New Item in Casey Anthony Case: Leonard Padilla Returns to Scene to Do More Work

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From: ~♥~ Praying for Princess Caylee~♥~
Date: Nov 24, 2008 7:36 PM


Casey Anthony case: Leonard Padilla returning to town

http://blogs. orlandosentinel. com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/11/the-anthony-cam. html

Leonard Padilla is returning to town. A donor has provided $50,000 to help the bounty hunter continue his search for Caylee Anthony.


That development was the main news this weekend in the Casey Anthony case. She is charged with first-degree murder in her toddler's disappearance.


"People might call him crazy, but bounty hunter Leonard Padilla says he's planning an exhaustive new search of the bottom of the Econ River in hopes of finding Caylee Anthony's remains," said Bob Kealing of WESH-Channel 2.


WFTV-Channel 9 reported that Padilla would not identify the donor. (Padilla is pictured.
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Another Padilla search in Blanchard Park was a false alarm -- "a frenzy," WFTV called it -- that received exhaustive live TV coverage earlier this month. Kealing reported that Padilla has not taken a lie-detector test yet about that search. To WESH, Padilla repeated that he did not plant evidence in that unsuccessful search.


WKMG-Channel 6 and WFTV-Channel 9 looked again at George Anthony's interviews this summer with the FBI interrogators. Those tapes were released Friday and received extensive scrutiny that day.


The Anthony camp isn't saying a lot about George's eye-opening comments this summer. Then he said he had smelled what seemed like a decomposing body in Casey's car.


"We'll make a statement later this week," an Anthony family spokeswoman told WRDQ-Channel 27 (whose news is produced by sister station WFTV).


That comment came at a prayer vigil Sunday night, and WRDQ noted that it had kept "a respectful distance" from the Anthonys.


On Monday morning, WFTV promised to be at the Anthony home all morning to try to get a comment from the family.


The case moves to court Tuesday when a judge hears motions from Jose Baez, Casey's attorney, who seeks more evidence from the state.