I'm a current events junkie, especially when it comes to all things criminal. As such, I have been riveted by the Casey Anthony trial currently underway on True TV. I won't get into the details of the case here because that's not the point of this blog. Instead, I want to focus on the pathology of the Anthony family and Casey Anthony, the "tot mom" being accused of having murdered her two year old daughter back in June of 2008.
What scares me about this case is that Casey Anthony and her family remind me of so many other "good looking" families in America who function on the hairy edge of "virtuous" living. Casey's dad was in law enforcement for many years; mom Cindy was a home home health care provider. Brother Lee was a "marketing wiz" engaged to his girlfriend. And then there was Casey. Casey who is strikingly pretty and had a beautiful baby daughter who looked much like her mom....and who ended up dead and discarded like garbage in some woods very close by to the Anthony family home.
If you have followed the trial at all, you are finding that Casey Anthony, more than anything else, is a pathological liar. She initially claimed not to know where her daughter was at all (for weeks)...and then told her mother it was "Zanny the Nanny" who took Caylee and disappeared. Turns out there was no Zanny, no nanny, no nothing that had anything to do with the "truth" about Caylee's whereabouts. After 31 days of Casey's lies to everyone and anyone involved Casey's life and this case...Caylee's body was found.
As the trial opened last week, Casey's defense attorney stated that Casey was sexually abused since the age of eight by her father George...and that he had first found Caylee dead in the swimming pool at the family home in mid-June 2008. Further, Casey was forced by her father into joining him in an elaborate coverup of Caylee's death. As such, Casey knew all along that her daughter was dead...even when she entered a "hot body" contest at a local club a few days after her daughter's death. Casey also knew when she was telling her parents in taped jailhouse conversations how she felt "Caylee is close by" and "I know Caylee is o.k. in my heart".
I thought Macbeth was the screwiest family saga I had ever been made aware of in my life. Clearly, I was wrong. It's the Anthony family who beats Macbeth hands down when it comes to family dysfunction.
So now we all have had the chance to see the Anthony family nightmare broadcast on national television each day...while watching the talking heads (like Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew, and Jane Velez-Mitchell) analyze what the hell is up with Casey and her family of origin.
The answer to that question is quite simple actually. What is up is nobody knowing whose problems belonged to who in that family for a very very long time....and the legacy that incest, deceit, drama, and God knows what else left behind in the mind of a little girl now on trial for the murder of her own little girl.
Only God knows who did what within the Anthony family that led to the death of little Caylee. Yet there's only one person being placed under scrutiny for this terrible tragedy. Seems to me there aren't enough chairs up at the defense table to hold all the other family members that should be seated on either side of Casey Anthony...
Then again, when have we as a country ever focused on solving the problems that can grow a person from a victimized child to a murderous perpetrator anyway?
I'm just asking....
