Posted on 08/06/2008 7:16:14 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Threats from the public, including extortion, are targeting the family of a missing Orlando girl as the case continues to grab national attention.
Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of missing Caylee, said she has received the threats through e-mails, letters and phone calls.
The incidents have been forwarded to the authorities for investigation, Local 6 has learned.
Charges Are 'Good Thing'
Meanwhile, the state attorney's office filed formal charges of felony child neglect and making a false report to law enforcement authorities against Casey Anthony, 22, in connection with the disappearance of her daughter.
The false information concerned the date and location where Casey Anthony alleged that she saw Caylee.
Cindy Anthony said she was not surprised by the charges.
"Today is actually a very hopeful day," Casey's mother, Cindy, said. "I just found out that they did charge (Casey) formally today which is a good thing because look what they charged her with. To me that is actually almost a victory for the home team today because they obviously have not found anything."
Anthony said life is hard without her missing granddaughter.
"Every moment that passes, I die a little bit inside every day not having her," Cindy Anthony. "She is a part of me and without her I feel incomplete."
Anthony said her daughter has her reasons for not opening up to law enforcement about the location of her granddaughter and she understands.
"We bring Caylee and everybody is going to know and Casey is not going to be this monster that everybody has painted her out to be," Cindy Anthony said.
Baby Sitter Remains Mystery
Deputies are still trying to figure out exactly when Caylee vanished and are not ruling out that her mother, Casey, may have posed as the mystery baby sitter no one can find.
Casey Anthony maintains the last time she saw her daughter was the day she dropped her off with a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez at the Sawgrass Apartments in Orlando.
According to the original arrest report from July 15, someone by the name of Zenaida Gonzalez looked at an apartment on April 17, 2008.
Local 6 has confirmed with apartment managers that the incident didn't happen in April but on June 17.
The date is important because Caylee was last seen two days before on June 15, Local 6's Lauren Rowe said.
Sawgrass managers said on June 17, someone came to inquire about an apartment.
Investigators said the person filled-out a guest card using the name Zenaida Gonzalez and the person who wrote it had sloppy handwriting.
Someone misread the date when filing out an original arrest record, Local 6 reported.
Sources told Local 6 that when apartment managers tried to follow up with the woman after June 25, the phone number she gave was no longer valid.
And the apartment where Anthony said she left Caylee had been vacant for about six months, Local 6 has learned.
Investigators said they located a woman named Zenaida Gonzales but she said she'd never heard of Caylee or Casey.
Child's Grandmother Cancels Meeting
Tuesday, Cindy Anthony canceled a scheduled meeting with her daughter at the Orange County Jail.
"As much as I wanted to see Casey today and visit with her, I couldn't," Cindy Anthony said. "I did get to meet with her attorney and he is going to be able to speak with her in private with my thoughts and the things that I want to talk to her about."
Anthony said her granddaughter's safety may be in jeopardy if conversations between her and her daughter Casey are open to public scrutiny.
"I had all of these mixed feeling about should I go or shouldn't I go," Cindy Anthony said. "Bottom line was that I made the decision this morning that I wasn't going to go."
Cindy and her husband, George Anthony, met with investigators Monday concerning the search for Caylee.
"It was a meeting at our request just to touch base with them and see where we are all at," Cindy Anthony said.
No information was released about the private meeting but detectives continue to deny the existence of a mysterious baby sitter who Casey Anthony has claimed was last with her daughter.
Also, DNA results concerning a mysterious stain and hair samples from Casey Anthony's car are due any day this week, Local 6 has learned.
A national search for the child continues.
I’m sorry, but my opinion from what I’ve seen of this case so far, is that Grandma is a media hog and slightly delusional, as is Grandpa.
Were this MY daughter in jail for this, I’d be there every day kicking her @ss until she fessed up!
Prayers up for that kid. What a family to be born into!
And, um...no mention of a FATHER for this missing little girl? Sad. Little girls without strong Fathers have a very difficult life in so many ways.
Get this over with! Waterboard the whole family! There is a child missing and nobody is talking!
I think that if this Casey Anderson keeps her mouth shut about details she may actually get away with killing her child, or selling said child to......
Question is: Can she do it for a lifetime ? I doubt it.
Tick tock Casey...
During a televised interview Tuesday with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News Channel, George Anthony said he discovered the gas cans inside the trunk of Casey's car on the same day he had reported them stolen.
"As she opened up the trunk of the car, guess what? The gas cans were there," George Anthony said. "[Casey' s] the one that took the gas cans."
That grandmother makes me sick, the way she went off on some of the Fox News people ticked me off. It seems like they (the FoxNews crew) care more about the little girl than anyone else. At least they seem to want to do whatever it takes to find her, whereas the grandmother just wants to hog the cameras and the mother just wants to get out and party some more. About the child’s father, according to the family (not sure how much I beleive anything they say now) the father is dead.
I knew "Big Oil" just had to be involved in some way...
< /sarcasm>
HOme team?? Found anything, including your granddaughter???
“To me that is actually almost a victory for the home team today because they obviously have not found anything.”
Translation...
We’re doing our best to stonewall the police and it appears we are succeeding.
You can’t expect a strange character like this mother would come from a normal functional family.
Grandma is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame. sick sick sick
And grandma claims she does not know the name of the biological father, having forgotten it after reading the obituary. A normal person would at least have saved it.
Theories: The child is dead or The child has been sold or The child is alive, and this was all a way to sell books, or make a movie deal. Seems like grandma is trying out for the lead roll or director.
If this was for a movie deal, things have gone to far and they are in deep dodo and don't know how to get out of it.
However, the whole family seems to be enjoying the exposure and have a morbid sense of illusions of Grandure. It's like they are all saying,"We know something you don't know", and we can't tell you at this time. WHAT?
IIRC the grandmother reported the little girl missing, and basically dragged the mother, kicking and screaming, along for the ride.
Maybe grannie said Change is a good thing, and she’s all for Obama.
This entire family needs to be institutionalized for mental deficiencies.
Has anyone noticed how Casey has never come before the cameras and made an appeal for this woman who took her child to bring her back?
She probably knew there was no reason to bother.
Has anyone noticed that the grandma never looks at the camera, or the interviewer, when she is repeating her daughters lies? She is always fidgiting around and looking elsewhere.
If this family doesn’t want scorn, they best cut out the subterfuge.
You’re right about the grandmother. She is just as detached from reality as the mother.
Were the gas cans empty? Used to fuel the car or burn “something”?
Early on the grandmother was hellbent to find Caylee. She turned her daughter in is true.
But then a few weeks into the investication her tone changed. I think she found out that Caylee is dead and is now faced with the fact that not only will she have lost Caylee but is on the verge of losing Casey too.
In one of the recorded telephone calls, the mother of the little girl was speaking to her brother. She said “I know she’s (the daughter) close, and she’s okay.”
I dunno, but in that context it sounds as if by “okay”, she meant, “her body hasn’t been found.”
This woman is creepy.
Casey has reminded me of Susan Smith from Day One.
I will be delighted if Caylee is found alive, but I am not getting my hopes up.
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