Lol! Well, NTS, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, as is everyone here. That is the great thing about WS. We can share our opinions and compare them, debate them, discuss them. As to the quoted opinion above, you start it with "Why would KC be emotional?" Because she is reporting her "missing" toddler, that's why. My DD was in a bad car accident almost 2 years ago. Her and 6 friends in a roll-over accident due to the driver falling asleep. 3 of the friends were killed, 2 more had horrific, life altering physical damage as well as brain damage, 1 had numerous broken bones and cuts, and my DD had a few scrapes and bumps. You see, my DD was the ONLY one in the vehicle wearing her seatbelt. We do not know why the others weren't wearing theirs, but it made all of the difference in the world. I tell you that to tell you this. To this day, I cannot tell that story to anyone without choking up and tearing up, most often starting to cry while I recount the story to anyone.
Chefmom, I will keep my safety belt on always. Your story is very important to remind us.
Your reaction and the feelings that retelling it bring immediately to the surface is normal healthy emotion. The kind of emotion that brings tears to the mourners eyes when they listen to a funeral and something sparks a memory for them. Casey, imo, does not emote the way we do. The phone call to describe she had not seen her daughter in 31 days will have the effect on the good hard working taxpayers of the jury it does on you and me. Casey did not even want to talk to 911 operator. WOW.
Cindy " Casey, her it is the Sheriff's department, they want to talk to you.
A very calm Casey, " I don't have anything to talk them..."
The absence of a visceral, gut wrenching fear and pain represents a lack of concern, a lack of caring, utterly. We do know that Casey Anthony certainly does have a strong emotional reaction to something that effects
her. We hear it in her voice when she yells at her parents. So the only inference to be drawn is not that she does not have emotions, but they are situational and
only about herself. She is a classic sociopath . The jury need not be psychology majors. They need not know the clinical term for the behavior, but that she didn't give a care about the safety and welfare of her daughter, imo will be like the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once memorably said of obscenity, "I know it when I see it."
Do you remember on her first phone call home , she said "All they care about is getting Caylee back!" ?
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Sociopath, psychotic and self absorbed no concern is in her voice. You have got that right! When Cindy Anthony takes the stand, how her mother may be tortured having to testify about her grand-daughter will not even cross Casey's mind. It will be me, me, me...how can she do this to ME. She will sit there, flat affect, aloof and preening her hair, as usual. If she cries it will be for herself, the one person she emotes for.
Watch this, her mother is leveled to the floor, balling, explaining how hard this is on the family, Lee is literally sick, dad blew up at the media...mom is clearly a wreck. What does Casey respond? Me, me, me, me. Enough about me. How do you feel about me. Cindy tells her she is getting hate mail. Not one follow up question from Casey about poor grandmother. No , she goes directly into what mail she is receiving. Her mom tells her she is not doing well at all, Casey does not even feign concern for her mother, or anyone for that matter. She goes directly without blinking an eye into how she feels, and my personal favorite...that
she should be seen as a victim. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xJi0Lu_fc[/ame]
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The fact that she is calm and detached, is very compelling. I agree with you one hundred percent. The detectives noted that in their reports too. She remained stoic , throughout all the hours they were with her, not frantic, not one tear, not one glimpse of concern for this child. Someone is having a little fun with us saying why would she sound upset, when afteral, the baby being missing was old news. Two judges certainly asked her that question and they were plenty upset over it, "Where is Caylee Anthony?!!!!" the judge said he would leave her with that. "The truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers", the second judge opined.