Caylee Marie Anthony
There must be Borrowed Angels, here in this life
They come along, into this world, and make this
world bright
But they can't stay forever, cause they're Heaven
sent
And sometimes, Heaven needs them back again
Sung by: Kristin Chenoweth
The heart of the world went out to a little girl named
Caylee Marie Anthony as her mother, Casey Anthony filed a missing child
report on July 15, 2008. The child had supposedly been missing for 31 days
before her mother could be bothered to report her missing. Caylee's grandparents
and uncle had not seen her for the entire time and Casey had managed to
hold them off with excuses.
Casey claimed that her nanny, Zenaida Gonzales,
had kidnapped Caylee.
When the police asked why she had waited so long
to report her daughter as missing, Casey said that she had been trying
to find her on her own and felt that she could handle it herself. This
would be the first of what seemed to be many many lies Casey Anthony would
tell in relation to her daughter having disappeared.
Casey proceeded to lead the police on a wild goose
chase, taking them to places where she supposedly had a job and then admitting
she didn't. Taking them to empty apartments claiming that they were the
last place she had seen Caylee, when it wasn't true. Lie after lie would
be told as police desperately tried to find Caylee Marie Anthony.
Caylee lived in the home of her grandparents, George
and Cindy Anthony with her mother also living there. On June 30, 2008 a
towing company called the Anthony home to report that they had a car which
Casey had been driving. This was cause for concern since Casey had told
her parents she was going on a vacation, this turned out to be a lie. Cindy
Anthony called the police on July 15 to report that Caylee was missing:
"I told you my daughter was missing for a
month.
I just found her today, but I can’t find
my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she’s been trying to find
her herself. There’s something wrong. I found
my
daughters car today, and it smells like there’s
been a dead body in the damn car."
Cindy Anthony
Cindy also reported that it smelled like there had
been a dead body in the car. Later, Cindy Anthony would change her story
to say that there had been a box of old pizza in the trunk of the car for
19 days which was covered in maggots and that the heat for the past few
days caused the pizza to rot and that the it was the source of the smell.
It was found to be false, there was no pizza in the car at all. George
Anthony would be interviewed by police and would said that having worked
in law enforcement, he knew how a decaying body smelled saying it was something
you never forget and that the smell was a decaying body. When he picked
up the car, he didn't want to open the trunk because the smell was so strong
and he didn't want his granddaughter or his daughter to be the source of
the smell.
In interviews with the police, Casey constantly
claimed that she didn't know where her daughter was and that she had been
kidnapped by the nanny who had been watching her for about two years. That
turned out to be a lie as well as many other statements she made. When
asked by the police if she thought that all of the lies she was telling
were helping to find her daughter, Casey said that she knew it wasn't helping
at all and just made excuses for why she had
lied, claiming she wanted to protect her daughter:
“Right now, looking at you, I know that everything
that you’ve told me is a lie, including the fact that your child
was last seen a month ago and that you don’t
know where she is. I’m very confident that you know where she is.”
A detective who was questioning Casey
“I have no clue where she is. If I had any
sense of where
she was at all, none of this would have happened.”
Casey Anthony
During the 31 days before reporting her child missing,
Casey Anthony spent time "looking" for her daughter. Unfortunately, her
definition of looking for her daughter was quite different from what the
usual definition would be. Casey rented movies with her boyfriend on the
very day that she says was the last time she saw Caylee. Casey went shopping,
with a friends checkbook. Casey went to the bars and nightclubs and was
described as the life of the party.
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On July 16, 2008, Casey Anthony was
arrested and charged with neglect of her daughter. Later, detectives would
find signs of human decomposition in the trunk of the car and they would
find a presence of Chloroform. A computer that was taken from the Anthony
home through a search warrant would reveal that someone in the home had
been doing searches to find out how to make home made Chloroform as well
as searches on how to break someone's neck and searches were made on |
missing children's sights. Further on in the case it
would be shown that a search was made for the 100th episode of atelevision
show called "One Tree Hill. In that episode a child goes missing and the
mother blames it on the nanny.
On July 22, 2008 the police decided to treat Caylee's
case as a homicide and they also started calling Casey a person of interest.
A few days later Cindy Anthony reports an alleged sighting of Caylee in
the state of Georgia. Other sightings would be reported over time including
one where a cell phone was used to take a picture of a child playing in
a mall and one where a person supposedly watched a child who looked like
Caylee, in an airport for about 20 minutes. I listened to news about these
reports and wondered why people could stop to take pictures or watch a
child for 20 minutes and NOT stop to tell someone in a position of security
that they suspected this was Caylee Anthony, a child who was missing from
Florida.
In phone calls recorded at the prison, between Casey
and her parents, there is mention of the fact that Caylee's third birthday
is coming up and they would like for her to be home for that. August 9,
2008 would have been her third birthday and Caylee remained missing. On
August 17, 2008 a man named Leonard Padilla bonded Casey out of jail after
she contacted him. Her freedom would be very short lived. On August 30
Casey was arrested and returned to jail on charges that included petty
theft. In September, it was confirmed that Caylee's
body had been in the trunk of the car:
“We clearly have evidence that indicates there
was a dead body in the trunk of Casey car and that body was Caylee.”
