ORLANDO, Fla. – One year ago the Fourth of July weekend, Casey Anthony was among the thousands who gathered at Lake Eola for a holiday celebration, which was held more than two weeks after her daughter, Caylee, had last been seen alive, Local 6 News reporter Tony Pipitone reported.
Anthony's only apparent concern at the time was whether the boyfriend she had moved in with on the day Caylee was last seen alive was ever returning to Central Florida from his family home in New York, Pipitone said.
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"She actually was really upset about that, actually almost burst out -- well, made it seem like she was crying over the phone about it," said former boyfriend Tony Lazzaro in a previously released interview. "I was just joking around saying, you know, 'Yeah, I might have to stay up in New York,' just to get a rise out of her, and she got upset about it."
"Anything about the child? Did she worry about the child being the reason or did she ever make any statements like that?" a detective asked Lazzaro.
"No, nothing like that," he said.
Earlier on the Fourth of July, Anthony and her friend, Amy Huizenga, joined one of Huizenga's coworkers, Will Waters, at a holiday party at his residence.
"Any mention of the child at all?" a detective asked Waters.
"Not until later on that evening. She's like, you know, she told me, you know, 'I have a daughter?" he said. "And I said, 'Yeah, Amy's told me,' and that's -- and I was -- the conversation was ended at she had a daughter."
"That was it?" the detective asked.
"Yeah," Waters said.
Later, at Lake Eola, Waters said he overheard Anthony's portion of the conversation she had with Lazzaro.
"He didn't know if he was going to come back to Orlando or not. Supposedly his dad wanted him to stay up there and he brought it up at the wrong time because Casey was like, 'Well, why did you, why would you bring this up?'" Waters said. "And she's like, 'Well, I don't want to talk about this now. It's not a good, it's not a good time talking about negative things while watching fireworks."
Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of Caylee, whose bones were found in December. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in mid-July, about a month after she was last seen alive.
Anthony has pleaded not guilty, saying she left Caylee with a baby sitter at an apartment complex. She said the pair was gone when she returned to pick up her daughter.