In her first-ever interview with the Related Press in 2017, Casey insisted she didn’t kill her daughter.
“I am nonetheless not even sure as I stand right here at present about what occurred,” she mentioned at thetime. “Based mostly off what was within the media, I perceive the explanations individuals really feel about me. I perceive why individuals have the opinions that they do.”
She broke her silence once more in Peacock’s 2022 documentary sequence, recalling the final time she noticed Caylee alive.
“I can see him standing there together with her in his arms,” she mentioned of George holding her “soaking moist” daughter. “And handing her to me and telling me that it is my fault, that I did that, that I induced that. And I simply collapsed together with her in my arms.”
Casey’s lead protection lawyer, Jose Baez, beforehand steered a idea in his opening assertion in the course of the trial. He hypothesized Caylee by chance drowned within the household pool and George lined it up.
However when George testified, he denied having any information of how Caylee died: “I might have performed all the things humanly doable to avoid wasting my granddaughter if what was mentioned occurred, occurred.”
Authorities by no means suspected George in reference to Caylee’s demise.
George and Cindy additionally appeared on a real crime actuality present on A&E in January 2024, the place they each took lie detector assessments whereas recounting their granddaughter’s demise.