Thinking out loud:
I'm not sure how long a duration of time chloroform would knock a person out. I would think it would depend on dosage, but...still, I don't think it's effects would last very long. Doesn't seem like a very effective "babysitter" to me. On the other hand, this chloroform habit search bugs me. Maybe that was just a "whim" search. I don't know.
The way I perceive the chloroforming situation of Caylee prior to the June 16th date when she was murdered, I never thought the chloroform was to knock her out and
keep her out. The way I imagined it being used, was to get her to fall asleep initially. It would appear from some of the testimony that Caylee had a hard time falling asleep on her own, and actually needed Casey to sleep with her to be able to get her to eventually fall asleep. So in my thinking she would use the chloroform to get her to fall asleep and it would be immediate! (hence her mother could quickly resume her partying or texting)
In my estimation, Caylee would then stay asleep because she was little and it was her time to sleep naturally- the hard part seemed for Casey to get Caylee to
fall asleep (I am sure many of us as mothers know this scenario very well with at least one of our children?).
I think as a poster mentioned earlier it then progressed to finally taking Caylee's life, which I think was Casey's intention all along anyway.
The searches we learned of today (all of them in order) just reinforced the idea that George and Cindy were part of her potential plan as well (she intended to 'off' them too). I wonder what they were thinking in court today as they were listening to the testimony and knowing full well that she wouldn't need to know half of the stuff that she was researching if her intentions were only to 'take out' a little defenseless toddler!
Poor Caylee... I hope she fell into a blissful sleep with the chloroform never to wake up to this world again, unfortunately I don't in my heart believe that is the way it happened. I think that baby fought for her life in that trunk as the tape was placed around her wrists and then layer, after layer, was placed around her face and head. I think that little spit fire of an angel fought for her life with all her might. Her mother should be so grateful that our system of justice will show her way more mercy then she ever showed Caylee.
That thought really makes me enraged!:banghead: