ORLANDO, Fla. – Almost six years after a jury acquitted Casey Anthony of killing her daughter Caylee, a three-part television series will revisit Central Florida’s most high-profile criminal case.
News 6 spoke to the Investigation Discovery reporter who helped produce the special.
“It was such a twisted tale. I remember, at the time, thinking you couldn’t make this stuff up,” Steph Watts said. “It’s really taking people back to the beginning.”
Watts conducted new interviews with Anthony’s parents, George and Cindy, taht he said will reveal “shocking” information.
“Both of them, Cindy and George, for the first time have come to terms with who they believe did this and how this person did this,” Watts said. “What’s interesting is they have very different views and theories on how they believe Caylee Anthony was murdered.”
Deputies began searching for the 2-year-old in July 2008 after Anthony’s parents discovered their daughter’s foul-smelling car at an impound lot.
When investigators questioned Anthony, she told them a babysitter had kidnapped her daughter a month earlier.
“Obviously, this is a bizarre story,” former Orange County Detective John Allen explains in the documentary. “Typically, when a child goes missing, parents report right away.”
He and retired Chief Judge Belvin Perry are among the key figures from the case who appear in the Investigation Discovery special.
Casey Anthony did not participate in the program.
Last month, in one of her first interviews since her acquittal, she continued to proclaim her innocence.
“I’m still not even certain as I stand here today about what happened,” Anthony told The Associated Press.
During the trial, Anthony’s defense team argued that the toddler drowned in the family’s backyard swimming pool.
Her lawyers also suggested Anthony’s father disposed of the body, which was found in a wooded area around the corner from the couple’s East Orange County home.
George Anthony denies the allegations.
“My daughter could come right in front of me right now and say, ‘Dad, this is what really happened,’ I wouldn't believe her,” George Anthony said in a promotion for the TV series.
"Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery" begins Sunday at 9 p.m. on Investigation Discovery.