We have been preparing from day one for the very worst.
This family has had to withstand something
unlike anyone has ever seen.
I sincerely believe that when we have finally spoken,
everyone, and I mean everyone, will sit back
and say, now I understand.
NARRATOR: It's one of the most shocking
murder cases in recent history.
This whole case was a Shakespearean tragedy
on so many levels.
It was horrible.
I felt like someone had punched me in the gut, taken
every breath out of my body.
NARRATOR: The story of the most hated mother in America.
People thought, of course she was guilty.
NARRATOR: Now, in the second part of this
three-part investigation--
Both sides ready to proceed.
NARRATOR: The trial of the century begins.
She could be 13 years old, have her father's penis
in her mouth, and then go to school
and play with the other kids as if nothing ever happened.
This floored people.
NARRATOR: The prosecution uncovers their theory
of how Caylee died.
The duct tape has always been the one piece of evidence
that no theory other than murder can explain.
NARRATOR: And later, in an exclusive interview
with the Anthony family, Casey's father, George,
reveals what he thinks happened to his granddaughter.
I believe that Casey gave her something.
Caylee didn't wake up.
Who could take a little tiny child
and throw them in the woods?
What kind of monster does that take?
Casey Anthony became the most hated woman in America.
One lie begets another lie begets a bigger lie.
CINDY (ON PHONE): And I found my daughter's car today,
and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car.
We didn't know how that young lady died.
It gave the defense a lot to work with.
This is not good stuff.
I'm not in control over any of this, but you don't understand.
Come on.
All of hopes were gone.
I just couldn't understand it.
CINDY (ON PHONE): There's something wrong.
NARRATOR: For months, Casey Anthony
has insisted that her two-year-old daughter, Caylee,
was abducted by her nanny.
It Was unbelievable how many people
were showing up that wanted to volunteer, find little Caylee.
We had ground searchers.
We had four wheelers.
We brought in dogs, divers.
NARRATOR: But everything changes on December 11, 2008,
when a skeleton is found in a wooded area.
My name is Jeff Ashton, and I was one of the prosecutors
on the Casey Anthony case.
What law enforcement found when they first got
there was this tiny skull sticking up
out of a bunch of leaf debris.
There were garbage bags that we found.
There's a dirty, white bag that appears to be
some sort of canvas material.
With the body was a baby blanket.
On that blanket was a small figure of Winnie
the Pooh with Piglet on his shoulders.
NARRATOR: Forensic anthropologists
are called in to collect and catalog the remains.
Helming the team is a woman known by fans of her popular TV
show as Dr. G.
My name is Dr. Jan Garavaglia, and I
was the chief medical examiner for Orange
and Osceola Counties.
It's part of my jurisdiction to identify the body,
and determine the cause and manner of death.
The skeleton wasn't in one area.
Animals scavanged these bones, dragging
this poor little skeleton in the woods.
This was going to be a very complicated recovery.
You're working a crime scene of 4,200 feet,
and you're on your hands and knees going
through 12 inches of muck.
That's pretty meticulous.
The bones themselves being dry bones with no soft tissue
whatsoever tells us that they've been there a long time.
NARRATOR: To conclusively identify
the skeletonized remains, Dr. G sends bone
samples out for DNA testing.
And soon, the story breaks.
The discovery of the remains was huge breaking news.
A utility meter reader went about 45 feet or so
into the woods back there, and he stumbled upon the remains--
a small child's body in a plastic bag.
There's helicopters overhead.
There's news trucks everywhere.
It was a national story, indeed, a global story.
NARRATOR: Adding to the chilling discovery
is this specific location where the remains are found.
The area was just around the corner from the Anthony home.
It's probably a quarter of a mile.
It's not far at all.
And I was shocked.
It's literally the most obvious place to leave a body.
It's the only place down the block where there's no houses.
It's literally in the Anthony's backyard.
NARRATOR: Then on December 19, eight days after the body
was found, Dr. G holds a press conference
the world has been waiting for.
With regret, I'm here to inform you that the skeletal
remains found on December 11 are those of the missing toddler,
Caylee Anthony.
The manner of death in this case is homicide.
