Anthony Family Interviews With Prosecutors Released

New documents were released Thursday that detail the interviews between Casey Anthony’s family and the prosecutors taking her to trial for her daughter Caylee’s murder. There are more than 1,300 pages of transcripts from the depositions of George, Cindy and Lee Anthony.

Only Eyewitness News got hold of the statement George Anthony made under oath to prosecutors two months ago. He admitted the family has taken thousands of dollars from the CBS network for doing a show and that their lawyer has been involved in negotiations for a book deal.

TRANSCRIPTS: George | Lee | Cindy Part 1 | Cindy Part 2

The transcript from George Anthony’s August 5 deposition is 335 pages long. The first questions center on Casey’s childhood; she had no health problems or behavioral problems when she was a child or a young teenager.

In the transcripts, George Anthony made a lot of inconsistent statements, which was about the rare, industrial duct tape investigators found on George's gas can. It matches the duct tape found over Caylee Anthony’s face.

Two months ago, when George Anthony was questioned under oath, he would have known about the three 6-inch pieces of rare, Henkel duct tape attached to Caylee's hair, stretched across her mouth and that two of the pieces were overlapping.

The same Henkel logo on the duct tape is also easily seen on duct tape which was found on the Anthonys' gas can and photographed by investigators two months after Caylee disappeared.

George admitted to shopping at a Lowe's store near his home, which is one of the stores that sold the rare tape years ago. George told investigators he routinely used duct tape to seal his gas can because of a broken cap, but denied that he was the one who put this piece of tape on the can in question.

First he said that he would have been much neater about it and later claiming that it wasn't even on the can when he gave it to investigators.

They photographed it two months after Caylee disappeared because it was on the gas can he says Casey stole from his locked shed during the first week Caylee was missing.

Under oath, George claimed not to remember a lot of things, such as whether he had ever removed things from his house and given them to the defense team. Also, how he had heard Casey’s story that Caylee was taken from Blanchard Park. But weeks before Casey ever told that story, he said he didn't remember the other parks she mentioned or whether he had searched them.

George also contradicted what he said one year ago about “definitely” recognizing the smell of human decomposition in Casey's car trunk.

George Anthony told prosecutors under oath that he never asked Casey directly whether there had been an incident involving Caylee because they all believed their house was bugged.

Casey Anthony is due in court for a hearing Friday morning.

CASEY'S DEFENSE WANTS CHECK FRAUD VENUE CHANGE

Casey Anthony’s defense team is asking for a change of venue for her check fraud trial, which could be scheduled at her next hearing on Friday. Her attorneys filed a motion to request the venue change (read motion).

The defense is also asking that each potential juror be questioned individually, out of earshot of the others called for jury duty.

READ: Motion For Venue Change MOTIONS: Preclude Evidence | Reply | Jury | To Appear MORE DOCS: Voire Dire | To Limine | Modify Crime Scene

They also do not want the jurors hearing her check fraud case to hear any of the evidence that comes out publicly in her murder case.

CASEY ANTHONY'S JAIL ACCOUNT RUNS DRY

Casey's jail account is in the red by $8.95.

Since Casey has been behind bars, she has spent over $2,000 on a variety of items, including more than 30 beef sticks, 58 cans of jalapeno dip and 41 bags of chips.

Earlier this year, Eyewitness News reported that strangers from California, Georgia and South Carolina sent Casey money to her jail account.

CASEY TATTOO, DUCT TAPE PHOTOS RELEASED

It's a side of Casey Anthony you haven't seen before. Prosecutors released never before seen pictures of Casey and the duct tape they say she put around her daughter's mouth.

For the first time, the public is getting to see the duct tape that was found over Caylee's mouth (see tape); it's badly deteriorated after facing the elements for months and easy to see, without a microscope, why an FBI report said it looked microscopically different from the tape on the Anthonys' gas can. But it's also easy to see how it's the same in some very important ways.

