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In Casey Anthony's case, being acquitted of murder successful the 2008 decease of her girl Caylee Anthony did thing to quiescent her critics' suspicion that the full truth had yet to beryllium told.
There's been endless sum of the years-long probe and trial, including books written by some the authoritative who failed to get a condemnation and Casey's defence attorney. But the upcoming Peacock docuseries Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies, premiering Nov. 29, promises to archer the communicative for the archetypal clip from Casey's perspective.
According to the streamer, the present 36-year-old sat down for multiple interviews over the people of six months to talk to "the infamous investigation, proceedings and aftermath," arsenic good arsenic the "speculation surrounding her actions astatine the time, her demeanor successful the courtroom and her clip spent successful prison."
What's already known is that a assemblage wasn't 100-percent convinced of Casey's guilt.
"Generally, nary of america liked Casey Anthony astatine all," a antheral juror from the lawsuit told People in 2021 up of the 10th day of the verdict. "She seems similar a horrible person. But the prosecutors did not springiness america capable grounds to convict. They gave america a batch of worldly that makes america deliberation that she astir apt did thing wrong, but not beyond a tenable doubt."
"My determination haunts maine to this day," he continued. "I deliberation present if I were to bash it implicit again, I'd propulsion harder to convict her of 1 of the lesser charges similar aggravated manslaughter. At slightest that. Or kid abuse. I didn't cognize what the hellhole I was doing, and I didn't basal up for what I believed successful astatine the time."
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And hardly a time goes by erstwhile helium doesn't deliberation astir the case, helium said.
"Every clip I spot her look oregon perceive her name, I get a pit successful my stomach," the juror admitted. "It each comes flooding back. I deliberation astir those pictures of the baby's remains that they showed america successful court. I retrieve Casey. I adjacent retrieve the odor of the courtroom."
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Casey's lawyer, Jose Baez, ne'er tried to reason that his lawsuit was a saint. But portion the prosecution painted a representation of an evil pistillate who killed her daughter, got escaped of the assemblage and went astir her beingness for a month, entering a "hot bod" contest astatine a nine conscionable days aft Caylee died, the defense insisted the child's decease was an accidental drowning followed by panic and, yes, a batch of obfuscation.
"How successful the satellite tin a parent hold 30 days earlier ever reporting her kid missing? That's insane, that's bizarre," Baez said successful his opening connection erstwhile the proceedings began successful May 2011. "The reply is really comparatively simple. She ne'er was missing. Caylee Anthony died connected June 16, 2008, erstwhile she drowned successful her family's swimming pool."
"What makes this lawsuit unique," helium told the jury, "is the household that it happened to. You volition perceive stories astir a household that is incredibly dysfunctional, you volition perceive astir disfigured things, concealed things, things that radical don't talk about."
Baez contended that Casey's inexplicable behaviour was a effect of her ain puerility trauma. Both Casey's father, George Anthony, and brother, Lee Anthony, had sexually abused her, Baez alleged, and she had been struggling ever since. What happened to Caylee was conscionable different concealed she felt pressured to support aft a beingness of hiding things, the lawyer said.
Countering the prosecution's assertion of cold-blooded murder, Baez said that Caylee had drowned connected her grandfather's ticker and George frightened Casey by telling her she'd spell to jailhouse for the remainder of her life. He told his girl that he'd instrumentality attraction of it, Baez alleged.
The defense besides suggested that the inferior idiosyncratic who recovered Caylee's remains successful December 2008 had really done truthful months earlier but held onto them and past enactment them wherever they were yet recovered to pull attention. (The man denied immoderate wrongdoing whatsoever and aboriginal sued Casey for defamation; a judge ruled determination wasn't capable evidence to instrumentality the ailment to trial and an appeals tribunal upheld the decision.)
Both from the witnesser basal and talking to the media, George adamantly denied ever abusing his daughter and testified that helium didn't cognize thing had happened to Caylee until the time she was reported missing.
Tony Lazzaro, the boyfriend Casey was surviving with erstwhile Caylee disappeared, stated successful a deposition that Casey had mentioned being physically abused by her father. Casey's ex-fiancé Jesse Grund testified without the assemblage contiguous that Lee had groped Casey erstwhile portion she slept and she didn't privation her member adjacent Caylee.
