WOW oh WOW oh WOW!! I am just so grateful to the state of Fla. right now for their "Sunshine" laws so we all got to read this mess. Of course, one could agree that it's "drivel," but... what revealing and interesting drivel!!! I absolutely love to read and I read very rapidly, so when I saw the promise of "500+" pages yesterday, I was in reader-nerd heaven! And yet, like a lot of you, I only got to about 100 pgs. and felt that there was no need to prolong my agony re. actually trying to read every word of Casey's BS. So here I go with my:twocents: :
1. I agree w/many WSers that these letters were NOT planned/contrived, etc.
Like many, I concur that JB is probably FURIOUS at how these 'revelations' have affected his job of defending this . IMO, nothing here could possibly help Casey's defense; conversely, they should make the prosecutors' day!
2. In that light, I also agree w/most of you that, instead of depicting Casey as "insane", and therefore suggesting that she 'knew not what she was doing' (!!), these notes PROVE 100%, imo, that Casey is proving to the state that, while obviously narcissistic/borderline/pick your diagnosis, she is not at ALL "legally insane," therefore she will be mentally competent to stand trial *DUH!* : )
3. To elaborate, in my mind, a child-killer who stands out in my mind/opinion as TRULY "legally insane" at the time of her crime is Andrea Yates, who was found to have drowned her five children while in the grip of a very real and dangerously undertreated state of EXTREME/REAL PSYCHOSIS... and it took TWO trials before she finally was seen as psychotic. I read several books re. Ms. Yates- of course her crimes are, still, horrendously atrocious. But she had been diagnosed as psychotic for years; too bad her hubby kept impregnating her; her religious (imo) cult of a "church" did her in with its asinine teachings. She honestly felt that she was saving her kids from damnation because of that influence, which fed beautifully into her deranged state of mind. But AY's behavior/actions both pre- and post-crime are the polar opposite of CA's. AY had been institutionalized several times, when she should have been COMMITTED. She was sent home after insur. ran out and actually TRUSTED AND EXPECTED to medicate herself w/Haldol-- as we ALL know true schizos/psychotics are SO good at medicating themselves.. um.. yeah.:banghead: And after she drowned those 5 beautiful little ones, what did she do? Why, she CALLED THE POLICE AND CONFESSED. She still at the time felt what she did was necessary, yet she knew it was wrong... the psychotic mind. Horrible, her actions. Yet she willingly went to jail and told LE her "rationale", which apparently made sense to her; she never tried to deny or blame anyone but herself. AY had been literally pulling out her own hair in chunks, and scratching out pieces of her scalp for a long, long time; she didn't seem at all sad/shocked at her crime; she made no excuses; her affect was beyond flat; imo, she was the walking definition of a "crazy person", and yet she was left alone with those babies. Even in her first trial, where she was sent to prison and not a mental place, she never tried to act like she was innocent, or that SODDI. Her husband and mother-in-law KNEW she wasn't capable, yet they left her alone with those kids, same to me as leaving a child alone with someone like Richard Allen Davis or John Gacy. In comparison-
4. Look at Scott Peterson. Before Laci died at his hands, he led a life of lies and deceit; he told Amber Frey that his wife had died before they met; he kept the boat purchase a secret; he constantly communicated with her (after AF KNEW about his lies) about his "innocence"; lied about where he was on New Years, was photographed LAUGHING at a vigil for Laci, etc. In short, his narcissism made him feel superior, and that no one could prove what he did, which of course led him straight to death row...
5. Finally, look at both AY and SP and see whose behavior mirrors Casey's. Casey is just like Scott-- egomaniacal, completely lacking in empathy, smug, and looking to a near future full of fun with no consequences whatsoever, comfortably ensconced in LIE after LIE after LIE ("Deny, deny deny!" = said by both Scott's mother and Casey herself [written]). Both delusional, poss. manic, borderline, sociopaths..... yet NOT psychotic, NOT legally insane.
6. I firmly believe Casey will go down, just as Scott did, not realizing that the rest of society could see how dangerous it would be to let them roam free in society. These letters will be another 'nail' in KC's coffin. At least A. Yates KNEW she deserved to be removed from society.