Because the body's decomposed, I'm
not going to be able to ever definitely say
exactly why she died, but we have enough information
that it's a homicide.
It's a homicide of undetermined means.
Well, what's that based on?
That's based on the circumstances of death.
This child decomposed here in those bags
and was hidden from view, and there's no logical explanation
for this except homicide.
It was horrible.
I felt like someone had punched me in the gut
and taken every breath out of my body.
And my heart was just being ripped apart
because all of our prayers and all of our hopes
were gone, as far as getting her back.
That reality hits you like a brick wall you run into,
or just having every part of your body
just being pulled and mangled.
I just couldn't understand it.
Very hard to process.
NARRATOR: Police have long suspected
Casey Anthony killed her child.
Now, with renewed conviction, they secure a warrant
for the Anthony residence.
The hope was to find a link between items found
near the remains to the house.
NARRATOR: And what they discover is stunning.
We found that Caylee's room was decorated
in Winnie the Pooh theme.
So it appeared very clear that that blanket from the crime
scene did come from the house.
The canvas bag turned out to be a laundry
bag that was with the body.
It was one that is sold in pairs by one of the local big chains.
We found the mate to it at the Anthony house.
If everything with the body came from the house, then
this stranger abduction thing is basically
getting blown out of the water.
All the evidence we had pointed to the fact
that Casey Anthony had killed Caylee.
And she was charged with first degree murder.
This wasn't manslaughter.
This wasn't an accidental killing.
This was first degree, premeditated murder.
And that's really hard to prove.
NARRATOR: As preparation for the trial begins,
the media's appetite for the story grows.
Under Florida law, we are obligated
to provide the media with documents, reports, statements.
When we would release a piece of evidence,
the speculation about what it meant would go wild.
For the media, it was a sensational,
no-brainer of a story.
And every single night, there was something to report.
For the public, it was a constant diet
of a real-life soap opera.
Even before the trial, there was a vast swath
of the public that had already decided she was guilty.
She was a mother.
She lost track of her two and a half year old child.
Then she didn't call police for more than a month.
Of course she was guilty.
But Casey's defense attorney, Jose Baez,
was having endless press conferences,
proclaiming her innocence almost every day.
She's innocent, absolutely 100% innocent.
And we'll have our day in court.
We'll be able to tell everyone the full story.
My name is Beth Karas.
I'm a former prosecutor, and I was a TV journalist
during the Casey Anthony trial.
Not only did the defense have to deal with a very vocal public
that wanted to see Casey Anthony convicted of first degree
murder, but Jose Baez was not a real experienced trial
attorney at that time.
And frankly, a lot of people thought
that he was in over his head.
NARRATOR: On May 9, 2011, nearly three years
after Caylee's remains were found,
the daunting process of jury selection begins.
My name is Brad Conway.
I was the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony.
Biggest obstacle in selecting an impartial jury in the Anthony
case was the media attention.
Finding somebody that didn't know about the Anthony case,
I think, was impossible.
It affected this case to the point
where that supersaturated community in Orange County
couldn't be fair, and the judge was convinced
they couldn't be fair.
So rather than move the trial elsewhere,
he picked a jury elsewhere, and brought them in,
and housed the jury in Orlando.
My name is Russ Huekler.
I was a juror on the Casey Anthony trial.
It was the first time on a jury, then you're being sequestered,
now you're asking to leave your family, your job, and that
was very nerve-wracking.
In terms of viewing the trial in-person,
a certain number of seats were reserved
for media and for family.
The rest would go to the public.
They were chosen by lottery.
So people were arriving at the Orange County Courthouse
at 3, 4 o'clock in the morning to wait
in line to get their spot and watch this trial.
[SHOUTING]
The scene outside the courthouse is crazy.
There are literally fist fights over who's
going to get a seat in court.
Guy was cutting in front of me, and I got in front of him.
But he just got me in a chokehold
when I wasn't looking.
People wanted to say they were a part of that,
that they were a part of that whole spectacle
outside the courthouse.
And it really indeed became quite a spectacle.
NARRATOR: On May 24, 2011, the trial begins.
