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(CNN) -- The murder trial of Casey Anthony continues Wednesday, a day after a friend testified that Anthony was growing more frustrated with her parents around the time her 2-year-old daughter disappeared.
Amy Huizenga on Tuesday told jurors that the two were previously close friends and that Anthony complained frequently about her parents, particularly her mother.
Anthony's relationship with her mother was "strained. It was hard. Her mom was continually agitated with her," Huizenga said. "I remember she told me her mom had told her she was an unfit mother. She was extremely upset about that."
Anthony was also agitated at her mother as well, as she had to cancel plans "fairly frequently" because she had no one to watch her daughter, Huizenga testified. It was happening more frequently during the spring of 2008, Huizenga said, and the "frustration was greater."
In late June 2008, Anthony told her that she was keeping Caylee away from her parents, as they were having marital problems and were considering divorce, and "she wanted to keep Caylee out of the drama."
But actually, by late June, Caylee was missing. The last time the little girl was seen was June 16, and she was not reported missing until July 15 by Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother.
Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading police. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.
She has pleaded not guilty and denied harming her daughter or having anything to do with the little girl's disappearance or death. Defense attorney Jose Baez has said that once all the facts were known, it will become clear his client is innocent.
Caylee's skeletal remains were found in December 2008 in a wooded field not far from the home of Casey Anthony's parents.
Earlier, jurors heard an obscenity-strewn phone conversation Casey Anthony made from jail just after her arrest, in which she lamented that no one was listening to her, denied knowing what had happened to Caylee and said authorities weren't trying hard enough to find the nanny she claimed had kidnapped the child.
Also Tuesday, jurors heard a recording of the call made to her parents' home on July 16, 2008, the day after Caylee was reported missing.
In the call, Anthony speaks to her mother, her brother and her friend Kristina Chester. She asks her brother to give her the phone number of her then-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro.
A tearful Chester tries to get answers out of Anthony regarding Caylee's whereabouts. The child had last been seen June 16, a month earlier.
"I got arrested on a f---ing whim today," Anthony tells Chester on the call, "because they're blaming me for stuff that I would never do, that I didn't do.
"They're twisting stuff," Anthony says. "They've already said they're going to pin this on me if they don't find Caylee. They've already said that."
"Casey," Chester says later in the call. "Your daughter, your flesh and blood, your baby." But Anthony cuts her off, saying, "Put my brother back on the phone. I don't want to get into this with you. ... I haven't slept in four days."
Asked by Chester during the call why she isn't crying and upset, Anthony said on the recording, "I have to stay composed to talk to detectives. ... I can't sit here and be crying every two seconds like I want to."
Jurors also heard a call to the Orange County, Florida, sheriff's office made July 15 by a hysterical Cindy Anthony, reporting her granddaughter missing. The call was made, Cindy Anthony testified, after her daughter told her she had not seen Caylee for weeks.
Her daughter also was absent, moving out of her parents' home with little explanation and giving various explanations of where she was, where Caylee was and why Caylee was unavailable for her grandparents to see or speak to. "There was always a reason I missed her," Cindy Anthony said.
She testified that she made her 911 call -- her third to police that day -- after she and her son, Lee, had confronted Casey Anthony, who admitted that Caylee had been missing for a month and that she believed the nanny, whom she identified as Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, had kidnapped her.
"My daughter's been missing for 31 days," Casey Anthony tells the dispatcher on the recording after her mother put her on the phone. "I know who has her. I've tried to contact her. I actually received a phone call today. I got to speak to my daughter for about a minute."
"Why didn't you call 31 days ago?" the Orange County sheriff's dispatcher asks on the recording.
"I've been looking for her," Casey Anthony replied, "and have gone through other resources to find her, which was stupid."
But Casey Anthony was not looking for her daughter in the month she was missing, despite her claim to police, according to prosecutors and testimony offered in her trial. Instead, she was staying with her boyfriend, spending time in Orlando with numerous friends, attending parties, going shopping and hitting nightclubs, including participating in a "hot body" contest. Her former boyfriend, her friends and acquaintances have all testified that she did not mention her daughter being missing during that time.
As the call of the 911 call was played, Cindy Anthony put her head down on the witness stand and sobbed.