Lee denied ever being inappropriate with his sister and, erstwhile it was his crook to testify, painted a representation of Casey arsenic an unstable liar who refused to admit astatine archetypal that her girl was missing.
Years later, George and Casey remained estranged. "I privation I could beryllium portion of her life, but I would ne'er consciousness comfy astir her. I can't spot her," George said during an October 2018 quality on Dr. Oz. "I can't spot the things she's going to accidental retired there. I cognize she's fixed immoderate different interviews that she said she was ne'er going to do, and things she's said and done, it's just, it's wrong. She needs to conscionable not beryllium present anymore."
In January 2019, however, backmost connected Dr. Oz, George said that his daughter reached retired to him aft helium was severely injured successful a car mishap and helium was acceptable to forgive her, "for what she has enactment her mom, me, my son, and besides not having Caylee present anymore. I would forgive her for each this stuff."
"I've travel to recognize it's the lone mode I'm going to get past a batch of things successful my life," helium said. "I person to forgive. I'll ne'er forget, but I request to forgive."
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Caylee Anthony was calved Aug. 9, 2005, erstwhile Casey was 19. The individuality of Caylee's begetter remains unknown. A deposition made public successful 2012 revealed that Casey had told a psychiatrist that she was impregnated astatine 18 portion she was passed retired astatine a enactment and she didn't retrieve anything. The doc besides noted that in five interviews conducted implicit 2 years Casey didn't grounds immoderate grounds of intelligence illness and her results from a psychological test were normal—surprisingly so, successful his opinion.
Grund, erstwhile Casey's fiancée (DNA proved helium wasn't Caylee's father), aboriginal described a contentious narration betwixt Casey and her mother, Cindy Anthony, telling People, "Cindy called herself 'Mommy' to Caylee right successful beforehand of Casey. It was a calculated determination to get nether Casey's skin."
Casey lived with her parents, but successful June 2008 near for fellow Tony Lazzaro's house, taking Caylee with her, aft getting into an statement with her mom.
Lazzaro testified that Casey disciplined Caylee "like immoderate parent would do," informing her astir getting excessively adjacent to the excavation astatine his flat analyzable the archetypal clip she brought the kid over.
"She seemed similar a amusive enactment girl," Roy House, 1 of Lazzaro's roommates, testified, "someone that would astir apt get on good with our radical of friends."
"When she started staying with america regularly, we stopped seeing Caylee," House said successful court.
Nathan Leziewicz, different roommate, testified that Casey claimed she worked for Universal Studios successful Orlando, but she ne'er came done with a promised summons hookup oregon thing other related to the occupation she didn't really have.
Altogether, 3 roommates testified that, erstwhile it was conscionable Casey staying with them, they ne'er witnessed her talking connected the telephone to Caylee oregon immoderate babysitter astatine their apartment.
As recounted successful tribunal grounds and galore media reports, on July 15, 2008, Cindy and George Anthony got a missive informing them that their car—which Casey had been driving earlier she abandoned it extracurricular a concern successful Orlando, supposedly aft running out of gas—was astatine a tow yard.
Cindy called 911 that time to study that her girl had stolen her car and immoderate money, and that she was disquieted astir her granddaughter.
Cindy called 911 again a fewer hours later after Casey told her that she really hadn't seen Caylee for an full month. Moreover, Cindy said connected the call, "It smells similar there's been a dormant assemblage successful the damn car."
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Casey past got connected the telephone astatine the dispatcher's request, and said she had past seen her girl 31 days agone with her babysitter Zenaida Gonzales Fernandez. "I've been looking for her and conscionable gone done different resources to find her, which was stupid," she replied erstwhile asked wherefore she hadn't reported Caylee missing.
The lone pistillate successful the country constabulary recovered by the sanction of Zenaida Gonzalez said that she had ne'er met Casey oregon Caylee Anthony. (Gonzalez aboriginal sued Casey for defamation but the lawsuit was dismissed successful September 2015.)
Casey was arrested connected July 16, 2008, connected suspicion of lying to instrumentality enforcement, imaginable kid maltreatment and obstruction of a transgression investigation.
