In 2008, there was a woman considered “the most hated woman in America” named Casey Anthony. Casey Anthony was a twenty-five year old woman who had supposedly murdered her two year old daughter, Caylee Anthony. Caylee was born on August 9th, 2005 and lived with her mother and grandparents in Orlando, Florida. On July 15th, 2008, Caylee had been missing for 31 days, and no one knew of her whereabouts. Her mother had not notified anyone or taken any action to find her before until Casey’s mother called 9-1-1 that morning. Caylee’s remains were not found until December 11th, 2008 in Orange County, Florida. Casey Anthony is guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter because of how frequently she lied throughout her lifetime, how long it took …show more content…
Anthony’s car trunk had “tested positive for chloroform and human decomposition and a strand of Caylee's hair was found in the cars trunk.” (Banfield). Chloroform is a colorless liquid which was formerly used in the US as an anesthetic, but was later banned. Another piece of evidence were the suspicious google searches the Anthony family computer had such as chloroform, chest trauma, internal bleeding, how to make chloroform, neck breaking, and foolproof suffocation. Although these searches were not known of until after she was proven not guilty. George Anthony, a former police officer, described the odor as a strong smell and said he became concerned when he opened her daughter’s car trunk because it smelled like decomposing human bodies he had encountered before. As for the strand of hair found in the trunk, an FBI hair analyst stated that the strand came from a dead body because of the “darkened band at the root portion of the hair. This is consistent with apparent decomposition," Lowe said during the court session this morning.” (Hopper, Banfield). Anthony’s defense team challenged this evidence and came to a conclusion that the 2-year old had accidentally drowned in Cindy and George’s swimming