I’m sure I’ll be put into gossip-jail for this, but you guys know I’m not a true-crime person, right? I don’t watch Court TV. I don’t watch Dateline. I don’t follow whatever sensationalized true-crime drama is unfolding at the moment. Those stories bother me too much. Which is my way of explaining my general lack of interest in Casey Anthony. I followed the case loosely, in that it was a major story in America several years back and it was unavoidable. There were so many twists, folds, accusations and conspiracy theories about the death of Casey’s child Caylee. So here are the basics, and if you’d like a better compilation of facts, I would suggest going here to NBC News’ recap. Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Casey did end up going to prison for lying to police, but Casey only went to jail for three years. She’s been out for a while and she works and lives a quiet-ish life.
Well, Casey Anthony has given a series of “exclusive interviews” to the Associated Press and she does not come across well. Or maybe I’m a heartless bitch. Or maybe Casey Anthony is a psychopath. Or all of the above? Some highlights:
She thinks about her daughter: “Caylee would be 12 right now. And would be a total badass. I’d like to think she’d be listening to classic rock, playing sports” and putting up with no nonsense.
Caylee’s last moments: “I’m still not even certain as I stand here today about what happened,” she said. “Based off what was in the media” — the story of a woman who could not account for a month in which her child was missing, whose defense involved an accidental drowning for which there was no eyewitness testimony — “I understand the reasons people feel about me. I understand why people have the opinions that they do.”
On the media interest in the case: “People found me guilty long before I had my day in court.”
All of her lies: She admits that she lied to police: about being employed at Universal Studios; about leaving Caylee with a baby-sitter; about telling two people, both of them imaginary, that Caylee was missing; about receiving a phone call from Caylee the day before she was reported missing. “Even if I would’ve told them everything that I told to the psychologist, I hate to say this but I firmly believe I would have been in the same place. Because cops believe other cops. Cops tend to victimize the victims. I understand now … I see why I was treated the way I was even had I been completely truthful.” She added: “Cops lie to people every day. I’m just one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied.” She paused. “My dad was a cop, you can read into that what you want to.”
The theory that Caylee was drowned: “Everyone has their theories, I don’t know. As I stand here today I can’t tell you one way or another. The last time I saw my daughter I believed she was alive and was going to be OK, and that’s what was told to me. ”
The OJ case: Anthony lives in the South Florida home of Patrick McKenna, a private detective who was the lead investigator on her defense team. She also works for him, doing online social media searches and other investigative work. McKenna was also the lead investigator for OJ Simpson, when he was accused of killing his wife and acquitted; Anthony said she’s become fascinated with the case, and there are “a lot of parallels” to her own circumstances. “I can empathize with his situation,” she said.
She sleeps well: She asserts she is happy. For her 31st birthday she plans to go skydiving. She enjoys taking photos, mostly of squirrels and other wildlife. And she loves her investigative work. Anthony speaks defiantly of her pariah status. “I don’t give a s*** about what anyone thinks about me, I never will,” she said. “I’m OK with myself, I sleep pretty good at night.”
I mean, you can read this a lot of different ways. A generous view would be that she’s lost everything and no longer gives a f–k, which is why she is so “defiant.” A generous view would involve theories about institutionalized misogyny. A less generous view is that she killed her daughter – or was somehow involved with the death of her daughter – and she got away with it and now she thinks she can do and say anything. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
I’m so relieved this POS sleeps well at night. I was concerned. If she didn’t murder her child (she did) wouldn’t she be up at night and working 24/7 to find her daughters killer/agonizing over the loss of a child?
And there are reports she does sexual favors for Patrick McKenna to pay off her legal defense. I usually wouldn’t bring that up, but f#ck this b!tch.
Agree with you Melly. Sexual service as trade and they still work together. A love made on top of her daughters grave. NEXT
Wouldn’t surprise me. She’s obviously still a lying, narcissist POS. Sad to say, but maybe Kaylee’s better off than having to grow up with her as her mother. What a cold hearted sicko. She doesn’t know what happened…give me a break. I will never forgive those jurors for letting her off. The circumstantial evidence was overwhelming.
WTF is wrong with this woman.
Everything.
She’s a malignant narcissist. It’s all about her. Unfortunately we’ll never be able to prove that the child died by accident, neglect or deliberate design. I don’t think the bitch cares one way or another. It’s obvious not depriving her from getting a good night’s sleep.
She’s an evil sociopath who got away with murdering her child and feels powerful and vindicated for it. She blamed everyone and everything her entire life, and still does. Still waiting for karma to rear end her.
She’s an evil sociopath who got away with murdering her child and feels powerful and vindicated for it. She blamed everyone and everything her entire life, and still does. Still waiting for karma to rear end her.
Uh huh, I also see a lot of parallels with the OJ case as well. Can we expect an, “I didn’t do it, but if I did do it, this is how I would have done it” book deal for her too?
Right? She identifies with OJ, who was most definitely a murderer, and got off. She identifies with someone who killed a person they ‘loved’, and then posed themselves as a victim. I think that says everything. There are no positive parallels with that case.
How do you admit that, and not think about how it makes you look? She just doesn’t care, does she. And that BS about where her kid would be now. It doesn’t read as real empathy or hurt.
Hopefully, she’ll fu*k up, like OJ, and end up in jail for something stupid. To paraphrase Chris Rock, if you’re lucky enough to get away with murder, go away and mind your Ps and Qs. But Casey loves the limelight. Even when she was “in hiding” she released web updates on her life.
