The morning of June 16, 2008, she recalled, she made Caylee breakfast however wasn’t feeling properly, so she went to lie down, bringing Caylee into the bed room along with her and turning on the TV. They have been dwelling at Casey’s childhood house with George and Cindy.
Casey stated she fell asleep for awhile and woke as much as her father asking her the place Caylee was. She stated she began frantically on the lookout for her out within the yard, then walked across the aspect of the home to search out George holding a “soaking moist” Caylee. “I can see him standing there along with her in his arms,” Casey stated. “And handing her to me and telling me that it is my fault, that I did that, that I precipitated that. And I simply collapsed along with her in my arms.”
Casey stated Caylee felt “heavy” and “chilly,” and he or she herself was “hysterical.” George, taking Caylee from her, “instantly softens his tone and tells me, ‘It is going to be OK,'” Casey stated. “That she was ‘going to be OK.’ That is what he stated to me. I wished to consider him as a result of I wished her to be OK.”
After pausing for a number of seconds within the interview, her face tear-stained, she continued, “And I do not know the way lengthy I sat exterior, I do not know the place he went. He took her from me and he walked away. I do know he went again in by the display screen doorways and he went again into the home. And I do not know the place she went. And I do not know what he did. I simply need her again.”
Testifying at Casey’s trial, George denied having any information of how Caylee died or being concerned in disposing of her physique. “I’d have accomplished all the pieces humanly attainable to avoid wasting my granddaughter if what was stated occurred, occurred,” he stated, including that he “by no means knew of something that occurred to Caylee” till she was confirmed lifeless.
