I will never forget the first time I heard Casey on tape, telling the story to the investigators, of Caylee calling her.
I remember that when she was asked what Caylee said to her, Casey pitched her voice very high and said, "Hi Mommy!".
The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. I got 'goose bumps'.
For some reason, that was one of the creepiest things I have ever heard. Just the way Casey said it.
At that very instant, the first time I heard that tape, I knew Casey was lying.
I had a definite feeling Caylee was dead, and that Casey knew it.
Me too.
What I found especially indicative of her lying about this call is that Casey didn't realize ahead of LE that if Caylee had truly been kidnapped and held away from the only home and family she'd ever known, she would not have sounded so perky and carefree, with nothing more than her shoes or books as foremost topic of conversation.
No "Mommy, I miss you and I want to come home." No "Mommy, when are you coming to get me?" No "Zani won't let me go home and I wanna go home right now."
Nothing that you would expect a child who had been taken from all that she'd ever known as security and stability in the family sense. Even if she'd been at the beach and at amusement parks and playing the white doggie and however many kids Zani's sister Sam has, she should still be asking why she isn't going home and why she's staying with Zani this long when she never did before and isn't able to see her grandparents or her mother or her own little dogs in her own home. She should sound somewhat concerned about this great upheaval of the only routine she'd ever lived in, definitely when combined with total deprivation of/removal from the only family she'd ever known.
Then when LE asks about that, Casey quick tries to cover for it (paraphrased): "Oh, it's because it was me. If it had been my mom, I know Caylee would have sounded like that."
Casey didn't realize that Caylee should have sounded a bit if not a lot worried about the change in schedule and residence that resulted from being kidnapped, and had to think on her feet to try and rationalize that one.
Nice try, Casey, but that was yet another epic fail. It only proves what an amateur liar she is. She had no idea what her daughter should or would sound like because that call never happened and she didn't think far enough ahead to have a lie at hand ready for that.
And as an added bite in the butt, she actually made it sound like Caylee is way more emotionally attached to Cindy than she is to Casey, which is probably true, but not to the extent that Caylee wouldn't have any negative reaction to offer her mother for this overlong overnight visit away from home. We know Caylee was acting clingy when around Casey's friends from interviews with them where they describe seeing Caylee staying close enough to Casey to be in sight if not within reach and crying for Mommy, which is typical and expected behavior from a toddler whose mother seems to neglect her while being in her company. Like how Casey films her daughter all the time but doesn't say a single word during the filming no matter how hard Caylee tries to engage her.
1 2 3 Cheese broke my heart...Caylee is practically knocking herself out to try and get Casey to answer her, then finally lets out a resigned sigh and turns her back on the cam. No toddler should ever have cause to sigh that heavily. I'm so sorry you felt so alone, baby angel. If only we could have known you then, we would have all been right there to color with you all day long.