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<p>Yet at least one lady who apparently looks like Casey Anthony has been harassed and blamed for it. I have a feeling somebody is going to attack Casey Anthony when she is released. I hope whoever does is caught on video and punished SEVERELY.</p>
<p>hops_scout, I don’t believe anyone should take the law into their own hands. I hope Casey Anthony is not harmed. While I think she was involved in her D’s death in some way, I don’t wish anything to happen to her. I would never ever condone someone harming Casey Anthony! (or harming anyone, no matter how awful they think that person is)</p>
<p>I defintely agree that no one should take the law into their own hands and harm Casey Anthony.</p>
<p>However, before Caylee’s death, Casey was clearly freeloading off her parents (by lying about having a job and a nanny) and taking advantage of those who cared about her (by stealing from her friend and family). She has wiped out any loyalty family and friends ever felt for her by claiming she was sexually abused by her male relatives and lying to everyone about what happened to Caylee, etc…</p>
<p>My question is whose generosity is Casey going to live on now? If her lawyers are not going to bankroll the start of her new life, who is? From the New York Times article, her best bet is probably a book deal, but I am guessing most Americans will boycott her book and boycott a company that offers her a book deal. And why would a publishing company (and readers) believe Casey will provide the truth for a book, given her extensive history of lying? Maybe some of the kooks who have sent her money in jail will provide her with housing, security and/or plastic surgery? (All of those things cost money, and I can’t see where Casey will get it, except via an interview and/or book deal. Who is going to hire her for anything else?</p>
<p>Nancy Grace needs to go away. Unfortunately, this trial has made her even more popular. I can’t bear to watch her so I have no idea how she presented the evidence on her show, but I have no doubt it was biased. There was no need for her interpretation since the entire trial was broadcast so anyone who really wanted to know just what was presented and what wasn’t could easily find out.</p>
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<p>Caylee was now old enough to begin to talk and tell what her mother was doing with her, such as drugging her with Xanax–and/or possibly taping her mouth so that she couldn’t make noise–and leaving her at home alone, or in the car alone, or even in the trunk of the car.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it most likely that Casey killed Caylee accidentally by either giving her an overdose of a sedative, or by taping her mouth, causing her to suffocate when her nasal passages became blocked from crying. Her death in that case could have been hastened by sedation, too. (There was a well-known case in my state in which a foster parent duct-taped a child to a chair and covered her mouth, and she accidentally suffocated.) The next most likely thing is an accidental drowning, although in that case she would be less motivated to construct a cover-up. Almost any rational person would say that we were both taking a nap and Caylee went outside, got into the pool, and drowned, and gosh, not only did I not hear her get up but we normally don’t leave the ladder down and it is just a terrible accident and I am so heartbroken. And even if Casey–being both irrational AND an inveterate liar–panicked and tried to hide the body, if George was REALLY involved in helping her cover it up, that is PRECISELY what he–the experienced cop–would have told her to say, not this ridiculous tale of constructing a fake murder. It is also what her defense counsel would have guided her towards saying with leading questions. The fact that the defense presented the ludicrous George story instead of the obvious and simple one tends to make me think that accidental drowning as real cause of death is less likely.</p>
<p>Regarding the intelligence and education of juries, I am under the perhaps-mistaken impression that well-educated people are routinely excluded from juries by attorneys on both sides.</p>
<p>Lastly, playing the sexual abuse card is always 100% successful with some people. They will always believe it. As I said earlier, you can see it in this thread. The defense knew that that was the single most effective way to impeach any male family member and provide Casey with an excuse for virtually any sort of abhorrent behavior. And as long as they didn’t put Casey on the stand, it could not be challenged in any effective way. (It fact, even if she were on the stand, and seen to be lying through her teeth about everything else, the accusation alone would be sufficient for some: everything the person says and does it viewed by them through the lens of “abuse survivor” and lying, in particular, is completely excused.)</p>
