A lot of us had assumed that the reason June 9 was the date the Anthonys originally picked to last see Caylee in their LE reports - and also thought perhaps it indicated a fight prior to one on June 15 - was because that was the week RM said she and Caylee had spent the night several times, so it made sense to think that her leaving home had begun around that date.
I was very surprised when Riccardo testified that she and Caylee regularly spent the night during the time he was officially "dating" her (wow what a euphemism!) which was between February and April 2008 - something like a month and a half.
We all know that the whole family has minimized the situation with ICA catting around because it would certainly look like she wanted to live an unencumbered lifestyle and that would read like a prime motive. Or perhaps it had to do with a lot of domestic drama none of them wanted to admit ("don't worry, I didn't tell them anything"). Cindy and George have both lied about Caylee spending every night of her short little life in their home (conveniently forgetting the months she spent at JG's house). And since RM has no reason to lie about the amount of time ICA actually slept over with Caylee, I would tend to believe him over CA and GA.
This leads me to believe that, for some reason, ICA was forced to take Caylee with her on her little excursions and that perhaps GA and CA had begun to resist babysitting Caylee in the evenings even if ICA insisted she was "working". Perhaps this is when the Zanny story actually started; I don't buy for a minute that they knew about her as long as they've claimed - Cindy didn't get any real details until the Tampa trip, imo. If GA and CA were willing to babysit Caylee while they thought ICA was "working" as an event planner, then ICA would never have complicated her evenings with RM by having her toddler in tow. She had to make up a "nanny" who was available on a full-time basis. Either that, or she had simply left after some kind of huge fight, not told GA and CA where she was and threatened to withhold contact with Caylee unless they complied with her wishes. The fact that CA was trying to elicit from ICA in those early jailhouse visits where ICA may have sent Caylee makes me think it had been a legitimate threat from ICA earlier, or had actually happened previously. Finding out she spent almost a month and a half staying with RM makes me think it may have.
What if GA and CA knew perfectly well ICA wasn't working in early 2008 and called her on it, or threatened to take her little meal ticket away, and she just left home and told them they'd never see Caylee again? I also remember GA in the jailhouse visit saying that when she came home they would not be so adamant about her working. I'm thinking he may have really blown up at her during this time (perhaps even gotten physically violent?) and she left to punish them both. After all, she was stealing thousands of dollars from CA's bank account from late 2007 through mid-2008). Her previous allegations toward GA regarding abuse seemed strictly physical (according to JG and AL) and he has a reputation for that with the story of throwing his dad through a plate glass window. (I realize that physical violence is absolutely horrific and inexcusable but I after seeing how horridly and viciously ICA can act out, I am wondering if she wouldn't drive almost anyone to choking her). It would also explain the "self-defense" google searches on her computer in March (combined with chloroform, either as a better way to keep Caylee knocked out at RM's or as a way to get GA out of the house permanently). CA also told her co-workers at Gentiva that Casey and her dad were fighting a lot during the previous months (and she was certainly giving as good as she got it sounded like).
The fact that RM indicated ICA was having trouble putting Caylee to bed also makes me wonder if this is when ICA started experimenting with medication or other ways to get Caylee to sleep. RM looked pretty embarrassed when asked about the sleeping arrangements and sheepishly saying he didn't think they had sex or anything. I'm pretty sure they must have, but it would have been easy for ICA to simply tell him not to worry about it because Caylee was now asleep and wouldn't likely be awakened by any sexual shenanigans. I have trouble seeing RM as pervy enough to have sex in bed with a girlfriend otherwise - simply because JP seems to be a somewhat decent guy. But maybe not decent enough to object to ICA using some OTC medication to knock her daughter out at night.
ICA has told a variety of lies about her home life when she wanted people to take her in. I always saw the stuff about GA and LA that she told JG and AL as pretty opportunistic, seeing as how they helped justify her situation as needing a place to stay. I'm wondering what kind of story she told RM to get him to feel sorry enough for her to allow her to stay there most of the time with her baby during those months. I would think if it had been a molestation story he would have mentioned it. I can't imagine RM allowing ICA to bring her daughter and sleep in his bed unless she had told him it just wasn't safe for her to be at home with her parents. What young guy would put up with that otherwise? It's not very conducive to "romance". And her parents seemed willing to babysit if they thought she was actually working.
At any rate, I'm interested to see if or how you think his testimony changes or adds to the perspective of the situation at Hopespring that eventually led to what happened to Caylee in June. Obviously RM allowed her to return with Caylee to his place the first week of that month, right before it all hit the fan. She was texting other people that "drama" was happening at home.
This could also somewhat explain her self-righteous little meltdown the other day when CA finally sided with GA. She may have known their fights got physical and thinks CA would have sided with her. But CA may have drawn the line on ICA throwing in sexual abuse charges, not just at GA but at her own brother, not to mention blaming her for leaving the pool ladder up. We never get good information from any Anthony (lots of "half-truths"). But a lot of tidbits other people have testified to seem really telling.
