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MyFOXOrlando.com/Casey Marie Anthony The grandmother of a 2-year-old Florida girl missing for more than a month told an emergency dispatcher last week that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday. That candid description by the grandmother, Cindy Anthony, was echoed this week by police, but Anthony later changed her story and disputed police testimony that the car's trunk smelled of decomposition. The latest twists come as police and family continue their efforts to find the girl, Caylee Marie Anthony. Click here to listen to the 911 calls on MyFOXOrlando.com. Her mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, remained in jail Thursday in Orange County, Fla., on a $500,000 bond after investigators said she lied to them and did not report Caylee missing for weeks. Prosecutors said in court earlier this week that Casey Anthony also is a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a homicide investigation, though she has not been charged. Click here for photos. Click here for photos of the bond hearing from MyFOXOrlando.com. Cindy Anthony called 911 twice on July 15. In the first call, she asked police to arrest her daughter Casey for stealing a car and money. She told a dispatcher that she had just found Casey, who had been missing for a month, as well as the car she was driving, which had been towed. She also expressed concern that her granddaughter was not with Casey. She called 911 again about an hour later, crying, saying Casey Anthony finally told her Caylee had been missing for a month. "There's something wrong," Cindy Anthony told the dispatcher. "I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car." Click here for a transcript of the first 911 call. Click here for a transcript of the second 911 call. Police named Casey Anthony a person of interest in Caylee's disappearance after saying at the Tuesday bond hearing that they detected the odor of human decomposition and found dirt and strands of hair similar to Caylee's in the trunk of the car. Later Wednesday, Cindy Anthony disputed those claims, suggesting instead that it was the smell of old food or garbage they'd picked up instead. "Do me a favor," she said. "Put a little piece of pizza or any piece of garbage in your car today and leave it shut up for 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 days in this heat and then come back to me in 19 days and tell me what it smells like." Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Carlos Padilla told FOX News on Friday that the odor was overwhelming, and was completely different from that of old pizza or other rotting food. He also said that samples from a mysterious stain found in the trunk were still at a lab for testing, and police were awaiting the results. Detectives, like the family, are focused on finding Caylee too, according to Padilla — but they've been stymied by the lack of information they've been able to get from her mother. For one thing, they don't have a straight answer about where Casey Anthony was in the month between the time the little girl was last seen and the time she was reported missing. "We don’t know anything about her exact location because from the beginning she hasn’t told us about the child’s whereabouts," Padilla told FOX on Friday. "We’ve talked to friends and other people, and they themselves didn’t know this child was missing." He said Casey Anthony sometimes told people Caylee was with her mother and other times said she was with a nanny. The Anthony family still is mum on a TV station's tip that a new concrete slab was poured in the grandparents' backyard over July 4 weekend, shortly before they reported Caylee's disappearance. But on Thursday, Cindy Anthony said there have been two reported sightings of 2-year-old Caylee in Georgia and she believes her granddaughter is with someone heading to Charlotte, N.C. "We know where she's at," Cindy Anthony told FOX News on Thursday before pleading with the person she believes has the child to turn back. "Please don't take her further into the mountains. It looks like she's headed northeast in Georgia close to the North Carolina border. ... This is all very encouraging right now." Her plea came after her husband, George Anthony, asked the public in an audio message for help in finding their granddaughter before her third birthday. Caylee was last seen on Father's Day, June 15. Click here to read more on the reported sightings of Caylee from MyFOXOrlando.com. In Cindy Anthony's second 911 call on July 15, she made her daughter talk to the dispatcher, at which point Casey Anthony said the toddler had been taken by a baby sitter who police now believe may not exist. The dispatcher asked why she hadn't called sooner. "I've been looking for her and have gone through other resources to try to find her, which was stupid," Casey Anthony responded. Cadaver dogs searched the grandparents' property last week after a neighbor told them Casey Anthony borrowed a shovel around the time her small daughter was last seen. Casey and Caylee were living with George and Cindy Anthony, reportedly, until the time the toddler vanished. Casey Anthony has been charged only with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. But Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ordered her held on an unusually high bond Tuesday after hearing the evidence of possible human decomposition found in her yard and car. Strickland said she offered investigators no useful information and questioned the truthfulness of the information she did provide. Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, has asked to have her bond lowered to $10,000, saying she had a right to freedom while facing lesser charges. He said there was circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide but it hadn't left authorities confident enough to charge her with anything more serious. Click for here more from MyFOXOrlando.com.
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