cecybeans
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These are all really good points and I wish we wouldn't have to wait for the trial (or even later) to find out some of the answers.
In relation to the car and the smell (spyhouston, et al) - that point has always bothered me. CA's initial 911 calls had to do with the car and Caylee, but did not mention the smell of the car, so I am thinking the original dispatch report mentioned that, which was why YM, as a child neglect officer, was originally sent to the home. Perhaps because the initial report was of a kidnapping, that may have taken precedence over the "stolen car" situation. CA has often said since - to excuse herself for the "dead body smell" that she was simply doing what she needed to do to get LE there. But there may be more to that, which I'd like to mention later.
It has often baffled me why LE did not notice the smell in the garage, although I think LA and KC went there for privacy to talk because LE was all over the home - particularly the living room. I have to think that either the outdoor garage door was closed to take the focus off the car, or that it was being aired out, or maybe the trunk had been steamcleaned to minimize the obvious smell. Since LA was there right when CA and KC got there, but the cops didn't show up until later, maybe that was a little chore he performed while waiting - or GA and CA did in the time they both had between picking up the car, bringing it home, reporting for work and returning home. Or maybe that happened later that night or during the next day. Perhaps CA told LE when they arrived that she had found both her daughter and the car but that Caylee was still missing and that became the big focus. I think the Anthonys did not mention the car smell on purpose, but at some point, perhaps while YM was on the wild goose chase with KC looking for "Zanny", someone at LE HQ started to consolidate the reports the 911 shift had recorded for the incident and noticed the hysterical "dead body smell" phrase, which, after being coordinated with YM and his colleagues led the next day to Sgt. Edwards - a homicide officer - being part of the LE group that KC took on that little Universal tour. So LE was already suspecting homicide and it may have had to do with that little nugget of info in CA's call as much as all the silliness inherent in KC's version.
I have to remember that, just like the Jon Benet case, initially the house was not being perceived as a crime scene, that it was initially thought that KC and Caylee had not been home for a month and that whatever crime had been committed (kidnapping initially), it had taken place elsewhere (like Sawgrass Apartments). Every single Anthony signed off on their report that the babysitter ZFG had Caylee at another location.
One thing I think CA and GA had both agreed upon when they picked up the car at Johnson's and brought it home was that, even if Caylee was found safe and sound for some reason, that car smelled like death and was most likely evidence for some kind of crime scene in which a body had been transported (dead drug dealer?). They may have discussed reporting later if necessary as having been "stolen" from their daughter by other nefarious types she knew, to somehow exonerate or remove her (and them) from whatever might have happened in it. They have done that a number of times - "fed" KC lines she might use to reduce her culpability (when CA asked KC "What did you do? Who TOOK her?" to KC that night before LE arrived, to the leading line coyly delivered by CA to KC in a jail visit that "the media think it might have been a pool accident" as an obvious lead in to something KC could use to mitigate any obvious suspicions of premeditated murder that may have been entertained by LE as a possibility.)
I believe that CA blurted that out, as well as the part about the smell because she was becoming increasingly frantic about KC's stubborn recalcitrance in taking her to Caylee. She may have realized her mistake, and most certainly GA did upon his return, because I suspect they did everything they could to take the emphasis off the car smell by telling LE "it was a bag of garbage that the guy at Johnson's took out of the trunk and threw over the fence". Obviously LE didn't buy it at that point because some time later that night they went back to Johnson's and retrieved the bag.
I think LE was pretty much on to the situation from the get-go, but knew they needed to play it close to the vest. They realized immediately they were dealing with a pathological liar and a family who was at least in simple denial and was perhaps intent on obstruction of justice given their attitudes, behavior (bringing home a car that was clearly a crime scene but cleaning portions of it and who knows what else) - a realization that was only validated continually in the public and private actions the family took over the course of the investigation.
In relation to the car and the smell (spyhouston, et al) - that point has always bothered me. CA's initial 911 calls had to do with the car and Caylee, but did not mention the smell of the car, so I am thinking the original dispatch report mentioned that, which was why YM, as a child neglect officer, was originally sent to the home. Perhaps because the initial report was of a kidnapping, that may have taken precedence over the "stolen car" situation. CA has often said since - to excuse herself for the "dead body smell" that she was simply doing what she needed to do to get LE there. But there may be more to that, which I'd like to mention later.
It has often baffled me why LE did not notice the smell in the garage, although I think LA and KC went there for privacy to talk because LE was all over the home - particularly the living room. I have to think that either the outdoor garage door was closed to take the focus off the car, or that it was being aired out, or maybe the trunk had been steamcleaned to minimize the obvious smell. Since LA was there right when CA and KC got there, but the cops didn't show up until later, maybe that was a little chore he performed while waiting - or GA and CA did in the time they both had between picking up the car, bringing it home, reporting for work and returning home. Or maybe that happened later that night or during the next day. Perhaps CA told LE when they arrived that she had found both her daughter and the car but that Caylee was still missing and that became the big focus. I think the Anthonys did not mention the car smell on purpose, but at some point, perhaps while YM was on the wild goose chase with KC looking for "Zanny", someone at LE HQ started to consolidate the reports the 911 shift had recorded for the incident and noticed the hysterical "dead body smell" phrase, which, after being coordinated with YM and his colleagues led the next day to Sgt. Edwards - a homicide officer - being part of the LE group that KC took on that little Universal tour. So LE was already suspecting homicide and it may have had to do with that little nugget of info in CA's call as much as all the silliness inherent in KC's version.
I have to remember that, just like the Jon Benet case, initially the house was not being perceived as a crime scene, that it was initially thought that KC and Caylee had not been home for a month and that whatever crime had been committed (kidnapping initially), it had taken place elsewhere (like Sawgrass Apartments). Every single Anthony signed off on their report that the babysitter ZFG had Caylee at another location.
One thing I think CA and GA had both agreed upon when they picked up the car at Johnson's and brought it home was that, even if Caylee was found safe and sound for some reason, that car smelled like death and was most likely evidence for some kind of crime scene in which a body had been transported (dead drug dealer?). They may have discussed reporting later if necessary as having been "stolen" from their daughter by other nefarious types she knew, to somehow exonerate or remove her (and them) from whatever might have happened in it. They have done that a number of times - "fed" KC lines she might use to reduce her culpability (when CA asked KC "What did you do? Who TOOK her?" to KC that night before LE arrived, to the leading line coyly delivered by CA to KC in a jail visit that "the media think it might have been a pool accident" as an obvious lead in to something KC could use to mitigate any obvious suspicions of premeditated murder that may have been entertained by LE as a possibility.)
I believe that CA blurted that out, as well as the part about the smell because she was becoming increasingly frantic about KC's stubborn recalcitrance in taking her to Caylee. She may have realized her mistake, and most certainly GA did upon his return, because I suspect they did everything they could to take the emphasis off the car smell by telling LE "it was a bag of garbage that the guy at Johnson's took out of the trunk and threw over the fence". Obviously LE didn't buy it at that point because some time later that night they went back to Johnson's and retrieved the bag.
I think LE was pretty much on to the situation from the get-go, but knew they needed to play it close to the vest. They realized immediately they were dealing with a pathological liar and a family who was at least in simple denial and was perhaps intent on obstruction of justice given their attitudes, behavior (bringing home a car that was clearly a crime scene but cleaning portions of it and who knows what else) - a realization that was only validated continually in the public and private actions the family took over the course of the investigation.
