The man who found the remains of Caylee Anthony said on national television this morning that Orange County deputies were uninterested in following up on tips of a suspicious bag he found near the Anthonys' home.
Roy Kronk, the Orange County meter reader who discovered the remains of the missing 2-year-old toddler in a plastic bag on Dec. 11, also told ABC's Good Morning America host Robin Roberts about a kidnapping charge he once faced.
In the televised interview without his attorney, Kronk said he felt deputies were rushed and not thorough in their search for the missing girl. Kronk, 46, made three calls Aug. 11, 12 and 13, less than a month after the girl's grandmother had reported her missing from the Chickasaw Oaks subdivision.
A deputy who had responded to the Suburban Drive area after his first call poked around the water with a metal stick then "swept his head back and forth and said, 'I don't see anything,' and pretty much, that was it," Kronk said.
"I guess the deputy didn't want to go into the water to look at the bag," Kronk said. "The cop was like...I would say, he was kind of rude to me."
The meter reader, who also said he used to be a bail bondsman and bounty hunter, told Roberts he was trying to be a "nice guy" and "instead I'm catching all this [from the deputy]."
But Kronk persisted and called again. A detective did not respond, but made a note that the area had been searched by a cadaver dog that found nothing suspicious. After his third call, deputies spent more than an hour in the area and cleared it after only finding trash.
A report released late Tuesday shows that a deputy sheriff who responded to Kronk's third call in August and was criticized for the way he handled the tip about Caylee Marie Anthony's remains was accused of failing to properly investigate incidents in the past.
Deputy Sheriff Richard Cain was accused of failing to properly investigate a threatening telephone call in March 2007, but that allegation was deemed unfounded. The outcome of a similar complaint against him in December 2006 was not available Tuesday.
Kronk also talked about a kidnapping charge he faced in the early 1990s. He was accused of kidnapping a former girlfriend, but was never charged, his attorney David Evans said. The case was taken before a grand jury, which decided there wasn't enough evidence to support the allegations.
"It was sealed, expunged from my record and the only reason I came forward with it is because I have nothing to hide," he said.
Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office do not consider Kronk a suspect in the murder of Caylee Anthony.
"I just tried to help put a little closure to that poor child and that she got a decent burial and to end all this," he said.
You try to do the right thing, the decent thing, and then they dig up all your private business from the past and broadcast it to the world. If the police don't think Roy Kronk is a suspect in Caylee's murder and there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with kidnapping, why bring it up on television. What if it was just a false accusations? Didn't the press learn anything from the Atlanta Olympic Bombing? They helped ruin that poor man's life. And are you surprised that the police officer has similar complaints about not investigating a complaint. But I also wouldn't be surprised if every officer has similar complaints, because someone complained after things didn't go their way. And don't most people find police to be rude idiots. They always have been very helpful to me even if there wasn't anything they could really do. Of course my son was missing in the seventh grade and they sent up the police helicopter after 20 minutes, so I may be biased.
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