Wow. Having a blog that includes parenting tips never prepared me to learn what likely happened to little Caylee Anthony at the hands of her mother, Casey. Today, on what should have been a celebration of our nation’s independence, the Casey Anthony case wrapped up, and the jury is deciding Casey’s fate.
Many people who did not follow the trial, as I did, believe that Casey might have accidentally killed Caylee, but those who did follow the trial know that what Casey did was premeditated murder.
Linda Drane Burdick concluded closing arguments in what she hoped would be a last minute field goal. It was. Burdick asked the jury to decide who benefited from little Caylee’s death. Burdick showed that it wasn’t Cindy, Caylee’s grandmother, by playing a panic-stricken 911 call that Cindy made imploring police to find her granddaughter. It wasn’t George, Caylee’s grandfather, who tried to kill himself to be with Caylee. No. The only person who benefitted by Caylee’s death, Burdick demonstrated via photographs: One was of Casey partying and dancing days after her daughter being “missing,” and the other was of the tattoo Casey received days after killing Caylee – la bella vita, the beautiful life.
In case you are wondering whether this was a premeditated murder, think about this. Casey searched on her computer about how to make chloroform three months prior to the killing. After she killed Caylee, her MySpace password was Timer55, which meant that Casey only had 55 days to tell her mother lies about Caylee’s whereabouts until her mother would insist on seeing Caylee. In 55 days after the murder, Caylee would have turned 3 years old, and Cindy would have expected to see her for the birthday. Casey was caught on day 31 and never had a chance to get into her long-term lie.
If justice is served, the jury will come back with a guilty verdict of murder in the first degree.
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