Please Look at This Picture - Has Anyone Seen This Missing Baby? UPDATES THROUGHOUT

[sha_lyn]

Actually I think men have selective memory when it comes to dates...most men into sports can rattle off dates better than I remember birthdays, and if something significant happened on that day - quitting in this example, I would think he would remember.

That and his phone record confirms the date of the conversation and the length of it. No way he is just confused on the date. Phone records don't lie.

 

[Robinrs]

Then why did she lie about the last time she saw her daughter? NONE of this makes sense.

 

[pepperw23]

Has anyone seen this article yet? I did not see it posted:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7043426&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

never mind, I found it. I am sorry for the double post. I guess I am just so eager for some good news.

 

[Diswhiz]

OMG! That lawyer Jose Baez. Did you people see him on Nancy Grace? Wouldn't have him defend me or my family - even if pro bono.

 

[LovinPooh]

Hopefully this lead plays out.
It just boggles my mind that the mom wont disclose any info, yet she wants to get out and search for the child.
What is wrong with people???

Little Caylee is in my prayers

 

[D L and K's Mom]

I pray that this has a happy ending and that Mom sold her or gave her away or someone took her from Mom. Isn't that sad that any of those senerios would ever be a happy ending. This family is CRAZY!! God bless that little girl. It does not look good.

 

[sorcerormickey]

OMG! That lawyer Jose Baez. Did you people see him on Nancy Grace? Wouldn't have him defend me or my family - even if pro bono.

We were just watching the rerun at 10 - what a tool!!! He seems like a weasel and gives lawyers a bad name. Did he ever actually answer any questions point blank? And saying everything in the police report is a lie? And recanting what he said about his client telling the truth if she got immunity??? He seems like the perfect lawyer for this lying family!!

I liked watching him squirm tho.

 

[Diswhiz]

We were just watching the rerun at 10 - what a tool!!! He seems like a weasel and gives lawyers a bad name. Did he ever actually answer any questions point blank? And saying everything in the police report is a lie? And recanting what he said about his client telling the truth if she got immunity??? He seems like the perfect lawyer for this lying family!!

I liked watching him squirm tho.

No - he never did answer any questions point blank! Don't know what law firm he's associated with but they better take a second look at that character!

 

[EMom]

The mom is not only nutty as a fruitcake, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. If you're going to claim your child is off with some "babysitter," why use a rather unusual name like Zenaida? Sure, that's followed up with Fernandez-Gonzalez or something like that, which is common enough, but if she had any sense she would have come up with something vague like Mary Flores, Juanita Gomez or Maria Sanchez. There must be scads of those. Nope.....Zenaida. So they find someone by that name (how many can there be?) and that person is cleared in no time flat.

If anyone really HAD Caylee, don't you think they'd have come forward by now and said, "I had no idea what was really going on when that nutcase mother handed her over to me! Here she is, safe and sound!" And if by some freakish chance someone "bought" the child.....They'd know they were in a crack now and have probably found a way to hand the child over since only an idiot would think they could continue to keep a child whose face is plastered all over the news every day.

I am sorry to say that this probably has a much simpler, but terribly sadder solution. There is only one logical reason the mother cannot or will not produce Caylee.

 

[jobhunter]

The grandmother is a creepy, manipulative, passive-aggressive FUH-REAK. No wonder her daughter feels as though she doesn't have to cooperate to find her own daughter.

I'd like spend an hour in an interrogation room, just me, the mom and that shovel.

 

[LovinPooh]

The detective said he smelled decompisition in the car.. what else could that smell be?
My heart breaks for this little girl. I think they should beat the mother until she says something.

 

[LovinPooh]

We posted at the same time with the same idea lol. Now why hasnt someone thought of doing that already?

 

[allicat]

DD tells me I am obsessed with this case. Im not-I just want answers and feel as though the grandmother and mother are nuts!

