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What a sad end to the story that was Caylee Anthony’s life.  On December 11, 2008, a utility worker discovered the skeletal remains of a little girl.  The remains were found in a black plastic trash bag discarded like garbage.  This discovery was about one-quarter mile from Caylee’s grandparents’ home on

.  How ironic the name of where the life of this little girl was taken.  What hope did she have and what evil did spring upon her. 

Caylee was last seen in June, two months before her third birthday.  Her mother waited more that a month to report her missing and then told one lie after another about her daughter being kidnapped by her nanny, where she had dropped her, before going to work for Universal Studios.  Within the most cursory examination of these statements, Casey’s story was discovered to be a complete lie. 

 Casey did not work at Universal studios, co-workers she had claimed to have told about her daughter’s disappearance, didn’t even work there. Although one had worked there, he left in 2002 and the other one never worked there at all.  The apartment where Casey claimed to have dropped her child off at each morning, for months, had been vacant since February and under renovation.  When the police began investigating this, it was July and Caylee was, reportedly, last seen in June.  The alleged babysitter or nanny, after being located, was shown a picture of Casey and Caylee and firmly denied ever seeing both and stated she had never worked as a nanny. 

Even with her lies unraveling before her eyes, Casey refused to give in and stuck to her story regarding the disappearance of Caylee being the result of her nanny taking her and that the last time she saw Caylee was on June 9, 2008.  This proved to be a lie also.  On Father’s Day, June 15, 2008, Caylee’s grandmother had taken her to visit her great-grandfather at a nursing home and a video of Caylee had been taken.  These pictures may well be the last ever taken of Caylee Anthony. 

On June 20, 2008, Casey, the mother of the missing child, was filmed partying at Fusion, a popular nightspot; not expected from a mother whose three-year old baby has been missing for nearly two weeks.  On July 2, Casey had gone to Cast Iron Tattoos and had the words “Bella Vita” tattooed on her left shoulder blade.  “Bella Vita” meaning “beautiful life”. 

On June 27, Casey’s car ran out of gas and she abandoned it.  Three days later a tow truck driver hauled the car away.  He later stated that when he opened the car door, he smelled a foul odor inside the car.  It was the same odor, he said, he smelled when he had towed another car away in which a man’s body had sat decomposing for a few days after he had committed suicide – the smell of death. 

Socializing with friends and family, Casey never mentioned the fact that her daughter was missing.  When asked, by a few of these people, where Caylee was, Casey would always say she (Caylee) was with the nanny.  Finally, on July 22, detectives said they were treating Caylle’s disappearance as a homicide investigation, and during a bond hearing for obstruction of justice charges, they named Casey as a “person of interest”. 

After this bond hearing, Casey was in and out of jail for other, unrelated charges, mostly for stealing checks from friends.  Detectives continued to search for Caylee although they admitted there was a “strong probability” that Caylee was dead. 

On October 14, 2008, a Florida grand jury indicted Casey Anthony for first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter, aggravated child abuse, and four counts of lying to investigators and she has remained in jail.  On December 11, 2008, the skeletal remains where found.  Although they have not been definitively confirmed as Caylee’s, the closeness of the find, to where Calyee lived and played, has faded the hope for Caylee still being alive. 

Last week prosecutors in the case ruled out the death sentence for Casey, saying that it would be difficult to convince a jury to impose this sentence without physical evidence that Caylee was dead but in view of this find… 

Hopfully Casey will get what she deserves according to man’s law and God’s law, one at a time.  The lies she told, the misdirection she gave the police, the unconcerned attitude and the maliciousness of the crime, all deserve a penalty that fits.  Although you could argue that Casey has some internal issues, she is still aware enough to function, going out partying, getting tattooed and living her life as though Caylee never existed. 

Unbelievable!!! 

And that’s the way I see it!!

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