No sympathy for the grandmother of a missing child (later found to be murdered)? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
Personally, I thought her behavior was better than most people's would be in the situation. Why should she have to apologize in any way to LE in this phone message, why should she have to pussyfoot around them? It's ridiculous.
CA is continually faulted both for bothering LE too much and not interacting with them enough. She can't win. (Faulted by some members of the public that is, not by LE themselves of course.) In fact she did try to be actively involved in the investigation and totally available for questions. Have you seen the interview where she's trying to tell everything she knows for the timeline, hoping the detectives can get to the bottom of what was really going on, and one detective keeps cutting her off? I like the detective by the way, a lot, and understand his line of thought in the situation, but I have a lot of sympathy for CA and can't fault her either.
Do you have substantiation for your comment that there was deception/lies in the interviews with CA or other members of KC's family? I've followed the case from the beginning and have not found any substantiation for this rumor. Cindy's phone message makes it clear why she had not yet returned the one particular bit of information in question to LE , she was not being uncooperative. She was cooperative with LE to the enth degree, despite her physical and emotional exhaustion at the time.
Do you have some substantiation for the comment that CA ever threw anyone "under the bus" as is so often rumored. I never saw a single accusation by CA. Surely every family of a missing child would expect for all the people who had been around the mother and child prior to the child's disappearance to be actually investigated (not just called up and asked for a statement, asked for their phone records from that month, or told prior to their phone being tapped that their phone was going to be tapped. That last thing is just laughable. The rest were obviously normal stages of info gathering, but can't be said to "clear" anyone.)
I'm not sure if I agree that it's usual for LE to identify one person of interest/suspect and not broaden the investigation to others unless that one person is exonerated by something. Most investigations seem to go the opposite way, starting out broad.
LE's interest in KCA was perfectly understandable, I'm not disputing that, but I always wished that the investigation had been broader, I felt that they put too much weight on her being able to tell them what had happened. But they were fielding a huge number of tips and leads of all kinds.
I have never said that LE acted on a whim by the way.
I will try to answer each of your questions, but since it is late at night, please forgive any spelling errors - and I just hope I can make sense.
I never said I did not have ANY sympathy for CA. I said in 'this instance' she does not garner any sympathy from me. As a grandmother myself, the loss of a grandchild would be horrific - made even worse by the fact that my child was the one who murdered that grandchild. I have compassion for and feel great pity for both G & C, and I have stated that in a number of posts. My sympathy and compassion for both G & C is, however, draining away at a rapid pace leaving only pity as I watch them self destruct.
Your comment about her behavior being better than most people's would be in this situation has me scratching my head. Which situation? Do you mean her being upset that they spoke to her mother? Over all, CA's behavior has been, in my opinion, disruptive, bordering on obstructional and deceitful.
I have never faulted CA for 'bothering LE too much'. I have seen all her videos, including the one you talked about. Yes, she definitely worked with LE in that interview, I never said she didn't. I did say she was constantly throwing people under the bus in her interviews. Did she accuse anyone directly, no. Did she keep referring to Jesse and Amy as people she didn't trust and who might be who KC was referring to, when CA went with "The Nanny was whomever was watching Caylee at the time? Pointing out the picture of Caylee that was from 'Ricardo's apartment' and suggesting that he too might have watched Caylee. If I remember, she might have even done this in the same interview as she helped with the time line. You are going to point out that all she was doing was giving the detectives 'other leads' - so we will just have to disagree as to what each of us took away from that interview.
As to lies and deceptions, where to start, where to start? Both GA and CA deny the arguement that was overheard by the neighbors ever happened. GA gives at least 3 different versions of the gas can story. The 'chasing after KC story' - a couple of different versions of that one too from both G and C. Then of course, there is the smell in the car, pizza in the trunk incident. However, if you want, I will give you that one in that she didn't REALLY mean the car smelled like a dead body. Of course there was no pizza in the trunk either. Can we talk about the sworn depositions both GA and Ca just finished giving, or should I just stick to things that went on back in July and August?
I do have only more more comment and question for you. The detectives, after listening to KC lie through her teeth during the one interview they did with her (at Universal) were supposed to continue looking at other people, is that what you are saying? I guess I want to know why should they? She was the last person that can be proved to be with Caylee , according to GA's own testimony. Her car smells like a dead body, every single thing she told the detectives in that interview was a lie, and they proved that. So you have a missing child, a suspect who lies and lies and lies and the car she drives smells like a dead body - and you want the detectives to look at other people? they had most of this info by the time they interviewed her and the rest within the next 24 hours. KC narrowed their investigation down for them.
I appreciate that you understand the the large amounts of tips and leads they pursued during this investigation and I guess my problem is I can't understand why you wish their investigation had been broader. If KC had given them even ONE clue, ONE bit of info that was not a lie, I am sure they would have investigated it. She didn't and they made their decisions about who was responsible based on what she said and what they discovered.
I want you to know I enjoy your reasoned, well thought out questions and comments. We may disagree on just about everything
but you always make me think and not just ramble on and on. Or at least I hope I didn't with this post!
