DOZENS ATTEND MEMORIAL AT CAYLEE REMAINS SITE

DOZENS ATTEND MEMORIAL AT CAYLEE REMAINS SITE

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 – updated: 12:45 pm EST February 10, 2009

Nearly 100 people paid their respects Tuesday to Caylee Anthony at the site where her remains were found. The small group of people added two new pieces to the memorial site, a poster board with her name on it and a heart.

Mostly everyone at the scene told Eyewitness News they felt like the wooded area where the little girl's body was found was where they should be Tuesday morning to remember Caylee.

"Now she's an angel. What can you say? It is sad, sad," Heidi Pnoyer told Eyewitness News.

It was difficult for Heidi to express how she feels about little Caylee being laid to rest. Nearly 100 mourners started pulling onto Suburban Drive around 9:00am Tuesday. They came with their children, teddy bears and a florist delivered a basket of white flowers.

A heart-shaped sign and a large white poster board was put up so people could leave a message for Caylee at the site where her remains for found. All of the
people at the remains scene Tuesday have followed the case from the beginning and Tuesday felt like they're getting closure.

"I pray for the mom, too. I know Caylee's in heaven, but the mom's got to live the rest of her life with this in her heart," mourner Kelly Rallison said."

Leonard Padilla, Jesse Grund's father and a few others were there, because they were banned from attending the memorial at the church. They didn't harp on that when they spoke to the crowd.

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"You see a little child, I want you to smile, I want you to show them love. That may be the only smile, only love they get that day," Richard Grund said.

Many of the people there took pictures of the memorial, which will disappear soon. But no one will ever forget the impact Caylee has had on so many people she never even met. Even as they fight back tears, they have comfort knowing she's in a better place now.

Eyewitness News also learned that Padilla and the Anthony's two private investigators, who videotaped the area where Caylee's remains were found before the actual discovery, will be questioned under oath next month in the civil case against Casey.

Zeniada Gonzalez is behind the civil suit. She says her life was ruined when Casey said a nanny with the same name took Caylee Anthony.

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