Taped Interviews with Team Padilla to be released

The states attorney’s office says it will be releasing “hours” of taped interviews with team Padilla.  Padilla and his crew, particularly Tracy McLaughlin, spent days with Casey Anthony after they bailed her out of jail.

There’s no telling what all is in these interviews but whatever it is Casey Anthony attorney Jose Baez tried unsuccessfully to squash them pleading to the court that Padilla was his employee and that any conversations he had with Casey Anthony regarding the case are privileged information.  Judge Strickland said negative, Padilla is fair game, after listening to the tapes himself.

Tapes will be released late this week or the following week according to a spokesperson.

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Bounty Hunter Plans Return To Search For Caylee

The bounty hunter in the search for missing Caylee Anthony said on Sunday that he has raised more than $50,000 and plans to come back to Central Florida.

 Padilla said he plans to come back soon to search for Caylee’s remains.

 This news came on the heels of a rough week for the Anthony family.  On Wednesday, WESH 2 News was the first to report that the Orange County Sheriff’s Office will no longer follow up on live sightings of Caylee. Orange County police said they believe the toddler is dead.

 Padilla said he wants a thorough search of the bottom of the Little Econlockhatchee River with divers using sifting screens. Those screens would allow water and sand to fall through, but not the kinds of things alligators won’t eat, like toys, plastic bags and human teeth.

 Padilla said he’s planning an exhaustive new search of the bottom of the river in hopes of finding Caylee’s remains.

 ”A lot of people might think exactly that,” Padilla said, referring to the face that some people have called him crazy. “But I’ve been a voice in the wilderness before. I have some money now — in the neighborhood of $50,000 pledged.”

 Padilla said he has been assured by experts that some human remains and other evidence could still be in the river, even though it has been five months since Caylee’s disappearance.

 ”In checking with people that know alligators, they won’t eat plastic stuff, garbage bags, and they will not eat teeth,” Padilla said.

 That’s why Padilla said he wants search teams to use sifting screens. He said he’s confident he can raise $200,000 and be back by early January.

 Meanwhile, the Kid Finder’s Network released a picture on Friday of a young girl seen at the Florida Mall in Orlando. The child resembles Caylee. So far, Kid Finders said it has gotten little help from the public in their efforts to find out who the girl is.

 ”It’s very urgent to get the picture out there,” said Michelle Bart, of Kid Finders. “If it’s not Caylee, we want to know.”

 Padilla said he has not been given a polygraph by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and does not know when that will happen. He reiterated that he did not plant evidence at the river two weeks ago.

WESH.com News   UPDATED: 6:43 pm EST November 23, 2008

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Padilla Offered $200K To Allow Filming Of Search For Caylee

News 13 has learned bounty hunter Leonard Padilla is considering an offer that would pour $200,000 into the search for Caylee Anthony.

Padilla told News 13 he has been contacted by a company that is willing to fund the search effort if Padilla is willing to give them exclusive rights to film the search effort.

The bounty hunter said he has not made a final decision on if he is willing to take the offer.

Padilla has returned to California, and will stay there for the next couple of weeks. He said he will return to Orlando and do a thorough search of the Little Econ River, where he still maintins he is “sure” Caylee’s remains are in that water.

News 13  Monday, November 17, 2008 1:43:10 PM

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Orange County Officials Ask Bounty Hunter To Take Lie-Detector Test

Divers searching for the remains of Caylee Anthony on Thursday said they discovered a garbage bag containing bones and toys in a river at an Orlando park, but Orange County authorities said the findings were not credible, causing them to request the bounty hunter who led the search to take a polygraph test.

A team from Blackwater Divers led by celebrity bounty hunter Leonard Padilla conducted the search in the Little Econ River at Blanchard Park in Orlando.

 But Orange County sheriff’s officials said the findings were not connected to the case.

“Early on the afternoon of Nov. 13, 2008, divers associated with an independent search for Caylee Anthony reported the recovery of what they believed were bone fragments and other items related to the missing toddler from the Little Econ River on Jay Blanchard Park in east Orange County. Investigators assigned to the investigation into the disappearance of Caylee responded to the park and determined that the recovered items are not associated with the case

The sheriff’s office remains focused on the primary mission at hand, which is to locate Caylee Anthony and continues to follow up on all viable leads and tips that are deemed to be creditable in their ongoing investigation,” the statement said.

 Sheriff’s officials said they have asked Padilla to take a polygraph test, to which the bounty hunter agreed. The FBI will conduct a polygraph test with Padilla at a later date, Orange County sheriff’s Deputy Angelo Nieves said.

