Roy Kronk, the man who discovered Caylee Anthony's remains, told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview that snakes and flooding may have impeded an earlier police search of the area.
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Exclusive: Meter Reader Roy Kronk Denies Tip to Caylee's Body
Kronk Frustrated With Cops, Exasperated With Reaction to Discovery
End to the Long, Twisting Search for Caylee
According to police, Kronk is not suspected of being involved in Caylee's disappearance.
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"He saw something that was suspicious and acted upon it as any good citizen should. He did the right thing," Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Carlos Padilla said in a statement.
Kronk's discovery ended a massive search effort that began July 15 when Casey Anthony told police her daughter, Caylee, had disappeared a month earlier.
The day after she reported the child missing, Anthony was arrested on charges including child neglect. During a bond hearing July 22, authorities named Anthony a "person of interest" in Caylee's disappearance and said they were treating the case as a potential homicide after they discovered "evidence of decomposition" in the trunk of a car that Anthony had driven.
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On Oct. 14, with Caylee's body still missing, Anthony was officially charged with first degree murder.
By the time Kronk found a child's remains less than half a mile from the Anthony home Dec. 11, the massive search effort had attracted thousands of volunteers. Authorities including the FBI had tracked down hundreds of leads both in the United States and abroad.
Eight days later authorities confirmed through DNA testing that the remains belonged to the missing toddler.
It has been the defense's position throughout the search that Anthony "handed [Caylee] up to a third party" in June and that a body could be found, Todd Black, spokesman for Anthony's attorney Jose Baez, told ABC News after the remains were found in December.
"From the beginning he [Baez] started preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best," Black said.
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