2008.08.04 George Anthony Interview Audio

[GreenEyes727]

It doesn't seem like anyone else said what I said in my earlier post, George speaks of Caylee in past tense.

 

[angelmom]

BRAVO excellent post.....and pretty much how I feel too. Especially your feelings about GA during his interview, speaking of his employment. I too teared up listening to that part. Poor guy seems so desperate for approval.

I agree with both of you on this point. And when the detective says, "George, I think you're a guy who knows a lot about a lot of things." and GA gets real quiet I don't think he was offended, I think he was taken aback or almost moved by that b/c I don't think he feels like anyone else thinks that.

My guess is that he does know quite a bit about a lot of things - he seems handy around the yard and cars and house, has worked in business and LE - and is interested in things (cooking show, etc.). But I get this idea of him offering a suggestion or idea and Cindy and Casey just rolling their eyes at him and blowing him off like he thinks he knows everything and he's just soooo lame. And being treated with such disrespect gets old after awhile. When someone finally acknowledges that he does know something it is affirming, but of all the things to be right about this is the last thing he would have wanted. It's such a bitter moment b/c he realizes he would rather have been wrong again.

I know being called a totally neurotic and paranoid mother gets on my nerves, and the time I took my baby to the ER at 3AM (when my DH thought I was being ridiculous)...when the doctors grabbed him from me and put a red slip on his chart to move him to the front of the line, I just wanted to take it all back and be the crazy mom again. I did NOT want to be right!!! I wanted them to talk in soft voices about how being a mom was hard and not to feel bad about overreacting...everyone does it sometimes. I did NOT want to see them putting oxygen on my baby's face. And that's how I think GA felt when the detectives told GA that they thought he was a smart guy...they were acknowledging that his gut instincts were right. When he got really quiet, inside his head he was screaming NO! and begging for them to treat him like one of the crazy tipsters who call in about the aliens who abducted Caylee. Because this time he would have given ANYTHING to be wrong. And it was breaking his heart to know the truth in that moment.

 

[BonKai]

I don't think it's connection speed I am on, I am on high speed (road runner) and don't have issues with other video's or audio's. I wonder if it's media player, I can keep hitting play when it goes off and it will come back for another 5 seconds.

If anyone figures it out let me know!

Same here - road runner. I even tried to play GA's audio on my hubby's PC which has more power, memory, better video card, etc... (He plays WoW on that PC)

 

[Amity]

I know being called a totally neurotic and paranoid mother gets on my nerves, and the time I took my baby to the ER at 3AM (when my DH thought I was being ridiculous)...when the doctors grabbed him from me and put a red slip on his chart to move him to the front of the line, I just wanted to take it all back and be the crazy mom again. I did NOT want to be right!!! I wanted them to talk in soft voices about how being a mom was hard and not to feel bad about overreacting...everyone does it sometimes. I did NOT want to see them putting oxygen on my baby's face. And that's how I think GA felt when the detectives told GA that they thought he was a smart guy...they were acknowledging that his gut instincts were right. When he got really quiet, inside his head he was screaming NO! and begging for them to treat him like one of the crazy tipsters who call in about the aliens who abducted Caylee. Because this time he would have given ANYTHING to be wrong. And it was breaking his heart to know the truth in that moment.

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AngelMom,
This is exactly how I've felt when everyone thought I had overreacted and exactly what I was thinking when I re-listened (for the 4th time) to George's interview a bit ago.

I could almost feel the wheels in Georges head turning and see the angel and devil, one on his right shoulder, one on his left, battling; 'yes she is' 'no, she isn't!'
Really was hard to listen to, all 4 times.

 

[Amity]

My Mother and I listened to the audio and both were puzzled by this.
George and Cindy go to pick up the car. It has a horrible smell in it that even causes them to wonder who died or was dead in the back seat(there smells like there has been a dead body in the damn*d car). Still during that taped interview George said that Cindy convinced him to go off to work and she would handle it. A dad, any dad, any father, thinking that there was something dead in the trunk of that car, without knowing about the safety of his daughter, or grand-daughter could be so easily convinced to go to work and let his wife handle this alone????
I am not sure if this was a sign of something disfunction in the family, George not being a decent dad, or that George already knew what had happened. I do know this does not make sense to me, but I am female.
Now you fathers out there, if you smelled something that smelled like the dead bodies you used to find while doing your job as former officer, in your daughter's trunk, would you let your wife handle it?? Or you would stay by her side and work on it together???

(Yes I asked this earlier but no one answered it. I thought it might be because at that time things were hot and furious and I think it got missed or no Fathers were on.)

Hi BoogieBear,
I'm not a Father/Dad but I have one sitting here right next to me finishing his coffee before he leaves for work.

