ORLANDO -- News 13 has learned from a bondsman that the family of Casey and Caylee Anthony are talking with bond agents about ways to get together the $50,000 cash and $500,000 security needed to get Casey out of jail so she can help in the search for her 2-year-old daughter.
Tuesday a judge set bond for the missing 2-year-old's mother at $500,000. At first, the judge said Casey would have to wear a GPS monitor if she is released. He's modified the conditions to include home confinement and electronic monitoring.
The hearing lasted for about three hours Tuesday afternoon, as Casey Anthony's parents and brother took the stand, along with investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Casey Anthony's attorney was calling for the bond to be set at $10,000 on the felony and two misdemeanor charges.
However, Judge Stan Strickland said he could not set bond at such a low amount because of the circumstances surrounding the case.
Casey Anthony, 22, told police she dropped off her daughter at a babysitter on June 9, and when she went back to get her, Caylee and the babysitter -- a woman she called Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez -- were gone.
Anthony did not report her daughter was missing until five weeks later, when her parents questioned her about the girl's whereabouts.
Find Caylee Trust Established
The family of Caylee Anthony is refusing to call Tuesday's bond hearing a setback.
They said Wednesday that new efforts are under way to locate the missing 2-year-old girl.
Caylee's grandfather, George Anthony told News 13 that to ensure that they properly handle donations to help in finding Caylee, a trust has been set up at all Sun Trust banks.
A law firm is in charge of dealing with the money for the search. George Anthony said the trust money would be used strictly for flyers and billboards and that none of it will be used for Casey Anthony's bond.
The Anthony family wanted to make it clear that, although they still don't know where they will find the $50,000 needed to get Casey out of jail, no donations will be taken from the efforts to find Caylee.
The Kid Finders Network tractor trailer-size mobile billboard showing Caylee's picture was in the Publix parking lot on Lake Underhill Road again Wednesday. George Anthony was also there to give out the latest contact information to anyone who might have a lead.
"Anyone that would donate to the Find Caylee Anthony Fund for my granddaughter, none of that is going to be used towards (Casey's bond.) We will not do that. That is totally separate,"
The family has also set up a 24-hour call center at a professional building office that was donated. They hope the call center will help find a lead and the person responsible for Caylee's disappearance. The family is using the assistance of the Never Lose Hope Foundation to run the call center. The number for the center is (888) 848-8752.
Casey's Family Testifies
Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother, was the first person to take the stand. She was in tears as she saw her daughter for the fist time since her arrest.
When asked the date of the last time she saw Caylee, Cindy Anthony said for a long time she was sure it was June 8, but after seeing video of Caylee reading a story book over and over again, it came to her that the video was shot on June 15.
Cindy Anthony testified that a woman named "Zani" had been babysitting Caylee for more than a year, but she had never met or talked with the woman because she never came to the house.
She also said thinks she knows why her daughter is not telling the whole truth about Caylee's disappearance.
"I know Casey as a person. I know what she is as a mother," Cindy Anthony said. "I know there is only one or two reasons why Casey would be withholding something about Caylee, and I believe that it's something someone is holding over her, and threatening her in some way."
When Casey's brother, Lee Alexander Anthony, took the stand, he said that on the night that his mother called police, he had pleaded with her not to make the call until he had the chance to talk with Casey and get her to confide in him.
Lee Anthony said that before authorities were called on July 15, Casey told him and their mother she knew where Caylee was, and would take them to her the next morning. He said he was able to get Casey alone for a short time, and she admitted to him, "I have not seen my daughter in 31 days."
During the hearing, deputies on the stand released new information, saying Casey Anthony's car was found abandoned in late June at an Amscot store on Goldenrod Road and Colonial Drive.
Investigators Reveal New Information
Detective Corp. Yuri Melich, with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, said that when they recovered the vehicle at the Anthony's residence, "there was a very bad smell in the car."
Search teams said they found what appeared to be Caylee's hair and some dirt in the back seat, along with a foul odor, but they have not been able to confirm what the smell was.
"Briefly, just before I came into the Child Abuse Division, I was a homicide detective for two years with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, and in my experience, the smell that I smelled in that car was the smell of decomposition," Melich said.
Crime scene investigators are continuing to look for the source of the smell, according to Melich.
"One of the areas that they focused on now is the trunk of the car, because they found hair samples in the trunk of the car that are similar in length and color to that of Caylee," Melich said. "They also found a stain in the trunk of the car that came under blacklight that's questionable."
Melich said the Sheriff's Office received a tip from a hairdresser who said Caylee had bruises and marks on her, as well as a photo from another witness that showed a cut under Caylee's eye.
Melich also said a witness came forward who said he had heard Caylee in the background of an extensive phone call he had with Casey Anthony on June 24 or 25. The witness said at one point during the conversation, Casey told Caylee to get down from the table.
Casey Anthony has been charged with child endangerment, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation -- a third-degree felony, third-degree misdemeanor and second degree misdemeanor.
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