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[ Casey laughs ]

Hello. Welcome to "How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

She was a 2-year-old from Orlando, Florida,

Caylee, a little girl

who her grandmother said loved green beans, "Bambi" movies,

singing and dancing.

She was raised by Casey Anthony,

a single mom who got pregnant at age 18.

The pair lived with Casey's parents, George and Cindy.

On the surface, they had a stable life full of love,

nothing out of the ordinary.

And then one day,

Caylee Anthony just seemed to vanish,

and Caylee, Casey, George, and Cindy

would all be propelled into the national spotlight.

Cindy: Casey, our whole life's turned upside down

looking for this little girl.

I know.

Trust me, if I could be out there with you,

I would be in a heartbeat.

We're going to see her little face again.

I pray to God every day that we do.

Now joining us, George and Cindy Anthony.

They are the grandparents

of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony.

When did you last see Caylee?

I last saw her on June 16th, the day after Father's Day.

What happened the day she went missing?

We actually didn't find out until July.

There were certain things that stood out in this case.

Cindy's call to 911 was definitely in the top five.

It just haunted people when they heard it.

That moment, that call, is the inciting incident of this case

that just took over the public's imagination --

"child missing," "a month ago."

If you put it in a movie, nobody'd believe it.

The whole Casey Anthony saga begins on July 15, 2008,

when Cindy and George Anthony get a notice

that their daughter's car was in an impound lot

and had been there for quite some time.

And so they went to the tow yard to pick up the car.

Fanning: The owner of the tow yard and George walked back to the car,

and the car smelled bad, really bad.

I got within 3 feet of my daughter's car,

and the worst odor

that you could possibly smell in this world,

and I've smelled that odor before.

It smelled, uh, like a decomposed body.

As I walked around the back of that car,

before I even stuck the key in it,

I did whisper to myself,

"I hope it's not my daughter and my granddaughter."

I felt that in my heart.

And when they open the back trunk, flies come out.

There were no dead bodies.

They find this garbage bag full of garbage

and other things.

Fanning: George was a former law enforcement person,

so he recognized the smell of a decomposing body,

and he was still very troubled.

He knew it couldn't be that trash.

Up until this moment, Casey Anthony had been lying

to her parents for 31 days.

Cindy: Casey had gone on an extended trip,

and her trip just kept getting extended and extended,

and I never got a chance to speak with Caylee

during that time.

Cindy had been talking with Casey on the phone repeatedly

trying to find out where Caylee was.

Fanning: She kept telling them she was in Jacksonville,

or she was at the beach, or any place but there in Orlando.

And when they realize that her car has been in an impound lot

and she hasn't been in Jacksonville and the beach,

it must have hit them like a ton of bricks.

"Oh, my God.

What has been going on for the last 31 days?"

Where is Caylee Anthony?

I started calling her friends, and I found one friend

that had just seen Casey a few hours prior.

And she took me to where Casey was at,

and when I got there, there was no Caylee.

So I started to feel like, "What's going on?"

I just started getting an eerie feeling

that something wasn't right in Casey's voice.

And that's when Cindy calls the police

for the first time and says,

"I want this girl, my daughter, arrested."

Banfield: Cindy actually called 911 three times.

The first two times were not fruitful,

but it was the third call to 911 that became famous.

It's clear that Cindy was quite upset and distraught,

as could be expected.

Who's not hysterical? Casey.

Cool as a cucumber.

Velez-Mitchell: Why didn't she call 31 days ago?

That's the key question that would haunt us

throughout the entire case,

and the 911 operator asks it right off the bat.

When the police came, Cindy was incredibly upset.

The scene in the Casey Anthony home

is out of a Tennessee Williams play.

There is turmoil in the house.

I mean, Cindy and Casey are just at each other's throats.

She's frantic. You know, she's worried sick.

She's confronting Casey trying to get the truth out of her.

George, for some reason, seemed very calm.

Really, it didn't make much sense at the time.

The initial responding officers asked some initial questions.

