# How can Casey Anthony go back to living a normal life? (Living life after a high-profile event) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 7, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239 "2011-07-07T23:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/41 "2011-07-08T17:41:48Z")
In addition to any deals she might have made with her lawyers the line is already forming to get a piece of the almost guaranteed multi-million dollar income she will have soon. There is a defamation suit starting up by someone who claims she slandered them in her testimony, a search and rescue company out of Texas is starting a suit to recover the money they spent searching for her daughter, and that is probably just the tip of the iceberg. But there should be plenty to go around, that is why they are lining up. According to [this story](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43655349/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/next-casey-anthony-big-bucks/) > [@](#): > > She could take advantage of interest in the case to make a lot of money, according to People magazine writer Steve Helling. > > “We are looking at networks, magazines that may pay; that will lead to books and movies, and (Casey) can make a lot of money off that,” Helling told NBC station WESH-TV. > > Helling said he doesn’t count out the jurors from making serious cash, too, but it won’t be near as much as Anthony can fetch if and when she does talk. They go on to speculate that her first interview will probably fetch $1 million or higher. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/42 "2011-07-08T17:42:32Z")
A think a lot of people underestimate how big the US is, let alone the world. There are plenty of places far away from Florida where many people have never heard of Casey Anthony. Heck, all I know about this case is what I’ve read on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/43 "2011-07-08T19:17:50Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > In addition, keep in mind, that over half of Casey’s adult life, has been behind bars in jail. No it hasn’t. She has spent 3 of the 7 years of her adult life in jail. ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/44 "2011-07-08T19:28:05Z")
She could set up a Paypal donation webpage to raise money to pay for sterilization surgery. Think of all the money she’d rake in! [Serious reply–it scares me that she has expressed an interest in having more children. When I heard the verdict my first thought was “please please don’t have any more children.”] ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/45 "2011-07-08T19:48:37Z")
Pretty easily. The vast majority of people have never heard of her. Even if they have, what are they going to? Give her dirty looks? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/46 "2011-07-08T20:07:41Z")
Has there ever been anybody who has been through a big media circus trial,who has ever “suffered extremely” afterwards (by that I mean something like being lynched or viciously and repeatedly physically assaulted)? Lizzie Borden,William Calley, Angela Davis.William Zantzinger didn’t like the Bob Dylan song about him,claiming he distorted what happened but lived to be 69,although he had tax trouble. Some guys like G Gordon Liddy and Eliot Spitzer even parlay their crimes into a media career. Clifford Irving had a career and probably even more fame after being convicted in trying to pass off a bogus Howard Hughes autobiography. If this woman has a miserable life,it will probably be due to her already existing characer defects,not because of anything that a pinhead like Nancy Grace has says. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/47 "2011-07-08T20:25:04Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > Normally, blending into society has not been a problem with OTHER former hated “monsters”. > > Tonya Harding is a television commenator, she is currently seen on **Worlds Dumbest** (?)…and yeah, Shane Stant who actually did attack Nancy Kerrigan is deep into obscurity and completely forgotton. > > Linda Kasabian ( **Charlie Manson family** ) blended in completely. > > Captain Medina and Lieutenant Calley ( **My Lai Massacre** ) blended. > > After the last trial ended Randy Weaver of **Ruby Ridge** immediately blended into obscurity. > > Nobody even remembers who the six convicted surviving\*\* Branch Davidians \*\* are. > > Everyone seemed to love and forgive Blanche Barrow ( **Bonnie and Clyde** ) after Bonnie and Clyde ended their crime spree. > > Marina Oswald (**Kennedy Assassination)** had a good life. > > etc, etc. None of them murdered their toddler and _got away with it_ while the world watched. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/48 "2011-07-09T11:46:19Z")
So what? All those people in Susann’s list committed crimes and were convicted of them. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/49 "2011-07-09T12:41:08Z")
Casey also has the advantage of being extremely underweight and only 25. By the time she’s in her forties and 50 lbs heavier she may be unrecognizable. Add in a name change and she can go anywhere unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/50 "2011-07-09T15:01:14Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > None of them murdered their toddler and _got away with it_ while the world watched. Calley was charged with murdering 109 people. I imagine there was a toddler in there somewhere. And he got off lighter then Anthony as well. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/51 "2011-07-09T15:40:15Z")
