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To answer the question of where Casey was when she was "working", she was sitting at home all day with George. The day Caylee died, she sat at home until after George went to work. The computer searches put her there and the other searches used against Casey at trial were all done in the middle of the afternoon. Several of her friends said they knew she wasn't working because Casey was always "working from home" or "home sick."
Okay listen, this guy is a nutjob who attached himself to this case for fame. He says something different every 5 minutes. When he worked for Baez, he was hot on the Zanny = Xanax theory. Then Baez fired him and he went to work for the Anthony family. He then decided, after her funeral, that Caylee wasn't even dead and was instead part of some complex international kidnapping scheme where she was smuggled out of the country on a plane containing US mail. Zanny the nanny was real and was somehow a part of it. Then when his fame died down, he wrote a book alleging that Casey drowned Caylee in the pool and that Jose admitted it to him.
I'm not telling any of y'all what to think about Casey, but just because you have feelings about her guilt doesn't mean that literally every negative thing about her is true.
Seriously, read my chapter on this guy. He's not a reliable source about anything:
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
Fellow UK-er here, it is available on our Amazon here
edit - worked out how to add links properly - btw the book is only £2.83, amazing work u/Hysterymystery!!
Here's the book if you're interested. I can also answer any questions you have :-)
There's video of Caylee alive at her great grandfather's nursing home on the 15th. I know there was some confusion over dates initially, but we have pretty good confirmation that Caylee was alive until the night of the 15th. Casey then abruptly moved out of the house a little after 4pm on the 16th and in with her boyfriend. The child was never seen again. So don't worry about who said what about the 9th because it's just people with bad memories. :-)
Source: I wrote a book about the case
I loved Tragedy in Sedona by Connie Joy. It's about self help guru/scam artist James Ray and the sweat lodge deaths.
Red Zone by Aphrodite Jones.
This is my book. It's on sale for 99 cents if anyone is interested
I wrote a book about the trial that breaks down the evidence and testimony and explains why she was acquitted. There actually were understandable reasons. I can answer any questions you have :-)
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=nodl_
I wrote a book explaining why she was acquitted: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_vaxREb8JZRFM1_nodl
TLDR: for one thing, the media made it out to be much more open and shut than it actually was (much of the state's evidence was very poor quality), but the answer is George Anthony. This didn't get a lot of press but he's a compulsive liar just like Casey is. So when police went to interview him, he just made a bunch of shit up. INCLUDING, his story about what happened the day Caylee died. So when the prosecution decided to use him as their key witness, they had no problem getting him to testify against his daughter but it was all lies. Look, she may very well be guilty, but what George told the jurors was very easily discredited because he'd already told three versions of every story.
Like for example, he testified that when he found his daughters car he was 100% sure it smelled like human decomp. It sounds like really great evidence when you hear it on Nancy Grace. But what George did next that day is he drove the car home, told his wife the smell was from a rotting pizza (another lie) and he went to work and worked his entire shift without even calling Casey to see if she was ok. But now on the stand he's claiming he was beside himself over the smell.
Clearly he is exaggerating to help the prosecution. The defense also pointed to all of the interviews he gave where he claimed it was trash. The jurors were suspicious as to why he was trying so hard to get his daughter convicted already, but he didn't like being challenged so he pretended like he couldn't understand the questions. This happened every time George got on the stand.
So from the jurors perspective, Cindy left that morning for work leaving Caylee at the home with Casey and George. Caylee died mysteriously and now BOTH of them are lying about what happened. They couldn't rule out George Anthony. That's why she was acquitted.
You can buy it Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=nodl_
My favorite part of the case is the search history that the jurors never saw. It's in the first chapter. Thanks you can read the first chapter for free if you click on the cover.
No credible evidence,
The book is a thorough description of the evidence and the events at trial with heavy coverage of the juror interviews. So it's more or less an explanation of why she was acquitted. I put my own feelings alongside to help the reader form their own thoughts without pushing my views on them.
I wrote a book about the case that goes through the reasons for acquittal if anyone has any questions. https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=nodl_
The thing you need to remember is that the media really did a number of the case and it gave us a very different vision of what happened vs what the actual evidence was. There were a lot of reasons behind the acquittal, but the top 3:
Casey's friends and family said she was a really great mom who had very little interest in partying. This played a big role in their perception of Casey
They had great circumstantial evidence but they tried to prop the case up with really shoddy forensics. Most of what people have in their heads as being a crucial part of the case was dismissed by the jurors because the prosecution couldn't prove what they claimed
George Anthony. He was arguably the biggest factor. He is a compulsive liar just like Casey is. Now, I can't prove he was involved but he was the state's key witness and the jurors couldn't trust anything he said. He was also there that day and clearly lying about the details. So from the jurors perspective, Cindy left Caylee at the house with Casey and George. The child died. And now BOTH of them are lying and acting strangely. They couldn't pin it down to just Casey and his behavior raised the possibility that Casey hid the death because of the family dysfunction rather than guilt. The two alternate jurors were firmly convinced this was an accidental death that Casey and George hid together.
