Casey Anthony gives first interview after 2011 acquittal in daughter’s murder in new docu series

Casey Anthony is set to give her first on-camera bombshell interview after she was acquitted of murdering her toddler daughter in 2011.

It would be her first on-camera interview surrounding the 2008 disappearance of her two-year-old daughter Caylee, whose remains were found in a garbage bag a half mile from the family’s Orlando home nearly six months after she was reported missing.

In the exclusive three-part documentary: Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies, Anthony will tell her side of the story more than a decade after the heinous crime that sent shockwaves across the nation when the young mother was acquitted. 

During the official teaser, Anthony, now 36, dressed in a dark-colored dress and sporting a more sophisticated look, appears ready to unload the mystery surrounding her child’s death. 

As the camera rolls, a voice asks: ‘Why talk to me now when you are not getting creative control?’ 

Anthony does not respond but instead looks straight into the camera.

The three-part docuseries is set to stream on Peacock from November 29.

Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies, three-part docuseries is set to air November 29th on Peacock

Casey Anthony holding her daughter Caylee. The case made national headlines when the young mother was accused of murdering her baby girl

The controversial case that captivated the nation as it played out on national television has led to several movies and documentaries over the years.

Anthony has only spoken out about the case once, in a non-televised 2017 interview with the Associated Press. During the interview, Anthony conceded that her reputation amongst the general public was still in shambles – but said that she did not care.

‘I don’t give a s**t about what anyone thinks about me,’ she told the outlet. ‘I never will. Based off what was in the media, I understand the reasons people feel about me. I understand why people have the opinions that they do.

‘I didn’t do what I was accused of, but I fought for three years. Not just for me, but for my daughter.’ 

Caylee was last seen alive on June 16, 2008, and was reported missing to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office by Casey’s mother, Cindy Anthony, nearly a month later, on July 15.

In a 911 call, the grandmother told dispatchers she had not seen Caylee for 31 days and that she had smelled a foul odor emanating from her daughter’s car, as if a dead body had been inside it.

Cindy Anthony also revealed that Casey Anthony had given inconsistent explanations when asked about the child’s whereabouts. Later, she told her mother that she had not seen her for weeks.

Casey Anthony was subsequently arrested on July 16, 2008, and questioned at Orange County Jail. 

During questioning, Anthony lied to detectives, telling them Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny on June 9, that she had been trying to find her and that she was too frazzled to tell cops.

She told investigators the nanny was named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. However, it was soon determined Anthony had no nanny and that the woman, an acquaintance of Anthony’s, had never met her daughter, or other family and friends.

Anthony was charged the next day with giving false statements to law enforcement, child neglect, and obstruction of a criminal investigation. She was initially denied bail by a judge.

Her bail was initially set at $500,000 at a bond hearing on July 22, 2008, and she was released a month later when the bond was posted by the nephew of a California bail bondsman.

Months later, in October, she was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police, and was arrested again. 

Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing on charges of lying to a law enforcement officer at the Orange County Courthouse July 7, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Anthony was acquitted of murder charges on July 5, 2011

Casey Anthony (pictured) was acquitted on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee 

Caylee Marie Anthony, 2, daughter of Casey Anthony, went missing in June 2008 and was found in the woods near her grandparents Orlando home six months later 

All the while, cops and thousands of volunteers combed Orange County and Greater Orlando for the child, whose remains were eventually found in a trash bag on December 11, 2008, with more remains found in nearby woods near Anthony’s home.

The remains were identified as belonging to Caylee roughly a week later.

Jury selection for the trial began on May 9, 2011, and ended on May 20, 2011, at the Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater, Florida.

During the ensuing six-week trial, jurors were sequestered in a nearby hotel to minimize influence in the case, which captivated and angered the general public.

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The 12 jurors and five alternates sat through 33 days of testimony – examining more than 400 pieces of evidence while hearing from 91 witnesses – as 40 million Americans watched it all unfold in real time, on live television. 

The verdict was announced July 5, 2011 – with jurors acquitting Anthony on the first-degree murder count, as well as the manslaughter and child abuse charges.

The jurors did, however, find Anthony guilty on four counts of providing false information to police – charges that saw the mom handed a four-year prison sentence.

Anthony was given credit for time served in prison and was released on July 17, 2011, 12 days after the trial’s conclusion.

The verdict shocked Americans, with many assuming Anthony would be found guilty of murder.

A month after the verdict was announced, a male juror told People that none of the jurors ‘liked Casey Anthony at all.’

‘She seems like a horrible person,’ the juror said. ‘But the prosecutors did not give us enough evidence to convict.’

He continued: ‘My decision haunts me to this day. I think now if I were to do it over again, I’d push harder to convict her of one of the lesser charges like aggravated manslaughter. At least that. Or child abuse.’

‘I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, and I didn’t stand up for what I believed in at the time,’ the unnamed juror said.

‘They gave us a lot of stuff that makes us think that she probably did something wrong, but not beyond a reasonable doubt.’

The jurors have since kept a low profile and many were forced to move after they were publicly named.

Anthony has only spoken out about the case once, in a non-televised 2017 interview to the Associated Press (pictured). During the interview, Anthony conceded that her reputation amongst the general public was still in shambles – but said that she did not care 

Caylee’s disappearance sparked a six month-search for the tot, as thousands of volunteers looked for the toddler, following up on hundreds of leads

Anthony has also tried to keep a low profile since the trial, living a quiet life in South Florida where she has tried to avoid the spotlight and the general public.

Last year, Anthony made headlines after getting into a bar fight with a woman over a man the pair had both dated.

Cops were called to the scene at O’Shea’s Irish Pub in West Palm Beach in May 2021, where Anthony told police that the woman, named Thelma Moya, had poured a drink on her leg.

‘I’m still wet,’ Anthony told the responding officer in the footage. ‘I got a drink thrown at me. This girl has been harassing me for a while. I have her cellphone.’

Anthony launches into an explanation of the altercation, captured on a police body cam, saying the shared ex was a West Palm Beach Police sergeant.

‘She verbally assaulted me, but physically assaulted me with witnesses,’ Anthony says. ‘I am still damp from the drink she threw at me.’

When pressed by the officer to elaborate on the circumstances of the dispute, Anthony revealed: ‘We dated the same person for a couple of years, Malcolm Allison…who is one of your sergeants.’

‘Whether they’re together or not together, she got upset that he had texted me. I let her know that he had. And she came inside and threw a drink at me.’

Anthony did not press charges against Moya.

Anthony also was seen at the same West Palm Beach bar in 2018 and 2019.

But for the most part, both Anthony and the source close to her have said, she now maintains a life largely of solitude, wary of others. 

During the interview, Anthony revealed that she has attempted to maintain a social life in her new surroundings in West Palm Beach, where she currently works as private investigator, by drinking with friends at local bars. Here she is pictured at a bar in the South Florida city in 2019

Anthony made headlines last year after getting a into a bar fight with a woman over a man the pair had both dated. She allegedly got a drink poured on her. Bodycam footage shows Anthony detailing the May 2021 encounter to cops 

She currently lives in the South Florida home of Patrick McKenna, the 71-year-old private detective who served as the lead investigator on her defense team.

For the past several years, Anthony has been learning the ropes from the veteran sleuth, doing online social media searches and other investigative work.

McKenna was also the lead investigator for the defense in the murder trial surrounding OJ Simpson, who was accused of killing his wife, Nicole Brown, in 1994. He too was acquitted.

Anthony told AP that she’d since become fascinated with the case, saying there are ‘a lot of parallels’ to her own circumstances. ‘I can empathize with his situation,’ she said.