Why Casey Anthony is Guilty and Should Be Executed

Ok, so I am on my soapbox today. You see, for the second time in my life, I have witnessed a national event...a "trial of the century", only to have it end in an epic travesty of justice. The first, of course, was the acquittal of OJ Simpson in the murder of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It's too bad that OJ went to jail on other charges a year or so ago. I hear he was close to finding the "real killer" under a car in the parking lot (eye roll).

So yesterday, Casey Anthony was acquitted in the murder of her 3 year old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. Part of me is shocked and part of me is, sadly, not surprised at all. I think the ball was dropped by 2 major players in this little game of justice. First, the Orange County Sheriff's Department dropped the ball by failing to investigate the first phone call from Roy Kronk, the utility worker who found Caylee's remains. If they had gone THEN, there would have been much more of Caylee available for examination. This is crucial because it would have proven what the murder weapon was...chloroform. Instead, with nothing left by "dry bones" as they put it, the only tangible item that could be construed to be the murder weapon was the duct tape. That is where the prosecution dropped the ball.

You may agree or disagree with me, but here is my theory on what happened to Caylee Marie Anthony...

Casey Anthony was so wrapped up in her boyfriend Tony that she lost all ability to reason and use common sense. She couldn't leave Caylee with her mother because she knew Cindy would not tolerate her abandoning her daughter for a man. So, she and Tony devised a means of making Caylee sleep so they could party. First they tried Xanax, a powerful adult sleep-aid and anti-anxiety medication. They joked about giving Caylee Xanax, calling it her "nanny" or her babysitter, hence the creation of Zanny the Nanny. Zanny was never a person, but rather the drug that babysat Caylee so that they could party. At some point, the Xanax began to be ineffective. Even a 3 year old will build up a tolerance to medications. Perhaps there was a night when little Caylee, having been given Xanax, just would not go to sleep fast enough. So Casey becgan to think. How do they do it in the movies? What do they use to make people pass out? Chloroform! Just put some on a cloth and hold it over Caylee's mouth and voila! She's alseep!

Well, obviously, you can't just go out and buy chloroform. So Casey googled it on the home computer while her mother was at work. She bought what she needed and made her own chloroform to use on Caylee. Then the question arose as to WHERE to put the unconscious Caylee. They couldn't leave her in the apartment. What if she woke up and called 911? What if she wondered off? Someone would find her and the jig would be up. They couldn't put her in her car seat and then park the car at the bar. People would surely see Caylee and call the authorities. So, Casey the brainiac put Caylee in the trunk of the car, probably thinking that she would come out between drinks and dances and check on her. When she did, Caylee was dead. Was it a chloroform overdose? Perhaps. Was it heat? Perhaps. It would have been mid-June in Florida after all. Or was it the lack of oxygen in the trunk. Maybe without the chloroform, a normal person could breathe in a trunk. But the respiratory depression caused by the chloroform was too much for the oxygen-deprived environment.

Casey found Caylee dead in the trunk and didn't know what to do. She left her in the trunk for a few days while she tried to figure it out. Finally, after a few days, she decided to bury Caylee in her parents' backyard. You see, Cindy and George thought Casey and Caylee were at a conference and going to amusement parks. So Casey waited until her parents were not home. She went to their house, took Caylee out of the trunk and laid her in the back yard near her playhouse. This is why the cadaver dogs alerted to the back yard of the Anthony home. Casey thought, since her dad had already freaked out about the gas can, that she had better not use his shovel to dig the hole. He would surely notice something. So, despite there being 3 shovels in the Anthony's shed, Casey borrowed a shovel from the neighbor. At some point she either decided it was too much work or perhaps too time consuming and she became fearful that her parents would come home while she was burying Caylee. So she decided on another plan. In the meantime, she saw something very disturbing. Flies had infested Caylee's little body and were crawling in and out of her nose and mouth. So, Casey went to her father's garage and got duct tape to cover Caylee's mouth and nose to stop the flies. Some small part of her felt remorseful so she got one of Caylee's little heart stickers and placed it over the duct tape that covered Caylee's face. While she was in the garage, Casey also got the bags to wrap Caylee in. She bundled up her little girl and put her back in the trunk. She drive her down the road about 5 blocks and tossed her into the swamp. Then, she returned to her boyfriend and continued her carefree party life.

Sick? Yes. Criminal? Yes. Horrible? Yes. Unpunished? Unfortunately, yes. The criminal justice system has failed Caylee Marie Anthony. It is all we can hope for that this little girl is somehow at peace, despite the travesties that have taken place. There has been no justice for Caylee.