This case will stick with me for the rest of my life. People Exclusive. FB Tweet More. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Casey Anthony. But now, the juror's focus is on Caylee Anthony, who was just 2 years old when she died. Casey Anthony, center, sits at the defense table as her lawy. View All. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. But should everyone be outraged? So what proof did the prosecution have? The first piece of circumstantial evidence was that Casey Anthony failed to report her daughter missing.
During a deposition in her civil trial, Casey Anthony testified that Caylee had been kidnapped by her nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, after she had left her daughter with the babysitter.
This new argument directly contradicted the testimony given by Casey Anthony at her deposition in the civil lawsuit. The prosecutors claimed that Casey Anthony used chloroform to render Caylee unconscious before putting duct tape over her nose and mouth to suffocate her. Other Google searches on the family computer related to the use of chloroform and how to make it.
However, the computer records indicated that the Google searches about chloroform were made while Cindy Anthony would have been working. Ford, a year-old nursing student at St. Petersburg College, praised the jurors, but said when deliberations began there were "a lot of conflicting ideas. It was a horrible decision to have to make. The jury's jaw-dropping not guilty verdict shocked court observers, but it was also a difficult moment for the panel, Ford said in her exclusive interviews with ABC News.
No one from the jury was willing to come out and talk to the media in the hours after the verdict. We were crying, and not just the women.
It was emotional and we weren't ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial. Ford told Moran she thought Casey Anthony's claim that her 2-year-old daughter accidentally drowned and she lied for three years was more believable than the evidence the prosecution presented. But it's easier for me logically to get from point A to point B" via the defense argument. Ford said that she couldn't make out "logically" the prosecution's argument because there were too many unanswered questions about how Caylee died, including how Casey Anthony would have used chloroform to smother her 2-year-old daughter, then put her in the trunk of her car without anyone seeing her.
No idea, still no idea. The country's interest in every update on the case was voracious; by the time it concluded, it had yielded record ratings for some networks. June 30, By the end of June , both the prosecution and the defense had rested their cases. Casey Anthony never testified.
July 5, : The trial's jury deliberated for 10 hours and 40 minutes before reaching a verdict. Casey was found not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. She was found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement.
July 5, Casey Anthony's defense team surrounded her in a group hug after the thenyear-old was acquitted. July The not-guilty charge divided many people who followed the case. July Others, such as Tim Allen, right, and David Antolic, held signs of a different tone in front of a jail in Orlando on July 16, , the day before Anthony was released.
July 17, Casey was sentenced to four years in jail with credit for time served. Aftermath: Seven years after being acquitted of the death of her daughter, Casey Anthony, pictured here with her attorney Cheney Mason in , resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In , Anthony told the Associated Press she's still not "certain Ultimately, the jury acquitted the young mother of the most serious charges against her. Now 32 years old, Anthony is living not-quite-out-of-sight in her home state of Florida; just last year, she gave a widely covered interview with the Associated Press.
But the Casey Anthony case involved many other players. Ten years later, we spoke to some of those who were involved, to get their thoughts on how it played out and their perspective on why it struck such a chord with the public. Here's what they had to say:.
These statements have been edited for length and clarity. The Judge: 'What really happened? I thought the state had proved its case. I thought, while they may have had some flaws in their case, that there was a high probability that Casey would be found guilty of some form of homicide, and that did not occur.
A number of jurors said the reason that they came back with "not guilty" was because the state could not prove how Caylee died. The defense threw out a lot of theories. They threw out that she drowned. They tried to build on the inference that the gate was open, and that the ladder was down and that she was known to go out of the door and go up to the pool because she liked water.
I mean, there was no evidence that that happened. Those were inferences. But they were logical inferences that they were permitted based upon those slim factors to argue Justice is always served in a case where the facts are litigated before a jury, the jury looks at the law through their lens and they render a decision. People may not agree with that decision, but when a case goes through the process that we have all agreed to live by, then justice is served.
Here we are, 10 years away from her death, and people still think about it. And there's one question that is on everyone's mind: What really happened? Until that question is answered, there will always be someone searching and someone wondering what that answer is.
The Medical Examiner: 'Science took a backseat on the truth'. Jan Garavaglia, retired chief medical officer for Orange and Osceola counties. Looking back 10 years, what I was most appalled with was this lack of the truth and the lack of substantiated information. You could just say lies and not back it up by any kind of evidence and it was allowed. That was a turning point for me. This has been happening more and more in the past 10 years, but for me that was the first time that I had to deal with it in society, that sometimes the truth doesn't matter and if you say it loud enough and often enough, people get confused and start believing you.
As a medical examiner, we're expected to do a few things: identify the body We don't look at just what the autopsy or just what the body shows we look at the scene, we look at the circumstances, we look at what's going on preceding the death. And in this case, we have a child that is not reported missing. When the child is reported missing by the grandmother, there is no explanation that's credible of what happened to that child.
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