Now free, Casey Anthony and publishers await next chapter

The next photo of Casey Anthony may be on the cover of a book that could make her wealthy.

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Anthony is out of sight for now, but her story reverberates like the chop-chop of news helicopters that hovered over her heavily guarded release from the Orange County (Fla.) Jail on Sunday morning with $537.68 from her prisoner account.

A jury found Anthony not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but the 25-year-old woman was convicted of four counts of lying to police.

"We all have to recognize she has been found innocent by a jury. To treat her as guilty would not be fair, and I do believe people are entitled to write books and sell their stories," Robert Gottlieb, president of the Trident Group of book agents, said Sunday.

"Trident would be interested. This is a story with biblical overtones — a mother and a daughter and a murder. What untold thing happened here?"

The attorney for Anthony's parents said negotiations are underway for George and Cindy Anthony to do their own book. Mark Lippman said Sunday that any profits would go to a foundation, to be incorporated today in Florida, to promote grandparents' rights, efforts to help missing children and passage of "Caylee's Law," which would make it a crime to fail to report a missing child within 48 hours.Read more...