Casey, who had Caylee erstwhile she was 19, had ne'er said who her daughter's begetter was, and successful the bid she says she got large astatine 18 aft being drugged and raped astatine a location party.

She agreed with her parents to hide her gestation from friends and coworkers, Casey said, adjacent erstwhile it became evident she was expecting. Then for a time, she recalled, she told radical her ex-boyfriend Jesse Grund was Caylee's father, but a paternity trial proved helium wasn't.

"I lied to everyone," Casey admitted. "That's what I'm saying, it's truthful f--ked up. It's conscionable years of feeling similar I needed to unrecorded a definite beingness oregon amusement radical I lived a definite life, due to the fact that I didn't privation radical to pity maine and I didn't privation my kid to turn up reasoning she was the merchandise of thing truthful atrocious and that I didn't privation her."

Casey reiterated her accusation—first made nationalist during her 2011 proceedings by the defense—that her father, George Anthony, had sexually abused her, starting erstwhile she was 8 and until she was 12.

Casey said she had memories of being abused but it wasn't until she was "isolated successful jail" pursuing her apprehension that she started recalling much details. Then, she continued, she had "very wide images and flashbacks, nightmares and seizures, each due to the fact that of things that I was reliving from what happened with my father."

Later successful the series, Casey said that, from the time Caylee was born, she ne'er fto her girl beryllium unsocial with her grandfather. 

Where the Truth Lies relays that George, ma Cindy Anthony and member Lee Anthony turned down invitations to beryllium interviewed and didn't reply to requests for remark connected Casey's assorted allegations. George has repeatedly denied his daughter's claims, successful tribunal and successful media interviews. He didn't instrumentality E! News' requests for remark about the accusations of maltreatment raised successful the series.

The morning of June 16, 2008, she recalled, she made Caylee breakfast but wasn't feeling well, truthful she went to prevarication down, bringing Caylee into the chamber with her and turning connected the TV. They were surviving astatine Casey's puerility location with George and Cindy.

Casey said she fell dormant for awhile and woke up to her begetter asking her wherever Caylee was. She said she started frantically looking for her retired successful the yard, past walked astir the broadside of the location to find George holding a "soaking wet" Caylee. "I tin spot him lasting determination with her successful his arms," Casey said. "And handing her to maine and telling maine that it's my fault, that I did that, that I caused that. And I conscionable collapsed with her successful my arms." 

Casey said Caylee felt "heavy" and "cold," and she herself was "hysterical." George, taking Caylee from her, "immediately softens his code and tells me, 'It's going to beryllium OK,'" Casey said. "That she was 'going to beryllium OK.' That's what helium said to me. I wanted to judge him due to the fact that I wanted her to beryllium OK."

After pausing for a fewer seconds successful the interview, her look tear-stained, she continued, "And I don't cognize however agelong I sat outside, I don't cognize wherever helium went. He took her from maine and helium walked away. I cognize helium went backmost successful done the surface doors and helium went backmost into the house. And I don't cognize wherever she went. And I don't cognize what helium did. I conscionable privation her back."

Testifying astatine Casey's trial, George denied having immoderate cognition of however Caylee died oregon being involved successful disposing of her body. "I would person done everything humanly imaginable to prevention my granddaughter if what was said happened, happened," helium said, adding that helium "never knew of thing that happened to Caylee" until she was confirmed dead.

"I cognize radical are going to question, Well, wherefore didn't I marque a telephone call? Why didn't I telephone 911? Why did I adjacent hold to archer my ma anything?' And I didn't archer her anything. 'Why lie? Why not bash a 100 things a 100 antithetic ways?'" Casey said of the absorption she described having. "I person to unrecorded with that, knowing that I failed to support my child, and that I kept failing her adjacent aft that. I failed her again and again and again, 'cause I inactive protected the idiosyncratic who hurt me."

Cut to footage of Casey talking animatedly to her begetter erstwhile she was successful jail.

"It was similar I was brainwashed," she said, "and it wasn't until overmuch aboriginal that I started to truly recognize why."

After that, Casey said George told her to "act normal," hence the wide circulated photos taken of what appeared to beryllium the 22-year-old having a expansive clip during the period pursuing this alleged accident. "That was not partying," Casey said, explaining that she was retired helping then-boyfriend Tony Lazzaro (who turned down the series' interrogation request) with nine promotion and noting that nary of the photos showed her with a portion successful her hand.

She was successful interaction with her begetter each day, she said, and helium kept telling her Caylee was OK. "During the 31 days, I genuinely believed that Caylee was alive," Casey said.

Even aft she was arrested July 16, 2008, connected suspicion of lying to instrumentality enforcement, imaginable kid maltreatment and obstruction of a transgression investigation, Casey said she was desperately clinging to the content that Caylee—whom she admittedly hadn't seen for a month before her parent called 911 connected July 15—was fine.

Caylee's remains were recovered successful a wooded country little than a mile distant from the Anthony family's location connected Dec. 11, 2008.

Offered the accidental to plead blameworthy successful Caylee's decease and walk 20 years successful situation successful speech for prosecutors taking the decease punishment disconnected the table, Casey—charged with first-degree murder—refused, according to her and members of her defence squad interviewed in Where the Truth Lies.

"She was not having it," recalled lawyer and present longtime person Lisabeth Fryer.