They actually did put a lot of focus on the duct tape, but the jurors sided with the defense on that one. The jurors who were interviewed said it wasn't over the mouth and nose and multiple jurors said they thought it came off the bag.
The search history was shaky. There was a chloroform search, which could have had a very reasonable explanation (that the jurors bought), but the prosecution tried to trick the jurors into believing she searched for chloroform 84 times. The witness who they tricked into the testimony was livid and wrote a scathing letter later. The defense proved that this was a trick and it really backfired on the prosecution.
The only other relevant search was the "foolproof suffocation" search, which the jurors never heard about. That's a whole other ridiculous story. I believe the prosecution had it and strategically omitted it. I wrote a book about the case if you're interested. The first chapter is free if you click the cover and it goes into the crazy story of the suffocation search.
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
I wrote a book about the trial and it goes step by step through the evidence and explains the jurors pov and their reasons for acquittal. They actually did have some pretty understandable reasons for the not guilty verdict, but you'd never get there from the way the media reported it.
If you click on the book cover, you can read the first chapter and it explains the suffocation search. The prosecution had it and intentionally kept it from the jury.
I wrote a book about the trial and it explains the acquittal. Let me know if you have any questions.
The bottom line is that the state had serious evidentiary problems. They had the great circumstantial evidence with Casey's reaction to the death, but all the other evidence you mentioned was very poor quality evidence. So the 31 days really was the only reliable piece of evidence they had.
But the main reason is that George Anthony (Casey's father) is just as much of a compulsive liar as she is. Everything George told police was a lie. This may simply be an incidental finding, but it's a problem for a couple reasons: first they used him as their key witness and the jurors felt they couldn't trust his memories. But more importantly, he was the other last person to see Caylee alive. Cindy left for work, leaving Caylee with Casey and George. BOTH of them lied to police about what happened. The jurors couldn't rule him out. That's why she was acquitted.
I wrote a book about the trial that explains the verdict. It's a lot of things, not just one. But the main thing to remember is that the media is not there to make sure the public understands the truth about every situation. They're in the business of sales, and sensationalizing the case sells far more magazines than telling it from an objective standpoint. So our vision of the case was pretty skewed to begin with. Like for example: she never was this party girl we envisioned. Her friends said she almost always turned them down to stay home with Caylee. Most of the evidence is different than we think it is.
But the main issue was George Anthony. He was the states key witness, but he's also a compulsive liar just like Casey is. Every time he opens his mouth he tells more lies. He lied about pretty much everything that happened during the 31 days, including the day Caylee died and the defense was able to show that to the jury. So from the jurors perspective, Cindy left Caylee home with George and Casey. The child died. And now BOTH Casey and George are lying about it. They couldn't rule out George Anthony. That's why she was acquitted.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_vaxREb8JZRFM1_nodl
I am not a juror but I wrote a book explaining why she was acquitted: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_vaxREb8JZRFM1_nodl
The TLDR is that the media just told the story all wrong and it led us to believe that the evidence against her was more voluminous and one sided than it was. What actually happened is that Casey's father, the other last person to see Caylee alive, was just as strange as she is. He's also a compulsive liar and lied to the police about a lot of things, including his story of what happened the day she died. And then changed his stories multiple times. On the stand, the defense confronted him with all his lies and inconsistencies and he responded by pretending he couldn't understand the questions.
Just to clarify, I don't know if he had any involvement, but his weird behavior (and it was extremely weird) led jurors to question it. Cindy left Caylee home with George and Casey. The child dies and BOTH of them lied to police about what happened. The defense had a field day at trial with George Anthony and that's why she was acquitted
Casey Anthony is my pet case. I wrote a book about the trial and an explanation of the verdict. The media made it out to be an open and shut case but the defense really did raise a significant amount of doubt at the trial. It's really a fascinating sequence of events.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_vaxREb8JZRFM1_nodl
Tragedy in Sedona by Connie Joy (sweat lodge deaths), Acquittal by Richard Gabriel, and Red Zone by Aphrodite Jones. I'm not sure if we can mention our own work but you might enjoy my book about Casey Anthony. It explains the verdict and corrects a lot of misconceptions about the case. The jurors genuinely thought there was a good chance she was innocent. This book explains why they thought that. I did the series based on a series I did for /r/unresolved mysteries a few years ago.
