Casey Anthony Charged With 1st Degree Murder
Just after 5:00 p.m. today, an Orange County Grand Jury issued an indictment against Casey Anthony for seven charges, including first degree murder. She also faces charges of one count aggravated child abuse; one count aggravated manslaughter of a child; and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer.
The Grand Jury heard from witnesses all day in the disappearance of Anthony’s daughter. Caylee Anthony was last seen in mid-June, but was not reported missing until about a month later.
Update: Thursday 10/16
Video: Major Slip-Up By Casey's Defense Team
Defense Team Member Slips-Up On National TV, Admits Caylee Is Dead
Todd Black, the spokesperson for Casey's attorney Jose Baez, made an appearance on CNN Wednesday night and was grilled about the case. When he was asked why Casey was captured in several pictures partying while her daughter was missing, he slipped up.
Todd Black paused for a second and became flustered after he said, "This is a serious case involving not just the loss of the life of a little girl, but the loss of whatever is going to happen to Casey Anthony."
25 comments:
FINALLY!
This was a long time coming, and I hope OCSO has an air tight case!
Peace be with you Caylee.
well said, nynanny. I agree.
rest in peace, Caylee.
Be sure your sin will find you out.
Find your rest in the arms of God, Caylee.
I was just watching Nancy Grace (I just got sattelite) and WOW is she a bitch. I know she cares about this kid but she is so rude to the people she speaks to. Why ask them questions if you don't want the answers. I'd like to smack that smug look off of her face. Ugh.
Thank God! This case has been absolutely plaguing me, I don't think I could have slept as well at night if Casey had gotten away with this.
I'm SO glad they charged her with 1st degree murder, I sincerely hope she rots in jail.
They will back off the death penalty if she tells them where the body is. I hope she tells them for Caylees sake and I would rather see that bitch rot in prison then have the easy way out.
God speed Caylee!
May Casey's life be a long one in a small cell...forever known as a child killer
Lets not sleep easy yet. She was just indicted, not found guilty. It is tough to prove a case without a body. Hopefully she will plead.
its hard to prosecute without a body, but it has been done, recently here in Omaha (google Jessica O'Grady).
I hope she spends a LONG time in prison.
I think it will be hard to get the death penalty imposed without a body anyway. Maybe they are using the 1st degree murder charge to get her to take a plea to a lesser charge? Let's just hope the actual truth comes out and the punsihment is just.
This is a sick, sick thing that has happened...and seesm to be accompanied by little or no remorse.
I don't think that she should get the death penalty. That is not our right, if God hasn't decided it was her time, then we can't kill her. She has time to repent and reflect on what she did, and as long as she is honestly sorry in her heart, and God forgives her, then i can too. it is not my place to judge. i hope that she uses this time wisely, and i hope that her daughter is finally without pain. Today the angels gave us justice when it took the law so long. I don't wish ill upon the mother because that would make me just as bad as her, and I think of myself in a higher regard than that....
God bless Caylee. And God be with Casey and hopefully she learns the severity of taking a life. i am glad this is finally starting to work out.
(This seems to be a different personality today... I think that I get really bad PMS. My husband keeps telling me that I have it... I am starting to beleive him. I wouldv'e never thought this way before... let's see personality #23)
There is such a HUGE peice of public info missing in this case.Though I doubt it will ever happen,I pray that light will be shed soon and justice will find it's way into Caylee & Casey's worlds.
I am in the minority but I do not feel that Casey's conviction is the justice that everyone thinks it will be.
Pls do not misunderstand me. I cannot fathom my child being missing for 30 days and telling no one,or partying in a nightclub after my child was gone.I do not condone those things or think that any "feeling" mother would be capable fo those things. I just have a feeling there is something missing here bigger than anyone of us could imagine.
I may be wrong but I have felt this way ever since the story broke and that feeling just won't go away.
My husband thinks it is just me refusing to accept that a mommy would be capable of doing this to her baby and then refusing to tell anyone where she is.IDK, maybe he is right?!
Does anyone else think that there might be more to the friends trip to Puerto Rico than we are being led to believe?
uughhh, the whole thing is just heart breaking and sickening!
What friends trip to Puerto Rico? And what are oyu thinking. I am most curious. This whole story haunts me.
I am a little curious also about the lawyer claims that we will all understand wehen the information comes out. But I find it thus far impossible to believe I will understand if the child has been killed and her mother, especially if she didn't do it, won't open up her mouth for Caylee's sake. And yeah, the stealing,shopping, partying and lying to the police are hard for me to get past.
