About the pregnancy and the very odd dinamics in this family, just listened to JA' audiobook yesterday and I have just remembered again, the situation of Casey appearing at the wedding of CA' brother, everyone asking 'Who is the pregnant girl', while both parents kept repeating that she is not expecting. The brother even mentioned her belly button sticking out, then Cindy comes up with the nonsensical answer that Casey has a big tumour. There are so many absurd things about this case, all pointing into the direction of a tragedy. When Casey was arrested and the parents were walking on eggshells around her, it seemed plausible they did it to gain information from their daughter, but looking at the bigger picture, they were always like that, around Casey. Then later in july or august of 2008, when [so far I remember correctly] Jesse' father called George, asking him, why isn't he in cop-mode already, he replied: 'Because Cindy does not want me to.' Speaks volumes.
So in short, until Casey did not mention something, it did not happen. Even a huge thing, like a baby on its way. Once Casey decided to tell them, first then, they acknowledged it. She thought, she can go through life like this, basically the only way she ever knew, why would she change her ways?
After the arrival of little Caylee, allday-life became harder and harder to manage, Cindy became more and more weary of Casey' irresponsible ways, then (1) she met TL, (2) all the people she had stolen from started to have enough, (3) on the 15th June of 2008, Cindy grabbed her by the throat, telling her to move out and her filing for custody of Caylee. Things are about to explode.
Only thing I am not sure of, is the 'when'; when did KC decide to kill Caylee. The flurry of calls were the last attempt to see, whether her mother meant what she said the night before, whether there things will go back to 'normal' or is she really cornered now? Casey never gave much thought about the future, not even the next day, so I reckon that all her computer searches in march, then those on the 16th june, were two things adding up: a longtime frustration paired up with her actual, momentous rage - and it resulted in the brutal murder of innocent baby Caylee.
I honestly wonder what CA was thinking. Letting her kid grow up like she did, enabling - but once she realized things have to change, then she just thought they would? A 21 years old narcissistic sociopath we are talking about. You can keep telling such a person anything you want, they will never live a life like the rest of us. Someone who does not understand that they need to get up every morning and go to work, earn money, have their own place to live, pay the bills etc...Casey must have thought it was just another row, on the 15th, then she interpreted her mother' silence as being pushed into a corner and in her immature ways, she wanted to hurt her. Sociopathic adults are very childish, they think like this 'You started it', 'It is your fault' etc...Cindy should have known, whether with child or without, but she should have made thoughts about her daughter growing into adulthood. Both she and George just looked the other way.