I run /r/CaseyAnthony if you'd like to join us. I don't live in her head, so who knows, personally I think people are being too logical when they think about the evidence in this case. They're thinking about how they would react in this situation, but the reality is she's a compulsive liar with psych issues and stranger defense mechanisms than we can even imagine. The whole family is like that. Example: Cindy continued looking for Zanny the nanny and a living Caylee for more than a year after they buried her. Where's the logic in that? Second example: George is a compulsive liar just like Casey is and his lies, inconsistent statements, and odd behavior were a major factor in her acquittal. So looking at the lies and weird behavior and trying to figure out why a compulsive liar told a lie is probably an exercise is futility.
If we look at George's lies they were mainly just telling whoever he was talking to what they wanted to hear. Her mom believed a lot of lies that wouldn't stand up to any scrutiny and that's the dynamic she was used to. She lied because she's a liar and that's the entire answer.
Thanks for the shoutout! Here's the series and here's my book
I wrote a book about the case that goes through why they acquitted and can answer any questions you guys have
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8/ref=nodl_
I wrote a book about the case, and this rabbit hole is a really interesting one. First, I don't for one second believe that the prosecution didn't have it. Their claim for what happened is that they only looked at internet explorer and the search was done on firefox. I had just gotten finished watching the trial when Baez's book came out (he's the one who revealed the search) and I remembered distinctly them talking about Firefox at the trial. They specifically told the jurors that Casey used Firefox. All the other searches they used against her, including the chloroform searches, were done on Firefox. So somehow they only "didn't know she used Firefox" for just that one day. Weird right?
I started trying to piece together the timeline that day to see if I could figure out what on earth happened and I noticed something funny. This search doesn't match up with the timeline the prosecution argued at trial. Their timeline is based on the witness statements of her grandfather, George Anthony. Casey lived at the home with both of her parents. Her mother, Cindy, left for work early that morning leaving the child with Casey and George. George claims that he played with Caylee that morning, but then at 12:50 on the dot, Casey emerged from her room with Caylee and they were going to Zanny the Nanny's and casey was going to work. He gave a very vivid description of their interaction and watching her drive away. He claims he was home all afternoon by himself while Casey was out committing this murder.
But if you look at this search history that was mysteriously omitted, it's not just this one search, Casey was there all afternoon playing on the computer. The entire time she's supposed to be out committing a murder, she's at the house with George. Why is George claiming to be home alone when he's actually with Casey and Caylee?
I do a pretty good dive into the issue of this discrepancy in my book, but my conclusion is that A.) George Anthony is a compulsive liar. He may or may not have been involved, but at the very least he made a lot of stuff up in his police interviews. and B.) The prosecution was stuck between a rock and a hard place with this evidence. If Casey's not the only one lying about what happened that day, that leave mountains of reasonable doubt for the jury when they enter the deliberation room. So they hid it.
If you look at the jury interviews, multiple jurors said George's lies and odd behavior on the stand was a critical factor in their decision to acquit. So even without this evidence, his lies didn't go unnoticed. This evidence isn't the slam dunk it's being made out to be.
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
No surprise I'd answer like this, but I think Casey Anthony is innocent of murder. I think Caylee drowned because Casey spend the day playing on the computer and just wasn't watching her.
Also, doing a free ebook giveaway for the next couple days if anyone wants my book :-)
Interesting! I wrote a book about the case and concluded that it was likely a drowning. Book
Here is a writeup I did about the timeline that day. The tox screen was negative and no evidence was ever found for the use of drugs by either casey or Caylee, but there is ample evidence pointing to an accidental drowning.
She's got a book too!
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
Ooh, I have the answer to this! I'm the moderator of /r/CaseyAnthony and the author of this book about the case. The book I wrote is based on a true crime series I wrote for /r/UnresolvedMysteries a couple years ago. So there's plenty of reading material for you. It's a complicated case, but I'll try to summarize the main gist:
The trial started out with all of Casey's friends on the stand. The prosecution had hoped that they would trot out the 31 days and the jurors would be enraged about it. The problem is, the defense also got to question these witnesses and all of these witnesses said she was a really great mom. The jurors already knew about the 31 day gap, so that was like old news. But all of this info about Casey doing flash cards with her daughter and kissing her boo boos was something new. Literally everyone who got on the stand said she was a really great mother. So in other words, that first leg of the trial, when the jurors are forming their first impressions of her, was filled with anecdotes about what a great mother she was. If you look at the jury interviews later, almost all of them mentioned this. After all of this positive testimony, they had a hard time seeing the woman described on the stand murdering her child.
