Casey Anthony trial date cancelled – Plus date of death & motive

From the Orlando Sentinel:

Casey Anthony trial is delayed after defense team member told judge her teaching schedule would prevent her from being able to go to trial in three months, according to WFTV.com.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The October 12 date for Casey Anthony’s first-degree murder trial has been cancelled after a Tuesday morning meeting between the defense, prosecution and the judge. Eyewitness News was the only media at the meeting at the Orange County courthouse.

Defense team member Andrea Lyon told Judge Stan Strickland her teaching schedule would prevent her from being able to go to trial in three months. Judge Strickland cancelled the October 12 date and scheduled a status hearing on the first-degree murder trial for January 21.

“So, I’ll go ahead and strike that October trial date and we’ll set this status slash pretrial in January,” Strickland said during the Tuesday morning meeting.

Casey Anthony is accused of killing her young daughter Caylee and dumping her remains near the Anthony family home.

Additionally, the judge said that he wants an affidavit from Amy Huizenga showing she wants to invoke her right to a speedy trial in the check fraud case that the prosecution wants to move forward on. Casey is charged with stealing her friend’s checkbook and buying personal items with forged checks.

Lyon, the defense’s death penalty qualified attorney, also told Judge Strickland that she plans to file several motions after Labor Day, but details of those motions were not given.

A date of death and a motive

“She’s the best mistake you ever did?”

That was Detective Eric Edwards’ question after coaxing information from Lee Anthony during his July 29 interview last year. That’s what good detectives do, they get information out of you in ever so subtle ways. Lee and Edwards were discussing whether there was a genuine wedge between his mother and Casey. The detective was poking and prodding his way through Lee’s brain. He acknowledged there was competition between the two, and resentment. “That my mother has been the provider for Caylee, even down to the extent that my mother was the first person to hold Caylee when she came out of the womb. So my, my mom is convinced that my sister holds some, some kind of resentment to her.”

Edwards continued, “So outside looking in, a child has a child and the first person to hold is the mother, that’s not really receptive to the whole idea anyway because she’s looking down at her because it was a mistake? So maybe some resentment towards that, which you just said?”

“Uh-hum.”

“And then now constant, constant statements that you’re unaware when they happened that…”

“Uh-hum.”

“… ‘She’s the best mistake you ever did?’ So it’s harsh, harsh judgment almost?”

“Sure.”

“And she’s living under the thumb of that?”

“Sure. Absolutely.”

“And then now constant, constant statements that you’re unaware when they happened that…”

“Uh-hum.”

“… ‘She’s the best mistake you ever did?’ So it’s harsh, harsh judgment almost?”

“Sure.”

“And she’s living under the thumb of that?”

“Sure. Absolutely.”

Detective Edwards was really getting into it. He and Lee were developing a rhythm and Lee seemed to be comfortable in his surroundings. Later in the interview, Edwards asked Lee to describe the things he picked up from Tony Lazzaro’s apartment the night Casey was questioned.

“Okay, so you went and you picked up. Give me that list of items again.”

“Sure. Uhm…”

“From Tony’s apartment at Sutton Place.”

“Yes… I went and picked up my mom’s laptop… a very large uhm, leopard print duffel bag that had all of her clothing and items uhm, in there. Uhm, a uhm, a backpack, a white backpack with a kind of a, you know, a pattern or you know, a symbol on that uhm, that also had some more clothing items in there.”

There were wall to wall cops at the Anthony home that night. Squad cars were parked everywhere, up and down Hopespring Drive. Everything in that house was being controlled by law enforcement. George would have had to be a sharp, sharp man to pay attention to the bags Lee brought back from Tony’s at 2:25  in the wee hours of July 16. It was a late night, for sure, but there was a lot more to come and plenty of life changing events in the lives of all of the family members.

