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Casey Anthony timeline

• June 16, 2008: 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is last seen alive leaving the home of her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, along with her mother, Casey.

• June 18, 2008: Anthony borrows a shovel from Brian Burner, a neighbor of George and Cindy Anthony. Burner says that Anthony returned it an hour later.

• June 19, 2008: Anthony goes with boyfriend Tony Lazzaro to help him look for an apartment.

• June 20, 2008: Anthony is captured in various photos partying at Fusion nightclub and participating in a “hard body contest.”

• June 23, 2008: Anthony and her boyfriend, Lazzaro, break into a shed at the Anthony family home to borrow her father’s gas cans to fill her car.

• June 24, 2008: Anthony gets into a fight with George Anthony about the gas and she storms out of the home. She tells her father that Caylee is with the baby sitter, Zanny.

• June 25, 2008: Cellphone records show Anthony was in the area of her parents’ home.

• June 28, 2008: Anthony’s car is towed from the parking lot of a check cashing store after a supervisor calls to report it abandoned.

• June 30, 2008: Anthony is captured in surveillance videos shopping at JC Penney and Target.

• July 1, 2008: Surveillance video shows Anthony back in JC Penney buying more clothes.

• July 10, 2008: Anthony is recorded in surveillance video at Target.

• July 12, 2008: Anthony is seen in surveillance video at Winn-Dixie

• July 15, 2008: Anthony is recorded in Blockbuster Video, Bank of America and Winn-Dixie surveillance videos.

• July 15, 2008: George and Cindy Anthony pick up Casey’s car from a tow yard. George Anthony observes a strong odor emanating from the vehicle. Later, back at the Anthony family home, Casey tells her mother and brother, Lee Anthony, that she hasn’t seen Caylee in a month and that a baby sitter named Zanaida Fernandez Gonzalez (Zanny) kidnapped her.

• July 15-16: Anthony takes police to the last place she says she saw Caylee. It turns out to be a vacant apartment. Authorities also take her to Universal Studios where she said she worked, but supervisors there say she hasn’t worked there in more than two years.

• Oct. 14, 2008: Anthony indicted on charges of first-degree murder, along with aggravated manslaughter, aggravated child abuse and four counts of lying to police.

• Dec. 11, 2008: The skeletal remains of Caylee Anthony are discovered in a wooded area not far from the Anthony family home.

• May 9, 2011: Jury selection begins in Clearwater, Fla., for murder trial.

• May 24, 2011: Trial begins in Orlando. The prosecution shows jurors a photo during opening statements of Caylee Anthony alive and smiling, along with a picture of the girl’s skull as it was found in 2008. They say Anthony used duct tape to suffocate her. The defense contends the child actually drowned in her grandparents’ swimming pool.

• July 5, 2011: Anthony acquitted of murdering Caylee but convicted of lying to police.