Caylee's Grandparents Expect No Charges

(CBS/AP)  The grandparents of Caylee Anthony, the 3-year-old Florida girl found dead last week after being missing since June, do not expect to be charged by authorities despite having several search warrants executed at their home, the family's lawyer said Monday.

Casey Anthony, the couple's 22-year-old daughter and Caylee's mother, faces first-degree murder charges. Police searched the Anthony's home Saturday for the third time since the investigation into the toddler's disappearance began, but defense attorney Brad Conway said he's been told by the state attorney and the Orange County Sheriff's office that no charges against Cindy and George Anthony are planned.

"They have done absolutely nothing wrong. The Anthony's cooperated fully from the beginning. In fact, they gave evidence before any warrants were ever issued or signed by a judge," Conway said on CBS' The Early Show.

Cindy and George Anthony also have not had any recent contact with Casey because of privacy concerns, Conway said.

"Every conversation they have with her is taped or videotaped and immediately released in the media the next day," he said.

Casey Anthony first reported her daughter missing in July, even though she went missing in June. Anthony claimed the little girl had been kidnapped by her babysitter, but police quickly began poking holes in her story.

Skeletal remains stumbled upon by a utility worker earlier this month were identified as Caylee Friday, though they don't reveal any clues about how she was killed, according to a medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

It took authorities several days to analyze the remains, and some tests are still being completed. Some of the bones were as small as a pebble and had been scattered, and the fragments were hard to find by excavators who searched on their hands and knees, authorities said. The bone fragments did not reveal any trauma before death, Garavaglia said, but exactly what happened to the girl remains a mystery.

"I think there's been an open wound in the community. And I believe we can start putting some closure to those open wounds," said Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary.

The case has captivated the community where the little girl's family lived, and Caylee has been a staple on national news as her grandparents pleaded for tips, promising that the girl was still alive.

Caylee's grandmother first called authorities in July to say she hadn't seen the girl for a month and her daughter's car smelled like death.

Police immediately interviewed Anthony and soon said everything she told them about her daughter's whereabouts was false. The baby sitter was nonexistent and the apartment where Anthony said she had last seen Caylee had been empty for months. Anthony also lied about where she worked, they said.

Other troubling details emerged: Photos surfaced of Anthony partying after her daughter went missing. Friends said she was a habitual liar, but also a good mother.

Last month, the Orange County State Attorney turned over almost 800 pages of documents showing someone used the Anthonys' home computer to do Internet searches for terms like "neck breaking" and "household weapons."

In mid-March, someone searched Google and Wikipedia for peroxide, shovels, acetone, alcohol and chloroform. Traces of chloroform, which is used to induce unconsciousness and a component of human decomposition, were found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car during forensic testing, the documents say.

[smurfcrusher]

I just saw a video of Casey''s ex fiancee speaking with Nancy Grace.

Seems that Casey was resentful of Caylee, and accused her fiancee of loving Caylee more than herself.

Jealousy is a strong motive for murder. You should have seen the video, this guy is a great man and deserves far better than Casey. He is clearly a kind and decent person, quite a foil for Casey''s lies, careless attitude, and phony excuses.

[bbsis1980]

Casey never reported her daughter missing. Her mother called the cops because she hadn''t seen or heard from Casey or Caylee in a month and her car smelled like a dead body. You need to fix that in your report. The phyco probably would have never reported it if her mother hadn''t of done so.

[eggy1620]

ccdsswrkr08, some religious fundamentalists claim that Darwin tried to kill God. I claim that God killed Darwinism with the human urge to help the weakest among us. That is why genes like the Anthonys%u2019 proliferate.

[ccdsswrkr08]

What happened to ethics? Or innocent until proven guilty?


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Posted by jennmarie620 at 12:25 PM : Dec 23, 2008


I wanna know what happened to darwinism. when people like Casey Anthony keep having, and sometimes raising children, the gene pool just goes down the toilet. That''s why our country is in the crapper, people who shouldn''t be breeding are the only ones who seem to be breeding.

[rrozsa-2009]

Eggy1620 -- I agree, Cindy was very short-sighted in not allowing Casey to at least surrender the baby for adoption, unless she was willing to raise the child herself. Neither a baby, nor a pet, should ever be used as a means to teach responsibility to your own immature kid, no matter what age.

[jennmarie620]

""Every conversation they have with her is taped or videotaped and immediately released in the media the next day," he said."

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And this is the problem with both our justice system and our news media. NOTHING about any unsolved cases should be released to the media! Not only does the information taint jury pools - but what if the preliminary information was inaccurate or flat out false? Not to mention the fact that there are privacy issues to having all conversations and corredspondence taped and recorded and then sent out for millions of (untrained) people to look at and scrutinize.

I don''t pretend to know who might have killed this little girl - but whoever it was deserves to be tried in a jury of their peers, convicted, and sentenced for their crime. Any information release prior to a trial is a huge miscarriage of justice.

What happened to ethics? Or innocent until proven guilty?

[love4all2]

peetre
the grandparents want to believe thier daughter. they know she did it and if you listen to the 911 calls the mother came right out and said there was someone in her home that needs to be arrested.. i think they have helped as much as they could.

[peetrerb]

I agree the the grandparents should be charged with hindering an investigation, at the least.

[obeylaw]

And we can all spell and use proper english!

Most of you well never have to worry about a job. Youare so smart and seam tp know every thing, I am sure you can be a COP. they think they know everything too.


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Posted by hitoyou11 at 01:25 PM : Dec 22, 2008

[rrozsa-2009]

I expect the prosecution to work out a deal with Casey -- life in prison if she will confess and tell the whole story, otherwise they threaten to go for the death penalty. That''s the only thing that MIGHT get Casey to spill her guts.