 It is also not known if the items that appeared to be bones were human. 

“There’s a couple of small toys in the bag. One of them is a clover-type shaped item — green — and we know that Casey was big on clover-shaped items. So I told them to shut it down and get the sheriff’s office out here,” Padilla said.

 FBI agents inspected the items, Local 6 News reported.

 ”We came out here to find Caylee, but you don’t want to find her,” Padilla said while crying. “But that’s the truth of the matter. We think we have.”

 Padilla said he has believed for a while that Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, left the girl’s body at Blanchard Park.

“When the detectives talked to her, while she was trying to convince them (baby sitter) Zenaida (Gonzalez) took (Caylee) away at the Sawgrass Apartments, she also mentioned that she had also come out here to see — that afternoon at 5 or 6 — if possibly Zenaida was out here at the park because Zenaida used to bring the girl to the swings,” Padilla said. “When we got into town and bailed her out, the day after she was out, she told me that Zenaida had taken (Caylee) away from her right here in front of the swings at Jay Blanchard Park.”

 Padilla said Casey Anthony mentioned the name Zenaida together with the park about eight times.

 Caylee’s grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said she was ignoring Padilla’s efforts. She said if, and until, law enforcement officials comment on any finding, she was concentrating on finding Caylee alive.

 Cindy Anthony said she received a tip earlier on Thursday of another possible Caylee sighting. She said a caller reported a sighting at a McDonald’s in Coral Springs.

 The search of the river was the second in four days. A two-man dive team organized by Padilla searched the same river on Monday but did not find anything. Padilla, who held a prayer vigil for Caylee at the park on Tuesday, had said that he would be leaving Orlando after the service.

“Nobody else is doing it. Everybody left town,” said Padilla when asked why he decided to lead another search. “We’re bringing up the remains. We feel confident that the remains are there.”

 ”The water smells, there’s alligators, there’s snakes, there’s zero visibility,” a diver said.

 Caylee, 3, was last seen in mid-June but was not reported missing until mid-July. Casey Anthony, 22, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in her daughter’s disappearance

Channel 6 News       UPDATED: 4:32 pm EST November 13, 2008

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Divers Find Toys, Bones In Caylee Search

Divers searching for a sign of Caylee Anthony found a plastic bag with toys and small bones weighted down by bricks on Thursday, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said. 

Inside the bag were two toys and bones the size of fingers and toes, Padilla said. There also was a shamrock, which Padilla said was a favorite symbol of Casey Anthony. 

The FBI has been called.

The discovery came on the second day of searching the Little Econlockhatchee River around Blanchard Park on Thursday for any sign of Caylee.

 Casey Anthony is in Orange County Jail awaiting trial on first-degree murder and other charges. Prosecutors say she killed her daughter, who has not been seen since June. 

“We’re going to keep going forward until the lead wears out,” Padilla said. 

The search was organized Padilla, who sent nearly 40 divers back into the water to search for the missing toddler.

 Blackwater Dviers owner Todd Bosinski called Padilla volunteering his divers for another search. 

“I have three kids of my own and I would expect the same if one of my kids were to go missing,” Bosinski said.

 The divers are trained to pay close attention to every detail. 

Soon after this search started, the divers found a piece of driftwood that sparked interest at first. 

“Underwater this could feel like a leg or an elbow and as you can see. It bends just like a leg,” Bosinksi said. 

Thursday’s search is much larger than Monday’s. This crew plans on searching one mile of the Little Econ River before packing up.

 Caylee’s grandparents George and Cindy Anthony continue to criticize these searches and Leonard Padilla, but, the bounty hunter says he’s not backing down

WESH.com News  : 1:58 pm EST November 13, 2008

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Divers Again To Search River For Caylee Anthony

 Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla says he will continue his search to find 3-year-old Caylee Anthony’s body in Little Econ River.

This is contrary to an interview he gave last week with FOX 35’s Alexis Brito. “My work here is done, I have given the FBI evidence that Caylee Anthony’s remains are in the Little Econ River,” he said.

He refused to detail what evidence he says he found. When asked if he was ever going to return to Central Florida and search for the missing toddler, he said he probably would not.

Padilla now says he isn’t giving up. On Wednesday night, he made it known to the public that he was staying to continue the search. He says he wants to find Caylee’s remains.

Once again, Padilla has hired divers to go into the river. His theory is that Caylee’s mother, Casey, disposed of her daughter’s body by putting it in a garbage bag and throwing it into the river.