His words and I'll type as he talks: If I already 'suspected' something was not right, with no reasonable explaination (as George did when he opened that car and encountered the smell) and my daughter had already shown signs over the last few years of being deceitful/untrustworthy etc, there would be no way on this green earth that I would leave the homefront until I had some answers. My wife is a strong Lady and I've seen her handle things over the years that would make my knees crumble right out from under me but we are a team, we were there together. A cut finger, a scaped knee, a bill collector calling -- those things can be handled by one of us. A very suspicious circumstance going on with one of our kids or grandkids, as I said, we are a team....I don't leave her side nor she mine until we have answers and are somewhat satisfied with those answers.

BoogieBear,
That above is just one man's/Dad's opinion and no way will it be the correct one but you asked. And since he was right here I figured what better way to get an answer.
*Hubby did have to talk slower so I could type his answer so maybe he had more time to think his answer through while I typed, which might have affected the way he answered? Dunno, but there it is.*

 

[angelmom]

boogie...

I thought that was weird, too. The only thing I could think of is that they were so prepared to find something in the trunk that when it was empty, they were thrown off balance and wondered if maybe they were wrong about what they smelled. Was it really just the garbage? Like we all have said, who would put a body in a trunk, abandon the car, and then move the body???

So there was probably a huge amount of relief that there was nothing weird in the car except the smell. And think of how many times they have been yanked around before by Casey's BS. So I think that once they got the car home, Cindy convinced GA that he HAD TO go to work (new job and all) and that she would call him if she needed him.

There is a certain amount of rationalization that goes along in an emergency. We've all done it. You talk yourself out of believing something is wrong at the same time alarm bells are going off. While you are dialing the hospitals and police stations you imagine how ridiculous you sound. And you assume that if something really bad had happened, you would have been notified. So while they might not have known about a body in a trunk, surely (they tell themselves) they would have been contacted if a body had been found somewhere else. Right???

I mean, there are times I look back and cannot believe I went to work or worried about something so trivial when everything was going to hell. Acting like everything is normal is a form of denial and a way that your brain protects you from reality. If there is one thing these people are good at, it's denial.

I think that must have been it b/c Cindy forces herself to be calm long enough to look for Casey instead of calling LE or hospitals first. She knows this could still be one of Casey's screwups. And it is...just a bigger one than ever before.

 

[boogiebear]

BoogieBear,
That above is just one man's/Dad's opinion and no way will it be the correct one but you asked. And since he was right here I figured what better way to get an answer.
*Hubby did have to talk slower so I could type his answer so maybe he had more time to think his answer through while I typed, which might have affected the way he answered? Dunno, but there it is.*

Thank you. I have a farm, with quite a few acres. We have dead animals all the time, usually wild ones, but still we have to deal with them for the safety of all. That smell is nothing like anything else. Decomp does not smell like rotting food, bad food, maggots, bugs or anything else.(I would rather smell skunk.) You only have to smell it once to remember it forever. GA was in law enforcement. You know at sometime he smelled that. Whether someone died in their home peacefully, buried body, lost car wreck down a hill, sometime he smelled that. I could not have peace until I found out exactly what was dead in my daughter's car, and I just cannot understand how a father could go off to work without knowing for sure.

 

[MiraclesHappen]

:idea:


The detectives are explaining to George, and I believe they did it verrrry tactfully in a tension-filled and difficult situation.......
the mechanism or 1 of the Casey-mechanisms where Casey will take one event from real life and weave it into a larger than life-sized tapestry of lies and deception.
The stroke of Cindy's father was morphed by Casey into a stroke, or "mini-stroke" being suffered by George...woven into a tale which was then used to accomplish some other thing.

So that laceration which the ER nurse discovered behind the ear of the nanny (per Cindy's interview).
Who suffered that in real life? Caylee?

just thinkin...

 

[Themis]

Thank you. I have a farm, with quite a few acres. We have dead animals all the time, usually wild ones, but still we have to deal with them for the safety of all. That smell is nothing like anything else. Decomp does not smell like rotting food, bad food, maggots, bugs or anything else.(I would rather smell skunk.) You only have to smell it once to remember it forever. GA was in law enforcement. You know at sometime he smelled that. Whether someone died in their home peacefully, buried body, lost car wreck down a hill, sometime he smelled that. I could not have peace until I found out exactly what was dead in my daughter's car, and I just cannot understand how a father could go off to work without knowing for sure.

IMHO, GA knew what was in the trunk of the car, but he didn't want to acknowledge that he knew it, even to himself.

 

[tiredofthis]

I finished listening to George's interview for the first time and I have completely changed my opinion about him. I think he knows his granddaughter is dead and is trying to protect Cindy from the awful truth. His conversation with LE sounded completely honest and straight forward. He desperately wants to find out what happened to his granddaughter and knows Casey has been lying about her job for some time.

I think I like George now.

 

[woeisme2]

Hi I had the same problem. Try left clicking on the link and save target as, on your desk top then open.Hope this works for you

 

[heartfortruth]

I agree with both of you on this point. And when the detective says, "George, I think you're a guy who knows a lot about a lot of things." and GA gets real quiet I don't think he was offended, I think he was taken aback or almost moved by that b/c I don't think he feels like anyone else thinks that.