I cant believe that even after a trained detetctive went on the stand to say he smelled decomposition in the car, the grandmother still is trying to claim its the smell of old pizza. This detective knows what decomposition smells like and it sure doesnt smell like rotting food.And Caseys father is a former homicide investigtor-deep down, he has to know exactly whats going on!!
The grandmother is making a mockery of the police at this point. Time for the police to take off the kid gloves and get tough with this loud mouth grandmother and the daughter.
As far as the daughter-Noone requests immunity to talk unless they are guilty of something!

 

[Feralpeg]

In the Orlando area, this case is on the news non-stop. I really think the grandmother is desperate. In her heart, she knows that her daughter is guilty of doing something horrible to Caylee, but she can't stand the thought of losing them both. She is trying to protect her daughter the only way she knows how. Sadly, she will most likely loose them both.

I have no idea what I would do in such a situation. I can't see myself ever turning my back on my daughter, no matter what she did. If I truly thought that my granddaughter was alive, I'd like to think I'd do anything to get her back.

Personally, I think the daughter has had mental issues for a long time. That is why she couldn't hold down a job. That is why she lies about everything. That is why she steals from her friends and family. Her parents did not want to accept that she needed help. They stuck their heads in the sand instead of getting her professional help. Sadly, Caylee most likely paid the ultimate price for her mother's mental issues and her grandparents lack of backbone. We've seen this time and again. When parents of serial killers are interviewed, most of the time they reveal that their kids had many issues. They simple didn't want to accept it.

This entire thing is a huge tragedy.

 

[disney kid at heart]

In the Orlando area, this case is on the news non-stop. I really think the grandmother is desperate. In her heart, she knows that her daughter is guilty of doing something horrible to Caylee, but she can't stand the thought of losing them both. She is trying to protect her daughter the only way she knows how. Sadly, she will most likely loose them both.

I have no idea what I would do in such a situation. I can't see myself ever turning my back on my daughter, no matter what she did. If I truly thought that my granddaughter was alive, I'd like to think I'd do anything to get her back.

Personally, I think the daughter has had mental issues for a long time. That is why she couldn't hold down a job. That is why she lies about everything. That is why she steals from her friends and family. Her parents did not want to accept that she needed help. They stuck their heads in the sand instead of getting her professional help. Sadly, Caylee most likely paid the ultimate price for her mother's mental issues and her grandparents lack of backbone. We've seen this time and again. When parents of serial killers are interviewed, most of the time they reveal that their kids had many issues. They simple didn't want to accept it.

This entire thing is a huge tragedy.

The only one that I feel sorry for is little Caylee. If any one of my children did anything they knew was wrong I would still love them but I would never stand by and enable them. If this were my grand-daughter that I raised the 1st 5yrs of her life and my daughter did this Iwould not stand by her. This monster needs to be locked up. I did not call her Caylees mother because a mother would not be saying nothing regarding Caylee and what she knows. What is wrong with people today. This didn't go on years ago. Every day somewhere there is someone that is abusing or murdering their children. It just makes me sick. My prayers go out to Caylee. Not the monster and the grandmother.

 

[DevilDuckie]

If anyone really HAD Caylee, don't you think they'd have come forward by now and said, "I had no idea what was really going on when that nutcase mother handed her over to me! Here she is, safe and sound!" And if by some freakish chance someone "bought" the child.....They'd know they were in a crack now and have probably found a way to hand the child over since only an idiot would think they could continue to keep a child whose face is plastered all over the news every day.

I don't know. I think If you wanted a baby badly enough to buy one or if you were worried enough about a particular child to steal her... well, such a person would likely be afraid to give her to the authorities and a)lose her and b) risk her being given back to this family.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I am saying a prayer for that poor baby. What a horrible thing.

