Much of the United States erupted in outrage at the news that Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder. Bloggers and citizens asked: What was wrong with the jury? Couldn’t these 12 people see through her lies? Even if they had been sequestered for the trial, the media had been reporting her loose relationship with truth for years.
Read Casey Anthony’s top 10 alleged lies on Investigation Discovery.
Lies, however, do not prove that Anthony committed murder. Even Wendy Murphy, the feminist lawyer who vociferously supports battered mothers and abused children, predicted that Casey Anthony would walk. Why? The prosecution did not have proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, that she committed the crime.
Read Wendy Murphy: Why Casey Anthony will be acquitted, on PatriotLedger.com.
Psychologists have had a field day with the case. The Psychology Today website has 17 posts, by various experts, on the topic. They’ve covered many aspects of the case, including Why do moms kill? and The science of jury selection.
Visit Not Guilty: The case of Casey on PsychologyToday.com.
Lovefraud readers are probably in agreement that Casey Anthony is somewhere on the narcissist-sociopath-psychopath scale. How did she get that way? She had to inherit the genetics from somewhere in her family tree. Then, since the origin of sociopathy is a mixture of genetic and environmental factors, her dysfunctional family probably played a role in the development of the disorder. Maybe she was, as the defense claimed, abused by her father.
In the end, we don’t know how Casey Anthony acquired her sociopathic traits. But I am fairly confident in predicting that at some point, because of her sociopathy, Casey Anthony will crash and burn.
Sociopaths as failures
As a group, sociopaths tend to be failures. They end up with health issues, financial problems and legal problems. They usually die sooner than people who are not personality disordered.
Just this week, I’ve received news about three of our True Lovefraud Stories:
James Montgomery: My ex-husband, who now lives in Australia, tried to hook up with a woman a few years ago and invited her to visit him. She did, and was not impressed. When he fell asleep on the couch, she snuck away and never talked to him again. The woman just saw Montgomery at a train station and reports, “He’s the size of an elephant, has a long white beard and dresses like a hippie.” So much for the guy who promised me that we’d be living “in the lap of luxury.”
Brian Ellington: I hear about this guy more than anyone else profiled on Lovefraud. The most recent news is that he was arrested again in New York City on June 11, 2011. The charges: drug possession with intent to distribute.
Anthony Owens: A commenter submitted this to the “Fight Bigamy” blog: “Bishop Anthony Owens passed away in a hospital on Tuesday, July 05, 2011 in a hospital in Memphis, TN. Funeral services is incomplete at this time.” Anthony Owens was not yet 40 years old.
So although sociopaths have highly inflated opinions of themselves, usually the charade falls apart. I’m sure that sooner or later, Casey Anthony will screw up on a large enough scale to put her out of circulation. Even sociopaths who skated for a long time eventually failed. Look at O.J. Simpson. Look at Bernie Madoff.
I would just like to seem them fail sooner, and with less collateral damage to the rest of us.
UPDATE 7/15/11:
Just got more information on exactly how James Montgomery was “dressed as a hippie.” Apparently there are hippie communes where Montgomery now lives in Australia, and my source speculates that he has joined one because that’s the only way he can afford to live. Here’s what she said:
He was wearing: red/orange pants, hippie sandles, caftan like long top to ankles in multiple colours, big round glasses with pink lenses, long scarf draped around his neck and over his shoulder nearly touching the ground and a hat which looked like a beanie. A long white beard probably about 12/15inches long and I would say weighing about 150 to 175 kilos or more (330 to 385 pounds). Imagine a man 6ft 2ins tall 175 kgs and wearing that get up!!!
Dear Peggy,
We can’t expect the court system to protect us, even though we have been brought up that it is there for that purpose. That is an eye opener and a betrayal to most of us when we find out that it won’t do its job.
I hope that you can find a way to get out of the prison that you are in…God bless.
Some times the law is there for us, but we have to end up doing the research and pushing the issue, and run the risk of looking aggressive ourself …. then they think no wonder she left him he must be a riot to live with….its a catch 22 were are put in 🙁
I had to even tell my own lawyer put your self in my shoes for a second (its not disgruntalled ex syndrome) My Son was abducted, I have been left for dead, buried alive and I am digging my nails in the top of the coffin trying to get some sort of justice for my son and I.
Sometimes lawyers (your own!) can burn you into the ground as bad or worse then your exSP….
BOBERT, AMEN!
I’m jumping in on the blog thread, today, responding to ErinBrock’s blog line, ““I would like to see them fail sooner, and with less collateral damage to the rest of us [] Long white beard, 350lbs, orange pants”.and still trying to ’charm’ women?—.Sounds like a winner to me!!!! Eeeesh!”
My ex spath had a white ponytail when I began my relationship with him. I think he thought he looked like the “artsy” hubby of Sally Jesse Rafael, but that ponytail kept making his hairline recede even more. LOL. 2 years into our relationship, he “let” me cut his hair and from that point on, let me cut it each month. He sat, naked, between my legs, towel wrapped around his neck, him sitting on a pillow on the floor, while I cut it, and I sat on a couch.
He may go back to wearing a ponytail since he has majorly been exposed on the internet. He might very well try to change his appearance so others will not recognize him.
