Aug 27, 2008 10:12 pm US/Pacific
Padilla: I Don't Believe Caylee Anthony Is Alive
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla made national headlines when he traveled to Florida to post bail for Casey Anthony, the mother of a missing girl. He believed that her three-year-old daughter Caylee was alive, and that he could get Casey to tell him where she was.
He says he no longer believes that the girl is still alive.
Explosive new developments in the Caylee Anthony case have force Padilla to make an about-face, and he is now talking about the possibility of withdrawing Casey's bail and sending her back to jail.
Four hundred pages of investigation evidence have been released, painting a dismal picture of a search effort that now sounds like a recovery. The most damning evidence came from Casey Anthony's trunk, where a brand new air test showed evidence of human decomposition.
DNA tests that could tie that evidence to Caylee haven't been completed yet, but there's enough evidence for Leonard Padilla to admit he may have made a mistake in bailing out of Casey Anthony late last week.
"It was obviously not the thing to do now, because she didn't talk," Padilla said. "She didn't say a word to anybody."
It's a much different story than on August 15, when Padilla told CBS13 that he believed he could get Casey to give up Caylee's location in five days -- it has now been seven.
Florida State Attorneys are offering Casey limited immunity if she can lead investigators to Caylee's body, but the Sacramento bounty hunters who bailed her out of jail could send her right back.
"That's my nephew Tony Padilla's call in Sacramento," Leonard said.
Tony told CBS13 on Wednesday that he won't be making that call until Thursday at the earliest.
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