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Mother, Grandmother Of Missing Girl Argue In Call From Jail
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Published: July 25, 2008
ORLANDO - The mother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl argued with her mother and said she didn't know the whereabouts of her child in a telephone call from jail released Friday.
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.
Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, complained to her daughter that she wasn't being forthcoming. The jail spokesman said the call was made July 16.
"I don't know what you're involvement is sweetheart. You're not telling me where she's at," Cindy Anthony said.
Casey Anthony replied that she doesn't know where her daughter is. Her mother also told her that her incarceration is her own fault.
"You're blaming me that you're sitting in the jail? Blame yourself for telling lies," Cindy Anthony said. "If you'd have told them the truth and not lied about everything."
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.
Casey Anthony has been charged with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.
In the call, Casey Anthony said calling her family is a waste of time and told an unidentified woman the family isn't supporting her.
"Nobody in my own family is on my side ... They just want Caylee back. That's all they're worried about right now is getting Caylee back and you know what, that's all I care about right now," she said.
A telephone message left after business hours at the office of Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, wasn't immediately returned.
Cindy Anthony called 911 on July 15. In one 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.
In a third call, Casey Anthony asks her mother for one more day. Cindy Anthony replies that she will not give her another day, that she had given her a month. It was not clear from the released tape what they are referring to.
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