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George Anthony Says Caylee's Kidnappers "Are Being Watched"

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 – updated: 7:19 am EDT August 13, 2008

It has been 29 days since Caylee Anthony was reported missing and Casey Anthony still isn't talking not even to her family. She had a scheduled visit with her brother Lee, Tuesday, but he cancelled.


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George Anthony told Channel 9 he believes she's still alive. He said he believes someone has Caylee and they are under surveillance, but detectives don't seem to share that opinion.

George Anthony took a mobile billboard on the road in hopes of finding someone who's seen his missing granddaughter, but he believes he's in contact with people who claim they've seen her kidnappers.

"These people know they are being watched. They know it," George told Eyewitness News on Tuesday morning.

"Who are these people?" WFTV reporter Derrol Nail asked.

"I really can't get into that with you," George said.

Sheriff's investigators said there's no evidence 3-year-old Caylee Anthony was kidnapped, but the former deputy continues to suggest she was.

"Yeah, you would think that the people who have my granddaughter right now would be smart enough to turn this girl back in to her family. I don't want anymore of this going on," he said.

"You really believe that, George, with all the evidence out there to the counter?" Nail asked.

"Oh, deeply. You know something? Stuff that's out there so far, I hope I can say this as politely as I can, evidence that's out there is circumstantial. Evidence that's out there is being drawn up in someone's mind. Just because some things look like it's going in one way, it could go in a totally different way," he said.

Sheriff's investigators are still looking for clues to Caylee's whereabouts, but her mother Casey remains the only person of interest in her child's disappearance. She's not talking, though, not even to George.

"Do you think Casey had a hand in her daughter's death?" Nail asked.

"Guys, I don't want to discuss that," George said. "I don't want to believe that. I'm never going to believe that. So I don't ever want to be asked that question again. I don't want you to speculate and put me in the position where I lose my control like I did last week."

After the interview, George spent about an hour in a Target parking lot handing out Caylee t-shirts to anyone who asked. He left the target to go meet with the people helping him and wouldn't say where, but that he had stops in Sanford and Daytona.


PSYCHIC TEAM SEARCHING FOR CAYLEE

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 (See Images | Raw Interview).

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 (raw interview).

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.

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