Judge Perry granted us permission
to be in the courtroom even though we were witnesses,
because we were Caylee's grandparents
and that we had a right to be there.
So we were instructed not to show any reaction or emotion.
So we knew we had to be very stoic, and it was very hard.
There was an electricity in the air.
We had all been following this story so closely.
Now we're about to hear the opening statements.
All eyes are on Casey Anthony.
She had her hair pulled back.
She was wearing loose-fitted clothing,
nice, clean, respectable clothes.
She just looked very different from the image that had
been out there in the media.
The lead attorney in the case with Linda Drane Burdick.
The major things that we wanted to do in the opening statement
was get the jury's attention.
As difficult as it may be for anyone to accept that a mother
would intentionally kill her own child, from the evidence
that you will hear in this case, there is no other conclusion.
She emphasized, when you take Casey's lies
and her behavior, coupled with her abandoned car and the odor
of decomposition, you'll see she was
responsible for her daughter's death.
You'll find her guilty of murder.
The big question is, why?
If Casey was the murderer, why did she do it?
NARRATOR: The prosecution believes that Casey's motive
is tied up in her troubled past and find insight
in an interview investigators conducted
with a childhood friend of Casey's named Kiomarie Cruz.
Kiomarie Cruz described Casey, when Casey
was pregnant, saying that she didn't
really want to keep her child.
Casey lived with her parents and was dependent on them.
So if her mother told her, no, you're keeping this baby,
Casey was going to do it.
That Casey didn't want Caylee initially
was important to the prosecution's case
because it went to their argument
that she wanted to live a child-free life.
She wanted to get that old life back.
The bottom line to the prosecution's argument
was that Casey Anthony didn't want be a mother anymore.
LINDA BURDICK: No one else lied to their friends,
to their family, to investigators.
Felt like our evidence was really strong,
that, really, Casey was the only one that could have done this
or that had reason to do it.
Now it's Jose Baez's turn for his opening
statement to the jury.
And he has to explain all of these instances in a completely
different light.
For the defense, the stakes were high.
Not only did he have to find a way to excuse his client's
repeated lying, but he had to explain to the jury
how a mother can lose track of her child for 31 days
and not call the police.
NARRATOR: The gallery eagerly anticipates the defense
lawyer's remarks, but nothing could prepare
them for the story he tells.
Well, the answer is actually relatively simple.
She never was missing.
The defense says that on the morning of June 16, 2008,
Cindy's gone to work, George and Casey are home,
and they're looking for Caylee.
They can't find her.
They're looking all over for her, frantically.
George goes outside and finds her in the pool.
He scooped her up in his arms.
Casey came running around from the house.
JOSE BAEZ: Caylee Anthony died on
June 16, 2008, when she drowned in her family's swimming pool.
He dropped a bombshell.
This was totally unexpected.
This floored people.
George began to yell at her.
Look what you've done!
Your mother will never forgive you!
And you will go to jail for child neglect
for the rest of your freakin' life!
According to Jose Baez, Casey was begging him to help her.
And so he figured out a way to dispose of Caylee
and to spare his daughter's life.
He says his client had nothing to do with the disposal
of her body, that it was her father, George,
bereft at fishing this child out of the swimming
pool, who wrapped her in plastic and disposed of her body.
And then the big shocker--
he tells the jury that's exactly what George Anthony used
to do to pets of theirs who died before he
buried them in the backyard.
NARRATOR: Many have wondered if Casey's
parents were involved in the cover up of Caylee's death.
Baez's statement only adds fuel to the fire.
Jose Baez completely shatters the public's
understanding of the case.
And if what he said is true, George and Cindy
are intertwined in this crime.
He got up there, and he, in one fell swoop,
pulled the rug out from under the prosecution.
Boom.
NARRATOR: In his opening statement,
Casey Anthony's defense attorney, Jose Baez,
shocks the courtroom.
JOSE BAEZ: Caylee Anthony died on
June 16, 2008, when she drowned in her family's swimming pool.
NARRATOR: In addition to claiming it was an accident,
Baez states Casey had help in the cover-up.
He says his client had nothing to do with the disposal
of her body, that it was her father, George,
who disposed of her body.