They notified the on-call missing persons detective,

who on that particular date was Yuri Melich.

Banfield: So, Casey had a story right away.

She told the police that she had dropped her little girl

with a babysitter.

Savage: She had believed that Zenaida Gonzalez

had essentially kidnapped Caylee

and was holding her against her will.

The babysitter's name was always Zanny.

We never really got a full description of Zanny.

I know she's got brown curly hair.

About shoulder length.

She wears it straight.

It -- curly.

It's curly, but she also wears it straight.

This is what I'm telling you. It's called a straightener.

How tall is she?

About 5'7"-ish.

She's just, like, maybe an inch or two shorter than Dad.

Banfield: So almost immediately, they took Casey over

to this Zenaida Gonzales' apartment

to find out who this mystery babysitter was.

Allen: When we went to the apartment complex

where Zanny, the nanny, reportedly lived,

we learned that that apartment

where Casey said she'd dropped Caylee off

had been vacant for months,

that no Zanny the nanny lived there.

Anytime somebody tells you a story

that doesn't really make sense, you're obviously suspicious,

but suspicious of what?

And it's Z-E-N--

Z-E-N-A-I-D-A.

People want that little girl found.

Good. The more people, the better.

Everyone should want her back.

Well, they do, Casey.

But do you think after this long,

she'd still be local?

There's a possibility.

What's your gut telling you right now?

My gut's telling me that she's okay.

Okay, and your gut tells you

that she's close or she's hiding?

She's not far.

I know in my heart she's not far.

I can feel it.

Jordan: And she takes them all through the building

and to the end of a hallway and looks at the cops and goes --

"Okay. You got me."

Cindy, are you now saying you believe

that we're going to find Caylee?

Oh, I believe we're going to find Caylee

if the investigation goes the right way.

On July 16th, 12 hours into the investigation,

the police knew one thing.

They had a woman on their hands named Casey Anthony

who claimed that her little 2-1/2-year-old daughter,

Caylee Anthony, had been abducted by the nanny.

The next step is to check out her claims

that she had a job at Universal.

Karas: She used to walk around with an I.D.

that appeared to be a Universal Studios identification,

you know, hanging on a lanyard around her neck,

and her parents, you know, thought that she worked there.

Cindy: Casey wore it all the time.

It was green shamrocks with white beads,

and then it had her original Universal I.D. on it.

And so they take her

to Universal Studios.

Allen: We walk with her up to the employee entrance and watch her.

She essentially tells the security guard

that she's an employee there.

At this point, the security guard

looks on the computer screen

and says, "I'm sorry.

We don't have an employee here by that name,"

at which point, Casey says, "Oh, no, no, no.

I work here. I just don't have my employee I.D."

She said she could take them to her office.

Jordan: And she takes them all through the building

until they finally get to the end of a hallway,

whereupon she sticks her hands in her back pockets

and spins around and puts a big smile on her face

and looks at the cops and goes --

"Okay. You got me. I don't really work here."

Mason: The three officers then took her into a small room,

closed the door, and began to question her.

Allen: At this point, Detective Melich

is a little bit more confrontational with her.

He begins pushing her a little harder.

Casey: This is the honest-to-God's truth.

Of everything that I said, I do not know where she is.

The last person that I saw her with is Zenaida.

She's the last person that I've seen my daughter with.

I don't want someone that's going to tell me

that they know that I'm lying, that's going to belittle me,

that won't listen to what I'm saying to them.

I need someone that will

take the information that I'm giving them.

Karas: That young woman, who was 5'2", 105 pounds,

she held her own

with these seasoned investigators

who, you know, know how to interrogate,

know how to get a story out of someone,

and she was steadfast with her lies.

I feel if Casey had done something

where she felt that it was an accident,

I think she would have come forward.

I don't think she'd be putting the family through all of this,

so that's why I really, truly believe

she would have cracked by now.

Profilers believed that Casey was unlike anything

that they'd ever seen.

She was just very unique, above-average intelligence.

She was creating friends, creating bosses.

