This is one thing that has always puzzled me.
Why did ICA have that weak moment when she admitted to La she hadn't seen Caylee in a month?
Why couldn't she come up with something like she'd been doing for 30 days? - like "Caylee's with Zanny in Cocoa Beach, but Zanny's number is on my other phone which is in my office at Universal. The building is closed but I'll go get it tomorrow and call Zanny and tell her to bring Caylee back, blah, blah blah" - like she seemed to be able to do so well before and after that moment. She had $200 of Amy's cash - she could have beat it out of town and maybe gotten away - she was keeping MH in dangling and told him she was going to Calif.
I think MAYBE she was just trying to hold CA off until TL went home to NY and thought she'd be going with him, saying she gave custody of Caylee to her parents, and CA and GA and her "friends" not knowing how to find her.
How did she let that slip? I really don't think she came up with the ZFG story until LA clued her in to what LE would do when they got there.
Help me out here - any ideas?
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Because, as I recall, Lee said "Look, if you say she is with the nanny in Cocoa Beach or wherever, the cops will say, fine, we'll just go check this out, or we'll call the cops in Cocoa Beach and they'll check it out." I don't recall his exact words, but he made it clear to her that the cops would not just accept this story and they wouldn't CARE if Caylee was supposedly asleep or whatever, they would insist on going to check it out. That's when she realized she needed to come up with another story.
And I'm sure that she also immediately realized that if LE did start checking things out, they'd find out pretty quick that NOBODY had seen Caylee in 31 days. That's why she came up with the kidnapping story. We've seen that she was quick at thinking on her feet, this is another example.
I agree that she was planning to either run off to NY with Tony or try to persuade her "back-up plan" (Mark H.) to let her come live with him in California. She'd tell the guys Caylee was with her parents, tell her parents Caylee was with her. Problem solved in Casey's "never plan too far ahead" mind.
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