Apologies if this has already been pointed out but I found a good link to a very englarged version of this diary (page one is the page with '03 on it and page two is the entry).
http://www.wftv.com/_blank/18740990/detail.html
First of all, it's pretty evident that a large chunk of the diary has been torn out in the middle. This signifies a couple of things to me.
One, it was much later that the entry was written than the page with '03 on it.
Two, it signifies to me that she is "starting a new page" in her life - she's torn out all of the old stuff - just like she deleted a bunch of photos as well. She is basically dumping (literally and figuratively) anything related to her old life while she makes a completely new life for herself.
Third - notice that the page with '03 looks like a Title page of sorts - like a lining page (title page of sorts) that you have at the beginning of a diary before you get to the actual entries. There are lines and a faint watermark type graphic design on the page with her entry - completely different type of page than the first page with the date on it. Often times people will write something significant with a date that kind of sets the theme or tone of the diary at the beginning. That's what I think we are seeing when we look at the page with the '03 on it.
The last thing is the writing - I'm sorry but this writing looks too mature/sophisticated for me to believe that it was written when she was still in high school. I'm just not buying it. I kept several diaries during my high school years and the writing definitely looks more childish than the way I write now.
It's possible KC kept the '03 in there as a means of deception. I think that writing that entry in her diary is a way for her to acknowledge out loud what has happened but is vague enough to be interpreted in various ways. I've written entries like that myself when I was concerned my mom was going to peek in my diary. It's a kind of veiled release, don't know how else to describe it. And as far as the ink goes, okay, so both pages are red. It's fairly easy to find red ink. It's not like it's a particular shade of purple or teal or something...
Finally, I don't see why it is so implausible that she could have written this entry on June 21 just because she was at AL's residence. She could have left this in the car and for all we know, CA might have taken it into the house with the other items and didn't think it would hold anything significant for LE. Further, we don't know that one of the people who visited KC when she was out of jail didn't return it to her.
I simply don't think we have enough evidence to say that she couldn't have written this in June of '08.
(emphasis added)
Great blow up of diary; best I've seen, thanks! I was persuaded by those who thought it could be glue there but no more.
Even better post. ITA. I hope others take heed of your last line and don't become too entrenched in one view or the other. It really could be either way. KC probably wrote it, imo, as a confession which is what we all tend to be psychologically programmed to do. She may have also been trying to organize her thoughts; justify her actions to herself, the only person about whom she cares a whit. She needed to get this off of her chest. I agree with others that imo she sounds triumphant. I also think it's possible she deliberately wrote '03 not to throw off LE, about whom she had no thoughts at that time, but to throw off her mother, who went through her things.
I have two basic reasons for thinking it may be more likely to be an '08 entry.
1. LE are trained investigators. I think they would have noticed that '03 on the left immediately. I have no reason to believe they photographed every page of every book or every loose paper in that room. And yet they took the time to photograph this one. As Poirot points out, LE already knows the significance of this, if any. Of course, perhaps they included it on the off chance it was written in '08 but have since determined it was '03.
I really don't think they're playing games with it; trying to manipulate anything. Ready for this, Chezire? It was the state that wanted a gag order and didn't want any of this released. It was the defense that argued against it. To my mind, that puts the pin in that theory balloon.
2. I don't believe that journal sat in a bedside drawer for five years. As some have pointed out, that room was cramped and cluttered with all of KC's things. Storage space was at a premium. She had lots of things stored in closets or shelves out of the way and would have put this there at some time over the course of five long years.
And I have two points to counter those that believe the diary would have certainly been destroyed, had that been an '08 entry.
1. Some put little weight on the fact that KC had no reason to destroy it prior to July 15, when LE was called. Almost a month had passed. She is not smart. IMO, she's actually very not smart. She may very well have forgotten this entry. She may have been 'under the influence' when she wrote it and forgot the next day. Memory is not one of KC's strong suits either, imo. And then once LE was called, she had her little mind working feverishly on other things.
I don't think we know enough to know where that book was and when it was there. I also don't think we know when/if this book was taken into evidence. It could have been on July 15, or July 16, 2008. If that's the case, she had no opportunity to alter it, once it became a problem.
If it wasn't taken into evidence early, and if she remembered it when released from jail, in between days at attorney's office, dealing with the 'rents, Amy's and other visits, keeping up her charades, writing to Dakota and others, dealing with protesters outside her home and the combat between them and her parents, she may have felt unable to dispose of it, what with folks going through her trash and all.
Oh yeah, and that whole female bodyguard watching her every move thing. (Sure, she could have flushed it, etc. but we're thinking people; she's not.) But I truly think she just never gave it another thought, like so many other instances in her life. She had other things to think about. You know, like getting TonE's number.
2. Cell pings, schmell pings. Where KC was on June 21, 2008 makes no difference to me. That book was not large and KC often had a bag of things with her. (I don't, but some other posters recall TL stating he saw her writing in a journal.) She had quite an assortment of things with her at TL's and in her vehicle.
