I am 99% sure KC is guilty, BUT where is the proof? Everything I have read points to her, but where is the 100% proof it was done by her? Is this the "thing" that will come out in trial, am I missing something???? What is the one piece of evidence that prooves SHE did this? I'm worried there will be someone like me on the jury :-( It only takes one right?
Grammie it is not any one particular piece of evidence, rather the totality of the evidence. Many of us here at WS have been following this from day 32 and have read through all of it, and there is so very much.
There will be no new "smoking gun" proof at trial. Here are the things that are pretty well established and I think will be accepted by the jury (although these conclusions will be challenged by the defense at trial):
1. Casey searched for "chloroform," "how to make chloroform," etc. in March 2008;
2. Casey left the house with Caylee on or about June 16, 2008, and Caylee was never seen again, either in Casey's company or with anyone else;
3. Within a few hours of leaving the house, Casey was happily renting movies and having sex;
4. Sometime between June 16 and June 27, 2008, Caylee's body was in Casey's trunk;
5. By June 27, 2008, Caylee's body had been removed from Casey's trunk and Casey reported to a friend that she had taken care of the terrible smell in her car by disposing of a dead squirrel that had been stuck to it;
6. For the next month, whenever Casey was asked about Caylee's whereabouts, she claimed that Caylee was with a person who did not exist;
7. For the next month, Casey also avoided her parents and lied to them constantly about her whereabouts and activities;
8. For the next month, Casey partied, and reported to Iassen that she was the happiest she had been in a long time;
9. When caught by her mother, Casey falsely reported that she had received a phone call from Caylee hours earlier;
10. Casey has given more than one explanation for Caylee's disappearance, all of which are demonstrably untrue;
11. When Casey's car was retrieved, it smelled overwhelmingly of human decomposition, and the carpet contained a large amount of chloroform;
12. Caylee's body was later found in a swamp around the corner from Casey's home, wrapped in a blanket that Cindy had noticed was missing from the house, garbage bags matching those used at the Anthony home, and a laundry bag that had been stored in the Anthony garage. Over the mouth area of her skull were several layers of duct tape that matched duct tape used by the Anthonys.
It's a pretty strong circumstantial case. Hopefully the jurors will understand after weeks of argument and after listening to the jury instructions that there does not have to be ONE piece of evidence that leads to a conclusion of guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt"--the jury must look at all the evidence together and ask itself, "What are the chances that these things would all happen to an innocent person?"