Thank God I have never been in Casey's shoes, with a missing or harmed child...and I literally pray every day that I never will be. But I have tried to mentallty put myself in her place to think about how I might react and all I can muster in my imagination is that I would be wadded up in a ball on the floor somewhere in the darkest place I could find and barely able to function, let alone care if I had a pretty bra or a new sweatshirt....unless I thought I might be able to still find my child...in which case I imagine I would be cooperating with any and every law enforcement and any other source that I could get to listen to my pleas for help. And if, God forbid, I was forever without my child, putting me in prison for the rest of my life would be way down the list of my concerns...and the death penalty might seem the ultimate mercy. (The only thing I think I might feel against those things would be for my other children, who do not deserve to be orphans...but selfishly, I think death might be a mercy to me.)
blb I would love to hear your theory.
Mom, truthfully, I do not have a theory. The story has haunted me too as I imagine it has millions of people... I have actually had dreams of Caylee and woke myself and my husband up screaming her name.
I just have a knawing feeling that it is not just a case of mommy killing her baby and hiding the body.
When I first heard that several of Casey's friends took a trip to P.Rico around the time that Caylee came up missing,all leaving at seperate times,it sent up red flags to me. Now it could be as Padilla said, simply"another concoction to throw everybody off" but before anything was speculated in the news,I hoped the trip might reveal something.So, maybe I just have that on the brain?IDK.
I am no detective..but you know how sometimes you get that knawing feeling that won't leave you..that has been the case for me since this story was released.
They have no body, traces of chloroform and traces of decomposition but they are so very careful with how they word everything. I read that they found strands of hair in the trunk belonging to Caylee..not odd at all,I change my 1 yr olds diaper in the trunk all the time when we are out and about.I am sure her hair and skin cells are all over my trunk.
Now I know they found stains consistent with death(fluids that leak) and decomp but I never read that they were 100% sure that those 2 things came from Caylee? admittedly I may have missed that somewhere.Maybe as a mommy I am just hoping and praying that the decomp is from someone elses body and Caylee is indeed alive in PR somewhere only to be brought home soon.
I watch too much CSI Miami..I am praying to God that Casey offed some drug dealer or pervert who threatened her and her kid and Caylee was sent away for her own safety.I am hoping that Casey cannot say anything because the drug dealer was so connected that even dead he poses a threat to the family and that is why mom is playing opossum and Caylee is no where to be found!
My mind is just realing with" what might be?"
I also find it odd that her brother refused a polygraph test.
There are just too many weird things that make no sense.
MOM, I am 100 percent the kind of person who believes nothing is as it seems. I need proof before I can convict. And I mean proof!
And yes, everything suggests that Casey killed her child, but I cannot put a women away for life on a suggestion.
Thus far I would say she is guilty of child neglect and fraud and she should face jail time for both of those.
In my eyes any mom capable of partying just weeks after her child has disapearred is heinous .
I know I am going to be hung here for posting my opinion. I have truly stayed away from these threads because of that,but today I felt like posting.I am not trying to start any kind of war..I know how most everyone else feels and I respect their opinions,I just feel differently.I try to keep an open mind when reading the posts about Caylee. I really believe that because of the nature of the crime people need someone to blame and want swift action. Understandably so.
I truly believe there is a coverup of some sort going on and that there is someone other than Casey involved.I still hold hope that Caylee may possibly be alive somewhere.
Ther are so many scenarios that could fit..none of them have a happy ending except the one with Caylee being sold on the black market tp parents unable to adopt,being found and brought back home to a wonderful new foster home until they are 100% sure that grandma & grandpa had NOTHING to do with any of this!
I bet you are sorry you asked,huh mom?
blb,
no I'm not sorry at all. This is good. I read it quickly b/c I have to run to class, so I am going to peruse it again more closely later.
One thing you will be sad to hear is that the human decomposition evidence in casey's trunk was proven by DNA evidence to match Caylee, so there is absolute proof that she is dead...and was dead inside the trunk of that car.
Phoenix - I also am against the death penalty, even when someone I was close with was murdered. I too believe that life in prison is a more severe punishment and that a life is a life and even the most heinous among us deserves a chance to repent.
And Monniker - I also believe there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
I was never quite confident that Casey's Parents didn't have something to do with at the very least a cover-up. As far as Dad goes, I feel so much better about him now that I hear a lot of weight was put on his Testimony against her. He spoke honestly, truthfully... and not in a favorable light to his daughter.