Towards the end of the interview, Lee relayed the story George told him about the 16th of June being the day he watched Casey and Caylee leave and that was the day she moved in with Tony. The significance of this is that it was Lee telling the detective before George did, and he did so in such a nonchalant, matter of fact manner, hardly like it had been previously rehearsed and long before the 15th or 16th became a hotbed of controversy to so many bloggers. George was just telling his son that he was positive of the day and he did so for his own peace of mind.

Lee also noticed there was nothing in Lazzaro’s apartment or in Casey’s bags that indicated Caylee was ever there; no clothes, no diapers, no crackers, no juice containers. Nothing. It was as if she had just disappeared. Does that sound like a cover-up to you? It reiterated what Cindy had said in her interview on August 4.

During George’s interview with detectives on August 4, he described one of the backpacks as white with monkeys (see page 7 of OCSO Search Warrant.) This is the same basic description Lee gave of the item. You can say anything you want about George and Lee lying to investigators to help Casey, but it makes no sense. It makes no sense because if a motive had been in place for months or years, the date of death is not all that significant when the discrepancy comes down to only a matter of hours between June 15 & 16. How would this possibly help Casey’s defense? No one is questioning who did it.  To argue with their testimony would be nothing more than a feeble attempt to prove that Casey did not have a previous motive and she acted out of anger on the 15th and that would render premeditation and the death penalty useless for the most part. Trust me, the state knows what it is doing and there are reasons why one date in particular stands out.

A Beautiful Life

When Casey sauntered into the Cast Iron Tattoo shop on July 2 of last year, artist Bobby Williams had no idea how much that day would end up meaning to him for the rest of his life. He was the one who tattooed Bella Vita, or Beautiful Life, on Casey’s left shoulder, the focus of investigators who filed a motion to take close-up pictures of the tattoo from her jail cell. He said that Casey came in and was there for about an hour. She acted very normal and most of the time he was working on her tattoo, she was on the phone with Tony Lazzaro in New York. No big deal. He said she never mentioned her daughter, not that there was anything unusual about it at the time because no one knew she was missing. So, all this time she was frantically searching for Caylee, she had time for a tattoo about a beautiful life. Trust me folks, this is a revelation. It shows premeditation. She had planned the murder and the tattoo was but one of the fruits of her labor.

“It’s definitely, definitely strange now that you put two and two together and the child’s missing and she comes in and gets something like that,” Williams told FOX35. “And she acts totally normal? Yeah, like nothing happened? It’s like is it because she’s living a beautiful life or beautiful life because her daughter is missing?” Yup. Definitely. For sure. He added that he didn’t get any sense that Casey was looking for a child or worried.

A Motive

In my opinion, all of this and plenty more evidence illustrated a desire to rid herself of her daughter and to celebrate afterward. She longed to be free and away from her family. She deliberately set forth in motion a series of actions that took care of her “problem” once and for all. She hated her mother. She detested her father. She accused her brother of sexual abuse, and she stole from everyone. All the while, everyone enabled her.

To be plain and simple, she wanted to be free from all responsibility, she wanted to run away with a man and start all over again and she wanted to bring her family down. She wanted to destroy them. She felt that her mother must suffer because of  her own suffering inside and it was the best way to pay her back. It was a cleansing and a methodical ritual. In its wake, she purposely left her family empty-handed and in shambles. Therein lies her motive, and her tattoo was clearly a declaration of her success. No more Mom. No more Dad. Best of all, no more Caylee. This is what the state will show, that it was a long term effort and not one single incident that set her off. It was a culmination.

The Date of Death

It is interesting to note that on none of the major networks, here in the Orlando market and nationwide, is there a discrepancy over the day Caylee was last seen. They all go with June 16 and there’s a reason for that, which I will get to. It is only in the world of blogging and, perhaps, on some of the forums dedicated to this crime, that June 15 surfaces. This is strictly based on the allegation that Casey and her mother had a huge argument over stolen money, taken from her grandparents, who Cindy had just spent a good part of the day with. No way was this the first time Casey and her mother fought. They had done it thousands of times, but more importantly, this was also the last time Cindy ever saw her grandchild. She left early the next morning for work. Nowhere is it mentioned that Cindy noticed Casey’s car missing as she drove off. Oh, my God! Where is Caylee?

