-The national spotlight
is now focused on Orlando.
-It's happening... the
most closely watched case
maybe ever, or certainly
since O.J. Simpson.
-In the court of public opinion,
Casey was already guilty.
-As difficult as it may
be for anyone to accept
that a mother
would intentionally
k*ll her own child,
there is no other conclusion.
-This case was full of purported
evidence against Casey.
-Evidence of duct tape
found over the mouth
of the child's skull,
high levels of chloroform found
in the trunk of Casey's car.
-But when they did some
testing on the remains,
no chloroform was
found, no drugs.
There was no DNA at
all on the duct tape.
-It appeared to be that she
was behaving incorrectly.
-They say she went to
clubs, got her nails done,
got a tattoo that
said "Good life."
-During the 31 days,
I genuinely believed
that Caylee was still alive.
My father kept telling
me she was okay.
I just had to keep
following his instructions.
It was like I was brainwashed.
And it wasn't until much later
that I started to
really realize why.
I wasn't the only one home.
I'm not outright
accusing him of m*rder,
but it wasn't an
accident in the pool.
-After 19 days of testimony,
the prosecution rests
in their case against
Casey Anthony.
-They announced this afternoon
that there would be a verdict.
-My life was literally
hanging by a thread
at that point.
My potential of any
kind of future hinged on
the decision that
those 12 people made.
I don't... I'm rarely
at a loss for words.
This is... This is
one of those moments.
I can't describe
to you how it feels
except to say I wouldn't wish
this upon my worst enemy.
I wouldn't wish this
upon any of the people
who were trying to k*ll
me or any of the people
who would be watching this and
still thinking that I'm guilty.
I wouldn't wish this
upon anyone, ever.
That's how bad it is.
This is what hell feels like,
is what I was put through
for those three years.
-Let's return the jury.
Madam clerk, you may
publish the verdicts.
As to the charge of
first-degree m*rder,
we, the jury, find the defendant
not guilty.
As to the charge of
aggravated child abuse,
we, the jury, find the defendant
not guilty.
-When that verdict was read,
we have this massive
team embrace.
They saved my life.
After three years of
dread and sadness,
finally, they
proved my innocence.
-That was the
beginning of Casey's
carefully constructed
coping mechanisms
just cracking and
slowly falling apart.
That hug that Dorothy
Clay Sims gave her
of love and comfort and support,
she allowed that and needed it
and knew she needed it.
-I just lost control
and just began sobbing.
It was such a relief.
Such a relief.
Even though the jury came back
with a not guilty verdict,
we were really
afraid for her life.
We were all looking
at each other saying,
"Oh, my God, now what do we do?"
-We know how the court of
public opinion feels about this.
Lot of people feel very
surprised by this verdict.
-Casey's a m*rder*r!
-They will k*ll Casey
if they had a chance.
-Casey Anthony's defense lawyers
reported several death threats
against her, including
an image that showed her
with a b*llet through her head.
-We were all getting
so many death threats.
They were talking
about my children.
We knew we had to get
the hell out of Dodge.
We needed to escape.
I rented a house
in the Panhandle,
and I collected Casey.
And we went into this rental
house, and Pat was there.
-I've been doing this as
a private investigator
38 years.
Done a lot of
high-profile cases.
I was a bodyguard for Yoko Ono.
The media was burying this girl.
There were a lot of
death threats to her.
It was just out of control,
and so I sensed that
it would get worse if
we didn't have a plan.
So now I'm, like, all-in, right?
I don't know, maybe
it's the Marine in me.
I want to fight.
We don't leave
the wounded behind after battle.
She had been convicted
of lying to the police,
which is a felony,
and I knew we had to
get her through a
year of probation.
It hit me that there was
really no good plan for her.
-We didn't know where she should
go, where she should live.
I was, at the time, decided
I was leaving the country
and moving to France,
and I had considered
having her stay with us.
It didn't occur to me
that she couldn't get a passport
because of a felony conviction.
So she couldn't
leave the country.
-Do you need another
water or are you good?
You gonna grab one?
- I'm gonna get one
out of the fridge.
- Okay.
Here. For you.
- Get one of these.
Thank you.
-Pat McKenna took in Casey
when everybody
else stepped away.
-I got napkins in the cabinet.
- Coffee-stained napkins.
- I don't care, I recycle.
-Frankly, our job was
done as the lawyers.
You don't take care of someone
after the trial is over,
but he did.
-Yeah, you sit in the
shade. I'll sit in the sun.
-I'm using my fingers.
-With the approval of my family,
I brought her to my house.
Everybody agreed, and
I said I'd, you know,
provide a year's worth
of safety for this kid.
-You're still allergic
to bees, right?
-Yeah, why?
- There are bees.
- Oh, they don't bother me.
-Being a sole practitioner,
I'm a one-man band.
I do my own filing. I'm
surrounded by files.
My house is a mess.
And she's very organized,
and so I saw that she could
really help me out.
I felt like she needed
to do something.
-I wonder if that's the one that
they used after I made
adjustments to mine,
because I red-lined a
couple things initially.
- Oh, really?
- But most of the appearance
releases are standard.
-I don't know.
-Casey lived with Pat.
I mean, she no longer
does, but for a long time.
-So, this is an album I
made you a couple years ago.
I have so many photos.
- Mm-hmm.
My favorite picture...
I will never not laugh at this.
In all the
photos, you're always...
Pat offered to let me stay
at his house for nothing
until I figured out what
my plan was going to be.
-I'm pretty sure that was
your 67th. I could look.
He's the guy that would
walk me down the aisle
if I was ever dumb
enough to get married.
He's the closest thing to a
real dad that I've ever had.
-So, we became
very close quickly.
She's been in my
family for, what,
11 years going strong, so...
