This blog is the beginning of a short series focusing on the Anthony family, the murder of little Caylee Anthony, Casey Anthony and her actions leading up to, during, and after the time period when her daughter vanished, as well as other key 'players' in this horrible tale of tragedy.
Casey Marie Anthony was born March 19, 1986, in Warren, Ohio. Caylee's mother, has been charged with the first degree murder of her daughter.
She was first arrested on July 16, 2008 for giving false statements, neglect of a child, and obstruction of a criminal investigation with a request that she be held on a no bond status until Caylee Anthony was located. She was arrested again on August 29, 2008, on charges of forgery, fraudulent use of personal information, and petty theft for forging $700 worth of checks and using her friend's credit cards without permission. On September 5, 2008, Casey Anthony was released again on bail after being fitted with an electronic tracking device. On 14 October 2008, Casey Anthony was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first-degree murder and was arrested for the fourth time.
Casey is a sociopathic, superficial sensationalist. To a mental health professional, she fits the description of someone with an antisocial personality disorder, or in other words a sociopath.
The disorder is recognizable by a lack of concern for others, as is clearly shown by her behavior after Caylee disappeared. She did not call 911 to report her daughter missing (her mother, almost a full month after the last time that little Caylee was seen). While her daughter was missing, Casey was out partying, living it up on money she stole from a friend. (After having lied to everyone about being employed when she wasn't).
Casey has consistently displayed contempt towards authority figures, masked by a thin veneer of civility. Listening to the police tapes, it is easy to see that Casey appears to be quite respectful to the police interviewers. She portrays herself during these interviews as one who has been wronged by a (fictitious) babysitter named Zanny, who, according to her story, kidnapped her precious daughter Caylee. Casey has been, according to her and to her family, a victim herself. The problem is that Casey tried to come off appearing as a mother who was only interested in finding her child, but at the same time, all she was doing was creating one story after another, and everytime she got caught in a lie, she told another one that wound up being bigger and better than the last one. She was of no help whatsoever to the police, as one would have expected a frantic mother whose child had been missing for a month to have been.
Psychopaths are superficially charming in their ongoing attempts to get their own way. Casey has the capacity to read others quickly and recognize their vulnerabilities. Once recognized, she knows how to exploit others' weaknesses. She seems to have no qualms about violating the rights of others. Casey stole her friend's checkbook and wiped out her bank account, and not a cent of the money was spent on Caylee.
It is typical for sociopaths to engage in illegal or deceitful behaviors. Compulsive lying is the norm. Guilt and remorse are not in their vocabulary. All sociopaths are incapable of feeling sorrow or sadness for their wrongdoings and destructive behaviors. Any tears you might see are for themselves. “I am crying because I got caught, not because I am sorry for anything I have said or done.” On some level, a sociopath takes perverse pleasure in getting away with illegal, irresponsible behaviors. Yes, a sociopath takes great joy in taking from others. "Joy" is the correct word.
To a sociopath, others are always expendable: family, friends, acquaintances. Once others have been bled dry, the sociopath moves on. Loyalty is not a part of who they are. They have no desire to change and no insight into their own behaviors and motivations. Caylee is missing, but Mom is partying and lying to both her friends and family about her daughter’s whereabouts.
Sociopaths are narcissistic and exhibitionistic, with no sense of shame. Nothing exists in their world but what they want - the ultimate “Me, Me, Me” syndrome. They are characterized by an excessive superficiality, in both thoughts and behaviors. They are easily bored and made restless by day-to-day responsibilities, an attitude which makes consistent parenting a drag and an impossibility. Sociopaths create their own reality, and in this instance, Casey’s world did not include her daughter.
Casey was a parasite, living off of others. She had no high-school education, no job, no goals, no direction. But, to hear her story, she worked at Universal Studios and was attending college. A sociopath always views his or her problems as stemming from flaws in others, rather than taking responsibility for his or her own issues and the havoc they have created.
As a sociopath, Casey wants to control her own destiny and create her own reality, abhorring any form of criticism or denigration. At some point, she might experience feelings of depression. These feelings would not be because her daughter is missing or dead, but because she lacks the freedom she craves. Having been arrested and accused, she is no longer in charge of her own fate, and for a sociopath, who values freedom more than anything else, that is devastating.
Interestingly, sociopaths like Casey will expect others to attempt to belittle or use them. At times, the sociopath will willingly act in such a manner as to induce others to legitimately respond in a hostile or angry manner. Casey has repeatedly demonstrated this with her continued lying, lack of sadness about her daughter’s disappearance, and few displays of emotions related to the fact that her daughter Caylee is missing or dead. Listening to the taped interviews, one can easily discern that Casey expresses almost no emotion when discussing her daughter’s disappearance.
