I have been thinking....if Casey and Caylee lived with Casey's parents, weren't the partents wondering where Caylee was before Casey reported her missing (4 weeks later).

Prosecutors: Missing Fla. Girl Likely Killed
CBS News Interactive: America's Missing Kids
ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS) ― The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive.

Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with child neglect and lying to investigators. Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set her bond at $500,000 Tuesday, saying the law did not allow him to hold her without bail.

CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports that for two and a half hours, Anthony listened, and at times cried, as witness after witness - five in all - took the stand in the bail hearing that sounded more like a murder trial.

Strickland set the unusually high bail amount after hearing about evidence of human decomposition allegedly found in Anthony's yard and car. Her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, has been missing since mid-June.

"Not a bit of useful information has been provided by Ms. Anthony as to the whereabouts of her daughter," Strickland said. "And I would add that the truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers."

Anthony is charged with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. Authorities say she did not report the girl missing until last week, and only then at her own mother's insistence.

Sheriff's deputies said Anthony's car smelled of decomposition, and a cadaver-trained German shepherd noted a smell of human remains in the car and her yard. They said they found a stain, dirt and what seemed to be Caylee's hair in Anthony's trunk. A search of the yard turned up no body.

Cobiella reports that detectives say a neighbor remembered Anthony asking to borrow a shovel around the time her daughter went missing.

"The risk of her flight if she is released on some low bond increases exponentially, especially now that she's heard this additional evidence and that she is their person of interest," said assistant state attorney Linda Drane-Burdick.

Deputies emphasized they were still looking for the girl - alive - and urged anyone with information to step forward.

Defense attorney Jose Baez requested bond around $10,000. He said Anthony's family can't pay a high bond and she has the right to freedom while facing lesser charges.

"This is not a capital case, and if it were they certainly would file it, if they had evidence to," Baez said. "There is circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide, I will give them that. But circumstantial evidence has not made them confident enough to charge her with any specific homicide or kidnapping, or any capital offense."

Anthony's parents became concerned after her car was towed from a check-cashing business where it had been parked for days. She and the child lived with her parents, and she told them she worked as an event planner at an area theme park.

Investigators say Anthony was unemployed, and a purported babysitter seems to never have existed. The mother and child hadn't been home in the month before investigators were notified that Caylee was missing. Investigators believe the girl's father is dead.

Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, acknowledged in court that her daughter had lied before, but said she was a caring mom. The registered nurse believes the girl is alive, and Casey Anthony lied to police because she was somehow threatened. Cindy Anthony said she would even sell her house to free her daughter.

"I know Casey as a person," she said. "I know what she is for a mother and I know there's only one or two reasons why Casey would be withholding something about Caylee. I believe that it's something that someone is holding over her and threatening her in some way."

Casey Anthony's face filled with tears at the hearing, watching her parents at the witness stand and again after Strickland set bail.

"Casey, we love you!" yelled Cindy Anthony as the courtroom cleared.

Her daughter nodded and sobbed before being led away in chains.

I have a bad feeling that Caylee is dead. But I would also like to know where the grandparents were when she initially went missing and why did their daughter wait so long to report her missing. I hope I am wrong but it doesn't sound too good.

***Edited**** I just saw in the story where it said the mother and child were not at home for a month before she was reported missing. Instead of saying I'd post my daughter's bail, I'd be asking her where they were for that month and where is my granddaughter.