This is my little group,
and we've had her for,
you know, all holidays,
Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving.
You know, and then
just Sunday dinners.
You know, she's become
part of our whole extended
group of people,
family and friends.
When I took Casey in, one
of the rules was no photos
so that it wouldn't get out
to the media where Casey was.
But, you know, she's got
more of a family here
than she ever had in Orlando,
in Ohio, or wherever.
She became like a daughter.
-He taught her how to be a
person and live her life.
She engaged in deep therapy,
and the relationship
that you built with her,
you had to move slowly because
there were obvious trust issues.
Not specific to anyone,
but specific to everyone.
She didn't have anyone.
She was on her own.
She felt hurt and betrayed.
She had everyone she
considered a friend
sharing with the world
every uncomfortable
and embarrassing moment
or conversation
that she ever had.
-I always thought of
myself as a pretty good
judge of character,
and, you know,
she completely fooled all of us.
There is absolutely nothing that
Casey could ever say to anybody
that is going to make me
believe that she wasn't
in some way responsible or
involved with Caylee's death.
-So, the lies make it hard
to not think that she
did m*rder this child.
-When the story broke and
the nanny's name got dropped,
Zanny the Nanny, I
stood up and said,
"She was using Xanax
to babysit her kid."
I fully believe that Caylee
was overdosed with Xanax.
-Did you ever give
Xanax to Caylee?
-No, I never gave
Caylee anything
other than cold medicine
when she had a cold.
That was some concocted
bullshit story,
whether by the media
or someone affiliated.
There trying to
piece things together
that don't fit into anything
because they don't exist.
None of that is real.
-I never saw Casey with Xanax.
I never saw her give
Caylee any Xanax.
But just the fact that
Zanny the Nanny was said,
just sent a lightbulb
off in my head.
Two of the people that
I feel the worst for
is Cindy and George.
George and I exchanged
a couple e-mails.
I couldn't even
begin to understand
what it would be like to not
only lose your grandchild,
but to lose your child
at the same time, too.
-If Casey's even
watching this someday,
yeah, I blame my daughter for
Caylee not being here today.
-And you blamed her then
and you blame her today?
-Yes, sir, I do.
I do.
-And you all
disagree about that?
-We do.
-What happened with my
father was irreparable,
and that's how I felt
about my mom also.
It's been the same
pattern now for 11 years.
My parents, being
in the public eye,
throw me under
the bus for money.
-What do you think
really happened?
-My gut feeling
inside, I believe
Caylee was given something
and she didn't wake up.
-Do you think she intentionally
wanted to k*ll Caylee?
-I don't think she
intentionally wanted to.
- Okay, then that...
- I don't think she
intentionally wanted to,
but she should be in jail
because of Caylee
not being here.
-I want to think he doesn't have
the power to hurt me anymore,
but he still does.
And this was years ago,
this interview.
One of many that he and
my mother did separately
and together for money.
For money.
Throw me under
the bus for money.
Why?
Why exploit the situation
any more than it has been?
I lost everything
the day I lost her.
Everything.
And it doesn't matter
what I've done in between
in the life I try to live,
and how good I try to be.
Every day, I live
with a broken heart.
I want to know why.
I want to know why she
was taken out of my arms.
Why didn't he call 911?
I wasn't the only
one that was home.
Why?
And why, after all this time,
keep blaming me for
something I didn't do?
Why?
-It's literally right here.
-Yes, and recently opened as
a small kind of a goth bar.
-Casey's someone
who's like family.
I've had the opportunity
to see her, through therapy
and through long-term
friendships and love
and support, become
this warm, loving,
trusting, hilarious
person that I know today.
-You're not gonna let me
get this either, are you?
- No.
- Ugh, fine.
-I've never asked her about
what occurred with Caylee.
I know what her experience
has been, vaguely,
but in terms of digging
into the details of it,
I've always given her space
and I respect her boundaries.
She's been through so, so
much that it's not my place
to do anything but
love and support her
and give her space
to tell her story
in the time that she feels
comfortable doing that.
-I never spoke to
Casey about her theory
of what happened to Caylee.
I never pushed.
I'm trying to provide a safe
environment for this kid.
Hopefully, make sure she don't
implode because she can...
I always thought, you know,
who knows what
could happen to her?
-I know that
hearing some of this
is going to make them hurt, too,
because they're going
to feel my pain.
And that more than
anything is the main reason
I haven't talked about it.
I put my memories into boxes.
It protected me, but
also was holding me back
from really dealing with things.
In this process of
some of those boxes,
I had to forcibly pull down
off of a shelf and unlock.
I have to rip my life back open.
And when I finally was able to
start to explore each of them,
no matter how painful or how
hurtful the gaps in my memory,
it allowed me to work
through some of that.
But now it's all been
knocked around on the floor.
And I have to feel
that deepest sorrow,
and I'm grieving all over again.
There are just
answers I don't have.
And that's been one of the
hardest pieces of all of this,
is still not knowing.
My father promised me that I
could come home from this place.
I'm remembering him
coming and visiting me.
I remember him promising
me that I would come home.
I'm remembering him promise me
that everything was
going to be okay,
that Caylee was
going to be okay.
I'm remembering every f*cking
day that I spent here.
I still need the same
answers that I needed then.
I need to know why all of this
happened in the first place
and why he pinned it all in me.
-I walked into your
room last night
and just looked around
and had a couple
extra little prayers
and just said, you know,
"You're coming home
soon, sweetheart."
Caylee's gonna be home soon, so
you can be that family again.
He's telling me that I
was coming home soon.
It would all be over soon.
I just had to keep
following his instructions.
He told me what he
thought I wanted to hear,
that he was supporting me,
that I was coming home,
that everything would be okay.
