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TAPED TRANSCRIPT OF CHRISTOPHER STUTZ INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY CORPORAL YURI MELICH CASE NUMBER 08-069208 JUNE 30, 2008 YM CORPORAL YURI MELICH CS MS. CHRISTOPHER STUTZ YM: The date right now is June 30, 2008. The time right now is 0911 hours. Im Detective Melich with the Orange County Sheriffs Office, case number 0869208. Im in my office at the Orange County Sheriffs Office with Christopher Stutz. Chris, would you please name, your name and your birth date. CS: YM: Uh, Christopher Luke Stutz, uh, Alright, Chris, youre aware this is being recorded? sir.

CS: Yes YM:

Any objection to that? sir.

CS: No YM:

Okay. Uh, youre not in custody. Youre free to leave. The door is closed so we could have privacy, but obviously you can open it up and leave at any time.

CS: Right. YM: Uhm, I asked you to come down here today because Im investigating a case involving Casey Anthony. And uh, just on speaking with you for a couple of minutes you have some information that I was going to, I wanted to pay attention to, and hence the reason I want to record it. Uhm, well backtrack a little bit. Uh, you say you knew Casey for about three years? CS: YM: Give or take. Okay. Uh, met her I guess while you guys were playing football?

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CS:

Yeah (affirmative), a bunch of friends, we would get together at Deerwood Elementary and play football and she came down to visit one of her friends, which is an acquaintance with me, and we ended up getting to talk.

YM: CS:

What was that persons name? Do you remember? Uhm, theres a couple of them she knew. Adam Lynch, Matt (spelling), and I believe that was it right there.

YM:

And you guys met uh, I guess sometime last year you guys started to date? Is that right?

CS:

Yeah (affirmative). We were friends and then we decided to kind of take it up a notch.

YM:

Okay. When were you guys dating? Do you, do you kind of have a, an idea of what month, months?

CS:

Uhm, it was (sighs), I want to say right before school let out, or for summer, so maybe, well maybeMarch, April.

YM:

Okay. So March, April of last year? (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM: CS:

How long were you guys dating? Not very long because we had decided to be friends and the whole long distance relationship wasnt working for us.

YM: CS: YM: CS: YM:

Okay. When you (Unintelligible) came out. When you say long distance, where were you living at the time? Florida State, oh, up in Tallahassee. Oh, okay. So you were, youre, okay, you were up there. Youd just come down here, you guys met, dated a little bit, and said ah, too far?

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CS: YM:

Yeah (affirmative), just be friends. Okay. Uhm, after, or (unintelligible) last summer, do, do you also go to school during the summer time or?

CS: YM: CS:

No sir. I work during the summer. Okay. Last summer did you spend any time with her or hang out with her? Yeah (affirmative), we hung out a lot. Uhm, both my house, her house. Wed go out to like a movie or something.

YM: CS:

What did she like to do? Uhm, she liked to, we went putt-putt golfing, uhm, nothing big. She wouldnt like to go to drink at all really because uhm, she didnt want to leave her kid with her mom and dad for too long.

YM:

Okay. What kind of drugs was she known to use, either regularly or recreationally? And then keep in mind Im not here to try and

CS: YM:

No, yeah (affirmative). suggest anything with you.

CS: Huh. YM: But Ive already talked to oh, God, twenty of her friends and theyre all telling well, she kind of likes to do this. Occasionally shell do this. CS: Honestly I have no idea what kind of drugs. She would like to drink every so often, but no, drugs Im not sure. YM: CS: What about smoking weed? Not that I know of. I dont smoke weed and she knew I was uh, very against it so maybe she kept that from me. YM: Uh-hum CS: (affirmative).

because uh, Im asthmatic and cant do that (laughs).

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YM: CS:

Okay. Uhm, so this year, how often would you say youve seen her this year? Uh, see her? (affirmative).

YM: Uh-hum CS:

Uhm, I would say when I came home uh, end of April was like the first time I really saw her this year. Uhm, but I talked to her every so often. She would text me maybe once a week or so.

