When 22-year-old Orlando resident Casey Anthony, mother of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, reported on July 15 that her daughter had been missing for a month, officer Carlos Padilla of the Orange Co. Sheriff's Department knew something was off.
"We knew then that we were met with something," Padilla told ABC News. "Of course, we didn't know the magnitude of the case at the time."
In the weeks and months that followed, Padilla watched the case ramble through the unusual to the absurd and eventually...
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