And on national television,
acting like he was
supporting me, coming to
the jail prior to that,
prior to me ever being indicted.
-I don't believe my
daughter could hurt anyone.
-Why do you think she was
arrested and charged, George?
-Because like Cindy said,
they had their mind made up.
It was just too easy for them
to just close the book on this
and say, "Well, we're
gonna charge you
with your daughter's
disappearance"
and just be done with it.
-In this interview, my
father is telling the truth
of my innocence, that law
enforcement went after me.
But yet he testified in
front of the grand jury
almost two months before this.
-Florida grand jury indicted
Casey Anthony on charges
of first-degree m*rder.
Among those called to testify
before the 19-member grand jury
Tuesday was George
Anthony, Casey's father.
-I found out that my father
had testified against me
at the grand jury
on October 14th,
the same day that the
grand jury was convened.
Besides law
enforcement, the only
non-law enforcement-affiliated
individual to be called
to testify was my father, and
he was their first witness.
-This is going to be
very hard for me to do.
My focus is always
on my granddaughter.
It always will be.
-I thought it was
very interesting
they chose to put George
before the grand jury.
We don't know what he said.
We'll never get to
know what he said.
That's confidential,
so we have no idea
what they talked to him about.
But we know they wound up
with an indictment to charge
her with first-degree m*rder.
-At that point, did
you have any idea
that your father was going to
testify against you in that way?
-No.
There were moments and instances
that I knew something was off
and I knew something was
wrong, and the promises
that he was making,
he wasn't keeping.
But after the indictment,
I was able to listen to his
interviews with law enforcement.
Just before I was
initially arrested,
my father talked
to investigators.
-He talked to me
at the car as I was
at the end of the driveway.
I noted in my report
what he'd said.
-He said I withheld information.
-I interviewed George
and I remember him
just going on and on about
what a liar Casey was.
Don't believe anything
she tells you.
It took me a while.
I said, "George,
do you understand my role here?
I'm trying to help
your daughter.
She's looking at death."
"Well, you can't believe
anything she says."
He's playing on
his ex-cop persona.
"Guys, we are all
in this together.
We're in this
together." Meaning "we,"
"I'm an ex-cop. We're
all in this together."
"It's a puzzle.
There are just some
pieces missing.
We got to get these pieces."
George is kind of
leading this interview,
and it's like,
"You're the f*cking
missing piece, George.
-I was 22. I was a scared kid.
I'm not scared
anymore. Now I'm angry.
I've reverted from that
scared place to now,
over the years, my
anger just builds.
The same man who would
immediately go and report
to law enforcement
after he met with me.
But yet on national television,
acting like he
was supporting me.
-Do 100% believe your daughter?
- Yes, I do.
- George, what about you?
100%?
- 100%.
-Manipulation after
manipulation after manipulation.
But somehow he got cleared by
law enforcement from day one.
-Was there ever
any other suspect?
Not just looking
at Casey, right?
-I mean, the first
thing you have to do
when you're investigating
a missing child
is go to the people
that have custody care,
custody and control
over the child.
As far as any other
suspects, the family.
You're always looking
at the family.
Cindy would always talk to you.
Lee was much more
reserved, as I recall.
But George always tried to help.
I mean, they all
gave us timelines.
Casey obviously was the
last person with the victim.
Well, that's what George
had reported to us.
-Did it trouble you
that it was only George?
You had no other witness for
when Casey left with Caylee?
-Would that, in my
mind, make him...
Immediately make him a suspect
because he's one
of the last people
that that sees the two together?
You'd be remiss not to
realize that as a possibility,
but there was just nothing
that led us down that road
that George was
responsible in any way
for the death of the child.
-There was an honesty in George.
The same questions
we were asking
are questions that
he was asking,
and now we're asking him, and
he's frustrated in the fact
that he can't give
us the answers.
It's obvious that he wants to be
the doting father
or grandfather.
Just the things he would
say. It wasn't thought out
before he would say it.
He was certainly much
more honest and open
in the interview about Casey
in terms of describing
his own daughter.
I don't want to say you take
advantage of those things,
but you use them
to your advantage
in trying to get information.
- Yeah.
-Everything that we found
about George was that
he was a loving grandfather,
and I think he was a man
that was dealing
with a lot of things.
-I talked to John Allen.
You know, when I asked
him about George,
why wasn't George a suspect,
it's the same answer
as Eric Edwards,
same answer as Scott Bolin.
"He was a good guy.
Such a good guy.
He's a good granddad. He
loved his grandchild."
-Yeah. What proof
did you have of that?
When there's a m*rder,
everybody's a suspect
till you eliminate people.
You don't eliminate a guy
'cause he's a good guy, okay?
They believed everything out of
his mouth, that she's a liar.
They found out she's a liar,
so I think they viewed George
as rather than
just be a witness,
he's, like, in on that
with them, you know?
Be the mentality is,
"We got our girl.
We're not looking
in any other place because
it doesn't fit our story."
-She became a pariah,
one of the nation's
most despised women.
-I cannot believe that Casey
Anthony still has friends.
-I've avoided so much
of what is in the media,
but Pat's had a
Google alert on me
since just after I
moved in. And I forget,
it was some blog years
ago, maybe 2013, 2014,
and this woman, of
her own volition,
went back and started
looking at stuff.
And that was one of those
things that that blog...
Her...
her reasonably unbiased
view of the case
helped me piece
some of it together.
-My name is Kristen Patton.
I'm a citizen journalist.
I love studying court cases.
I love acquittals especially.
You have this idea
that it's one way,
and then you find
out that the jury
saw it completely different,
and the Casey Anthony case
was just so unbelievable.
I just kind of fell
down that rabbit hole
of I have to solve this case.