I don’t see her loving the limelight. Caylee would be 12 now, maybe she has done the occasional thing, but she could have done so much more if she wanted to. It’s like the JonBenet murder it fascinates the media world. I really have no opinion about whether she did it or not. Honestly it was just too depressing to follow and I didn’t. Just from this interview though, she really comes off as detached and removed from any feelings about her daughter. Just totally creepy. She actually seems weirder than OJ did, at least to me.
“maybe Casey Anthony is a psychopath”…oh I think that has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be dead certain.
I HATE you Casey Anthony, and I know everything about your case, because I followed it day and night. You are, were, and will forever be a liar, and you should remain in hiding.
She is such a POS!!! We all know she did it. That baby girl will never go explore , travel , fall in love, but I’m glad Casey can sleep at night.
She’s an evil bitch and I hope her life is as miserable and uncomfortable for the rest of her wasted life. She deserves nothing less.
She has a roof over her head, clothes, food and protection from the elements, not to mention luxuries like vehicles and hobbies (really hope she doesn’t have a pet). She’s in a much better place than so many people, and she does not deserve it. She is way too comfortable for a child murderer. Of course, being all about herself, she would probably find a way to be ok in a prison cell too.
The whole family is like the Cluster B Personality Disorder section of the DSM V grew legs.
This is a very funny comment, albeit about a sad circumstance.
As someone who only followed it loosely, may I ask a question: why did she kill her daughter? I’ve always wondered that. What was the motive?
Freedom to party and not be responsible for a child…the truth. Guess chloroforming her, putting duct tape over her mouth, and leaving her in the car got to be too much trouble, so she eliminated the problem.
That’s just it. They never proved she did. They know she didn’t report her daughter’s death until a month after it happened. They know she lied her ass off to the police. But they could never prove if she killed her deliberately or by accident, or if the child wandered off and turned up dead. They couldn’t even establish exactly how the child died, let alone find a motive. She got off because the prosecution brought a case they couldn’t prove. They charged her with first degree murder, when all they could prove was that she was a neglectful parent who lied to the police.
@Carmen. They proved much more than that. Caylee died from asphyxiation from duct tape over her nose and mouth. I watched each day of the trial and every single news story related to it. I get physically ill thinking about it, even now.
@JudyK
You are wrong. The Medical Examiner ruled it a “death by undetermined means”. The DA decided to treat it as wrongful death because no child should have duct tape on them but he had no direct evidence that she had died of asphyxiation. Funnily enough, the prosecutor also tried to push a theory that she had died of chloroform poisoning not asphyxiation. The defence mentioned an accidental death by drowning theory but didnt pursue it. They didnt have to, they merely had to create reasonable doubt. The prosecutor lost precisely because he couldnt reasonably prove how she had died much less pin it on Casey.
I dont doubt that Casey and George should have their photos on the cover of all future DSMs but that doesnt mean we should spread falsehoods to whip up more outrage. The facts are enough.
@Jess. I’m degreed and well educated and do not spread falsehoods.
She had a kid when she was too young, started to think it sucked, and, instead of counting her blessings, she took it out on the kid.
Not sure what having a degree has to do with being right about the details of a news story.
There wasn’t one. If you watched the trial ( I watched all 20 hours) it was obvious she didn’t do it.
I followed the case from the beginning, read all of the discovery documents including her phone and computer records, and watched the entire trial, and can tell you she is guilty. To answer your question, Casey’s friends were all college age and childless. They were going out a lot, and Casey was tied down with Caylee. She dealt with it for awhile, because she had her parents, George and Cindy to watch her so she could party . The problem was, Cindy and Casey struggled over control of Caylee. Casey wanted to be the mom without sacrificing her party time. Cindy started getting tired of being dumped on, and called Casey a bad mom. Casey then pretended to have a job, and go to work, so Cindy would babysit. This worked for a bit too until Casey met Tony. She wanted to spend all her time with him, but he didn’t want a child at his apartment all the time. Finally, Casey was fed up, and started googling ‘how to make chloroform’, ‘household weapons’, and ‘fool proof suffocation’. Soon after, Caylee was gone, and Casey was making up lies to tell her parents about why they couldn’t see Caylee. The drowning story Baez made up was ridiculous. Her phone and computer records prove no drowning took place that morning. Casey wanted her freedom but there was no way she was going to hand her over to Cindy and hear “I told you so”, “I knew you were a bad mom”. This is why Casey is shown on video enjoying herself so much during those 31 days. She was happy.
And, FYI, the coroner, DR G, ruled the manner of death as Homicide. The only reason the cause of death is unknown is because the liar lied long enough to distract investigators away from finding the body. The storm in Florida also flooded the are where she dumped Caylee.
Anyone who says they watched the trial, and came to the conclusion she didn’t do it is either stupid, or one of the sicko’s who are infatuated with the killer.
She is a “photographer.” She had a website and everything. People would hire her to take family photos and such. She is a crazy, crazy woman, and she needs to go away. Far, far away.
There is just something sadistic about this women photographing families.
I’m trying to picture (no pun intended) who would want photographs with her name/knowing she was the photographer. Just someone wanting some link to an infamous person?
” Cops tend to victimize the victims.” Because they are innocent you piece of shit. She talks about her daughter like she’s a piece of driftwood. Total psychopath. Let’s not give her any more attention. (That creepy flirty smile while she’s on trial for murdering her daughter made me violent.)
