ORLANDO, Fla. -- Nearly three weeks before deputies arrested the mother of missing Caylee Anthony, the 22-year-old admitted to a friend that her car smelled like death, according to new information in nearly 600 pages of released documents concerning the case.

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The documents, which included interviews and phone records, showed Casey Anthony was aware of a foul smell in her car.

In a phone call to Amy Huizenga, Casey Anthony told her friend, "It smells like something died in my car."

Casey Anthony claimed her father, George, had possibly run over a squirrel when he borrowed her car that week.

However, the date would have been during a period when the Anthonys said they could not find Casey Anthony.

Also, on June 27, documents show that Casey Anthony sent a cell phone text message to her friend (Amy Huizenga) that reads, "There was definitely part of a dead animal plastered to the frame of my car."

According to Huizenga, June 27 is the date when Casey Anthony admitted leaving her car at an Amscot, claiming it had run out of gas.

The car was later towed to an impound lot, where George and Cindy picked it up two weeks later.

Cindy Anthony initially told a 911 operator, "There's 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 later claimed the smell was rotting pizza.

But according to Huizenga, from the very beginning, Cindy Anthony apparently suspected foul play, Local 6 reported.

As Amy Huizenga and Cindy Anthony were driving around town looking for Casey, Cindy Anthony wondered if the foul odor was connected to her daughter and granddaughter.

Huizenga said, "They were afraid it was either Caylee or Casey stuffed in the trunk."

Mom-Daughter Feud Discussed

The documents also included information about Lee Anthony voluntarily sitting down with detectives and remembering vivid details about the night he discovered his niece was missing.

He told detectives that his mother and sister have had an ongoing feud that started before Caylee went missing.

On the night of July 15, Cindy Anthony finally tracked down Casey and retrieved her white Pontiac from an impound lot.

When Lee Anthony made it to the family home, he said the smell from the car was overwhelming.

Lee Anthony told detectives, "The trunk was open. The windows were rolled down to what I assume -- (to) ventilate the horrible smell that I had just smelled for the first time."

The investigator said, "The smell filled up the whole garage?"

"Yeah," Anthony said. "It hit you like a wave. I mean it was, it was whatever it was, it was very, very potent."

According to the interview that Lee Anthony gave detectives, Cindy Anthony grew tired of questioning her daughter about Caylee's whereabouts and getting no answers.

She eventually sent Lee Anthony to try to make some ground with Casey.

While Lee Anthony was alone with his sister, he said, "What's going on (and) what is the deal?" 'That's when she said mom has thrown it in my face many times before that I'm an unfit mother and you know, maybe she's right and maybe I am."

After interrogating her daughter and still not getting what she thought was a straight answer, Cindy Anthony threatened to call police.

Lee Anthony talked to Casey and told her she needed to come clean before detectives arrived.

He played the role of a police officer, saying, "The officer is going to say, 'Good evening, Mrs. Anthony. Um, where is your daughter?' And she says, 'She's sleeping.' And again, playing the role of the police officer, I say to my sister, 'Great Mr. Anthony. That's going to be a relief to everybody. Let's go get her.'"

The detectives then told Lee Anthony, "You just gave her a slap of reality."

Lee Anthony replied, "exactly."

Later, Lee pointed out to detectives that his mother and sister have always had a rocky relationship.

He also said that in the middle of Cindy Anthony trying to get answers about Caylee they were fighting.

"They were fighting about this stuff in the past instead of trying to focus on the information that we need to get," Lee Anthony said.

"There is a genuine wedge between your mother and your sister, isn't there?" an investigator asked.

"My mother has been the provider for Caylee, even down to the extent that my mother was the first person to hold Caylee when she came out of the womb. So, my mom is convinced that my sister holds some kind of resentment to her."

The documents were released as a part of the discovery process, where the prosecution is required by law to hand over to the defense all of the evidence they may be using in the trial against Casey Anthony, who was charged with child neglect in mid-July, about a month after she said she last saw her daughter.

Once the documents are released to the defense, they are made a part of the public record and released to the media, Local 6 News reported.

About a month ago, 400 pages were released in the case, including interviews with friends of Casey Anthony.

Deputy Assigned To Home?

Orange County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez said she will request that a deputy be assigned to the Anthony home on weekends as protesters continue to demonstrate.

Several fights, scuffles and arguments have broken out at the home -- mostly on the weekends -- prompting numerous 911 calls to the home.

Fernandez said the request would be made as a last resort if a lawsuit filed by the neighborhood's homeowners association fails.

