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Statment to LE
George Anthony(LE and George are speaking about Cindy)
LE: Let me tell you something, okay?
And I tried to tell your wife this. I tried to tell you if you did go down this road it is going to, it is going to turn into a circus, okay?
GA: Yes
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LE: One of the things that my opinion is, is kind of hurting, and uh, hurting our investigation somewhat, and I'm, I'm thinking maybe hurting your family is
Cindy going on the news and, and saying things that she knows not to be true.
GA: Yes
LE: Such as...
GA: We have discussed that.
LE: ...her courtroom test...or when she comes out of the court room and she starts making comments that we're not doing our job and all that. Again, I understand emotion is there, but what's hurting,
what might hurt your family is that obviously these things are not true. And the news isn't, you know, you, you've seen Nancy Grace(
Hello Friend!) I'm sure you've heard what Nancy Grace has done, and what Nancy Grace has said, the news uh, you know they're not idiots. They're, they're going to look and say wow, is that true? And we're obligated to show them well, no, its not, you know. When an allegation is made and they're tying to turn it on us we're just going to do a thorough job. I'm here to work for you.
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GA: And, and, and I can appreciate what you guys do. I mean sure the stuff that my wife has said, I kept on telling her, if you guys ever watch me I'm, I'm, I try to be quiet(inaudible). Because when we go out to these things I'm like this is what Lee, Cindy and myself talked about.
This is what we need to say, this is what we need to do, keep it brief, short to the point. Let these huys work for us. Now they're getting, now its, they're dogging us and they're working against us now.
LE: Uh-hum
GA: And they should be helping you and they should be helping us...
LE: Yeah and...
GA: ...find her. And that's, and that's the...
LE: And uh,
well the problem is that the situation, with all due respect, was created by Cindy.
GA: Well, that's...
LE: And, and that...
GA: That could, that's the motherly...
LE: Alright
GA: ...the grandmother thing, and, and I, I can't...
LE: Well hope...hopefully...
GA: ...say too much(inaudible)
LE: (paraphrased) Regardless of what Cindy does or says LE will continue to do their job.
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GA: And the stuff that I'm saying, you guys are doing the best job you can. Remember I, I praise you guys as much as I, you know if you guys have even seen that. I do that because this is touchy, this hurts. This is touchy for your guys, you guys are doing what you can. We, we,
you can't do everything just like I've tried to explain that to my wife. Even my son has tried it. Just because...
LE: Yeah
GA: ...because you might get a quote unquote lead somebody's up in Atlanta, or Bradenton, or Tampa, they can't freaking fly, they're not superman.
LE: Well...
GA: They're going to reach out to their contact if they might have one over there.
LE: I'll tell you one thing that causes problems for us. And I, I don't, uh, and, and, and clearly this might be something that you might have influence over, over Cindy with.
When a lead comes in that she thinks is important, what she seems to do is try to hold it over a barrel. And y'all do this, well I'm(It's?) going to make all kinds of trouble for you.
GA: I understand that.
LE: (Paraphrased) What Cindy is doing causes LE to have trouble following leads. George responds that he understands what LE is saying and that is one of the reasons he is speaking with LE in this interview.
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GA: I mean and Casey's very good at computers, well I I don't think she can do and pull someone's information out of thin air. I don't think she can do that.
But I guess the reason why I am here today is I, I'm just having a hard time grasping what my wife is doing to you guys and I apologize. I, I, I don't like this freaking attorney that she has. I can tell you that right now from, from personal experience I don't like the guy.
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GA: And uh, you know, that's what we thought. Because my daughter does not, I don't think she has any money. If she does...
LE: Right
GA:
Well, besides stealing from me, my wife...
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GA:
When I drive around I told my wife, I said, this car stinks so bad I can't, I don't know how I can drive it home.
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LE: What did your, what did your wife think about it being when she first noticed it? Did she actually notice it, or did she make any comments on it?
GA:
Oh, after we pulled inside the garage she said, her exact words were, "Jesus Christ what died?" That's exactly what she said, but then she said it in a way,
she says, "George, it was the pizza right?" And I said, yeah, it was the pizza. And that's what I left it go at that, but, I'm sitting here as the grandfather, as the father, as George Anthony and as a guy who smelled the smell before years ago and you just never forget it.
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(paraphrased) George is asked why he thinks Casey might be so stubborn about telling the truth. George discusses "the pool".
LE: Do you think, do you think the reason your daughter doesn't want to tell us what happened is for fear that her mom might do, might say I told you so, or something along that?
Do you think it would be so disappointing to mom and, and that's why she's, she's, she's taking this to the bitter end?
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GA: And then she piles on some other stuff. Yeah, there's,
this is going to sound really crazy at this point, but my wife and I still believe that Casey still resents my wife the day that our granddaughter was born, they didn't hand my granddaughter to my...
LE: Casey?
GA: Yes, Casey, she went to my,
went to my wife. My wife says, "No, no, no, that's got to go." Well, they couldn't give it to her because she was being stitched up.
LE: Right
GA: So she mentioned a couple of different times, she said,
"Caylee cares for you more for a mom than me." We never said that, Cindy never said she was the mom, I never said I was the dad or anything like that. So, they've had their moments.
I haven't been around all the times they've gotten into it but...
LE: And what, what was...
GA: But a lot of times
they've gotten into it is because of the lying about working.
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(paraphrased)George goes on to say he went to where Casey said she worked to find out she never worked there. How he confronted Casey re: the four thousand dollars she lost at gunpoint, and she was never able to explain or produce any proof.
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LE: (paraphrased) I'm sure we are all on the same "sheet of music here, she knows what happened."
GA: Right
LE: Well what do you think is holding her back? What's that obstacle?
GA: Okay, my wife and I discussed this thing about the pool. My wife called me at work,
"Hey George, did you shut the gate?"
(paraphrased) LE and George go on to discuss the dates of the gas cans and what days were like circa 24, 25, and 27th. They are tying to figure out what day George and Cindy noticed the gate to the pool being open and the ladder being up.
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GA: ...my wife and I were brainstorming uh, all(inaudible)to our insight and I said, there's got to be more to this mess.
She said, "George, do you remember that day I found the ladder down and also the gate?" I says, yeah.
LE: I think you called me on, this whole thing started the 15th at, at, late at night, rolled into the 16th. And I want to say it was like the night of the 16th, or the morning of the 17th,
your wife called me and left a message saying, you know, to tell me about the gate. No, it wasn't. It was uh, it was the 16th because I remember I,
I didn't answer because I was actually at Universal Studios with Caylee.
GA: Yeah
LE: Or Casey...
(paraphrase) LE asks again why Casey is still taking things "so far." They ask George what is her reason. George goes on to say that she will not open up to him, or Cindy but maybe Lee because they are siblings.
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GA: Right, because when she started coming clean with the money she was taking and this and that coming up, yeah, she balled. I mean she literally balled. She didn't, because we,
we just kept on catching her in stuff. I'll tell you one thing, I don't, I don't know how one time she made a forty-four hundred dollar, or
a four thousand dollar deposit into my wife's account. We still don't know how she did it, it looked very real. You know, the carbon copy type thing oh, and, and it looked real.
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