That stuck out to me too. She thinks of herself as a victim? No, the only victim there was her child.
I caught that too. Stupidest comment from her. Along with “I’m just one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied.” Uh, no. The admission of lying is not the problem. The CONSTANT LYING is problematic.
And a passive aggressive slap to her father.
Those photos reminded me of the little prim demeanor and wardrobe she used in court to offset the partying-while-child-missing narrative.
She was forced to admit she lied after the cops confronted her with the truth. Worked at Universal Studios? No, the HR department told the cops she had been fired a long time ago. Left her daughter with a babysitter (whom she called Zanny the nanny)? No, the babysitter never existed. And so on and on.
I think what that POS meant was she herself was the victim and the cops were victimizing her. She doesn’t consider her daughter a victim. She was something that interested her initially, and then became a roadblock to partying, so she got rid of her to solve a problem she had no interest in. The poor kid was nothing to her but a doll to get rid of.
Any person who has lost a child would never in a million years say that they ‘sleep well’ at night….She murdered her daughter and she sleeps well as she got away with it. #POS
I would assume that even most murderers probably don’t sleep well at night – it takes a special kind of cruelty to not be affected by something so horrible.
A psychopath would have no trouble sleeping at night.
That struck me, too. My daughter is 22, a grown adult, and I feel like I’d never again be completely ok, I’d never be whole again, if anything happened to her, God forbid.
Both of my children are alive & well but anytime they have so much as just possibly been in harm’s way, injured, or sick I couldn’t sleep! I have trouble sleeping when my 23 year old son (who hasn’t lived at home for 4 years) goes on trips! I can’t even fathom actually losing a child! Heck, I dont sleep well when my dogs are sick, but that’s just me–a normal person with a beating heart. This POS is a REAL POS
You sleep well at night? Do you chloroform yourself like you did your daughter?
Good one. I volunteer to do it for her.
Don’t forget to add the duct tape, too… What a true POS
What does POS mean?
Trix, it means piece of shit.
Exactly!!!
Female Norman Bates right here.
I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.
I loathe her, and as for this Patrick Mkenna of hers- the fact that he’s willing to have that sort of ‘arrangement’ with someone who, at worse, murdered their own child and at best, was responsible for her own child’s death through abuse/negligence and is pretty much ok with it doesn’t say anything good about his character either. I don’t think she deliberately murdered her daughter, but I do think she accidentally caused her death through abuse. Her lack of remorse about it just makes it even more sickening.
Sounds like a psychopath ..and a narcissist.. and just an overall bitch! Can’t believe anyone would date her
…she is pretty, and our Society is obsessed with attractiveness, so she will never have a problem with that….
…Never….
Nutter.
I mean she obviously killed her child but I couldn’t believe that they didn’t find her guilty of child neglect. She didn’t report her child missing for a month!!! That whole case was so crazy. SHE is crazy.
Oh, I can totally believe it.
I think there is a reluctance in people to believe that a mother is capable of something like this. I’m sure she turned on the water works, and the jury just went with it.
I personally see no greater proof that she did it than in the statements above. Anyone who lost a child would forever be haunted by it. This woman clearly doesn’t give a crap.
I haven’t personally researched the facts, but I’ve read that women are statistically more likely to be convicted of murder than men, and it includes mothers versus fathers. Supposedly, women get longer sentences, too. I think it’s the whole myth about women being inherently gentle and maternal. Fathers beat their kids to death every day, but when a mother kills her children – often related to mental illness – they bring down the hammer.
I don’t remember Casey ever crying. She seemed mostly bored.
Did they try her for neglect? The jury can’t find her guilty of a crime she’s not charged with.
That’s why you have now the “Caylee’s Law”.
If you lose a child, to an accident, disease, whatever, you are never the same. You are now a member of a club to which no one wants to belong. My sister is a member…..you go on with life because you must, but the void, absence and pain of the loss never ceases. Casey lost her daughter to murder, and I believe she killed her, either by accident or rage. She is a monster. Sure she sleeps well at night, she probably takes handfuls of Xanax like she gave to her little girl, zany the nanny kept Caylee asleep so mom could party. Another psychopath, incapable of love, getting away with murder. Burn in hell bitch.
My mother lost an infant child, and it haunted her. She went on to have more kids (there were seven of us, all spread out). He would have been in his 50s when she died, and I know she thought about that baby every single day of her life.
Psychopath is right. Moms are supposed to protect their babies, fight for them, teach them, love them more than anyone else on the planet ever could. That beautiful baby girl died at the hands of her own mother, or she died wanting her mother desperately. As a mother myself, I simply don’t know how she lives with that.
I read the full Associated Press interview. She’s a piece of work. I notice she got cheek fillers.
Of course she sleeps good at night. She killed her daughter and was partying away until her mother tracked her down, demanding to know where her granddaughter was. Poor Casey. Her mother ruined her carefree fun. Casey is soulless.
I can only imagine what Casey’s mother must have felt. I’d move heaven and earth to protect my grandchild, and it must be torture to her (the grandmother).
Any number of people probably would have happily stepped forward and adopted that child. That’s what so sick about this. She had options. She didn’t want anyone else to succeed where she had failed. That child was thrown away like garbage. I don’t really believe that Caskey sleeps fine.
I am strangely drawn to these “stories”, unlike you Kaiser.
But they disturb me too. I have a horrifying curiosity about people who could not care less about other people’s lives.
