BOTTOM LINE: EVIDENTLY CINDY KNOWS WHAT DECOMP SMELLS LIKE, BECAUSE THE CADAVER DOGS HIT ON PRECISELY THE PLACE THAT SHE SAID SMELLED LIKE DECOMP.
Now, can we end the bickering...please?
Can I insert myself in the debate and offer some middle ground? Perhaps it wasn't Cindy who smelled it (orthopedic nurse so fits with some posters argument she wouldn't have as many chanced to smell a decomposing body) but it was George who smelled it (ex homocide LE and the one who drove the car home and cleaned it).
While they are frantic about finding out that Casey was lying that she was in another town with Caylee and they abandoned their car in terrible condition, between the calls to find Cayse, the trip to locate her with Amy, the thoughts of what is going on, George did say to Cindy the damn car smells like a dead body. There wasn't a party going on in the Anthony's home that night. There must have been screams and discussions and tears and pleas for Caylee's whereabouts and where Cayse was the days she didn't have the car or what she was doing, and even Lee was invited by George to come and assist with the situation. Mayhem.
George did smell it but that was before Cindy went to get Casey from Tony's apartment. As the situation escalates and finally Cayse admits to Lee that Caylee was ''taken by zanny'' Cindy is on fast mode on her 911 call. She is losing it, everything is escalating from Cayse being her irresponsible self to someting more serious and dangerous and Cindy relates to the dispatcher what she heard her husband comment regarding the car. Cindy did say the car smelled like a dead body, she didn't say she smelled it. So she perhaps saying to the dispatcher what George commented about the car?
Since I saw many different posters saying from personal experience that once you smell a decomposing body you will know, there is nothing like it, I have to believe them. And I do believe them.
Why grandparents later changing their story? Not both of them smelled it just one of them. So doubt about what George smelled? The smell could not be overwhelming? George detected what it was but it was not overwhelming thus he doubted himself later under Cayse's emotional manipulation that someone has Caylee? If Cayse transfered a body at some point in her trunk but only transfered and not stored, if a body was covered in a box and placed in the trunk for only a little time, could there be a smell but not as overwhelming? A smell that a train homocide LE would recognize but still not overwhelming? This is a question for those with experience with the issue. The grandparents backpedalled in what one of them might smelled because they had to believe their daughter and her abduction stories and were afraid the focus of the investigation will change from a missing child that was still out there to something else?
However... the dog hitting on the trunk has to be significant. Perhaps we could consider as a mistake by the dog, but one cannot accept a mistake or coincidence when it is combined with Cindy talked about the same spot and dead body smell on her VERY AUTHENTIC AND VERY REAL and VERY RAW 911 call.
