Casey Anthony might have to head back to court amid a defamation lawsuit pushed forward by the man who discovered the body of her toddler, Caylee Anthony, according to multiple reports this week.
Roy Kronk—the man who found the body of the 2-year-old in 2008 after a months-long search—has asked a judge to take a defamation case to trial, which was paused in 2013 when Anthony filed for bankruptcy. Kronk, 32, has accused Anthony of telling her lawyers to blame him for the murder of her daughter, according to People magazine.
Anthony's lawyer argued the statements were not defamatory and asked for a summary judgment, but Kronk's lawyer asked for a trial in civil court in response.
"There are disputed issues of fact that preclude summary judgment on the defamation issues, and because those issues cannot be tried by the Bankruptcy Court…(Kronk) should be allowed to return to the Orlando state court to obtain a single adjudication of all issues by jury trial, especially now that there are no remaining countervailing bankruptcy issues that would weigh against abstention," wrote Kronk's attorney, Howard Marks, according to local Orlando station WKMG-TV.
The Anthony case captivated the country when her daughter disappeared in 2008. Kronk, a meter reader, said he found Caylee Anthony's body when he went to relieve himself in the woods and stumbled upon a black trash bag filled with remains. Anthony was accused of killing her daughter but was acquitted in a high-profile case in 2011. She has maintained she is innocent, but some were convinced otherwise because she lied to police and her search history was full of terms like "neck breaking" and "foolproof suffocation."
"My sentence was doled out long before there was a verdict," Casey told the Associated Press last year. "Sentence first, verdict afterward. People found me guilty long before I had my day in court."
The case has been continually dissected and re-dissected. A new special on A&E this year spoke with Casey Anthony's parents, Cindy and George, about the case. Her father said he believes his daughter was involved in the death of his granddaughter.
"Absolutely," George Anthony told A&E. "Cindy and I must have really raised a bad seed somewhere. I don't understand it. I don't understand what happened with her."
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