I have to respond to this post.
I agree that they knew Caylee was dead after CA found CFCA that night after the tow yard ordeal at least at their core. CA for sure had been in contact with CFCA through out the month that she wasn't staying at the Hopespring house. So if not CFCA dead. WHO? Who was misssing? CAYLEE. I don't think they wanted to believe it but I believe it was slamming them in the face at every turn.
I also believe that they never thought she would be free to wreck more havoc. They certainly got what they wished for didn't they?
I also believe they were happy when she was in jail too.
What I can't exactly figure out is when they knew they could make money off of Caylee's dead body. Maybe the first time they were flown somewhere and treated like royality. I just don't know. But they will forever be looking over their shoulders the rest of their wretched lives as well because if CFCA can figure it out IMO she will try to bump them off as I think that was her first plan anyway.
I can't imagine being in the position of a missing child/granddchild, so I can't exactly say what I would do/not do, but I do have some sense of it because of the kind of person that I am.
My impression of them seeing this as a $$ maker from reading depos, watching them at the time and the videos, etc., and I don't know exactly when this thought would have occurred to them, but I think they wanted to be like John Walsh and Mark Klass, "Celebrity Grandparents of a Missing Child", from the billboard on the top of the car, the "boat" they got in coordination with KidFinders, their relationship with those folks, etc., I think that was the "dream". I think that is why they started their first "Foundation", to catapult them on their merry way toward missing-child-stardom. to maybe hosting at TV show some day, to be jet-setting around the country for every high-profile missing child while using the donations to their charities, to stay in nice hotels, maybe fly first class, be on the news, to lend them their ear and support, remember when they went to see Jessica Lundford's Father, Mark I think, THAT is what I think they wanted to do. THAT is
PART of why a LIVE Caylee could not be found. Their plans went awry when Caylee's little bones were found.
Now, again, were they taken advantage of at a very vulnerable time by the KidFinder people (Milstadts? sp?), were they making bad choices at the time due to their state of mind? I believe that can happen easily to people, who knows where your mind goes at a horrible time like that.
BUT, from what I am have seen and kept seeing until this recent dissolution of their third or fourth "charity", and who knows what we will discover in the months to come if whatever happened to that charity $$ is exposed, I don't think they were being taken advantage of, I think they ENJOYED it immensely, and were very disappointed when they could not continue on that quest of being the next Mark Klass.
and please, I am NOT making light of what Mark Klass or the A's went through, can't imagine, just trying to get my point across here.
IMO, MOO, etc.
eta: I added "part of" above as to why a live Caylee should not be found, the other part was because they were afraid of what evidence might be left to tie back to FCA. IMO, MOO, etc. But of they could keep the lie going that Caylee was "missing", they could continue to be Grandparents of a "missing" child...... and all that went along with that. IMO, MOO, etc.