Probably only because Im a psych major and I know something probably went wrong in her life so badly and never straightened itself out, all to be enabled by her mother and possibly ignored by her father.
I have seen family units like this in my internship where there is always some element that is way out of control. The problem does not get fixed or the parents either dont care enough to fix the problem or they want to hide it and never admit their at fault. Their denial only propogates the issue and causes a systemic reaction in their family. (haha spoken like a true shrink which I am not lol).
This is basically why I think casey got away with her maladaptive behavior for all those years, because she could. Cindy basically took over where casey could not. (classical enabling). She never intended on being a mother and all the stress of raising a child, not being able to do whatever she wants, having to drag the child along etc etc probably got to her plus something that Padilla said really struck me, the fact that the blowup had occured and that ca strangled casey that night could have been the catalytic icing on the cake! Maybe there really is something we dont know within that family that is really going on, that could have been what Baez meant when he said something like 'in the end we will all understand'.
Although I definately do not condone casey's behavior in anyway, I can somewhat kind of understand it. I am willing to bet a million dollars that her going out and partying that she did during the time her child was missing was not because she didnt care or because she was a cruel heartless cold person, I beleive it was her own defense mechanism, that that is what she did to maintain her sanity the best way she knew how. I am not saying it was right in any means, I am saying that she did those things to try not to think about caylee and what awful thing had happened. She pushed it way down inside to be able to function and go about her denial.
Another thing is her behavior during the interviews, it struck me as her being cold hearted but when I thought about it, she was protecting her own life and tried to maintain her composure so that she would not end up in jail.
Im not sure she murdered her daughter on purpose, although it does seem highly suspicious with the amount of chloroform found and the fact that her mother and her had that huge blowup. The only other explanation is that she chloroformed caylee so that she could party while caylee was 'knocked out' and caylee died from an overdose, either way you look at it its murder. However I cant understand how she kept up that composure for so long and didnt even mutter a word to one person about it, that is pretty amazing to me, and makes me think she definately has some psychiatric issues going on.
Sorry I wrote a book, I get carried away with my thoughts, I have adhd so I am excused and confused lol...