In order for the June 15 theory to come to fruition, a whole set of motions must drop into place, with no deviations. I never bought into this theory because it’s too wild to imagine everything falling into this complex order and besides, it is not the official line. Not one person in the State Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, or anyone affiliated with the crime has made mention of this conspiracy theory and that George Anthony lied about the day he last saw Caylee alive. If no one officially affiliated with the case has strayed from June 16, why are others? From comments on my own blog and elsewhere, thousands of people believe the 15th was the day because no one could prove it wasn’t. That is the basis for their argument. And gut feelings for some. As much as I protested and begged for one little shred of information that the 15th was for real, I got nothing in return other than suppositions on their part and material from Florida that more or less linked the death to the 16th. Why did the State of Florida not choose to pursue any conspiracy propagated by George, Cindy and Lee? Because they already investigated it and found it to be without without merit.

Here is what the theorists propose:

1 ) Cindy and Casey had a big, bang-up fight over stolen money on the night of June 15, 2008.

2 ) The neighbors specifically heard Cindy and Casey argue on that date.

3 ) Casey stormed out of the house, dragging Caylee along with her.

4 ) Casey killed Caylee that night. That is a fact.

5 ) Casey remained extremely close to the house in order to maintain cell phone pings that placed her in or near the house.

6 ) George called Lee after 11:00pm to find out where Casey and Caylee were. Not all are in agreement on this one.

7 ) Lee lied to investigators.

8 ) Cindy lied to investigators.

8 ) George lied to investigators.

10 ) Casey spent the night in her car, in the sweltering summer heat of Florida, talking on her cell phone.

11 ) Casey remained in her car in the hot, steamy summer weather until 2:00pm the next day and specifically in the neighborhood, until George left for work. All cell phone pings came from the vicinity of the house.

12 ) Casey had her cell phone car lighter adapter, knowing she would need it.

OK, I’ll readily admit that anything is possible and this case has surely proved that, but I just don’t believe it because it detracts from the real motive and focuses more on an act of irrational behavior on one given night and without a whole lot of premeditation. It is rendered into one emotional outburst. If true, the state would not be seeking the death penalty. It would have been a crime of passion and more difficult to prove it was planned beforehand and with malice. Also, looking at the list, one might understand how much would have to fall into place for this to work and wonder why no one closely tied into the investigation has detailed this approach. Granted, the state has not shown all of its cards, so instead, I explored in areas where the sun does shine: document dumps. I took a direct route to a very, very credible source.

Shown below is a piece of paper, as close as I can get on a Web site, with a date that will tell you what the State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony thinks. Someone asked me for something with the June 16 date on it, so here it is.  Bear in mind that this document has Dr. Jan Garavaglia’s signature attached to it. The date listed on page two is based on data supplied by law enforcement to the Orange County Medical Examiner’s office. It was after careful examination by investigators that this determination was made. Investigators do not randomly pick out a day of the month. They do not make up dates based on how bloggers think. They thoroughly looked into the possibilities of many different dates and this is what they concluded. Pay careful attention to the heading because it begins with the word FINDINGS, nothing else, and that word carries a lot of weight. No what ifs, no arguments and no speculation. The entire report is based from that date forward. This, my friends, is what the prosecutors will walk into the courthouse with come trial day and until further notification, this is the official stand on the last known date Caylee was seen alive as recognized by the authority of the State of Florida. This is Caylee’s autopsy report. Please observe that it does not say June 15 or any other date whatsoever:

Read it yourself. To verify my finding and to prove I did not alter this document, you can read it at the WESH PDF link on page 2.

END OF STORY.

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