This new information Baez was spilling into the courtroom
in his opening statement turned everything we thought we knew
about this case on its head.
NARRATOR: As Baez continues his opening statement,
he addresses one of the defense's biggest hurdles--
Casey's web of lies.
For years, Casey Anthony had been leaving her parents' home,
pretending to go to a job at Universal Studios,
often taking little Caylee with her to drop off with Zanny
the nanny.
This was a completely fictional alternate reality.
She had no job.
She had no nanny.
Everything that Casey told law enforcement
about Caylee's disappearance turned out to be a lie.
How can you not be convinced she's guilty?
NARRATOR: But Baez offers up a stunning explanation
for his client's behavior.
Jose Baez admits that his client is a liar,
but he explains to the jury why she lies,
that she was taught to lie by her own father
to keep a deep, dark family secret.
Casey was raised to lie, and it all
began when Casey was eight years old,
and her father came into her room
and began to touch her inappropriately.
And it escalated.
She could be 13 years old, have her father's penis
in her mouth, and then go to school
and play with the other kids as if nothing ever happened.
Baez says that she learned how to live
a life of deceit, a life of lies,
to cover up the dysfunction at home.
And that's why Casey continued to lie about her daughter.
Her father had this control over her
from the time she was a young girl.
I have no idea what was going on in George Anthony's head
and heart, but he wasn't expressing
emotion in that he wasn't crying or shaking
his head or anything. He just put his head down.
NARRATOR: Later that day, the story
explodes on the nightly news.
Bombshell tonight.
Tot mom's lawyer tells a stunned courtroom
she has nothing to do with Caylee's death
and disappearance, blaming her own father.
It was really a shock, and it's all anyone
could talk about afterwards.
It's like, really?
NARRATOR: When court resumes, the prosecution tries to refute
Baez's explosive claims.
And who was the very first witness?
George Anthony.
As he walked to the witness box, you
could just see the weight of the world on this man's shoulders.
The line of questioning everybody was waiting for was,
did you sexually abuse your daughter?
They wanted to nip this one in the bud.
Get him on the stand and ask him about this.
PROSECUTOR: Have you ever sexually molested
your daughter, Casey Anthony?
No, sir.
PROSECUTOR: Were you present in your home
when Caylee Anthony died?
No.
When I heard that today, it hurt really bad.
We had already been forewarned that Jose was going
to throw George under the bus.
The state's attorney's office had notified our attorney
and said that Jose is going to say
that he sexually abused Casey.
And we were like, where is this coming from?
It was out of left field.
No, definitely not.
Definitely not would I ever do anything
like that to my daughter.
I sat in that courtroom that day,
and to hear that opening statement from this attorney,
you don't know how much I wanted to get up and just--
do something to him.
NARRATOR: To bolster George's assertions,
the prosecution enters a new exhibit.
Part of the evidence to counter it
was the jailhouse recordings of visits between Casey
and her father between her arrest and trial.
She's saying to her father "you've always been
a great father," "I love you."
This is not someone who sounds like she's
been sexually abused.
This sounds like a very different
relationship from the one the defense is portraying.
Now it's the defense's turn to question George Anthony.
Inexplicably, Jose Baez doesn't really ask about sexual abuse.
He turns to an incident that happened
right after Caylee's remains were found and identified.
And he goes right to the heart of George Anthony.
JOSE BAEZ: Late January of 2009, you
attempted to commit suicide.
Did you, sir?
Yes, sir, I did.
In the third week of January 2009,
George Anthony disappeared.
They couldn't find him.
He had gone to a hotel some distance away.
I could not function after Caylee was found.
I could not function.
I drove as far as Daytona Beach, Florida,
to the most rattiest hotel.
I took about 70 pills.
I drank as much beer as I possibly could.
NARRATOR: Then George wrote a letter to his family.
Because I didn't know what anymore to do.
"Caylee Marie, I miss her. I miss her.
I want my family back.
I sit here, falling apart, because I
should have done more.
She was so close to home.
Why is-- why is she gone? Why?
I love you, Cindy Marie.
Caylee, here I come."
I needed, at that time, to go and be with Caylee.
JOSE BAEZ: And you expressed that in the note.