Allen: Well, it became clear during that interview

that she simply wasn't going to tell us the truth,

so we decide we're going to arrest her

and charge her with child neglect.

King: When they arrested her, were you shocked, George?

Oh, absolutely. They had their mind made up.

Cindy: They had their mind made up.

They made judgment on her within two hours

of having her in custody, and that's the way it's been.

Did anyone ever question motive?

There is no motive, and they haven't found a motive.

Judge Jordan: Miss Anthony, the court would say to you,

"Where is Caylee Anthony?"

But I can't ask -- can't force you to answer that question,

but that's the question I leave with you.

Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

Good evening. Where is little Caylee Anthony,

and what does her now-jailed mother know about her fate?

Velez-Mitchell: The story broke nationally almost immediately,

because cops were desperate to find this child

that they, at that point, still believed was alive.

Where is little Caylee?

There were many photographs of her and video,

lots of video of her.

People just fell in love with this little girl.

Take a look at this little girl.

Who would want to hurt this little angel?

Cindy: I feel the more media exposure we have,

the quicker we can bring Caylee home,

and that's the whole point of all of this

is to bring Caylee home safely.

Jordan: From the very beginning,

it was like the perfect cocktail of intrigue.

Where was Caylee?

You know, America can think what they want

as long as they continue to look for my granddaughter.

Early on, a lot of the tips led to the searches,

and we did a lot of searching around the Anthony house.

We searched with aviation units.

We searched on horseback.

There came a point where the Anthonys

called in Texas Equusearch.

Karas: Texas Equusearch is an organization

of concerned citizens

who will actually parachute into areas around the country

and help law enforcement.

Female reporter: Are you working with police?

I have talked to John Allen today.

I talked to him twice yesterday,

and we are certainly working together on this,

and we're not going to quit until Caylee's found.

We're assisting in any way we can

to bring our granddaughter home.

When the case became public,

we got over 6,200 tips.

And there were more sightings of Caylee everywhere.

Literally almost every state had some sighting.

Somebody believed that they had seen Caylee

during the Macy's Day Parade.

A lot of people were calling,

people offering advice and tips and psychics.

Allen: This investigation was like spending three years

in the "Star Wars" cantina.

I mean, we met just, you know, a myriad of odd people,

and every week, something strange would happen.

And we would say to each other, "Look.

Nothing stranger than this can happen,"

and certainly, the following week,

something stranger would happen.

King: So is the suspicion that the babysitter kidnapped her?

That's not suspicion.

That's what Casey's maintained all along.

Savage: So, Casey's story wasn't exactly adding up.

Things started to develop that kind of indicated

that potentially Caylee had died.

King: A mysterious stain apparently was found in the trunk.

What might you read into that?

The decomposition smell came from something,

and the stain that you mention is forensic evidence.

I'll tell you, it's going be the forensic evidence

which is going to crack this case open.

Allen: After we arrested her for the child neglect,

we towed the car in,

and when I walked into the forensics bay

and smelled the car, it was pretty clear

that a dead body had been in the car.

Man: So you saw a stain in the trunk?

Yeah, probably about the size of a basketball,

maybe just a little bit -- not completely circular.

We had a cadaver dog come in,

and the dog alerted on the trunk of the car.

They found a hair in the trunk that the FBI said

had characteristics of having some decomposition.

The smell, a decomposing hair -- You take one piece,

and it means nothing.

When you put 1,000 pieces together,

it paints a picture.

Right now, we have a live shot, breaking news.

There in the backyard

of the home that was shared by the family,

we have learned that police are converging in the backyard.

Savage: You're always looking for windows of opportunity,

when could something have happened,

so you kind of start at ground zero.

You start with the last time that they were seen,

the last place they were seen, and that was the home.

Fanning: They found one area that looked like

someone had dug a 12-inch-wide hole about 5 inches deep

but then gave up.

We don't know at this juncture

whether they are cadaver dogs or search dogs.

The police decided to use a cadaver dog.

The dog alerted, and they started digging up the yard.