I wonder why that is. It shocks me a little – and it upsets me.
If I am reading something ot watching a documentary I will continue but if I think of the facts afterwards I feel almost ill.
Strange.
However, I could not watch Making a Murderer. It was truly daunting.
I’m the same. Sometimes it’s a little soul-killing. Think of the mentally ill woman who got to her infant – who was in protective care – and decapitated it in the kitchen. That one has stuck with me a long time. You know it wasn’t a fast death.
A lady in my area who wasn’t to be left alone (PPD) with her 3-week-old. They left her alone for under 5 minutes. She took off with the baby and a knife. Neither of them made it. I was reading the story in the local paper and when they got to the part about the baby’s death, it said she died suddenly, and it made me cry.That little bebop’s death was not sudden or pain free. Such a tragedy.
I recommend the book The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout, PhD. She really explains what is going on with these folks (and also what to do if you encounter one, which basically boils down to: get them out of your life). It’s available on kindle. And none of the stories in it are anywhere near as scary as the other comments on your post!
Yeah, after a while it gets a little overly disturbing and sad and you have to take a break.
Psychopath.
The whole situation was so bizarre. OK, so if you didn’t murder your daughter, she is still DEAD. If you didn’t kill her, don’t you want to know what happened? If she suffered? How can you possibly say you sleep well at night?!?!?!
Her “story” was that Kaley drowned and her dad made her cover it up. So she was never looking for a killer, or she can’t pretend to because then she’d be proven to be lying in court.
This story makes me sick. I bawled like I was at a family members funeral when she was acquitted. I’ve never had a reaction like that to strangers before and I probably never will again. What kind of person kills their own baby? Just to party? I can’t…
Most folks who lose their child don’t ever sleep well at night. Then again most folks don’t murder their kids either so there’s that.
I cannot imagine ever sleeping well if something like what happened to sweet Caylee happened to one of my sons. Like, I think I would be on alcohol and weed and ALL THE DRUGS to ever sleep again. Especially to sleep ‘pretty good at night’. I believe also in the hereafter, and I am also convinced you do not get to ‘sleep soundly’ there once you move on if you sleep so soundly on this plane once you’ve so callously lost your child. But that is just my 2 cents, what is it worth?
I don’t think anyone is surprised that she sleeps well at night. It was pretty obvious that she has no feelings.
Her trying to paint herself as a victim really makes me sick, though. She sounds like a spoiled brat.
Spoiled brat is far too gentle a term for this sadistic freak.
This one makes me really, really want to believe in the existence of hell.
To me Casey Anthony is one of those extreme Bad Sampler section of Why Motherhood shouldn’t be thought of as a Compulsory endgoal for all women, I know of so many women that just shouldn’t have been mothers who also end up being neglectful in so many numbers of ways, be it that they are that perpetually short with your kids/cold towards them/frazzled unhappy mom/ to worse actually physically risky awful stuff
Agree with you completely. She’s the extreme example of what can happen when women are made to feel like they must be mothers, and cases like this are the reason that every woman should have a right to choose. Some women just should not be mothers, and it’s okay. I don’t mean to talk about her like a victim, though. She’s a sociopath with no empathy and she either killed that girl or knows who did
Oh absolutely we should say separately she is an awful person self centered etc but Like a Person like that should be out of the Pool off GP in this society would still be pushed/encouraged by all to reproduce and so here we are
Well said. Having kids really shouldn’t be the default – it should be something people choose to do, when they feel ready and able to be parents. I think society still treats people (especially women) who don’t want to have kids like there’s something wrong with them, and pressures them to change, and that sucks.
Casey didn’t feel she had to have a baby, she had sex and had a baby. People who are nuts whether due to a mental or personality disorder, disease or whatnot have kids all the time because they don’t have the emotional/mental capacity to decide not to.
Also, wasn’t there something about trying to trap the boyfriend who wasn’t the father?
Speaking of fathers, she accused her father of sexual abuse and now she’s accusing him of what, exactly?
Casey on the cops lying:
“My dad was a cop, you can read into that what you want to.”
I suppose we’ll never know the whole truth.
The private investigator had better have eyes in the back of his head.
Didn’t she also accuse a babysitter of taking Caylee? I believe, if I remember rightly the babysitter was charged before she was let go.
Zanny the nanny. She claimed from the beginning she left her with the nanny. The media of course had a field day with zanny, meaning Xanax, knocking out Caylee. She did name Zeneida Gonzalez as the nanny later on, a name she saw on a mail box. Trouble was, that woman existed and her life became a nightmare when people thought she hurt the child. Tot mom as Nancy Grace called her later confessed, she never left Caylee with a sitter and how she got Gonzalez’ name. She is the worse kind of evil. I will never understand how anyone on that jury could have set this murderous monster free.
My mother is one of those women. Should have never been a mother. I know that sounds like I’m wishing away my own existence, and I did turn out ok after YEARS of therapy and medication, but she only had children because that’s what you did back then. She was physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive, and COMPLETELY neglectful. I tell a dark joke about how if I wrote a book about my childhood, Oprah Winfrey would call me a liar, it’s so crazy.
But yeah. Not every woman should have children.
I hate your story Anastasia. Don’t let the shrew who raised you take away your joy. Live your life with purpose and forget her. It breaks my heart that any child is abused, but by your own mother is unforgivable. I wish you nothing but the best in life and hope karma takes care of the woman who gave birth to you. Actually, writing a book could be quite therapeutic…..write down your thoughts if not too painful. You’re victorious, you survived! xoxo
Thank you, Nancy, those are very kind words! I have written different chapters, but I’m never going to pursue publication. It’s just therapeutic.