CASEY TATTOO: Images Of Infamous 'Bella Vita' Tattoo DUCT TAPE: See Tape That Was On Remains SHOVEL: See Shovel Casey Borrowed DOCUMENTS: All 1,405 Pages Released 10/09/09 SELECT PAGES: Sticker Residue | Caylee In Bag | Hair Decomp MORE EVIDENCE: Photos In Docs Of Remains Evidence LEGAL ANALYSIS: Sheaffer On New Evidence VIDEO REPORT: Evidence Released In Casey Case

The duct tape found over Caylee Anthony's mouth was so badly deteriorated the adhesive on the back side was gone and most of the fibers also were gone. But the deterioration made way for a very important discovery, the Henkel brand logo, and specifications of the Anthonys' rare duct tape are the same as those found on the duct tape on their gas can and the duct tape Eyewitness News discovered on their Caylee posters just days after Casey's arrest.

caseyducttape100909-3b Images Of Duct Tape “It is going to be dramatic and it's going to be damaging to the defense when the jurors look at this,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said (watch full interview).

Sheaffer said looking at the tape will bring an emotional reaction from jurors.

“I have witnessed jurors looking at this type of evidence and getting emotional in a courtroom. I've also witnessed people look at what we're looking at and become overwhelmed with emotion,” he said.

Also released Friday are photographs the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently took of Casey in jail and her tattoo (see tattoo). She got the tattoo days after Caylee disappeared, when she claims she was out looking for her daughter. Instead, the tattoo artist asked her where Caylee was and says Casey told him she was with a sitter and was just fine.

caseytat100909-10 See Infamous Tattoo The tattoo "Bella Vita" means beautiful life in Italian.

“That is so bizarre and inconsistent with a desperate mother whose child has been taken by a third party,” Sheaffer said.

Eyewitness News found, among the 1,400 pages released, documents showing investigators saw signs of decomposition in one of Caylee's hairs they found in Casey's car back in July and later confirmed through further testing what Eyewitness News was first to report last year, that it was Caylee's hair and it came from her dead body (hair decomposition document).

The documents also revealed Friday there were plenty of people who saw a piece of evidence before it was destroyed. Eyewitness News first reported, last month, FBI fingerprint dusting destroyed adhesive from a heart-shaped sticker found on the duct tape over Caylee's mouth (sticker residue document). The evidence may have been destroyed, but documents show several FBI agents saw it before it was dusted.

DOCUMENTS: 3 PIECES OF TAPE ON CAYLEE

One of the documents released Friday shows that investigators found three pieces of duct tape attached to Caylee Anthony's hair (see document). Each was about six to eight inches long.

Two of the three pieces were still stuck together, one over the other. Each one bore the same brand logo of the rare tape found on the Anthonys' gas can and the tape Eyewitness News found on one of the family's Caylee posters.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer, a former prosecutor, says the discovery of layered pieces of duct tape answers the question for him as to why there was duct tape over Caylee's mouth.

“The person who placed this duct tape and put it in multiple layers did it for one reason and one reason only, to make sure that child could not breathe either through the mouth or the nose,” Sheaffer said (watch full interview).

Sheaffer says a child Caylee’s age would suffer extreme distress when prevented from breathing.

“They would become panicked and not understand what they're feeling, but knowing they can't breathe,” Sheaffer said.

That kind of cruelty would be one of the factors jurors would consider in deciding whether to recommend the death penalty if Casey were to be convicted and Sheaffer says it's a powerful one.

“The cruelty of suffocation, it just reaches on a high scale,” Sheaffer said.

Previous Stories: October 14, 2009: Casey Anthony's Jail Account Runs Dry October 14, 2009: Casey's Defense Wants Check Fraud Venue Change October 9, 2009: Casey Tattoo, Duct Tape Photos Released October 8, 2009: Prosecutors: Casey’s Defense Filed Bogus Motion October 7, 2009: Defense Wants Charges Dropped In Casey Case October 6, 2009: Judge: Hand Over George Anthony Testimony October 6, 2009: Casey’s Attorney Answers ‘Plea Deal’ Question October 2, 2009: WFTV Discovers Possible Duct Tape Link In Casey Case October 2, 2009: FBI Docs: Stain Shaped Like Child's Body In Casey's Trunk October 2, 2009: Casey's Defense Tries To Discredit Prosecution's Case September 30, 2009: Attorney Shares “New Evidence” In Casey Case September 28, 2009: Book About Casey Anthony Expected In November