Their are aspects of the aforementioned cases that do remind me of KC's case. Obviously there are a few caveats:
1) KC's case is similar in a lot of respects to Susan Smith's case. Both women claimed their child/ren were abducted by a person of a different race. KC claimed that a hispanic nanny named Zanny whom she knew fairly well had done the deed. Susan claimed a black male carjacked her and left with her kids in the car. But apart from the false abduction story line this is where the two cases separate ways. Susan immediately reported her children "missing." KC didn't report Caylee "missing" by her own admission for 31 one days. Susan when confronted with repeated interrogation and story inconsistencies eventually fessed up to the crime and led authorities to her babies' watery grave. KC has doggedly stuck to the same "the nanny took her" story regardless of whether certain details have changed (the park vs. the Sawgrass or Zanny alone vs Zanny and her sister Sam). KC has claimed to have been abused sexually by two male relatives (an outcry I totally do not believe in the slightest) and Susan Smith did also claim to have been sexually abused by a male relative (an outcry that did receive substantial consideration at trial during the mitigation phase). Both women however, did seem to look at their children as a burden and a detriment to their social life particularly with men.
I mentioned Susan Smith because it is the most similar to the KC case as some of the others. There is a great book by a sketch artist (who did the unibomber sketch) who attempted several times to meet with Susan Smith during the critical time when the children were thought merely missing/carjacked by a stranger and was turned away multiple times. Many people connected to the case, including AMW, thought it odd that Susan refused to meet with the very people who could help find her children.
What KC totally reminds me of (and as always she is entitled to the presumption of innoncence under our laws. I don't have to believe she is innocent but she is entitled) is the men of late, whose wives just go missing. Like that Peterson guy (not Scott--though Scott reminds me a lot of KC too) or that Joshua Powell guy (who is also not charged with anything but whom I believe knows damn well what happened to his missing wife).
The Joshua Powell story has elements of the bizarre and not making much of the sense...much like KC's proven lies. Josh claims he took his children camping in the dead of night (a Sunday night no less when he is supposed to work on Monday in a few short hours) in freezing tempatures and low and behold comes home to find his wife "missing." The same wife who appparently was actively involved in marriage counseling and was coincidentally looking to leave the marriage before she "vanishes"
I don't know what that means...but KC's crime (I believe she murdered Caylee and disposed of her remains and concocted this whole ridiculous story all on her own) reminds me more of the men who kill their wives...dispose of the body (more cleverly than she did) and who escape being charged with a crime until said remains are found. KC just wasn't as clever in the disposal or in her behavior. Also, most of the men in this situation typically report their wives missing immediately so as to deflect suspicion off of themselves. This is where KC's immaturity and sense of entitlement created the opposite set of circumstances. She didn't report it because she didn't care. She lives in the moment and if ever held to task she would just shirk the responsibility like she always has (stealing, lying, graduation from highschool, getting pregnant, working, etc...). I truly believe she thought that eventually Cindy, George, Lee ect...were just going to wake up one morning and go, "Caylee who?" and KC would be free to go about her "business" whatever that truly is.
Sorry for all of the long commentary.
Hey fellow WS's!!!! Finally back after about a month. Long story.