Sorry, Logicalgirl...if she didn't know at the moment Casey couldn't produce Caylee, she surely knew when "ZFG" was disproved. How long did that take? A day...two? But, IMPO, Cindy and George couldn't ignore the smell of decomposition. Oh, you may not accept it...but you sure have acknowledged it in conscious thought. Very early on Cindy was caught on camera saying if Casey did anything, she should be held responsible. I think her tune changed when the lies started mounting. Who lies about a kidnapping? I had the slightest doubt back then that Casey did, in fact, hide Caylee away to punish her parents...but when she sat in jail and said nothing...then I knew something horrible had happened. I'm sure living in that household with the likes of Casey was hell. I don't see folks burning Cindy at the stake...I see folks angry for good reason. She became a nightmare in her own right. IMPO. Her behavior pre-trial, during the trial, and post trial was reprehensible.
JMO
I've always thought from day one that FCA was guilty - and yes, I think GA and CA knew about the trunk from when they picked up the car. But I don't think they immediately assumed it was Caylee who was dead. I think they thought she had Caylee stashed somewhere (Is this like the last time) and that she was mixed up with some kind of crowd who had done something awful. Living with Cindy was hell? Living with FCA was hell surely? FCA was and is the monster here.
Your last statement is so true to me and I support it 100%. But as a long time poster you will remember that I'm not saying anything different than I've said all along regarding CA and how or when she knew. And some of my dear most respected friends here disagree with me to the point of verbal blows at times. Long and hard have we discussed this topic. And we agree to disagree, right?
I respect that folks don't see what I see - which is that if the Anthony's knew from the beginning that Caylee was dead and dead because FCA killed her - and if as many posters say, this was a grandmother who didn't love her grand daughter and didn't grieve, then if all that was true, then the LE would never have been brought into it. The first six months wouldn't have happened and FCA would have quietly left town for a couple of years and come back with some story about Caylee dying from some unknown health problem.
To me, CA is a woman whose emotional health was already at risk as she fought to control her family and have it appear normal, and keep FCA's behaviour "under wraps". And June 2008 brought the worst nightmare possible for her - torn between two loyalties - her love for her daughter and her love for her grand daughter and the horrendous information that FCA killed Caylee.
We're full of coulda, shoulda, woulda - she should have done this, or known that - and IMO idealistically or philosophically she probably should have done everything different. Well look at CA and ask - does she really seem someone who is emtionally mature enough to take the higher road? Not to me she doesn't.
And although I've been called a Cindy supporter over and over again here, I most
emphatically am not. But watching and reading the information from the first 6 months over and over again over three years from an objective point of view - I don't agree with the majority here. And I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion. Using some objectivity and what my head is telling me - it just is what it is, to me. And isn't that what WS is about - to discuss, disagree, hear new information and adjust/share our thoughts?
