvement in Caylee's life and died a few years ago in a traffic accident — which the grandmother said she learned about in a local obituary, according to MyFOX Orlando.

Her attorney denies that his client has been lying to police and says she's been cooperating. He and her family want her released so she can help in the search for the girl.

Baez told FOX News on Thursday that he has not found or seen any evidence of substance abuse by Casey Anthony and knows of no history of mental health problems.

Cindy Anthony declined to answer questions about whether her daughter was a "habitual liar," as her friends have claimed, and said it doesn't concern her that police suspect Casey might have done something to her granddaughter.

"My focus is on finding Caylee," the weeping grandmother told FOX News. "Everyone believes she's alive."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,390054,00.html