Yes, I did.
Because I believe I failed her.
[CRYING]
George completely lost it.
He just completely lost that this too would be brought up.
First, he's accused of sexually abusing his daughter
and hiding his granddaughter's dead body.
And now, you're telling everyone that I tried to commit suicide.
I couldn't imagine the hurt.
It had to be probably one of the hardest
things he had to go through.
The defense uses this suicide note
and turns it that he's actually sorry for his role in hiding
the truth about Caylee's death.
While they wanted to paint his suicide as related to guilt,
I thought it was very clear that it wasn't related to guilt.
It was related to finally wrestling with the fact
that Caylee was dead, and that his daughter might
have something to do with it.
NARRATOR: Now on stable footing, the prosecution
is ready to launch an offensive and establish
the facts of their case.
The prosecution knows she's a liar.
Now they have to prove that she's also a murderer.
NARRATOR: Prosecutor Jeff Ashton is convinced his team has
the evidence to convict Casey Anthony of murder,
and it all starts with her car.
The car had run out of gas at a check cashing place here
in town, and it had been towed.
When I opened up the car door, the worst
smell that you could ever possibly
imagine I smelled in that car.
The police took custody of the car.
The minute they get the car into the forensic garage,
the first thing they noticed is the smell.
So they brought in a dog that is specifically trained to react
to cadavers by smell, and the dog immediately
alerted on the trunk of the car as being
the main source of the odor.
This indicated that a dead body had
been in the back of that car.
NARRATOR: But to prove it in a court of law,
prosecutors need physical proof.
When the investigator looked in the trunk,
in addition to the smell, they could also see a stained area
on the trunk liner.
It was the size that could have been a child's body.
This smell and this particular stain--
it just was hard to not put those two together.
NARRATOR: Investigators send samples of the carpet
to a research scientist named Dr. Arpad Vass.
Dr. Vass had been studying the chemistry of decomposition.
According to Dr. Vass, when a person dies,
their body slowly starts to decompose,
and it builds up gases, putrified gases,
that are then released into the area
around where the cadaver lays.
NARRATOR: Vass has developed a testing technique that
can identify the presence of decomposition gases
in a sample of air.
My name is Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky.
I'm a professor of forensic science.
The sample from the trunk is collected.
It's cut, put into a paint can, and sealed.
The vapor then comes off the rug and is collected in the can.
You then can remove a sample of that vapor,
and then force it into this device
to separate the chemicals individually,
and then to identify what chemicals
were in the original sample.
Dr. Vass is a very brilliant, inquisitive person.
And I think he saw this as a neat challenge of applying
his science to something new.
NARRATOR: After reviewing the data,
Dr. Vass takes the stand for the prosecution.
Do you have an opinion as to whether there was
a decomposing human body in the trunk
of that car at some point?
I can find no other plausible explanation
other than that to explain all the results we found.
NARRATOR: To prove the body was Caylee's, the prosecution turns
to another piece of evidence.
The investigators found a number of hairs
in the trunk of Casey's car.
The hairs were sent to the FBI crime laboratory.
They put them through a microscopic analysis.
One hair in particular was a nine-inch-long, light
brown, untreated hair.
One of the things that hair analysts do is not only examine
it microscopically, but what we do nowadays
is mitochondrial DNA analysis of the shaft of the hair.
Mitochondrial DNA is something that you
get only from your mother.
So when they tested the mitochondrial DNA,
they found a hair that came from some
maternal relative of Cindy's.
It basically was a hair that had to either come
from Caylee, Casey, or Cindy.
But because of the length of the hair
and the fact that it was not treated, it had to be Caylee's.
NARRATOR: When forensic experts examine the hair closer,
they find a distinctive pattern.
The hair is a Caucasian head hair.
It had a darkened end.
It was an interesting type of hair because it had a very
distinct pattern-- a single band that was very,
very close to the root.
NARRATOR: The band is a brown discoloration
that forensic experts have given a descriptive name.
It was known to many people that do hair analysis
as a decomposition band because you can
find it in a decomposing body.
Did you find any hairs that showed evidence
of apparent decomposition?
One of the items had a hair that exhibited characteristics
of decomposition.
