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Aug 28, 2008 12:21 pm US/Eastern

Mom Of Missing Fla. Girl Could Go Back To Jail

Caylee Anthony Has Been Missing Since June

Mother Didn't Report Her Missing For More Than A Month

ORLANDO (CBS) ― The bounty hunter monitoring the mother of a missing Orlando toddler wants associates to withdraw her bail.

That would force Casey Anthony to return to jail, unless she could otherwise cover the $500,000 bail. Anthony was just freed last Thursday.

Her family said that would help find missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, but bounty hunter Leonard Padilla says the 22-year-old mother hasn't cooperated at all. He also says he's gotten so many threats she and others would be safer in jail.

Detectives were meeting with prosecutors Thursday about new FBI lab test results. Authorities have called Casey Anthony the prime suspect in a probable murder case, but so far the highest charge she faces is child neglect. Caylee hasn't been seen since June but her mother didn't report her missing until more than a month later.

Casey Anthony says she was frightened and did all she could to find Caylee herself for a month before her mother persuaded her to tell authorities.

"I have spent every day since Monday, June 9, 2008, looking for my daughter," Casey Anthony wrote in a sworn affidavit signed July 16, the day of her arrest. "I have lied and stolen from friends and family to do whatever I could by any means to find my daughter. I avoided calling the police or even notifying my family out of fear. I have been, and still am, afraid of what has or may happen to Caylee."

Earlier this week, prosecutors released 400 pages of legal documents. Those documents revealed Casey Anthony tried to give her missing daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn't let her.

The documents include a poem Anthony wrote on July 7, eight days before she reported her daughter missing: "What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies."

Anthony told police repeatedly that she left her daughter with a babysitter, and then couldn't find them when she returned from work at an Orlando theme park. However, no one had lived at that address in months, Anthony had no job and no woman by the babysitter's alleged name ever knew the mother and daughter, detectives say.

The documents also detail at length the mistrust Anthony's friends and family, particularly her mother, seemed to have of the woman.

Cindy Anthony first wanted her daughter arrested for allegedly disappearing with money and a family car for a month during which Caylee's whereabouts are now uncertain. She told a 911 dispatcher that the car, which had been towed after being abandoned at a check-cashing business, smelled like someone had died in it. A man at the tow yard told detectives the same thing.

Casey Anthony admitted misleading investigators, according to a transcript of her lengthy interview with police, but repeatedly insisted she had done nothing to the girl.

Anthony insisted she was terrified not knowing where the girl was, though she didn't show any emotion, the documents say.

"If I really wanted to just get rid of her I would've left her with my parents and I would've left," she said, according to the transcript. "I would've moved out. I would've given my mom custody."

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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