I noticed in Cindy's depo..they note she is crying when they are questioning her about what she found in the backseat of the car... she says pants, boots, Caylee's carseat...says she lifted up the carseat to see if there was anything under it. Do you think she found Caylee's front tooth in or around the carseat? She knows that Caylee was probably hit in the face while sitting in the carseat and that is what got her so emotional at that point? I can see it.. Casey...leaves angry, Caylee in carseat, perhaps crying and Casey turns around and hits her, knocking her front tooth out...which leads next to murdering her because she can't bring her home with a missing tooth and bruised face...Caylee would tell what happened.
And the carseat...Cindy says Casey's was black and white, and the one in Cindy's car was the brown Eddie Bauer. Did she find blood on the black and white one from the tooth loss, dispose of it and put the Eddie Bauer one in Casey's car? LE has the Eddie Bauer one...where is the black and white one??
you put this very well. That's true, that was when Cindy started crying. And where
is the black and white car seat? Thanks for this.
I remember in the beginning of the case I always wondered if Caylee had been beaten (or for that matter gotten injured in an accident due to not being watched) and Casey was hiding Caylee in order for bruises or some other injury to have time to heal rather than admit to her parents what had happened, you know? (Back in the beginning. At the time I was thinking, bruises, broken arm, whatever. I was saying this to my husband one time and he actually said something about what if it was a knocked out tooth or teeth.)
Then when the remains info came out I always wondered about the one incisor being out, etc. Did it come out sometime before she was taped, or while she was being violently taped, or what. Do baby teeth just fall out during decomp?
Then recently reading this deposition where Cindy said Caylee had 20 teeth I thought, what, more teeth missing? (though it wouldn't be more front teeth or the ME would have noted it. Either Cindy is wrong or somehow her latest teeth also fell out. But the ME would be able to see on xray which teeth had erupted and which ones were still in the gum, right? Oh, no more gums, never mind.)
Anyway, if someone had hit Caylee and a tooth got knocked out, bruises would go away but not a knocked out tooth, so what could Casey do to hide what had happened. Tell her parents Caylee had knocked out her tooth accidentally somehow, I guess, but Caylee would probably be able to tell who had hit her. Would Casey go as far as to kill Caylee rather than admit she or a boyfriend had hit Caylee, I mean, lose Caylee forever rather than just lose custody, you know?...you wouldn't think so, though I guess I've heard that psychopaths sometimes will do more serious crimes to conceal smaller crimes or to avoid losing face. Anyway, in the end I think most likely Caylee died during the same incident that caused the loss of any teeth. The tooth could have come out due to being struck or to having her mouth violently taped during an assault. (Sorry for this rambling post, I'm brainstorming due to your thought provoking post.)
Anyway, you really put the picture together for me when you mentioned how Cindy started crying right as she was describing looking around Caylee's car seat. While reading I had thought just the mental image of Caylee in her carseat was what made Cindy start to cry, but your post made a light bulb go on for me.