In the end, he reminded me of another sociopath, from a LifeTime movie I saw (cannot recall the name of it), about some spath in Canada who ran a commune, had a “harem” of women he had conned into “accepting” polygamy, supposedly he was incestuous with his children, too. He got caught, though, when he lopped off the hand of one of his women who finked on him. If anyone can remember the name of that LifeTime film, I would appreciate knowing it.
Peace to all,
Zim
Because I am (or usually am, when I am hired) a professional musician, my recommendation for one method of healing from a SPATH, is to listen to “healing music” .. it took that for me to repair my musical soul after he sucked mine dry, “enjoining” me to form musical “combos” and “projects” with him, sucking the soul and talents right out of me, to get his narcissistic “fix”. You see, SPATHS raise you WAY UP HIGH, to bring you down, often years later, and bring you down, typically, WAY LOWER than you were before you met them. This week, my favorite “healing” CD is Eva Cassidy’s “Simply Eva” .. especially her cover of Cristie McVie’s tune, “Songbird”, because not only can it apply to the new lover we might have found, since the spath, but also to our new-found friends, in gratitude of them. And if you can’t afford to buy the CD, you can listen to Eva performing it on YouTube”a very healing song, indeed.
You see, I think that my ex could not accept my firm “stance” and unspoken insistence that I WOULD NOT be his “groupie” like other women before me.., that he knew that I was at least his “equal” (if not his “better”) in music, professionally, was JEALOUS of me, so he sought the next victim, who is NOT a musician..a groupie, I think (her ex hubby was also a musician, but a MUCH BETTER musician than my ex, classically trained, and who truly loved her. My ex broke up their marriage, her second. He knew her vulnerability because her FIRST husband, I think, was also a SPATH who had abandoned her..he did it SERIALLY..went after MARRIED women..tried to break up their marriages, IMOP!)..see how they manipulate?
Not sure, but I think the title of that LifeTime movie I mentioned, above, had the word “Devil” in it. I would really like to buy a copy of that movie/episode, so if any of you saw it, please let me know the title of it, okay?
I believe that LifeTime movie was based on a TRUE story..can’t be sure, though, until I buy a copy of it, as I do not remember, but, typically, at the end of those LifeTime movies, the credits tell about what happened to the spaths, justice-wise, if it was a true story. I think it was a true story.
zim: you are so right on music!!!!!!!!!!! I used and still use music to heal and express my emotions. I listened to Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and Christie McVie a LOT during my break, when the pain was seriously intense.
Especially the song by Stevie Nicks entitled: “Landslide”. My absolute favorite song that helped my healing!
Also by Stevie: “Stand Back”, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” and of course, “Dreams”.
Eva Cassidy does a fantastic job on “Songbird”.
And after that phase passed, I moved to Andrea Bocelli to quiet my soul! â¤
Thanks for reminding us of how important music is for healing!
My daughter is a professional musician/singer/songwriter. Very talented, but has gone into Goth……
I will say she sings Amy Lee’s “My Immortal” as good, if not better, than Lee. Now, THAT song is awesome and Amy Lee is a VERY talented concert/classically trained pianist gone Goth. I urge anyone who has not listened to Amy Lee to google “My Immortal” on youtube and listen [overlook the Goth scene, if offends].
I have added the link to Amy Lee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo
But, then again, Pat Benatar is a trained opera singer who went into rock. I like Pat…listened/listen to a lot of her music-a great song by Pat, that addresses a P personality-“Fire and Ice”.
I also listen to opera/classical/pop/rock. Depends on my mood.
To wanttomoveon,
“I am told by many that my ex though he is living a life and now has caught his next victim a 31 year old estonian bartender (he is 46), he will pay the price. They are living together and recently evicted for not paying rent. He has been able to charm a next renter and snuck out before the current land lord can collect the judgment from them. When I see he keeps on getting away it is really hard that he is not paying the price and knows how to play the system”
My ex left me, breaking our rental lease. Before leaving, he did not pay me HALF of the security deposit, that I paid IN FULL (he could not pay half of it, so I paid full, even though he paid for half the first month’s rent), with our first month’s rent..when he KNEW that the security deposit would have been reimbursed IN FULL, from our landlord, when and if I later vacated the premises, and IF the property was “in tact” .. according to our lease. Well..neither did he, it appears now, in retrospect, “keep up” the landlord’s expectation of, at least, HIS end of responsibility for “keeping up” the property [the “most” he ever did, regularly, IMOP, to “keep up” the property, was mow the lawn, and rake the leaves, regularly, and, at least twice, he raked the leaves with the help of two small boys, who each appeared to be under the age of 9. I wondered, years later, about that..about him hiring or convincing TWO YOUNG boys to help him do that. It seems, now, that he did not clear the gutters of leaves properly, before he left. Consequently, the gutter fell down, so that, when I finally moved out, about 10 months after he left me, the landlord would not reimburse me for a major part of that security deposit I otherwise would have been reimbursed from the landlord. These A-holes are SNEAKY AZZ b@zt@rds..they KNOW how to get away with the LEAST pain/trouble, with their “escape routes/hatches”