LOS ANGELES - The media manhunt for Casey Anthony is zeroing in on a mysterious private jet that flew from Florida to Arizona and then California in the hours after her release.
Anthony walked out of a Florida jail about 12:10 a.m. Sunday and boarded the secret aircraft in Orlando, NBC's "Today Show" reported.
The jet stopped in nearby Panama City and changed its flight plan twice before touching down in Prescott, Ariz., on its way to California, according to FlightAware.com.
It appears the Pilatus PC-12 jet belongs to California lawyer Todd Macaluso, a former member of Anthony's defense team, who gave the infamous mom $70,000 before a jury found her not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee.
The aircraft in question was operating under the unregistered tail number N956KA, possibly to cover its tracks as part of the Anthony shell game.
Macaluso's plane is the same model and has an almost exact call number - N950KA.
If the two planes are indeed the same, their combined FlightAware histories reveal that the covert turboprop made its way from Arizona to the John Wayne Airport in southern California and then took a quick round-trip to the tiny San Carlos airport just south of San Francisco on Sunday afternoon.
"I can't comment on where she is for security reasons, but she's in very good hands," Macaluso told the Daily News. "We managed to get her out and managed to confuse the entire media network of the United States."
Asked if his aircraft was involved, he said, "I just can't comment one way or the other."
If Anthony landed in California on Sunday, she could still be on the move.
Macaluso's jet flew from Southern California to Baton Rouge, La., Monday night and then onto St. George Island in northwest Florida on Tuesday morning.
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