Then there's George Anthony. The media made it out to be that the defense unfairly pinned this on George, but he gave them a lot to work with. The thing you need to understand is that Casey is a chip off the old block. Regardless of whether he had anything to do with Caylee's death, George is also a compulsive liar. When police asked him what happened the day Caylee died, he lied to police. When police asked him why he stopped calling Casey the day Caylee died (which he did), he lied to police and told them this crazy story about a car chase. He lied about every interaction with Casey that month. He then got on the stand and lied about various things to try to get Casey convicted. The defense was able to show his story changes very easily.
In addition to that, he was extremely difficult with the defense. He would pretend he couldn't understand any of their questions. He would pretend he couldn't remember things he should have a memory of. The jury was sitting here watching this going "WTF is happening?" The prosecution never should've put him on the stand. Through his strange behavior, the defense was able to prove to the jurors that Casey came from a supremely messed up family, which really hurt the prosecution. You also have to remember that the only proof that Casey was the last person to see Caylee was George. How can the jurors trust that information if they can't trust the witness? How do we know that George wasn't with Caylee when she died?
So the TLDR is that the prosecution's own witnesses went on and on about what a great parent Casey was for a solid week at the beginning of the trial. This made the jurors seriously question whether Casey was the type of person who could commit murder. Then George gets on the stand and acts suspicious as hell. The defense argued that two additional situations were possible under the evidence: either Caylee died in some sort of accident that Casey didn't know how to handle, or that George had some involvement. The jurors looked at the evidence and agreed that those circumstances were just as likely.
I think the media coverage made more of it than is actually true. And what I mean by that is that Casey is a prolific liar, but she's not a very good liar. She didn't have people snowed. The only people who actually believed her lies were either very new relationships or people who had reasons to pretend to believe her.
So for example, her best friend (Amy) believed she had a job and a nanny, but they really hadn't been friends all that long and that girl is extremely naive. Like the time when she (Amy) lost several hundred dollars and Casey told her that she (Amy) slept walked in and hid the money herself. And she didn't question it at all.
Casey's parents are the example of people pretending to believe her lies. All evidence points to Casey hanging out all day every day at the house with George. George knew she wasn't working and the whole story about the nanny was for Cindy and Cindy alone. He did lie to police about it, but I suspect he was just embarrassed and didn't want to upset his wife. Cindy too had plenty of evidence that Casey was lying but she went along with it for reasons that are her own. There was at least one example of Casey lying about having a previous job and when George confronted her about it, Cindy got pissed at George, not Casey.
With the exception of the best friend and the boyfriend, almost everyone else told police that they knew she was lying about having a job and various other things. So the TLDR is that I actually don't think she had this steel trap memory. I think she was a crappy liar who just happened to be in a dysfunctional situation with parents who went along with it. She probably liked Amy so much because she was naive and believed everything Casey told her without questioning it. I don't think the lies she told were even necessarily that consistent or well crafted.
Source: I wrote a book about the case which goes through the reasons for acquittal and the various misconceptions about this case (and there were a lot!)
My book: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
I highly suggest you read this book, it changed my mind about everything. We were very mislead by what the media was reporting vs what was actually said/presented at trial.
The duct tape was very important to the case because the duct tape found with the body matched duct tape found on gas cans in the Anthony home. There was no evidence that Caylee's face was duct taped vs the tape on the bags disattached from the trash bag due to high heat and heavy flooding. There is also evidence the guy who found the body moved it closer to the road. He wanted the reward but when he called police they refused to go deeply into the swamp area and treated him like a crank.
It was a particular type of tape and coincidentally the roll vanished from the Anthony's garage. It vanished after George is on video holding this brand of duct tape at a "command center" event where they were posting missing signs.
The timeline highly suggests she died in the afternoon, around 2:30 right before George had to leave for work. This likely means they scrambled about what to do. Casey was on the phone with one friend who reported it was a normal conversation. There is a lull in the electronic data then another friend called her at like 2:50 and reported she was acting weird. She said her parents were getting divorced and she had to move out.
George called her at home from his work, remember George claims Casey and Caylee left at 12:50. (He also claims a month later he remembers everything Caylee was wearing down to her socks even though he had no reason to think it was the last time he would see her. That itself is pretty weird.) Casey then frantically calls her mother like 6 times in the space of a few minutes. If she just murdered her daughter, why would she call her mom?
