Casey Anthony’s Dad Struggles To Answer Questions About Caylee Anthony’s Death During Lie Detector Test

More than a decade after Casey Anthony accused her father, George Anthony, of being involved in her daughter’s death, he has taken a lie detector test.

In a clip obtained by TMZ from the upcoming A&E special, Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test, George becomes emotional as he’s grilled on whether he “knowingly [concealed]” Caylee Anthony’s whereabouts.

While he insists that he didn’t know where his granddaughter’s body was when she was missing from July to December 2008, George noticeably struggles with the question. When the man administering the polygraph test points that out, George becomes choked up as he says he’s visualizing the wooded area near the Anthony family house where Caylee’s dead body was later found.

The three-year-old’s disappearance first came to light when her grandmother, Cindy Anthony, reported her missing one month after Casey drove off with her, and claimed the trunk of Casey’s car smelled like a dead body. As it turned out, Casey had not seen her daughter for weeks and after telling a string of lies to law enforcement, she was later charged with first-degree murder.

During her 2011 trial, her defense team claimed Caylee had accidentally drowned in their family swimming pool and alleged that George had disposed of her body. They also accused him of molesting Casey as a child. However, he vehemently denied both allegations when he took the stand.

At the end of the highly publicized trial, Casey, who was facing the death penalty if found guilty, was acquitted of murder, manslaughter, and child abuse.

Casey doubled down on her accusations toward her father in the 2022 Peacock docuseries Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies. In the three-part series, she claimed that she fell asleep with Caylee in her arms only to be woken up by George holding the child’s lifeless body a few hours later.

“She’s soaking wet,” she said, per Today. “I can see him standing there with her in his arms and handing her to me and telling me that it’s my fault. That I did that. That I caused that.”

According to Casey, her father didn’t try to resuscitate the child and instead told her it was “going to be OK.”

“I don’t know how long I sat outside, I don’t know where he went, he took her from me and he went away,” she said. “I don’t know where he went and I don’t know what he did.”

In the latest attempt to clear their names, George and Cindy are taking their first-ever on-camera lie detector test where they are answering any lingering questions about their granddaughter’s murder.

Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test will air Thursday, Jan. 4 at 9/8c on A&E.