Meanwhile, forensic investigators recovered imaginable grounds of decomposition arsenic good arsenic traces of chloroform successful the trunk—but a hairsbreadth couldn't definitively beryllium matched to Caylee.
"George Anthony got into that car, drove it home," authoritative Linda Drane-Burdick said successful her opening statement. "When Cindy Anthony had her archetypal interaction with the car, her words to George Anthony were, 'Jesus, what died?'"
Investigators unearthed past Google searches for the likes of "chloroform," "neck-breaking" and "full-proof suffocation" connected Cindy's location machine from astir 4 months earlier Caylee disappeared.
On Oct. 14, 2008, Casey was indicted connected charges of first-degree murder, aggravated kid abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a kid and 4 counts of providing mendacious accusation to instrumentality enforcement. Baez, her attorney, continued to refer to Caylee successful the contiguous tense, pointing retired that nary assemblage had been found.
But in December 2008, quality remains, including a tiny skull, were discovered successful the woods not acold from George and Cindy's house. Duct portion with a hint of a heart, arsenic if a heart-shaped sticker had erstwhile been stuck connected it, was attached to the rima of the skull. The remains had been discovered successful a trash bag, stuffed successful determination with a child's pull-up diaper, a Winnie the Pooh broad and different children's clothing.
The bones were soon identified arsenic Caylee's.
On Lifetime's Cellmate Secrets, Casey's erstwhile cellblock neighbor Robyn Adams recalled the time the execution fishy recovered retired her daughter's remains had been found.
"They took her to medical, due to the fact that she couldn't breathe," Robyn said. "She was having an anxiousness attack, a panic attack."
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Also connected the show, defender Silvia Hernandez's sentiment was that Casey "didn't enactment similar a regular mother, wherever 'Oh they recovered my girl and she's dead?'—you know, crying, bawling. No, nary her behaviour astatine that clip was like, 'Oh, s--t. I got caught.'"
The prosecution maintained that Casey utilized chloroform to render her girl unconscious, past enactment duct portion implicit her chemoreceptor and mouth, causing Caylee to suffocate. Casey kept the assemblage successful the trunk for a fewer days earlier yet disposing of it successful the woods, "like she was conscionable different portion of trash," Drane-Burdick alleged.
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But incapable to definitively spot Caylee's assemblage successful the trunk of the car, and with nary witnesses or forensics connecting Casey to the remains, prosecutors were banking on circumstantial evidence—and the defendant's past of lying—to sell their case.
The proceedings lasted for astir six weeks. On July 5, 2011, aft deliberating for 10 hours and 40 minutes, the assemblage recovered Casey not blameworthy of execution and manslaughter. She was convicted of 4 misdemeanor counts of lying to instrumentality enforcement (two of which were aboriginal thrown retired connected appeal).
More than 5.2 cardinal radical tuned successful to HLN, wherever Nancy Grace had been tirelessly demanding justness for Caylee successful nary uncertain terms, making for the largest assemblage successful the network's 29-year history. Fox News and MSNBC besides saw important bumps successful viewership astir the announcement of the verdict.
Casey was sentenced to 4 years successful jailhouse and fined $4,000, positive tribunal costs, connected July 11, 2011; she was released six days later, credited for clip served.
Judge Belvin Perry later admitted helium was shocked by the verdict and tipped his chapeau to the "very personable" Baez for creating tenable uncertainty successful the state's circumstantial lawsuit and establishing rapport with the jury.
"He came crossed arsenic idiosyncratic that you would like," Perry recalled to Savannah Guthrie on Today successful 2013. "It's similar idiosyncratic trying to merchantability a utilized car. Who are you going to bargain it from? The astir likable salesperson."
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After the nationally televised trial, Casey walked retired of the tribunal a nominally escaped pistillate but had to get by a phalanx of aggravated faces protesting the verdict and demanding justness for Caylee connected the mode to her waiting car.
Found to beryllium "the astir hated idiosyncratic successful America" by E-Poll's E-Score Celebrity probe weeks later, she didn't accidental a connection to the property aft the trial—no Dr. Phil, nary Dateline, nary nothing.
In a video reportedly changeable successful October 2011 and surprisingly posted to YouTube connected Jan. 5, 2012, Casey—sporting a short, lighter hairstyle—vowed to stay successful hiding for astatine slightest different month.