YM: Okay. CS: Uh-hum YM: CS: YM: (affirmative).

And have you been home I guess, home here in Orlando since April? End of April, yes sir. Okay. Spring, uh, summer brsummer break I guess? (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM:

Okay. And you, you came in here with actually a couple of notes and. (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM:

I just want to go over a couple of them. It says May 17th you spent the night at the house

CS: Yes. YM: your CS: YM: CS: YM: CS: house?

Yes sir, my parents Spent the night with Caylee. My parents werent home and she ended up staying the night. Okay. The same thing with Mothers Day. Mothers Day she just came for the day.

YM: Okay. CS: Uhm

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YM: CS:

And Caylee was with her? Caylee was with her and my parents saw her and uh, started interacting with them.

YM:

Uh, also it says here June 17th uh, a dark colored Jeep Cherokee with New York plates uh.

CS: Without YM:

Caylee.

And that was, or how did, how did you see her? Did she come to your house with that or?

CS:

Yeah (affirmative), she drove over. Uhm, I had saw her I think it was the night before I saw her just randomly and so she decided to stop by the next day. We didnt really hang out or anything like that.

YM: CS:

How sure are you that it was June 17th? Im pretty sure. My mother and I went over it because she remember Cayuh, Casey coming over and we had just bought a treadmill.

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

So it was either the 17th or 18th, or possibly the 19th. Its one of those three days.

YM: Okay. CS: YM: Were sure of that. Okay, so youve looked at a calendar and youre, youre pretty confident those are the dates? CS: Yeah (affirmative), we went over that, yeah (affirmative), because she just bought the treadmill and uhm, she was using the treadmill when Casey came over. YM: Did she just stop by to say hi? Did you guys talk about her coming over? How did that (inaudible)?

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CS:

Uh, she just stopped by to say hi. She was there for maybe an hour and a half, two hours.

YM:

Was she with anyone else?

CS: No. YM: And then including Caylee? Caylee.

CS: Including YM:

Did she say where Caylee was?

CS: No. YM: Did you ask?

CS: No. YM: CS: Okay. Uh, what was her demeanor when she came to you on the 17th of June? Uhm, she was happy. She was distressed about her parents. She said that her parents were getting a divorce or getting split up. YM: Oh. CS: Because her dad was apparently cheating on her, or cheating on the mom. And so shes a little upset about that. But uhm, she barely went into that. YM: Did uhm, she mention anything about dating someone new or what was going on in her life? CS: YM: CS: She knew, well at that point I already knew about Tony. Howd you know about Tony? Uhm, she, one of the text messages after the day she spent the night uhm, I was like, Hey whats up? And how did, I dont know exact words but shes like, Where have you been? Have you checked Face Book or My Space? Uhm, just (unintelligible) that Ive been dating somebody. YM: And this was around the end of May, beginning of June or?

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CS: YM: CS: YM:

Yeah (affirmative), probably the beginning of June. Okay. Did you ever meet Tony? No. I never met Jesse either. Okay. Uh, when you say text messages uh, Im, Im only going to ask this because Ive had a lot of her friends actually save the text messages. Do you, do you have, or have you saved any of those text messages?

CS:

No, I really havent. I go through about two hundred a day and I just ended up deleting them.

YM:

Okay. So she showed up to your house on June, Im sorry, your parents house where youre staying.

CS: Yes. YM: on June 17th?

CS: Right. YM: CS: Uh, July 17th, July 7th it says Buffalo Wings with a friend. I was with a friend uhm, just eating Buffalo Wild Wings and she texted me saying, Hey I hope youre enjoying your date, I believe was the exact words. YM: Uh-hum CS: (affirmative).

And uhm, I asked her, What do you mean? And shes like, shes there and she came up and said hi and that was about it and she went back with her friends.

YM:

Okay. And you were with a girl I take it? (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM:

Okay. Uhm, who was she with? Do you remember? It says here

CS: Uhm YM: you CS: wrote.

