IIRC, the big search that was called off early was somewhere around Nov. 8. Initially TM had indicated in interviews he was willing to go as long as it took, and searchers came from all over the US to participate. Of course, he abruptly left after a couple of days and LP got to put on his big Jay Blanchard Park show with the divers. When he held the "memorial" at the park, the A's came and made a big stink about the general past-tense connotation of the word (not to mention their proprietary attitude about their trademarked little grandaughter's name being used in vain by people they had already happily exploited for their benefit).
However, I remember Mark N meeting at his club with Tim and the Anthonys (or at least CA if memory serves me right) before that search in November, acting as some kind of arbitrator it appeared. I always thought that perhaps CA was objecting to the wording of the search and insisted on the technicality of it being for a "live" Caylee if that was how it was eventually framed in the media to absolve them of corroborating any idea she was dead.
Which everyone immediately thought was totally absurd. Organizations do not conduct grid searches when looking for a person that has been missing for five months. Did Cindy think they'd find little Caylee in a field somewhere playing with cartoon field mice and raccoons like some Disney movie? No one would have considered that a realistic scenario for a missing adult, much less a tiny, dependent child. She is delusional we all know, but I always thought she was insisting on the technicality as a CYA move. She was very aware from Day 31 she could not voice her belief that Caylee was dead. Even after the memorial and the whole cremains jewelry, she thought that if she came out in public and said she believed Caylee was alive that it would somehow negate any earlier statements she may have slipped up and made so the state couldn't use that at trial or something.
CA is a lot like her daughter in that she not only asks people to suspend disbelief to the nth degree, but that she assumes that all subsequent versions of her spin efforts immediately replace earlier versions with no questions asked. Whether she or her daughter believe their own lies is immaterial; their adamance in insisting others swallow their swill is beyond disrespectful.
I was always reminded of how Pres. Clinton asked the media to "define sex" as if enough parsing words could make him innocent. Looking for loopholes is generally a red flag for someone trying to get off on a technicality as we well know. This whole case is based on stuff like that. Lewis Carroll would have had a field day if he had been an investigative reporter in Orlando.