 

[lillygator]

Tip Claims New Slab Of Concrete Poured Behind Anthony Family Home

POSTED: 10:48 am EDT July 24, 2008
UPDATED: 12:59 pm EDT July 24, 2008


ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The Anthony family Thursday would neither confirm nor deny a tip that Eyewitness News received saying a new concrete slab was poured in their backyard over the July 4th weekend. That would be just days before the family called deputies about the missing girl, and nearly a month after her mother says she last saw the girl.


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The source tells Eyewitness News that special cadaver dogs will have to be called in to sniff the slab. The family says they have told deputies about all the changes they've made to their house recently and that investigators cleared the home.

Investigators already searched the back yard at the home of Casey Anthony's parents last Friday, combing through the yard, digging through bushes and bringing in dogs, but this tip could be a potentially major development.

"We do yard work around our house all the time and our yard has been completely looked at. I feel very confident. The sheriff's office knows everything that we've done in that yard over the last year. We've disclosed everything. If they had any concerns, I would think they would have followed up on it already," Cindy Anthony told Eyewitness News on Thursday morning.

Eyewitness News is working to get more details about the tip from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.


Attorney Makes Accusations Against Sheriff's Office

Fireworks were flying Wednesday night in the case of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. Her mother's attorney, Jose Baez, made startling accusations against the Orange County Sheriff's Office while appearing on CNN's Nancy Grace show.

Baez said his client, Casey Anthony, is keeping her head up, but was bothered by the high bond that her family has to come up with to get her out of jail, where she has been held for a full week. Detectives, though, say Casey and her attorney are slowing their investigation, something her attorney denies.

"The confusion comes from everyone's misunderstanding about attorney-client privilege and about what I'm willing to do," said Baez.

In fact, he accused Orange County Deputy Carlos Padilla of lying about their communication.

"So Padilla is completely lying when he says you have not returned his phone calls?" Baez was asked.

"100%, 100%," he said.

In his strongest words yet about investigators searching for Caylee, Baez said he simply wouldn't allow a free-form grilling of his client by detectives. The statement was made after his TV appearance Wednesday night, during which host Nancy Grace said investigators had called in and tried to set up a meeting with Baez.

"I will be the go-between and I will help them in anything they need. If they want to sit there and interrogate her, that's just not going to happen," said Baez.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office has repeatedly said Casey Anthony holds the key to the case and she has not been as cooperative as they would like. They said Baez's comments on TV were ridiculous.

 

[lillygator]

The family of an Orlando toddler missing for more than a month won't answer questions about reports that a new concrete slab was poured in the grandparents' backyard over July 4 weekend, shortly before they reported the child missing.

Caylee Marie Anthony's grandmother would neither confirm nor deny the tip about the fresh concrete that was phoned in to local WFTV Eyewitness News in Orlando. Orange County Sheriff's detectives said they didn't know anything about the reported addition to the property, which they searched last week with cadaver dogs. The toddler was reported missing last week.

"We do yard work around our house all the time and our yard has been completely looked at," Cindy Anthony told WFTV Thursday morning. "I feel very confident. The sheriff's office knows everything that we've done in that yard over the last year. We've disclosed everything. If they had any concerns, I would think they would have followed up on it already."

Orange County, Fla., sheriff's detectives told FOX News they weren't aware of a recently-poured block of concrete.

Also Thursday, Cindy Anthony said there have been two reported sightings of 2-year-old Caylee in Georgia and she believes her grandmother is with someone heading to Charlotte, N.C.

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Search for Missing Caylee "We know where she's at," Cindy Anthony told FOX News Thursday before pleading with the person she believes has the child to turn back. "Please don't take her further into the mountains. It looks like she's headed northeast in Georgia close to the North Carolina border. ... This is all very encouraging right now."

Her plea came after her husband, George Anthony, asked the public in an audio message for help in finding their granddaughter before her third birthday. She's been missing since June 9.

In the recording, broadcast Wednesday and arranged by the Never Lose Hope Foundation, George Anthony tells listeners that the reward for information leading to Caylee's whereabouts is now $225,000 — a $100,000 increase thanks to local businessman Peter Benevides, according to MyFOX Orlando.

