This is SPECULATION, not based upon any positive knowledge. No one knows how Caylee died. It was not the state's job to show how Caylee died. If anyone's, it was the defense's job and they did not provide ANY supportive evidence. Apparently, the did not need to :crazy: people are makin' it up all on their own.
Again, based upon what evidence presented in court? Speculation.
If murder or negligent homicide were your conclusion, that would not be speculation, because at least there were reasonable (in this case, redundant) supportive evidence.
Incredibly bizarre, yes. But take a look at how bodies are discarded by mothers who murder. Most of the time they don't even take the kid out of the house, or they put them in the closet in a tote. Even mothers who murder in cold blood wrap their babies in blankets before disposing of them.
Why would Casey drive around with a dead baby in the trunk of her car for 3 days? She fancied finding the perfect hiding place? She had a few molecules of motherly instinct and could not bear to dispose of her daughter's body until the smell of decay almost knocked her out? The car was the one "space" she had absolute control over? I can think of a lot of reasons. Just because it is too bizarre and evil for words does not mean it didn't happen that way
And what with the direct stench-witnessing by so many people, including police officer(s), scientists and cadaver dog(s?), I'd say that is evidence enough to say for whatever unspeakable reason, the baby was dead and decomposing in that car
That is all an alternate explanation -- in the absence of evidence to the contrary. Consciousness of guilt is one, the blatant lies another. Some would say the absence of visible grief is more evidence to the contrary.
I'm an old psych RN, and worked with a few forensically hospitalized patients over 17 years. I also read psychology books for fun. I'll tell you one thing . . . for a mother to go into that kind of absolute denial and NOT have a major mental illness (as stated by the six shrinks who examined her) is just not possible on Planet Earth. No, there is not a first time for everything lol.
A more evidence based explanation is simply that Casey DID NOT CARE. Now that's hard for us to stomach, it is a thought that brings despair to anyone who thinks it.
If Casey is not mentally ill, psychotic and unable to organize her experience with consensual reality, then her behavior during those 31 days (and thereafter) are much better explained by her not giving a &%*! what happened to her daughter. And no, people do not have brief psychotic episodes without remembering them once restored to sanity. Fugue states are extremely rare, and those conditions would have showed up in a thorough forensic psych eval.
It just doesn't hold any water, and speaking for myself, I just won't accept speculation as a reason to agree with a verdict. This is a thread where we are given leeway to debate, otherwise I'd just ignore this kind of stuff. Plus I think we can all learn something good for ourselves, both reading the posts and participating and sharing. So I write all this with respect for you as a person, TDA, separate from me disagreeing with your position.
