George Anthony appeared to shock his wife, Cindy when he told “Dr. Phil” in an interview earlier this week, he believed his granddaughter was drugged and that’s how she lost her life.
George and Cindy Anthony were speaking on the “Dr. Phil” show, for the first time, since their daughter, Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie in July earlier this year.
“I believe that Casey or someone else that she was with, possibly gave too much to Caylee, she fell asleep and didn’t wake up. That’s what I feel,” George Anthony replied when asked what he believed happened to little Caylee.
Dr. Phil McGraw, the host of the show, followed up by asking what substance might Casey have given to Caylee. Â George said it could have been a drug, such as an anti-anxiety medicine Xanax. He then went on to provide a theory as to why he believed Casey gave Caylee a sedative.
“To go out and have a good time, to be with friends, to have this life that she didn’t have with Caylee,” he said.
But Cindy offered a different explanation to Dr. Phil as to what might have led to Caylee’s death.
Cindy said, she believed that Caylee drowned in the family swimming pool, an explanation that Casey’s defense team offered and which perhaps led to her acquittal.  She also said that she thinks Casey knew where Caylee’s body was buried and may have played a role in placing the body in the wooded area near the Anthony family home.
Cindy told Dr. Phil that she did not believe that her husband knew anything about Caylee’s drowning and that he helped cover it up, as Casey’s defense asserted during the trial.
But Cindy appeared shocked with George’s explanation as to how Caylee died, telling Dr. Phil, it was the first time she had heard him say he believed that Caylee was drugged.
Casey Anthony walked out of the Orange County Jail on July 17, after being acquitted of first degree murder of her daughter and much to the outrage of many who followed her trial closely. Since then, she whas kept a low profile.
Last month, Chief Judge Belvin Perry ordered Casey to begin serving her one-year probation sentence for check fraud charges, to which she pleaded guilty in January 2010.
Perry has not yet made a decision on whether Casey is to reimburse more than $500,000 to several law enforcement agencies for monies spent searching for her “missing” daughter back in July 2008.  Anthony repeatedly lying, knowing the toddler was already dead one month before, on June 16, 2008.  She was sentenced to four years for lying to law enforcement officers.
