Leila
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla says he told investigators that Lee Anthony told him a story that greatly conflicts with George Anthony's statement about when he last saw Caylee alive.
Eyewitness News found out that her lawyers are trying to keep Padilla's statement a secret.
George Anthony told investigators he last saw Caylee alive Monday, June 16 as she left with Casey, who he thought was going to work.
It was the day after Father's Day and the day after witnesses say Casey and Cindy had a terrible fight over money that Casey allegedly stole from Cindy's mother.
Padilla, who had bonded Casey out of jail in the past, says George's story is not true. Eyewitness News reporter Kathi Belich talked to Padilla on the phone Tuesday.
I've doubted George's story from the first time we heard it. There were far too many little details that most people wouldn't remember more than a month later.
Last August, Greta Van Susteran did a tour of the Anthony home and interviewed George and Cindy. At that time, George appeared nervous when he related the story of Casey and Caylee leaving on June 16th. Cindy corrected him when he said he was watching the news, reminding him it was a cooking show he had been watching when he saw Casey and Caylee leave. That seemed rehearsed.
I've always felt it was a cover up - didn't want anyone to think that something had happened that day or the day before (June 15th) that triggered what happened. George and Cindy were giving the impression that all was fine and well, nothing out of the ordinary had happened.