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Psychic Team Joins Search For Caylee Anthony

Posted: 6:33 am EDT August 12, 2008Updated: 10:37 am EDT August 12, 2008

It's been 28 days since now 3-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing and a psychic has joined the efforts to find her.


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Gale St. John said she had a vision of a place in Orlando near a lake, surrounded by trees and wildflowers. That is where she believes Caylee Anthony can be found, but not alive.

"It's just a feeling that we have. We don't like to talk about it because it hurts us," Gale St. John said.

St. John was the star of a planned cable TV show, The Body Hunter, and now she has a team searching an area near Lake Conway with cadaver dogs. Gale said that she was not just doing it for TV, she was also asking for donations on her website.

Since the low budget show has not debuted yet, St. John said donations were the only way she could afford to travel.

"Geez, I wish I wasn't losing my house right now. So if I'm making a profit somehow, it's not doing me a lot of good," she said.

St. John has not promised anything, but said she had something to offer.

"Can we be wrong? Yes, but we're doing more than sitting around talking about someone missing," said St. John.


LEE CANCELS VISIT, ATTORNEY EXPLAINS

Casey Anthony's brother Lee was expected to visit her in jail Tuesday morning, but he decided to cancel.

Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez said people should not be surprised that Caylee Anthony's mother Casey has turned down her own family's requests to see her. He said the jailed mother does not want their recorded conversations to become public.

"If it comes out that they're close, it could bring harm to Caylee," Baez said.

It's was a familiar refrain coming from Baez and the Anthony family, but had not yet been used to explain why she would not talk to her own family members.

On Sunday, Casey told the jail she didn't want to visit with her parents and last Friday denied Lee a visit. Baez claims Casey's isolation goes against her nature.

"She wants to see her family, talk to her family, but she's willing to sacrifice that for Caylee," he said.

On the legal front, Baez was coming off a number of lost motions for Casey in court. Recently, his attempt to reduce Casey $500,000 bond was denied, but Baez said the legal battle is far from over and no one understands that better than his client.

"She's very in tune to what's going on legally. She's a bright woman," he said.


TIP ABOUT SMELL LEADS NOWHERE

A tip in the Caylee Anthony case involving a suspicious smell had investigators rushing to a wooded area along Narcoosee Road on Monday afternoon, but the search came up empty-handed.

Eyewitness News was tipped off that someone detected the smell of decomposition in a wooded area near Lee Vista Boulevard and Narcoosee Road (see map), not too far from Caylee Anthony's grandparents' house. An investigator on the scene told Eyewitness News the tip was related to the search for missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, but determined the smell was from a dead dog.


GRANDPARENTS MEET WITH INVESTIGATORS AGAIN

Caylee's grandparents met with the sheriff's office Monday, for what they said is going to be a regular occurrence until Caylee is found, to share information.

"Just to get some information from the search department to see how the search is going for our granddaughter," George Anthony told Eyewitness News as he and Cindy walked into the sheriff's office Monday morning. "It's just a question and answer period for both of us. We have some questions for them. This is going to be an ongoing thing we do with them until our granddaughter comes home."


CINDY DISPUTES SEARCH WARRANT DETAILS

Cindy Anthony is disputing something in the investigators' search warrant affidavit about Casey Anthony's phone records.

"That's a misstatement," she told Eyewitness News.

The affidavit says Casey's cell phone records "show no numbers belonging to a Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez" and that there is "no incoming call" around noon on June 15, when Casey says she got a call from a private number and briefly talked to Caylee.

Cindy said she shared new information with investigators Monday about Casey's phone records that she says shows Casey really did get a call from Caylee on July 15 from a "private number." She's even claiming that Caylee's great grandmother heard from Caylee during the time she's been missing.

"We had a long conversation about that today. Some of the stuff that got leaked out is erroneous and they're looking at some of those things today," Cindy said.

"How did the person who had Caylee get your mother's phone number?" WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked.

"She was programmed into my daughter's phone," Cindy said.

Casey is isolating herself in jail, has had no calls for a week and she's canceling visits with her family. Investigators don't know if it means she's about to crack.

"If she cared to talk with us and tell us what she knew, we'd certainly sit down and listen to her," Sgt. John Allen said.

The Anthonys said Monday they've been getting threatening phone calls and emails and, even though they said they believe a possible threat and danger to the family is keeping Casey from telling what she knows about where Caylee is, they said they're just getting rid of the threats and not reporting them to investigators.

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