Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Jailhouse Letters

While awaiting trial, Casey Anthony managed to strike up a jailhouse friendship with a fellow inmate. They became "penpals" sneaking letters to each other through a book. The inmate is now in federal prison on drug charges but the letters (some available here ) paint a picture of a very immature young woman.

It is hard to say if Casey Anthony realized that these letters could be found and used against her and because of that she purposely wrote them the way that she did or she is showing her true colors in the ramblings of these letters to a fellow inmate.

The letters pain the picture of someone who is very self-absorbed and as the jailhouse visits with her parents showed, she is self-absorbed. She always seemed to be more concerned about being locked up then where Caylee was.

In the letters Casey seems to "set up" her defense by suggesting that her brother Lee and quite possibly (she wasn't sure) her father George had fondled her at night when she was growing up. She talks about forgiving her brother but also questions why she is having nightmares about her father possibly abusing her when she was only in elementary school.

She rarely mentions Caylee and only says how she had planned to move out of her parents' home. She states how she had money saved up and purchased new "everything" so that she and Caylee could leave and start a new life away from her family. She sets up her story about Zanny, saying it was someone she knew for 4 years and in secret this Zanny was helping her to leave her family.

How was she saving money when she didn't even have a job??? 

She says the reason she didn't report Caylee missing is because to her, she wasn't missing. Zanny was in some unknown location waiting for Casey to be ready to leave her parents and set off on her own with Caylee.

She also says that Zanny wasn't responsible for what happened to Caylee. Okay, so who was?

When she got locked up she was angry with Zanny for not coming forward with Caylee. According to Casey, she had a plan that went wrong. The tension in the Anthony household was too much for her and she wanted to take Caylee and leave. She had told her mother about the abuse at the hands of her brother and her mother accused her of wrongdoing. She says that she has been betrayed over and over.

She really sounds like a rebellious and ungrateful teenager in these letters. The relationship and bond that she forms with this other inmate is just one sign that she is emotionally immature.

On an interview I saw today, Casey's attorney Jose Baez says that he doesn't want to say anything about Casey but he does say that she is a "very intelligent" woman and "very much involved" in how her defense is being set up.

Of course her defense attorney is not going to say that she is a stupid, immature woman but is he being truthful about Casey's intelligence?

Maybe Casey really is intelligent and conniving enough to have written these letters knowing that they would be used against her?



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