I think it was Sean Daly and uhm, she said, I didnt see (spelling).

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YM: Uh-hum CS: YM: CS:

(affirmative).

but she said she was with Iassen. I dont know his last name. Okay. And what were they doing? Were they just, it was them three? Oh, they were just, they were just eating, uhm, and watching the TV a little bit. I dont think there was any fights are on or anything like that.

YM: CS: YM:

Is that (spelling)? Uh, yeah (affirmative), I believe so. So nothing out of the ordinary that night? Just hanging out? (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM:

And between these dates that you wrote down uh, oh, have you guys like texted or, or how.

CS: Oh, YM: CS:

oh.

would you communicate or? Not really. We kind of fell off from then on. I mean and thats when we started talking again.

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

Uhm, she texted me on my birthday which was a few days like later. Maybe a week later or so. Uhm, just seeing what my plans for the night were and everything like that.

YM:

Did she ask you what you, or did she tell you what she was going to do that night, or what she was.

CS: No. YM: what her plans were?

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CS:

Huh-huh (negative). She asked what my plans were and I said, Nothing yet. I got to work at eight in the morning, and uhm, that was it. She never texted me back.

YM:

And that was July 13th or 14th? sir.

CS: Yes YM:

Did she say anything over the text messages or, or in any conversation about where she was staying, what was going on with her life, did she say, throw up any red flags.

CS: Huh-huh YM: CS:

(negative).

and make you go, you know, hey whats going on with her? Oh, no sir. Because whenever we would go out shed always say she was either Casey, or Caylee was at the nannys or her parents. She would never give a specific name or a specific location.

YM: Did. CS: YM: CS: YM: She said it was by UCF was the nanny. Did she ever mention the nannys name? No. She never said. She just said the nanny and. Have you ever seen the nanny? sir.

CS: No YM:

Have you ever been with her to drop the kid off at the nanny? sir.

CS: No YM:

Or pick up the kid from the nanny? sir.

CS: No YM:

Okay. What are your thoughts on this nanny?

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CS:

Uhm, uh, at first I thought it was nothing. You know, I mean I didnt think anything of it. But now looking back on it I should have asked who it was and whatever.

YM: CS:

Do you know of anyone, or a mutual friend, that has ever seen this nanny? No. Because I worked with some people that knew Casey and none of them have ever seen the nanny.

YM:

Uhm, speaking of people that you work with, or people that you, you guys know together or work with, have, has she ever mentioned Jeffrey Hopkins to you?

CS: No. YM: CS: YM: You have no idea who that is? No idea who it is. What about Juliette Lewis? (negative).

CS: Huh-huh YM:

Uhm, well did she ever tell you why you, I guess while you guys started dating, you started dating last year.

CS: Yeah YM: CS:

(affirmative).

Did she say what she did for, for work or? She said she was working at Sports Authority for a while. (affirmative).

YM: Uh-hum CS:

And then after we broke up for a little bit and we were still friends she said that she went to Universal and started working uhm, as a event coordinator.

YM: CS: YM:

So while you were dating she said she worked for Sports Authority? And said the one on uh, Alafaya and by Waterford Lakes. Did she uh, did she ever come home with a uniform or show you a pay stub or.

CS: No.

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YM: CS: YM:

get you like some rebates on shoes or anything like that? No, I dont Rebates on clothes? Have you ever, did you ever visit her at work when you two were dating?

CS: YM:

No. No sir. Okay. Oh, what about Universal? After you guys broke up did you ever uhm, did she ever get you free passes to Universal or, or hook you up with anything over there?

CS:

Nothing like that. Uhm, the only thing that I ever saw, which it could have been from 2006, I dont know, she had uh, Mardi Gras beads with her name tag on it, with her picture i.d. (identification)

YM: Uh-hum CS: YM: CS: YM:

(affirmative).

in her car. It was hanging from the rearview mirror. Her car being that white. The uh, Sunfire. Okay. Uhm, so she told you she was working at Universal after you guys broke up? She said

CS: Right. YM: CS: she had just gone back to Universal or? Yeah (affirmative), she went back. Uhm, a job, a manager from Universal came to Sports Authority and talked to Casey, uhm, saying that wed like you back to do this. But uhm, she went and she started working there. But then she started saying that she was going to become a personal trainer. She never said where. She just said she was working out a lot to do that.