So much this. The Casey Anthony’s of the world (including the types who throw their babies in dumpsters, throw them off bridges, etc.) and their victimized children are exactly the kinds of people the anti-choice/anti-birth control crowds need to be reminded of when they start bitching about not wanting their tax dollars supporting birth control and voting women’s access to abortion and birth control away, if just more basic things like female bodily autonomy, the separation of church and state, gender equality, life-threatening health problems, the risks some girls and women who get pregnant face (homelessness, domestic violence, honor crimes, etc.) and the thought of forcing a sexually abused woman or little girl into childbirth aren’t enough for them. “Pro-life”, right?
WTF did I just read ? I’d never heard of this “Woman”
That poor little girl.
Omg I had nightmares about that poor child for weeks. Please don’t cover this woman unless it’s to tell us she’s finally been given her guilty verdict somehow or she’s dead.
Right? *I* lost sleep over this case (while it was unfolding, my first child was the same age as Caylee and I identified a bit too closely).
I hope she burns in hell.
I experienced that with the Laci Peterson murder. I was pregnant, and it really hit home for me.
+1
It’s like I’m reliving it all over again. I have chills. I didn’t have a child then I can’t imagine.
She’s a sociopath of high degree. She left her daughter unsupervised to go party, and Caylee fell in the pool and drowned. And she doesn’t give a rip. She’s just glad not to have a kid to have to look after (not that she ever really did).
That doesn’t explain the chloroform. I always thought she chloroformed the little girl so she could go out and party.
She’s an idiot. It’s too bad she’s so narcissistic that she’ll never feel the guilt she deserves to feel. And she’ll never be punished.
It doesn’t explain the duct tape around her little face either. Casey could have let her parents formally adopt Caylee. They wanted to. Caylee and her grandparents adored each other.
I hope she got her tubes tied.
And this made me yell out loud. I’m going to throw up. I hate this woman so much.
i guess that pesky thing called a ‘conscience’ doesn’t keep her awake.
If she truly was innocent, shouldn’t she be concerned with finding and seeking justice on who DID kill her daughter???
Oh she was ok the last time you saw her? You mean when you chlorophormed her to make her sleep so you could party? You psycho!
I never believed she intentionally killed her. She was so self absorbed that she caused her death but jeez that she wasn’t convicted of anything makes my blood boil.
If it wasn’t intentional, how do you explain the duct tape over the little girl’s nose and mouth?
Don’t forget the heart sticker over the tape on her mouth.
well i am now thoroughly enraged for the day.
not once does she ask for justice over the death of her own child?!?!? GUILTY.
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even if she was innocent, to blame everyone else for making her look bad instead of coping to poor judgement lets you know all there is to know about her.
yes she was convicted by public opinion before her trial BECAUSE she didn’t even report her child missing. for a month. and the (100% correct) public opinion continues to be upheld every time she opens her mouth.
CA has the opportunity to do and say as she pleases. can’t say the same for the innocent life she so callously ended.
what a pos piece of work. not enough expletives In the universe for CA.
She’s still full of lies and evasive answers. Her answers make no sense! What she was told the last time she saw her daughter was that she was ok? What does that even mean!?
In the AP article it said they conducted the interview over 5 sessions and then afterwards Casey called the reporter and asked the AP not to run the story, citing confidentiality agreements she had with her employer and the fact that she had sold her life story to a third party and could not talk about her life without permission. I hope everything this awful woman has is snatched away from her for doing this interview. At the end of the article it also said Casey had a new SUV. HOW???? I can’t even afford an SUV and I work full time, as does my husband.
Each time she surfaces, it seems a member of her defense team is keeping her up. There were also claims that wealthy/stupid men were sending her letters and money after the trial.
Can anyone who really kept up with this case explain why the jury ruled the way they did? I’m just not understanding.
One of the jurors said afterward, “If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be.”
I kept up with the case and I cannot even begin to understand how this woman was found not guilty. It was a web of lies from the beginning to end. People (I don’t know who?!?) though she was attractive so that didn’t help because apparently you have to look like a storybook witch in order to be evil and a murderer. SMH. Omg I’m mad all over again!!!
I can’t either. When I think about the fact that that waste of perfectly good oxygen was made free to reproduce again, I get chills.
Desi, omg I didn’t even think that she could get pregnant again. I feel sick. She’s one of those people that would do it just to get people mad like “ha ha. And you can’t do anything about it.” Omg I hope she is struck with secondary infertility like I was!!!!! Watch, she’s probably as fertile as a rabbit. 🙁
This case stays with me because people like to give the benefit of the doubt to these cold blooded murderers because they are “attractive”. Meanwhile, you watch the trial and see and hear the same testimony and left in disbelief how they come to have any doubt of guilt!
The fact she thought she could lie and traipse around Universal Studios with the detectives and think she wouldn’t be found out is amazing to me. Her parents covering for her was also disgusting and her throwing them under the bus was a little bit of what they deserved. Ugh sorry but she reminds me of my narcisstic sociopath sister and her enabling parents remind me of my parents. They totally didn’t care about justice for their granddaughter. That sweet little girl.
Not attractive. Her heart is uglier than sin.
