[CaseyAnthony] ARTICLE: Padilla, Bodyguards Tell All In Newly Released Interviews
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Padilla, Bodyguards Tell All In Newly Released Interviews
Posted: 9:19 am EDT September 4, 2009Updated: 7:01 pm EDT September 4, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. --
They're the interviews Casey Anthony's defense team did not want you to
hear. Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his band of bodyguards were with Casey
24 hours a day after she bonded out of jail the first time and now they're
recalling everything she said.
INTERVIEWS RELEASED: Padilla | McLaughlin | R. Dick
CAYLEE PICS: Photos Released September 4, 2009
VIDEO REPORTS: New Interviews | Padilla | Family Fued
The FBI conducted the interviews in September 2008, but the defense just lost its fight to keep the more than three hours of audio-taped interviews from being released. Bodyguard Tracy McLaughlin says Casey was concerned about what to wear when she walked past TV cameras and that, even though Caylee was missing and she was a suspect, Casey was unemotional and uninvolved in the search for Caylee and uninterested in anyone but herself. Cute pictures of Caylee Marie Anthony came out with the new evidence Friday, but the woman who guarded Casey right after she got out of jail said Casey had no interest in Caylee. "She comes in happy as could be. Says, 'Hey, hi.' Gives me a hug. Says she wants to take a shower. Not a word about Caylee. She said, 'I want to take a shower," McLaughlin told investigators during an interview on September 19, 2008 (listen to full interview). McLaughlin says Casey never cried about Caylee, but she giggled about an online flirtation and even flirted with McLaughlin's associate. "She goes, 'I put on eye makeup today for when we play the sunglass game,'" McLaughlin told investigators. The 'game' was taking off her sunglasses and looking at McLaughlin's associate through the rearview mirror as he drove her to her attorney's office. McLaughlin says she was stunned by Casey's stone-cold reaction to a finding that air in her trunk showed signs of human decomposition. "They said, 'Yeah, the samples came back, decomposition, and she said, looked at the TV and goes, 'A lot of people had access to that car,'" McLaughlin told investigators. Casey had an even colder reaction to the finding that hair consistent with hers and Caylee's came from a dead body. "She goes, 'Well, I'm alive,'" McLaughlin told investigators. Casey surprised McLaughlin during a conversation about how drugs in high doses can knock you out. McLaughlin mentioned ether. "She said, 'Or chloroform,'" McLaughlin told investigators. That was before any reports about finding traces of chloroform in the trunk or her computer searches about the potentially deadly chloroform. Casey also joked about raising defense money by autographing photos or going on the radio with Howard Stern, but said he'd want to know her lingerie sizes and whether she and Baez were having sex.
PADILLA SAYS "EGO TRIP" LED HIM TO CASEY Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla did not have a lot of nice things to say about his experience with Casey and her family. Even though he put up the money to bond her out of jail, at one point he told investigators Casey kicked him out of the Anthony house. "My thinking was, you know, she would talk to us, we would start to bond and she would give up the information we needed," Padilla told investigators during an interview on September 18, 2008 (listen to full interview). But after Casey got out of jail, Padilla's plan to get Casey to help him find Caylee didn't exactly work out. First, Padilla told investigators, the family and Casey's attorney Jose Baez tried cast suspicion on former boyfriend Jesse Grund. "'He'd make a great suspect, if you're looking for somebody that kidnapped a little girl,'" Padilla told investigators the family told him. Then, when Padilla finally got to speak with Casey, he said the conversation was short, especially after he balked at her story about the babysitter, Zenaida Gonzalez, taking Caylee from Blachard Park. "She looked at me straight in the eye. She said, 'You gonna talk to me like a cop, you get out of my house,'" Padilla told investigators. Padilla painted a picture of a family with built-up tension. At one point, Padilla's business associates told him George Anthony blew up and threatened Casey and she lashed back saying: "Quit acting like a f***ing cop and act like a dad for once in your life." Even though Padilla said he believed for a long time Caylee was alive, he did find it strange Casey didn't show much emotion and no one in the family was looking for Caylee. "I saw more tears shed amongst my people that were there, than her family and her put together," Padilla told investigators. And while Padilla said he truly thought he could find Caylee alive, one of the reasons he got involved was for an "ego trip;" he wanted to do something no one else could.