"I would alternatively person been recovered blameworthy and spent my life—the remainder of my life—on decease row, warring for my beingness and my innocence than to person ever pled to thing I didn't do," Casey explained. "I lied to the cops, I wrote those checks—I admitted blameworthy connected each of those. That was it. It was never a consideration, ever."

(She pleaded guilty successful 2010 to cheque fraud for stealing a friend's checkbook and penning astir $650 worthy of checks, and was sentenced to clip served.)

Casey said she didn't cognize her pb defence attorney, Jose Baez, was going to present her sexual maltreatment allegations against her father in his opening connection connected May 24, 2011.

"Didn't archer me," she said. "He did not adjacent travel to spot maine earlier we went into court. He didn't archer maine anything. He wanted to marque definite my absorption and my effect were arsenic existent and earthy arsenic possible, truthful helium didn't privation maine to beryllium prepped, for this."

Reviewing footage of herself wiping distant tears during the televised trial, she continued, "What I am feeling successful that moment, listening to Jose Baez archer the satellite astir the maltreatment that I suffered, was implicit shame. I retrieve that feeling similar it was yesterday. There's ever going to beryllium that portion of maine that's going to consciousness like I'm not capable due to the fact that of what happened. Like I'm not bully capable due to the fact that of each the things that person happened to me... that I'm tarnished, tainted. That's a really, really, really, hard moment."

Testifying connected the aforesaid time Baez gave his statement, George flatly denied ever sexually abusing his daughter.

Also successful his opening statement, Baez introduced the mentation that Caylee accidentally drowned successful the household excavation and George covered it up, but Casey said successful Where the Truth Lies that she doesn't judge that's what happened. She said that was a anticipation her mother suggested to Baez and helium went with it.

Caylee being soaking wet, arsenic she herself remembered it, was "still thing I can't portion together," Casey said.

As for her father, "I'm not accusing him of murder," Casey noted, "but it wasn't an mishap successful the pool."

Authorities ne'er considered George a fishy successful transportation with Caylee's death. At proceedings and successful media interviews during and since, helium has denied that his granddaughter drowned connected his watch, oregon that helium had thing to bash with disposing of her assemblage oregon covering up what happened. He did not respond to E! News' requests for remark connected the allegations raised successful the series.

In June 2011, his lawsuit having denied the defense's accusations connected the stand, George's lawyer Mark Lippman said successful a statement, "Mr. Anthony has and volition proceed to support the presumption that helium had thing to bash with the decease of Caylee Marie Anthony oregon immoderate of the events that occurred afterword regarding the actions of the Defendant Casey Anthony established by the State of Florida successful the presumption of their case."

Casey's attorneys recalled feeling jubilant astir her acquittal but past instantly worrying astir what would go of her—right extracurricular the courtroom, fto unsocial successful the years to come.

"We were truly acrophobic for her life," said lawyer Dorothy Clay Sims, the defence team's forensics expert, recalling however they each looked astatine each other, thinking, "Now what bash we do?"

They each received death threats, Dorothy said, and Casey couldn't adjacent permission the country to prevarication debased due to the fact that she couldn't get a passport with a felony conviction.

Casey said her lawyers helped enactment her financially and emotionally arsenic she tried to restart her life. She lived with researcher Pat McKenna's household for years and continues to enactment for him to this day—mainly, she said, doing probe for transgression defence cases. 

Pat said successful the bid that, successful the past 10 years, he'd ne'er caught Casey successful a prevarication and she'd go "like a daughter" to him.

"He's the feline that would locomotion maine down the aisle if I was ever dumb capable to get married," Casey said. "He's the closest happening to a existent dada that I've ever had."

Filmed watching a January 14, 2019, occurrence of Dr. Oz in which her parents were interviewed aft George had been earnestly injured successful a November 2018 car crash, Casey reacted with derision when Mehmet Oz asked if their girl had been successful interaction and George said, "She did scope retired to spot however I was."

Casey scoffed, "No, I didn't."

She besides watched footage of Cayley's funeral, seemingly for the archetypal time, which she missed while she was successful jail, and she cringed astatine her father's eulogy.

Asked by a shaper who's heard, not seen, if she did everything she could person done to support her daughter, Casey tearfully replied, "I thought I did. I tried. I didn't permission [her parents' house] erstwhile I should have, the infinitesimal I recovered retired I was pregnant, I should've conscionable left."

Ultimately, the large question remains unanswered.

"I'm ne'er going to person afloat closure," Casey said. "The irony for maine is that, I deliberation that's portion of the crushed wherefore radical are inactive truthful hooked connected this, due to the fact that they consciousness they request closure."

Acknowledging the inherent dissatisfaction successful not knowing, comparing it to a disappointing movie ending oregon atrocious world TV, she said, "I didn't get the ending that I wanted due to the fact that I didn't get my kid back. That's the lone ending I wanted. That's the 1 happening that I volition ne'er get retired of each of this." Coping, she said, got "not easier—harder. Waking up each day, wishing that immoderate days I would aftermath up and look implicit and she'd beryllium close there."

Casey concluded, "It's a hard happening to woody with. It's a hard happening to unrecorded with each day. 'Cause nothing's going to bring her back. Nothing. Even if I someday get the answers that I need, it's ne'er going to beryllium enough."