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YM:

And uhm, but she told you this guy came to talk to her. You werent there? You didnt witness it?

CS: YM:

No, I didnt witness. Thats all what she said. Did uhm, she ever call you from her work, or she ever you know, tell you to call her at work?

CS: YM: CS:

No, its always Do you remember? her on her cell phone. She said shed be in her back office and she was able to talk on her cell phone. Because she had Cingular. We could talk for free.

YM:

Okay. Well lets go back here to your, to your uh, your sheet of notes here. It said uh, July 13th, 14th, text were made from Casey about plans. And then.

CS: Yeah YM: CS:

(affirmative).

on July 15th? Yeah (affirmative), I was driving to work and I saw a girl that looked exactly like Casey uhm, running down Chickasaw. Just you know, a workout run.

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

Uhm, I texted her if she was running down Chickasaw and she said no, and that was the end of that.

YM: CS: YM:

About what time was that? Do you remember? I was going to work so Id say probably nine, nine-thirty. Okay. So uhm, about nine, nine-thirty in the morning you texted her after she was running. Did she say anything, what was going on on the 15th? Did she say, you know, hey, cops are here, or hey, Im busy?

CS: YM:

No nothing like that. Nothing? Uhm, July 16th. Was that the next time you actually

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CS: She

texted me. (affirmative).

YM: Uh-hum CS:

Uhm, which I dont know, uh, it might be the brother using her phone. Im not sure. Uhm, it said that uhm, Caylee is missing for thirty-two days. Uh, if youve seen her please call my cell phone or their house phone number. And I replied saying, What? Like ecstatic, what?

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

And then uh, there was no answer back. And then uhm, later on that day when I was at work uhm, Lee Anthony called me uhm, basically asking if I knew anything and doing his own little

YM: Sure. CS: private YM: investigation.

Uhm, Casey tried calling you from the jail? sir.

CS: Yes YM: CS: YM:

Do you remember about what time that was? I believe it was eleven-thirty, eleven-forty-five at night. Okay. Did she say anything while she, while there, the connection was trying to go through did she say you know, please help, or just

CS: I. YM: CS: her name or I didnt, well what happens with, it was the Orange County Correction Facility I believe is what it was. And said, do you accept the call from Casey and it was her voice. That was the only voice I heard from her. And I hung up, uhm, called my parents, asked what to do. They said dont answer it. And she called back probably three, four minutes later.

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YM:

Okay. And since shes been in jail has she, have you actually talked to her while she was in jail at all?

CS: No. YM: Have you visited her or anything? sir.

CS: No YM: CS:

Okay. Uhm, it says here you called Crimeline. That was July 17th, yes sir. Uhm, I was at work and I took a break from work and tried calling them. It took a couple times to get through and then I finally got through and gave them all the information.

YM: CS:

Okay. Which was kind of, what information did you give them? Weve been. Basically this whole list.

YM: Okay. CS: YM: Uhm, I had just, everything I could remember at the time. And Detective White called you, I guess tried to reach out? 18th. Uhm.
th th

CS: July YM: 18 CS: 18 .

and I called him back probably an hour after that and then the next day

because I was in Tampa helping my aunt move. YM: CS: Okay. Did, did she ever go to Tampa with you? No. That was probably the first time Ive really been to Tampa.

YM: Okay. CS: YM: CS: My aunt just moved from Atlanta, Georgia, so. Okay. This uh, theres a number scribbled on here. 1-5-6. That was a case number uhm, that the Crimeline gave me.

