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Casey Anthony tells police she searched for her daughter
By Ashley Hayes, CNN
June 2, 2011 3:59 a.m. EDT

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(CNN) -- The murder trial of Casey Anthony continues Thursday, a day after a detective testified that he interviewed the suspect when her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, was reported missing.

Yuri Melich, the lead investigator assigned to the case from the sheriff's office, testified on Wednesday that he reviewed the written statement and interviewed Anthony in the early morning hours of July 16. A recording of that interview was played for jurors Wednesday.

Anthony told him that Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, Caylee's nanny, had kidnapped the child. She told Melich she had met Gonzalez through a friend, Jeffrey Hopkins, and that Gonzalez had also watched Hopkins' son.

Asked whom she had told about the kidnapping, Anthony said she had told no one besides Hopkins and a co-worker at Universal Studios, Juliette Lewis. Testimony in her trial has shown that Hopkins and Lewis apparently do not exist, and that Anthony apparently did not return to her job at Universal Studios after giving birth to Caylee in 2005, although she led her family and friends to think she still worked there.

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