Casey Anthony – who was once dubbed ‘America’s most hated woman’ – has reportedly split from her aerospace engineer boyfriend after divorcing his wife for her.
The 38-year-old, who was sensationally acquitted of the murder of her two-year-old daughter in 2011, had been dating Tyson Ray Rhodes, 49, since January, when they were spotted together at a South Florida bar, ‘holding hands and kissing’. .’
Anthony and Rhodes apparently met at a local gym where they were both members, after joining a group chat with other gym members and hitting it off.
Soon the pair began messaging one-on-one, and when Rhodes moved his family to Tennessee, Anthony got an apartment near his home.
They were then seen in September gathering items from her Murfreesboro apartment into Rhodes’ pickup truck, before heading to the home he briefly shared with his devastated wife of 22 years — who by then had her relationship status on Facebook changed to ‘It’s complicated.’
But those close to Anthony say she has grown bored of the affair since then.
“She gets bored easily,” says a friend told the New York Post.
“It was very exciting when he got married because he was the forbidden fruit,” the friend explained. ‘But once she had him, she had nowhere to go.
Casey Anthony, 38, has reportedly split from her boyfriend, Tyson Ray Rhodes, 49. They are moving in together in September
“What was she going to do with him?” the source asked rhetorically. “She got tired and restless, so it was time to move on.”
Meanwhile, a family source claimed that Rhodes now feels he made a mistake by leaving his wife Sandy for the infamous mother.
“He regrets leaving his marriage for her,” the source said of the father of two. ‘He wasn’t thinking clearly.
“It still needs a lot of repairs,” they added. “I wouldn’t want to be him right now.”
The source noted that since Sandy was “blindsided” by the revelation that her husband was dating Anthony, who first gained widespread fame in 2008 after her two-year-old daughter Caylee disappeared.
A subsequent investigation revealed that Caylee had been missing for a month before Anthony’s mother, Cindy, reported her missing.
Instead, the mother was seen partying at nightclubs and hanging out with friends.
Caylee’s skeletal remains were eventually found in December 2008, wrapped in a blanket in a laundry bag, in a wooded area near Anthony’s home in Orlando, Florida.
Rhodes’ 22-year-old wife Sandy is said to be ‘blindsided’ by her husband’s relationship with the infamous mother
Anthony rose to fame in 2008 after her two-year-old daughter Caylee disappeared and she was charged with murder
Anthony, then 21, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, with police claiming she killed her daughter to party with friends and her boyfriend.
But three years later she was sensationally acquitted of first-degree murder in a trial that shook America.
Years later, Anthony stayed out of the spotlight.
However, in a 2022 Peacock docuseries, Anthony spoke about what she believes happened to her daughter.
She claimed she was ‘working – not partying’ as she was pictured taking part in a hot body competition and in nightclubs during the search for her daughter.
She then blamed her father, George, for Caylee’s death – a claim he has vehemently denied.
She was sensationally acquitted of first-degree murder three years later in a trial that America exposed in 2011.
Yet throughout the docuseries, Anthony continued to insist that she thought Caylee was alive, that her father was holding her captive and that he instructed her to pretend everything was fine.
‘I just tried to be as normal as possible… that was part of my father’s main instruction: be as normal as possible. “I couldn’t prove anything was wrong,” she said.
‘In all the pictures people show of me in those 31 days, I wasn’t partying. You don’t see any drinks in my hand. I was actually working there. I helped Tony (the boyfriend) promote.
“During the 31st period, I truly believed Caylee was still alive. My father kept telling me she was fine. I just had to keep following his instructions.
“I just knew I had to do what he wanted me to do. Just do what he wants. It worked before, do it now. I did what I had to do to survive.”
Anthony’s father was never arrested in connection with the child’s disappearance and death. Instead, he testified at her trial for the state of Florida, telling a jury how he smelled the odor of a dead body in Casey’s car weeks after Caylee disappeared.