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<p>The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide. You do not need a cause of death in a murder case, ie Laci Peterson.</p>
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<p>It also seems to me that the defense story of covering up an accident to APPEAR as a murder is very unusual but even if anyone did this, it seems unusual to duct tape a dead corpse as the way to make it appear as if it were a murder. It seems like an odd choice for a “fake murder.”</p>
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Absolutely. Try (if you can) to put yourself in the situation of finding a loved one dead and it was an accident. You (for whatever reason) decide that you can’t call the police and need to stage it as…what? Another type of accident…or…a murder? Why a murder? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and this is the part that bothers me. It is as if common sense never came into play. But, then again, common sense is becoming more and more hard to find anywhere these days. Maybe we should run the evidence through a computer and see if a verdict is reached based on probability (I’m half kidding, of course).</p>
<p>EPTR, I wasn’t only saying that it was odd to make an accident appear as a murder, but let’s just say that was the thinking…I was then saying it seemed odd to use duct tape for the fake murder. I would think it would be staged somewhat differently if at all.</p>
<p>the only reason i can think of to make it look like murder in that scenario…is she makes it look like murder, casey is not responsible in any way…if an accident, then she was negligent, or a bad mother or whatever…casey has never taken responsibility for anything i would assume…and in florida parents have been charged with manslaughter for child drowning where negilence is found…so if she said accident and drowned did she think she could face manslaughter??</p>
<p>But what murderer (other than a parent) would put a heart sticker on the duct tape?</p>
<p>^and put the blanket with her that was missing from her bed at home.</p>
<p>Hearing about how Casey Anthony is getting death threats and harrassment, my heart really goes out to her. I hope that she is able to start over soon, and that authorities give her protection commensurate with whatever danger she’s in.</p>
<p>milkandsugar…i’m not saying that i think that…i’m saying maybe that’s what casey thought at that time…and add in maybe she had been drinking or something and knew the police if they came would be able to tell</p>
<p>… i didnt see the trial, so have no idea what was testified to as to the sticker and blanket…</p>
<p>The orange county sheriffs department said they will only do so much, once she is free she is on her own and she will get the same protection as any other citizen. They also said they have not received any credible threats.
Even Jose Baez is ready to wash his hands of her.</p>
<p>Right, if you are going to stage it to look like someone else murdered the kid (after an accident), it would not be wise to use your own duct tape, heart sticker, laundry and trash bags, and blankie. I can’t imagine George, a former cop, choosing such methods for staging a fake murder, not to mention discarding the body so close to the home.</p>
<p>Parent56, by eyewitness accounts, Casey was jealous of her own daughter, she didn’t like the attention Caylee received. It’s almost as if she viewed her with sibling rivalry. She didn’t like that Caylee called Cindy, “mom”. Cindy was the first to hold her after her birth. A clerk in TechbabyUSA, noted that when he was paying attention to the litle girl, giving her a beanie baby reserved for children in the store, Casey didn’t like that and wanted him to pay attention to her. Even the bodyguard who was with Casey for 9 or 10 days when she was released from jail in July 2008, noted that when she(bodyguard) was looking through photo albums of Caylee, she didnt like that and she wanted her to look at photos of Casey. Cindy and Casey had a fight the night before, Cindy had been seeing a therapist and was told thst she should adopt Caylee. Their was motive. I don’t understand why some things was not allowed in court. I don’t think Cindy was cooperating with the prosecution in thst regard.
There were all sorts of reasons why Casey would harm her daughter.</p>
<p>milk and sugar… i have been saying all along that casey was involved in some way… i was only responding to why would someone make an accident look like a murder</p>
<p>milkandsugar, I did not watch this case on TV. Did they allow in court that the grandmother was possibly seeking to adopt Caylee?</p>
<p>I think a tricky thing in this case is that it was nearly impossible to get the parents and brother to testify against Casey. And I understand a desire to protect her. I mean Cindy even perjured herself to protect Casey.</p>