On December 11, 2009 OCSO traveled to TES headquarters in Dickison, Texas. They were there to collect paperwork on volunteers who had been involved in searches on Suburban Drive, and to interview Tim Miller about the TES work done in Orlando in 2008 to find Caylee Anthony.
Tim Miller states he received a phone call from Cindy Anthony to come down to Orlando and help. Tim states they flew down to Orlando and went to the Anthony home to meet with Cindy and Casey. Cindy had to take a phone call and Tim visited with George’s friend from Ohio. The friend stated George wasn’t doing well and Tim acknowledged the situation had to be stressful on George. Tim Miller states the friend then responded, “…well he knows the answer’s in the bedroom and he pointed to ah, Casey’s bedroom. And his words were, “But the f***ing bitch won’t talk.”
Tim recalls that George eventually arrived home from work. Tim states he spent quite a bit of time that evening with the Anthonys. But after his visit with George’s friend he began to realize that there was more to the story than just a missing toddler. Eventually Jose Baez shows up and Tim states Baez thanked him for coming to try to find Caylee, but then asks Tim to “please not talk to his client [about] anything about that case.” Baez instructed Tim that if he had any questions to ask, or he wanted to speak with Casey to make sure he contacted Baez and Baez was present during any conservations with his client. Tim was asked if he had ever been called in by a family before to assist in finding a missing person and then subsequently asked to not speak to the last person who saw the missing individual alive…his answer was “This is the first time ever.”
Tim Miller described Casey as “not very friendly” to the TES individuals who were in the home that first night. He also describes that from the first night of being in the Anthony home, the family did not act or provide helpful information like the families he has assisted in the past. That first night he recalls Cindy going on a diatribe about how Sheriff Beary had vowed to arrest Casey for Caylee’s murder and that the whole thing was a big political conspiracy and the authorities weren’t helping her find her granddaughter.
In a subsequent visit to the Anthony home Tim told Cindy that while they were going to assist in looking for a live Caylee, they were also going to begin a ground search in case something different had happened. Tim states Cindy “certainly got a different attitude at that time”.
Tim then brought out a map he had purchased upon arriving in Orlando. He told George and Cindy that he needed to identify areas to search. He states George went into Casey’s bedroom for some time and told Casey TES was going to start searching areas and eliminating them. Tim states at this point Cindy “was not real happy”. In Tim’s words, “she wasn’t being ugly then, but you could tell that her mood certainly took a, a terrible change, and not for the better.”
Tim then recalls that George and Casey sat down at the table with the map and George stated to Casey something to the effect of “Casey, where do they need to start searching? Would you make us a spot on the map? Would you make an X, would you make a spot on the map?” At this point, Tim recalls, “Cindy really got angry”. Upon Cindy losing her cool, Casey got up and went back into her bedroom. Tim looked at George and as Tim recalls “I threw my hands up and I said, you know I’m sorry we really didn’t come to cause any trouble…” Tim states Cindy then “asked us to leave and ah, and certainly wasn’t a friendly way she asked us to leave.” Subsequent statements would reveal it was more of a Cindy told them to get the something-another out of her house. (And we wonder where Princess Poopie Pants gets it, huh? I think Cindy put it best in one of her blather-fests with law enforcement – “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Even a broken clock is right twice a day…and as such, every once in awhile Cindy is too!)
Tim then recounts how later that evening George Anthony showed up driving around aimlessly at the Holiday Inn where the TES folks were staying. Tim also gives insight into the Anthony family dynamics. He states “Cindy was the spokesperson and even when George would try to talk ah, Cindy would break in and take the conversation over.” Tim even asked Tracey McLaughlin at one point, “who’s the real mother of this child is it Cindy or is it Casey?” He was being snide, of course, but he states “Cindy was totally in control of everything. And made sure everybody said the right words.”
Tim was asked if while he was in the Anthony home Casey ever asked him to “please find my daughter”. Tim responded that she had not. He said within an hour of being in the home he wondered what was going on. Tim watched Casey “going around the house…always smiling. She asked us what we wanted to eat….I literally thought that this girl was acting like she was going to a cheerleading competition or somethin’.” And then Tim states, “Out of a four day period of time of being in that house [he estimates their total time in the Anthony home over those 4 days at 12 hours] Casey Anthony never said the word Caylee one time.” When asked if Casey ever did anything to assist TES in finding Caylee, Tim’s response was “…No absolutely not. There was always a smile on her face. She was laughing, she was giggling. Um, she ah, no she never said her daughter’s name once, not one single time.”
Tim then discusses how Helen Davis, one of his lead searchers told him about the area on Suburban Drive. Helen conveyed to Tim that the area was under high water but they really needed to return to the location at a later date when the water had receded. It is worth pointing out that Tim Miller was on Suburban Drive (but at the end of Suburban, southeast of the school) on September 1, 2008. This is the same date that Danny Ibison and Joseph Jordan, along with other searchers were in the area. In addition, at the same time Tim was there, Detective John Allen was there – as captured in media coverage of that day’s search activities. It was around this date that they took ATV’s into that area and sunk one down to the motor in mud.
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Related posts:
- The Search: Jim Hoover’s 12/18/08 interview with OCSO
- The Search: Dominic Casey’s 01/07/09 interview with OCSO
- Linda Tinelli’s interview: A Few very strange Questions
- Caylee Anthony case: Conway will no longer represent Anthonys
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Laura Buchanan plays both ends against the middle
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