So, hi everyone. I'm new to this case which might mean I have a fresh take on it, or might mean I have no idea what I'm on about
So one of ideas that I've been working on that I can't find anywhere else so far.
tl:dr Casey took the remains through the back fence to where she, Kio and Jessica used to hang out in the woods together after school.
What if Casey had Caylee's remains in the trunk of the Sunbird. On the 18th she checks to see if anyone if home and finds it's all clear. She backs into the garage and thinks about hiding the evidence. She takes a laundry bag to the trunk and puts the bigger of the two bags in. God it smells bad. She puts it by Caylee's playhouse on the grass. Should she put it in there? No, it smells too much. Mom will find it. She's looked at a couple parks and boggy areas but she's not certain about those options. She doesn't know them well and she'll feel more comfortable somewhere familiar. She remembers how she and Kio used to go into the woods after school to their to hang out in their secret spot. That's a good place. No-one knows it's there these days except as a place to dump trash and, even better, she can get down there via the old route out the back fence and behind the row of houses. She goes to check out the back fence. Yep, the loose board is still there but the bamboo has grown over and she can't get through. Damn. The shed is locked so she goes next door and borrows Brian's shovel. She cuts back the bamboo slips through the opening with the evidence, triple bagged now in a bag from the laundry to protect her clothes. She struts down beside the lake, into the trees, along the little used path and along the back fences to where people dump their unwanted things. She slings the bag into the swampy water, turns and never looks back.
Based on:
The laundry is in the garage. If the remains were disgusting, as they must have been after three days in the enclosed heat, she could have grabbed a laundry bag from right there to wrap and conceal and distance herself from the ugliness.
The cadaverine is found lightly near the playhouse. Perhaps the child was placed there for only a short time.
Tracy McLaughlan says that in her presence Casey *and* Ciindy talked about Casey using the shovel to cut back the bamboo.
The shovel was clean and had no trace evidence on it when it was returned to Brian Burner so it's unlikely it was used for digging or carrying.
On August 12th Kiomarie Cruz reports to Detective Wells that she, Jessica and Casey used to head out to the woods together after school. Kio says "me and Casey (...) would come back out here and we'd just talk for hours and hours" and "there's two different spots back there where we used to hangout at". Detective Wells asks her "When you heard about the shovel...Did you think something might've happened where we... Is that what brought us out here to this favorite spot?" She replies, "It did cause things started to click in my head and all I could think about was the shovel... First of all there's tons and tons of shading. Not a lot of people know about this spot...and most of the kids don't come down here now because I guess they have the fences...we were pretty much the only ones that knew about it for years". She doesn't expressly say that they went the back way, but for some reason that's the impression I got hearing the interview.
Killers tend to leave their bodies somewhere familiar.
It took less than two minutes to walk to the dump site via road so using the back way it may have taken a bit longer but she had the benefit of cover for half the walk. Even in the unlikely event someone did see her she could just be going for a walk with a bag. She could have managed the dumping easily in one of the 30 minute gaps in activity.
What do you think?