The prosecutor brought a case he couldn’t prove. If he had charged her with criminally negligent homicide he probably would have gotten a guilty verdict. But he went for first degree murder with no evidence to back it up.
I was wondering if it was a prosecution overreach.
They didn’t think that all the circumstantial evidence was enough. I think they wanted the prosecutor to produce a video showing Casey murdering her child.
That jury of morons would have believed George made her do it.
Don’t blame the jury, blame the prosecutor. He brought the jury a lousy case.
There are rarely any cases that are perfect; that have a body, or a murder weapon or are based on soley circumstantial evidence but somehow a guilty verdict is made. Ex. Scott Peterson.
This is on the jury who were looking for Law and Order SVU fantasy evidence, a storyline from a TV show where everything is laid out in a neat little package for them and who didn’t listen to the judge who said the evidence presented, circumstantial or not, could be used to find her guilty. Perry said himself he was stunned they acquitted her.
That jury bought Baez’s ‘explanations’ with no evidence… they were uniformly lazy with the prosecution’s evidence and their interviews afterward showed that. And I’m sorry but if a decision I came to made me physically ill afterward, like many of these jurors stated happened to them, then I made the wrong decision.
It wasn’t about a lack of circumstantial evidence, it was the fact that the prosecutors couldn’t find out how she died and thus couldn’t prove her guilty of first degree murder. It’s the prosecutors overreaching that sunk this, not the jury’s verdict.
I’d have been the lone bitch on the jury that would have refused to let her off as not guilty
That creepy “nobody’s home” empty smile on Anthony’s face makes my stomach hurt.
This POS used to live in my old town after the trial. She would go out to restaurants and bars. She actually shopped at my grocery store and I ran into her a couple of times. She looked normal from afar but her eyes were truly soulless and left you shaken. Her living a normal life like nothing ever happened and being able to sleep just shows you how much of a sociopath she is. When someone you love is mudered you are never the same. My husbands father was brutally murdered and he still has nightmares, has trouble connecting with people, is always afraid of losing loved ones. ( I know everyone handles things differently) If your child was mudered you wouldn’t just move on and be fine and make your selve the victim.
Chingona so sorry for your husbands loss. I totally understand what you mean about how everyone handles grief differently but there is a HUGE difference when it comes to a sociopath (I have a sister who is one) and being devoid of any feelings. And also being a narcissist so the only feelings that matter are their own. So I totally agree with you.
I have friends who have lost children in non violent ways and they are still grief stricken after decades and you can always see how it has affected them and will continue to affect them. Not this monster. And that’s what she is. A monster. Devoid of human or even animal feelings.
I am so sorry about your husband. Families are victims, too, and that is very much overlooked.
My mother’s sibling was murdered in his home at age 37. I was a child at the time, so I witnessed lifelong effects to my mother and her parents. My grandmother died 3 years to the day after that. There are always questions and fears. And in this case and my mother’s family, the accused got away with it and lives on with zero obvious remorse. The victim never gets a say, and the families do pay a heavy, life-altering price.
Meh. If she’s a recluse, fine. I mean, I can accept the possibility that her daughter’s death was accidental, and she just didn’t want to own up to it because – seriously – who uses chloroform on their kid to get them to go to sleep? That alone deserves some serious prison time. She clearly doesn’t care. My half-sister did something similar when she left her two-year-old to bathe alone and she *went to bed.* He nearly drowned and has severe brain damage, yet she shows zero remorse and continues to paint herself as a victim while she lives of his SSI. These chicks are walking advertisements for easily accessible, legal, safe abortion. Don’t have a child if you’re not in it to win it. Dumb bitches, the lot of them.
I can’t believe you all think that no one EVER gets a good night’s sleep after losing someone. What, millions of people who lose loved ones NEVER sleep well again? That’s utter BS. Stop trying to hang someone on one clichéd bit of data that carries no weight.
That’s not what’s being said. If you followed the case this so called mother slept just fine and partied just fine while her daughter was supposedly “missing”. Everyone grieves differently but if your toddler is missing you’re not partying and posting pics on Facebook. If you are, you’re evil. And that’s not BS.
She didn’t just lose someone. Her daughter was murdered or she accidentally died( which is what this POS says). In either one of those situations no you don’t sleep well at night. My husband’s father was found hanging from a tree in his front yard after being kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico. His wife found him and believe me she will never sleep Just Fine again. My husband will never sleep Just Fine again. If it was just an accidental death as she claims you would blame yourself everyday for the rest of your life. She is a siocopath and mudered her daughter whether on accident or on purpose and feels no remorse or anything at all. How you can defend her is beyond me.
I am sure there are people who have lost children who sleep well again eventually. However, those shouldn’t be parents who either through negligence or intent *killed that child themselves.* Peaceful sleep is for those parents who loved their child and tried to keep them out of harm’s way and life happened (car accident, illness, etc). Eventually, I am sure they can eventually sleep peacefully. Not sure I ever could if I knew I’d had a hand in my child’s death. But I’m not a sociopath or whatever she is, so there’s that.
I’m totally reading it as a figure of speech. She may or may not actually sleep well at night. To me she’s conveying a complete lack of remorse or guilt with those words.
As a mother, I can tell you that I probably would never have a truly peaceful moment again if my child was murdered.
Of course, this woman DID AWAY with the inconvenience that was her beautiful little girl…so, no surprise that she doesn’t lose any sleep over the loss.
Don’t act like anyone is flying off the handle at Casey’s one comment…this whole story is nauseating and any sympathy for this evil woman is misplaced…save your sympathy for Caylee.
