Anthony : I needed someone to watch my daughter for a very short period of time. Mitnik : Is that, according to you, the only time that this person babysat for you? Mitnik continued to question Anthony regarding her relationship with the woman she met at Universal Orlando, the Orlando Police investigation surrounding Zenaida Gonzalez, the Sawgrass apartments, working at Universal Orlando and conversations she had with her mother, Cindy Anthony, while she was in jail.
Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. After Caylee disappeared in , Anthony told investigators a baby sitter named Zenaida Gonzalez had kidnapped her. The Kissimmee woman with the same name has sued Anthony, claiming her reputation has been ruined. Anthony said neither the baby sitter nor the woman suing her for defamation did actually kidnap Caylee. During the deposition, Anthony admitted she made up the story about dropping her daughter Caylee off with the fictional babysitter at the Sawgrass apartments in Orlando, Florida, the same address as the woman suing her.
And she admitted to lying to the police about it. But when Gonzalez' lawyer Keith Mitnik pressed and asked what happened to Caylee and whether she knew her child was alive or dead at the time she claimed to have dropped her off with the fictional babysitter, Anthony threatened to walk out. A transcript of the two hour deposition was filed in federal court on Tuesday. Mitnik expressed skepticism of Anthony's claim that the nanny was a real person.
Victim: Caylee Marie Anthony went missing in June and was found in a wooded area near her grandparents house six months later.
The deposition was part of the ongoing legal wrangling surrounding Anthony's Chapter 7 bankruptcy. At the crux of the suit are comments Anthony made to her mother, Cindy, during a jailhouse visit. Anthony allegedly said she hadn't ruled out Gonzalez as a suspect, information her mother relayed to reporters. Anthony said she didn't authorize her parents to represent her in the media: 'I had zero control over that.
I was in jail, Mr. I had no control over anything. As the deposition neared its end, Anthony emphatically said she never blamed the woman suing her for Caylee's disappearance.
So let's get that straight right here and now. You can ask a hundred more ridiculous questions. I'm not going to answer them,' she said. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Jeff Hopkins , according to Casey Anthony, was once her boyfriend and he had a son named Zachary who was the same age as Caylee's. The kids often played together. Hopkins supposedly was wealthy, worked at Nickelodeon, had moved to North Carolina and then back to Florida.
Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother, testified in court that she found a picture of a man and a boy on her daughter's cellphone identified as Hopkins and filed under "boyfriend. Casey Anthony, 25, also told her mother about Hopkins' mom, a woman supposedly named Jules who had cancer.
Cindy Anthony even baked a cake for a Christmas season meeting with Hopkins and his mother, but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute. There was a real Jeff Hopkins but, he told the court, he only attended middle school with Casey Anthony and had run into her in a bar once. Eric Baker was another person in Casey Anthony's murky life story. She claimed to her mother that Baker was Caylee's father, although no one in the Anthony family ever met him.
Cindy Anthony told the court that her daughter claimed that Baker was married and had another child, meaning Caylee had a half-brother. That was a turning point for me. This has been happening more and more in the past 10 years, but for me that was the first time that I had to deal with it in society, that sometimes the truth doesn't matter and if you say it loud enough and often enough, people get confused and start believing you.
As a medical examiner, we're expected to do a few things: identify the body We don't look at just what the autopsy or just what the body shows we look at the scene, we look at the circumstances, we look at what's going on preceding the death. And in this case, we have a child that is not reported missing. When the child is reported missing by the grandmother, there is no explanation that's credible of what happened to that child. The body has clearly, clearly been hidden.
It has been put in two plastic bags, then put in a canvas bag and then thrown behind a rotting log a couple of blocks from her house. And then we have the duct tape that's still present on the face. Those three things together clearly made this a homicide. It's not changed in my mind.
It's not changed in the police's mind. It's not changed in the prosecutor's mind. There is absolutely no proof this is an accidental death. Sometimes I think science took a backseat on the truth with the Caylee Anthony case. The Detective: 'She never seemed to have any remorse'. I supervised the investigation into the death of Caylee Anthony. Detective Yuri Melich's initial beliefs were that, because there was a lot of consternation between Cindy and Casey, that Caylee was probably being hidden somewhere from her grandparents.
But we only believed that for a real short period of time. Once we towed Casey's car to the forensics bay -- it clearly smelled of a dead body -- and we listened to the tape, at that point, it seemed very unlikely that we were looking for a live child. Having dealt with parents who have lost children, or parents with missing children, Casey Anthony was clearly different. When Detective Melich was doing the arrest paper, I sat with her while he was filling out the paperwork.
And essentially, we talked about her life -- I would say the majority of the conversation was about her wishes to be a personal trainer. Normally, when a parent is missing a child, they're pretty frantic and it's all about the child.
This conversation was all about Casey. You know, in any interrogation, you try to find what motivates a person to tell the truth, or you try to give them a reason to tell the truth, and I don't know that anything we would have done with her would have made a difference. I mean, some people, you may appeal to their sense of guilt or remorse. And that certainly wasn't going to motivate her because she's never, at least at any time that I have ever seen her, seemed to have any remorse at all.
So, I don't know -- I am not really sure how we would have approached it with her, that would have motivated her to tell the truth. The Defense: 'I don't think it's true'. Cheney Mason, senior counsel for the defense of Casey Anthony. I can envision exactly what she looked like at first. She did not look like any kind of monster. She looked like a scared little young girl -- a young woman I should say, but at my age, she's a girl.
Casey was tiny. Her wrists were about as small as my two fingers. She was very polite and very respectful. There wasn't anything smart aleck-y about her. No assumptions or anything. I, of course, did not absolutely know, but my intuitive feelings were that she was not guilty of doing it. My belief is that Casey's primary focus of intelligence shut down in disbelief that her child was missing or gone, and just fabricated whatever.
If you saw the photographs, videos, history, of Casey and Caylee you wouldn't find a more attentive, closer, loving relationship than that. So, how do you take that loving relationship and this great motherly care and, all of a sudden, change that into some monstrous killing?
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