MURDER MOM CONFESSION _ National Enquirer

MURDER MOM CONFESSION

Published on: 02/23/2010

IN a dramatic jailhouse confession, Casey Anthony revealed where she buried her precious daughter's body!

The ENQUIRER has learned Casey was overheard in jail describing the exact spot where she hid her 2-year-old girl's remains.

And it was the 23-year-old murder mom's own description of Caylee's grave that led a meter reader to find the child's body, sources say.

"Casey said she was able to drive her car into the wooded area about a half-mile from her Florida home near a school," a source close to the case disclosed.

"Then she said, 'When I got out of the car, I tripped over these bricks.' She said she buried Caylee's body nearby, and it was about 80 feet from the road."

Casey's stunning jailhouse admission, which prosecutors are now trying to use as evidence, came not long after she was arrested in July 2008, according to the source.

Her detailed description of Caylee's final resting place was overheard by a prison employee at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, and spread among other staffers there, the source said.

Meter reader Roy Kronk heard the story from a female friend who works at the jail and decided to search for Caylee's body, said the source.

In August 2008, he trudged into the woods near the location that had been described to him.

"Kronk was looking for the bricks that Casey said she tripped over," said the source. "He found some brick pavers, but they weren't the right ones."

Kronk called the police with tips about Caylee's location three times that month, but a deputy sheriff dispatched to the area didn't do a thorough search.

A tropical storm then drenched the Orlando area and the wooded area became a swamp. But that didn't deter Kronk.

Two weeks before Thanksgiving 2008, his son Brandon said Kronk told him: "I know where Caylee is, and I'm going to go get her."

On Dec. 11, 2008, Kronk returned to the site and found Caylee's remains.

"The only reason Roy Kronk found Caylee is that the body's location had come to him in a roundabout way from Casey Anthony herself," said the source.

Prosecutors learned about Casey's jailhouse confession only recently, and filed a motion on Feb. 3 asking for a private meeting with the judge presiding over pre-trial hearings in the case.

According to the motion, prosecutors want the judge to delay their obligation to reveal the information to Casey's attorneys as they continue to evaluate the new evidence.

Casey, who has pleaded not guilty, is facing the death penalty. Her admission could provide the key proof that leads to her conviction.

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