Brother takes stand in Casey Anthony trial - Huff

by mom_in_il Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:32 pm

Brother takes stand in Casey Anthony trial
KYLE HIGHTOWER | June 1, 2011 12:15 PM EST | AP

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The brother of a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter recounted to jurors Wednesday his unsuccessful efforts to track down his sister during the month when the toddler was missing, before the child's disappearance was first reported to authorities.

Lee Anthony testified on the seventh day of Casey Anthony's murder trial that he tried to track down his sister at a nightclub, by text messaging and by telephone calls in early July 2008 but was repeatedly unsuccessful.

Anthony wiped tears from her eyes as her brother testified that on the night of July 15, 2008 he had questioned his sister about why Caylee hadn't been seen by her family in weeks and wasn't home in the house she shared with her mother and grandparents. Anthony told her brother that Caylee was with a baby sitter and that she didn't interrupt her sleep schedule by getting her, Lee Anthony said.

"Nothing was making sense to me," Lee Anthony said. "Why couldn't anybody get Caylee and bring her home?"

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