If you want to learn more about the duct tape here are links to Hysterymystery's rundown. Even better, buy her ebook, it's only a dollar and is very good. Her book is just about the only one on the case where the author doesn't have an agenda to push.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/45rxdv/casey_anthony_the_duct_tape_part_1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/45sczm/casey_anthony_the_duct_tape_part_2/
I wrote a book about the case, and this rabbit hole is a really interesting one. First, I don't for one second believe that the prosecution didn't have it. Their claim for what happened is that they only looked at internet explorer and the search was done on firefox. I had just gotten finished watching the trial when Baez's book came out (he's the one who revealed the search) and I remembered distinctly them talking about Firefox at the trial. They specifically told the jurors that Casey used Firefox. All the other searches they used against her, including the chloroform searches, were done on Firefox. So somehow they only "didn't know she used Firefox" for just that one day. Weird right?
I started trying to piece together the timeline that day to see if I could figure out what on earth happened and I noticed something funny. This search doesn't match up with the timeline the prosecution argued at trial. Their timeline is based on the witness statements of her grandfather, George Anthony. Casey lived at the home with both of her parents. Her mother, Cindy, left for work early that morning leaving the child with Casey and George. George claims that he played with Caylee that morning, but then at 12:50 on the dot, Casey emerged from her room with Caylee and they were going to Zanny the Nanny's and casey was going to work. He gave a very vivid description of their interaction and watching her drive away. He claims he was home all afternoon by himself while Casey was out committing this murder.
But if you look at this search history that was mysteriously omitted, it's not just this one search, Casey was there all afternoon playing on the computer. The entire time she's supposed to be out committing a murder, she's at the house with George. Why is George claiming to be home alone when he's actually with Casey and Caylee?
I do a pretty good dive into the issue of this discrepancy in my book, but my conclusion is that A.) George Anthony is a compulsive liar. He may or may not have been involved, but at the very least he made a lot of stuff up in his police interviews. and B.) The prosecution was stuck between a rock and a hard place with this evidence. If Casey's not the only one lying about what happened that day, that leave mountains of reasonable doubt for the jury when they enter the deliberation room. So they hid it.
If you look at the jury interviews, multiple jurors said George's lies and odd behavior on the stand was a critical factor in their decision to acquit. So even without this evidence, his lies didn't go unnoticed. This evidence isn't the slam dunk it's being made out to be.
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
Can we list our own? lol
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
I run /r/CaseyAnthony and wrote a book about the trial.
I 100% agree with you and I'd be happy to answer any questions.
I wrote a book about the case and the reasons for acquittal if you guys have any questions
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Just wanted to drop a link to /u/hysterymystery's excellent series of posts examining the Casey Anthony case. She even wrote a book on the topic, which I highly recommend.
If you agree the media lied in the Johnny Depp case you might be open to learning how much they lied in regards to the Casey Anthony trial. The lack of media examination of George Anthony as a liar is very reminiscent of the media's treatment of Amber Heard. They picked sides and refused to even consider the situation was more complicated than what they presented.
Just wanted to drop a link to /u/hysterymystery's excellent series of posts examining the Casey Anthony case. She even wrote a book on the topic, which I highly recommend.
If you agree the media lied in the Johnny Depp case you might be open to learning how much they lied in regards to the Casey Anthony trial. The lack of media examination of George Anthony as a liar is very reminiscent of the media's treatment of Amber Heard. They picked sides and refused to even consider the situation was more complicated than what they presented.
I wrote this writeup (and made it into a book) You can read them in any order: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/32r6bw/casey_anthony_revisited_proof_that_george_is_lying/
The acquittal was actually really understandable if you look at the actual case. The main thing to remember is that the media took the case and told it in such an exaggerated way that the media case (that we all have in our heads) is very very different from the actual set of facts that the jury decided the case on. If you look at the jury interviews, they actually said very specifically why they acquitted, but again, media coverage just keeps spinning it like they thought she was guilty but acquitted on a technicality. No, most of the jurors thought there was a reasonable possibility that she was factually innocent. This is a very simplistic explanation, but here are the main factors in the acquittal.
The state's case was nowhere near as amazing as they said it was. They had great circumstantial evidence with casey's behavior, but the scientific case was extremely tenuous and in some cases outright false. For example, their own witnesses disagreed on the chloroform. An FBI chemist that the prosecution put on the stand agreed with the defense. But yet we can't understand why the jurors didn't blindly believe the one witness who said Casey had crazy levels of chloroform in the trunk. Their own witnesses testified that the car didn't smell during critical time frames. One even saw in the trunk and there was no body in there. Not a single juror thought the duct tape was "over the mouth and nose" like the prosecution claimed. I mean, how hard is it to prove something like that? The prosecution argued things they couldn't prove in court. And it hurt their case tremendously.
