Timeline In The Casey Anthony Case

ORLANDO, Fla. — June 16, 2008: 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is last seen alive leaving the home of her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, along with her mother Casey.

June 18, 2008: Casey Anthony borrows a shovel from Brian Burner, a neighbor of George and Cindy Anthony. Burner says that Anthony returned it an hour later.

June 19, 2008: Casey Anthony goes with boyfriend Tony Lazzaro to help him look for an apartment.

June 20, 2008: Casey Anthony is captured in various photos partying at Fusion nightclub and participating in a "hard body contest."

June 23, 2008: Casey Anthony and her boyfriend, Lazzaro, break into a shed at the Anthony family home to borrow her father's gas cans to fill her car, which had run empty.

June 24, 2008: Casey Anthony gets into a fight with George Anthony about the gas and she storms out of the home. She tells her father that Caylee is with the babysitter, Zanny.

June 25, 2008: Cell phone records show she was in the area of her parents' home.

June 28, 2008: Casey Anthony's car is towed from the parking lot of a check cashing store after a supervisor calls to report it abandoned.

June 30, 2008: Casey Anthony is captured in surveillance videos shopping at JC Penney and Target.

July 1, 2008: Surveillance video shows Casey Anthony back in JC Penney buying more clothes.

July 10, 2008: Casey Anthony is recorded in surveillance video at Target.

July 12, 2008: Casey Anthony is seen in surveillance video at Winn-Dixie

July 15, 2008: Casey Anthony is recorded in Blockbuster Video, Bank of America and Winn-Dixie surveillance videos.

July 15, 2008: George and Cindy Anthony pick up Casey's car from a tow yard. George Anthony observes a strong odor emanating from the vehicle. Later, back at the Anthony family home, Casey tells her mother and brother, Lee Anthony, that she hasn't seen Caylee in a month and that a babysitter named Zanaida Fernandez Gonzalez (Zanny) kidnapped her.

July 15-16: Casey Anthony takes police to the last place she says she saw Caylee. It turns out to be a vacant apartment. Authorities also take her to Universal Studios where she said she worked, but supervisors there say she hasn't worked there in more than two years.

October 14, 2008: Casey Anthony indicted on charges of first-degree murder, along with aggravated manslaughter, aggravated child abuse and four counts of lying to police.

Dec. 11, 2008: The skeletal remains of Caylee Anthony are discovered in a wooded area not far from the Anthony family home.

May 9, 2011: Jury selection begins in Clearwater for Casey Anthony's murder trial.

May 24, 2011: Trial begins in Orlando. The prosecution shows jurors a photo during opening statements of Caylee Anthony alive and smiling, along with a picture of the girl's skull as it was found in 2008. They say Anthony used duct tape to suffocate her. The defense contends the child actually drowned in her grandparents' swimming pool.

July 5, 2011: Casey Anthony acquitted of murdering Caylee but convicted of lying to police.

Comments

[Rae Rocamora]

02:45 AM on 07/11/2011

Here's my theory. Casy A wanted to go out & hit the bars, dance, etc. She had Caylee in the car seat in her car. She gave her some chloroform to sleep. When she got back to the car Caylee had died. she duct taped her mouth, nose, etc; put her in big baggies & put her in the trunk of her car until such time that she threw her in the woods. Thus reason she wasn't found sooner. There is chloroform in lots of cleaning products. Her next move will be a movie....The defense should have used manslaughter as the first method of death. Not pre-meditated murder or even homicide

[Dianne93101]

07:18 PM on 07/07/2011

can someone explain to me how it took over 2 years to pull that shoddy trial together? So much of what I heard was not provable by evidence and/or was relevant, hence not useful whn trying to convict the woman.

[FaceReality2]

02:27 PM on 07/07/2011

They refused to convict on the basis of circumstantial evidence. They should have been questioned about their ability to do so in Voir Dire.

[LMNico]

11:01 AM on 07/07/2011

People ARE YOU MAD??? MAKE comments and write letters to your president! Make coments on the FB page http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/President-Obama-Make-a-Stance-for-Caylee/219875648047797 It's called "President Obama take a stance for Caylee". Maybe we can be heard! Remember #Change people! Isn't that is motto... Lets fix this case.

[Latessia Powell]

10:57 PM on 07/06/2011

The world that we live in is so wrong that they would a women get away with killing there own child...

[Becky Hartman]

12:36 PM on 07/06/2011

Who or where is Caylee's father??? Bet Casey's own father is the father and murderer of Casey!?!? No wonder Casey is all psychologically messed up!!!!

[arecc1]

11:25 AM on 07/06/2011

Agreed Bridget and its terrible. Its such a shame how self consumed this world has become. Every one of them will have to face the consequences of their actions. And Casey will not escape her Karma, she will get what she deserves.

This is a very sad day for our Justice system. :-\

[Bridget Gazader]

10:58 AM on 07/06/2011

The jury simply wanted to go home. They didn't ask for anything during deliberations, send out any notes to the judge. If anything she should have been charged with aggravated assault and negligence to a child for not reporting her missing for 30 days. Only 11 hours to deliberate and she is not guilty. They had already made up their minds.

[Tom Airhart]

09:39 AM on 07/06/2011

Hey folks, the jury played the cards they were dealt. You were set up by your own sense of justice. The media set you up with what they wanted you to believe. In other words, you asked for your limitations and sure enough you received them. If you're thinking karma, be careful because it might be biting you instead of her.

You didn't sit in the jury box. The jury did. You didn't deliberate your verdict with eleven others and search the evidence and facts you were presented with. The jury did. Time to move on.