BBM - this is what I'm thinking, too. If we think back to Casey's first phone call home from jail, the one where Cindy says "you're not telling me where she's at" and Casey replies with "because I don't (bleep) know where's she's at, are you kidding me?" ... right from the very start we could see that Casey was lying and the parents were in denial and walking on egg shells around her. At that time, they thought nobody was looking, or listening as it were, even thinking back to the 911 call where Cindy says 'We'll go to child thing if that's how you want to play it', when she didn't realize it was being recorded... if just ONCE during those times Cindy and George would have had the integrity to stand up for that baby and face Casey with her bullcrap, things might very well have turned out differently. If, for example, on one of the early jail tapes, before they realized the tapes were being released and analyzed, Cindy had said 'look we know what you did, just tell us where you dumped the body so we can hide it for you' or you know, something like that, at the very least we'd have had Casey's reaction to that to discuss. The 911 calls and jail tapes were shown in court. If there had been one ounce of honesty from these people during their most intimate of moments, who knows how different things may have turned out.
In any case, I really have to wonder what motivated George to show up to congratulation Ashton. I can't see him getting up and getting dressed and going hey, I think I'll go down and shake his hand. No.. I don't think it happened that fast. I think he must have been motivated to know where he was going, and how quickly he could get in and out of there, and even what to wear. He looked well dressed, slightly more weighty than he was at trial, his face looked pretty good. He looked good. For whom was his message intended - Ashton, or us. ?