"It's conscionable a small surreal however overmuch things person changed since July and however galore things haven't changed," Casey said successful the video. "But the bully happening is that things are starting to look up and things are starting to alteration successful a bully way. I conscionable anticipation that things enactment bully and that they lone get better."
Another video followed connected Jan. 6, Casey sporting a chemoreceptor piercing and with darker hair, but the communication trailed off.
Her parents, meanwhile, talked to Dr. Phil McGraw in September 2011, George and Cindy heartbroken implicit not taking immoderate enactment earlier it was excessively precocious for Caylee. No substance what truly did hap to their granddaughter, they did not consciousness that their girl was innocent.
"Casey and Caylee, erstwhile I saw them permission connected June 16th, 2008, that's the past clip I saw them together," George said connected Dr. Phil, "and Casey, again, is liable for Caylee, nary substance wherever she was astatine oregon what happened." He talked astir attempting suicide in January 2009, distraught implicit Caylee's decease and racked with guilt for not having done thing to forestall it.
"I don't privation to visualize [how Caylee's beingness ended]," George said. "Because the lone happening I tin visualize astir Caylee is that beauteous miss that I saw creation astir each day, who'd travel down the hallway and conscionable marque my beingness beautiful. I conscionable miss her."
Cindy said she believed it was imaginable that Caylee accidentally drowned and Casey panicked. George said helium didn't judge that successful his heart, but possibly idiosyncratic unintentionally gave Caylee an overdose of a sedative oregon immoderate cause meant to get her to slumber oregon different quiescent her down. (The proposition appeared to take Cindy by astonishment successful the moment.)
In June 2012, Piers Morgan revealed he'd had a 10-minute telephone chat with Casey, successful which she declared she didn't termination Caylee.
"'I did not termination my daughter,'" the former CNN big quoted her on Piers Morgan Tonight. "'There's thing successful this satellite I've ever been truthful arrogant of. There's nary 1 I loved much than my daughter. She's my top accomplishment.'" On the show, Casey's lawyer J. Cheney Mason told Morgan, "She said that to you without immoderate prompting, without immoderate rehearsal, without immoderate lawyering whatsoever."
"Casey had a atrocious background, tons of problems successful her history," the lawyer added. "She didn't spot anybody."
Casey also reportedly told Morgan, "'I'm 26 present and I've been done hell...I'm not making gazillions of dollars astatine the hands of different people, oregon trying to merchantability myself to anyone consenting to propulsion a mates of dollars astatine me. The caricature of maine that is retired there, it couldn't beryllium further from the truth.'"
Perry, the justice who presided implicit the execution trial, said connected Today in 2013, "There were 2 sides to Casey Anthony. There was the broadside that was earlier the jury, wherever she portrayed the relation of a parent who had mislaid a child, idiosyncratic who was wrongfully accused, and past you could announcement the alteration and translation successful her erstwhile the assemblage went out. She was precise commanding, she took complaint of antithetic things, and you could spot her sometimes scolding her attorneys."
Perry recalled Casey's absorption erstwhile Baez discussed a plea woody for aggravated manslaughter with his client. "I volition ne'er hide that day," helium said. "All of a sudden, you heard shouting coming from the holding cell, immoderate four-letter words coming from the holding cell, and she was rather upset. So upset that 1 counsellor suggested that she was incompetent to proceed."
In his best-selling 2012 publication Presumed Guilty—Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, Baez questioned wherefore authorities weren't much suspicious of Casey's father, alleging determination was "always thing hard to recognize astir George's behavior." He besides wrote successful a foreword for the 2013 paperback variation that the substance of who truly dumped Caylee's assemblage successful the woods was the "one escaped extremity that truly haunts me."
Rob Lowe played Florida State Attorney Jeff Ashton successful the 2013 Lifetime movie Prosecuting Casey Anthony, based connected his ain publication astir the case. The Office's Oscar Nuñez played Baez, portion Virginia Welch played Casey. (Ashton besides made headlines successful 2015 erstwhile his sanction was recovered connected the leaked database of Ashley Madison users aft the matter facilitator was hacked—Ashton publicly apologized, maintaining that helium was funny and signed up but ne'er used the tract to person an affair.)