Sociopaths are incapable of remaining in love, or of even selflessly loving anyone. Their sex lives are most often impersonal and chaotic, and frequently they are bisexual. There is in them an emptiness, a coldness, a disconnection from others and themselves. Casey is incapable of truly understanding how much others can be made to suffer as a result of her behavior. It does not compute.
A sociopath's motto is: Competition is king, survival the agenda, and no one is ever, ever, ever to be trusted. A sociopath's mantra: “Do unto others before they do unto you.”
George and Cindy Anthony were hardly new to the 'dysfunctional family' scenario, when news coverage began to focus on their family after the disappearance of Caylee Anthony. There had been added stress upon family ties even since the birth of Caylee, because of jealousy between Casey and her mother Cindy. Each vied for 'top spot' in little Caylee's heart, according to numerous news reports. There had even been talk at some point of George and Cindy adopting the child. Apart from the obvious there, there was also stress and strain on the family from Casey's habitual stealing from parents, family members and friends, as well as lying to all of the above about a variety of topics. Cindy strikes me as the 'cover up' kind of mother; the type who puts up with the horrendous behaviors, then covers it up herself to the outside world- (in this case, the outside world also consists of various other family members that Cindy apparently tried to hide some of Casey's behavior from).
But time has a way of bringing out hidden facts, in nearly every occasion. It was no different here with the Anthony's. After tracking down her daughter, (notice- it was Cindy who is mentioned in almost every write up of the early days in the Casey/Caylee Anthony saga, Cindy alone, no mention of George until they picked up Casey's car after it had been abandoned and impounded- it was Cindy who called the police, it was Cindy who insisted on Casey's friends telling her where Casey was, etc). Then, it was Cindy who tried to retract what she said about the smell in Casey's car smelling like a 'dead body had been in there'- she tried later to say that it was because of a bag of trash in the trunk that had been in there too long in the Florida heat. (Typical of a mother trying to cover for their child's actions). In this case, of course, thankfully, Cindy's covering for Casey has done nothing more than make Cindy look like a fool- and it hasn't stopped the authorities from getting to the real truth.
Casey Anthony parents charade her innocence in public
This link is to an article about Tim Miller, and his story, as well as information about his search for Caylee. I think it is an important read for anyone following this case.
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This is an excerpt from that article:
By the second day we were hearing about a low volunteer turn out and how Tim was meeting with Cindy and the family at home to go over details. Casey again repeated her story about leaving Caylee with a babysitter who police have been unable to confirm even exists. Tim seemed distraught, he tried to make sense of where to look.
By the third day Tim was saying he did not believe Cayleewas alive and was asking volunteers to gather to search the woods. Cindy Anthony went on national television and claimed he was wasting his time and that volunteers where not turning out because they believe Caylee is alive.
Tim again insisted he was following all leads, but wanted to search the woods. Cindy Anthony was no longer cooperating with Tim and Equusearch, she was not participating in searches nor pleading for the volunteers that were desperately needed as most families do when their loved one is missing, instead she decided to make horrid accusations about Tim only wanting to be in the media spotlight, about Tim only wanting to profit off of her missing granddaughter.
It was exposed that Cindy alerted Tim and his group to a sighting that was reported to her about Caylee being seen in Texas and she wanted Tim and his team to go back home to Texas to search for a LIVE Caylee.
Tim refused to leave. The tip was not credible, but still he sent members of the group to seek it out.
She then released a statement accusing him of wanting funding and exposure for his organization, you know, the NON-FOR PROFIT Equusearch who has helped hundreds of families in need and who are forced to turn families down because of the high rate of missing cases. The Anthony family is obviously horribly ignorant about Tim and what he does and how privileged they are to have him there to assist them.
As of last September, over 1000 pages of documents had been released by the Florida State Attorney’s Office revealing new information about the case and the relationships of some of the key players which happens to include Cindy Anthony and Dominic Casey.
Months after the Anthony’s held the Memorial Service for little Caylee Anthony, Cindy was still asking her private detective, Dominic Casey to search for a live Caylee. There were possibly hundreds of emails between the two trying to figure out how they could get other people involved in the case (which, by the way, included Leonard Padilla , Roy Kronk, Jesse Grund and Richard Grund).
Dominic Casey emailed Cindy Anthony photos of other women that could have been Zenaida Gonzalez for her to show to Casey to try and identify. There were a lot of searches made online looking for a Zenaida Gonzalez.
Dominic Casey is also said to have spent a lot of time investigating Roy Kronk, Jesse Grund, Casey’s ex-fiance, and Jesse’s father, Richard Grund. There was a mention of Richard Grund’s strange religious beliefs that might have led them to some sort of sacrifice ritual. Cindy and Dominic Casey were also trying to make some sort of a connection between Roy Kronk and Richard Grund.
There was even a chart Dominic Casey came up with for Cindy Anthony with a lit of the ‘Characters of Interest’. They have the names, background, affiliation and an ID Picture of each one on the list.
