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Padilla Says Casey Anthony Made Self-Incriminating Statements

Posted: 7:14 am EST November 19, 2008Updated: 11:13 am EST November 19, 2008

Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla told CNN's Nancy Grace on Tuesday night that Casey Anthony previously made self-incriminating statements to one of his associates.


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Tracy McLaughlin was living with Casey Anthony and her family after Padilla bonded her out of jail. McLaughlin told investigators that Casey criticized people who were searching for Caylee saying, "They haven't even found the clothes she was wearing."

Padilla said Casey's statement could indicate that she knows where the clothes are and where she left Caylee.

"It definitely brought our attention to the fact that at that point in time she was making a statement," he said.


WFTV OBTAINS STATE WITNESS LIST IN CASEY ANTHONY CASE

From mom and dad to an ex-lover and ex-best friend, Eyewitness News obtained the new list of witnesses (see list) the defense plans to call in the case against Casey.

Eyewitness News first reported that Casey Anthony's own defense attorney, Jose Baez, was on the state prosecutor's witness list for her first-degree murder trial. It turned out that the state had erred in including him.

The State Attorney's Office released the following statement on Tuesday afternoon: "Yesterday the State filed a witness list with the Orange County Clerk of Courts for the above case. The name Jose Baez was included on that witness list in error. After removing his name, the amended witness list will again be placed on file with the clerk."

There are three people from Hopespring Drive on the witness list, George and Cindy Anthony, of course, but also their neighbor, Brian Burner. He's the man Casey borrowed a shovel from. The three are among 83 witnesses the state wants to call to the stand when Casey Anthony goes to trial for first-degree murder.

On that list are many you might expect, Lee, George and Cindy Anthony, neighbor Brian Burner, whose shovel Casey borrowed around the time Caylee disappeared. The Anthony's spokesperson had no comment to Eyewitness News when asked Tuesday about being named and Brian Burner was not home.

Also named are a slew of Casey's friends, including ex-fiance Jesse Grund, former friend Amy Huizenga, whose checking account was allegedly cleaned out by Casey, and Zenaida Gonzalez, the nanny that filed a law suit.

The state has also subpoenaed transcripts from the Nancy Grace Show.


HEARING RESET FOR ANTHONY MOTIONS

A hearing on a prosecutor's request for a gag order in the Casey Anthony case has been reset. On November 25 an Orange County Circuit judge will also hear requests from the defense to reveal evidence and from the Orlando Sentinel, which opposes the gag order in the first-degree murder case against 22-year-old Casey Anthony (read all motions).


CAYLEE-DIVER RESIGNED AS DEPUTY OVER LIES

Eyewitness News has uncovered more dirt on someone involved in the case against Casey Anthony. Todd Bosinski was the lead scuba diver who worked with bounty hunter Leonard Padilla to try to find Caylee's body.

Eyewitness News found out Bosinski was recently asked to resign from the Orange County sheriff's office, because he had lied to his captain when he said he was a Green Beret in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Worse yet for Bosinski, who is the owner of Blackwater Divers, the sheriff's captain he lied to in February 2008 is an Army colonel who apparently sensed right away that Bosinski was full of it.

Blackwater Divers led the search last week in the Little Econ River. Bosinski gave Eyewitness News a hard time when we asked to see the bag of what he said were bones that he had pulled from the river that he said could be Caylee Anthony's bones. Sheriff's and FBI investigators had already dismissed them as nothing more than rocks from the river bed.

Bosinski gave the impression he had credibility as an investigator by telling California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla that he was a former Orange County deputy. But Eyewitness News has learned he's a former deputy because, while he was still a trainee, he lied to his captain, Ralph Groover.

Capt. Groover's memo obtained by Eyewitness News (read memo) says Bosinski lied on February 18, 2008, that he had served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Special Forces medic with the 4th Special Forces group. Nine days later, Capt. Groover asked Bosinski to confirm that, but Groover's memo says, at that point, Bosinski said it was all "bulls***" and that none of it was true.

Bosinski resigned a half hour later.

Bosinski told Eyewitness News over the phone Tuesday that the memo is false and that he quit the sheriff's office because you had to be in the right clique to get ahead. He would not talk on camera.

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