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July 22, Casey is declared a 'person of interest' at a bond hearing. The hearing introduces evidence that a cadaver dog had zeroed in on the odor of human decomposition in the car trunk and the Anthonys' backyard, as well as Cindy's admission that they had all seen Caylee after June 9. The reversal comes a day after Casey's arrest for allegedly stealing and cashing checks from a friend, with the angry crowds demonstrating outside the Anthonys' home contributing to the decision.

What can I say? Anthony will again be released after other parties combine to post the bond on September 5, although she will return to jail by the end of the month. The unsealed indictment also charges her with aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of providing false information to law enforcement. In response, Casey's lawyer, Jose Baez, says his client's actions will become clearer at trial: "I sincerely believe when we have finally spoken, everyone, and I mean everyone, will sit back and say, now I understand, that explains it.

October 24, Forensic reports from an examination of Casey's car are released. The reports note that a hair strand discovered in the trunk is "microscopically similar" to those found on Caylee's brush and showed "characteristics of apparent decomposition.

The bones are found in a bag in a wooded area less than a half-mile from the Anthonys' home by utility worker Ray Kronk. It is later revealed that Kronk had sought to convince police to search the area back in the summer. The Orange County chief medical examiner reports that the bones showed no evidence of trauma and that Caylee's death is being ruled a "homicide of undetermined means.

George is reported to be "despondent and possibly under the influence of medication and alcohol" when he is located at a hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, along with a five-page suicide note. April 13, Prosecutors announce their intention to pursue the death penalty. Although earlier court papers indicated that the death penalty would not be in play, the new notice of intent cites "sufficient aggravating circumstances" to justify its imposition. The trial begins with the prosecution's opening salvo of Casey being a party girl with no use for a young daughter, as evidenced by the month spent shopping and drinking during Caylee's absence.

Those remarks are soon eclipsed by Baez's stunning opening statement which asserts that Caylee drowned in the family swimming pool and that George sought to cover up the accidental death. The lead defense lawyer also alleges that George had molested Casey, thereby igniting her habit of lying to cover up the pain and that Kronk, the utility worker, had found Caylee's body and planted it in the woods.

The child was supposedly last seen on June 16, ; she was first reported missing, by Casey Anthony's mother, on July A day later, Casey Anthony was arrested on charges of child neglect. She told police that Caylee had disappeared with a baby sitter. A utility worker working in a wooded area near the Anthony home on Dec. Experts would testify that air samples indicated that decaying human remains had been present in Casey Anthony's trunk.

In the end, prosecutors proved Casey Anthony was a liar, but convinced the jury of little else. The government failed to establish how Caylee died, and they couldn't find her mother's DNA on the duct tape they said was used to suffocate her. After a trial of a month and a half, the jury took less than 11 hours to find Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse. Still, the Florida Department of Children and Families concluded that Anthony was responsible for her daughter's death because her "actions or the lack of actions She was convicted of four counts of lying to police though two counts were later dropped , and served about three years in prison while awaiting trial.

A thousand people were there to see her released. She admits that she lied to police: about being employed at Universal Studios; about leaving Caylee with a baby-sitter; about telling two people, both of them imaginary, that Caylee was missing; about receiving a phone call from Caylee the day before she was reported missing. Because cops believe other cops. Cops tend to victimize the victims.

I understand now I see why I was treated the way I was even had I been completely truthful. She added: "Cops lie to people every day. But the Casey Anthony case involved many other players. Ten years later, we spoke to some of those who were involved, to get their thoughts on how it played out and their perspective on why it struck such a chord with the public.

Here's what they had to say:. These statements have been edited for length and clarity. The Judge: 'What really happened? I thought the state had proved its case.

I thought, while they may have had some flaws in their case, that there was a high probability that Casey would be found guilty of some form of homicide, and that did not occur.

A number of jurors said the reason that they came back with "not guilty" was because the state could not prove how Caylee died. The defense threw out a lot of theories. They threw out that she drowned. They tried to build on the inference that the gate was open, and that the ladder was down and that she was known to go out of the door and go up to the pool because she liked water. I mean, there was no evidence that that happened.

Those were inferences. But they were logical inferences that they were permitted based upon those slim factors to argue Justice is always served in a case where the facts are litigated before a jury, the jury looks at the law through their lens and they render a decision. People may not agree with that decision, but when a case goes through the process that we have all agreed to live by, then justice is served. Here we are, 10 years away from her death, and people still think about it.

And there's one question that is on everyone's mind: What really happened? Until that question is answered, there will always be someone searching and someone wondering what that answer is. The Medical Examiner: 'Science took a backseat on the truth'. Jan Garavaglia, retired chief medical officer for Orange and Osceola counties.

Looking back 10 years, what I was most appalled with was this lack of the truth and the lack of substantiated information. You could just say lies and not back it up by any kind of evidence and it was allowed.

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.