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Casey Anthony Charged With First-Degree Murder in Disappearance of her Daughter

As has been expected by Crooked in Canada since the disappearance of toddler Caylee Anthony from Florida, the mother of the missing and presumed dead 3-year-old has been indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges.

In order for the 19-member grand jury panel to deliver their first-degree murder to indictment, the jurors had to agree whether or not there was enough evidence to charge the 22-year-old mother with her daughter’s murder, and given the circumstantial evidence against Casey Anthony, some of which was very compelling, the grand jury didn’t have any qualms about charging the mother with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, and four counts of lying to investigators.

The fact that the child had been missing for several weeks before she was reported missing, the borrowing of a shovel from a neighbour, the fact that Casey (the mother) stole two jerry cans of gasoline from the family home, the presence of an odour of a decomposing body in the trunk of the car, hair samples and stains believed have come from Caylee in that same trunk, the discovery of chloroform (a toxin often used in crimes to knock a person out), information on Casey computer that indicated that she was researching how to use chloroform, the coldness in which she treated the disappearance of her daughter, and the fact that she lied to investigators from the onset of their investigation is more than enough evidence to deliver a first-degree murder indictment, and the 19-member panel hearing that testimony would have had no problem arriving at their decision to charge the mother with first-degree murder.

My theory on what happened; I think that rather than having to pay a babysitter to look after her child while she went partying at a nightclub, Casey used chloroform to knock her then 2-year-old child out, and that when she returned home drunk out of her skull, she found her daughter dead. Upon discovery of the dead body and after composing herself from the trauma of having discovered that she accidentally killed her daughter, Casey set in motion a plan to cover-up the death, a plan which included digging a hole in the ground, throwing that body into the hole, dousing it with gasoline and lighting a match. Casey would have made certain that the body was never found. That it was reduced to ashes, save the child’s teeth.

After the body was reduced to ashes I think Casey filled up the hole and left the scene, confident that without a body she could never be charged with her crime without a the presence of a body. She celebrated the fact that she truly believed she was now going to get away with causing the death of her child, and that would explain why when her child was missing she was out partying. She had cause for celebration (at least SHE thought she did), believing that there was no way in hell she would ever be charged with the disappearance of her daughter, let alone her death.

Believing that she had gotten away with murder, Casey returned the shovelled she borrowed, and returned the two jerry cans to her mother’s home, and then set in motion a plan a motion to convince others that her child had been kidnapped. Of course as we all know now, her plan has unravelled and now she is sitting in jail waiting to go trial, and from this moment on her party days are over. She is destined to rot in jail for the rest of her life.

She will be found guilty in the death and disappearance of her child, make no mistake about it given the evidence against her, but it’s too bad it can’t be proven that she deliberately killed her daughter; otherwise she would be facing the death penalty. The gas chamber or electric chair (I don’t know what they use for executing somebody in Florida) should be waiting for Casey, but sadly for Caylee that won’t be the case, unless of course during the trial or before the case goes to trial evidence appears that shows that Casey deliberately went out of her way to end her unwanted daughter’s life.

That said, I also believe that Cindy Anthony, Casey’s mother and grandmother to Caylee, should be charged as an accessory in this case as I have no doubt in my mind that she knew all along what happened to her grand-daughter and that she helped her daughter cover her tracks. Cindy Anthony isn’t as acknowledgeable about what happened to her grand-daughter as she is claiming, and I for one think she is due a little taste of American justice herself. Cindy Anthony helped her daughter cover-up the circumstances that led to the disappearance, and may have even helped in the disposal of the body, though as long as Cindy declines to come clean about the latter, that will never be proven.

At the end of the day justice for Caylee is on its way, and it’s about time.

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Aset Magomadova has always contended that she strangled her 14-year-old daughter in self-defence, which in my opinion is a crock of shit. Since when does somebody, never mind a murder victim’s mother, strangle somebody in self-defence?

Think about it for a minute, if it is in self-defence why would you choke somebody to death who would have been rendered unconscious during the act of strangulation in the first place, and secondly if one was able to get close enough to strangle an unarmed person how much of a threat was that person anyway?

The way I see it, if Magomadova was able to get physically close enough to restrain her daughter enough to strangle her, then obviously the daughter wasn’t a threat. It sounds to me like the murderer was in total control of the perceived threat, in fact she would have had to have been to strangle her daughter.

Self-defence my ass. It was murder plain and simple.

Magomadova’s lawyer sounds like a real piece of work too. According to Mark Tynedale he is claiming that Tuesday, October 14 was a bad day for his client, that she was doing as well as expected, but not a word was said about the daughter the mother is accused of murdering.

His client’s “bad day” is no worse than that of the daughter she claims to have killed on February 26, 2007. He’s going to lose this courtroom battle and he knows it, otherwise he wouldn’t have convinced his client to be tried by judge and jury. He knows the only hope his client has is if she is able to tell her lies in front of a jury and that those lies are bought by that jury.

She’s going to jail. She knows it, her lawyer knows and any rational human being following this case knows it.

This isn’t a case of self-defence otherwise Judge Sean Dunnigan would not have concluded that a reasonably-instructed jury could convict Magomadova on second-degree murder. The judge has his doubts about her self-defence claims and so do I.