Casey Anthony, who was found not guilty in 2011 of murder charges in the death of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony, has created a TikTok to promote her role as a “legal advocate.”

The video posted on March 1 from what Anthony said was her car was actually to promote her account set up on Substack. By Monday morning, her account had more than 28,000 followers and the video has more than 1.2 million views.

“This is my first of probably many recordings on a series that I’m starting,” Anthony said in the three-minute long video. “I am a legal advocate. I am a researcher. I’ve been in the legal field since 2011 and in this capacity, I feel that it’s necessary, if I’m going to continue to operate appropriately as a legal advocate, that I start to advocate for myself and also advocate for my daughter.”

Caylee Marie Anthony died at the age of 2, and the murder remains unsolved despite the famous trial of her mother. When news broke of her disappearance in the summer of 2008 in Orlando, people held out hope that she was still alive, even though her disappearance was not reported for a month by Casey.

In the end, Caylee Marie had always been dead. Her body was found December 2008 in a wooded area behind the Orlando home of George and Cindy Anthony, Casey’s parents and Caylee Marie’s grandparents.

Nearly three years later, Casey Anthony stood trial for Caylee Marie’s murder, but was acquitted.

Casey Anthony contends she believes Caylee Marie died of accidental drowning and does not know who placed her body in the woods.

In the TikTok video, Anthony said she would be posting a series of videos, but that they would not be about her parents.

“This is not about them. This is not in response to anything that they have said or done. That’s not to say that I’m not going to respond at some point to some of the things that they have said and done. The whole point of this is for me to begin to reintroduce myself,” she said.

She said her intention is to post about legal matters such as privacy noting some people who had been close to her had been recently targeted and attacked.

“So as a proponent for the LGBTQ community, for legal community, women’s rights, I feel that it’s important that I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look at as a blessing, as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008,” she said.

Originally Published: March 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM EST