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On June 9, 2008, two year old Caylee Marie Anthony goes “missing” in Orange County, Florida. Could she actually be missing, or is there more to the story than her mother, Casey Anthony, isn’t telling us? Casey Anthony is believed to have allegedly murder her two year old child, so she could have more of a social life. I have done some research on this case myself, and I have come to the conclusion that Casey Anthony is, in fact, guilty of Aggravated Manslaughter to a Child. Casey Anthony gave birth to Caylee on August 9, 2005, at the age of 19. On June 9, 2005 Casey claims Caylee is “missing.” She says she dropped Caylee off at a babysitter’s house, but that is later proven to be a lie. Cindy Anthony, Casey’s mother, says she last …show more content…

Cindy later finds Casey’s car, which contains an awful stench of death, which later proves to be the odor of human decomposition on July 15, 2008. On the same day, Casey admits to not seeing her daughter for more than 30 days. “Casey was arrested on July 16, 2008, for suspicion of child neglect. She was later released on August 21, when bounty hunter Leonard Padilla posted a $500,000 bail. Padilla hoped Casey would lead detectives to find Caylee, but he was disappointed when she failed to provide additional clues. Padilla labeled Casey narcissistic and promiscuous, fueling the fires of public sentiment against the young woman. The case became a national media sensation, and many in the public and the press were outraged at Casey’s behavior. Casey was back in jail only eight days after being released, this time charged with forging checks and identity theft.”(Biography p. 2) Casey was in and out of jail throughout the whole trial; proving that she didn’t care about her two year old daughter being gone. “Somebody searched ‘fool-proof suffocation’ the day Caylee died; it was Casey Anthony who did the search. Casey’s lawyer lied and said it was her father who searched it to kill

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The prosecution believed that Casey Anthony chloroformed Caylee leading to her death. Casey then drove around with Caylee’s deceased body in the back of her car for days until it ran out of gas and she left it abandoned on the side of a road. Casey then dumped Caylee’s body in the woods 15 houses from the Anthony home for the duration on the summer until the body was found in December 2008. The prosecution also found evidence that they believe collaborates Casey knew that Caylee was deceased by the fact that Casey got a tattoo just days after Caylee went missing on her shoulder that said “Bella Vita” which means “Beautiful Life” in Italian on July 2nd, 2008.

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The odor in the trunk of her car smelled of a decomposed body. There was a stained paper towel with fatty acids on it. There was also a presence of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car. During the trial, investigation searched Casey Anthony’s car. The hypothesis that Casey Anthony put away her little

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The Casey Anthony case is the trial of Casey Anthony for the death and murder of Caylee Anthony. The two parties in this case are Casey Anthony against the state of Florida. The trial is a criminal case because it is involving a murder of a child. The trial was originally heard in state court. Although Casey Anthony plead not guilty on the first degree murder charge, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child, she was convicted of the misdemeanor which was giving false information to the police and authorities and was given 4 consecutive years of jail time (one year per count) and was fined 1,000$ for each of her four counts (4,000$ in total).

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USA TODAY published an article “Casey Anthony breaks her silence: I sleep pretty good at night.” Anthony did an interview with Associated Press speaking about the case and her daughter’s death for the first time. The Associated Press said that the interview with Anthony was “revealing, bizarre and often contradictory, and ultimately raised more question than answers about the case.” In the interview with Associated Press, Anthony admitted to lying to the police about a number of things such as her employment, leaving her child with a babysitter, and receiving a call from Caylee before she went missing. During the trial, the defense stated that Caylee had drown in the pool and then Casey Anthony’s father tried to cover up the accident.

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Evidence showed Casey researched the use of chloroform prior to Caylee’s death, and the judge presumes "... She may have utilized [chloroform] to keep the baby quiet ... and just used too much of it, and the baby died” (Bowerman). No one will ever know the real circumstances regarding Caylee’s early demise, but the case made national coverage and motivated activists to propose new

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Casey Anthony Trial Casey Anthony, who is now Twenty-Eight years old, was accused of murdering her two year old daughter, Caylee Anthony around June 2008. In 2011 the mother was acquitted of the charges of murdering her daughter. While researching for information on the case, I found that the young child had been missing for nearly a month before the mother had mentioned anything about her daughter missing. Casey’s mother, Cindy Anthony, called into the police the disappearance of her granddaughter, after Casey had made up several lies about where Caylee could possibly be. In this paper it will discuss the trial thoroughly from the lies, the evidence, and the verdict with more information from the trial.