__________________
~~~~**Maryann**~~~~

I just got a firm grip on reality....
Now I can strangle it

That poor babe is dead and her mother is where she belongs. My son would rot for #1 not reporting the missing babe, #2 for not telling the whole story. Besides if the mother is being threatened she's safer in jail. what kind of mother leaves her child at a sitter and "forgets" where it was and doesn't check ont he child often as 2 times a day!!!

__________________
Laura
Please visit my blog
http://mylifeinlaurasworld.blogspot.com/

This is so sad! Poor little girl. I hope they find her alive & unhurt, though the odds are against it. Makes absolutely no sense that the mom has been lying about the situation for weeks, never reported her missing to anyone, made excuses to her own family about the little one when they asked...that makes no sense at all. ITA the mom is where she belongs! Hopefully she will crack and tell someone the truth about what really happened so the child can be found.

I can't help but wonder if the little girl was kidnapped by someone the mother knows and the kidnapper told her that if she told anyone that they would kill her daughter.That would be an awful position to be in.I don't think shes guilty till shes proven to be guilty.

__________________

I think that's what the mother's defenders are alleging.

I want to know where the 2 year old's father is in all of this. Not saying he would be a suspect, I just want to know whre he is. Tired of idiot people having babies and all the things that happen and yet the father is who knows where.

dl

Why would anyone kidnap the daughter? What purpose would that serve?

I sincerely the "mother" of this little girl is a compulsive liar---and that precious baby is dead and gone.

It would be a cold day in hell before I would not report my child missing within in minutes of knowing they were gone! Unless of course, I had harmed my child and was trying to protect myself!

__________________
Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they thought the father was dead.

You know, these parents who just KNOW their child wouldn't do this make me sick. Too many times, I have known "parents" who refuse to believe that their child could do any wrong.....from the crap they pull at school, to this sort of thing. People need to wake up and realize their children ARE capable of anything. Pathetic.

__________________
Doing the right thing isn't always the same as doing the easy thing.

The grandmother is really starting to look like an idiot in my eyes. She seems to be more worried about protecting that lying daughter of hers than concern for the innocent baby. Little Caylee was precious, I will never understand how anyone could hurt a baby, period. Did anyone besides me notice the crazy mom, Casey, smiling and giggling at different points in court? What in the world could that loon be thinking??

I'm wondering if they had buried Caylee in the back yard and have now dug her up. That would explain the smell, the dirt and Caylee's hair in the trunk of the car.

Now I'm thinking the grandmother is in on it, too.

I am starting to think the same thing. Has anyone heard if her paternal grandparents have said anything to the public yet. I feel bad for them, I read that Caylee's father is deceased, so their son is gone and now their granddaughter is missing.

__________________
~~~~**Maryann**~~~~

I just got a firm grip on reality....
Now I can strangle it

Anyone see the clip of the grandma walking away from court and reporters followed her asking about the cadaver dogs finding scents.. grandma started yelling no no, it was rotten pizza...in the car for like 12 days..there were maggots on that pizza...you know how hot it's been!
This gets weirder and weirder...I do hope the police are getting closer to finding the little one

I wanna know how you leave a pizza in the car to begin with. I can't speak for all of you but everytime I get a pizza, its usually because I am going to eat it for lunch or dinner. Unless its a frozen pizza, but even then if I know I purchased one, and don't see it as i unload the groceries I usually go look for it. I am sure those dogs know the difference between rotten food and a body.

