The months of speculation about how Casey has had to endure the psychotic control of Cindy, represented for all to see repeatedly by Cindy herself in those same months to assure that at least most people can see that is true, is step one in Casey's defense.
All her life, Casey has been in a battle royale with Cindy. Permissiveness mixed with condoning of bad behavior, outright covering up of bad behavior, lying to everyone about the causes of the behavior, blaming others for what has happened to Casey....patterns we still see today in Cindy. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Cindy offers up the stalwart defense of her daughter as innocent of charges. She ignores the visible proof of her daughter's criminality (the videos showing Casey purchasing items with Amy's stolen checks) as immaterial. All that is important is finding Caylee. No one can offer proof of that now, can they?
The inside has been exposed to the outside. Cindy's job forever has been to protect the inside view from others. Casey has always done everything to thwart that, hasn't she? She hasn't just suddenly begun to act out. She's been doing this for quite awhile. Her friends from school drifted away from her to casual acquaintances, most admitting that Casey has always lied about things. "Normal" people don't keep compulsive liars around. Casey keeps people around her and maximizes what she can get out of them before they withdraw, based on their exposure to her negative behaviors. "Everybody lies, everybody dies"....meaning we're all just like her, so she can justify her behavior. She just believes she's better at it than most.
So her mother calls the police on her, perhaps in an attempt to regain control over Casey. It backfires on Cindy, though. Now she has to actually have the outside in where she didn't really want them. If Casey had just answered her question, told the truth, I do not believe Cindy would have ever EVER said a word. I think she would have covered up with a story about Caylee being adopted and held that over Casey's head for life. I think Casey knew that, too. Faced with that choice, she admits she hasn't seen her daughter, BS'ing after that as to why. She would rather take her chances with the police than Cindy having any more control on her life. As wonky as it is, it proves to be her way out of this diabolical grip.
What happened to Caylee is all speculation. How she died, where she died, how long she was in the car, where she is now.....the only thing we can know to a matter of certainty is that Caylee's dead body was in the back of Casey's car when Casey was the only one in control of that car. She can't escape that aspect of the truth, so now we have to work on how we're going to spin that. Sure, she tried the ZFG angle. That was quickly disproved. So now what? Now there is evidence that she was out partying and stealing from her friends, buying items that would never back up the story that she was really trying to compensate for having had her child stolen from her, or even that her daughter was dead.
Enter the defense: Casey, after years of mental and perhaps physical abuse, decided to spare her daughter a life of hell such as she has lived with a woman like Cindy controlling every aspect of her life. Sure it's all princess and ponies at first, but Casey quickly learned it all came with a horrible price of sacrificing self. Her destructive behaviors of stealing from her family and friends was her way of coping with the conflicting and horrible emotional roller coaster her mother kept her constantly on. Her fear of being a failure in her mother's eyes created such a pathology in Casey she even took it so far as to pretend to have a job for 2 years.
It all came to a boil between the 9th and the 15th of June. It became apparent to Casey that she had no way out from under Cindy. But Caylee could have. And that is what she gave her. In causing her death, she was sparing Caylee a life of the same abuse she suffered. What happened afterward was just the symptom of having had to take such drastic measures to get away from her mother.
I am merely attempting to find ANY friggin' way that the defense could spin all this crap in ANY way that we would "understand" finally. Even in my head, fully developed, this story is incredulous. But as we have seen, that seems to be the primary feature of anything in this case. Jose, if you're reading this, please I would appreciate my retainer fee. I'd love to donate it to TES to help recover Caylee's remains.
, being seen in a gas station near where Caylee's body will hopefully be found could be, with the evidence they found in her trunk. Plus, she NEEDED cool, new clothes for the cool, new life she was about to begin, and groceries to continue her perfect girlfriend act. With no job, the money needed to come from somewhere. AND......if her plan had worked, the Target/Winn Dixie thing would be a moot point. That is my explaination and I'm stickin' to it! :crazy:
