Casey Anthony Reveals New Theory for Caylee's Death

Jan. 11, 2012 — -- In jailhouse interviews with two psychiatrists, Casey Anthony revealed yet a different theory for how her 2-year-old daughter Caylee may have died.

Anthony, 25, told two doctors in separate interviews that she suspects her father George Anthony took the little girl from the bed mother and daughter shared, had some sort of sexual episode with her, and then drowned her to cover it up.

"She said, 'I think he held her underwater, maybe he was doing something to her and he tried to cover it up,'" Dr. Jeffery Danziger recalled Anthony saying in his deposition that was released today.

Anthony told Danziger that she called her mother Cindy Anthony four times, but could not reach her. It was not until several hours later that her mother called back and, at that point, a shocked Anthony "froze."

"I hoped he'd step up to be my dad and take responsibility," she told Danziger.

Danziger said Anthony implied that her father's eventual suicide attempt was, "his way out of the grief or guilt and I'm left to take the wrap [sic]."

"This was said with a measure of anger," the doctor said, and said she added, "I'll be damned if I take responsibility for this."

George Anthony's attorney Mark Lippman issued a statement today saying that Anthony was "made aware of these statements in the deposition prior to the trial of his daughter in 2011 and no new information has been disclosed today."

"As he has repeatedly said prior to the trial, during the trial and after the trial he never molested any member of his family including Casey Anthony and he had nothing to do with the death of Caylee Marie Anthony including what happened to her remains after she allegedly drowned," Lippman wrote.

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Anthony conceded to the doctor that she eventually told her mother "everything but the truth," but couldn't explain why. She said that she really didn't know at the time what had ultimately happened to Caylee.

"I was hoping she [Caylee] was somewhere, that she was still okay," Danziger recalled her saying.

For months after Anthony was confronted with Caylee's disapearance, Casey Anthony insisted her daughter had been kidnapped by a fictitious babysitter. At the opening of her murder trial, her lawyer admitted the child hadn't been kidnapped, but had drowned in the family's pool.

Anthony was acquitted of killing Caylee during a sensational trial last summer.

In interviewing Anthony, Danziger was repeatedly struck by her upbeat mood. At one point he said during the deposition, "What puzzled me was why is she so blasted cheerful."

Both psychiatrists noted in their depositions noted Anthony's unusually calm demeanor as she spoke about her daughter's death and her accusation that she was molested by her father and brother.

Danziger recounted his "puzzlement" with Anthony's "nice, sweet and pleasant demeanor" as she sat behind bars as the prime suspect in the death of her daughter.

"Her demeanor, the best way to say it, is she was calm, cooperative and pleasant as if we were discussing someone who had a parking ticket," Danziger said in an April 7, 2011 deposition.

He notes that she was in a good mood, reading books, sleeping fine and had a good appetite.

"No feeling of guilt, not hopeless," he said.

"This is someone who is sitting in jail. Her child is missing, presumed dead," Danziger said. "While she had not yet been charged with murder, obviously, she's charged with crimes and is being accused by the whole world in the disappearance of the child. You would expect that that would provoke some measure of distress."

The second psychiatrist who interviewed Anthony, Dr. William Weitz, also noticed her lack of emotion over Caylee disappearance.

He noted Anthony's "complete separation of emotion and affect from the various questions that she's asked to respond to."

"She seems detached from a lot of her feeling and emotion, even in times that one might expect they'd be more reactive and intense," Weitz said.

Weitz said that her reactions could be construed as defense mechanisms, possibly related to her accusations of years of sexual abuse from her father George Anthony and her brother Lee Anthony.

In her interviews with the doctors she detailed accusations of sex abuse that were mentioned during her murder trial.

She said her father molested her from age 8 to 11 which Danziger recorded as "disgusting, demeaning, intercourse, oral, everything."

Although the father reportedly stopped when she was 11 or 12, she claimed her brother Lee molested her from age 12 to 15. "Sometimes wake up to him or wake up bra over my head or unclasped. Wake up once his hands on my chest," the doctor read from his notes from the interview with Anthony.

She claimed that her father assaulted her again when she was 18. "Tried to fight back when I was older. I'm not a big person," the doctor quoted her as saying.

Anthony described to Weitz the years of the alleged sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her father and brother. Anthony told the doctor she never told anyone about her father's abuse, but told her mother about the alleged abuse from her brother.

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"The mother yelled and screamed at her, called her a whore, said that she didn't believe it, and that was her perception of the mother's reaction and description to her," Weitz recalled Anthony telling him.

Anthony also discussed the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy with Caylee, though her story changed over time.

She told Danziger that she believed she was impregnated at a party where she only had two beers, but believed someone may have drugged her. Anthony said she "woke up unclothed bottom" and didn't remember anything that had happened. She said she did not know who Caylee's father was.

When speaking to Weitz, she told a similar story, but said she was unsure if Caylee's father was the possible rapist or her own father, George Anthony. DNA tests later ruled out George Anthony as Caylee's father.

Over the ensuing years, Casey Anthony named several people as possible fathers for Caylee, including her boyfriend at the time, a man she made up and a man she said had died.

Casey Anthony's relationship with her mother Cindy Anthony is mentioned several times in conversation with both psychiatrists, but the state of the relationship fluctuates.

In several cases, Cindy Anthony seems to be disconnected from her daughter's life.

"Cindy said in 2007 Casey might have had a miscarriage," Danziger said following conversations with Cindy and George Anthony. "Mother didn't learn about it till after the fact."

Danziger said Cindy Anthony told him that her son told her about the possible miscarriage.

When Anthony realized she was pregnant, she said her family did not even notice she was putting on weight for several months.

Eventually, Anthony did discuss the pregnancy with her mother and she told Weitz they had conversations about abortion, but he said Anthony "was very clear she never considered an abortion." He said she had also ruled out the possibility of putting Caylee up for adoption.

Weitz said the pregnancy became very meaningful to Anthony, especially when she realized she was having a daughter.

"I think that has something to do with the nature of her relationship with her own mother," Weitz said. "Having a daughter was important. It was significant to her. She said I loved her at first sight, and that child was the most meaningful part of my life for three years. That to me is important."