__________________
~~~~**Maryann**~~~~

I just got a firm grip on reality....
Now I can strangle it

I totally think the grandma is acting nutso too. The way she presents herself... Whether she is in on it or not? I wouldn't think so, as isn't she the one that reported the little girl missing? Why would she bring attention to herself like that, especially if they had done something to the girl so recently? Wouldn't they 'wait' for the scents to leave, possibly a year or so, more time to cover their tracks, etc.? I mean the little girl is 2, not really anyone but immediate family is going to notice she's missing (not in school, etc.). It's obvious that the daughter is a major liar though; they have even had numerous co-workers/friends come forth and state that she cannot tell the truth to save her life. I doubt we'll ever get the truth out of her.

I would be willing to bet that something 'accidental' happened to the little girl (maybe the mom forgot about her and left her in the hot car, etc, she doesn't seem like she's all there after all) and the mom panicked. I figure she buried her in the backyard the day she asked the neighbor to borrow a shovel, then panicked again and moved her to the car's trunk, and we may never find where she put her. The girl did look like she was well taken care of in all of the pictures so that is why I think it was 'accidental' (but of course looks can be deceiving). I believe the grandma stated that the mom and little girl had moved in with a boyfriend the month they were gone, etc. As for the mom's behavior in court, etc., I'm hoping that she is in a state of shock; maybe she's on some sort of meds., who knows. I hope that isn't the 'real her' day to day anyway. Same could be said for the grandma too, I suppose, I guess I would be acting crazy too if something like this happened to my kids/grandkids.

I'm sure the police are in the process of dealing with the phone company (cell phone) records to trace all of the pings from the mom's phone during that timeline. This would at least give them a pretty good idea of where she has traveled (assuming she had the phone with her all that time). I sure do hope that they find the girl alive but of course we all know it isn't looking good.

I miss my Court TV! I used to be able to tune in and they would have coverage on a story like this all day long! Now I tune into Nancy Grace to find out the latest. At first I thought that perhaps the mother sold Caylee to someone for money or drugs. Now with the recent developments, I also think that perhaps she accidentally killed the child somehow. Maybe a boyfriend killed the child and she's covering up for him? Who knows? I wonder if the truth will ever come out? I'm sure that the dogs can tell a dead human scent apart from a rotting pizza. Even the grandmother said on the 911 call released tonight that it smelled like a dead body in her daughter's car. I'd like to see what she bought when she went on a spending spree with her mother's credit card. If she bought things for herself, maybe she just wanted to be single again and didn't want the responsibility of being a single mom...so she killed the sweet baby? From seeing the videos and hearing her friends talk, it would appear to be that she took good care of Caylee. I hope that the truth comes out soon. The evidence is starting to pile up that she did something to Caylee. It should be interesting to see what the stains are that the police found in her car trunk. ~Lisa

I was thinking this same thought and that maybe Drugs were involved. I am just disgusted and feel terrible for that poor beautfiul baby.

__________________

Without Health you have no Wealth!

This entire thing is sad and annoying. Today we've gotten two phone calls from 062 area code. That is the area code that telemarketers use to get around the national do not call list. Anyway, BOTH were from the Grandfather of Caylee asking for support in finding her. It really pissed me off. Don't bother me, ask your daughter where she left her kid, dead or alive.

__________________
oupiglet...addicted to free stuff!

How can those crazy freaks not be flipping that they don't have that precious baby with them? It just pisses me off that none of them just seem to be at wits end about not having the baby, or knowing she's ok. The ignorant POS mom not telling anything? The ridiculous grandmother defending her piece of crap daughter?? That poor pitiful child. You know, these innocent kids don't ask to be born into this crap. It just burns me up.

Excellent post! I'm with you girl! I swear, if that was my daughter I'd beat the crap out of her until she told me where my granddaughter was! The hell I'd be defending her! Especially after I found out she didn't report the child missing to the police right away. Who in the hell waits over a month? That is just totally insane. And after the grandmother said that the daughter's car smelled like a "damn dead body"! If you were Caylee's mother, and you didn't do anything to her, wouldn't you be screaming, crying, falling out on the floor in the courtroom telling them that you didn't do anything to the child and that we must find her? I'd be flipping out, not just sitting there dabbing at my eyes with a tissue! I think that perhaps she buried the child in the parent's backyard. Then when she got wind that the police were going to use dogs to search the yard, she maybe dug he child back up, put her in the trunk of her car, and went off and buried her someplace else. I know, I know...it's all speculation on my part, but that's the only way I think that dirt got in the mother's trunk and the dog's smelled a human body in the yard. I hope we get to the bottom of this very soon. I'm getting tired of her game playing and no answers. It's getting ridiculous! ~Lisa