BODYGUARD DETAILS ARGUMENT BETWEEN CASEY, DAD One member of the security team detailed the "intense arguments" between Casey and her father. There were harsh words and harsh language, according to Casey's bodyguard who says she and Casey were practically inseparable once Casey got out of jail. She also gives some interesting insight into a memorable moment in the case. "Casey, did you kill Caylee?" WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Casey after her arrest on murder charges. Casey never answered, but her bodyguard says she whispered in her attorney's ear. "I said [to Casey], 'What'd you say?' [Casey told me] 'I said, "Get me the f*** out of here,"'" McLaughlin told investigators. Defense attorney Jose Baez claims Casey said she was going to hold her head high. Bodyguard Tracy McLaughlin told investigators Casey's first morning at home started with a huge fight with her father George. "I woke up to, 'Quit your f***ing lying!' I mean, screaming. They could have heard it across the street. 'Don't f***ing lie to me. I'm not putting up with your s***!' She says, 'No, no, you have to believe me. Don't treat me like a scumbag cop. Act like my father instead of a cop.' George said, 'I'm not listening to your s***! Quit f***ing lying!'" McLaughlin told investigators. McLaughlin says George left for the night. When he came back, he totally ignored Casey. "He said, 'I can't do this. I'm not gonna live this lie. I'm not gonna do it,'" McLaughlin told investigators. McLaughlin says George made a chilling comment about Caylee. "He said, if she couldn't trust her own family to raise her kid, I don't. That's just his words," McLaughlin told investigators. "I think he was saying, 'Where's her body?'" McLaughlin told investigators Casey said she was really looking forward to a mistrial in the case and a change of venue, but apparently never said she was confident she'd be acquitted.
TWO HEARINGS NEXT WEEK IN FRAUD CASE As they prepare for her murder trial, Casey's defense lawyers will head to court next week for the civil case against her. Two hearing are set next week in the defamation suit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the woman with the same name as the babysitter Casey claimed took off with Caylee. On September 8, Casey's attorney will ask the judge to dismiss the civil case, or at least postpone it until after her murder trial. The next day, there will be a hearing to compel George and Cindy Anthony to answer questions that they refused to answer during their deposition.
INTERVIEWS RELEASED: Padilla | McLaughlin | R. Dick
CAYLEE PICS: Photos Released September 4, 2009
VIDEO REPORTS: New Interviews | Padilla | Family Fued
The FBI conducted the interviews in September 2008, but the defense just lost its fight to keep the more than three hours of audio-taped interviews from being released. Bodyguard Tracy McLaughlin says Casey was concerned about what to wear when she walked past TV cameras and that, even though Caylee was missing and she was a suspect, Casey was unemotional and uninvolved in the search for Caylee and uninterested in anyone but herself. Cute pictures of Caylee Marie Anthony came out with the new evidence Friday, but the woman who guarded Casey right after she got out of jail said Casey had no interest in Caylee. "She comes in happy as could be. Says, 'Hey, hi.' Gives me a hug. Says she wants to take a shower. Not a word about Caylee. She said, 'I want to take a shower," McLaughlin told investigators during an interview on September 19, 2008 (listen to full interview). McLaughlin says Casey never cried about Caylee, but she giggled about an online flirtation and even flirted with McLaughlin's associate. "She goes, 'I put on eye makeup today for when we play the sunglass game,'" McLaughlin told investigators. The 'game' was taking off her sunglasses and looking at McLaughlin's associate through the rearview mirror as he drove her to her attorney's office. McLaughlin says she was stunned by Casey's stone-cold reaction to a finding that air in her trunk showed signs of human decomposition. "They said, 'Yeah, the samples came back, decomposition, and she said, looked at the TV and goes, 'A lot of people had access to that car,'" McLaughlin told investigators. Casey had an even colder reaction to the finding that hair consistent with hers and Caylee's came from a dead body. "She goes, 'Well, I'm alive,'" McLaughlin told investigators. Casey surprised McLaughlin during a conversation about how drugs in high doses can knock you out. McLaughlin mentioned ether. "She said, 'Or chloroform,'" McLaughlin told investigators. That was before any reports about finding traces of chloroform in the trunk or her computer searches about the potentially deadly chloroform. Casey also joked about raising defense money by autographing photos or going on the radio with Howard Stern, but said he'd want to know her lingerie sizes and whether she and Baez were having sex.
