Casey Anthony shares her version of events in a new docuseries. What you need to know - CNN

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Casey Anthony is backmost successful the nationalist spotlight much than a decennary aft she was acquitted successful the sidesplitting of her 2-year-old daughter.

In a caller three-part docuseries streaming connected Peacock titled, “Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies,” Anthony relays her mentation of what she says led to Caylee’s death. Anthony never testified during her trial, truthful this is the archetypal clip the nationalist is proceeding from her connected camera, according to the series’ producers. Peacock did not respond to CNN’s petition for further comment.

For 3 years, betwixt the clip Caylee went missing and Anthony’s acquittal, the Florida lawsuit transfixed the nation arsenic it played retired connected some societal media and successful accepted quality outlets. The prosecution sought the decease penalty, saying Caylee’s decease occurred during aggravated kid maltreatment and was committed successful a “cold, calculated and premeditated mode without immoderate pretense of motivation oregon ineligible justification.”

After astir six weeks of testimony, the assemblage rejected the prosecution’s allegation that Anthony gave her kid chloroform, suffocated her with duct portion and dumped her assemblage successful the woods. They recovered her blameworthy of 4 lesser charges of lying to instrumentality enforcement officers.

Anthony spent astir 3 years successful jailhouse awaiting trial, and was freed aft getting credit for clip spent down bars. Outraged protesters took to the streets, calling her a “baby killer” and demanding justness for Caylee.

In the docuseries, Anthony and her defence squad driblet respective bombshell claims successful the decade-long enigma surrounding her daughter’s death. Here’s what you request to cognize astir “Where the Truth Lies”:

Time mag dubbed Anthony’s communicative the social media proceedings of the period successful 2011. Years later, the enigma surrounding Caylee’s decease is inactive the taxable of overmuch chatter.

In July 2008, Anthony’s parent called 911 and reported that she had not seen her granddaughter for a month. Photos of a partying, smiling Anthony, taken betwixt erstwhile Caylee was past seen and erstwhile she was reported missing, were soon plastered crossed TV screens nationwide. Tabloids and societal media users were fixated connected the thought of a parent partying with her friends and getting a tattoo speechmaking “Bella Vita” – Italian for “Beautiful Life” – portion her girl was missing.

In the docuseries, which has stirred up caller contention connected societal media, Anthony says that play was “the antithesis of what my beingness truly was.”

She has since covered up the tattoo with flowers she described arsenic a awesome of maturation and rebirth.

“That was my full beingness up to that point, acting similar everything’s okay, but knowing thing was okay,” she says.

At the opening of the documentary, Anthony talks astir wherefore she decided to talk retired aft years of silence.

“I spent the past 10 years making definite that I knew who I was, that I started to header with this nonaccomplishment and that I had thing to accidental to marque my girl proud, but besides to grant her properly,” she says. “And this is portion of that.”

Anthony and her defence squad admitted she lied galore times. After Caylee went missing, she lied that she worked astatine Universal Studios. In different lie, she said that a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez stole her child. She admits successful the docuseries that the communicative was made up and the lone different idiosyncratic who took attraction of Caylee too her was her mother.

In the docuseries, she besides discloses that she lied to an ex-boyfriend that helium was Caylee’s begetter due to the fact that she was excessively ashamed to admit that she was raped astatine a enactment and didn’t cognize who the begetter was. A paternity trial revealed helium was not.

“I’m a convicted liar,” she says. “I lied to everyone… it was years of trying to amusement everyone I lived a definite beingness due to the fact that I didn’t privation radical to pity me,” she says. “No prevarication was retired of bounds, nary prevarication was retired of limit.”

For months, Anthony and her parents maintained that Caylee was alive.

During the trial, the defence said the kid drowned successful the Anthony household excavation on June 16, 2008, and that Anthony and her begetter covered up the death. In the docuseries, Anthony provides a conflicting mentation that solely blames her father.

She besides reiterates her allegations that her begetter sexually abused her arsenic a kid – claims helium denied during the trial on with immoderate engagement successful Caylee’s death. In the docuseries, Peacock says George Anthony turned down an connection to look successful the show. CNN has reached retired to the elder Anthony.

Anthony present works with 1 of the pb investigators successful her defence team, Patrick McKenna, who runs a backstage investigations firm. In the documentary, McKenna says helium believes she’s innocent. Anthony lived with his household for a portion aft the proceedings ended owed to fears for her security, McKenna says, adding that she’s similar a girl to him.

Anthony admits she inactive has nary answers.

“It’s hard due to the fact that a 1000 questions spell done my head. I’m liable for answering each 1 of the world’s questions astir her, astir what happened,” Anthony says. “I inactive don’t cognize what happened to Caylee. I cognize what I’m acrophobic of. I cognize what eats astatine maine astatine night.”