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“DNA testing later revealed neither George nor Casey's brother, Lee Anthony, was Caylee's father” (Lohr). Leading up to setting her father up, Casey revealed a new theory of what happened to her daughter. Anthony told two doctors in different interviews that she suspected her father of taking Caylee out of her mother’s bed and having a sexual episode with the toddler, and then drowned her to cover it up. Casey believes he was abusing her, and he held her under water to cover it up. George Anthony attempted suicide and the defense attorney’s used that against him, saying that it was his way out of the guilt” (NG, McDonald).

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On the Google search history these searches were found “neck breaking" and "how to make chloroform" supporting the reason why chloroform was found in the back of Casey’s car. Those to searches give evidence as to how Casey killed her daughter. The way not mattering as much as why was that searched on her Google browser in the first place? Well Casey searching those terms on Google shows that she had been planning to kill. A strand of hair was recovered from the trunk of Casey's car which was similar to the hair taken from Caylee Anthony's hairbrush.

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Baez also says that Caylee drowned in the Anthony family pool on June 16, 2008, and that George and Casey Anthony covered up the death.” (Trial Fast Facts) The defense claims that the traces of chloroform found in the trunk occurred while covering up Caylee’s drowning. The prosecution argued that Anthony was a party girl, and unconcerned about her daughter. They stated that Anthony was responsible for the death of

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The remains of Caylee Anthony were found 31 days after she was reported missing but after seeing what shape the body was in forensic scientists said the body may have been there for as long as 6 months. The body was so decomposed by the time it was found they could not determine a cause of death but they did rule it a homicide. They found that the body and bones of Caylee Anthony had been gnawed on by animals in the woods. The forensic scientists also said that the bones were

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Caylee was a sweet innocent little girl who probably was scared and terrified. And, many of you may assume that Casey could have been terrified and was actually innocent. But, she wasn’t, nothing about Casey was innocent.

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Lead defense attorney Jose Baez suggested, at the trial, that the little girl drowned and Casey Anthony's father, George, helped cover up the incident. The former judge for the case believes the Casey Anthony killed her toddler daughter, but not own purpose. “Considering the high levels of chloroform that was found in the trunk of the car, that was my logical deduction for what happened,' Perry said. ' That’s just a theory. The only person that actually knows what happened is Casey

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In the Casey Anthony case, she says that her daughter drowned in a pool because of her lack of attention towards her daughter. So was the jury accurate in their decision of saying she was not guilty? The trial had begun on May 10, 2011 three years after two-year-old Caylee Anthony had been reported missing. After a few months of investigation, investigators had found Caylee’s skeletal remains

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Caylee’s grandmother called the police after a month of not seeing her grandchild, noticing she went missing. She also reported her car smelled like there had been a dead body in it. Caylee’s grandmother said her daughter Casey had given various explanations as to where her daughter was week after week before calling the cops. Casey had also lied to the detectives that her daughter had been kidnapped by a babysitter on June 9th and tried to warn the police but was too scared. Finally Casey was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not

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Shockingly, as the top headline of the news spread worldwide, the world came in silence when Caylee’s skeletal remains were found on December 11, 2008 that were found with a blanket inside of a trash bag in a wooded area near the family home (Death of Caylee Anthony”). After recovering all of Caylee’s remains, investigators gave reports and a trial testimony explaining the duct tape that was found at the front of the skull and on the mouth of the skull. During the trial, the medical examiner explained that the duct tape was the main reason as to why Caylee’s murder was ruled as a homicide. The court trial lasted six weeks from May to July of 2011, the investigation and testimonies was a very important role in this case. Of course, the prosecution sought the death penalty since Casey murdered her daughter by administering chloroform and applying duct tape to her mouth and head.

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