The whole party animal thing is something we just flat out made up. The prosecution put on all these witnesses who said Casey didn't like to party and would turn her friends down to stay home and take care of Caylee. If she did go out (which she usually didn't), she'd either be the designated driver or would have like one drink and leave early to get home to Caylee. They also said she was a really great mom. Over and over and over. Now she did go out a few times after Caylee died and that is evidence. But they tried to argue that she committed murder to party, which she seemed to have basically zero interest in. After all of Casey's friends got off the stand, it was really hard for the jurors to see why she'd just randomly decide to murder her child.
George Anthony is a compulsive liar just like Casey is. This is (in my opinion) the single biggest issue. The prosecution was hoping no one would notice, but the jurors did. Big time. George may not have anything to do with anything, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And for whatever reason, the prosecution tried to use them as their key witness. Because he lied so often and about so many things, it was very easy for the defense to discredit him at trial. Because his testimony was actual lies. Anyway, from the jurors perspective, Cindy left the house that morning leaving Caylee at home with Casey and George. The child died mysteriously. And now BOTH of them are lying and acting strangely. They couldn't figure out why Casey would kill her child and they couldn't rule out George as potentially having some role in it. That's why she was acquitted.
If you'd like to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-didnt-about-Casey-Anthony-ebook/dp/B079WKF7J8
Yes actually. I wrote this writeup (and made it into a book): https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/32r6bw/casey_anthony_revisited_proof_that_george_is_lying/
You can read them in any order. The main thing to remember is that the media took the case and told it in such an exaggerated way that the media case (that we all have in our heads) is very very different from the actual set of facts that the jury decided the case on. If you look at the jury interviews, they actually said very specifically why they acquitted, but again, media coverage just keeps spinning it like they thought she was guilty but acquitted on a technicality. No, most of the jurors thought there was a reasonable possibility that she was factually innocent. This is a very simplistic explanation, but here are the main factors in the acquittal.
The state's case was nowhere near as amazing as they said it was. They had great circumstantial evidence with casey's behavior, but the scientific case was extremely tenuous and in some cases outright false. For example, their own witnesses disagreed on the chloroform. An FBI chemist that the prosecution put on the stand agreed with the defense. But yet we can't understand why the jurors didn't blindly believe the one witness who said Casey had crazy levels of chloroform in the trunk. Their own witnesses testified that the car didn't smell during critical time frames. One even saw in the trunk and there was no body in there. Not a single juror thought the duct tape was "over the mouth and nose" like the prosecution claimed. I mean, how hard is it to prove something like that? The prosecution argued things they couldn't prove in court. And it hurt their case tremendously.
The whole party animal thing is something we just flat out made up. The prosecution put on all these witnesses who said Casey didn't like to party and would turn her friends down to stay home and take care of Caylee. If she did go out (which she usually didn't), she'd either be the designated driver or would have like one drink and leave early to get home to Caylee. They also said she was a really great mom. Over and over and over. After all of Casey's friends got off the stand, it was really hard for the jurors to see why she'd just randomly decide to murder her child.
George Anthony is a compulsive liar just like Casey is. This is (in my opinion) the single biggest issue. The prosecution was hoping no one would notice, but the jurors did. Big time. George may not have anything to do with anything, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And for whatever reason, the prosecution tried to use them as their key witness. Because he lied so often and about so many things, it was very easy for the defense to discredit him at trial. Because his testimony was actual lies. Anyway, from the jurors perspective, Cindy left the house that morning leaving Caylee at home with Casey and George. The child died mysteriously. And now BOTH of them are lying and acting strangely. They couldn't figure out why Casey would kill her child and they couldn't rule out George as potentially having some role in it. That's why she was acquitted.
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It also says it in days of the court transcripts.
I wrote a book about why she was acquitted. The main thing to remember is that the media did a really crappy job of explaining the trial and the evidence to the public. The "mountain of evidence" against her was really not what they claimed it to be. The state had very good circumstantial evidence, but their physical evidence was absolute nonsense. They tried to claim a lot of things that either made no logical sense at all or they didn't have consensus for. For example, people are talking about chloroform and duct tape here as if it's reliable evidence, but yet the jurors dismissed both of those things. The state had one witness who claimed there were high levels of chloroform in the trunk. That was the only witness we heard about in the media. But the rest of the witnesses who testified about chloroform said that one guy was wrong--even other state witnesses! The state literally put on an FBI chemist on the stand who contradicted what the state was claiming and agreed with the defense on the chloroform issue. Then the state had to scramble to impeach their own witness and convince the jury that the FBI chemist they themselves put on the stand didn't know what he was talking about.
The duct tape is another issue. We have 12 jurors, plus at least 2 alternates who said it definitely wasn't over the mouth and nose and they felt like the defense made a better argument when they claimed it was used to seal the bag.