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YM:

Dash 1-2, oh, okay. Got you, got you, got you. So just to clarify and kind of back up, the last time you actually saw Casey was June 17th, the 18th or 19th, around there, when she came up to your house uh, driving.

CS: YM: CS: YM:

Well the last time I saw her was July 7th at Buffalo Wild Wings. Oh, okay. Buffalo Wild Wings with Iassen and Sean Daly? Yeah Iassen , Sean Daly. Uhm, she wasnt with Caylee?

CS: No. YM: The time before that was June 17th, 18th, or 19th, she stopped by. Do you remember what time of day that was? CS: YM: CS: YM: CS: I want to say I had gotten off of work so five-ish. Uh, its somewhere around five. Okay. How long did she stay? An hour or two hours. Just, just talking while shes, you were hanging out? Yeah (affirmative), we were, we were.

YM: (Inaudible) ? CS: YM: CS: sitting on the couch just watching TV and talking. Okay. Did she say who the cars was? Uhm, no. She said that her car broke down and she was just borrowing it from a friend. She didnt say who. Which her car was acting up last time I saw her. Like on May 17th she tried to start it and it wouldnt turn over. I kept telling her Id fix it, but, uh. YM: Alright. So the last time you saw her was July 7th? And then you never, she never sent you a text about Caylee, or a text about you know. CS: Well except for the one thats saying that she was missing for thirty-two days.

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YM: CS:

And that was? Uh, July 16th.

YM: Okay. CS: YM: Uhm, that was the only So between July 16th and June, July 7th, any messages about Caylee or her whereabouts. CS: No YM: sir.

or missing? Alright. What do you think kind of happened? You, you, youve known her for three years. You, you kind of dated her. You talked to her. Well whats your, whats your gut feeling saying about what happened?

CS:

Honestly, I, I can never see her harming her on purpose. But somethings telling me that something accidentally happened, you know, and now shes scared to do anything about it. I know thats farfetched or anything like that. Or the boyfriend has something to do with it. I dont know, theres so many theories that have been going in my head.

YM:

Did she ever make any comments to you about uhm, how Caylee might have kind of disrupt their life and she couldnt do?

CS:

No. She said, I mean obviously she was a surprise, but she never said anything like that where she tried to, or that Caylee was harmful to Casey, you know, as far as disrupting her life.

YM:

Uh, kind of like uh, shes an obstacle? Uh, she cant go out and have friends and then party and, and she has to always worry about. She ever mention anything, or ever come across to you like.

CS:

Not really. I mean she always, her daughter was her life. Her daughter was the first part of her life, you know, and shed go out with her friends. Like when we

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went out we didnt really go out drinking at all, yeah (affirmative). Uhm, wed go out and go to a movie and then her mom would call her at twelve oclock at night saying, You need to come home, and shed go home. YM: CS: Did she ever tell you what her relationship was with her mom? Uhm, she said that she just had a really strong relationship with her mom, but not so much with her dad. YM: CS: Did she say why or? Uhm, she said that her dad would get involved in her life too much and like try to push his beliefs on her. Like uhm, just how you should act, how you should work. When, and uh, when this whole situation happened where they thought they were getting a divorce, her mom said that you know, were going to be together and dads going to be out of our life. I guess that was a lie then. YM: Uh-hum CS: But YM: CS: (affirmative).

uh

Did she say (Unintelligible.) Oh, she was talking about buying a house. Uhm, I forget what the subdivision was called. Its by the dump on Curry Ford. Uhm, that her and her mom were talking about going and getting a new house for her and all this other stuff. And she was saying that two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is cheap for a house, which I dont know what kind of house she was looking at, but, (chuckles).

YM: CS: YM:

Do you know when this conversation was about the house? Uhm, it was actually July, when she came over, or June 17th, sorry. Okay, so June 17th she started saying about her and her mom moving into a different house (inaudible)?

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CS:

No, just her and Caylee. okay.

YM: Oh, CS:

And but the mom would come and look at it with them. Which I found out was not true at all. They had never even looked at it.

YM:

You ever meet Amy Huizenga, her friend? yes.

