Posted on 08/14/2008 12:51:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
It's now been 30 days since Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orange County and Thursday morning the child's mother, Casey Anthony, had a jailhouse visit with her parents. But, beforehand, George Anthony could not control his emotions.
The Anthonys arrived back home late Thursday morning, but since leaving the video visitation center around 10:00am neither one has spoken a word to the media.
"Guys, please just leaves us alone," George told reporters asking questions before their scheduled visitation Thursday morning. "When I go up here, do not follow us in the gate. Do not follow us when we're standing in line, please."
George and Cindy Anthony made it clear they were in no mood for questions before their video visitation with their daughter Casey. But when a question was asked about a detective's theory that 2-year old Caylee may not be alive, George Anthony lashed out.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I'm sick of this," he said.
Cindy Anthony then seemed to indicate they both believe Caylee is alive.
"And [a tipster] just spotted Caylee again, so you guys better just frickin' quit bugging us," Cindy said.
"If you don't want to be knocked down, get out of my way," George added.
The two appeared to cool off after getting away from the throng of reporters and cameras. Once inside the video visitation center, the grandparents spent 45 minutes speaking to Casey through a live video feed.
After the visitation, the Anthonys did not to speak a word to reporters no matter what was asked, not even Cindy Anthony who wouldn't explain the tip she claimed to hear that someone had seen her granddaughter alive.
The jail released Casey's visitation schedule for the rest of the week and the beginning of next week. Casey's brother Lee is expected to visit at 1:00pm on Saturday and George and Cindy will return on Monday at 1:00pm.
LOOPHOLE COULD ALLOW CASEY TO BEAT SYSTEM
A loophole could allow Caylee Anthony's mother to beat the system. She's still only facing charges of child neglect and giving false statements.
If her attorney asks for a speedy trial, they could be the only charges she ever faces. Florida law prohibits a person from being tried on more serious charges at a later date if the person stands trial for something that's related.
"If you lose a kid and that results in a child's death, that's one and the same case, because those are manslaughter charges," said board-certified trial attorney Richard Hornsby.
If Casey was found guilty of child neglect, she would only serve up to five years in prison versus a maximum of life for murder. Still, detectives have never said that Caylee Anthony is dead or that Casey is under investigation for murder or manslaughter.
INVESTIGATORS DON'T KNOW WHERE TO SEARCH
It has been one month since Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orange County. Investigators held a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to shed new light on recent theories from the little girl's grandparents about what happened to her.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said it's not trying to build a case against Caylee Anthony's mother Casey, it's trying to get truthful information from her about where her daughter was before she disappeared.
"Before you even get started, jump day, you had a month expire. It makes it awful tough to re-track information," said Chief Mark Strobridge of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Caylee's grandparents made statements about mystery kidnappers, but investigators have not identified any kidnappers.
"It is our hope and prayer that Caylee is found alive and well," Stobridge said.
The Orange County Sheriff said it's working with analysts from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and FBI agents not just here in Orlando, but around the country. They have detectives from all departments following nearly 1,500 leads.
Investigators said they have everything they need to do a large scale search except one thing, a location where they can find Caylee Anthony.
"What we don't have is information on exactly where Caylee was last. The one person who has that information is Casey Anthony and she is not providing information that's accurate to us," Stobridge said.
Investigators said they also called the news conference to say they will only release information as necessary to help find Caylee, and they wouldn't lend any credibility to some of the off-the-wall claims the family's been making.
"You would think the people who have my granddaughter would be smart enough to say, ' Listen, I'm going to turn the girl back in to her family,'" George Anthony told Eyewitness News in an interview earlier in the week.
Detectives have said in court that there is evidence that Caylee may not be alive, including the smell of death in her mother's car.
Caylee's grandparents are expected to visit her mother in jail on Thursday. It would be the first time she has seen any family members in nearly two weeks. Eyewitness News learned Thursday morning that Casey had apparently accepted the scheduled visit.
DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT CASEY ANTHONY'S CALLS
Eyewitness News learned Wednesday there's a more detailed record of some of Casey Anthony's calls made before Caylee was reported missing. The leaked phone records show that on Monday, June 16 Casey Anthony called her parents six times in just over an hour. The records show exactly whom she called and what time the calls were made.
According to the leaked records, Casey made six calls to her parents on the afternoon of June 16, with the first call at 3:03pm to her father's cell phone and the last of the six made to her mom's cell phone at 4:24. During that time she also tried her mother at work and called her ex-fiancé, Jesse Grund.
The next day, June 17, neighbors told investigators that Casey borrowed a shovel from them. Then, on June 18, there was another spike in calls to her parents, six in 45 minutes during the early part of the afternoon. According to the leaked records, three calls were made to her parent's home phone, two to her mom's cell phone and one to her dad's cell phone, all between 12:33pm and 1:11pm.
VOLUNTEERS USE MESSAGE BOARD TO ORGANIZE SEARCH
A small group of volunteers used WFTV.com's message board to organize a search for Caylee Anthony. The volunteers were searching in Blanchard Park on the Econ Trail again Wednesday.
The volunteers were also at the park Tuesday and searched through wooded areas and under bridges along the trail. It's the same park where jogger Nicole Ganguzza was attacked and killed in June.
Hmm, maybe in the end the grandparents will be charged as accessories, plus obstruction of justice. They may be trying to save their own skins.
The grandpa is a retired homicide investigator. He knows the system, and what it takes to beat it.........
One time, years ago, there were a couple of kids missing. WFTV came on with "breaking news" and a breathless reporter related with glee that they had learned that the parents had recently taken out an insurance policy.
Well, they did. On themselves. With the kids as beneficiaries.
But that didn't stop WFTV from painting the parents as suspects.
Idiots.
From the beginning the grandfather has been working the system to engineer a lack of higher level charges... the biggest action being the delay in reporting to slow the investigation by muddying all recollections and allow time to work it’s magic on any physical evidence that may be found.
If I had a wolf pack of reporters in my face day after day, I’d certainly lose it as well.
Or maybe he's just a concerned father and granfather, who is sick of the overly-aggressive journalism jackals who do nothing but goad people to improve their video clips and headlines.
"If you don't want to be knocked down, get out of my way," George added.
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She's still only facing charges of child neglect and giving false statements.
I saw the news clip. The reporter was lucky not to get punched out. I'd deem it worth a month in jail.
Maybe "child neglect and giving false statements" is all she's guilty of - unless a person has faith in the psychic ability of our "esteemed" news media.
Waited kind of a long time to become concerned - dont'cha think?
*******”You would think the people who have my granddaughter would be smart enough to say, ‘ Listen, I’m going to turn the girl back in to her family,’” George Anthony told Eyewitness News in an interview earlier in the week.*********
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You would think - your stupid, psychotic daughter would tell you what she did with your grand-daughter.
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