I am very interested (borders on obsession) in this now infamous missing toddler case from Florida.
After reading countless news stories and individual opinions, I am registering my own opinion here.
Like so many others, all I want is to be wrong and be overjoyed at Caylee’s safe return any day now.
This will not happen.
I am an observer of human nature and I have been using my gut instincts as a filter to all the media reports.
This is obviously a very tough and convoluted case to crack – much like the 22 year old, herself.
I’m not going to rehash all the details, just offer my view on the case as a whole.
When I first heard of these people and the fact that a 2 year old girl was missing, I immediately thought it was a kidnapping in the sense of – hey, I am doing some dangerous business with you and you know I have a kid and can use her against me if something goes horribly wrong.
Now that I have educated myself on most all of the intricate details, I am more apt to concede to the fact that Caylee was a victim of a dysfunctional family outburst. She was the prize possession, a pawn in this Anthony family. She was constantly used as both the golden child and the millstone around a young mother’s neck.
I ask myself why would someone like Casey be content to be spending all these days in jail without “coming clean”. There is only one answer – it is better than where she was at in her miserable life. She was locked in a vicious cycle of lies and theft and deceit. This is actually a small break in her senseless life of lying and crime. A step off the treadmill, if you will.
Not only did she steal money from her new friend, Amy, she had been helping herself to her family’s income and life savings for quite some time. She appears to be an addictive personality. Casino gambling comes to mind as a reason to take money, yet have nothing to show for it. There could be many unsavory activities Casey was involved with at the time of this disappearance.
Mainly, I want to present a personality profile of someone who would not mind being in such an apparently awful situation.
Consider the month of June. This is actually the most difficult “holiday” for the Anthony family. Cindy’s father is in a retirement home. Why didn’t Casey go with her mother and daughter to visit him? Because she was not welcome. From a birthday check given to her by her grandmother, Casey had used the routing numbers to her advantage and stole money from their account.
Who is Caylee’s father, anyway? We don’t know, but Casey does and she is not telling. It is nothing to be proud of, whomever it may be. As wonderful and cute and adorable as Caylee is and/or was, she has been shrouded in complete and utter paternal secrecy from the moment of her conception.
This tension was brought to a boil this June. This unwanted father’s day. This year, 2008.
We are all witnessing the aftermath of a family that has endured destructive emotional turmoil for a very ~ long ~ time.
It takes a lot of energy to lie and to lie as well and as often as Casey Anthony has throughout her life, specifically this last several months. There needed to be an end to this horrific behavior. Unfortunately, the apparent end to Casey’s erratic behavior seems to have been physically manifested in the disposal of her own darling child.
Was Caylee both the source of joy and pain in Casey’s life? If you would look at the photos and Cindy’s loving accounts of her daughter’s devotion to Caylee, one would be very persuaded to believe that a monster in the form of an invisible babysitter must surely have swooped in and taken such a beloved chld away from its innocent mother.
If you open your eyes and think logically, you see the sight of Caylee’s existence supercedes
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her own and is therefore something that will be eliminated.
I have NO DOUBT that George and Cindy love Caylee more that Casey. She felt this everyday. Caylee was the Trump Card in a deadly game of popularity and unconditional love and acceptance.
The ONLY way Casey could get to her parents on a permanent and emotional level was to hide Caylee from them.
The idea of hiding the granddaughter was meant to be a temporary solution to an ongoing attention deprivation problem Casey was having with her parents. At some point, her erratic and desperate actions became a permanent consequence, ending Caylee’s life selfishly.
I know Casey has deep regret. You would not know it by the quote about moving the “F” on after a terrible puzzle can not be pieced together.
Her main objective now is to remain silent and not to further incriminate herself. Afterall, there is no body found – no crime, right?
feelings of paternity. I think this also contributed to the great unease on the day she went missing and there was the huge “fight” in the Anthony household, according to neighbors. Father’s Day is such a confusing day for this family!!!!!!!!!
Body of small child found in a bag. A utility worker picked up the bag and a skull fell out.