When you put it all together, to me,
it was the inescapable conclusion that there had been
a dead body in the back of that car, and that it, in all
likelihood, was Caylee's.
NARRATOR: With the evidence from the car established,
the prosecution turns to a critical task.
Juries like to have everything all tied up
in a neat little bow, and one of the prosecution's critical jobs
was to explain to the jury how this child died.
NARRATOR: And once again, they rely upon the work
of Dr. Arpad Vass.
When Dr. Vass completed his analysis of the odor
from the carpet, he found a chemical that surprised him,
one that shouldn't have been in the sample at that level.
Chloroform was shockingly high, unusually high.
Chloroform is a product of decomposition.
But there was a lot more chloroform,
according to Dr. Vass, than one could
explain from decomposition.
Chloroform is known as a chemical that can be used
to render people unconscious.
So one of the theories that we worked on
was that maybe Casey had used chloroform
to knock Caylee out so that she would
die in a more humane fashion.
NARRATOR: But there's more to back
up the prosecution's theory.
After this finding of high levels of chloroform
in the automobile trunk, the police
then turned to the computer at the Anthony home.
And on it, they found searches for how to make chloroform.
There are commercial processes for making chloroform,
but you can go on the internet, and there
are very simple formulas.
You can do it in your home from very simple to obtain
chemicals.
To the prosecution, this was more
crucial pieces of the puzzle coming
together against Casey Anthony.
The chloroform searches were more
significant because it gave us some indication
of premeditation. This was huge.
NARRATOR: Prosecutors in the Casey Anthony case
are beginning to explain how her daughter, Caylee, died.
The chloroform was shockingly high, unusually high.
One of the theories that we worked on
was that maybe Casey had used chloroform to knock Caylee out.
If you are alleging somebody murdered a child
in a premeditated way, in a capital case,
the burden is on the prosecution to prove
that Casey Anthony murdered Caylee in a deliberate way.
NARRATOR: With the defense claiming Caylee's death
was an accident, the prosecution calls medical examiner Dr.
G to further build their case.
The fact that it's tossed in a field to rot in bags
is a clear indication that the body was trying to be hidden.
We looked at each bone under a microscope
for causes of death--
blows, knife marks, any type of sharp force
injury to the bones.
And we didn't find any trauma whatsoever.
NARRATOR: But according to Dr. G, when
the skull was discovered, investigators
noticed something unusual.
There's this gray duct tape-looking thing
over the lower half of the jaw.
But when you get up close, you see that there's
something amiss here.
The skull and the mandible are together in one unit.
I've done hundreds of skeletons, I've never seen it.
So that's a really remarkable finding.
There's nothing holding your jaw on during decomposition.
The only reason is because it was held
in place with this duct tape.
NARRATOR: This leads the prosecution
to conclude that duct tape played
a vital role in Caylee's death.
The duct tape has always been the one piece of evidence
that no theory other than murder can explain.
There is no child that should have duct tape on its face
when it dies.
There is no reason to put duct tape on the face
after they die.
The circumstances of a skeleton being found in plastic bags,
hidden in this swampy area, and that there's duct
tape over the face.
I felt that we had enough information
to say that it's a homicide.
NARRATOR: To help the jury visualize
Caylee's gruesome fate, the prosecution
presents a graphic video.
The idea was to take what we know about where the duct
tape was, and graphically demonstrate to the jury
that if the duct tape was in the same position
relative to the skull when the face was there, where would
the tape have been?
Obviously, emotionally, if you can get the jury
to visualize the duct tape over Caylee's nose and mouth,
it is much more compelling.
It began with her smiling, live face,
looking into the camera.
And it slowly morphed into the cadaver face found
all of those many months later.
PROSECUTOR: Would the single piece
of tape, if applied in the position shown on the video,
been sufficient to have covered the nose and mouth,
and made breathing impossible?
Yes.
I'll never forget that.
I-- I had to leave.
I didn't want to see that.
To think that she would have been
placed in garbage bags, taped--
just like-- just like garbage-- it's--
NARRATOR: Piecing together all of the evidence,
the prosecution is finally ready to reveal
how they believe Casey intentionally murdered Caylee.
