Reading back through this thread I see that a number of sleuthers have pointed out what I am about to point out, so please don't get the idea I am trying to take credit for the insights of yolorado, SeriouslySearching, or others. :slap:
Anyhow, I thought it would be instructive to see how the "Caylee last seen" dates evolved in those first few days after the police were called in. I, for one, buy into Bond's idea that Cindy mis-identified the last time she saw Caylee due to nothing more than extreme shock. :shocked2:
The first dates thrown out were in Cindy's last 911 call:
OP: how long has she been missing for?
CA: I have not seen her since the 7th of June.
Cindy may have been thinking 17th of June and just said 7th...who knows? But the fact is clear
she had just heard Caylee was kidnapped and unimaginable fear and anxiety must have gripped her at that point.
Mother of the Year finalist KC
rincess:then is put on the phone and gives her first version of the timeline:
OP: can you tell me a little bit what's going on?
KC: my daughter's been missing for the last 31 days.
Given the call was made July 15 (very late), this would put Caylee missing on June 14, unless KC does inclusive counting, which would place it on the 15th. But was KC really trying to be precise or was she using precise phrases in an attempt to appear to be helpful? :waitasec:
IMHO, KC used
Homer Simpson logic to rationalize the use of "31 days". Something like this:
- It's been about a month since I have seen Caylee.
- July is a month.
- July has 31 days.
- It has been 31 days since I have seen Caylee.
- "Oooooh...a piece of gum!"
IOW, I don't think KC sat there and counted back in her head to figure out how many days had transpired. She guesstimated.
Later that night, at about 10:15 PM, Cindy writes and signs a statement saying the last time she saw Caylee was Sunday, June 8. Understandable. The Father's Day visit was on a weekend and memorable, but in her agitated state and not looking at a calendar, she simply got it wrong by a week. :bang:
KC writes
her statement nearly three hours later. Knowing Cindy said she last saw Caylee on Sunday, June 8, she knows the only way a dropping-Caylee-off-at-nanny scenario will work is if it plays out the next day, Monday June 9. The fact that KC goes along with this scenario convinces me that she did not earlier count the number of days since Caylee went missing
and instead did take the Homer Simpson approach of just using a common day-count for a month.
Tony's roommate Roy signs a statement 24 hours later saying KC and Caylee were at his and Tony's place on the 13th. Roy is remembering things a little better than the
mother of the year.
A little earlier than that Kristina C. recalls going for a walk with KC and Caylee on the 12th or 13th. I believe we have since determined she got those dates wrong.
Even earlier than that, however, Ricardo is telling LE KC and Caylee spent the night of June 9th with him and they left together on the morning of the 10th.
Eventually Cindy is presented with statments from the good folk at Mt. Dora along with the time stamps from her camera, and realizes she was off by a week. That's fine. She was whacked by the unexpected hurricane KC and was off by a week in her altered state.
KC, on the other hand, went along with the flow. She did not really know.
And she did not care.
