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Originally Posted by Reincarnate

If the "drowning" story was real, then why the hell was there duct tape on the remains? Why was there so much browser history about drugs (things like chloroform, which was likely used to sedate the child)? What kind of mother goes for 31 days without reporting a missing child to the police, all the while partying it up? The odor in the car, according to forensics experts, was consistent with human decomposition and had traces of chloroform. Casey lied about Caylee's father, lied about her job, lied to the police, stole money, stole checks, borrowed a shovel, made up stories about "Zanny the nanny," lied about the empty apartment, was guilty of fraud, made up stories about being sexually abused by her brother/father, etc.

Who makes an accidental drowning look like murder? If it was truly an accident, she would have been too shocked to just go out and party. Why sit in jail on a death penalty charge if you know it's an accident -- why not speak up to the parents, even? At that point, you're on trial for *murder* under the gun for something you supposedly did not do. It's not believable, either, that the grandfather would cover up an accident like that and blame his own kid (especially as a former detective/cop).

We're supposed to ignore all that and say "Alright, despite all these demonstrably false claims she's made, we're going to accept a random explanation given three years later down the line as the truth -- an explanation which, in itself, we can only accept as a possibility without any proof?"

Complete crap.

In every accidental drowning case, you ****ing call 911 because you hope the paramedics can save your child. You don't wrap up the baby, duct tape it, and throw it away somewhere.

Casey walked because there wasn't enough to tie her to a murder charge. Yeah, the evidence is circumstantial. Yeah, there's no hardlinked evidence tying her to a guilty verdict. But this is another "common sense is obvious" case. Unfortunately, courts don't work that way. But Scott Peterson was convicted without any hardlinked evidence, either, so all I can say is "the courts are a crapshoot."

Totally agree with you, especially the bolded part. I feel that society is slowly moving away from using intuition, which I believe is equally if not more important than cold hard facts.