Authorities were never able to find the nanny. They did find a woman named Zenaida "Zanny" Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Casey Anthony or Caylee and who later sued for defamation.
Told by Chester in the phone call that authorities can't find Gonzalez, Anthony says, "Nobody's f---ing listening to anything I'm saying. ... They can't find her in the Florida database (of driver's licenses). She's not just from Florida."
Under cross-examination, Cindy Anthony testified that her daughter was a good mother to Caylee.
Earlier, Cindy Anthony testified that on July 15, George Anthony picked up a certified letter from a tow yard, which said that Casey Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire -- registered to her parents -- had been there for a couple of weeks.
Cindy Anthony testified that her daughter had told her that the car was with her in Jacksonville, Florida, and she called her and told her "she had a lot of explaining to do." She asked her to come home.
After George Anthony drove the car home from the wrecker yard, Cindy Anthony, a nurse, said she smelled the car and asked, "What died?" She testified that she knows what human decomposition smells like, but said it was just an expression and that she didn't really believe someone had died or a body had decomposed in the car. She said that at the time, she was satisfied that the smell was some garbage her husband said he found in the trunk.
But "the smell in the car was like something I had never -- it was pretty strong," she said.
After her husband left for work, Cindy Anthony said, she retrieved her daughter's purse from the car, along with a doll. She broke into tears as she described finding the doll in Caylee's car seat, "like it was sitting where Caylee would have sat."
She tearfully recalled putting the doll on an ice chest in the garage and wiping its face and hands with a disinfecting wipe, then spraying its body and the interior of the car with Febreze, a commercial substance that helps eliminate odor. She said she also put a dryer sheet in the car.
Prosecutors allege that Anthony used chloroform on her daughter and then suffocated her by putting duct tape over her nose and mouth.
Anthony's defense has claimed that the little girl drowned in her grandparents' pool on June 16, the day she was last seen, and that Casey Anthony and her father panicked and kept the death a secret. George Anthony has denied that claim in testimony.
Casey Anthony's defense attorney explains her behavior in June and July 2008 by saying she had been sexually abused as a child by her father -- and, to a lesser extent, her brother -- and was taught from a young age to hide her pain. George Anthony has also denied abusing his daughter in previous testimony.
Amy Huizenga on Tuesday told jurors that the two were previously close friends and that Anthony complained frequently about her parents, particularly her mother.
Anthony's relationship with her mother was "strained. It was hard. Her mom was continually agitated with her," Huizenga said. "I remember she told me her mom had told her she was an unfit mother. She was extremely upset about that."
Anthony was also agitated at her mother as well, as she had to cancel plans "fairly frequently" because she had no one to watch her daughter, Huizenga testified. It was happening more frequently during the spring of 2008, Huizenga said, and the "frustration was greater."
In late June 2008, Anthony told her that she was keeping Caylee away from her parents, as they were having marital problems and were considering divorce, and "she wanted to keep Caylee out of the drama."
But actually, by late June, Caylee was missing. The last time the little girl was seen was June 16, and she was not reported missing until July 15 by Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother.
Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading police. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.
She has pleaded not guilty and denied harming her daughter or having anything to do with the little girl's disappearance or death. Defense attorney Jose Baez has said that once all the facts were known, it will become clear his client is innocent.
Caylee's skeletal remains were found in December 2008 in a wooded field not far from the home of Casey Anthony's parents.
Earlier, jurors heard an obscenity-strewn phone conversation Casey Anthony made from jail just after her arrest, in which she lamented that no one was listening to her, denied knowing what had happened to Caylee and said authorities weren't trying hard enough to find the nanny she claimed had kidnapped the child.
Also Tuesday, jurors heard a recording of the call made to her parents' home on July 16, 2008, the day after Caylee was reported missing.
In the call, Anthony speaks to her mother, her brother and her friend Kristina Chester. She asks her brother to give her the phone number of her then-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro.
A tearful Chester tries to get answers out of Anthony regarding Caylee's whereabouts. The child had last been seen June 16, a month earlier.
"I got arrested on a f---ing whim today," Anthony tells Chester on the call, "because they're blaming me for stuff that I would never do, that I didn't do.
"They're twisting stuff," Anthony says. "They've already said they're going to pin this on me if they don't find Caylee. They've already said that."
