Timeline of Casey Anthony case
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.