It’s just a metaphor for your conscience being totally clear.
She sleeps well at night b/c she got exactly what she wanted. A child-free life free of responsibility. Plus some fame/infamy on the side. She really got the life that she always wanted with very little consequences. She’s got it made. Smug witch.
^^^ this
Oh trust me. This woman cannot sleep at night. There isn’t a corner of her house that she can hide in. She is reminded of what she has done on a very daily basis.
She will never be at peace.
Even if she tries to make us and her believe it’s true.
She can say whatever she knows but she also knows that she will be forever the one who killed her own child…
If she’s a sociopath she’s totally ok. She lacks a conscience. A normal person would feel remorse she never will. She can even justify it all. Everyone else’s fault but hers. And she has fans that stick up for her because she’s hot (to them!) and that’s all she needs. It’s a horrible truth but that’s the truth.
I think she does sleep well at night and barely thinks about her daughter at all. When she does think about her she probably just relishes in how clever she is to get away with murder and get the life she always dreamed of. She doesn’t care about Caylee, trust me.
I think she accidentally overdosed Caylee ( so that she could have sleepovers with the guy she was seeing at the time), she died and Casey panicked. I’d call that manslaughter? Still, she deludes herself into thinking it wasn’t her fault, and she is perfectly okay with it and no doubt does sleep well.
I watched that trial all the way through. She was arrogant more often than not, angry with her lawyers- jesus, they fired *her*, and only rarely shed crocodile tears. She *IS* sleeping just fine, of that I am sure.
I remember watching the whole trial years ago, I think it was THE case that got me into watching trials and crime documentaries, which pushed me into law school.
I didn’t get how she was acquitted, I truly did not understand then nor do I understand NOW. The evidence, the lies, the way she acted before and after..
How can Casey as a mother sleep well if (as she claims) she doesn’t really know how her daughter died. Very infuriating that there seem to be no answers for this little girl.
The fact that this psycho can sleep at night further proves what we’ve known for years. She’s a soulless, narcissistic, evil bitch who got exactly what she wanted…a life without her daughter! She is a prime example of a woman who should have never been a mother in the first place. How dare she speak of what Caylee would be like now! We won’t ever know cause she took that child’s life away, she stole that from her. That poor little girl…I can’t even look at pictures of her cause I get so angry and hurt all over again. And of course she empathizes with O.J….they both got away with murder and everyone knows it!
Get answers are absolutely nonsensical as to what she claims happens, it’s just word salad. She knows she killed little Caylee. As a mother it is UNFATHOMABLE that you could possibly not know the whereabouts of your toddler for a month and spend that time partying. If I didn’t know where my toddler was for five minutes I’d panic. This woman is twisted and guilty.
Gonna put this out there. I knew a man who VERY accidentally backed over his toddler son in the yard. It was a true accident, even the police called it as such; he was never prosecuted. He honestly thought the child was taking a nap. The son died. Less than a year later, the father died as well: suicide. He simply couldn’t live with himself, even though everyone knew it was a terrible accident and he loved that boy to pieces. Now, am I saying Casey Anthony should committ suicide? No (though it’s no skin off my back either way). What I’m saying is that if that man had lived, I don’t know if he ever would have slept well at night, although I wish he could have because he surely deserved peace. That’s the kind of guilt that racks a parent when something happens to their child (the parents who think, ‘I shouldn’t have let her get her driver’s license/ I should have been home/ etc). if they’re normal. Not ‘I sleep fine and la-di-dah. Sorry, I get kind of passionate about this subject lol
That’s awful. And truly an accident. That poor father. Like you said, he was normal. Casey Anthony is a total different story. Narcissistic sociopath. She sleeps just fine.
That poor man. I can understand it though. A co-worker of mine lost his 13 year old son to an accident. (an accident that had NOTHING to do with the parents) and it changed that man and his wife forever. They had a younger child to worry about, but I have often wondered if they hadn’t had the other child to think about—if they would have lived through this tragic event. The depression they went into was incredibly difficult to watch. They are both very loving and kind people and they still are now, 8 years later. But in the thick of it? I truly believe the only thing that kept them both from committing suicide was that other child.
I not really understand how she was aquitted— but is it perhaps because the prosecutors couldn’t really put together an accurate explanation of HOW Caylee died? Casey lied…a ton, and there was the chloroform and her kid was missing for a month and yet she didn’t report it. Obv we all see this and KNOW she was responsible in some major way. But does a lawyer need to be able to prove more or less what happened in order for a defendant to be found guilty? Like if a person is stabbed to death, and the defendant has prints on the door knobs, and the murder weapon AND can be placed at the murder scene– ok. But if a victim is dead, and we can’t even say HOW they died— I imagine that hurts the case against the defendant?
That poor little girl. The thing about a case like this is that there are so many people that would have taken her in and gave her a beautiful life– it is so unfair that she had THAT THING for a mother. I am a mom now, but wasn’t at the time this case was taking place. At that time I didn’t think I wanted to have kids, period. But that case just made me so sick. I kept thinking “if only we could turn back the clock, I don’t even WANT kids, but I’ll take her. “
Of course you sleep well at night…you got away with murder, just like OJ. Pieces of human waste.
She making my skin crawl. She will never admit her guilt, she is human trash to me.
I hope she really does go skydiving. I really hope she does.
If you ever wanna get away with literally anything, move to Florida.