At the bottom of the chart there are notes saying large groups of protesters were coming in from Kansas, Attempts will be made to conceal cell phones in their shoes, Lois Peter threat to assault Cindy, Murt Murtaugh threat to conceal Video/Audio equipment on several attendees and Wayanne Kruger will attend with others pretending to be an advocate but will be documenting for her book she is writing on the case She will be concealing a cell phone (Blackberry/IPhone?) on a baby bag. She posts trash about the family on the blog.
Also in the documents was an email from Cindy telling one of the investigators last October that Dominic Casey was not working for Casey Anthony’s defense team yet recently Dominic Casey swore under oath to a judge that he was working for the defense team when trying to get out of being questioned under oath by Zenaida Gonzalez’s attorney’s.
And another question to be asked, which I really don't remember having seen anyone bring up yet: Zenaida Gonzalez. How many times have we heard "Zanny the Nanny"? Well, we all know that Casey was apparently pretty much into drugs, drinking, etc., right? Has everyone forgotten that Zanny is also a 'street name' for the prescription drug Xanax?
Was Casey really saying in some roundabout way that "Zanny" had taken her daughter- meaning while she was messed up on Xanax is when the crime took place?
Photos:
Take a peak at some of the hundreds of photos that have been released in the case.
Here are a few links to just some of them:
Photo Gallery from MomLogic
Dominic Casey emailed Cindy Anthony photos of other women that could have been Zenaida Gonzalez for her to show to Casey to try and identify. There were a lot of searches made online looking for a Zenaida Gonzalez.
Dominic Casey is also said to have spent a lot of time investigating Roy Kronk, Jesse Grund, Casey’s ex-fiance, and Jesse’s father, Richard Grund. There was a mention of Richard Grund’s strange religious beliefs that might have led them to some sort of sacrifice ritual. Cindy and Dominic Casey were also trying to make some sort of a connection between Roy Kronk and Richard Grund.
There was even a chart Dominic Casey came up with for Cindy Anthony with a lit of the ‘Characters of Interest’. They have the names, background, affiliation and an ID Picture of each one on the list.
Several of the backgrounds listed were labeled with things such as “Threats against Family” or “Accusations against Family” and even on Kathi Belich’s background they have listed, “Reporter Disseminates hatred toward family” as does Nancy’s Grace’s. They have that Leonard Padilla carries a knife at Lower Back area in a sheath, and how Robert Dick talks about being a Weapon’s expert.
At the bottom of the chart there are notes saying large groups of protesters were coming in from Kansas, Attempts will be made to conceal cell phones in their shoes, Lois Peter threat to assault Cindy, Murt Murtaugh threat to conceal Video/Audio equipment on several attendees and Wayanne Kruger will attend with others pretending to be an advocate but will be documenting for her book she is writing on the case She will be concealing a cell phone (Blackberry/IPhone?) on a baby bag. She posts trash about the family on the blog.
Also in the documents was an email from Cindy telling one of the investigators last October that Dominic Casey was not working for Casey Anthony’s defense team yet recently Dominic Casey swore under oath to a judge that he was working for the defense team when trying to get out of being questioned under oath by Zenaida Gonzalez’s attorney’s.
And another question to be asked, which I really don't remember having seen anyone bring up yet: Zenaida Gonzalez. How many times have we heard "Zanny the Nanny"? Well, we all know that Casey was apparently pretty much into drugs, drinking, etc., right? Has everyone forgotten that Zanny is also a 'street name' for the prescription drug Xanax?
Was Casey really saying in some roundabout way that "Zanny" had taken her daughter- meaning while she was messed up on Xanax is when the crime took place?
Photos:Take a peak at some of the hundreds of photos that have been released in the case.
Here are a few links to just some of them:
Photo Gallery from MomLogic
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It just upsets me so every time I see a picture of Caylee Anthony and think about what an incredible waste of human life her mother has shown to be. Caylee will never get to go to school, have a best friend, go to a prom, have a brother or sister, ride a bike, sell girl scout cookies, drive her first car, grow up, get married, or have children of her own. And this is because her mother was selfishly thinking of herself and how to be able to party a little more.
All I feel that we can do now, is pray that justice is served, in whatever way our good Lord Up Above sees fit. Poor little Casey deserves that much. At least we know she is in a better place, resting safe in the arms of Jesus. And if I, along with thousands of others, am wrong and it turns out that it wasn't Casey Anthony who murdered this poor sweet child, I ask my Lord up in Heaven for forgiveness now. Somehow, I have a gut instinct that I'm not wrong.
SOURCES:
Mom Logic
Orlando Sentenial
Web Sleuths
Google News
Blogspot
Nancy Grace
(Make sure you check out that site for pictures- it is copyrighted, therefore I can't share some of them with you here, but most of those same pictures are available other places on the web, such as this site: http://hubpages.com/hub/caseyanthony )
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