Yesterday I happened to be watching CNN as the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial was announced. Like much of America, I was stunned that she was acquitted. From the reports I’ve seen about Anthony’s pathological lying and lack of concern about her missing daughter, I am confident that she exhibits sociopathic traits. A criminal profiler came out and said on national television that she is a psychopath. See:
Profiler says letters show Casey Anthony to be a psychopath
All of us at Lovefraud know what sociopaths/psychopaths are capable of. So I was more stunned by one of the so-called CNN pundits, Dr. Frank Farley, who came on the show later. He said that the prosecution’s theory of Casey Anthony’s motive for murder was ludicrous. No mother, he claimed, would kill her child simply so she could go out and party.
Farley actually posted his views in a blog piece on CNN, in an article called Infanticide in order to party: A nonsense motive. He wrote:
No credible motivational psychology that I know of would support that a single mother who seemed to love her child and who had lots of back-up parenting, in the grandparents and perhaps even from a brother, would go through the careful planning and complex, unpredictable, scary process of killing and disposing of her child in order to get a bit more free time.
This could not be true, unless she was seriously mentally ill, and no available evidence showed that. To go against that deep human instinct to take care of a child, and instead kill that child, demands a very significant reward in the opposite direction, and partying doesn’t rise to that level.
What sane human being could wake up in the morning and say, “Gee, I could have a fun time if I killed my daughter.” There was also no evidence that Caylee was a difficult child whose behavior could lead her mother into a homicidal rage. This whole scheme goes against our deepest instincts rooted in thousands of years of evolution.
Obviously, the guy knows nothing about sociopaths. These disordered individuals have no love motivation. They are capable of killing for the flimsiest of reasons. Take the case of Diane Downs, cited in Dr. Robert Hare’s book, Without Conscience. She shot her three children in 1983 so she could carry on an affair.
ABC News recently aired interviews with Diane Downs, along with a clinical diagnosis: psychopath. Watch the videos here:
1983 Video: Mom who shot kids speaks on ABCNews.go.com.
Professor Farley
Now here’s what is really scary: Frank Farley, Ph.D., is a psychologist and professor at Temple University, and former president of the American Psychological Association. He teaches educational psychology to graduate students. Here’s his biography:
Frank Farley, Ph.D., Temple University College of Education
Farley has come up with this goofy theory of “Type T Personalities.” The “T,” he says, stands for “thrill-seeking,” and certain people are driven to a life of constant stimulation and risk-taking. In fact, he recently wrote an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, claiming that this is why politicians cheat on their wives. I mentioned it in a recent blog post:
More on powerful men behaving badly
Actually, cheating politicians are probably displaying their sociopathic tendencies—grandiosity, overactive sex drive, recklessness, sense of entitlement. But Farley doesn’t get it. He also doesn’t get that it is quite possible for a woman to kill her child for barely any motivation.
And this is what he is teaching to his educational psychology students. No wonder so many people do not know that the sociopathic personality disorder exists.
Ox Drover
Diane Downs was a piece of work folks, she and Casey are a pair of book ends. The only lies I have heard that are MORE OUTRAGEOUS THAN THOSE TOLD BY THOSE TWO is the one I read the other day where the dictator of N. Korea said that on his FIRST ROUND EVER OF GOLF he made a 38 INCLUDING 5 HOLES-IN-ONE! That takes the cake for the WORST and MOST UNBELIEVABLE LIE TOLD BY A PSYCHOPATH. LOL
Seriously Diane Downs and Casey are a pair….Yea, the boy I think it was that was paralyzed and WC bound and the girl, the one who testified, the oldest survivors of the attack, were adopted by the DA and the baby by a couple out of state, the little girl didn’t know til she was 11 and a baby sitter accidently let it slip. Diane had escaped from prison so the parents had to let a FEW people in on it in case Diane found out where the baby had gone and came for her….and it back fired. Diane escaped to be with the HUSBAND of one of her fellow inmates. They found her not far from the prison shacked up in a motel with the guy.
Can you imagine though what would have happened if she had gotten off?
I’m with Katy on this, I think the jury were idiots and did not know the first thing about what “reasonable doubt” is all about. HOW exactly the baby died, by blunt force trauma, drowning, or duct tape DOES NOT MATTER…she was murdered. Period. There is enough circumstantial evidence to convict the Virgin Mary and Casey is definitely not that! “Circumstantial evidence” does not have to be a VIDEO TAPE of the crime.
I think CSI and all the media fake cop shows have convinced the public that there has to be ABSOLUTE proof how a victim died. Well, there have been good cases made when the body was NEVER FOUND, MUCH LESS HOW THE PERSON DIED.
skylar
Ana,
Nancy Grace is a well known legal analyst for CNN. She has her own show and a really big, obnoxious mouth. But she specializes in bringing media attention to missing kids and unsolved cases in ways that only she can because of her loud and opinionated behavior. There are pros and cons to what she does. Apparently, we just saw the con side.
KatyDid
Lacy Petersen was found headless and no intestines. Cause of death was impossible to determine. Yet, no one thought she just fell into the lake. Some smart person thought, hmmm. MURDER.
KatyDid
Wasn’t Nancy Grace the catalyst for someone’s suicide or murder? Seems to me she was so obnoxious on the commercial I watched, where she decisively pronounced the guilty outcome of person perpetrating an event that NEVER happened.
Ana
Sky,Oxy,
Thanks for the explanation. I’m glad I don’t have cable!
Oxy, My husband can’t stand to watch those fake cop shows on tv. He points out every time a constitutional law gets broken! That drive me crazy, lol.
OMG that guy said he got a 38? I told husband and we were crackin up. Oh, so he’s better than Phil Mickelson? LOLOLOL
Ox Drover
Ana, yea, I don’t have cable either and Nancy Grace grates on my nerves big time….I can’t stand to hear the sound of her voice, she talks like she is yelling “fire!” all the time. She has gotten worse and worse since she started I think. I used to have cable but turned it off after my husband died 7 years ago…in fact, next week will be the seventh anniversary of his death.
skylar
I don’t have TV either but I’ve been going to the health club and watching some stuff while I work out. OMG, I can’t believe the filth on TV. Once you get away from it for awhile, you become sensitized again. And BTW, it’s gotten worse in the year and half since I pulled the plug. The Kardasian sisters seem to be leading the way with outrageous behaviors. Doing each other’s bikini wax on TV??? WTF???
Luckily, at the gym, I can’t actually hear the TV shows, I have to read the subtitles at the bottom to know what’s going on. So it’s easy just to look away and watch a different TV.
Ana
Oxy,
Yep, It must be like my husband listening to Alex Jones. That man’s voice to me is like fingernails on a chalk board. Thank God, he wears headphones so I don’t have to hear him.
Seven years, that’s a long time. I’m sure you miss him, but are carrying on. I don’t think it ever really leaves you, the loss. Some wise old woman I used to work on told me when my twin died “you have to go on because if you don’t it will kill you” Her husband had died as well. Anniversaries sure bring up stuff!
Ana
Sky,
LOL! That’s where I see a lot of the news. Gross Huh? I think good lawd just get me five more minutes on these stairs!! The tv is a good distraction from your quads on fire lol.
Thank God I’ve not seen the Kardasians giving each other a wax job…ugh.
Ox Drover
I can think of a few folks I’d like to give a bikini wax job to! LOL ROTFLMAO