I followed this case heavily and just the fact that this person thinks her opinion is still relevant makes me want to gag. She’s a despicable excuse for a mother, let alone a human being. She sleeps well at night because she got what she wanted back – her childless freedom. She’s as guilty as guilty gets and she has absolutely NO remorse about it. Gross.
Anthony is a trashy pig who has to prostitute herself to pay her bills, as it’s all she has to offer anyone. If she’d have been able to control her sexual desires her daughter might still be alive right now, but the little piglet was more concerned about gettin’ wasted and hookin’ up. Now she has to act as her attorney’s personal sex slave, otherwise she’d be rotting in prison. She should do the honorable thing and commit suicide, no one would care and no one would miss her.
True-Crime buff right here!
I followed this case right from the beginning. Heard in real-time, about 80% of what was presented to the jurors. I would have voted for Guilty and would have held out against any dissenters.
Wish someone could pin her down and force her to answer more questions.
Right!?!? I don’t understand it at all. It was like the jury was sitting in on a different trial. Insane!
The jurors did not listen to Judge Perry’s instruction that circumstantial evidence was sufficient to find guilt. But the bunch of yahoos on the jury only thought about CSI/ SVU and all those programs and thought there should have been DNA evidence to render a guilty verdict. Jesus, all the lies, never alerting authority, changing stories, whooping it up, decomposition in the car, duct tape at the house, tattoos, computer searches about chloroform…
They were all fn idiots and I hope they struggle with sleep nightly as a result. Clearly the sociopath will not.
I followed the trial too, it hit very close to home for me as I have an 11 year old granddaughter named Kayleigh. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever felt the level of disgust or hatred (towards a person I didn’t know) as I feel for Casey Anthony. I could NOT believe the jury didn’t convict her. She chloroformed her daughter on more than one occasion and admitted doing so. Sniffer dogs hit on her car as having human remains in the trunk… the duct tape which was on Caylee’s mouth & nose was found at her house. Not to mention NOT REPORTING HER CHILD MISSING FOR OVER A MONTH while going out partying, posting pics on social media and getting a new tatoo that said ‘a beautiful life’ and then proceeding to lie to police for weeks after she finally did report her missing. She murdered that poor baby girl (whether accidentally or not) because Caylee was inconvenient to the lifestyle Casey wanted to live. I truly hope she loses all the material possesions she so cherishes and that this absolute waste of human skin rots
in hell for the rest of her miserable life. #POS
she prob. had a kid to host off its youth. she knew people would associate the deed she did with another person..
Delusional murderess is delusional.
She is insane. That description of the daughter at 12 was a description of herself and what she wanted to be.
Spot on regarding the description of Caylee.
Why was the grandfather, George Anthony, ever viewed negatively?
What I saw was a man who was distraught at his granddaughter’s disappearance and you could tell he suspected his daughter right away. The prosecutors presented plenty of evidence showing that Casey regularly lied & stole & engaged in cheque fraud. He knew what his daughter was and I saw a man who was disgusted with her.
I felt very sad for him.
He sexually abused her from birth, apparently.
This is bs made up by the defense team. The jury bought it however.
That was one of the bs stories pulled out of the air, just like the accidental drowning in an above ground pool of which according to Casey’s mother, *always* had the ladder up when not in use specifically for the toddler’s safety.
What irritates me the most is that Cindy and George adored that baby. They did all of the supporting and most of the raising. If Casey was over parenting, she could have relinquished her rights to her parents. But she had a real love-hate relationship with her mother, and resented Cindy for playing the role of Caylee’s mom. I think Casey knew how Caylee’s death would gut her parents, and that was an additional motive.
I also think Casey was more sociopath than psychopath. She was able to have warm, limited relationships with several people. She was only ever loving and playful to Caylee – until she became a hindrance. Then the free ride off of the Anthony grand-parents was no longer worth it.
I feel like there’s a really off-color joke about how this interview guarantees she’ll be an elected official in a few years. She’ll be hailed for her emotional resilience and possessing the sort of clear-headed thinking our country needs.
Ya know, 8 weeks ago I would have laughed at your comment. Now, in this bright shiny post-Susan Sarandan world, things seem less funny, and more likely.
I never followed this story but I read a persuasive article by a psychiatrist, Keith Ablow. He firmly believes Casey is totally innocent and that her bizarre behaviour comes from being sexually abused by her father and her brother from birth. This weir anecdote illustrates how weird their family is: when she was giving birth, her father was in the room, walking around and watching, literally, his grandchild coming out.
“Shame is like everything else …
Live with it long enough and it becomes part of the furniture”
~Salman Rushdie
She should rest up, cuz there will be none in Hell. Her and anyone paying her for anything: “Interviews”, sex, etc.
A nightmare of a woman….hopefully she never ever has another child.
If Casey Anthony was a woman of colour, I’m sure she would’ve been found guilty and been rotting in prison right now. I saw the recent pics of this this bitch- she is all made up, hair straightened posing while trying to look soulful, sad and pretty, beside a framed photo of Caylee. I felt rage at seeing how obviously insincere she looked. I’m a parent now and crimes against children really horrify and sadden me more than ever.
I agree.
She might be free now but she will mess up at some point and end up back behind bars. I firmly believe that. It happened to OJ Simpson and Joran Van Der Sloot. Her past will eventually catch up with her.
“The last time I saw my daughter I believed she was alive and going to be okay”
Wait….what??? That’s an odd statement, extremely so considering the circumstances.