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Missing-Girl's Mom Begs For More Search Time In New 911 Call

Earlier 911 Calls Show Inconsistencies In Mystery

POSTED: Friday, July 25, 2008
UPDATED: 3:12 pm EDT July 25, 2008

The mother of a missing Orlando girl begged for more time to find her daughter before getting police involved, in new information revealed in a third 911 call.


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Two 911 calls made by the Cindy Anthony -- the grandmother of missing Caylee Anthony -- were released Thursday by investigators.

During a third call released Friday, Cindy Anthony is heard talking with her daughter Casey, 22, and saying she has given her "a month."

"My next thing will be to file a child thing and we will get her," Cindy Anthony is heard saying while waiting for her call to be transferred to a sheriff's operator. "If that is the way you want to play, we'll do it."

Casey then said, "That's not the way I want to play."

"Well then you have…" Cindy Anthony said.

Casey Anthony then says she wants "one more day."

"No, I'm not giving you another day, I've given you a month," Cindy Anthony said.

After the calls were made public, Cindy Anthony defended comments that indicated inconsistencies in her story.

But she said the public should take Friday's new call into consideration, Local 6's Louis Bolden reported.

"I think (the new call) puts perspective why each phone call was more compelling to get them out there," Anthony said Friday.

"I've Given You A Month," Grandmother Says

The third 911 calls was released Friday afternoon:

"Hi, I drove to the police department here on Pershing but you guys are closed," Cindy Anthony told a 911 operator to begin the call. "I need to bring someone into the police department. Can you tell me the closest one I can come into?"

"Well, what are you trying to accomplish by bringing them to the station?" the 911 operator said.

"I have a 22-year-old person who has grand theft sitting in my auto," Cindy Anthony said.

"So, the 22-year-old person stole something?" the 911 operator said.

"Yes," Anthony said.

"Is this a relative?" the 911 operator said.

"Yes," Anthony said.

"Where did they steal it from," the 911 operator asked.

"My car and also money," Anthony said.

"Is this your son?" the 911 operator asked.

"Daughter," Anthony said.

"OK, so your daughter stole money from your car?" the 911 operator said.

"No, my car was stolen and we retrieved it," Anthony said. "Today we found out where it was at. I got that. And I have an affidavit for my banking account. I want to bring her in. I want to press charges."

"Where did all of this happen?" the 911 operator said.

"It's been happening," Anthony said.

"No, no, I need to establish a jurisdiction is what I'm trying (to do)," the 911 operator said.

"Oh, I live in Orlando," Anthony said.

"But what address did these thefts occur at?" the 911 operator asked.

"I guess my residence, I guess," Anthony said.

"That is actually going to be in the jurisdiction of the sheriff's office not the police department," the 911 operator said. "Let me transfer you to the communications section for Orange County."

"Now, is the Orlando Sheriff's Department on 436, is that open this afternoon or this evening?" Anthony said.

"The substation you are at on Pershing is for Orlando police. We are open primarily during the day but that's that sheriff's (building) but that's city police which does not have jurisdiction for you," the 911 operator said.

"I know there is a sheriff's department on 436," Anthony said.

"What I'm going to do is transfer you to the sheriff's communications section and you can determine that," the 911 operator said.

"OK," Anthony said.

"My next thing will be to file a child thing and we will get her," Cindy Anthony is heard saying on the line. "If that is the way you want to play, we'll do it."

Caylee's mother, Casey then said, "That's not the way I want to play."

"Well then you have…" Cindy Anthony said.

Casey Anthony then says she wants "one more day."

"No, I'm not giving you another day, I've given you a month," Cindy Anthony said.

The call ends when a sheriff's operator answers the phone.

Caylee's Grandfather Defends Wife

Meanwhile, the girl's grandfather, George Anthony, defended his wife Friday after some inconsistencies were found with stories she told police and the media.

"What is being portrayed about my wife, I don't appreciate," George Anthony said. "As a matter, I hate the way that's been, 'The mother this and the mother that.' I can't control the emotion that my wife was going through when she called. That was a hard call for her to make. But she wanted to know where her granddaughter was."

During one of the calls, Cindy Anthony said her daughter's car smelled like a dead body -- mentioning it three separate times to the 911 dispatcher.

"There is something wrong, I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car," Cindy Anthony said.

However, days later she said the smell from the car was rotting food.

Cindy Anthony also apparently contradicted what she told prosecutors at a hearing this week concerning her daughter's whereabouts during the time Caylee was missing.

"I told you my daughter's been missing for a month," Anthony said in the 911 call. "I just found her today but I can't find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she's been trying to find her herself."

However, something different was said during this week's bond hearing.

"From June 16 to July 15, did you have any contact with Casey?" a prosecutor asked at the hearing.

"Everyday," Cindy Anthony said. "We called each other. We left voice messages. She'd text me. There was contact everyday."

George Anthony said the family has continued to cooperate with the investigation.

"We've keep the lines of communication open with these guys," Anthony said. "Maybe we've said a thing or two that might have impeded their investigation a little bit and we are sorry about that. But, you emotion comes into play."

George Anthony said he feels like the family has been pushed into a corner.

"You get pushed into a corner and what is the first thing you want to do?" George Anthony said. "You are going to come out fighting. We are still trying to stay fighting and still trying to stay sensitive."

Anthony's Attorney Appealing Bond

The release of the calls came while Casey Anthony's attorney released a statement saying he is appealing the $500,000 bond.

Earlier, the family was encouraged that Casey Anthony would soon be leaving jail.

"This thing about the bond; we are close," George Anthony said Thursday. "I was just talking to someone before you talked with me; we are close."

A judge set a $500,000 bond for Casey Anthony but changed the release order Wednesday.

She's been ordered to home confinement with an electronic monitoring device but no longer a GPS bracelet.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this developing story.

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