'Dr. Phil' Features Case

The Caylee Anthony case was featured on the popular "Dr. Phil" television show Monday night after the show received a series of questions from viewers concerning the girl's mother, Casey.

"What so many people have asked is, 'Dr. Phil, how could a mother do this if this is happening?' Dr. Phil McGraw said. "Let me say, I'm not saying she is guilty (but) it doesn't look good to me. I mean my common sense meter is pegged. But we don't know. It is too early to conclude."

McGraw then discussed some psychological aspects of the case.

"You could be talking about somebody who is psychotic here," McGraw said. "Whether it be a schizophrenic disorder or something where they just don't know who or where they are. But one of the most common personality patterns I see in situations like this is what is called the anti-social personality."

McGraw also discussed the facts of the case before moving on to the crowds of protesters.

Protester Actions 'Just Wrong'

The show included Local 6 video of protesters screaming and threatening Caylee Anthony's grandparents, George and Cindy, at their Orange County home.

"That is just so wrong," McGraw said. "I'm sorry but that is so wrong. There is absolutely not one shred of evidence that these grandparents have done one single thing wrong. For these people to be screaming on their front lawn is wrong."

Some of the protesters have said they believe Casey Anthony killed her daughter and that Cindy and George Anthony are covering it up.

George and Cindy Anthony's attorney, Mark Nejame, said the family has been wrongly attacked.

"It is beyond terrible," Nejame said. "It is endless and it is constant. And it just doesn't occur on their front lawn. The hate mail they get. They have spent hours speaking with law enforcement. Law enforcement has deemed that neither of them are people of interest and neither of them are suspects but because their daughter is being accused of something and because they have chosen to keep hope alive that Caylee, their beloved granddaughter, is still with us, they are being criticized endlessly and mercilessly."

McGraw said he did not know what people want the Anthonys to do.

"What is the message of the protesters?" McGraw said. "I just saw a lot of screaming and irrational anger. What is it that they are asking these people to do that they are not doing?"

"We continue to be baffled by it," Nejame said. "Some of these people have said the most obscene things (and) done some of the most obscene things. (They're) bringing 3-year-old children out on the front lawn with death posters. Somebody (put) a RIP cemetery stone on their front lawn -- horrendous things. If these people think they are helping, they are sadly mistaken. They are part of the problem not part of the solution."

Nejame said George and Cindy have helped in the search in every way possible.

"Who on the earth wants that child back more than them," Nejame said. "If anything could be done by them within the realm of human capacity, I promise you, they've attempted to do it. For them to be criticized by the allegations against their daughter is entirely misdirected."

Cindy Anthony More Breathless

McGraw talked with Local 6's Jessica D'Onofrio, who has broken four exclusive reports surrounding the case.

"Talking to Cindy on the night her daughter was arrested, she was very accommodating that night and invited us into her home," D'Onofrio said. "All she wanted to do was get her granddaughter's picture on television. She was completing sentences at that time. Now, if you talk to her, she is more breathless. She is not completing sentences as much."

D'Onofrio was asked whether it was her sense that George and Cindy were concerned about the whereabouts of Caylee.

"Absolutely," D'Onofrio said. "I have been watching this case progress. I've being watching Cindy and George get more and more desperate. (Cindy) has lost 25 pounds since all of this started."

D'Onofrio said from what everyone has been telling her, Cindy Anthony seems to be acting more like Caylee's mother and how people would expect the mother to react to their missing child.

Padilla Expected 'Cake Walk'

Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, who traveled from California to help initially bail Casey Anthony out of jail, said he did not think it would be difficult to find Caylee after her mother was freed.

"We thought it was going to be a cake-walk," Padilla said. "She wanted out. She will lead us to the child and it will be over with (and) it will work out."

Padilla said Casey Anthony would not discuss anything except the baby sitter, which led to inconsistencies.

"It's the same line (as) the movie, 'The Usual Suspects,' in other words, when she gets cornered she goes on to the next lie and add to that," Padilla said. "So, she changed it from the apartments to Zenaida taking the child away from (to) Zenaida and her sister Samantha (to) Zenaida and her sister Samantha in a silver Ford Focus and then handing her a list of things to tell the cops for the next 30 days. She just kept going."

"I cannot assign a diagnosis to her but as everyone can see, this is very consistent with what we are describing as anti-social personality - the repeated lying and embellishments and ducking accountability and the absence of remorse that you are talking about," McGraw said.

A search continues for Caylee.

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