"Casey," Chester says later in the call. "Your daughter, your flesh and blood, your baby." But Anthony cuts her off, saying, "Put my brother back on the phone. I don't want to get into this with you. ... I haven't slept in four days."
Asked by Chester during the call why she isn't crying and upset, Anthony said on the recording, "I have to stay composed to talk to detectives. ... I can't sit here and be crying every two seconds like I want to."
Jurors also heard a call to the Orange County, Florida, sheriff's office made July 15 by a hysterical Cindy Anthony, reporting her granddaughter missing. The call was made, Cindy Anthony testified, after her daughter told her she had not seen Caylee for weeks.
Her daughter also was absent, moving out of her parents' home with little explanation and giving various explanations of where she was, where Caylee was and why Caylee was unavailable for her grandparents to see or speak to. "There was always a reason I missed her," Cindy Anthony said.
She testified that she made her 911 call -- her third to police that day -- after she and her son, Lee, had confronted Casey Anthony, who admitted that Caylee had been missing for a month and that she believed the nanny, whom she identified as Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, had kidnapped her.
"My daughter's been missing for 31 days," Casey Anthony tells the dispatcher on the recording after her mother put her on the phone. "I know who has her. I've tried to contact her. I actually received a phone call today. I got to speak to my daughter for about a minute."
"Why didn't you call 31 days ago?" the Orange County sheriff's dispatcher asks on the recording.
"I've been looking for her," Casey Anthony replied, "and have gone through other resources to find her, which was stupid."
But Casey Anthony was not looking for her daughter in the month she was missing, despite her claim to police, according to prosecutors and testimony offered in her trial. Instead, she was staying with her boyfriend, spending time in Orlando with numerous friends, attending parties, going shopping and hitting nightclubs, including participating in a "hot body" contest. Her former boyfriend, her friends and acquaintances have all testified that she did not mention her daughter being missing during that time.
As the call of the 911 call was played, Cindy Anthony put her head down on the witness stand and sobbed.
Authorities were never able to find the nanny. They did find a woman named Zenaida "Zanny" Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Casey Anthony or Caylee and who later sued for defamation.
Told by Chester in the phone call that authorities can't find Gonzalez, Anthony says, "Nobody's f---ing listening to anything I'm saying. ... They can't find her in the Florida database (of driver's licenses). She's not just from Florida."
Under cross-examination, Cindy Anthony testified that her daughter was a good mother to Caylee.
Earlier, Cindy Anthony testified that on July 15, George Anthony picked up a certified letter from a tow yard, which said that Casey Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire -- registered to her parents -- had been there for a couple of weeks.
Cindy Anthony testified that her daughter had told her that the car was with her in Jacksonville, Florida, and she called her and told her "she had a lot of explaining to do." She asked her to come home.
After George Anthony drove the car home from the wrecker yard, Cindy Anthony, a nurse, said she smelled the car and asked, "What died?" She testified that she knows what human decomposition smells like, but said it was just an expression and that she didn't really believe someone had died or a body had decomposed in the car. She said that at the time, she was satisfied that the smell was some garbage her husband said he found in the trunk.
But "the smell in the car was like something I had never -- it was pretty strong," she said.
After her husband left for work, Cindy Anthony said, she retrieved her daughter's purse from the car, along with a doll. She broke into tears as she described finding the doll in Caylee's car seat, "like it was sitting where Caylee would have sat."
She tearfully recalled putting the doll on an ice chest in the garage and wiping its face and hands with a disinfecting wipe, then spraying its body and the interior of the car with Febreze, a commercial substance that helps eliminate odor. She said she also put a dryer sheet in the car.
Prosecutors allege that Anthony used chloroform on her daughter and then suffocated her by putting duct tape over her nose and mouth.
Anthony's defense has claimed that the little girl drowned in her grandparents' pool on June 16, the day she was last seen, and that Casey Anthony and her father panicked and kept the death a secret. George Anthony has denied that claim in testimony.
Casey Anthony's defense attorney explains her behavior in June and July 2008 by saying she had been sexually abused as a child by her father -- and, to a lesser extent, her brother -- and was taught from a young age to hide her pain. George Anthony has also denied abusing his daughter in previous testimony.