When i watched Nancy Grace last night and they posted the conversation of the mother talking and saying everyone thinks it;s me because i am not crying and I can't because I have to answer questions to the attorney's and she was throwing the "F" bomb around left and right. I could have punched the TV and God Bless Defense Attorney's because I would tell her see you your guilty as Hell.
If I were in that situation and I was innocent I would be on the floor collapsed with fear and wanting my Baby back. I would need some serious medication to help me. I know some poeple are stronger than others but this is your child.
Sorry but to me she is so GUILTY and GRANDMA better wake up even she wants to beleive her daughter isn't a monster.

__________________

Without Health you have no Wealth!

I also think it could be that Casey met a new boyfriend, the boyfriend wants Casey but doesn't want to have to 'deal' with the child, so Casey did something to Caylee. This way Casey is free to live that 'single' life again. Pretty much the Susan Smith case all over (remember she drowned her two boys when she purposely rolled the car into a lake with them strapped into their carseats so that she could be with her 'new boyfriend'). I also can't wait to see what Casey bought on the spending spree. Will certainly tell a lot. I am also beginning to think that while the grandparents didn't do anything to harm Caylee, I think they 'know' and have known for a long time what has happened to the child. I saw the grandfather on t.v. tonight and he also acts like he's loopy. I doubt i'd be able to barely get out of bed to deal with this (and yes I know everyone deals with these things differently), but the entire family just acts like, oh well, if she comes back, great, if not, great, etc. The grandmother did also say today that she knew Casey was hanging out with a new group of friends over the past couple of months. It's quite obvious though that the grandmother is an enabler to her daughter (she could totally be my MIL and Casey eerily reminds me of my troubled SIL).

You can bet they are also looking into the death of the father.

I think most people that kill in cold blood are sociopaths, so they say. That's what I've heard anyway. I think the way Casey is behaving is very Narcissistic at the least (did I spell that right?!), will be interesting to see if she turns out to be a sociopath, hmmm.

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com


Looks like mommy was busy hunting for her missing little girl at the Hot Body contest

__________________
Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at:
http://bookcrossing.com

My other favorites
www.paperbackswap.com
www.wheresgeorge.com
www.geocaching.com

Wow, looks like she won't get "Mom of the year"..........this is so sad

__________________
Brenda

GO #24 JEFF GORDON

I have a feeling this will not end well. They are supposed to get the results back on Friday from the hair and body fluid samples they took from the mothers trunk. If they are Kaylees (which I suspect they will be), I bet they will charge the mother with murder....

Sources are claiming the DNA has been identified and belongs to Caylee.

The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery: Investigators Find Caylee Anthony's DNA

I think the mother will be charged with murder in light of all her lies. I think she'll eventually confess to killing her daughter.

Five of the lies Casey is telling Caylee Anthony

It makes me sick. She is so innocent, so trusting. To think that those nuts , at least one of them knows something, and is not coming forward , is just so bizarre. I'm telling you, my baby is almost 2, and if he was missing, surely I would have to be sedated to the point of not getting out of bed. Not even an option of going about with my daily life.

I don't know if the Grandma is in on it or not, but the mom is definitely a POS. But I do know, that my parents would kick my A$$ up and down the East coast if they couldn't speak to their grandkids almost daily. Especially at two years old-they were over constantly. Something is definitely wrong here.

That is stupid of her to lie to the police.Did she really think the police who are investigating a murder case wouldn't checkup on her stories?From all that everyones posted (I don't have TV) ,it seems to me this mother is mentally derranged .Unfortunately I now believe she has murdered her daughter too.How crazy she must be to think that noone would notice her daughter missing or even care.She must want to go to jail.Evidentally she'd raher spend a lifetime in jail than to have taken care of her sweet daughter.Her brain must seriously be defunctioning.

__________________

I am voting for the hot car theory. I bet she left the kid somewhere unattended and came back and found her dead. All the rest is a cover up story she invented. I'll bet she put the kid in the trunk and rode around with her a couple of days trying to think up a story. When she couldn't come up with a good story then she buried her for a bit in the backyard. Who knows after that? If one believes in the hereafter, the baby is safe, now from neglect.

__________________
Lyn Clarke