CS: Uhm, YM: CS:

She ever say anything about moving in with Amy or? No. Uhm, I actually, one more thing, I just went over to Caseys house with her parents and all her friends.

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

about a week latnot last Sunday, the Sunday before last. (affirmative).

YM: Uh-hum CS: YM:

So I dont know if that has anything to do with it. Uhm, what, what were you guys talking about at the house? What was the conversation about?

CS:

Uhm, basically we were trying to give all the information to get her mom to figure out anything thats going on, and kind of all of us to vent to each other because we.

YM: Alright. CS: We cant really talk to anybody else about it. And uhm, it was basically her closest friends. YM: Did you, if you had to pick someone that Casey was very, very close to, uh, and she would consider her best friend CS: Yeah YM: (affirmative).

who would that be?

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CS:

Uhm, Annie. Uhm, and, and.

YM: (Spelling)? CS: her last name. Yes. Her last name starts with a B. Uhm, which, we, when I, we were going out wed go to concerts together and you know, we were together a lot YM: Uh-hum CS: YM: (affirmative).

and they were together a lot. Did uhm, did Casey ever have a place where she liked to go to think? Any like alone places that you know of? Like she ever mention a park or?

CS:

Shed go to uhm, its a park up at Dean. Jay Blanchard. Park?

YM: Blanchard CS: Yeah YM:

(affirmative).

And one particular area she would go or sit, you know. she.

CS: No, YM: CS:

Why would she go there? Just to take Caylee out. And she never gave a reason. She just said to take Caylee out and play with her out in the yard.

YM:

Okay. You ever been with her at Blanchard Park when she took Caylee?

CS: No. YM: Uhm, aside from that was there any other quiet places that she would go, or any place, like if she was stressing out and CS: Right. YM: and she would go somewhere like.

CS: Uhm. YM: like some people go to the beach, or some people

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CS: Right. YM: just, CS: you know.

Well she would drive to the beach sometimes. Uhm, Ive been to the beach with her a couple times with Caylee

YM: Uh-hum CS:

(affirmative).

and they, with friends. But she would drive to the beach with friends. Nothing really alone. Like she never, the only place she ever said she went alone with Caylee was uh, Blanchard, at least to me.

YM:

Do you know any places over on the, on the far east side, like near Bithlo? Any friends that might live out there?

CS: YM:

Not that I can think of. No? Uh, so aside from Amy, well is there anyone else that she would open up to, or kind of you know.

CS: Uhm. YM: CS: YM: tell her dirty, little secrets to, or anything like that? Not, not that I can think of. I mean Okay. (Makes sounds.) I know, I know Ive asked you a bunch of questions. sir.

CS: Yes YM:

You know I dont know if theres anything that I might have stepped over here and I apologize. Is there anything else that, that you think uh, about Casey, about Caylee, about this whole situation that you think is important that I should know about?

CS: Uhm, YM: CS:

(sighs).

Any actions, or conversation, or, or just stuff that happened Yeah (affirmative), I mean.

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YM: CS:

that made you go, hmm? Uh, see thats, the whole thing has been weird because Ive seen the way she interacts with her kid, and Ive been to that house a million, her house a million times and seen her fall down and shed pick her up and kiss her and like, Youre okay, and then thats it. So its, the whole thing just strikes me weird that anything would happen where shes acting the way she does in court.

YM:

Uhm, have you ever caught her in a lie? (sighs).

CS: Oh,

YM: (Inaudible) ? CS: Yes. But it was something nominal, like where she was like as far as like you know, she was out with a friend and she told me she was at home. But YM: Did you ever uhm, uhm, did you ever have reason to doubt that she worked at Universal? CS: No. I mean she always seemed like she had money. And I know they said she was taking from her parents or something, but like she would never have me pay for anything when we went out. Like she would always offer to pay but I would pay for two tickets, or something like that. She would never want me to pay for anything. YM: CS: YM: CS: YM: How would she pay for stuff like when she paid? Do you remember? Uh, she had cash. What about uhm, when she worked for Sports Authority? She ever? (Sighs.) Uhm Again, you, you never saw her working there? Uh, she just told you that? sir.

