Inmate: Casey Used Chloroform To Get Caylee To Sleep Defense Opts Not To Fight Release

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POSTED: Tuesday, April 6,
2010
UPDATED:
6:56 am EDT April 7, 2010

ORLANDO,

Fla. -- Pen pal letters between Casey Anthony and another
inmate
at the Orange County Jail were released Tuesday.The
documents
contain information that passed from Casey Anthony to a
friend,
Robyn Adams, and could provide crucial help to the prosecutors'
theories
on how she may have killed Caylee.
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The state attorney's office released more than 500 pages of letters
between
Anthony and Adams, who is also an inmate. They also released
a report
from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement about
interviews with
Adams about the pair's relationship.Adams told
agents about how
they began communicating, and details about what
the pair discussed."Anthony
would give Caylee 'stuff' to make her
sleep," the FDLE report said.According
to the report, Anthony and
Adams discussed chloroform and Anthony said
she had given Caylee
"antihistamines or something" to make her sleep.Adams
told
investigators Anthony confessed to using chloroform to put Caylee
to
sleep, and also implied that Cindy Anthony may have provided.The

report states that Caylee had a hard time taking naps because she was
afraid
of "missing out on something.""Casey used the phrase
'knock her
out' in reference to medicating Caylee to help her sleep,"
the
report said. "Anthony would always like to have her days free."Maya

Derkovic, another inmate serving a 30-year sentence for murder and
carjacking,
told investigators Anthony also told her stories about
trying to
put Caylee to sleep.Derkovic claimed she spoke with
Casey Anthony in
the Orange County Jail through their cell's ventilation
system
during the summer of 2008, and told investigators Anthony
admitted
to "knocking out" Caylee many times so she could party.Derkovic
said
she tried to convince Anthony to tell police the truth, but said
Anthony
told her she was more worried about what people would think of
her
than of doing time.Casey Anthony Letters Mention Nanny,
Moving
Plans

In the released letters, Anthony addressed the
alleged
nanny, Zenaida Gonzalez.Anthony initially told
investigators she
had left her daughter with Gonzalez, or "Zanny the
nanny.""You want
to know something, I know that Caylee's nanny,
the 'real' Zenaida,
the girl who was my friend for four years, I know in
my heart that
she's not responsible," Anthony wrote. "I don't blame her
for not
showing her face. Would you want to be sitting here with me for

something you didn't do?Adams, however, told investigators that
Anthony
told her in person that Zenaida never existed, creating a
contradiction
between the letters and the inmate interviews.Anthony's
letters
also detail plans that were supposedly only known to her and
her
legal team."I was going to take Caylee and move away.
Unfortunately,
my plans got beyond tangled when Zanny wouldn't tell me
where she
and Cays were," Anthony wrote. "I had asked her to take Cays
for a
few days so I could put the rest of our stuff together -- money I
had
saved, new clothes, new everything. That's why I waited to report
her
missing, because she was and wasn't."Anthony's letters also
express
regret."I would give anything to go back to that day and
to not
have let Caylee out of my sight," Anthony wrote.Krystal
Holloway --
also known as "River Cruz" -- also told detectives that
George
Anthony said he knows Zenaida Gonzalez does not exist. Holloway
also
has a criminal record.Anthony Discusses Being A Single
Mom

In
the letters, Anthony discussed with Adams what it was
like to be a
single mom."I don't know one single mom who doesn't
try to get their
freedom, regardless of how old they are," Anthony
wrote. "That's
one of the things that truly cuts me when I hear them
talk about me
as a mother."When writing to Adams, Anthony
insisted that despite
criticism for partying or yearning for
independence, she was a good
mother to Caylee."I was a great
mom!" she insisted. "I love my
daughter with everything I have. I would
give my life to have her
back, even for five minutes."Anthony
also told Adams she still
speaks to Caylee every day."When I tell
Cays how much I love her,
I've always ended it with 'forever and
always.' I still do it to
this day. I talk to her throughout the day, as
I do daddy, and it
brings a sense of peace to my heart," Anthony wrote.Derkovic
also
told investigators that Anthony talked about balancing her dreams
with
being a single mother.According to Derkovic, Anthony talked
about
writing a book or movie script, but the only time she mentioned
her
daughter was to complain about how Caylee interfered with having a
boyfriend
and partying.Allegations Of Abuse