I have to figure out what really
happened to Caylee Anthony.
As I was researching this
case, I was trying to get just
some idea of how George
felt about things.
And the thing that I noticed
first is that every time
that I would get
one opinion about...
That George had said,
I would find some other
statement that
contradicted that.
He's telling the media that
the car smells like a pizza.
But then he's going to the
police and telling them
that Casey's guilty
and he's telling them
that there's human
decomposition in the trunk.
And this is something
that nobody ever noticed.
Why didn't the media
notice the differences?
Even during the trial,
George claimed that he wanted
to help his daughter.
But when the prosecution
put him on the stand,
George was very clearly trying
to build the prosecution's case.
-Prosecutors painted
Casey as a monster
who m*rder*d her daughter,
lied at every turn,
and in the end, callously
tossed away her remains.
George Anthony was the
first witness on the stand.
-George testified
a handful of times.
-There is George Anthony. He
is back on the witness stand.
-The prosecution wanted to
say that there was a body
in the trunk of her car,
and George was the one
who was establishing that she
didn't want anyone near her car.
-I said, "Casey,"
I said, "I need to
get something out of your car."
Casey just brushes past
me very quickly, says,
"Dad, I'll get it.
I'll get it out of the car."
-He was the one
who told the jurors
that Casey had human
decomposition in her car.
-George and Cindy, although
witnesses in the case,
could remain in the courtroom
as survivors of the victim.
So George is in the
back of the room,
he listened to the
testimony as it came in,
then he got back up,
went back to the stand,
filled in blanks for the state.
-It struck me as odd. He
wasn't just a witness.
He was the prosecution's
key witness.
-Thank you, Mr. Anthony.
You may resume your seat.
-Did it surprise you that George
took the stand against
Casey so many times?
-No, It doesn't surprise me
that George took the stand
as many times as he did.
-You may proceed.
-Would you ever testify against
your child in any situation?
-Yes, I would testify
against my own child
if I thought my child
did something wrong.
And the only reason why I
believe that he did testify
was because of the allegations
that were made against him.
-Have you ever sexually
molested your daughter,
Casey Anthony?
-No, sir.
-It was hard for me to
believe the abuse allegation
because of every other
lie that she told us.
-If there is no abuse,
there's no explanation.
But when we talk to
the psychologists
who deal with people
who've been sexually abused
from a small age by a parent,
they describe a kind
of a mind control
that the parent has
over that child.
And they also describe
a child that results
who has the ability to go into
these compartmentalize worlds,
make them lock up the knowledge
of one world, one reality,
and move into another.
And they often do that.
They compartmentalize
to the point
where they seem like
a compulsive liar.
-Compulsive liar.
I have to admit,
that makes sense.
That makes a lot of sense.
-During the case,
Lee, the brother,
comes in one day,
says, "Hey, I got
some information,
but I don't know if
this is helpful."
-Right before the
end of the trial,
Jose had talked to
Lee and told him,
"Lee, she could go to prison
for the rest of her life."
-Lee Anthony.
-And then Lee
called him and said,
"I need to tell you about
how our pets were buried."
-Lee says, "When our
family pets would die,
Dad, George, would wrap
the puppy in a blanket,
put it in a trash bag, and
duct tape the trash bag,
and we would bury the thing."
Now we are going nuts
on the defense going,
"Of course George does
that, and of course,
this is how Caylee's found,
in a trash bag with duct tape
and wrapped in a blanket,"
the little Winnie the Pooh
or whatever that
came from the house.
So we're, like, going,
"George has something
to do with something."
Another part of George's
interesting behavior,
he conducts an affair with a
woman during this whole fiasco.
He has an affair with this
woman, Krystal Holloway.
-A woman who said
she had an affair
with Casey Anthony's father
took the stand for the defense.
-Do you know George Anthony?
-Yes.
-How do you know him?
-I met him at a tent when his
granddaughter was missing.
-Did you develop a
relationship with Mr. Anthony?
-Yes, sir, I did.
-She said to me, "I
never asked George
about what he's going through.
I just felt bad for him."
She felt bad for George,
and he just started
to unburden himself.
-And I was sitting on the floor,
and he had told
me... He had said
it was an accident that
snowballed out of control.
-And I think the jurors
probably believed that.
I think they found her
to be a credible witness.
I think her testimony
definitely brought up questions
about George and the
way that he was acting.
-Were you present in your home
when Caylee Anthony died?
-No, and when I heard that
today, it's really bad,
because if I would have known
something would've happened
to Caylee, we wouldn't
be here today.
-Based on the jury's statements,
they definitely questioned
George's involvement.
The day of Caylee's
disappearance,
they felt like his
story for that day
was a little bit too perfect.
You know, he was able
to remember the exact
color socks everyone
was wearing.
-I remember Caylee coming
out from Casey's room
dressed in a nice
little pink top,
she had her blue jeans,
little shorts on,
her white sandals,
pink socks, white sunglasses,
her hair pulled back.
-You go back and you look
at his other testimony.
He couldn't remember things
that he should have a memory of.
-What did Cindy wear that day?
-I have no idea.
I couldn't tell you.
-From the jurors' perspective,
there are two
suspects in this case.
They were both not
telling the truth
about what happened that day.
I didn't really understand
why George was trying so hard
to put his daughter
on death row.
-What was your
impression of George?
-You know, he's a former cop,
and you could see that in him.
You know, he was sort
of not as emotional
as you would expect someone to
be in a situation like that,
at least in my
dealings with him,
perhaps because
he'd been around.
You know, that was
interesting to me.
And then, of course, he
had his secrets, too.
-But I know it was 10 minutes
to 1:00 because I was watching
this Food Channel
thing that I watch.
-And it's your
testimony that both.
