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No one called 911 for a month. how in the world can a mother wait 30 days before ever reporting her child missing? it s insane. it s bizarre. something s just not right about that. well the answer is actually relatively simple. she never was missing. caylee anthony died on june 16th, 2008, when she drowned in her family s swimming pool. reporter: prosecutors said, among their key evidence was what they said was the stench of death coming from casey s car, a smell even george and cindy anthony choked on before dialing 911. it smells like there s been a dead body in the damned car. what do you believe the smell was from? truthfully i don t know. she wants to believe caylee was back there, i don t want to believe that. ....
Casey anthony, those were for six counts of check fraud, so we ll see what the judge does. but prosecutors certainly thought that they had plenty of evidence, it was all circumstantial, but they had the crime scene evidence, caylee s remains in the woods found with duct tape, matching that at their home, they had the testimony of the stench of human decomposition around casey s car, but it s possible that the defense raised the idea of the accidental drowning in the pool to a threshold high enough that that s what this jury found to be reasonable doubt. they clearly did find reasonable doubt on these very serious murder charges. but yesterday, the day began with casey anthony facing a possible sentence of death, and instead, four counts of lying to cops, each carrying a maximum term of one year. bill: you talked to a lot of people down there, phil. do you get a sense that casey anthony got away with murder? reporter: there is certainly that question being asked, not only here in orla ....
Smell of the car? just that it was very potent, very strong. was it an offensive smell? yes. shepard: the defense, of course, claims the smell did not come from a dead body and that cailee was not a murder victim at all. instead that she drowned in the family pool and nobody said anything and everything covered it up. phil keating at the courthouse. the jurors this afternoon did hear casey anthony, the suspect here speak in her initial police interview. how did the jury react to that? shep, in the jury box, the jurors actually leaned forward on their seats as they listened to the defendant casey anthony make up this infamous now story of zany the nanny kidnapping caylee. the detective then asked casey why she has not reported this for 31 days. i think part of me was naive enough to think that i could handle this myself which, obviously, i couldn t. ....
Finally confronted her. hear, listen. i said just listen to me and humor me for a second. i said, police officer is going to show up and is he going to say, you know, hey, mrs. anthony or ms. anthony, how are you doing? great. where is your daughter? she is with a nanny, awesome, that s great to hear. hop in the car, we re going to go get her. your mom is going to follow. and what are you going to do? [ laughter ] and she just looked at me with really no reaction. shepard: the nanny, of course, according to authorities does not exist. but the brother, lee anthony, also testified about another key piece of evidence in this trial. this car, casey s car, the defendant s car. today the brother, lee anthony essentially reiterated what his parents have already told the court that the trunk smelled like a dead body would smell. what do you recall about the ....