911 call: Car smelled like 'dead body'
MIAMI (AP) - July 25, 2008 The mother, Casey Anthony, 22, is being held on $500,000 bond
after investigators said she lied to them and did not report
daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing for more than a month.
Prosecutors said in court earlier this week that Casey Anthony
is also a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a
homicide investigation, though she has not been charged. Sheriff's
deputies testified that her car smelled of decomposition and a
cadaver-trained German shepherd noted a smell of human remains
there.
Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother and Caylee's grandmother, called
911 twice on July 15. In the first call, she asked police to arrest
Casey Anthony for stealing a car and money.
She told a dispatcher that she had just found Casey, who had
been missing for a month, as well as the car she was driving, which
had been towed. She also expressed concern that her granddaughter
was not with Casey.
She called 911 again about an hour later, crying, after she said
Casey Anthony finally told her Caylee had been missing for a month.
"There's something wrong," Cindy Anthony told the dispatcher.
"I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been
a dead body in the damn car."
When Cindy Anthony made her daughter talk to the dispatcher,
Casey Anthony said the toddler had been taken by a baby sitter who
police now believe may not exist.
Casey Anthony said Caylee had been missing for 31 days, and the
dispatcher asked why she hadn't called sooner.
"I've been looking for her and have gone through other
resources to try to find her, which was stupid," Casey Anthony
responded.
Casey Anthony has been charged only with child neglect, making
false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.
But Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ordered her held on an
unusually high bond Tuesday after hearing the evidence of possible
human decomposition found in her yard and car.
Strickland said she offered investigators no useful information
and questioned the truthfulness of the information she did provide.
Phone messages and an e-mail seeking comment were left Thursday
with Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez.
He asked to have her bond lowered to $10,000, saying she had a
right to freedom while facing lesser charges. He said there was
circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide but it hadn't left
authorities confident enough to charge her with anything more
serious.
Cindy Anthony said earlier this week that Casey knows who has
Caylee but doesn't know where she is. A message seeking comment was
left on Cindy Anthony's voicemail.
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