So what you think might work is that some guy came into "Casa Anthony" in the middle of the night and took Caylee to the Sawgrass, J Blanchard and the beach, but...Casey didn't notice she was gone for almost a month when Caylee called to talk to her about books and shoes? And George said he saw Caylee the last time in the morning with KC when she left 'for work' because he was in cahoots somehow? Or, are you imagining this happened at Ricardo's, JG's or AL's or...where? But KC still didn't notice for a month.
Oh, and the 4-year old's parents called 9-1-1 in seconds.
No, in this scenario, Casey doesn't think Caylee is with a stranger. What I am suggesting is that Cindy and Casey may have had a huge fight where Cindy said something to the effect of "one more thing and you are out of here." Casey, not having money/job/etc., being totally dependent on her parents was scared. As bizarre a story as this would seem, what if that night, a SO crept into the house, took Caylee, duct taped her mouth, took her shorts (as in the article I posted about), took some various items/trophies and took Caylee. Casey wakes up and Caylee is gone. She doesn't want her mom to know Caylee in inexplicably gone because she knows Cindy would go off the deep end. She thinks somehow she can handle it - that one of her friends took her to get back at her for something, not realizing the truth. Maybe Casey thinks Caylee has been taken because she stolen money from someone and they have been harrassing her to give the money back. So Casey decides she has to get out of the house so her mom won't know what's up. She makes up another story about a work trip.
Remember Casey had a lot to lose by calling 911 about this situation. She would be afraid of 2 things in this situation:
1. Losing her meal ticket and home (her parents)
2. Having police investigate and find out all the lies she has been telling everyone for years.
3. Having her parents find out she had no job and she was out partying at night and sleeping over with boyfriends
4. Having her parents realize that Caylee was with her sometimes when she slept over with boyfriends/partied, etc.
5. Being forced to get a real job
6. Her mom going for custody
7. Her mom possibly taking back the car that belongs to Cindy anyway.
8. Embarrassment in front of her friends and new boyfriend when all this comes to light
9. After not finding Caylee for a week, the conundrum of having to explain to police why she didn't call in the first place.
10. If Caylee had been with one of Casey's friends, a destroyed friendship that Casey may have valued for some reason, or perhaps Casey being reported to police and arrested for some crime she had committed.
So she "hides" out by staying with various friends and maybe calls around and tries to figure out which friend might have Caylee. But doesn't get anywhere.
By the time Cindy comes to get her at TL's, Casey is in even deeper with the lies. So she tells Cindy that nanny kidnapped Caylee thinking her mom will believe that - afterall her mom believes there IS a nanny. That's when Cindy makes the 911 call and Casey is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. She really doesn't know where Caylee is. She thinks it might be one of her friends, but can't get any info from them because they don't have Caylee. She's lied to police, her parents, everyone. So then she's stuck and gets arrested. At this point she gets an attorney who finally gets to the bottom of what is going on. He tells her not to talk to police anymore.
I know this is a very convoluted story.
Honestly, I think Casey is most likely guilty, but if I had to come up with a SOD theory today, that is probably what I would think had happened - but remember, I'm coming up with this without knowing anything Casey has told to Baez or much of anything about the defense case except that it's clear they are saying someone else did this, so that puts me at a huge disadvantage in identifying a SOD. This is my best guess with the tiny amount of information we currently have.