Suddenly, there was a new idea.

Was the child's dead body in the backyard?

It was a possibility.

Banfield: But they didn't find anything,

so the mystery just became more intense.

What caused that?

Savage: It is somewhat indicative

of something could have occurred there,

but that wasn't the final resting place.

We knew that we had to expand our search.

King: So you feel she is definitely alive?

I believe she was alive

when Casey handed her off to the babysitter.

At this point, I just hope to God

that no one has done anything to her.

Allen: Really didn't make sense to us

why, you know, this woman would kill her daughter.

I think once she's found,

then you can tell everybody what you know,

and you'll be released,

don't you think?

Welcome back to "How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

Caylee Anthony's disappearance was first reported to police

on July 15, 2008, but investigators on the case

soon realized no one in the family

had actually seen the little girl since June 16th.

Detectives knew their next step.

They had to figure out what her mother, Casey Anthony,

was doing for those 31 days.

Jordan: During the time that Caylee was missing, for those 31 days,

Casey Anthony was pretty much living life as normal.

Allen: She was hanging out and partying during this time.

Jordan: Casey had said she had gone on vacation

but was living kind of at a flophouse

with four or five other people her age group

that she knew from the party scene and the bars.

There has been tremendous debate

about the last day the girl was seen.

What was Casey doing?

And she says, "Dad," you know, "I'm on my way to work.

Caylee's going to Zanny's house.

I'll be working late, so we'll be staying over tonight.

We'll see you guys tomorrow."

Fanning: One of the things police uncovered,

the night that Casey said Caylee went missing,

Casey went with her boyfriend, Tony, to Blockbuster Video

and were renting a couple of movies.

There's no Caylee, but she certainly isn't acting

like someone who's bereft,

whose daughter has just died or disappeared or been kidnapped.

Allen: What we learned was Casey was telling different people

different things about where the child was.

The first Friday after Caylee was last seen,

that's Friday, June 20th, Casey was working at the club

where her new boyfriend, Tony Lazarro, worked,

and she was in charge of the shot girls.

Casey participated in the hot-body contest.

We had pictures of her dancing on top of bars with other women.

Velez-Mitchell: She is literally dirty dancing and grinding

with another woman on some kind of platform

at this nightclub

where her boyfriend works as a promoter.

Casey, with her twisted genius for lying,

somehow takes this wild partying and grinding and dirty dancing

and turns it into, "I was investigating

my daughter's disappearance on my own."

Fast-forward another 10 days or so, she gets a tattoo,

and it's Bella Vita, "good life."

When I first heard about the tattoo, I thought,

"Well, you know, that's -- that's pretty strange."

There's no evidence that Casey has ever done

any harm to her child.

Woman: Is it possible that you don't know?

I lived with -- She lived with me for three years.

I've never seen anything.

Allen: Really didn't make sense to us

why this woman would kill her daughter.

I mean, she seemed to have a pretty easy life.

Velez-Mitchell: Part of the perplexing nature of this case

is Casey Anthony did not have a criminal record,

and she had no history of abusing her child.

Goldenbock: They went into the home, and they saw,

you know, stuffed animals and every indication

that Casey was a doting mother.

Jose Baez, you're Casey's attorney.

What's your read on this case?

Well, my read on this

is that she's basically being prosecuted for a homicide

without any evidence, and the presumption of innocence

has flown out the window, and that really scares me.

Good morning. Good morning, beautiful.

I love you. Hi. I love you, too.

So once Casey is brought in and is being held in jail,

her family comes to see her.

Savage: Casey obviously knew they were being recorded,

and she was cryptic with some of the things

in which she was trying to convey.

Passwords?

Any meaning behind the passwords

that would be clues to any of this?

Yes.

I'll let you elaborate if you want to.

If not, I can move on. It's okay.

Move onto something else.

We'll cover that... by other means.

I think they -- Casey,

I think everybody wants an end to all of this.

Oh, of course. Okay?

I think once she's found,

then you can tell everybody what you know,

and you'll be released,

don't you think?