My guess is that he does know quite a bit about a lot of things - he seems handy around the yard and cars and house, has worked in business and LE - and is interested in things (cooking show, etc.). But I get this idea of him offering a suggestion or idea and Cindy and Casey just rolling their eyes at him and blowing him off like he thinks he knows everything and he's just soooo lame. And being treated with such disrespect gets old after awhile. When someone finally acknowledges that he does know something it is affirming, but of all the things to be right about this is the last thing he would have wanted. It's such a bitter moment b/c he realizes he would rather have been wrong again.

I know being called a totally neurotic and paranoid mother gets on my nerves, and the time I took my baby to the ER at 3AM (when my DH thought I was being ridiculous)...when the doctors grabbed him from me and put a red slip on his chart to move him to the front of the line, I just wanted to take it all back and be the crazy mom again. I did NOT want to be right!!! I wanted them to talk in soft voices about how being a mom was hard and not to feel bad about overreacting...everyone does it sometimes. I did NOT want to see them putting oxygen on my baby's face. And that's how I think GA felt when the detectives told GA that they thought he was a smart guy...they were acknowledging that his gut instincts were right. When he got really quiet, inside his head he was screaming NO! and begging for them to treat him like one of the crazy tipsters who call in about the aliens who abducted Caylee. Because this time he would have given ANYTHING to be wrong. And it was breaking his heart to know the truth in that moment.

this struck a deep , deep chord in me and brought tears to my eyes...
wow....

 

[thelmadawg]

I was struck by GA's description of what Caylee was wearing on June 16th when she and KC were leaving around 1:00 PM or so:

White tennis shoes
jean skirt
pink short sleeve top
big white sun glasses
White backpack with monkeys.

Seems to me I've seen a pic or so of Caylee in the big sunglasses. I'm wondering if there is a pic that matches the above description, and that, if so, it would help the KC timeline.

Anyone know where multiple pics of Caylee are?

 

[MD MOMMY]

I don't like how early on in the interview George said "I would vie THE LITTLE GIRL" her breakfast" ..it sounds so distant like he isn't her grandpa or something. It gave me the creeps.

 

[canadagirl]

i can not get temp files to open. i have tried for hours. i see many videos and names but am trying to find georges. help please

Hi LittleMissLegal....Do you have a Mac? I have one and had problems because you need Windows Media Player. If you have Mac, you can get it by

right click on link
save link as - under "save as" change it to "all files"
hit "save" and it should start downloading.

Hope this works for you!!!!

 

[Dr. Pennypacker]

Originally Posted by magic-cat
I think that whatever mental issues that Casey suffers from she inherited them from her mother...There is some issue that they have in common, which has led to their combatitive relationship and also their fierce connection and loyalty...whatever it is, it took a severely adverse turn in Casey...but I am positive from listening to Cindy speak that Casey learned many of her lying tactics from her mother...

OH YES! Cindy is a whack-job.
Casey is her "mini-me"......

George just happened to get caught up in this mess. Poor guy.

 

[PaperDoll]

I haven't listened to Cindy's tapes yet, hoping to get to it tonight. I listened to GA and I truly believe he KNOWS what happened. I don't think he was involved in any way shape or form. I believe he knows Casey killed Caylee. As far as the trunk incidence, I'm not sure how to view that. :waitasec: He may have actually seen the gas cans and nothing more. I felt for George, I really did. He's the dad and is blown away by his daughters behavior. Now he has to deal with the public on top of that. His interview was very telling to me. It's like he's telling the LE that his daugther did this. He seems to be honest. :twocents:

 

[woeisme2]

does it say george anthony video? so sorry but this has been my whole day tring to find it.

Hi I had the same problem. Try left clicking on the link and save target as, on your desk top then open.Hope this works for you

 

[impatientredhead]

OH YES! Cindy is a whack-job.
Casey is her "mini-me"......

George just happened to get caught up in this mess. Poor guy.

I *feel* for George, I really do. I don't think he had anything to do with covering up a crime and certainly not anything to do with harming Caylee.

BUT as a child I was raised by a lunatic mother (Take Cindy, add alcohol and prescription drugs, and take away the temper control). My step father was thought of as the sweetest man, victim of my mother, etc.... and he had some great qualities. But these sweet innocent bystanders of parents do not lack accountablity in letting these women harm those around them. They are part of the dynamic that keeps the whole ball rolling. One of the hardest things I had to deal with as an adult was reframing my stepdad as a covictim of my mother and realizing that the entire time he was an adult who CHOSE not to intervene, who CHOSE everyday to stay, who CHOSE to come back, and CHOSE everyday to watch what was happening in their own house and do nothing.

I feel for him, but I don't find him to be a victim or to hold no accountablity.

 

[jeannebreault]

I agree - I found that a little creepy, too. He seemed very detached - almost like he wasn't part of "life" in that home!