CS: Yes

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YM:

Okay. Alright. Is there anything else about this whole thing that, that comes to mind, or anything that you kind of

CS: Uhm. YM: CS: you know wanted to let me know about as far as Casey? Im trying to think of anything. Uhm, I really cant think of anything. I mean.

YM: Okay. CS: Uhm, the day before Mothers Day, which was I think Cinco De Mayo, I saw her on Cinco De Mayo. She came over. I was out with a bunch of my friends and then she was sitting and talking with my parents for a couple hours. I came home and we decided to go out. YM: Uh-hum CS: YM: (affirmative).

But thats the only thing I can think of. Has she ever borrowed your, or borrowed any family members cars to do any errands?

CS: YM:

Huh-huh (negative). Never borrowed any of our cars. Okay. And were pretty, and were pretty confident that the last couple times you saw her were July 7th at Buffalo Wild Wings where you saw her with other people?

CS: Right. YM: Uh, June 17th when she came to you house, 17th, 18th or 19th when she came to you house CS: Right. It was... then

YM: and CS:

in that area, yeah (affirmative).

YM: Okay.

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CS: YM:

That was like as much as I could remember. So before June, between June 17th and July 7th youre pretty confident you didnt see her

CS: Yeah YM: in CS: YM:

(affirmative). person?

Im almost a hundred percent. What about from May 17th to June 17th, how confident are you that you hadnt, you didnt see her?

CS:

(Sighs.) Well I told you I saw her at the bar briefly. Like just a brief encounter and that was it.

YM: Which CS: YM: CS:

bar?

I want to say Scoops. Its off of 50 and Alafaya. And who was she with? Do you remember? No. She wasnt with anybody when I saw her. But we kind of went our separate ways.

YM:

Do you remember uh, approximately when this was?

CS: (Sighs.) YM: CS: If you dont know a date thats fine, but just kind of a, a ballpark. It was probably like the beginning of June maybe. Scoops?

YM: At CS:

Or no, its probably closer to June 17th then, like so mid-June because uhm, she decided to come over a few days later, later, later on, and just stop to say hey.

YM: CS: YM:

Okay. So some, a couple of days before that June 17th, 18th, 19th you Yeah (affirmative), I saw. ran into at Scoops?

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CS: I. YM: CS: And you didnt see her with anyone or? No. She was with nobody and then uh, she decided to walk away and, because theres two parts of Scoops. YM: Uh-hum CS: (affirmative).

I dont know if, I mean but uh, uhm, theres a bar area then.

YM: Right. CS: a dance floor area. So once it gets crowded you dont really see anybody again. And I was with my friends. YM: So did, did she, when you guys got to Scoops, you and your friends, did she just come up to you and start talking or (inaudible). CS: Yeah (affirmative). Shes like, Hey, Chris. And I went, Well hey, whats going on? And then we talked for probably five minutes. She was like, Okay, I got to go. Oh, okay. YM: CS: YM: Alright. Uhm. And thats about it though. Well, you, youve got my number so if you remember anything yeah (affirmative), by all means shoot me a call. Believe it or not, you know, even the smallest things are, are important to us CS: YM: Yeah (affirmative), okay. because were trying to, you know, piece together a very, big puzzle. (affirmative).

CS: Yeah YM:

So you have, you have open contact. Call me. And I apologize if I dont answer but

CS:

No, no thats fine.

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YM: CS: YM:

as, as youd expect Im usually on my phone. No, no, yeah (affirmative), thats completely fine. Uhm, uhm, would you raise your right hand for me? Do you swear and affirm everything you just told me is the truth?

CS: Yes YM: Okay.

sir.

End of recorded statement. This transcript has been reviewed for accuracy.

___________________________________________________ CORPORAL YURI MELICH, OCSO DEPUTY SHERIFF

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