I think the kid is dead. But for some reason, I get a vibe that it was an accident and the mother (who strikes me as mentally ill to some degree) freaked and did everything wrong. The grandmother…I feel just terrible for her. Pretty tough to imagine a situation worse than this for a parent/grandparent.
So many moms are just not paying attention, it seems like. We had a case here last week - a 3 year old, out playing with older children, wandered away and was killed by a dog.
The mom didn’t even notice him missing for hours. sigh
Kalhoun: I agree with your “accidental death” scenario. That, or Mom ‘knows too much’ about something bad which happened, and the child is mixed up in that somehow.
Here we had a mom last week who came home from grocery shopping, took the groceries and two kids inside, and left the toddler strapped in his car seat, where he died later from heat-related issues. She didn’t notice she was missing a kid either…
I have two, and they certainly can be a handful, but I have never forgotten them anywhere. Of course, in the case I related and in NinetyWt’s case, the mother will be suffering an unholy punishment the rest of her life, so I’m not gung-ho about jail time…
Evidence for the mother being somewhere in la-la land…
A friend of Casey Anthony’s from middle/high school visited her at the Orange County jail Casey didn’t seem to recognize his name and he really had to jog her memory.
And this is starting to bother me:
“I don’t know what you’re involvement is sweetheart. You’re not telling me where she’s at,” Cindy Anthony said.
[underlining mine]
you’re/your doesn’t do wonders for the credibility of the reporter, does it?
I think it was on page 1 that I quoted the theory that she borrowed the shovel because there were bamboo “shutes” in the backyard. Where did the reporters get their degrees? Don’t they have copy editors/proofreaders etc.?
I’m beginning to wonder if she doesn’t have one of those disorders where she doesn’t feel connected to other people. Another friend was talking to her on the phone and expressed concern for the child. Mom said “Oh well”. The audio of that phone call is on the news sites.
I actually emailed the newspaper about that, on the 19th. This is their reply:
I know, right? But IIRC the grandma (and possibly others) have said that she was a good mother, seems to care genuinely about the child. IMO the mother-child bond is the strongest on earth.
Re: shutes: at least “chutes” would be a word.
bump
Does anybody think Caylee is alive?
Is there any way that sodium pentathol or some other “truth serum” can be legally used in this case?
I’ve tried to find out if Casey’s ever been committed or if she has a history of diagnosed mental problems other than being a pathological liar, or if the family ever had social workers called. Her former teachers and classmates should know. (I’m waiting for her to claim she was sexually abused, which seems to be a popular sympathy ploy with people in trouble.)
Shes not alive, she probably died in an accident and the mom freaked out and tried to cover it up. A local news station left a meat lovers pizza in the trunk of a car in the heat for over a week and there was no smell whatsoever, and the corpse finding dogs went crazy when near the car. The grandparents are in full denial mode or trying not to lose a daughter on top of losing their grandkid, Casey still isn’t talking and the worst they can get her for is child neglect.
There’s been more uncovered lies. Casey claimed she got a call from the babysitter and talked to her daughter briefly around the middle of June, but records show on that day she received no calls at the time she claimed she talked to the baby sitter and the only calls she got that day were from a friend and her boyfriend.
One of the TV stations talked to the alleged babysitter, a woman named Zaneida Gonzales. This woman happened to have looked at apartments at Sawgrass Apartments, where Casey claimed she left her daughter. The police say Zaneida has nothing to do with Casey, and does not know her and her daughter.
What’s sad is that Zaneida revealed in the interview is that she’s getting nasty threats on her MySpace page and that she’s having problems getting a job, because once people hear her name, they don’t want to have anything to do with her.
Of course, Cynthia and Casey are claiming this isn’t the right Zaneida and that the phone call was received on another phone other than Casey’s cell phone. :dubious: I wonder how long before they actually manage to twist themselves into pretzels?
One interesting thing that has come out is that Caylee’s father is dead and they will not reveal his name, since apparently he never knew he was the father and the Anthony family doesn’t want to cause his family distress. After all the other lies that have been uncovered, I don’t know whether to believe that one or not.
Bottom line is, Casey seems to lie and lie and lie some more. As a mother myself, I can’t imagine waiting 30 days to report my child missing (I mentioned in the OP that my son disappeeared for about 30 minutes, and I did call the cops the second I realized neither my husband or I knew where he was) and I would be doing everything I could to help the police find him. Spinning this into some large conspiracy where Caylee could be in danger if Casey reveals too much just seems so much like Drama Queen nonsense.
Y’know, I read this, and the article said “he died in a car accident” blah blah. So then I thought, Wait … his family could easily put two and two together: a man who died in a car wreck around the time of Caylee’s birth who knew Casey well enough to sleep with her. So they’re not really trying to hard to keep his identity away from his family, are they?
That’s assuming the man’s parents knew Casey was dating their son. At this point, I wouldn’t believe this woman if she told me water was wet.
No kiddin’. However, he wouldn’t necessarily have to have been ‘dating’ her; heck, they could have hooked up at a party or something. If I was a family member of a man who had been killed in a car accident in the area around that time, I’d be asking some questions. It wouldn’t have to be a young guy, either.
The craziest thing is that there seem to be “believers”, not just her mother, who think the kid is still alive and healthy somewhere.
I just… I have no words for Casey. If it is revealed that she was actively involved in her daughter’s death then this is one of those cases where if I were a juror I could vote for the death penalty and never lose sleep. She is a waste of life, health, fertility, and now even taxpayer’s dollars (though those are the least of it).
If by some miracle Caylee is still alive (Powerball lottery odds), I’m hoping they’ll remove her permanently from her mother’s custody- not even visitation rights. I think it would almost be better that she never knows her mother’s name.
I think Cynthia has to believe it…otherwise, she’s faced with the reality that her daughter killed her granddaughter. And there are some things that are too horrific for parents to face unless the evidence is shoved under their nose. Hence, Caylee is alive and Casey is just misunderstood and the police aren’t picking up on the clues she’s dropping amongst her lies.
That’s exactly what Carrot Top’s mom said that time we had lunch.
Surely he doesn’t have real parents. He looks like he was created in the lab. shudder
Don’t say such thingsd about Labs.
No Labrador Retriever would ever be involved with that.
You are right. I can truthfully say that I would have sexual relations with a Laborador Retriever before I would with Carrot Top.
::sigh::
So my Saturday night iwll be spent with brain bleach and trying toscrub that image out of my head…
Which?
The Lab, or Carrot Top?