Caylee was almost three and really beginning to verbalize.
Quetion: What could be worse for a patholgical liar like Casey?
Answer: A talking three year old.
From this child speech development page:
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_development.shtml
36 Months:
Use pronouns I, you, me correctly
Is using some plurals and past tenses
Knows at least three prepositions, usually in, on, under
Knows chief parts of body and should be able to indicate these if not name
Handles three word sentences easily
Has in the neighborhood of 900-1000 words
About 90% of what child says should be intelligible
Verbs begin to predominate
Understands most simple questions dealing with his environment and activities
Relates his experiences so that they can be followed with reason
Able to reason out such questions as "what must you do when you are sleepy, hungry, cool, or thirsty?"
Should be able to give his sex, name, age
Should not be expected to answer all questions even though he understands what is expected
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I think she killed her deliberately. Partly because she was interfering with partying and CA and GA were pressuring her to take better care of Caylee and not constantly leave her with them and partly because Caylee was beginning to speak. Like I said above---disaster to a liar like Casey...
For example:
Caylee: "Mommy, I had fun when we went to Target and the park and [insert bofriend's name] house yesterday."
Say, Caylee says this in front of a
different boyfriend or her parents when Casey had told an
entirely different story to them. ----that Casey had been at work or school or any number of places she and Caylee hadn't really been....
etc., etc., etc.
And if Casey were involved in or around
any sort of illegal activity, that would increase her motive even more.