A dive team is back in the water for the second time this week in an attempt to locate Caylee’s body.

Padilla arrived to J.Blanchard Park after 8 a.m.

Fox 35 News      Thursday, 13 Nov 2008, 9:34 AM EST

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Memorial Service Being Held For Missing Toddler

California Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla says it is time to let 3-year-old Caylee Anthony finally rest in peace.

Right now, a group of people have gathered at J.Blanchard Park near Little Econ River for a service to honor the little girl.

Padilla believes Casey Anthony dumped her daughter in the Little Econ River. In August, a woman with Equusearch found a beaded cross hung on a tree near the river. That cross, according to Padilla, was made with the same beads one of his bounty hunters saw in Casey’s room when she was supervising her after being bonded out of jail.

 

Caylee’s grandparents, Cindy and George Anthony, are extremely upset with the service because they say it indicates their granddaughter is dead, and they are still holding out hope that she is alive.

Despite their begging to stop the service, Padilla said they have to get over it and accept the facts.On Monday, both Texas Equusearch and Padilla called off their search to find Caylee. More than 1,000 volunteers turned out over the weekend to help search, but were unsuccessful in finding the girl’s body.Padilla headed up a dive team search at Little Econ River yesterday. A small ditch covered with garbage turned out to be the remains of an animal. He says he believes Caylee’s body is in the water somewhere, but it will never be found because the water is filled with so much garbage, causing the water to be extremely murky.

 Fox 35 News   Last Edited: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008, 9:04 AM EST

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Divers Search River For Caylee

12:21 p.m. Leonard Padilla has two divers in the river at Jay Blanchard Park this afternoon to search for Caylee Marie.

One man is standing in the water, feeding a line to another diver using scuba gear. Visibility is low and that diver is only able to run his hands along the bottom, according to Rob Dick, who is helping Padilla.
Padilla said he has two other divers who could go in the water, but has opted to leave them out because he fears for their safety.

“What if an alligator sneaks across there, or something,” Padilla said.

Dick refused to name one of the divers and gave only a first name and nickname of the second diver. It’s unknown what, if any, training the divers have.

Orlando Sentinel  November 10, 2008

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Padilla, who assisted Miller in the weekend search, took a dive team to Blanchard Park to search the Little Econ River for Caylee. 

Padilla said he received a tip from a friend of Anthony’s, leading to the new search. Padilla said the friend showed him a picture of a cross that she had taken at Blanchard Park and it matched some arts and crafts that were in Anthony’s room. 

“She could have easily gone to the park, taken the body out, ruptured the bag when she pulled the body out of the trunk — which left fluids in the trunk — gotten it all over herself, taken it to the edge of the water and dumped it in there,” Padilla said. 

Padilla said that theory would explain a stain on one of Anthony’s shirts that her mother, Cindy Anthony, cleaned before it was turned over to investigators.

Channel 6 News   November 10, 2008

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Leonard Padilla drops a bomb on the Nancy Grace Show

The Casey Camp continued it’s free-fall tonight on Nancy Grace. I don’t even know what Cindy was doing on the show. She kept talking about all these people that are calling her with Caylee sightings. Sarah II summed the entire interview up tonight when she wrote:

What people are probably saying to Cindy when they call her:

“Where is Caylee? Why aren’t you out looking for her? Why didn’t your daughter look for her the week she was out of jail? Why did you tell police the car smelled like a damn dead body, and then you changed it to pizza, then you changed it to somebody’s dead body, but not Caylee’s?”

What Cindy hears:

“We saw Caylee at a mall in Atlanta and called police but they never showed up. She was with a Hispanic lady and was calling her Zanny.”

Whenever Nancy Grace would try to break it down for her regarding evidence in the case, Cindy would just go silent. Eerily silent.

As if that wasn’t enough, Leonard Padilla, who I guess is tired of their games and them slamming him in the press, decided to drop this bomb just as the credits were starting to roll.

Here’s the situation Nancy. I believe that when the FBI, who’s got one of the finest labs in the world, comes back with the DNA it’s going to shock the world over something that Lee, Casey, and Cindy have known since Wednesday when they released their preliminary findings; and also the dumpster a mile and a quarter down from the boyfriend Tony’s house is going to play a big part in this.

You can watch the video to the Nancy Grace Show here. The above quote is from the last few seconds of the second clip.

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caylee anthony case – update geraldo 8/30

Sounds like there’s an outside chance the Padilla’s might reinstate the 500K bond (second video).

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