Now... as for Casey's Mom? Why would she (as soon as Casey was indicted) stop under a bridge overpass and have Casey switch vehicles right next to the Airport? Undercover Officer's just happened to be tailing her and caught this. They traveled about a mile or two and were then pulled over and Casey was immediately taken into custody.
"Anthony was taken to jail after officers observed her switch cars on a highway and pulled her over. Undercover police followed her as she rode in her mother's SUV. As the SUV went under a highway overpass, Anthony got into another car and drove off. Officers made the traffic stop after she entered the second vehicle.' - TransWorld News
Was she trying to make the great getaway with Mom's help?
wow mom ,yes, that is sad news that I obviously overlooked?! thanks for updating me!I am not sure how I missed it. I hope that the truth will come out and Caylee can be found and laid to rest.. the poor little angel.
It is all so sad!
I just reread your post, blb. I also read a bunch of the related articles with some of the information I lacked.
Here are some of the points that have me scratching my head:
The brother refusing to cooperate.
The father talking about an argument he had with Casey when he wanted to go into ther car trunk for something and she had a fit and refused to let him near the car trunk...which he later found to smell like a corpse.
Her mother helping her possibly escape by changing cars on the sly under an underpass near the airport.
The fact that she apparently did a lot of research on missing children on her computer in May, a month before Caylee disappeared.
Two separate cadaver dogs at separate times indicating a dead body scent on the same two locations...Casey's car trunk and a specific spot in the family back yard.
Casey's father testifying against her for the grand Jury...and many of his cooments just before going in....especially saying how hard it was for him to do that. If he had no incriminating factual knowledge, how could it be hard? The grand jury is not interested in anybody's specualtion...only what actual, factual knowledge they have. He also said he loved his wife and his son...which brings to mind the question of whether he has evidence against them too, like maybe moving and disposing of the body, which seems to have at some point been buried in the backyard.
I saw the informaton about the Puerto Rico vacation, but all I found was that she was mad that she couldn't go, because she couldn't find anybody to watch Caylee. Did you see soemting else about that? What perked your interest on that?
It's hard for me to believe any mom could do this too. But sometimes they do. And this evidence seems to mount in a very bad direction for Casey. Even if I was afraid of some drug dealer killing me, I would like to think I would STILL put my child's life ahead of my own and not leave her in the posession of somebody I thought was such a dangerous killer to save my own butt....and, again, I certainly wouldn't want to go shopping and partying. I really do hope the entire truth comes out and that we will know what happened, and if Casey did it that she will be punished accordingly.
I'm a little iffy on the death penalty myself. I would never want to be the person to condemn somebody to death, or pull the plug...and I have serious questions about what God thinks about us making this decision (I've heard the bible interpreted in both directions)...but the selfish, human side of me is glad that we sometimes take dangerous murderers out of play.
And why are there no new posts on here? I guess no stories good or bad
Also of interest, if I understand this correctly, an attorney must always uphold the truth when representing a client in court...meaning that if thet defense team knows, or seriously believes, Caylee to be dead, they cannot lawfully go onto court and claim she is alive. Also, if they know, or beleive, that Casey is guilty of her murder or disappearance, they cannot lawfully go into court and claim she his innocent. They need to either remove themselves from the case or try to get a plea bargain...or face potentially serious discipline from the Bar Assoc. if they lie in court...not to mention possible criminal charges. Thankfully for the guilty, I suppose, not all lawyers are completely ethical...as it sounds like the guy in this audio clip may not be.
Anonymous said...
I think the grandparents got tired of Casey and Caylee living with them. They had given Casey a thirty day notice to get herself and her child out of the house. I think Casey needed to find 'childcare' for Caylee now that the grandparents were bowing out. That 'childcare' for free ended up being drugged and stuffed in the trunk while the Mom partied. Casey probably come back one time, and Caylee was awake. The next time, Casey used more drugs to make sure the little girl didn't wake up. I'm guessing that her careless behavior caused the death of her child. That is reckless manslaughter, a lesser of the charges. I think the reason the charge is not 2nd degree murder is the police figure Casey is too stupid to have understood the result of her actions.
I agree that the first degree murder change is to use the death penalty to get to the truth and to find the body.
The little girl deserved better.
6:14 PM
re-post for anonymous!!!
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I am so sorry there hasn't been any new posts the last couple of days... we're having some technical problems and are trying to remedy that.
Thank you for your inquiry! :)
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