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Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla traveled to Florida in 2008 to bail Casey Anthony out of jail so she could search for her daughter Caylee. He and his team also helped in that search, and provided security around the Anthony home.
Now Padilla is suing Anthony and her attorney, Jose Baez, for the cost of those services. The suit asks for about 200-thousand dollars. Padilla claims Anthony and Baez accepted his help looking for Caylee, even when they knew the child was dead.
"We feel that we were conned," Padilla told FOX40 on Monday. "(Baez) mislead us, obviously, because in his opening statement at the trial, he said that the child had never been missing, which obviously concludes that he and Casey knew what had happened to the child, and where the child was dead, and buried."
Padilla isn't the only one suing Anthony and her attorney. A man named Tim Miller, who helped organize the search for Caylee, is filing a similar suit.
Padilla is also the target of a lawsuit. Roy Kronk, the man who found Caylee's remains, is suing Padilla, claiming the bounty hunter made defamatory statements about Kronk.
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