Casey's resentment of Cindy and the permanent removal of Caylee from Cindy's life reminds me of stories we hear in the news about a mother or father killing the child during a divorce or custody battle. I think Casey wanted to be rid of the "burden" of being a mom but also saw it as an opportunity to hurt her own mom. The last thing she wanted was for Cindy to have Caylee; instead she used the child as a weapon against her.
I never had children but I have to disagree with what Jeff Ashton said in his book about Cindy choosing Casey over Caylee. I think the reason Cindy tried to backpeddle on the car smell and why she claimed she made the chloroform searches was not because she was choosing Casey over Caylee but because she believed Casey would be convicted and would get the death penalty. She may have assumed the harshest punishment available would be chosen by the jury for a baby killer and so she was trying to save her daughter's life. If I were Casey's mom, I would always hate what she did. I might even hate Casey herself. But I probably couldn't live with myself if I didn't try to keep her from lethal injection. I think that's just a mom's heart. She can't condone the things Casey did but she still doesn't want her dead. Even though I'm not a mom myself, that kind of love is something I can understand. I don't think she meant to belittle Casey's death in any way, she just didn't want her own daughter to die as well.
Great post. I do think that was part of it. Maybe it was a large part of it. But the other problem is that Cindy is just a liar.
She lied during Caylee's memorial about "Casey coming to her and telling her that she was pregnant and both of them crying tears of joy." That never happened. Casey did not tell her she was pregnant until she was almost ready to give birth. Casey got away with lying to Cindy until they attended Rick Pleasea's wedding and Rick Pleasea confronted her on her claims that Casey was just having "woman problems" and told her that if Casey had a tumor it was a baby sized one and she didn't have much time left.
I also don't find it excusable that she was pointing the finger at Amy Huizenga and Jesse Grund and trying to implicate them to the police based on the "code-speak" she was getting from Casey. When Amy Huizenga took her to Tony's apartment to go see Casey, Cindy was very candid with her. Cindy spoke about the smell in the car, spoke about all of Casey's lies, told Amy when Amy brought up the four hundred dollars that the money was gone and gave Amy a heads up about checking her bank account as well. She also apologized for Casey's behavior and any problems Casey may have caused her.
Then she got up on the stand and told more falsehoods, what really ticks me off is her description of the night of June 15. She said her and Casey cuddled with Caylee and cried over her sick father, which I sincerely doubt, since Shirley had been ready to press charges against Casey for stealing from them again earlier that day.
But what really makes me dislike Cindy are three things.
One, she used Caylee's memorial as a chance to hurt Richard and Jesse Grund, by sending them a notarized warning saying that if they tried to attend, they would be escorted off the premises by the police.
Two, she left that boorish message on Tim Miller's answering machine (after he suggested they started also searching wooded areas, etc., just in case) rubbing in the fact that his child was dead, but claiming that Caylee wasn't. She then accused him of stealing money from them and told him that he didn't want to go against the Anthonys because "the Anthonys always win."
Three, she tried to control the police investigation. She cried and gnashed her teeth during one of her police interviews, because the police went to the nursing home to check the date that Caylee disappeared and the police spoke to Cindy's mother after she told them not to bother her.
Then she purposely gave the police the wrong brush and bragged about it in an email.
She's a horrible person and a liar, an enabler and a terrible mother and grandmother, IMO. I can only hope she has enough of a conscience to suffer for it.
I have my doubts. I think she's too deluded to ever realize what she's done or feel any real guilt over it or realize that she is a huge loser despite the fact that the "Anthonys (minus poor Caylee, not to mention George who will have child molestation accusations floating around him for the rest of his life) won." I think she played a significant part in turning Casey into what she is today by refusing to discipline her and believing everything Casey says even though she knows her daughter is a pathological liar and a sociopath.
She seems to have the same issues taking responsibility for things as Casey does. In her last interview, despite the fact that she lied repeatedly on the stand and had a huge effect on it, she seemed to think that Casey's "not guilty" verdict was a message from God that Casey was, in fact, not guilty.
Personally, I'd rather believe that God is using Casey as a vehicle to punish them for their wrongdoings for the next couple of years and then when they've been punished enough, karma will get Casey. It just sounds so much better than Cindy's version.