In one

letter, Anthony alleges that her brother molested her."I know
how it
feels to be physically, mentally and emotionally abused," Anthony

wrote. "The worst part is, when I tried to confide in someone before --
Jesse, my mom, they turned on me. I was to blame for my own brother
walking
into my room at night and feeling my breasts while I slept. I
woke
up night after night with my sports bra lifted up over my chest."Anthony
said the abuse began when she was a teenager and spanned years."This
went on for over three years before I finally stood up to Lee and told
him
if he ever came in my room again, I'd kill him," Anthony wrote. "I
was
15."Anthony said she believed her dad also molested her when
she
was younger.Derkovic told investigators Anthony also
mentioned she
did not want to tell police the truth because of what her
family
would think of her -- especially her brother and father.Anthony's

allegations of abuse are not entirely unfounded, however, as Holloway
also
claimed that George Anthony put his hand around his daughters neck
and
choked her while she was home on bond, trying to get the truth.In

relation to another Anthony family controversy, Holloway told
detectives
that she did not have a romantic relationship with George
Anthony;
however, she claimed he did visit her apartment often while he
was
searching for work -- something the apartment's security guard
confirmed
with detectives.Holloway also said George Anthony told
her he
believes his granddaughter's death was an accident.Lee
Anthony has
been largely absent lately, but Holloway said it is only
because he
does not want to cover up for his sister.Casey's
'Crush' On
An Attorney

Anthony's attorneys were given a
chance
to fight the release of the documents, but announced Monday that
they
had chosen not to.About her defense attorney, Jose Baez,
Anthony
wrote, "He's a great friend, and in many ways, looks out for me
like
a father."In another letter, she went on to say Baez would
be
over-protective if she knew men had written her and proposed to her.
She
also said she felt like a loser for having a crush on one of her
lawyers.Anthony,
Adams' Relationship

State
prosecutors have said the
letters contain information that is relevant
to the murder case
against Anthony, but do not contain a confession.In
the letters, the
pair talked about God and exchanged jokes and other
anecdotes about
their lives.Adams told Florida Department of Law
Enforcement agents
that she and Anthony began communicating through hand
gestures, and
eventually developed a friendship.FDLE said Adams
told them Anthony
referenced the discovery of Caylee's remains on two
occasions."Adams
recalled seeing a story on the news in which it
was being reported
that divers had located a bag of bones in the river
at Blanchard
Park. That night, Adams went to Anthony to talk to her
about it.
Anthony told Adams that it was not her daughter. Adams
recalled
Anthony giggling about the story as if Anthony knew it wasn't
her
daughter," the FDLE report said.Agents said Adams told them
Anthony
only ever seemed afraid on one occasion, when authorities found
human
remains in the woods by her mother's house.Adams told
investigators
that Anthony said Caylee's body was found with a baby
blanket
inside a black garbage bag long before the information was made
public.Adams
told agents she had no ulterior motive in forming a
friendship with
Anthony, but in a letter to a friend, Adams alluded to
the
contrary."This may be my only way out of prison sooner than
my
expected term," Adams wrote. "I may have mentioned that I know
something
to Kat, but I'm not exactly sure what I wrote."Adams
told her
friend that she knew the case was huge because Anthony's case
had
garnered national attention.Adams and Anthony were supposed
to
destroy each letter after it was read, but Adams sent the letters
from
Anthony back to her friend, Tracy Nealley, FDLE said. In her
writings
to her Nealley, Adams seemed to realize she had a certain
amount of
power."I hate to say it this way, but I see no other
way -- I may
be the only thing standing between her life in prison or
her
freedom," Adams wrote.Adams told FDLE agents that she and
Anthony
were allowed by a corrections officer named Silvia Hernandez to
see
each other regularly, sometimes for hours at a time.Hernandez
was
suspended from duty last week.Anthony, 24, is charged with
first-degree
murder in Caylee's death. Caylee was 2 years old when she
was
reported missing in July 2008. Her remains were found in December
2008.Anthony
and Adams exchanged more than 50 notes while in
protective custody
at the jail, a classification intended to prevent
inmates from
communicating with each other.The pair appear to
have exchanged
notes by exchanging them through books that Anthony would
tell Adams
to read in the jail.Adams is now in federal prison
serving a
10-year sentence for possession of marijuana.Anthony is
being held
at the jail on no bond pending trial.
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