Potentially? I don't know.

These jailhouse visits that are recorded

also gave us a window into what's going on in the family.

I want to take your pain away from you,

so, you know, you can tell me anything.

I know that, Dad.

Allen: Early on, the Anthony family,

George or Cindy, one brought up

that the pool ladder wasn't where it was supposed to be

and that a gate was unlatched.

Karas: The Anthonys had a backyard pool.

It was an aboveground, round pool,

and you needed a ladder to get up and into it.

And Caylee loved the water,

so, you know, they suggested that perhaps she drowned.

Someone just said that Caylee was dead this morning,

that she drowned in the pool.

That's the newest story out there.

Surprise, surprise.

She really didn't act like she was giving it any credence,

which was surprising, given the direction

that the case ultimately took in the courtroom.

At different points in time,

the Anthonys cooperated to varying degrees.

I mean, there were times where they seemed to want to help us,

and there were times where they seemed to

want to prevent us from learning the truth.

Man: Do you believe in your heart that she's hiding something?

Mm-hmm. Oh, yes.

Is my daughter not telling the truth?

Yeah. She knows a lot more than what's going on.

When she was gone for 31 days,

didn't you think that was a little nuts?

No, not really.

I think what's nuts

is for people to speculate

on things that they don't know the whole truth.

There was tension between investigators

and the Anthony family.

One of the things that I wanted to do

was that I wanted to polygraph the family,

but they refused, which I thought was strange,

especially in light of the fact that a child is missing.

Do I think she might have got involved in something?

Possibility. I don't know.

Allen: At one point, George actually contacted us,

wanted to speak with us without anybody in his family

knowing he was coming to talk to us.

During that conversation where he essentially

seemed to pour out a lot of things to us,

he got sick. He went into the bathroom and vomited.

We need to have something to go on.

Mom, I don't have anything. I'm sorry.

I've been here a month. I've been here a month today.

Can you understand how I feel?

Savage: As things didn't add up,

all things began to point to Casey

and the way in which she was acting.

It just -- Things didn't seem right,

so she really became kind of the focal point

of the investigation.

Man: What can you tell us, Casey?

Man 2: Get away! Get away!

I don't think any of us knew what was to come.

You believe your child.

You put faith in everything, you know?

Woman: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

Karas: So, on August 21, 2008, Casey is bonded out.

Woman 2: Where is Caylee at?

She's wearing an ankle bracelet.

Casey, did you kill Caylee?

But she's allowed out of the jail

where she's been since July 16th.

[ Reporters clamoring ]

-Casey, what happened? -Back up. Back up.

It was a crazy scene.

Man: Get away! Get away!

Casey is bonded out by a character named Leonard Padilla,

who comes equipped with a cowboy hat.

Come on! Back up! Let her!

And he is a somewhat infamous bounty hunter

who is a big personality.

I believe the baby's alive.

I believe she passed it off to one of her friends,

"Watch my baby. I'll be back in a couple days."

That person, for whatever reason,

is down the road with the baby.

And his theory was, "I'm going to bail her out.

I'm going to sit her down,

and she's going to tell me the truth.

I'm going to take care of it."

I find it hard to believe

that a mother of a 3-year-old child would harm her.

Oh, come on!

Karas: So now she's out, and she's staying with her parents,

so you have to understand what's happening in the summer of 2008.

This case is really catching fire.

Nancy Grace very soon has labeled Casey Anthony "Tot Mom."

The public couldn't get enough of that.

People came from around the country

and would divert part of their vacations,

instead of going four days to Disney World and Universal,

they would take one of them to go to the Anthony residence.

God Almighty will judge Casey Anthony, not you people.

You are not without any sin.

It was off the charts.

By this time, the media presence was huge.

10 or 12 camera teams were in front of the Anthony home.

It was really something of a zoo.

Breaking news tonight, more major bombshells.

I'm a guest host on "Nancy Grace."

August 29th, I'm doing the show.