Casey and Caylee left
the house at 12:50?
-12:50 or shortly
thereafter. Yes, sir.
-Through the Public Records Act,
we got the cellphone records.
We were able to pinpoint
where Casey's cellphone was
pretty much all the time.
On that day when George
said she left with Caylee
to go to work and
visit the nanny,
we could see that was not true.
Our records show she was
at or near that house
that entire day until
4:11 in the afternoon
when she left and headed
toward Tony's apartment.
We have the cell locations
of where she was.
But to fill in the gaps, we
have the computer records.
At 2:51 that afternoon,
someone searches for the
term "foolproof suffocation."
That computer was started
up at 2:49 that afternoon.
We authenticated the
stuff as much as possible,
and we are certain that
our times are right.
-Do you remember the
Internet searches?
"At 2:49, whilst
Casey's cellphone
is pinging a tower
nearest the home,
the Anthonys' family
desktop computer's activated
by someone using Casey's
password-protected account.
At 2:51, someone does a search
for 'foolproof suffocation, '
clicking on several
pro-suicide websites."
-Right. Wasn't me.
I can tell you that.
Everyone had each other's
passwords because it
was the family computer.
But I didn't make
those searches.
-Do you think it's
possible your dad did that
2:51 p.m. search if he
was at work at 3:00?
-Where he worked and where
our house was located
was less than 10 minutes.
There was enough time for
him to have been home,
still made those searches,
and then left for work.
-At 3:02, we have
George using his cell
to call the house landline.
- Okay.
But where was his phone
pinging at that point?
Was it pinging at work or was
it pinging closer to the house?
-We don't know 'cause we don't
have George's cellphone records.
-That's also part
of the problem.
We don't have George's
cellphone records.
-And I was like, "Why did we
not get George's phone records?"
And I don't know if
they subpoenaed them,
but I sure would have
loved to have had them.
When did he leave
the house, you know?
Did he go around the corner
where the body was dumped?
What time? When
did he get to work?
I mean, I don't know...
I don't know why they
either didn't have them
or didn't turn them over to us,
because I don't know.
I just don't know.
-Did you subpoena
George's phone?
-I don't remember. I
mean, I know at the time,
I mean, this has been years.
I believe we subpoenaed
a number of phones,
but I don't recall whose
and what we subpoenaed.
I just don't remember.
-I was able to verify.
Yes, we did have
George Anthony's
cellphone records.
-Do those include
cell tower locations?
-No, they do not have
cell tower information.
-Would that information
have been useful to you
being able to determine
Mr. George Anthony's movement?
-Yes, if I had a
reason to even believe
that that would play
a part in this case,
which at the time I did not.
-Yeah, I mean, look,
I say it again,
I don't think George had
anything to do with it.
-Did George ever lie to you?
-Well, yeah, at
different points in time.
I mean, everybody... just
about everybody in the family
told us one thing or
another that wasn't true.
So yeah, we were lied to
throughout the investigation.
Being a liar doesn't
make somebody a m*rder*r.
-At the time, my nightmares
start to increase
based off of what
happened in court.
-Within somewhere probably
close to about a three-foot area
of the passenger
side of the car,
I did smell a pretty...
Pretty strong odor.
-Was that the odor
of a human corpse?
-Yes.
-During that 31 days,
I ran out of gas in front
of that cash checking place.
And my dad was supposed
to go pick up the car.
He said, "Don't worry about
it. Just leave it there.
Park it somewhere
where I can find it."
So I had two guys off the
road help me push it in.
And there was no smell when
I even left my car that day.
I don't know what a
dead body smells like.
But I know what rotten
garbage smells like.
I left garbage in the car.
There were three
bags and a pizza box.
I only threw away
two of the bags.
I forgot that I had
even taken the garbage
because I got so
distracted by a phone call
when I was throwing
the garbage out.
So I just closed the trunk
instinctually and left.
After the 31 days, I
know when I got home
and that car was there,
and there was a smell,
and it's something I have,
to this day, have still never
smelled and don't ever
want to smell again.
I've never smelled that
in my life even prior to.
-You're smelling her car
that smells like a dead body,
and you don't call the police?
-No, sir, I did not.
-And you don't call your
daughter to see if she's okay?
-I didn't call my
daughter at that time.
-And you don't
call your daughter
to see if Caylee's okay?
-I didn't call my daughter to
inquire about her or Caylee
at that time. I did not.
And as a detective, you know
that if you smell a
dead body in a car
that that's a
potential crime scene?
-At the time, sir, I
wasn't a detective.
I am just a father
and a grandfather.
-Jose's bringing that up
because my father would know
protocol and procedure,
how to work a scene.
Again, he didn't inquire
to where I was that
day because he knew.
He didn't inquire
to where Caylee was
because he was the only
one who knew where she was.
I'm sitting there staring
daggers at this man...
because I'm one of the only
people who knows the truth
about who and what he is.
It took so long for me
to get to that point.
So long.
And I get that's not something
that people really
get or understand,
but it's like you have
Stockholm syndrome.
He was the state of Florida's
first witness against me,
and he was a knowing
and willing participant.
He knew that his actions,
his behavior, his words
could potentially k*ll me.
-And I can't imagine being
used as a tool of the state
to try to k*ll one
of my children.
He seemed fairly
enthusiastic in that role.
When George Anthony became the
star witness for the state,
when the goal of the state
was to k*ll his daughter,
he lost me.
He lost me right then.
-George was the star witness.
And he also was the star witness
in front of the grand jury
to make the indictment
what it was.
So the real question is,
if you were telling people
behind the scenes
it was an accident,
would you testify as a
star witness in a trial
that would get your child
death for that accident?
