I say Caylee got up when GA and Casey were asleep and CA was gone to work, and went swimming as she so loved to do... a fatal mistake made by hundreds of toddlers every year. GA got up first and looked and and saw her missing. He then found her on the bottom of the pool... she may have been there all night. That sure won't look good for the Anthony's if you called 911 and said we found her in the pool, and we're not sure when she got in there, and she's obviously dead. That is when Casey finds out. Lee and George orchestrated the cover-up and tell Casey to just disappear from the family and 'we'll deal with mom when we have to, just don't say anything!!'
Casey's car got towed on the 30th of June, the Anthony's should have received the first notice by the 7th or so of July... but it went 'missing' too. All the same, George doesn't pick up the car until the 15th?? So they haven't seen their daughter or granddaughter since the 16th of June, but what the heck... we'll wait another week to get the car (which I don't know what that cost, so if you do please tell me). First thing GA does when he goes to pick up the car, aside from buying gas in advance, he tells the tow guy "My granddaughter has been missing a month!" Wow... first time tahat was pubklicly announced! and then says something about how he hopes that smell from the car isn't them, and asked the tow guy to open the trunk?? Really?? Why??
What's his next step?? Drives the "reeking" car home, and goes to work! You can't ignore these things in my opinion. They tell me that Casey is guilty of many crimes... and so are several others that all deserve their punishment too!! Actual Justice For Caylee!!! Not Vengeance... that is reserved for a much higher power.
This honestly doesn't make much sense to me. Let's say that, yes, Caylee did somehow get into the pool and drown and George got up and found her. As you said, this tragedy happens all the time to toddlers. It's terrible, but it happens - so why wouldn't he just call the authorities? Casey is just crazy enough to think she can lie her way out of any situation, but George knows that this isn't a situation you can just avoid. Eventually, it has to be faced and it makes far more sense to face it now than later.
Their evidence was that the tow company notice was delivered to the front door so they missed it. (A similar thing happened to a friend of mine where a notice about a package was put on the front door she never uses - she didn't notice it for over a month.) I think that George brought gas with him because he knew the car had been towed - and what would be a likely reason for Casey's car to be towed? Running out of gas. If you don't need it, no big deal, but it makes sense to bring it just in case. I think that on the way over, he was starting to think things over and get worried. Casey had been talking to Cindy, telling her all was well and never mentioning that she didn't have the car. Now, here they have this notice saying that the car had been towed much earlier. Why hadn't Casey mentioned not having the car to Cindy? What could be going on? I think he started to get anxious, all this was running through his mind, and that's why he blurted out the fact that he hadn't seen Caylee in a month.
I thought George's testimony made his thought process when he got to the car pretty clear. He smelled the decomp, had the terrible thought that it might be his daughter and/or granddaughter, and yet denied to himself that it could be possible. Who can believe something like that? I think when he saw the bag of garbage he convinced himself that "oh, the smell was just garbage."
If he'd actually had something to do with Caylee's death, why would he draw the attention of the tow-yard guy to the smell? Makes no sense. He could have just zipped the car out of there and nobody the wiser.
I think that George knew Casey had problems and was a liar, but who would expect that your child would kill your grandchild? You'd want to believe any possible scenario except that one. Sadly, today he knows it's true and it must be breaking his heart. Cindy's too.
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