Casey Anthony 'thought her father George had also fathered her daughter Caylee and killed the toddler to hide evidence of abuse'

In new tell-all, former defence attorney Jose Baez accuses father George Anthony of sexually abusing Casey

Also says that Casey suspected that George had fathered Caylee

On July 5, 2011, a jury sensationally acquitted Anthony of all three charges which together carried the death penalty

Casey Anthony, dubbed the most hated mother in America, had suspicions that she and her daughter Caylee shared the same father, according to her former defence attorney.



In his explosive new tell-all, the Florida woman’s lawyer Jose Baez accuses George Anthony of abusing his daughter, and speculates that George could have murdered 2-year-old Caylee to hide evidence of abuse.

Casey was sensationally acquitted of murdering her daughter after a highly-publicised trial last July.

In his book, Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, Baez reveals aspects of the Anthony’s private lives that were not looked into during the trial.



Accused: Casey Anthony's lawyer accused her father George, left, of sexually assaulting her, and speculates that he killed Casey's daughter Caylee to cover up the abuse



Troubled past: Casey Anthony, centre, pictured July 7th, 2011, says she was frequently molested by her father and told her lawyer that she feared he was Caylee's father

The lawyer accused George of killing the toddler to hide evidence of abuse. Baez first made the shocking allegation at the trial’s opening statements, saying that George killed Caylee, disposed of the girl’s remains, and then lied about it to authorities.



Casey confided in Baez that she was worried her father might have fathered Caylee, because he had sex with her around the time she had become pregnant. DNA tests later revealed that George was not the father.



George, through a family attorney, denied ever abusing Casey.

However, Casey and her father have reportedly been estranged since October 14, 2008 , the day, CF 13 News notes, that he testified against her, leading to the grand jury indicting her for murder.

He testified in the trial: ‘I would have done anything I could to save my granddaughter.’

Casey Anthony's defense attorney: Jose Baez gestures as he speaks about his just-published book Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story almost a year to the day she was acquitted

One year on: Casey was sensationally acquitted by a jury last July 5, left, and walked free from jail just over a week later, right



Someone in the Anthony house conducted several suicide-related searches on the family computer, including ‘fool-proof suffocation’ and ‘venturing into the pro-suicide pit’ on the day little Caylee Anthony vanished, Casey Anthony’s defence attorney Jose Baez said.

The attorney revealed that the searches were conducted around an hour after Casey’s father George Anthony said she left the home.

While last year’s trial famously revealed that the family computer also had searches for ‘chloroform,’ the suicide searches were not revealed, Baez said, because they were discovered after the fact.

He to ld Good Morning America : ‘I ha ve a hard time believing that law enforcement wouldn’t check the internet history of the day that the child went missing. That would have been bombshell evidence in the trial if it had come out.’

Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's defense lawyer, has written a tell-all book about the case

Prosecutors claimed Anthony suffocated Caylee with duct tape so she could spend time with her boyfriend and be free for Orlando's nightlife.



Baez said during the trial - repeated again in his book - that Caylee accidentally drowned in a family swimming pool and that her father, George Anthony, hid the body. Baez also claimed George Anthony sexually abused his daughter.

George Anthony denied both allegations, and there was little brought up about them during the trial. Baez said the defence wasn't required to put on any such evidence because proving the case is the prosecution's burden, not the other way around.

George Anthony tried to commit suicide in January 2009, and was found in a Daytona Beach hotel after overdosing on prescription drugs. A five-page suicide note was also discovered at the hotel.

Baez told GMA that it was hard to determine who in the Anthony family conducted what searches on January 16, 2008, but said it was possible to infer who searched what, based on the terms searched.

For instance, one of the terms searched was ‘foolproof suffocation.’ Baez noted that the terms were spelled incorrectly, and that George struggled with good spelling.

He wrote in his book: ‘By looking at the websites being researched, all concerned with suicide and death, it certainly appears that the one who felt the blame was a guilt-ridden George Anthony.’

In his book, Baez also lashes out at several entities - calling the media a 'monster', the police 'careless' and the prosecution 'scheming and ruthless'.

He wrote: 'This was not real life, it was the media's Casey Anthony reality show, a show that depended on name-calling and controversy for television ratings.'

Evidence and testimony showed that Casey was a habitual liar, even making up fake friends and pretending every day to go to a job she didn't have at Universal Studios. Baez was asked whether Anthony's lies surrounding her daughter's disappearance might be indicative that she was guilty.

Counsel: Defence attorney Jose Baez talks to Casey Anthony during her trial when the jury heard her father say her car smelled of human decomposition. Baez revealed in his book he also thought he could smell a dead body



Innocent: Mystery surrounds the cause of Caylee Anthony's death after her mother was acquitted of her murder one year ago today



'I don't think the lies are indicative of innocence or guilt,' he said. 'The lies were there long before Caylee passed away.' In the book, he says Anthony had built a 'fantasy world,' and her lies weren't evidence of guilt but signs of someone with 'serious mental health issues.'

Baez said one piece of prosecution evidence he was most concerned about was that police cadaver dogs had indicated a body may have been in the trunk of Anthony's car at one point and also that a body may have been in the backyard. None was discovered in the backyard and there was nothing but rotting bags of trash in the trunk.

But, he said, people - and jurors - believe in dogs.

'That concerned me a little bit. Most people really think dogs can do magic,' Baez said.

He also strongly considered early in the case whether she should plead guilty to a lesser charge to avoid the death penalty if convicted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, but Anthony adamantly insisted she had nothing to do with the toddler's death.



New Look: The last time the public saw Casey was when this video was released in October. She is said to be living in Palm Beach, Florida

'Found': West Palm Beach, Florida, where Casey Anthony is reported to be staying with a friend

Baez said prosecutors offered in 2008 to allow Anthony to plead guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child and serve up to 13 years in prison. He said that in those early days he thought taking it might be in Anthony's best interest.



'There were times, difficult times, when the evidence didn't look good for Casey,' Baez said, adding that it was his obligation as a lawyer to convey any such plea offers.

The prosecution's flaw, he added, was that regarding the car search the dog and handler were focused only on Anthony's vehicle and did not include others in a lineup to give the dog options.

Overall, Baez attributed the strong public backlash against the jury's verdict to a lack of understanding about the judicial system and because 'a lot of people bought into the hype' that Anthony must have been guilty.



He noted that jurors who gave media interviews after the trial said they waited for weeks for strong evidence that never came.

'We need to talk about whether an actual murder occurred,' he said. 'That's where the focus should have been, and it never was.'

Baez declined to comment on what Anthony is doing these days and on how often he talks to her. He said he promised her confidentiality when she agreed that he could write his book, in which she did not participate. Anthony is living in an undisclosed location in Florida serving probation for an unrelated conviction, which Baez said ends on August 21.

Parents: George and Cindy Anthony both lied to cover up what really happened to Caylee, claims Baez

'She's doing a lot better than she was in prison,' Baez said, but then added: 'She's a prisoner of her own freedom.'

Anthony, he said, 'would not entertain it for a second'. As he became more familiar with the state's mostly circumstantial case, Baez said he grew convinced she would be acquitted by a jury – as she was a year ago today of all charges except for four misdemeanors of lying to investigators.

'There was nothing in the trial that ever made me think Casey was guilty of anything as related to the murder,' Baez said. 'Every single piece of evidence favored us.'

He told CBS' Crimesider : 'I think Casey Anthony's story, the whole case, was a media phenomenon. And I say that because she was young, pretty and white.

'If it didn't have those elements to it I don't think it would have taken off.'

