Building a Case against Casey Anthony
62On July 15, this year the Orange County Sheriff's Department in Florida received three emergency phone calls from Cindy Anthony.
In the first phone call, Cindy said that she wanted to press charges against her daughter 22-year-old Casey for grand theft auto. In the second call, she said there was somebody in her home who needed to be arrested in relation to a missing toddler, Casey two-year-old daughter Caylee. In the third phone call Casey's grandmother (Cindy) says to the person on the other end of the emergency call that it smells like there was a dead body in her car, something she later disputed by saying that the smell was just garbage.
I think it is safe to assume here that Cindy and her daughter were having some issues when the first emergency phone call was placed.
Since that time, Casey has been arrested and jailed twice. She remains behind bars today, remains uncooperative with police, and her two-year-old daughter is nowhere to be found. More importantly, Casey Anthony is quickly becoming the prime suspect in her daughter's disappearance, and for somebody who is claiming she is innocent she isn't doing herself any favours with the head games she is playing with investigators, her family and her friends.
It has been a month and a half since Casey's mother made that first phone call to the sheriff's department, and since that time there has been speculation and innuendo about what has happened to Caylee, and the role her mother has played in her disappearance, which brings me to the evidence against Casey.
It has recently been reported that there is conclusive evidence that indicates there was a decomposing body, not garbage, in the car Casey's mother wanted to report as stolen. That evidence came courtesy of forensic scientists at the Body Farm in Tennessee. Obviously, somebody has to some explaining to do now, and it will be interesting to hear what Casey will say to police about this recent development, if she says anything at all.
There are rumours that she is also going to point the finger of blame at her former fiancé Jesse in light of the decomposing body evidence.
According to a rumour Jesse's father has heard, Casey will claim that his son impregnated her during a one-night stand. She will go on to say that when she informed Jesse of her pregnancy he didn't want the child and that he urged Casey to give it up for adoption because they were too young to raise children.
Having children does tend to cramp one's party lifestyle, a lifestyle that Casey is all too familiar with.
Casey will then say that she said to Jesse that adoption and abortion were out of the question that she intended to keep the baby. I suspect she will follow up that with a story claiming she left Cayley with Jesse, and that he either deliberately or accidentally killed their daughter and that Jesse forced her to help him get rid of the body, and cover-up the death of her daughter. I wouldn't put it past her to say such a thing given the lies she has already told. Casey has dug herself quite a hole to climb out of and she will say anything and blame anybody (even her mother if she has too) to keep herself from being the prime suspect in her daughter's disappearance.
It's a great story for Casey to tell if she is looking to deflect attention away from her as a suspect in the disappearance of her daughter, but as I said; her telling that story to investigators is just a rumour for now.
While that evidence might not be enough to get a murder conviction on it's own, there is evidence to suggest that Casey knows that her daughter isn't coming home, that she knows more about the circumstances surrounding her daughter's disappearance than she is letting on, and that her calm, cool, collective demeanour since her daughter's disappearance is an indication that she knows for a fact that her daughter is gone for good, and that her body will never be found.
I would suspect that the two cans of gasoline she has been connected to, and the fact that she borrowed a shovel from her neighbour has a lot to do with Casey's confidence in not being prosecuted for the disappearance of her daughter. If Casey disposed of her daughter's body, is it any wonder she is so calm through all of this, especially if she was thinking at the time she burned her daughter's body that without a body she'll get away with whatever it was she was trying to get away with. Assuming that that is exactly what Casey did with Caylee, boy did she make a mistake in assuming that you have to have a body in order to convict somebody on any kind of murder charge.
Then there are the lies she told police when she was first interviewed by them. She lied about where she took her daughter on the day she allegedly disappeared (June 9), and the person she left Caylee with, a woman by the name of Zenaida Gonzalez.
There are nine people with that name in Orlando, Florida, four people with that name in Winter Haven, Florida, people in Miami with that name, four people with that name in New York City, and three people with that name in the Bronx.
That's more than 20 possible suspects in the disappearance of Caylee, and it would certainly keep the police busy, especially if some of those potential suspects are hard to find or can't be found at all. Coincidence or not, having another 20 possible suspects other than Casey herself makes it a little easier for Casey to get away with homicide, accidental or not, especially if any one of those 20-plus suspects can't be found and Cayley is never found. There is such a thing as reasonable doubt, and without any proof that Cayley is alive or dead and one missing Zenaidia Gonzalez, that just might be enough for Cayley's lawyer Jose Baez, to get her off.
Another lie Casey was caught in is the one she told when she gave police an address she claims the babysitter she dropped Cayley off with resided at. Police went to that address only to find out that nobody had lived at that address for five months.
Certainly police would have been seeing red flags after that lie, and if that lie wasn't enough to raise some red flags, the next lie would. In that lie she told police that she had dropped her daughter off at a friend's house and that she had since lost contact with that friend. That's it, that's all I have to hear, if I had any doubt that Casey was guilty, that lie erases all doubts. If Casey's lies were intended to deflect attention away from her as a suspect in daughter's disappearance, cast doubts on my suspicions, she failed miserably.