Even the trunk of the car isn't what they claimed it was. I'm not kidding, the defense made a hell of an argument that the smell came from the trash. And it's not because the defense was super amazing, it's because the state's argument made no logical sense. They had had to explain away too many things. For example, if Caylee's body decomposed in the car, no insects had any interest in her remains the entire time it was in there. But just a week or two later, the insects in orlando had no issue getting into the garbage bag. They had no good explanation for that. The sheer number of people who claimed to either ride in Casey's car or watch her open her trunk that month would shock you. This car simply didn't smell during almost the entire time Caylee was supposedly in the trunk. Personally I think the body was placed on Suburban Drive the day she died and the trunk is a red herring.
So the forensic evidence is out and what we're left with is circumstantial evidence. And they definitely had a good circumstantial case, but so did the defense. The difference is, the prosecution's case got media coverage while the defense's case was basically ignored or misstated in the media. There were two aspects to this: the testimony about Casey's character and George Anthony's testimony. First, the media and the public just kind of ran away with things and there were a number of things we flat out made up. Casey wasn't an amazing person overall. She was definitely a liar and a thief. And she also spent 31 days hanging out with her friends, but this party girl persona we have in our heads was an outright fabrication. Casey's friends said partying wasnt her thing and she nearly always turned them down when they asked her to go out. If she did go out, she was either the designated driver or she had one beer and left early to get home to Caylee. They also, across the board, said she was a really good mother. So when the prosecution tried to argue this whole partying scenario as the motive, it fell flat on its face. She went out a handful of times after Caylee's death, but there's no reasonable argument that Casey committed murder to party. She didn't seem that interested in it before Caylee died, and after, she was going along with the plans of whomever she was living with at the time. I can't tell you what happened to Caylee, but she didn't die while Casey partied and Casey didn't murder her so she could party with her friends. The jurors said the testimony about her parenting was one of the key reasons why they acquitted.
Then we come to George Anthony, who I believe is the biggest reason why she was acquitted. We heard a lot about Casey and Cindy, but everyone missed what the jurors saw when he got on the stand. The big thing we missed is that George Anthony is a compulsive liar just like Casey is. I'm not accusing him of murder and he may have nothing to do with anything, but when the police interviewed George, he told them nothing but lies. Almost nothing he told police matched the electronic evidence available. He lied about what happened the day Caylee died, he lied about his interactions with Casey that month, and he lied about a number of things on the stand. It was incredibly easy for the defense to discredit George, who was the prosecution's key witness, because he couldn't tell the truth to save his life. And when confronted with his lies in court, he became belligerent and pretended like he couldn't understand the questions. From the jurors perspective, Cindy left Caylee at home with Casey and George, Caylee died mysteriously, and now BOTH of them were acting strangely. The jurors couldn't trust that Casey was her caregiver at the time of her death. And even if she was, his behavior proved that this family was so dysfunctional that Casey may be lying for reasons that have nothing to do with guilt. They felt like there was too much confusion and they had to give Casey the benefit of the doubt.
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I wrote a book about the case and the real story is that the prosecution intentionally kept the searches from the jury.
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I wrote a book on the the trial and it explains why she was acquitted. This is a shorter summary I did a few months ago.
I disagree. I think the public just doesn't understand the case. From a strategic standpoint, they did the best they could with the case they were given. It's not that the evidence was so great and the presentation was bad, the evidence itself was the problem. They had very good circumstantial evidence with the 31 days and Casey's behavior. But the rest of their evidence, particularly their physical evidence, was garbage. On the other hand, the defense had a lot going for them, but the the media was so biased for the prosecution that it led us to believe they had nothing.
The real reason Casey was acquitted is that George Anthony (Casey's father) is just as much of a compulsive liar as she is. Everything George told police was a lie. This may simply be an incidental finding, but it's a problem for a couple reasons: first they used him as their key witness and the jurors felt they couldn't trust his memories. But more importantly, he was the other last person to see Caylee alive. Cindy left for work, leaving Caylee with Casey and George. BOTH of them lied to police about what happened. The jurors couldn't rule him out. That's why she was acquitted.
I wrote a book on the the trial and it explains why she was acquitted. This is a shorter summary I did a few months ago.
The short version is that George Anthony (Casey's father) is just as much of a compulsive liar as she is. Everything George told police was a lie. This may simply be an incidental finding, but it's a problem for a couple reasons: first they used him as their key witness and the jurors felt they couldn't trust his memories. But more importantly, he was the other last person to see Caylee alive. Cindy left for work, leaving Caylee with Casey and George. BOTH of them lied to police about what happened. The jurors couldn't rule him out. That's why she was acquitted.
