The Search For Caylee Anthony

Tuesday August 12, 2008

For those of you who haven't followed this story on the news channels, I will give you the basics. Caylee Anthony is a 3 year old girl who has been missing for over a month.....but here is the twist. Her mother, Casey Anthony KNEW she was missing, and did NOTHING. She was out partying and having a good time at bars. After weeks went by, and she had not seen her daughter or granddaughter, Caylee's grandmother began asking questions. She had only spoken on the phone with her daughter....and every time she asked to speak to the little girl, Casey had some excuse...."she's sleeping, "she's with the "nanny" (at the time Casey was unemployed and had no income to pay a nanny). The grandmother (after almost a month), demanded to see her granddaughter....and that is when Casey told her that little Caylee had been missing for weeks! The grandmother asked her why she waited so long to report it, and Casey replied "I have been doing my own investigation"....ahem.....right. The grandmother called the police after the daughter told her this. They arrested Casey on child neglect charges. Then the circus began. When the grandmother spoke to police, she told them that the car Casey was driving "smelled like a dead body" had been in it. She has since recanted that statement, and claimed the smell "was a rotten pizza" left in the trunk.....there is a huge difference between the smell of death and rotten pizza, don't you think? Thus began a whirlwind of lies and outrageous statements that boggles the mind. Lie after lie, getting even more outlandish every time she opened her mouth. She is now saying that she dropped Caylee off at the "nanny's" house back then, and hasn't seen her since. The trouble with that is the fact that police went to the apartment, and discovered that it had been vacant for months. She claims Caylee was kidnapped and can't say anything because "she fears for her daughter's life". Amazingly.....the grandmother accepted this claim and is now backing up her daughter's claims. If the child was kidnapped, why would the mother be silent? You would think that she would be doing everything possible to help police find her....but, she WILL NOT talk about it to police. A bit odd, don't you think? Police searched the grandmother's back yard ( Casey and the child had been living there for awhile), and brought cadaver dogs in the yard.....they hit on the trunk of the car that had "rotten pizza" in it. These dogs are trained to ONLY react to human decomposition and would NOT confuse this with rotten pizza. However, they found no physical evidence. They are still searching for little Caylee...and her mother is STILL refusing to talk. Personally, I think the child is no longer with us. All the lies and bizarre behavior by Casey AND her parents says something isn't right. This is one of the strangest cases I have ever heard of. What I would like to know is, what is your take on this. I would love to hear your opinions on this.