How Anthony was acquitted is hard to fathom, accept

Funny, I haven’t heard anything about the cops in the Caylee Anthony murder case going back to looking for her killer now that her mother is off the hook.

They leaped to that chore about like the cops in the O.J. Simpson case reopened their investigation into the slaughter of his ex-wife and her friend once O.J.’s jury gave him a pass as a payback for slavery.

If you can’t nail the person most likely to have done the crime, considering motive and opportunity, where do you go next? It wasn’t as if there were second, third and runner-up suspects in either case.

They probably sacked up the evidence and material they had gathered and tossed it into the Cold Case file. Since they – the cops – and 70 percent of the people polled on Casey’s guilt are convinced she did it, there’s no point on scouting around for somebody else to pin it on.

I still haven’t figured out how Casey’s jury could not find her guilty of Caylee’s murder but guilty of lying to the cops about it.

Why would she lie if she had nothing to lie about? If the lies she told didn’t remove reasonable doubt she did the deed, I don’t know what would.

At this writing, a few jurors have spoken up and the first, an alternate, talked of something going terribly wrong that caused the death. That implies he and I presume other jurors believed the claim that Caylee accidentally drowned, Casey panicked and her father helped get rid of the body. But that alibi was only offered by her attorney in his opening statement plus accusations of molestation of Casey by her father, and the judge warned jurors not to consider such statements without evidence presented to prove it, which was not. If it was true, why didn’t Casey testify?

Much was made of the fact that Casey showed up for sentencing in a fancier outfit than the schoolgirl blouses and skirts she wore as a defendant and let her hair down from the bun or ponytail she wore for a month. Now we were seeing Casey the party girl.

I’ve covered quite a few trials in my day and seen defendants who were dirty, ragged and unshaven on arrest show up for trial looking like college professors in slacks and sweaters on their lawyer’s orders.

Oh well, it’s over, with much effort by various people involved to stress that Casey was not found to be innocent, just that guilt wasn’t proven by the state.

As I see it, we have three choices. 1. Caylee accidentally drowned and the body was dumped in the swamp by Casey, or Casey and her father to avoid the embarrassment of people learning they had neglected to keep an eye on her. 2. When Casey wanted to party into the night she dosed Caylee with chloroform to keep her out of her way and accidentally overdosed her and dumped the body. 3. The necessity of seeing to Caylee cramped Casey’s style so she had to go. Remember, the boyfriend didn’t like Caylee hanging around.

I’ll buy No. 3. The duct take, sticker, use of Caylee’s blanket, no shoes on the body, 30 days of silence on where she was, the lies, failure of Casey to testify, all left me without any reasonable doubt that she did it. She’ll have to answer to God.

If there was one gathering though that I would like to have been a mouse in the corner to hear what was said, it would be when the defense attorney’s and their team got together by themselves after the acquittal and the first person said, “Well, we got her off.”

I wonder how they sleep or how long they’ll see that little bag of bones in their dreams. –Adele

(Adele can be reached at P.O. Box 69, Hansville, WA 98340)