ORLANDO, Fla. – Although the neighborhood is quiet now, residents of Hopespring Drive have endured months of chaos in the wake of the Casey Anthony case.
Raphael Torres still has a keybox on his front door, but he has taken his home off the market. He put his house up for sale about a year ago, but only one potential buyer looked at the house.
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"People are looking to live in a neighborhood where you have peace and tranquility. You don't want to have a whole baseball park in your house," Torres said.
During the height of the search for missing toddler Caylee Anthony, the east Orange County neighborhood was inundated with around the clock news coverage and dozens of protesters as Anthony was arrested and then released on house arrest several times last summer.
Torres said there was so much traffic on the street that he got to the point that he would not let his young daughter go outside.
"We were not able to let her outside because cars were driving all the time. A lot of traffic," Torres said.
Anthony is currently being held on no bond at the Orange County Jail. She is charged with first-degree murder in Caylee's death.
Caylee's body was found in December in a wooded area near Suburban Drive, near the Anthony's Hope Spring Drive home.
The area is mostly peaceful now, a memorial on Suburban Drive has been taken down, but a few spectators remain.
Gloria Heifle and her husband drove from Jacksonville to photograph the house and attend a vigil for Caylee on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the last time the toddler was seen alive.
"I've had interest since it was first reported," Heifle said.
Heifle said she has followed the case since it first broke and one year later she is just as interested.
"The story is so sad to me and everyone that I know that has children. We?re just very saddened by this story," Heifle said.