TOT-MOM CASEY ANTHONY: “MAGGOTS & DEATH SMELL” TO NEW “MEMOIR”
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
June 16, 2008: the last day 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is seen alive.
One month later, her grandmother Cindy Anthony franticly calls 911 to report her granddaughter is missing. Casey Anthony claims that a babysitter kidnapped her daughter. By October, when nothing Casey tells police turns out to be true, she is arrested and charged with Caylee's death, even though Caylee is still missing.
On December 11, Caylee's remains are found in a garbage bag, dumped in a wooded area near the Anthony home. Eight days later, Caylee's death is ruled a homicide. Prosecutors announce they will seek the death penalty against her. Anthony was acquitted of murder, but convicted of lesser crimes of lying to police.
Since the trial, Anthony has tried multiple time to reinvent herself as a self-styled "legal advocate" and researcher. She operates primarily online, utilizing platforms like TikTok and Substack to communicate with followers, promote her legal advocacy work, She is using that method to released an upcoming serialized memoir, Who is she really?
Joining Nancy Grace:
- fmr Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. - Presided over Casey Anthony Trial, Author: "The Velvet Hammer: Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.'s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir"
- Randy Kessler - Trial Lawyer, Emory Law School Professor, Past Chair ABA Family Law Section, Author: "Divorce, Protect Yourself, Your Kids and Your Future", www.KSFamilyLaw.com, Instagram: @rkessler23, Twitter: @GADivorce
- Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), www.panthermitigation.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology"
- Rob Dick - Private Investigator & fmr Bounty Hunter. Saw Casey Anthony in prison. Served as Casey Anthony’s bodyguard immediately following her release on bail in 2008. thehumanhunters.com, beaclass.com, Instagram/Twitter: @robdickPI
- Rob Shuter - Host: Naughty But Nice Podcast, can be found at robshuter.substack.com, Former publicist of Sean Combs, Author: "The 4 Word Answer", IG: @naughtygossip
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue", Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Taught mom, Casey Anthony goes from maggots in her car and the smell of death in the trunk to writing a brand new memoir. |
| 0:22.8 | I've got a pretty good idea of some chapters she's going to leave out about when her daughter was murdered. |
| 0:31.6 | Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:43.5 | Thank you. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. My daughter's been missing for the last 31 days. |
| 0:46.9 | Taught Mom Casey Anthony, she acted cool as a cucumber. |
| 0:51.1 | Definitely not a person who is, quote, missing a child. She acted like there was |
| 0:56.6 | nothing wrong. A brand new memoir. What? Who's going to buy Top Mom Casey Anthony's memoir? |
| 1:08.4 | O.J. Simpson, Ted Bundy, B Zabubb, Lucifer. Don't know, but it's happening. |
| 1:16.9 | As a matter of fact, we've seen the front cover. This week marks the death many years ago of two-year-old Kelly Anthony. |
| 1:30.3 | Why don't we just start with the 911 call? |
| 1:33.3 | My daughter finally admitted that the baby is in store. |
| 1:36.3 | I need to find her. |
| 1:38.3 | Your daughter admitted that the baby is where? |
| 1:40.3 | The baby should have took her a month ago that my daughter's been looking for. I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can't find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she's been trying to find her herself. There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in a dark car. Okay, what is the three-year-old's name? |
| 2:01.7 | Kaylee, C-A-Y-L-E, Anthony. |
| 2:05.3 | Let me go to a very esteemed guest joining us tonight. |
| 2:09.2 | The judge that presided over the top of my, I'm Casey Anthony, murder trial, Belvin Perry Jr., former chief judge, author of The Velvet Hammer. |
| 2:22.3 | Nice title, Judge. |
| 2:23.8 | Judge, please, how could you sit on the bench and keep a straight face? |
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