-I have to admit,
what you just told me,
and hearing that he was the
grand jury's star witness
to try to get the death
penalty for his own kid,
I have never heard that before.
And that's...
that's shocking.
Why, if you did think
it was an accident,
would you want
the death penalty?
That doesn't make any sense.
That...
Oh, my God.
-Like, that is, like...
How would you... why would you
put yourself in the situation?
Or even, like... even flirt with
the idea that it will end up
with your daughter being, like,
you know, going to
the death penalty?
-Right, so that's the
situation we have with George.
Why did he want his daughter
to die for an accident?
-I have no idea.
Covering up his own tracks
or something, I guess.
Like, that's the
only thing that...
That's the only logical
reason I could think.
This is blowing
my mind right now.
Holy sh*t.
Do you mind if I take,
like, a five-minute break?
I need to, like,
recollect my thoughts here.
Holy sh*t.
-We are back with my exclusive
interview with George Anthony,
who's recovering from a car
crash that nearly took his life.
You look better than I expected.
- Thank you.
- How you doing?
-I'm doing good.
-A few years ago, he'd been
in a severe car accident.
-Has your daughter called you?
Has Casey reached out?
-She did reach out
to ask how I was.
- Would you like to see her?
- No, I didn't.
I'll be honest.
- I mean, honestly, I would.
I would like to just
tell her I'm sorry.
You know, that I-I forgive her.
I forgive her, I... And
that's hard for me to say.
But you know what?
I need to be forgiven
by her and my son
and other family
members or friends
that I care so much about.
Forgive me for what I've
done to all of our lives.
- It was an accident.
- What would you forgive her for?
-I'm sorry, what?
-For what she has put...
-Uh, yeah, she
asked the question.
I want to know the
answer to that.
What does he need
to be forgiven for?
I'm sorry. Can you
play that back?
-I need to be forgiven
by her and my son
and other family
members or friends
that I care so much about.
Forgive me for what I've
done to all of our lives.
-What do you want her
to forgive you for?
-I don't know, I
guess that's something
I'll have to wait
to hear from her.
-Okay.
What does he need
to be forgiven for?
What did he do?
I could still report him
for what he did to me.
There's no statute
of limitations
in the state of Florida for
what he did to me, to us.
I remember my father
said something
during the course of my case.
I don't remember if it was in an
interview or who he said it to.
I'm pretty sure it
was actually public.
But he said he used to love
the sweet smell
of Caylee's sweat.
-Casey, he said that
at Caylee's funeral.
Was it really?
Of course he did.
Of course he did.
What better way to
memorialize your granddaughter
than to tell the world that
you were abusing her, too?
I'm
gonna need a break.
I need a minute, I'm sorry.
Sorry, is the mic good still?
Okay?
- Yeah.
-Okay.
Sorry.
-So...
-You're going to
ask that question...
Not today.
-What do you think my
question was going to be?
-What happened?
It was written all
over your face.
And I'm telling you,
I'm not ready to answer.
-We talked about
showing you the footage
of the memorial that
you had never seen.
- Right.
- Are you ready to watch that?
-I don't want to do this,
but I know I need to.
-God, we're here to
remember and honor
and thank you for
a beautiful gift
named Caylee Marie Anthony.
And so, Lord, we
want to celebrate
a life, though it was short,
while the impact that she will
have for generations to come.
Lord, we pray for
George and Cindy.
-I wasn't allowed to
be at her funeral.
I was sitting in jail
under indictment.
-This wasn't something personal.
I begged my mom to have
a private, quiet funeral.
-I stand here today, proud..
To be the grandfather
of Caylee Marie Anthony,
who not only meant
the world to me,
but meant the
world to my family,
and so many of you
that never got a chance
to actually hug her,
smell her hair,
smell the sweet sweat when
she came in from outside.
- Are you f*cking kidding me?
- To hear her call me JoJo.
I missed that kiss on the cheek,
that special hug
that... I tell everyone
it's so great to get
a hug from someone.
But to get a hug
from a small child,
that gives me energy like
you couldn't imagine.
-That's not normal.
Nothing about that
is f*cking normal.
You're outright telling the
world that you're a pedophile.
Jesus Christ.
-I'm not going to say how
much I'm going to miss things
that I won't be able to do
with her, because someday
I'll be able to hold her
hand again in God's heaven.
I'll be able to take
her in wagon rides.
I'll be able to kiss her. I'll
be able to smell her again.
-What are you thinking?
-A lot more things make sense.
That's not necessarily
a good thing.
-What things make sense?
-I know what he did to me.
And that was my fear.
I have one job to keep her safe.
As a parent, that's
your most important job,
is to keep your kid safe.
As a kid who was abused...
you don't ever want to see
that happen to another kid,
especially not your own.
-If you're honest with yourself,
Casey, did you do everything
in your power to
protect your daughter?
-I thought I did.
I tried.
I didn't leave when I
should've. I should have
the moment I found
out I was pregnant.
I should have just left.
After Caylee was born,
my father was around initially.
He was never left
alone with my dad.
Not even when she was an infant.
Because I know what
I lived through.
As a kid who was abused,
that was my fear.
-That she wouldn't be safe?
-That she wouldn't be safe.
And then my parents' marriage
imploded in November of 2005.
He got caught cheating.
This time she kicked
him out of the house.
Caylee was little.
She was just
a couple of months old.
It was just us, it was just
the three girls in the house.
Her and I and the baby.
For the first time
since I was 8 years
old, 11 years,
I finally felt safe
because he wasn't there.
-What do you remember
when you watch this?
-Just being happy. Being...
feeling safe, content.
He was gone.
I wasn't worried in these
moments that I was with her.
I wasn't afraid.
But then she let him back.
I feel like so
much of her facade
was being strong,
being independent,
being able to take care
of everything herself.