We have a producer live outside the Anthony home

where there are these massive protests going on,

and all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose.

We see the cops just swoop in

and drive right up onto the lawn.

Then they swarm the house.

Astounding breaking news outside the Orlando, Florida,

home of George and Cindy Anthony,

inside, Casey Anthony.

At least four cop cars as well as an unmarked car

showing up moments ago.

Well, we drove to the house, and, of course,

the entire family was at home, and we go into the house,

and we explain to them we're going to arrest her.

Karas: Investigators couldn't get Casey on murder,

at least not yet, but they could get her

for forging her girlfriend's signature on checks.

Casey got re-arrested.

Velez-Mitchell: Then they lead her out in handcuffs.

We thought, "Oh, my God.

What the hell? Did they find the body?"

Lance: She is being led away in what seems to be handcuffs.

The police knew exactly when the TV shows were going live,

and they would time the arrest

so that they could march her in front of all these cameras,

and it would be live.

The police knew what they were going to do tonight.

They planned it out.

They knew everybody would be here,

and they decided to make a spectacle of this event.

Should an indictment come down,

Casey will surrender herself.

She's not running from this.

She has never attempted to run away from the situation.

It's looking more and more like she's responsible

for her daughter's disappearance.

We just started to put things together

starting with the hair in the back of the trunk,

starting with the fact that, again,

we had reason to believe that Caylee was dead,

the fact that that hair showed death banding.

We were confident that we had enough evidence moving forward

that even if we had never discovered the remains of Caylee

that we had enough to actually prosecute her criminally

and obtain a conviction.

Jordan: The prosecution decided that Casey Anthony's behavior

was so off the hook

that it had to be the persona of a potential murderer,

of a woman who was so depraved

that she could kill her own child.

Fanning: On October 14th, they pulled the trigger.

They brought her in as being responsible

for the disappearance of her child,

and they charged her with homicide.

A Florida grand jury has indicted

the mother of missing toddler Caylee Anthony

on a first-degree murder charge.

There was one big issue.

Little Caylee was still missing.

King: George, why wouldn't your daughter call you

and say, "Caylee's gone"?

That's really a good question.

Cindy: From what we understand, there's been threats

to not only Caylee's well-being

but also to our family's well-being.

By? By the people that have Caylee.

So you think Caylee was taken.

Your daughter obviously knew she was taken.

For what purpose?

I'm still trying to sort that out.

On December 11th, a call goes in to 911.

My investigator came in and said they found

what looks to be a child's skull.

When I received the phone call, I remember John saying,

"You need to get down here."

The first thing that went through my mind

was that we've driven past this 100 times.

Just didn't know.

I remember just being nauseous at knowing

that literally, you were looking at the remains of a little girl.

It was a moment like very few I've ever had.

Karas: George and Cindy Anthony

had been on "Larry King" the night before.

They were actually, like, en route back to Florida

when the remains of little Caylee were found.

Cindy: They just said that a body had been found of a small child,

and they didn't know the sex or anything else.

They couldn't tell us anything.

And that was the longest flight, you know, we've ever taken.

One of the very first things that John and I talked about

was, we needed to tell Casey.

Karas: They want to set up that she kind of, you know,

sees it on her own, see how she reacts.

So they bring her into a room where the TV's on,

and it's, like, wall-to-wall coverage of the search.

You can't hear her, but you can see her,

and you can just see she's really upset.

Now, her being upset can be interpreted two ways.

She's upset because she believes, "Oh, no.

My daughter's really dead. Oh, no,"

or she's upset like, "Oh, no.

They found out where I threw her body."

The remains were found in a very low kind of wooded area.

Garavaglia: The bones were found 20 feet off the road,

under the vines, behind a rotten log,

with leaves settled on top

and silt settled on top of that --

very difficult to see.

We estimated that it was not inconsistent

with that body being placed there

in the early parts of decomposition

soon after it died.

The skull was on a hair mat

and had, clearly, duct tape still attached to it.

Karas: Actually not attached to any tissue.

There was no more tissue on the skull, but there was hair.