Our theory was that on the last day
Caylee was seen, that at some point that afternoon,
Casey rendered Caylee unconscious,
maybe with chloroform.
NARRATOR: Casey then used duct tape as the murder weapon.
She put duct tape over her mouth and her nose
so that she couldn't breathe, and allowed
her to die in her sleep.
And then wrapped her up in her favorite Winne
the Pooh blanket, put her in a laundry bag,
and put the laundry bag in some garbage bags,
tied it up, and just put her in the trunk of the car.
Went to her boyfriend's house.
Next day, went out, probably at night,
and just walked 20 feet back into the woods,
and just laid her down there, and went on about her life.
NARRATOR: But one big question remains.
Why in the world would Casey need to kill her daughter?
NARRATOR: After presenting forensic evidence to the jury,
prosecutors in the Casey Anthony case turn to a critical task.
The prosecution had to prove that for the 31 days Caylee was
missing, Casey was completely enmeshing
herself in a brand new life.
It was a life that she didn't have
at all, being tied to a two and a half year old child.
NARRATOR: The prosecution calls Tony Lazzaro to the stand.
This was her boyfriend.
This is the man with whom she had spent those 31
days while Caylee was missing.
And he's with her on June 16.
That is the last day that Caylee is seen
by anyone other than Casey.
They went to the Blockbuster Video
on the 16th, rented two movies.
Casey has her arm around Tony Lazzaro,
and they're walking through Blockbuster
to pay for these videos, very carefree.
It just seemed like a date night.
How would you describe her demeanor?
Happy.
Happy to see me.
Having a grand old time.
At any time did she ever cry?
No.
PROSECUTOR: Did she ever act scared?
Nope.
PROSECUTOR: Did she tell you that her daughter had gone
missing?
No.
He was a critical witness to establish that this is a woman
who continued to live this life of lies,
but really wanted this child-free life
that he was introducing her to.
My name is Clint House, and I lived with Tony Lazzaro.
Casey started spending a lot of time
at the apartment on a regular basis
at the beginning of June of 2008.
Tony and I were DJs.
Every Friday night, we would have a different type of party
that we would throw, and Casey would come with us.
One night, we had been promoting a hot body contest.
Casey did compete in the contest.
That was the photo of her in the infamous blue dress.
They were these really shocking photos of Casey
Anthony dirty dancing and partying
in a very sexual manner while her daughter was already dead.
There was just exhibit after exhibit
of some of the wild and crazy things Casey Anthony was doing.
People were outraged when they saw these photos.
You just don't see a sense of urgency at all.
Shortly after we believe would be the day that Caylee probably
met her fate, we almost see a relaxed lifestyle
that she no longer has to live with the burden
of having this child.
The prosecution's trying to present Casey as not a grieving
mother, not a worried mother, a woman who
is free from the responsibility of having
a child, which goes to motive.
And to drive home the point that Casey was embracing this
new child-free life, the prosecution
called a tattoo artist to the stand named Bobby Williams.
Casey Anthony, during the time her daughter was missing,
had gone to get a tattoo.
And the tattoo says, "Bella Vita," which is
Italian for "beautiful life."
It seems like she's celebrating the fact
that she no longer has this baggage called
her toddler daughter around.
NARRATOR: Next time on "Casey Anthony--
an American Murder Mystery."
Everybody loves a good mystery,
and this one had such intrigue.
NARRATOR: The defense takes center stage.
This is the level of absurdity,
the desperation that this prosecution will take it to.
Basically, he's saying you can't
pay attention to everything at the crime scene.
It's all contaminated.
NARRATOR: The prosecution's most important piece of evidence
is put to the test.
It gave the defense some more fodder
to work with in this mystery of what really happened to Caylee.
NARRATOR: The verdict that stunned the nation.
As to the charge of first degree murder, we, the jury,
find the defendant--
It was like a bomb had been dropped.
NARRATOR: Scandalous new details from a defense team insider.
According to the affidavit, Casey
was paying off the legal services in sexual favors.
NARRATOR: And an exclusive interview
with the Anthony family.
I believe that Casey gave her something.
Caylee didn't wake up.