I am not sure if the mother is derranged. I do think that she actually thought that she would get away with it. It seems as if she has lived a very interesting life, without much responsibility for her actions. Her family and friends have said that she did have a problem with telling the truth, and her actions have proven that she doesn't seem to know how to tell the truth. I have a feeling they will never get this woman to confess or tell where she put the body.

Since they found those traces of blood in the car that rules out any accidental death from left in heated car theory.There wouldn't have been blood that matched her DNA in the hood if she had died that way.

__________________

I have an errie feeling about the boyfriend and Caylee...maybe something sick happened there and the Mom is protecting the boyfriend??? I know, I am just speculating, but something happened to this sweet young child and I pray that she is alive and fine somewhere, but I highly doubt it. What a bunch of wierdos this family is! If anything happened to one of my little ones, I would have to be tranquilized just to try and make it through a day, not our partying somewhere! What a Loon!

- Jennefier

Dollydeal wrote: "Since they found those traces of blood in the car that rules out any accidental death from left in heated car theory.There wouldn't have been blood that matched her DNA in the hood if she had died that way."

This isn't necessarily true. A couple of years ago, a couple of dads left their 1-2 year old babies in a hot car, with the windows up, for a few hours while they went looking for arrowheads (aka did drugs out in the woods). The children were in their car seats and couldn't get themselves out of course or open any windows or doors themselves. This happened in Arkansas in the summer, it got over 100% in the car. These two babies were so distraught, were literally cooking, became dehydrated, couldn't breathe, etc., that they literally PULLED their hair out of their heads and scratched themselves bloody. They were left by these idiots for several hours and of course these babies died. You can do a search for the story if you want more details. Very very sad case, and these 'dads' only got about 3 years in jail over it. They are actually out now. Crazy. This was probably one of the saddest stories I've ever had to deal with and it was in the paper, on the news, etc. daily as I'm in the same town.

So, yes, there very well could be blood from being left in a hot car, but who knows what this crazy lady has done with Caylee.

I've searched for a while on google, and can't find a thing on this story. Can you help with a link? So very, very tragic.

Try this link...


Crime News - Courts, Celebrity Docket, and Law News from CNN.com


It's where I get most of my crime updates.

It is a very bizarre story. The mother claims that Caylee will be back for her third birthday which is this Saturday. I hope that's true...but I have major doubts. I just don't understand the whole thing. ~Lisa

Sorry guys, I didn't have time the other night to look up links. Here are a few. I didn't realize it happened 10 years ago (wow how time flys) but I'm trying to find everything I can. I also got the kids' ages wrong--they were 16 months and 4 months, sorry about that. I had forgotten a lot of the details over the years, but will never forget what the papers/news said about the babies pulling their hair out at the roots and literally clawing themselves in misery. I'm trying to find that exact article that was printed in our local paper also about the fingernail scratch/claw marks but I can't get anything in the archives on this story past 2002... I did find where they talked about the hair being pulled out though. Sooo sad...

Here is an article related, the family actually tried to get the auto insurance to pay for the 'deaths' of these kids (um, no it was the 'dads' fault by 100%):
The Morning News: News : Insurer Not Liable For Death Of Girls Left In Car

FAYETTEVILLE -- A federal judge has ruled that an automobile insurer has no liability for the 1998 deaths of two girls left in a parked car by Ricky Leon Crisp and Justin Avery Griffin.

Crisp and Griffith left Vicky Crisp, 16 months, and Sidney Pippin, 4 months, strapped into their car seats in a black car with the windows rolled up for eight hours while they allegedly looked for arrowheads and mushrooms April 25, 1998.

Both children died of asphyxia as a result of excessive heat.

Crisp was convicted of second-degree murder by a Benton County jury and sentenced to 14 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction. He has been released on parole.

Griffith pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in a deal with prosecutors under which he testified against Crisp at trial. Griffith was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 10 years' probation, and he was fined $3,000. His probation was later revoked for drunken driving and he spent time in prison.

Here are more links:

FindLaw | Cases and Codes

NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source

MURDER ON THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND:

National News Briefs; Man Receives 14 Years In Deaths of Two Infants - New York Times

National News Briefs; Man Gets 4-Month Term For Heat Death of 2 Girls - New York Times

Man gets jail time for deaths of girls left in car | Article from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | HighBeam Research

http://lmtonline.com/news/archive/042898/pagea4.pdf

National News Briefs; 2 Facing Murder Charges After Girls Die Inside Car - New York Times

http://www.rawbw.com/~zero/die/girls.html