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Ultimately we don't know what happened to Caylee but we can make some pretty good educated guesses based on available evidence. These are the issues with the theory.
The phone records and computer records put her home until well into the afternoon at which point in time age drove to her boyfriend's house for a quiet night in. We know what day Caylee died based on a lot of circumstantial evidence. The evidence also points to something sudden and unexpected that happened AT the Anthony home. The hot car scenario isn't impossible but it would have to be George, not Casey. Because Casey was home all day then she freaked out then she suddenly moved out. But between computer records and phone pings, Casey never left until AFTER her weird panicky behavior.
Second, this whole "party animal Casey" thing we just flat out made up. She went out a handful of times in that 31 days (although its probably not what you're imagining). But across the board, people insisted that Casey didn't party. She almost never went to the clubs and if she did go (which was rare) she either drank light and left early OR volunteered to be the designated driver. She didn't really like to drink that much and she never did drugs outside of occasional marijuana. Certainly you could make an argument about her state of mind that month but the "partying" was basically if whoever she was living with had plans, she went with them. But it was never Casey's idea and half of those nights were working nights. So like, the witnesses said she would check ID's at the door. That kind of thing.
The second part of this is that the chloroform evidence was garbage. It's a long story, but the prosecution tried to cheat and the jurors unanimously dismissed it as unreliable. Secondly, Caylee's tox screen was negative.
So this idea that the death had anything to do with either partying or chloroform ignores a hell of a lot of evidence. It's certainly it popular theory and it goes along with the way the media covered the case, but they're not in the business of making sure we have accurate facts. They're in the business of sales. And what sold very well was this narrative where Casey is literally the worst person to ever walk the face of the planet. Then trial rolled around and we wanted to hear that there was a mountain of evidence against her and the prosecution was winning, even when they clearly weren't.
The reality of any court case is typically somewhere in the middle. Casey is not a good person in my definition. She's a liar and a thief. But everyone raved about Casey's parenting and said she was taking parenting seriously. On the other hand, she could be flighty and careless. A more mature mother would watch their child more closely than how Casey's friends described her as being. Im in no way saying everyone has to have the same theory I do, but it's my opinion that she spent the day playing on the computer and talking on the phone and Caylee drowned in the pool because Casey just wasn't watching her. We don't know anything for certain but there's zero credible evidence that it had anything to do with partying and chloroform.
I go back and forth on the subject of George's involvement, but I don't think it's unreasonable given the evidence presented at trial. The media really took this case and ran with it, which is why it seems like such a crazy idea to us at home. They sensationalized the case to an absurd degree and left everyone with the idea that Casey had a mountain of rock solid evidence against her. In reality, they had a couple of very good pieces of exculpatory evidence against her and a big pile of pseudoscientific nonsense.
What we actually had against Casey is the fact that she didn't respond normally to the death of her child and then lied about it to police. In addition to that, the materials found at suburban drive came from the home. So we know there was no outside kidnapper; the death was handled within the Anthony family.
Now, in and of itself that would have been enough in most murder cases. So it's not that it's bad evidence. It's great circumstantial evidence. But this case, the actual case, not the Nancy Grace version, is way more complex than we ever knew. By all accounts, Casey was taking parenting seriously and had zero interest in partying. And then there's the issue with George. We barely heard about the guy but he's as strange as Casey is. It's my opinion that what probably happened is that George is a compulsive liar like Casey is. Because when police questioned George about the 31 days, he just made a bunch of stuff up. He lied to police about the timeline that day. Casey never left to "drop Caylee off with Zanny and go to work." He lied about multiple other events. The day Casey moved out, George stopped calling and texting Casey. Weird right? When police asked him about it (because he was claiming to be trying to find her), he doubled down and made up a story about chasing her down the freeway!
I wrote a book about the case and I cannot express enough how difficult it was figuring out what he thinks and feels about anything because every time he opens his mouth it's different! This was problematic because the prosecution used him as their key witness, but literally everything he testified to the defense was there going "but what about this other time where you literally said the exact opposite?" George didn't like being confronted with his lies so he just pretended like he couldn't understand the questions!
So the TLDR is that the jurors were looking at this situation where Caylee died under unusual circumstances where she was under the care of both of them and they BOTH lied to police about it. My book is more or less a journey through the trial and an explanation of where things went wrong. Towards the end of the book, I start explaining the family situation and put George's behavior into context so you can see why there's an equally plausible reason that he might have had no knowledge of the death but acted that way because of the family dysfunction, but the jurors acted responsibly by giving her the benefit of the doubt.
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