Watching today – (the housework’s done) – what’s the point of the defense questioning Casey’s mother about Casey’s “imaginary friends”? Apparently these are people Casey talked to her mother about, but who don’t exist. All I’m getting from this is that Casey lies.
Also, why wouldn’t the judge allow the defense to ask about Puerto Rico? The defense asked Cindy about their searches for Zanny the Nanny in the US, but the judge wouldn’t let him ask what Cindy had heard about Puerto Rico? Was it hearsay – something Cindy heard from someone else rather than something she found out for herself?
And the defense calling Zenaida “Zanny the Nanny” makes it sound like they don’t believe she exists either!
Why would the defense ask Cindy if she believes Caylee is dead? Has Cindy said she thinks Caylee’s still alive? Does she doubt the body found was Caylee’s? Or are they trying to make her out to be a nutcase? (I think she’s a great witness – she’s very precise and unflappable.)
The commercial breaks are annoying. There are too many, and at times when things are getting interesting.
I have never done this before, but in all seriousness, “Zanny the Nanny” literally cries out for a group (Cajun Punk? Death Metal Bluegrass?) to adopt her as their band name…
Additionally, the prosecutor stated that the duct tape was affixed over the mouth and nose and is what held the jaw to the skull, post-decomposition.
I can’t quite understand how any mom could sit and listen to a stranger describe, in ghastly detail, how her little girl’s jaw was held to her skull with duct tape and not lose her effing mind. It seems like the only time you see emotion from Casey is when someone makes her out to be the bad guy.
Also, I firmly believe “Zanny the Nanny”= “I crushed up a Xanax for the little princess and left her in the backseat of my car so I can get my drink on.”
Casey was sick of getting BS from Cindy for going out and partying and leaving her with the baby so she invented a Nanny and drugged the kid and put her in the trunk.
Ohmigod. So in addition to Cindy being devastated that she raised a murderer (or at best, a heartless, stupid, careless mother), she’s probably feeling guilty for not babysitting more often. That poor woman.
I wonder how many grandparents babysit out of fear for what would happen if they didn’t.
They may have, I haven’t been following closely enough to hear about it. At a family gathering this weekend someone mentioned she could have been drugging her daughter for some time before accidentally ODing her, and Xanax has been referred to as “zanny” for some time by the hip kids. Total conjecture, of course.
The defense readily admits that Casey lied for years about things with regard to her parents:
school stuff (she didn’t graduate, but she told them she was)
the identity of Caylee’s father, (multiple different scenarios to Cindy by Casey)
Non-existent boyfriends prior to Caylee’s death
Non-existent nanny
Non-existent friends
This pattern of lying didn’t start with the disappearance of Caylee, it started years before.
What the defense is trying to show by admitting to this pattern, is that Casey used the lying as a defense mechanism to maintain against the alleged sexual abuse by her father. So when Caylee drowned in the pool on July 17th, and George discovered it, he told Casey not to say anything to her mother and that they would cover it up, because it would crush Cindy. So Casey used her tried and true mechanisms of lying to cover up the death of her child at George’s direction.
Stupid defense strategy, but all they have to do is get one juror to think it’s possible.
Right. Some reasonable doubt. But I think any juror would have to say to themselves, “why would a mother bring her young daughter into a house where she herself had been abused?”
Personally I would have gone with the substance abuse, high on crack for that month, thought others were watching the kid but didn’t think about anything but the next fix. Not that it would have worked but to me, would seem a little more believable.
Thanks for the links. This story is proof that truth is always stranger (and sicker) than fiction. It’s such a wildly unbelievable story, but there it is…
I keep expecting either the brother or the one of the parents to just break down and say “the bitch killed Caylee, we all know it, kill her”. There has to be some point at which family ties even in the closest knit of families snap and I don’t think anybody on Earth, not Edith Bunker or Mother Teresa or Mister Rogers, would blame anybody for turning their backs on her at this point.
I’d have no problem voting for the death penalty in this case.
Did anything interesting happen today? (I had to work.)
I tried watching Nancy Grace tonight but damn. I’ve never tried to watch her before but I wanted some trial highlights, maybe some insight on the testimony. Nuh uh. It drives me nuts that she calls Casey “Tot Mom”. Plus, her show is very poorly-produced. Never realized that before, how bad it was.
All I know is the brother testified and quoted Casey as saying “I’m a spiteful bitch.”
I watched a Nancy Grace episode last week. I usually avoid her show like the plague, but it came on after Dr. Drew or something and I was mildly curious about getting a trial update. Her constant use of the word “tot mom” drove me up the wall. What IS that?
One detail that i picked up from the news shortly after the poor girls body was found, that a red heart was drawn with a ball point pen on the duct tape that kept her mouth shut. Tragic stuff brought upon an innocent girl by a psycho.
That’s a new one! cannot bear watching Nancy Grace because whatever missing/murdered/abused kid she is talking about, she uses the word “little” as if it was the kid’s first name. “Little” Jolene Jones went missing…“Little” Jon Benet Ramsey was…“Little” Pat Parker was found…and this just maddens me. You don’t hear “Old” Joe Doakes was found dead…or “Fat” Edna Smith was murdered.
The lead investigator took the stand and read Casey’s written statement. 4 pages of lie after lie after lie. Other officers testified about taking Casey to the apartment where she left Caylee, but of course, there was no person living in that unit, and they had never heard of that person. Her brother finished testifying, pretty much trying to tone down his previous statement and it was really obvious. The prosecution didn’t pursue the claim Casey made about him molesting her. Not a single question on that.
Baez, her attorney, has made a couple of real screw ups, one of which almost allowed the state to enter evidence of Casey’s 6 prior felony convictions. He dodged the bullet on that one when the state didn’t pursue it for (apparently) fear that it might give grounds for appeal should she lose. Mason, Casey’s older attorney, has really got it together but he doesn’t appear to be doing anything. The blog seems to think Baez is in over his head and should turn it over to Mason. I agree.