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In 2017, Baez won an acquittal for disgraced NFL star Aaron Hernandez on treble execution charges. Days later, the onetime New England Patriot was recovered dormant successful his situation cell, wherever helium was serving a beingness condemnation for different murder, and his decease was ruled a suicide—all covered successful Baez's 2018 book, Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez.
Casey was sentenced to a twelvemonth of probation successful 2011 for cheque fraud. She filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2013 successful Tampa, claiming she was astir $800,000 successful debt, not slightest owed to ineligible fees, and had lone astir $1,000 successful idiosyncratic property.
"To immoderate extent...she feels atrocious that she's having to person each these ineligible services provided to her and she is incapable to compensate anyone," her lawyer Andy Chmelir told CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 astatine the time. "So she wants closure much than thing else."
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Casey's life went on relatively softly successful the look of each the notoriety.
In November 2015, she filed to registry a institution called Case Photography and the pursuing twelvemonth was said to beryllium moving for and staying with Patrick McKenna, a backstage researcher who worked for the defense on her lawsuit and for the O.J. Simpson defense squad backmost successful the 1990s.
The Miami Herald reported in January 2021 that authorities records showed Casey had registered a concern called Case Research & Consulting Solutions successful the authorities of Florida connected Dec. 14, utilizing McKenna's longtime address.
On May 23, 2021, she caught the attraction of TMZ when she called 911 to report that she'd been assaulted by different pistillate astatine a barroom successful West Palm Beach. "It was a repeated incident, it was harassment, connected apical of the repetition offense," she said connected the call, per the outlet. "It was a verbal battle extracurricular and a thrown portion inside. I would similar to marque an authoritative report."
No 1 was arrested, but the incidental study stated that she and a pistillate were warring implicit a guy they'd some dated successful the past. The other pistillate told Fox News successful June that the altercation had "zero to bash with an ex-boyfriend. There's much to it I privation to not say."
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In a bid of exclusive interviews with the Associated Press in March 2017, her first in-depth sit-down with a quality enactment since the trial, Casey presented herself arsenic the unfortunate of the public's unreserved to judgment. (She besides unsuccessfully tried to halt the interviews from being published, citing a 3rd party's "purchase of her story" for $25,000.)
"The queen is proclaiming: 'No, no, condemnation first, verdict afterward!'" Casey said, comparing herself to the falsely accused Alice successful Alice successful Wonderland and the nationalist to the murderous Queen of Hearts hastily calling for her head. "I consciousness and consciousness to this time that is simply a nonstop parallel to what I lived. My condemnation was doled retired agelong earlier determination was a verdict. Sentence first, verdict afterward. People recovered maine blameworthy agelong earlier I had my time successful court."
As to what truly happened to Caylee, she said, "Everyone has their theories. I don't know. As I basal present contiguous I can't archer you 1 mode oregon another. The past clip I saw my girl I believed she was live and was going to beryllium OK, and that's what was told to me."
"I recognize wherefore radical person the opinions that they do," she added. But astatine the extremity of the day, "I don't springiness a s--t astir what anyone thinks astir me, I ne'er will. I'm OK with myself, I slumber beauteous bully astatine night."
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Also in early 2017, Judge Perry told Orlando's WFTV 9 and the Orlando Sentinel that helium believed Caylee's decease was successful each likelihood an accident.
"The astir logical happening that occurred, successful my eyesight, based connected everything I cognize astir the case, was that [Casey] did not intentionally termination her daughter," Perry told the station. "I deliberation based upon the evidence, the astir logical happening that happened was that she tried to sound her girl retired by the usage of chloroform and gave her excessively overmuch chloroform, which caused her girl to die."
To the newspaper, helium said, "There was a anticipation that she whitethorn person utilized [chloroform] to support the babe quiet…and conscionable utilized excessively overmuch of it, and the babe died. That's conscionable 1 of the galore theories arsenic to however this beauteous young woman tragically met her death."
If Caylee were alive, she "would beryllium a full badass," Casey told the AP successful 2017, erstwhile her girl would person been 12. "I'd similar to deliberation she'd beryllium listening to classical rock, playing sports" and not putting up with immoderate nonsense.
(Originally published April 24, 2017, astatine 4 a.m. PT)
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