It was attached to the hair, and that -- the duct tape,

appeared to be in the front of the skull.

Garavaglia: So, the duct tape is three layers

that go around the lower half of the skull

and kind of enmeshed in the hair.

There were four things found along with the skull.

There was a trash bag.

There was duct tape.

There was the "Winnie the Pooh" blanket,

and there was a laundry bag,

and these items had a link

to the Anthony home.

King: How do you explain, Cindy,

the body being found so close to home?

I can't explain it.

I mean, it's not -- I can't explain it.

I don't know if anybody can right now.

Velez-Mitchell: I could not believe that they hadn't found the body.

It's the most obvious place to leave a body.

It should have been the very first place they searched.

How could they have missed it?

It doesn't make sense.

There was extensive searches done throughout that area.

Texas Equusearch even searched that same area,

and they didn't find anything.

Texas Equusearch was stymied by the fact that mid-August,

there was this huge tropical storm

that left that entire area underwater.

I was not going to take a risk

on our four-wheelers and our horses,

our ground searchers walking through water

that was a foot or two high.

Velez-Mitchell: They planned to go back, but nobody apparently went back.

What the prosecution believes is that everybody thought

that somebody else had searched that area,

because it was so obvious.

So the police kind of thought Texas Equusearch had searched,

and some of the searchers thought,

well, the police had searched.

But nobody did.

We currently are following up on some information

regarding this particular location

in which we received three tips back in August.

Nothing in this case was straight-arrow, nothing.

It was all so bizarre.

Fanning: The remains were found by Roy Kronk,

a utility worker who was out doing his rounds

in the neighborhood.

Velez-Mitchell: And it wasn't the first time

this meter reader, Roy Kronk, had tried to tell the police

he thought there was a dead body right there.

He had called cops on three different occasions --

August 11th, 12th, and 13th.

Banfield: After the third call to 911,

someone finally connected with Roy.

We had a deputy respond to this location on August 13th.

The deputy actually went out to the scene,

and when Mr. Kronk indicated that there was a bag

that he thought contained remains,

the deputy, for whatever reason,

elected not to go out and search

to see if they were actually remains.

Velez-Mitchell: He was essentially blown off.

Then Roy Kronk doesn't have anything to do

with the police, at least, and Caylee's remains

until he calls it in on December 11th.

Very strange.

The truth is that had they found the body,

a lot of theories the defense came up with

would have not existed.

They gave the defense an opening.

This was the big mistake.

Garavaglia: The manner of death is an opinion

based on available information,

including examination of the body,

information from the scene,

as well as circumstantial evidence.

Based on all of this,

the manner of death in this case is homicide.

The cause of death will be listed

as homicide by undetermined means.

This was a powder keg that exploded everything.

It looked like it was going to be an open-and-shut case.

Finding the body was very significant.

The duct tape gave the State a theory

as to how her death may have occurred.

The duct tape -- That's truly the equivalent

of a smoking gun.

Kobilinsky: There was a very huge piece of the puzzle missing,

namely what happened to the child.

How did she die?

Was it suffocation? Was it chloroform?

Garavaglia: As soon as we saw that there were things from her house,

how could this not be put back to her house?

How could it not be put back to her?

What they neglected to think about

is that other people were in the home.

It wasn't the end.

It was just the beginning of this case.

Ashton: Have you ever sexually molested

your daughter, Casey Anthony?

One of the most unbelievable trials.

Look what you've done!

We knew that this was not going to be a normal homicide trial.

The devil is dancing tonight.

You want to know what I think?

You'll see it when we hit the courtroom.

Investigators could never prove it,

but they believe Casey Anthony saw Zenaida Gonzales' name

on a piece of paper when she was at the Sawgrass Apartments.

Now, where she got the elaborate description of Zanny

and Zanny's life is unknown.

What really happened in that courtroom?

How and why did the jurors reach that unexpected verdict?

Next time, on Part 2 of "The Casey Anthony Story."

Thanks for watching.

Good night.