ORLANDO, Fla. – According to an interview two days after Caylee Anthony was last seen alive, Casey Anthony borrowed a shovel from a neighbor.
Anthony's travels on June 18, 2008, put her near the area where Caylee's body was found six months later, Local 6 reporter Tony Pipitone said. Caylee was 2 when she was last seen alive on June 16, 2008.
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The same day last summer, neighbor Brian Burner said Anthony asked to borrow a shovel.
"Casey had approached me and said that she couldn't find the key to their shed and wanted to know if she ? if I had a shovel she could borrow to dig up a bamboo root that she's been tripping over," Burner told investigators in an interview last July.
Burner said he gave Anthony the shovel and her demeanor appeared normal, but the fact that she had backed her car up to the family garage was unusual.
"She took the shovel and she went back ? I believe she walked back through the garage, because I'm pretty sure the garage door was open at that point. Her car was backed in," Burner said.
According to discovery documents released by the prosecution, the garage she was backed up to contained garbage bags with yellow ties like the ones found with Caylee's body in a wooded area off Suburban Drive, which is a few blocks away from the Anthony's home east Orlando. The garage also contained a laundry bag that was the same brand as the laundry bag found with Caylee's body.
Cell phone records show Anthony was near the area where Caylee's body was dumped around 4 p.m.
After testing samples from the trunk of Anthony's car, scientists said that a decomposing body may have been lying in the trunk for around two days.
Scientists' conclusion about Anthony's trunk may never be heard in court. The opinion may not be reliable enough for a judge to allow it to be used as evidence.
In addition, cell phone pings do not prove anything except that her phone reached certain towers at certain times.
Anthony is being held at the Orange County Jail. She is charged with first-degree murder in her daughter's death.