He describes the little girl as being 3 feet tall with big, hazel eyes and brown hair.

"She could be anywhere," he says. "Please help me and my family bring her home for her third birthday."

Click here to listen to the recording.

Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Marie Anthony, remained jailed in Orange County, Fla., Thursday. Earlier this week a judge set her bond at $500,000, 10 percent of which her family is trying to raise for her release.

Police haven't named a suspect in the child's disappearance, but have called Casey Anthony a "person of interest," after saying they detected the odor of human decomposition and found dirt and strands of hair similar to Caylee's in the trunk of a car driven by Casey Anthony.

Cadaver dogs searched the grandparents' property last week after a neighbor told them Casey Anthony borrowed a shovel around the time her small daughter was last seen. Casey and Caylee were living with George and Cindy Anthony, reportedly until the time the toddler vanished.

Click here for photos.

Prosecutors have said the case could be turning into a homicide investigation; defense lawyers have conceded that there is enough circumstantial evidence to point to a possible killing, but there isn't enough to charge Casey Anthony with a crime.

On Wednesday, Cindy Anthony disputed investigators' claims about detecting the scent of human decomposition, suggesting instead that it was the smell of old food or garbage they'd picked up instead.

"Do me a favor," she said. "Put a little piece of pizza or any piece of garbage in your car today and leave it shut up for 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 days in this heat and then come back to me in 19 days and tell me what it smells like."

Cindy Anthony discounted the decomposition testimony after she received a tip that a child matching Caylee's description had been seen at the Orlando International Airport boarding a flight to Atlanta.

Cindy Anthony said the tip was from a woman who lives in Orlando and was left on her voicemail. The grandmother said she called the woman back and they talked.

The tip was even more credible because the person reported that the little girl pronounced her last name the same way Caylee does, Casey Anthony's defense attorney Jose Baez told FOX News.

The caller claimed to have seen Caylee board the flight with an older woman. When she talked to the woman and child, the youngster apparently said her name was Caylee "Antony," pronouncing it without the "h" the way the missing child's grandparents say she does.

The caller was to meet with Orange County Sheriff's detectives to produce a composite sketch of the woman seen with the girl, according to Cindy Anthony.

Click here for photos of the bond hearing from MyFOXOrlando.com.

Casey Anthony has been in prison since last week, when she finally reported her toddler daughter missing at her parents' urging. She was arrested on charges of child endangerment, making false officials statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.

Detectives have said that almost nothing Casey Anthony has told them about her child's disappearance has checked out to be true. They haven't even been able to get information about the child's father, who Anthony has said is dead, Orange County Det. Yuri Melich testified at her bond hearing on Tuesday.

Cindy Anthony has reportedly said little about Caylee's dad, other than he was never married to Casey Anthony, had no involvement in Caylee's life and died a few years ago in a traffic accident — which the grandmother said she learned about in a local obituary, according to MyFOX Orlando.

Her attorney denies that his client has been lying to police and says she's been cooperating. He and her family want her released so she can help in the search for the girl.

Baez told FOX News on Thursday that he has not found or seen any evidence of substance abuse by Casey Anthony and knows of no history of mental health problems.

Cindy Anthony declined to answer questions about whether her daughter was a "habitual liar," as her friends have claimed, and said it doesn't concern her that police suspect Casey might have done something to her granddaughter.

"My focus is on finding Caylee," the weeping grandmother told FOX News. "Everyone believes she's alive."

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

WTH---

Let me make sure I'm reading this right. A new slab of concrete was poured in the grandparents backyard just days before they reported her missing???

Didn't they bring the dogs into the backyard before? Wouldn't the dog have picked up on something while they were there?

I'm thinking the grandparents need to be arrested too............seriously. Why aren't they arrested for withholding information? If they aren't acting like someone who's holding something back I don't know who is.