PADILLA SAYS "EGO TRIP" LED HIM TO CASEY Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla did not have a lot of nice things to say about his experience with Casey and her family. Even though he put up the money to bond her out of jail, at one point he told investigators Casey kicked him out of the Anthony house. "My thinking was, you know, she would talk to us, we would start to bond and she would give up the information we needed," Padilla told investigators during an interview on September 18, 2008 (listen to full interview). But after Casey got out of jail, Padilla's plan to get Casey to help him find Caylee didn't exactly work out. First, Padilla told investigators, the family and Casey's attorney Jose Baez tried cast suspicion on former boyfriend Jesse Grund. "'He'd make a great suspect, if you're looking for somebody that kidnapped a little girl,'" Padilla told investigators the family told him. Then, when Padilla finally got to speak with Casey, he said the conversation was short, especially after he balked at her story about the babysitter, Zenaida Gonzalez, taking Caylee from Blachard Park. "She looked at me straight in the eye. She said, 'You gonna talk to me like a cop, you get out of my house,'" Padilla told investigators. Padilla painted a picture of a family with built-up tension. At one point, Padilla's business associates told him George Anthony blew up and threatened Casey and she lashed back saying: "Quit acting like a f***ing cop and act like a dad for once in your life." Even though Padilla said he believed for a long time Caylee was alive, he did find it strange Casey didn't show much emotion and no one in the family was looking for Caylee. "I saw more tears shed amongst my people that were there, than her family and her put together," Padilla told investigators. And while Padilla said he truly thought he could find Caylee alive, one of the reasons he got involved was for an "ego trip;" he wanted to do something no one else could.
BODYGUARD DETAILS ARGUMENT BETWEEN CASEY, DAD One member of the security team detailed the "intense arguments" between Casey and her father. There were harsh words and harsh language, according to Casey's bodyguard who says she and Casey were practically inseparable once Casey got out of jail. She also gives some interesting insight into a memorable moment in the case. "Casey, did you kill Caylee?" WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Casey after her arrest on murder charges. Casey never answered, but her bodyguard says she whispered in her attorney's ear. "I said [to Casey], 'What'd you say?' [Casey told me] 'I said, "Get me the f*** out of here,"'" McLaughlin told investigators. Defense attorney Jose Baez claims Casey said she was going to hold her head high. Bodyguard Tracy McLaughlin told investigators Casey's first morning at home started with a huge fight with her father George. "I woke up to, 'Quit your f***ing lying!' I mean, screaming. They could have heard it across the street. 'Don't f***ing lie to me. I'm not putting up with your s***!' She says, 'No, no, you have to believe me. Don't treat me like a scumbag cop. Act like my father instead of a cop.' George said, 'I'm not listening to your s***! Quit f***ing lying!'" McLaughlin told investigators. McLaughlin says George left for the night. When he came back, he totally ignored Casey. "He said, 'I can't do this. I'm not gonna live this lie. I'm not gonna do it,'" McLaughlin told investigators. McLaughlin says George made a chilling comment about Caylee. "He said, if she couldn't trust her own family to raise her kid, I don't. That's just his words," McLaughlin told investigators. "I think he was saying, 'Where's her body?'" McLaughlin told investigators Casey said she was really looking forward to a mistrial in the case and a change of venue, but apparently never said she was confident she'd be acquitted.
TWO HEARINGS NEXT WEEK IN FRAUD CASE As they prepare for her murder trial, Casey's defense lawyers will head to court next week for the civil case against her. Two hearing are set next week in the defamation suit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the woman with the same name as the babysitter Casey claimed took off with Caylee. On September 8, Casey's attorney will ask the judge to dismiss the civil case, or at least postpone it until after her murder trial. The next day, there will be a hearing to compel George and Cindy Anthony to answer questions that they refused to answer during their deposition.
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