There was one more lie before she was arrested. Casey told police she worked at Universal Studios and that she could provide a list of people who could vouch for her. Police checked that out too, only to learn that she never worked there, and that the people on the list didn't exist.
Eventually Casey was arrested and charged with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. Her bail was set at half-a-million dollars.
After Her First Arrest
While Casey was in jail she only made things worse for herself. In a phone call to her mother Casey expressed little concern over her missing daughter and was more interested in getting her boyfriend's number. In another recorded telephone call she appeared to be more concerned about herself than her missing daughter.
You would think that somebody who everybody is claiming to be such a loving and good mother would have been in hysterics, protesting her innocence, but not Casey, she has been as cool as a cucumber since the day her daughter disappeared, finding time to party at a nightclub her boyfriend Tony Lazzaro worked at when she wasn't scouring the streets looking for her missing two-year-old daughter.
Does this woman have nerves of steel or what, or is that how cold-blooded killers normally behave?
Being a parent myself, one who likes to party from time-to-time, I would never let my party interfere with the welfare of my children, and the duty of care that is expected of me.
If my stepson and stepdaughter went missing, I would spend every minute of every hour of every day of the week looking for my child until I find them and I wouldn't wait more than a month to call police.
I certainly wouldn't be partying it up while they were missing either. What would there be to celebrate? Maybe somebody should put that question to Casey, ask her what it was she was celebrating. Her newfound "kid-free" life?
Maybe she was celebrating the fact that she had done a good enough job of disposing of her daughter's body that the police wouldn't be able to pin a murder charge on her. It's hard to say, but there was definitely something going on her life worth celebrating during a time she was supposed to be frantically working to find her missing daughter and bring her back home. This parent doesn't buy her story for a second, if only because Casey doesn't look or sound like she has the intelligence or ability to find an empty glass in a nightclub.
Casey's story is no more believable than the story Susan Smith told regarding the death of her children in South Carolina in October 1994, but at least Smith was smart enough to play the part of a grief-stricken woman when she reported that a black man carjacked her and took her two children ages three and 14-months. Of course the world would find out nine days later that Susan Smith killed her children because she was in love with a wealthy man who didn't want a ready-made family.
Caylee could have met her demise because her mother was in love with a man who didn't want a ready-made family.
Maybe somebody should be asking Tony Lazarro what he thinks about ready-made families at this stage in his life.. Interesting that he has been able to keep a low profile during this entire missing person case.
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Comments
They could likely charge her with murder now, but I think they're waiting for a smoking gun. She certainly has a case to answer for, and if she did accidentally kill Caylee, now might time to speak up, and before they find any evidence of a Caylee's body.
She's playing a game and she is in over her head.
THE ANIMAL NEEDS TO LOCKED UP FOR LIFE SHE KILLED HER INNOCENT DAUGHTER.. THAT LITTLE GIRL DESERVED A BETTER MOTHER.. THAT LADY IS SICK AS HELL SHE IS AN ANIMAL SHE DONT NEED MENTAL HELP SHE NEEDS TO BE CAGED AWAY FOR LIFE
THAT REALLY SADDENS ME ALOT OF WOMAN THAT CANT HAVE KIDS LOVE THEM AND THEN WE GOT ANIMALS LIKE THAT THAT DONT DESERVE THEM HAVE THEM AND THEN GET RID OF THEM THATS REALLY SICK.. CASEY IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN ANSWER WHERE HER DAUGHTER IS AND WHY SHE DID IT.. CASEY IS DEFINTILY SICK MINDED.. SHE KNOW WHERE SHE IS.. I CANT BELIEVE WHAT THIS WORLD IS COMING TO PEOPLE KEEP GETTING SICKER AND MORBID.. I HOPE THEY FIND CAYLEES BODY AND BEABLE TO DETERMINE HOW SHE KILLED HER THEN FRY HER IN JAIL LOCKUP THAT ANIMAL CASEY AWAY FOREVER!!!
SINCERLY, DENISE
Denise, I agree with you that Casey Anthony IS an animal and NEVER should have been a parent!
Caylee NEVER deserved what she got, and I hope she gets justice soon!
CINDY ANTHONY IS THE WORST SINNER, BECAUSE CASEY WANTED TO GIVE THE BABY FOR ADAPTION, BUT CINDY DID NOT LET HER.
HOPE SHE FEELS THE PAIN WHAT NO OTHER PERSON FEELS.
Canadian Guy- Great post & some very good points. I would also like to know more about Tony L & his conversations with Casey. I do remember something being said about him only wanting to have sons. Maybe Casey took it that he didn't want to raise her daughter. Who knows what a twisted mind thinks though.
Sign the petition "no more air time for the Anthony family". Stop these people from profiting off of Caylee.
If I had been right about the gasoline, it would have been a greater post. It doesn't matter now. I'm just glad they found Caylee's body. If the gasoline theory I mentioned turned out to be right, there wouldn't have been much left to identify her so that Casey's butt could be nailed to the wall on this one.











Dawn says:
15 months ago
They better build the case because this whole story is outrageous and completely unbelieveable. She is guilty as sin.