Story number three.
Lee Anthony Deposition in the Civil Case against Casey Anthony
Feb. 27, 2009
Beginning on page 89
Lee:
Casey said that she dropped--or she went with Caylee to, to Jay Blanchard Park and she
met up with, you know, Zenaida there,
'cause that's where, you know, she told her to meet, you know, to, to get Caylee for the day and Zenaida was there, as well as Zenaida's sister, which I can't remember her name right now, and her two--
Q: But she told you--
Lee: --daughters.
Q: Okay. So--but she told--
Lee: or children.
Q: And Casey told you this?
Lee: Yes.
Q: When?
Lee: When she was out of jail. So if August is right the first time she was out of jail, it was that--during that time.
Q: Okay. Did that story ever change?
Lee: Since that time, no. It's a different story that she gave the police on when she was arrested 'cause she was--told Sawgrass Apartments when she was arrested.
Q: Did you--let me ask you this. What did she tell the police about the last--when she dropped--
Lee: She told police--well, she originally said--I think she said the 9th, but she was wrong on the date--we already talked about that--because my mom had her date wrong it was really the 16th, but--of, of June. But she told the police that she gave Caylee to Zenaida at the bottom of the steps of her apartment at the Sawgrass Apartment.
Q: Why, why do you call it her apartment?
Lee: Zenaida's apartment.
Q: Okay. She told you that Zenaida lived--and she--
Lee: She told the police--this was the story to the police, which she's later said that--I mean, she's gone on record saying that, yeah, I lied to you about that.
Q: Yeah, yeah.
Lee: So--
Q: But the initial story was Zenaida lived at Sawgrass.
Lee: Right.
Q: She took Caylee there--
Lee: Yes.
Q: --dropped her pff. And where, where was she going that day? Why did she drop her off?
Lee: She claimed work but--
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Q: Now, let me-- let me--all right. She tells the police she goes to Sawgrass. Then she gets with you after she gets out of jail and she says, look, here's what--here's what really happened.
Lee: Yeah.
Q: What really happened was I went to Blanchard Park. Yes?
Lee: Yes.
Q: I went to Blanchard Park. I met Zenaida Gonzalez there.
Lee: Yes.
Q: She was there with her sister--
Lee: Yes.
Q: and her two children?
Lee: yes.
Q: And I dropped her off--I dropped Caylee off and everything was fine?
Lee: No
Q: No?
Lee: When she--when she came to Blanchard and saw--and saw them--
Q: Have you given this statement to the police, what you're telling me now?
Lee: I don't know.
Q: Okay. Go ahead.
Lee: I don't know. I don't think so.
Q: Okay. It;s the--well, the truth is the truth.
Lee: Either way.
Q: The truth is the truth.
Lee: Right, exactly.
Casey said that she was--that she sat down on a bench with Zenaida kind of watching the kids play and what not. Zenaida and Casey--like Zenaida and Casey were kind of in a conversation at one point. And she remembers Zenaida grabbing Casey's arm, like forcefully, almost to kind of--like kind of hold her down in a way. And that's when she told her, you know, I'm going to take Caylee from you. You know, I will give her back to you. You can--I will give her back to you but, you know, you need to--you know, you need to follow my instructions. And that's where she made her--you know, her threat that, you know, if you go to the police, I will--you know,I will hurt, you know, your parents, I'll hurt your brother, I'll hurt, you know Caylee. I'll--you know, I'll do whatever. Don't--you know, don't do that. And it was at that point when--you know, and Casey saw whomever the sister, whatever her name was, with the kids walking over--you know, briskly walking over to where their vehicle was parked to leave. And then from that point, then you know, Zenaida left also, but--
Q: Okay. And did Casey tell you why Zenaida was taking her and--
Lee:
Well, she just said to, to teach her a lesson.
Q: What lesson?
Lee: I don't know what that lesson is. I don't know. I don't think she--if that was ever relayed to my sister, she never relayed that to me.
Q: Did she tell you then why she told the police a different story than the truth she was now telling you?
Lee:
She thought that if she would tell the police something else, that she was still following the, the--
what she was told not to do from Zenaida from this whole Timer55 thing about not,
not telling the police. That, that you're going to get Caylee back. If you listen to my instructions, no one's going to get hurt.
You'll get her back. So she's still, you know--
Q: So the--so the reason she lied to the policce, your understanding, because she feared for Caylee's life, yes?
Lee: Yes.
Q: You life?
Lee: Yes.
Q: Her life?
Lee: Yes.
Q: Your mom and dad's life?
Lee: Yes.
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