I could see through the
cracks in the facade,
and there was a level
of codependency,
and fear, I'm sure,
of being alone.
I knew from that point forward
I had to get out as
soon as possible.
I could not live there
with those people anymore.
- Do you remember this?
- Of course I do.
That was my kid. That
was my best friend.
-What do you remember?
-Not wanting to be home
because both of my
parents were there.
-Hey, look!
-He had just moved back in
a little bit before this.
I was trying to work
as much as I could
and not tell very many
people where I was working,
what I was doing, how
I was making money,
because I wanted an
exit plan for Caylee
and I to get out of that house,
to get away from those people,
and to start over.
-Where are we, Casey?
-We're in the back
lot at Universal.
I worked at Universal
Studios between 2004 and 2006
as a third-party contractor
with Eastman Kodak,
and I left when our
contract expired
and another company
was coming in.
At that point, I
transitioned into
working in the
nightlife, bartending,
and I was making a
lot of side cash.
I had been telling my mom that
I was still working at Universal
since I left Universal
because I didn't want
her asking questions
about where I was
getting extra money from
and why I had it and
why it was all in cash.
I didn't want her to
know my plan to leave
until I was ready to tell
her that I was moving away.
If I told her anything, she
would have done everything
in her power to stop me,
guilted me into staying,
because I know there
was part of her
that was living vicariously,
even through my existence.
Because she wasn't
happy with her own.
You have no idea the guilt trip
she would lay on me the moment
I would make a
decision for myself,
let alone a decision
for my daughter.
No idea how hard that was.
During that time,
it's not just that I
was lying to my mom.
I also wasn't being honest
with a lot of the people
who were in my life
because I didn't want things
getting back to my mom.
So I told them that I
was still working events
at universal, or that I
was even, at that point,
working other separate events.
This is Sawgrass Apartments.
This was the place that
Zenaida Gonzalez,
or Zanny the Nanny,
as she was referred to,
was allegedly living.
Caylee was either with me
at night or with my mom.
There was no third party.
There was no other person.
I didn't trust anyone else
to watch her overnight.
The whole nanny thing started
because there were times
where I wanted to have
a night with my friends,
but I also wanted to have
my daughter there with me
because I knew my father
was going to be home.
So I told my mom, "I'm
going to drop her off
with my friend Zanny."
You know, that was kind
of how that started
when Caylee was
actually with me.
They weren't necessarily
innocent lies.
They were lies
and I was an adult
and it's the stupidest
thing, but it's...
Again, it was like all
of a sudden in my 20s,
I'm rebelling as a
parent to have freedom.
And it wasn't the right thing.
-Let's go to the day where
you tell law enforcement
about Zanny the Nanny.
Your dad told you say that?
-Told me to tell the
cops what I told my mom.
Wanted me to be the biggest
and best liar that I could be.
That's not what he said,
but that's how I see it now,
because my father knew
that if they looked at me
and that I was lying to them,
they weren't going to believe
anything that I said,
even if, at that point, I said
my father did all of this.
He knew.
-You felt that your dad had
basically kidnapped her.
-And was keeping
her from me, yes.
That whole time.
-Even though you felt
that body in your arms
and you knew that something
was terribly wrong.
-He told me she was
going to be okay.
It's what I chose to accept.
There was that little
girl inside of me
that wanted to believe
he wouldn't hurt her
the way he hurt me.
-And you didn't think
that there was any way
she could have drowned and
he found her in the pool?
- No.
- Even initially?
-No, she had no way
of getting the pool.
There was nothing for
her to have shimmied up.
To me, there's no way
of explaining that...
unless he put her in the...
Unless put her in the pool
to cover up what he did.
So if he decided
to call the police
or if I decided to
call the police...
that they would have
looked at it as a drowning
and not actually
examined her body.
I'm sure there were times where
I was incapacitated as a child,
where my body was
limp and lifeless.
That's what I think
about. I wish every day
I would have said something
to somebody at some point.
Maybe things would be different.
Probably not.
But there's always going to be
that little part
of me that wonders.
-That wonders?
-Because if she was still alive,
then where was she and
what happened from there?
Was there something
that I could have done
to have changed things?
During all this time
if she was alive,
if I didn't do what he
said he wanted me to do,
or if I talked to
my mom too much
or I said the wrong thing,
would it have
triggered something?
All of my fear
just keeps becoming
bigger and bigger...
as I knew what I lived through.
It's bad enough I had to
imagine that it happened once,
but then to imagine that it
could have kept happening.
-Did he take her
away to abuse her?
That's the darkest
question, isn't it?
-That's why all of
this is so hard.
I live with that guilt of
feeling like I failed her
and didn't keep her
safe and protect her.
I've always wanted the
truth because I've lived
so long without it.
But I don't know if I
could handle all of it.
I don't know if it
would be better to know
or just keep not knowing,
because I don't know
what the truth is.
All I know is that she's dead.
That something happened.
-I think about this
case all the time
all these years afterwards.
But, you know, so much
added up to George
hiding this body.
All I know about
incest is oftentimes,
if he's a pedophile
abusing his own daughter,
as she gets older, as Casey did,
now we got a little one.
He's more into the children.
And if he's a pedophile,
I surmise that maybe
he had abused the
little one, Caylee.
Maybe he thinks he holds
her down long enough
where she passes out, and he
can have his way with her.
Maybe that started this cover-up
of what actually happened.
I'd like to go into a
lot of detail with Casey
because she was there that day.
I'd want to go more
into that with her.
What is George's role?
I think I already have coffee.
-Do you have coffee?
Well, you have
fancy schmancy new
mugs if you want them.
I don't think we've
ever sat down in...
