If they truly felt Caylee was alive then why so many lies? The ever-changing smell of decomp to rotting pizza (ops no pizza) to garbage?
Why clean Caylee's doll and empty a can of fabreeze in the car?
Why air out a car in the garage with human decomp permeating inside the house? GA/CA parked their cars in the garage, not FCA.
Why the 'major problem' text from CA to FCA?
Why throw TM out of the house when he asked FCA to put an X on the map? Why refuse to give TM something of Caylee's so the dogs could track her scent? They didn't want her found.
TM said he told them 'you know Caylee is dead'. GA nodded his head in agreement and CA just cried.
CA/GA came out swinging at every interview even after LE told them it was hurting the search for Caylee.
The smell, the hair with the death band, FCA sitting in jail for the 30 days not budging on her story. Caylee missing.
They knew. Everyone lies, everyone dies.
They both knew a lot about a lot of things.
They did everything they could to distract from the evidence and paint FCA out be something she is not.
I think they thought FCA was playing games for 31 days until they got the car. This went from a game to someone is dead and Caylee is the only person missing. That's why CA went into over-drive that night to get FCA. She needed to see Caylee with her own eyes. The rest is history. Lies, lies, and more lies.
If CA could go back to the 31 day mark and change anything, she would have never contacted LE.
Why were the As the only people to refuse a polygraph?
IMO
I think someone else mentioned it, but I believe that they maybe thought Casey found a dead body and put it there to make them think Caylee was dead, or maybe Casey got involved in something bad and something died in the back on her car, but it wasn't Caylee. Cindy was not truly devastated by Caylee's passing until that day at Baez's office. I always wondered about that. If they knew Caylee was dead and not missing, why would she have been so devastated later on when she met with Baez at his office? Wouldn't she have been in mourning before that?
I truly believe they weren't sure what Casey was capable of, or hoped to God they were wrong. I know from personally dealing with a sociopath, that once they cross you, it's scary as hell because you realize that they have no limits or no morals when it comes to protecting themselves and getting what they want. I think they knew there was a strong possibility that Casey had killed Caylee - actually, I think George totally knew it, but Cindy just wasn't willing to accept it. Even now, she doesn't seem willing to accept it.
I just don't think Cindy was able to accept that Caylee was really dead until that day in Baez's office. And since the men in that family don't want to dare to upset Cindy, no matter how they felt, they weren't going to say anything, and just went along with things because Cindy told them to. And of course, they know to act around other people. Of course Cindy would agree and cry in front of people that Caylee was dead. George would agree too. But behind closed doors, away from all other people, I'm sure Cindy was praying that Caylee was okay somewhere.
She honestly seemed desperate to solve whatever cryptic game was going on to get Caylee back. Casey just played right along, giving her mother hope that Caylee could come home alive. Lee and George went along for appearance purposes. They had no illusions when it came to Casey, but they had to go along because they can't stand up to Cindy. They couldn't make her see the truth, and it would have been a winless fight to try and stand up to her. Better to play along and hope Casey just eventually stops the game and admits the truth than trying themselves to force Cindy to see it. Unfortunately for them, Casey had to keep that hope going so that mom and the family would continue to cover for her. I think Cindy had that hope until the day in Baez's office when she left looking devastated. After that, it wasn't about Caylee anymore. It was about keeping Casey alive. Cindy was willing to do whatever it took to keep Casey alive, we all saw that. At that point, she knew Caylee was dead, and she knew Casey was all she had left.
Something else I've noticed about sociopaths thanks to my former roommate is that they do to seem wrap family members around their fingers. It doesn't matter that they've done bad things in the past, the family is still willing to rally around them and protect them if need be. I've never understood this, except that they either have their family completely fooled, or their family does NOT want to incur the wrath of the sociopath at any cost. I imagine that years of dealing with a sociopath would lead to something like the A's (though I think they are in the extreme), people who don't care what the reality is, but only care about doing whatever it takes to keep sociopath from focusing on them and doing more damage to them.
And I think in some twisted way, Cindy also believed that if she saved Casey, Casey would be thankful and love her again. Cindy has such a deep need to be loved by Casey that she would do anything to make things right and make Casey love her again. She doesn't get that Casey doesn't love her at all, just uses her over and over again to get what she wants. I'm sure she's thinking that Casey will be home again someday, probably thinking that she remodels that bathroom in her house. I wonder if Caylee's room is even still there. I just know Cindy would remove it if Casey wanted her to, anything to please Casey and get Casey to love her again.
The weird thing is, George has to know this about Cindy, and he has to know that Casey will probably come home again someday. I'm guessing that because Cindy tells him what to do and when to do it, he'll allow Casey back home and be miserable himself, but glad to see Cindy so happy again. I think he is so caught up in wanting Cindy to be happy again that he's willing to sacrifice himself to do it. Cindy happy equals George left to do what he wants. Cindy unhappy leads to misery in that home because George is the only one she can take it out on. I also think George feels sorry for Cindy because she is a broken woman now. She refuses to see the truth while devastated that Caylee is gone. Not even Cindy deserved to lose Caylee, especially at the hands of Casey.
And honestly, they didn't do a polygraph because none of them would pass it. They are liars, but not nearly as skilled as Casey. I would bet their lawyer told them not to take any polygraph tests. All of them would have failed. They have lied and lied for so long to protect Casey that the polygraph would be their downfall. They don't do well in the face of real truth. They keep constantly smearing and obfuscating the truth so they don't have to really face it.
And from what I saw on Dr. Phil, Cindy is still not facing the truth that Casey murdered Caylee. I don't think she ever will.