Casey Anthony – who was once dubbed ‘America’s most hated woman’ – has reportedly split from her aerospace engineer boyfriend after he separated from his wife for her.
The 38-year-old, who was sensationally acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2011, had been dating Tyson Ray Rhodes, 49, since January – when they were spotted at a South Florida bar together ‘holding hands and kissing.’
Anthony and Rhodes apparently met at a local gym they were both members of, 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 spotted in September collecting belongings from her apartment in Murfreesboro in Rhodes’s pick-up truck, before heading to the house that he briefly shared with his devastated wife of 22 years – who by then had changed her relationship status on Facebook to ‘It’s complicated.’
But those close to Anthony say she has since grew bored of the affair.
‘She gets bored easily,’ a friend told the New York Post.
‘It was very exciting when he was married because he was the forbidden fruit,’ the friend explained. ‘But once she had him, there was nowhere to go.
Casey Anthony, 38, has reportedly separated from her boyfriend, Tyson Ray Rhodes, 49. They are pictured moving in together in September
‘What was she going to do with him?’ the source asked, rhetorically. ‘She grew 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 notorious tot mom.
‘He regrets leaving his marriage for her,’ the source said of the father-of-two. ‘He wasn’t thinking clearly.
‘He has a lot of repairs to make,’ they added. ‘I wouldn’t want to be him right now.’
The source noted that since Sandy, was left ‘blindsided’ by the revelation her husband was dating Anthony, who first gained widespread notoriety in 2008 after her two-year-old daughter, Caylee vanished.
An ensuing investigation revealed that Caylee had been missing for a month before Anthony’s mother, Cindy, filed a missing person report.
The mother was instead seen partying in nightclubs and hanging out with friends.
Caylee’s skeletal remains were eventually found wrapped in a blanket inside a laundry bag in a wooded area near Anthony’s home in Orlando, Florida, in December 2008.
Rhodes’ wife of 22 years, Sandy, was said to have been left ‘blindsided’ by her husband’s relationship with the notorious tot mom
Anthony gained widespread notoriety in 2008 after her two-year-old daughter, Caylee vanished, and she was charged with her 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 she was sensationally acquitted of first-degree murder three years later in a trial that transfixed America.
For years afterward, Anthony kept out of the spotlight.
However, in a Peacock docuseries in 2022, Anthony spoke out about what she said happened to her daughter.
She claimed she was ‘working – not partying’ when she was pictured taking part in a hot body contest and in nightclubs during the search for her daughter.
She then went on to blame her father, George, for Caylee’s death – a claim he has strongly denied.
She was sensationally acquitted of first-degree murder three years later in a trial that transfixed America in 2011
Still, Anthony maintained throughout the docuseries that she thought Caylee was alive, that her father was holding her captive and that he was instructing her to pretend everything was OK.
‘I just tried to be as normal as I could…that was part of the main instruction from my dad – be as normal as possible. I couldn’t show that there was anything going on,’ she said.
‘All of the photos that people show of me out in those 31 days, I wasn’t partying. You don’t see drinks in my hand. I was there actually working. I was helping Tony [the boyfriend] promote.
‘During the 31 says, I genuinely believed Caylee was alive. My father kept telling me she was OK. 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 needed to do to survive.’
Anthony’s father was never arrested in connection with the child’s disappearance and death. He instead testified for the State of Florida during her trial, telling a jury how he smelled the odor of a dead body in Casey’s car weeks after Caylee vanished.
