# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/62 "2011-07-09T21:23:49Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Amy Fisher never escaped her past. Hummm - wonder why that could be? > [@](#): > > She is on Dr, Drew now trying to recover. i can think of at least one reason… ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/63 "2011-07-09T21:30:07Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > 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. Under what definition does adult = over 21? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/64 "2011-07-10T01:05:15Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Also from the cite: > Is this meant to be an argument against her future prospects, what value they will have and how popular they might be? > > A porn producer cashed in on a tiny piece of her current newsworthiness by just mentioning her name - and now he’s in the news too and being quoted on message boards. > > If he can make news by just saying he thought about hiring her and then decided not to, with no involvement from her in any of it, imagine how much news someone will make when she is actually involved in their project. If she said yes he’d cast her tomorrow! Lots of people would watch her in a porno film. When I’m “rubbing one out,” i’m not wondering what type of mom they would be! I’d like to see her naked, because I think that she’s hot. A wretched, reprehensible piece of human waste, but hot none the less! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/65 "2011-07-10T15:46:51Z")
Quite often I do not think of Monica Lewinsky, who is/was arguably the most famous blah blah blah… ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/66 "2011-07-12T00:46:29Z")
She never had a normal life, no joke intended. She has always been a party girl, and when she gets out, she will have fifty pickup driving white boys with their caps on backwards, and their hangdown pants, buying her drinks, doing lines and doing the nasty with her on the first night. It won’t change much for the next few years, except for when she gets into the paper for her next crime, or when she gets beat up by a bf and we see her on TV crying. Think: what did Casey do after daughter’s disappearance, and pre-arrest? That is exactly what she will do, and for her, it will be a return to a normal life. Addressing the letters which display her altruism that she wrote while in jail, am I the only person that believes the lawyer gave them to her to pass along? Her lawyer must be a genius to be able to have got her out of the fix she was in, or he knew whose palms to grease, or the jurors were bigger idiots than OJ’s. Best wishes, hh ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/67 "2011-07-12T04:14:37Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > She never had a normal life, no joke intended. > She has always been a party girl, and when she gets out, she will have fifty pickup driving white boys with their caps on backwards, and their hangdown pants, buying her drinks, doing lines and doing the nasty with her on the first night. It won’t change much for the next few years, except for when she gets into the paper for her next crime, or when she gets beat up by a bf and we see her on TV crying. > Think: what did Casey do after daughter’s disappearance, and pre-arrest? That is exactly what she will do, and for her, it will be a return to a normal life. > > Addressing the letters which display her altruism that she wrote while in jail, am I the only person that believes the lawyer gave them to her to pass along? > Her lawyer must be a genius to be able to have got her out of the fix she was in, or he knew whose palms to grease, or the jurors were bigger idiots than OJ’s. > > Best wishes, > hh But… That is a normal life for some people. She just sounds like trailer trash ( “…The wheels on the house go round and round…”) The only difference was that she just had make up a babysitter instead of find one. IIRC she told one friend that Caylee was the byproduct of a one-night stand. She’s a compulsive liar, self-centred and not too bright. I have no trouble imagining that her daughter did drown, she panicked that mom and dad would be mad at her, and “Swept it under the rug” so to speak rather than call 911. The prosecution certainly did not prove anything that warranted the death penalty. I doubt she will get rich. I think the more interesting story (I bet several quickie book writers from the press corps are already almost done) is the POV of the defence attorneys. Casey may get a moderately good pay-off that permits them to waive some attorney-client privilege so they can get into more detail. As one commentator said, the real story is in why the DA went for capital murder rather than manslaughter; thus propelling her into the spotlight (how often do cute young white girls get charged with death penalty crimes) and ensuring she got top-notch legal defence instead of a public defender? But, nobody will pay for her side of the story, and you know it would be the “I didn’t do it!” she’s been playing all along. Plus she’s a compulsive liar that has to be smacked in the face with the truth before she can back down - witness her visit to the amusement park she claimed to work at; she blatantly lead the cops all the way in before an ex-supervisor confronted her with the truth. I would hate to be the journalist trying to compile her story - it will be different evry day, and totally inconsistent. She’ll change her name, dye her hair, move out of state, and end up wearing a funny hat and flipping burgers because that’s the extent of her capability. People will have forgotten this case by next year… except next time it happens they’ll be able to charge the mother and both grandparents living in the house under Caylee’s Law. (“You never saw the child for what - a month??? - and you thought that was normal???”) We’ll have 3 times the trial fun and everyone accusing everyone else. (Speaking of obscurity - Whatever happened to the guy with the missing wive(s) in Chicago?) What is really an indicator of how screwed up the system is - it took over 3 years from the time she was arrested to the end of the trial. Something is seriously wrong in the justice system. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-casey-anthony-go-back-to-living-a-normal-life-living-life-after-a-high-profile-event/588239/68 "2011-07-12T07:31:11Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > None of them murdered their toddler and _got away with it_ while the world watched. Nathan Leopold killed a kid just because he could, served his sentence and moved to Puerto Rico. He married a local and worked as an X-ray tech. He didn’t even change his name. [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=3)