Orange County Sheriff’ Sgt. John Allen
Casey had taken the check book of a friend who had
lent her her car while she was out of town. Casey wrote many checks all
over town, buying things for herself only and nothing for Caylee. Casey
would get out of jail only to be arrested again. Then on October 14, 2008,
Casey was arrested on charges that included first degree murder and giving
false information to the police.
On December 11, 2008, a city worker reported finding
a human skull in a wooded area less than half of a mile from the Anthony
house. The skull was found to be that of a child and had duct tape around
it. The area was closed off and throughout that same area other bones were
found. After testing is done, the bones are confirmed to be the remains
of Caylee Anthony.
"With regret I'm here to inform you that the
skeletal
remains found on December 11, are those of
the missing toddler, Caylee Anthony. As are usual protocol, the next of
kin has been notified prior to making this information public. This identification
was made by Nuclear DNA taken from a portion of the remains and compared
to a known profile
of Caylee Anthony. The DNA analysis was performed
by the FBI DNA Lab in Quantico, Virginia.
Except for the bone specimen used for the
DNA which has since been returned to my morgue, the remains have been maintained
and analyzed at the district 9 morgue here in Orlando. These have been
analyzed by myself, my Deputy Chief Medical Examiner and two Forensic Anthropologists,
one from the University Of Florida and one from theUniversity Of Central
Florida.
My examination of the body and evidence is
complete barring no further bones being found. And the anthropologic exam
will be finished up shortly. The remains are completely skeletonized with
no visible soft tissue present and no antimortom trauma evident. Meaning
that there was no trauma to the bones, uh, prior to death.
Toxicology testing is still to be completed
on the bone and hair. While this analysis may prove to be informative,
it will be difficult to interpret levels from these specimens and thus
will not be definitive in helping determine the cause of death. The manner
of death, though, is an opinion based on available information including:
examination of the body, information from the scene, as well as circumstantial
evidence.
Based on all of this, the manner of death
in this case is homicide. The cause of death will be listed as homicide
by undetermined means. Should other pertinent information become available,
the cause of death may be revisited.
While I would love to explained the forensic
aspects of this case to you, and any of you know me, know I would
love to do that. Uh, we must remember that
everyone is innocent until proven guilty. This case needs to be tried in
a court of law not the media. And thus I will not discuss specifics of
the findings of this case at this time.
Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia
George and Cindy Anthony asked for immunity from
prosectuion when being questioned. Why does someone who has nothing to
hide and claims to have had nothing to do with the disappearance of this
precious little Angel, need immunity? Caylee's Uncle, Lee Anthony, may
face charges of his own. According to Thomas Luka who is Lee Anthony's
lawyer, Lee had been conducting his own investigation for months. The charges
could be aiding and abetting, even if it was not what he intended to do.
Thomas Luka says that Lee has been cooperating with the police.
"For that reason, he feels at this point,
now that the police are focusing completely on Casey, he wants to make
sure that his own civil rights are protected."
"Mr. Anthony obviously wants his civil rights
protected. Everyone involved in the case should have their rights covered
when determining what the police can and can
not do or should and should not expect from
the witnesses involved in this case."
Later in the case it was revealed that the city
employee who had found the bag which contained Caylee's remains, had called
on three separate occasions to report something suspicious that he had
seen in that exact spot. Some people believe that the city worker had something
to do with the case other than just reporting what he had seen.
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As of January 2009, there is a battle going on for
the pictures of the first examination of Caylee's remains. The defense
wants to see the pictures and the prosecution believes if they give them
the picture, the defense will only try to sell them for a profit. Pictures
and video of Caylee are alleged to have been sold already, by the prosecution.
I am not sure what to believe here since the defense will have access to
the remains and could take their own pictures.
There is some speculation surrounding two private
investigators, hired by the Anthony family. There is allegedly video of
them near the site where Caylee's remains were found. According to Leonard
Padilla, there was a conversation where one of the private investigators
claimed that they knew where Caylee was and when asked if she was alive
he said no and that they were going to go and get her. There was allegedly
a tape made of the area where Caylee's remains were found, which was made
in November of 2008.
As of today's date, January 8, 2009, the remains
of Caylee Marie Anthony are in a cardboard box at the mortuary. The defense
had stated that the funeral would not be held until a second examination
could be performed. The second examination has been said to have been performed
at LEAST five days ago. Casey Anthony will not be allowed to go to the
funeral, however, if she chooses to do so, she would be able to watch the
funeral on television while in prison.
I will post updates on this case as they become
available.
Read
a timeline of events surround Caylee's death
Read
the obituary for Caylee, written by Cindy Anthony
Read
about the public memorial for Caylee
Read
about the memorial held by Leonard Padilla
For information about preventing child abuse in the
state of Florida, click the links below. If they can't help you, ask for
someone who can. NEVER give up looking for help for an abused child!
Department
Of Children And Families
 ....
Call this number to report
child abuse ANY WHERE in the United States!
1-800-4-A-Child
1-800-422-4453
  
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