Elaborate Plan Hiding Casey Anthony

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - There have been reports of Casey Anthony being in two states, but people close to her say Anthony's whereabouts are secret.

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One report had Anthony in Ohio, while another had her in Arizona.

But Anthony's lawyers said only a select few knew of her location after a carefully thought out plan was enacted on Sunday.

One of her lawyers said the elaborate plan was made to protect Anthony from people with "the lynch-mob mentality."

She walked out of jail on Sunday, shortly after midnight, as some people in a crowd outside an Orlando jail railed at her.

One attorney, Cheney Mason, told NBC's Today Show on Monday that he's confident in Anthony's safety, but declined to answer questions about where she was.

"She's gone, she's safe and elaborate plans had to be made to keep the people away from her," Mason said. "Her life is going to be very difficult for a very long time as long as there are so many people of the lynch-mob mentality."

Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but convicted of lying to investigators.

Her lead attorney, Jose Baez, told Fox News Channel late Sunday that she has "certain rights as an individual in this country." Attorneys planned to handle Anthony's affairs in a "dignified manner," he said.

"If she decides she wants to speak publicly about it, she'll make that decision," he said.

Baez declined to talk about his client's whereabouts or state of mind.
Another former Anthony lawyer, Terry Lenamon, said he had no clue where she was headed, and that probably only a few people close to her knew.

"I wouldn't want anyone to know," he said. "I think she needs to go underground and I think she needs to spend some time to get her life back together."

It won't be impossible for Anthony to get a fresh start, though it will be difficult, said Los Angeles-based attorney Thomas Mesereau. His clients have included the late singer Michael Jackson when he was charged with child molestation and actor Robert Blake when he was charged with murdering his wife.

Anthony could accept requests for paid interviews, or a benefactor may be able to help her in the short term, Mesereau said.

Anthony still faces a slew of legal problems. She has been sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars by a Texas group that searched for Caylee in the weeks after she was reported missing, and prosecutors are seeking to recoup the cost of their investigation into Caylee's disappearance.

Anthony also is being sued for defamation by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez who claims she has been harassed and unable to find work after Anthony alleged Caylee was kidnapped by a baby sitter with Gonzalez' name. The woman's attorneys had wanted to depose Anthony before she left jail, but the deposition was rescheduled for October.

Any of those civil cases could put a major dent in any money Anthony receives for writing a book, signing a movie deal or doing interviews. Anthony is broke, and her defense team was paid for with taxpayers' money after $200,000 she received from ABC News was spent.

Anthony, wearing a pink T-shirt with blue jeans, left the jail at 12:14 a.m. Sunday with her attorney, Baez. She was given $537.68 in cash from her jail account and escorted outside by two sheriff's deputies armed with semi-automatic rifles. Neither Anthony nor Baez said anything to reporters and others gathered outside.