This is from Cindy Anthony's sworn testimony regarding who and how and when
Excerpt from pages 464-473:
Q Okay. What is it that you specifically instructed Dominic Casey to do for you when you hired him?
A Pretty much the same that he had been doing for me when he was working for Jose. I found early on, like in the end of July, whenever Mr. Baez had interviewed Mr. Casey and had signed him on, I remember Mr. Baez enlisted Lee to get his opinion on him. That it seemed like from one tip that I had given to Sergeant Allen, that Sergeant Allen did not feel like it was a reliable tip.
Q U h h u h .
A And he said that he didnt pay any attention to people that were associated with psychics, or mediums, or whatever. But this particular tip kind of caught my attention because by the end of July/first part of August, I realized that Caylees blanket that we discussed yesterday was not at the house.
Q Im sorry. When did you realize that?
A Sometime the end of July/first part of August, it was not in the house. And when I received this tip from this gentleman, this Luke I cant remember his last name I had went right to Sergeant Allen with it. And he told me the guy was a crock that had called in, like, the week before and said that Caylee was possibly in South Carolina.
Well, this gentleman had told me that he was associated with a group of people that do specific investigations on missing people, and he worked specifically with the FBI, and he was from Virginia. And he was a group of, like, five or six people. They
were ex-law-enforcement officers. There was a person that had psychic abilities, but they didnt he didnt really call her a psychic, and that had privateinvestigator
skills. And he was kind of like the coordinator. And the one thing that he told me when he called me was that he was pretty confident that Caylee was alive and okay. And he asked me at that point he said: She has comfort with her. And I asked him what that meant. He said: She has something of hers that is very comforting. Well, I knew that Teddy and mama was here, and the only other thing that I could think of was her blanket. And I didnt say anything to him. And he had asked me specifically if there was something that was the size of a blanket or a blanket or a sheet that Caylee could possibly have. And I said: Why do you ask? And he goes because one of the people that he worked with had a strong could sense Caylee was okay, but she had this blanket that seemed to comfort her. I mean, she wasnt okay mentally, but physically she was okay, but this blanket gave her some comfort. And he said that theres, like, two-inch figures on this blanket. And he says beige is the background. I mean, at that point, no one had ever seen this blanket or known anything about it. And I when he said that it was a blanket, again, it was one of those like, the same type of thing when Casey said about Samantha. It was one of those moments, like
Q Uh-huh.
A does he actually have some credibility or some knowledge of something? Because no one had known I didnt even tell George or Lee that Caylees blanket was there. I mean, once Caylee was not to be found, you know, after the July 16th, I started looking naturally through everything that Caylee had. And it didnt dawn on me about the blanket until, you know
Q The end of the month.
A the end of the month that that particular blanket was missing. And I remember thinking back that I hadnt seen it for several months.
MS. DRANE BURDICK: When
THE REPORTER: Excuse me. I need to change tapes.
MS. DRANE BURDICK: Okay. Sorry.
[Whereupon, there was an interruption in the proceedings, after which the following transpired:]
BY MS. DRANE BURDICK:
Q All right. What I was going to ask is, did this tip, if you want to call it a tip
MR; CONWAY: Do you need a break?
THE WITNESS: No. Im good.
BY MS. DRANE BURDICK:
Q come in regarding what you were processing as involving the blanket?
A Before Casey came home the first time. And had what I was starting to tell you is that when Sergeant Allen didnt have any use for this information, I gave I called Dominic. And that was the first time I think I had spoken to Dominic on my own. I had met him one time in Mr. Baez office. George and I were actually just leaving Mr. Baez office when Mr. Casey was coming in to speak with him. So it was early on. It was before Casey came home the first time. I cant tell you the exact date. I know I gave the information to Sergeant Allen.
Q Okay.
A And Im sure we could track his phone records on my phone, the first time he called me.
Q All right. Did you mention your suspicion about the blanket and things like that when you told you said you didnt tell Lee and George. Did you tell John Allen?
A I told John that I thought he was you know, had some credible information. And he said he doesnt take any stock in any psychics. And he made that clear to me on day two, on the 17th, that he did not. Because while he was at the home we got someone that thought that Caylee was up around south of Jacksonville, somewhere between New Smyrna and Jacksonville on the coast, that Caylee was possibly in that area.
Q Okay.