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She's 3 feet tall, loves her teddy bear and hosts tea parties with her stuffed pig and Elmo doll at a toddler's picnic table.
The last time her grandma and grandpa saw her, she was leavingn their Lee Vista-area home with her mom.
The question is, where is Caylee Marie Anthony?
The 2-year-old girl hasn't been seen in more than a month, and her grandparents are worried. So are Orange County investigators.
Caylee's mother, Casey Marie Anthony, 22, told detectives she dropped Caylee off at a baby sitter's house June 9 but that the child was not there when she went to pick her up.
She never notified deputies.
She didn't tell her parents.
She did her own investigation, she told detectives. She went to clubs that the baby sitter, a woman she identified as Zenaida Gonzalez, is known to frequent. She said she was afraid her daughter would get hurt if authorities got involved because she had seen that happen in movies.
"It's difficult to sort through what we've been told, given that what we've been given was false," said Sgt. John Allen of the sheriff's child-abuse unit.
"I've been asking my daughter for the last month to talk to Caylee," Cindy Anthony said. "All I want is Caylee."
When questioned by deputies, Anthony did not "show any obvious emotion as to the loss of her child. She did not cry or give any indication that she was legitimately worried about her child's safety," according to an arrest report. "She remained stoic and monotone during a majority of our contacts."
But her mother insists Anthony has been a good mom.
Since June, Casey Anthony could be seen at the Fusian Ultra Lounge in the Waterford Lakes area almost every Friday night, Fusian owner Bruce Lam said. She recently dated Anthony Lazzaro, a promoter for the club, he said.
Cindy Anthony frantically asked the dispatcher to send deputies to her Lee Vista-area home because "I found out my granddaughter has been taken, she has been missing for a month. Her mother finally admitted that she's been missing. .
"I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can't find my granddaughter . . . There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smelled like there's been a dead body in the damn car."
"I believe that there's something dead back there," George Anthony said. "And I hate to say the word human . . . I mean that law-enforcement stuff that I did, we caught people out in the woods, in a house, in a, in a car. So I know what it smells like. It's a smell that you never . . . never get rid of."
Anthony continued: "When I first went there to pick up that vehicle I got within three feet of it I could smell something. You look up and you say, please don't let this be. Please don't let this be."
Anthony said he opened the door and tried to vent the car. When he walked around the Pontiac to look inside the trunk, Anthony told detectives: "I think I whispered out to myself 'Please don't let this be my Caylee.' That's what I thought. That's what I, my heart was saying."
Caylee's mother Casey Anthony indicted on 1st-degree murder charge
THE 7 CHARGES SHE FACES:
1st-degree murder. Aggravated child abuse. Aggravated manslaughter of a child. 4 counts of providing false information to law enforcement.
During the investigation, authorities collected hair, dirt and stain samples from the back of Anthony's car, which was towed from the parking lot of a check-cashing business June 30. Air samples taken from the trunk showed it once contained a decomposing body, detectives said.
Extensive searches failed to find a body, however.
There was a plastic bag of child's bones found in a wet, wooded area Thursday. An Orange County utility worker discovered a child's remains among vines and twigs about two blocks from the home on Hopespring Drive where Caylee lived with her mother and grandparents.
The girl's mother was charged in October with killing the girl, but she and her grandparents have insisted for months that the toddler was alive, kidnapped by a baby sitter.
Veteran Orlando defense attorney Cheney Mason said it raises questions for the prosecutors and Anthony's defense attorney. The main question, he said, will be: When and how did the body get there?
On Friday, Dr. Jan Garavaglia confirmed "with regret" that the skeletal remains found Dec. 11 in woods just blocks away from the home Caylee shared with her family belong to the 2-year-old who disappeared in June.
We may never know exactly how Caylee Marie Anthony was killed. But Orange County's medical examiner is confident that the brown-haired toddler was a victim of a homicide.
The toddler's grandparents -- George and Cindy Anthony -- received the news at their home on Hopespring Drive. Their son, Lee Anthony, arrived at the house to be with them.
Casey Anthony learned about the identification Friday at the Orange County Jail, where she is awaiting trial on a first-degree-murder charge in her daughter's death. A jail chaplain informed her about 15 minutes before the official announcement. Her reaction was not released.
Jail officials said she turned down a visit with her pastor, Shane Stutzman, who arrived while she was meeting with attorney Jose Garcia.
"The Anthony family did not give up hope that Caylee was still alive until we were notified by the Orange County Sheriff's Office at approximately 1:30 today," Conway said. "They now know that their precious granddaughter is safe and hope that she will serve as the angel that protects thousands of missing children and their families."
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