I know we haven't sat down and
ever talked about any of this,
like, talked this through.
No, we've never done that.
-I didn't think we needed
to until you decided
to do what we're
doing now, you know,
which I thought was
pretty admirable,
but, you know, we did
our job. It was over.
And frankly, everybody I've
ever talked to about the case
always says to me
the same thing.
"What happened in
those 30 days?"
And I said, "I don't know."
What happened those 31
days? Have you remembered?
-I was meeting up with
George when he was asking me
to meet him at the house.
He had me hook, line, and
sinker waiting for him
to tell me where to meet him.
He kept saying if I did
what he wanted me to do,
tell Cindy what he
wanted me to tell her,
because if I did what
he wanted me to do,
he had me the whole time
thinking Caylee was alive
and she was okay.
- Oh, okay.
-The entire time.
-But why would he do that?
-I've been living
with this since,
living with the same
questions, and it's my life.
- Yeah.
- And that's a hard thing
for me to reconcile.
I've spent the last
14 years, almost,
especially during this process,
having those epiphany moments
where something clicks.
Watching for the first time
George's clips from the funeral
where he's talking about missing
the smell of her sweet sweat.
-No, I know.
I've always had my eyeball
on George and the pool.
It didn't make sense to me,
no 911 call.
- Yeah.
-You know, if that's
what would have happened,
there would have
been a 911 call.
That's just my thoughts.
-The ladder wasn't on the pool,
so she couldn't have gotten in.
-So, none of that really...
It didn't...
- None of it makes sense.
-Didn't make total
sense, you know.
-Well, my thought was
that he was using that
as a way to cover up, even
then, what he had done.
-What he had done.
Whatever this accident was
that he had done to Caylee.
And I got to tell you
this for the first time.
I think there was an...
there was an accident.
George was involved,
and I don't think
the accident was in the pool.
You know, after the
case and everything,
I said George abused Caylee.
This is my opinion.
We never discussed this,
but when he abused you,
was there anything that he did
that would make you think
he did that to Caylee
to cause the accident?
- Absolutely.
Absolutely.
If I didn't want to
or if I said no...
he'd put a pillow over my face
and he'd smother
me to knock me out.
- Really?
- That happened several times.
-He'd take a pillow
into your face?
That could be the accident.
-Possible.
-He abused her.
To stop noises,
he'd grab a pillow,
and that would be the accident.
Wow.
-I actually don't know what
happened on Suburban Drive.
I think we don't
like uncertainty.
And I think that's kind of a
hard thing for us to deal with,
is we don't like cases where
we don't know what happened.
We want them to
be open and shut.
And that's not really
ever how it works.
The police never looked
at George as a suspect.
That's not something
they should have let go.
I think he definitely
covered up a lot of things.
Whether he knew it was
because Caylee was,
you know, dead or
not, I don't know.
-I would have done
any and everything
that he told me to do.
But I did protect my ab*ser.
I protected her ab*ser.
And that crushes me.
I can't let that go.
-Why was your reflex
to protect him?
-The same reason that so many
victims protect their abusers.
'Cause you still love them
and you don't want to
believe that they were doing
what they were doing because
they were trying to hurt you.
I am never going to
have full closure.
And the irony for me is I
think that's part of the reason
why people are still
so hooked on this,
is because they feel
they need closure.
It's like watching these reality
shows or watching a movie
and you feel like you
need to have this ending,
but if it's not the
ending that you want,
are you ever going to have
that sense of closure?
I didn't get the
ending that I wanted
because I didn't
get my kid back.
That's the only ending I wanted.
And that's the one thing I will
never get out of all of this.
It's been hard to cope.
Not easier... harder.
It's waking up every day and...
wishing that some days I
would wake up and look over
and she'd be right there.
Sweet little kid.
That all of this is just
the shittiest bad dream.
We all talk about all the things
that we have in a lifetime,
and I had the shortest
life with her.
It's hard to deal with.
-The quality of your voice
as you speak to me now
is completely different
than the beginning.
-I also just feel
like I'm in a state of
trying to patch up the bleeding,
just like I was
completely spliced open
and everything just came out,
everything that
I had been holding onto,
even inadvertently.
I spent my entire life
protecting our perfect,
beautiful little family.
But I failed at my one job,
which was protecting my kid,
so I'm angry...
that I'm a victim,
and that I wasn't there
to fight for my kid
in the way that I should
have been able to.
It's a hard thing to deal with.
It's a hard thing to
live with every day.
Because nothing's going
to bring her back.
Nothing.
Even if I someday get
the answers that...
I need,
it's never going to be enough.
-No.
No.
- It's never gonna be enough.
This was my childhood home.
I hate this house so much.
I feel like part of me will
always, always be trapped here.
But it's a part of
me that I try so hard
to continue to just let go.
That scared little girl.
But this is also where I
brought my little girl home.
So...
as much as I want
to hate this house,
part of me will
always love it, too,
because it was her home.
The only good thing
that's left at that house
are just the memories
that I had with her.
There's a box of ashes inside.
That has this etched
picture of Caylee on it.
And an inscription.
And I have asked several
times now for them.
And my mom won't
give them back to me.
I would like to...
take them and scatter them
and take her to all the places
that she should have been
able to go and see herself.
I wanted her to travel,
to do all the things I
never got a chance to do.
To not have her trapped
in a box on a shelf.
All of the rest... Not
worth holding onto.
It's just easier
to let it all go.
I'm definitely done here.
Can't leave this
place without crying.
Not even now.
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01x03 - What Remains
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For the first time on camera, Casey Anthony sits down to share her side of the story since her culture-defining trial and acquittal 11 years ago.
For the first time on camera, Casey Anthony sits down to share her side of the story since her culture-defining trial and acquittal 11 years ago.