When was she leading a normal life? ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/52 "2011-07-09T16:14:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When was she leading a normal life? Cute, but A) someone beat you to this joke, and B) it’s already been addressed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/53 "2011-07-09T16:17:22Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > Cute, but A) someone beat you to this joke, and B) it’s already been addressed. > [@aceplace57](#): > > People have short memories. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/55 "2011-07-09T16:25:13Z")
Reported. > [@Susanann](#): > > After the last trial ended Randy Weaver of **Ruby Ridge** immediately blended into obscurity. Randy Weaver didn’t exactly “blend into obscurity”. He travels the gun show circuit selling Ruby Ridge T-shirts and autographs. [QUOTE=Morgenstern] None of them murdered their toddler and got away with it while the world watched. [/QUOTE] Weaver got into a week-long standoff with half of the ATF while the world watched. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/56 "2011-07-09T16:28:58Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Casey Anthony is totally small potatoes compared to [Karla Homolka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Homolka) who, by pretty much any definition, is a serial killer with her first victim being her younger sister. She might actually be _history’s greatest monster_ although not likely. > > She’s changed her name, hooked up with a woman she met in prison and is living in a small town somewhere with the town’s residents none the wiser. > > If Casey Anthony wants to disappear, it would be easy - she’s decent looking, just change her name and hook up with someone who has a weird fetish who wants to look after her. No job needed, no education, nothing. Amy Fisher never escaped her past. She is on Dr, Drew now trying to recover. I suppose her guilt kept her from being normal. She claims the press has kept a relentless tab on her ever since her release. ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/57 "2011-07-09T19:15:20Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > So what? All those people in Susann’s list committed crimes and were convicted of them. Well technically, Linda Kasabian was not prosecuted and therefore not convicted of the Tate and Labianca murders although she was at both murder scenes. Linda was given immunity in order to win murder convictions against Charlie Manson, Tex Watson, Pat Krenwinkle, Susan Atkins, and Leslie VanHOughton. Linda Kasabian, as the state’s main witness in all 4 murder trials, Linda was more well known than any of the others in the Manson family except Charlie himself. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/58 "2011-07-09T19:19:42Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Has there ever been anybody who has been through a big media circus trial,who has ever “suffered extremely” afterwards (by that I mean something like being lynched or viciously and repeatedly physically assaulted)? Lizzie Borden,William Calley, Angela Davis.William Zantzinger didn’t like the Bob Dylan song about him,claiming he distorted what happened but lived to be 69,although he had tax trouble. Some guys like G Gordon Liddy and Eliot Spitzer even parlay their crimes into a media career. Clifford Irving had a career and probably even more fame after being convicted in trying to pass off a bogus Howard Hughes autobiography. > > If this woman has a miserable life,it will probably be due to her already existing characer defects,not because of anything that a pinhead like Nancy Grace has says. Well, Fatty Arbuckle’s career in the 1920s was pretty much destroyed after he was tried for (and acquitted of) raping and murdering a young actress. And Michael Richards, though not charged with a crime, hasn’t really done anything of note since the infamous n-word incident, other than playing himself in the Seinfeld reunion season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/59 "2011-07-09T19:25:32Z")
Originally Posted by Susanann In addition, keep in mind, that over half of Casey’s adult life, has been behind bars in jail. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > No it hasn’t. She has spent 3 of the 7 years of her adult life in jail. Casey Anthony was born in 1986, Casey is only 25 years old. Casey Anthony has only been an adult for 4 years, and she spent about 3 of her 4 adult years in prison. Casey was a free adult woman for only about 1 year of her life. Most of Casey’s entire adult life was spent behind bars, in solitary. Casey really does not have a normal adult life, nor any sense of normality, to fall back on once she is released from jail. You can guarantee that Casey will have lots of problems adjusting to being free in society, esp Casey stays away from George Anthony and ends up with no family. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/60 "2011-07-09T19:40:04Z")
It was reported that Casey declined a visit from her mother in prison in the last couple of days. I guess that doesn’t bode well for her trying to take shelter with them when she’s released. I wonder if she’ll be released to a halfway house first? I wonder if she’ll be such a security risk that the police will hide her somehow? Would witness protection be a stretch? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/61 "2011-07-09T19:42:21Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Amy Fisher never escaped her past. She is on Dr, Drew now trying to recover. I suppose her guilt kept her from being normal. She claims the press has kept a relentless tab on her ever since her release. Didn’t she recently star in a few hardcore bugger movies for one of the big porn studios? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239.md?page=4)