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!!!
Bulletproof you are BEYOND funny. But that is what they do. They disguise and fool. In addition, no shame. And his pure self gratification concept of life and existence clearly shows. An elephant? My God, I would be so embarassed to look like that. I would also immediately become anorexic if someone said that about me. But, I’m sure Mr. Montgomery reads these blogs and finds it all amusing but not embarassing and thinking of a better disguise to come up with.
Reasonable doubt. 2 key words. No reason and doubt. People that do not understand sociopaths will “reasonably doubt” that she did it. Like, was it within reason? And I doubt any HUMAN being would do that was the mindset of the jury. Therefore, she was acquitted. So sad.
My heart dropped when I heard the verdict texted to me from AM 640 KFI radio breaking news. I texted back (even though I knew there would be no response from the text) HOLY SHITTT.
In a few years, Ms. Anthony will have severe liver damage or perhaps die from an overdose or something else tragic. She WILL crash or burn as predicted so correctly by Donna. It was proved that she loves to party and she will do it to the excess in every form or fashion because that is what sociopath’s are: EXTREME.
But I only ask this one question? Why can’t we have every human being placed on a brain scan at birth to prove Dr. Hare’s findings of the evidenced fact that while awake, the SP brain wave pattern while awake is IDENTICAL to a normal person sleeping? This way, we can label and BRAND them. Oh, but then the civil rights groups will intervene won’t they?
I give up and can only vent about it like we do here.
I agree completely that CA will trip herself up again—hopefully in the not-too-distant future—& will crash & burn in some way or another. But just to twist the “she got away with it” knife a little more, there’s some speculation that her immediate future includes Baez whisking her away Sun morning to Pto Rico! And that he’s considering some sort of injunction to keep her from appearing at the depositions for Zenaida Gonzales’ defamation lawsuit. However, all that is just speculation.
bulletproof, I’m with you in wondering if her family caused her sociopathy, or if they were victims of it. I don’t pretend to know exactly what makes a sociopath. But I have heard about Dr. Hare’s & others’ theories about it being an inborn brain “defect”. Of course that would be due to something genetic. If it is detectable in a brain scan, there’s still the apparent fact that environment would be a large factor in ameliorating or aggravating it.
I just feel that, no matter how imperfect the Anthony parents were, the household wasn’t so horribly dysfunctional to account for her behaviors. My family wasn’t “functional”, & it did hinder me in my life, leaving me with behavior patterns, actions & inactions, that took me Many Years to overcome. But somehow I don’t see the Anthonys as being as solely responsible for creating the monster that Casey became…..the one who could kill her child, never report her missing, & coldly destroy her entire family. I do NOT see George as a child rapist or even REMOTELY possibly connected to his granddaughter’s death & dumping in a swamp. Lee…..well, maybe a horny teen-age boy who *might have* groped his teen-age sister once. Okay, that’s not behavior we’d hoped our teen sons exhibit, but it sure wouldn’t cause his sister to do the things she did.
tdpprocessing, on a completely different subject you brot up, I had to laff! TICS!! My SP had those, too…..the most obvious one being obsessively running his fingers over his top lip, which he wasn’t even aware of. I tried to make him aware of it, stupidly thinking that he could stop it if he could catch himself doing it, but he denied ever doing it! And the less-seen one, which was like your SP’s, was patting his penis! Just patting it like a little puppy! He did that one the most when he was laying in bed watching television, but I’d seen him do it many time while sitting at his computer. I just thot, well, he’s a brilliant, eccentric scientist & they often have odd little mannerisms. Only after I found out what he was did I realize that it was part of his brain/personality disorder!
YesIt’sMe:
OMG…mine did the exact same thing with running his finger over his top lip!!! I am saying OMG aloud after reading what you wrote!!! Wow.
YesIt’sMe:
Also, I believe Jose probably will take Casey to PR. He was born there.
I also just read that Cindy Anthony may be charged with perjury. OK, so she can be charged with perjury (I’m assuming it’s regarding the chloroform searches), but if she lied about it and CASEY did the searches, isn’t that some clear evidence???? Especially when chloroform was found in Caylee’s body??? UGGHHH…it all makes me crazy.
Louise,
LOL! & OMG! How weird that they had the same tic! I wonder if that’s a common tic? That & penis-patting! Did you ever try to point it out to him?
Yes/Louise – mine would not wear a belt on his trousers. He used to push both his hands down the front of his trousers. I mean….most guys out their hands in their pockets! Then one night recently I was watching a prison documentary on TV. The guys on there stuffed their hands in their trousers!
YesIt’sMe and candy:
No, mine never patted his penis…at least I didn’t see it, but he’s so perverted, he probably does do this!!!! Wankers!!
YesIt’sMe:
You know…I never realized that as a tic. I just always thought he was nervous. And now I know why! I never pointed it out to him because I thought it was just a nervous habit. Whew!!! How weird is this?
Oops! Louise – I know someone mentioned it and I thought it was you! Mine was always obsessed with his willy.
Im sorry, but closing comments and all that has happened reminds me of why the jury didn’t convict Casey.
It was her dad.
I could see right through him. He did it. He did it, and his wife is covering it up, and Casey refused to get on the stand, all to protect Daddy.
No one tries to commit suicide for no reason at all. He did it, the nasty, molesting, pedafile. Look at Casey’s behavior!!! She is the classic end result of a sick , perverted, secret riddled family.
His family looked up the chloroform sites, the duck tape, the baby learning how to talk, the molestation, the ‘accident’, all classic and no surprises here. I think the jury decided the same thing . They came to the same conclusion.
DADDY did it. And everyone is keeping their mouths shut, because daddy tried to commit suicide, and Casey was going to pay the price.
Hey, good news. Daddy can be found out, and go to trial. He’ll talk. You’ll see.
Some day, it will all become unhidden. Nothing hidden remains that way.
** after posting this*** i want to share a story i just found, it pretty much is what im talking about for those who want to read this.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-legacy-distorted-love/201107/the-casey-anthony-trial-fascination-just-plain-sad?page=2
Here is a quote:
“It is very common, for instance for people to cope in dysfunctional ways when experiencing severe trauma by using drugs, alcohol, sex, and other ways to numb the pain. There is also the factor of dissociation. To cope, the victim often will dissociate and remove herself or himself from the pain. It is possible that the triple trauma of losing one’s child, being a victim of incest, being a child of a narcissistic family, could cause significant trauma to a young woman. Then if one added a horrific and dysfunctional directive of cover-up, what would happen to that young person?
Was there some method to the madness of the father’s suicide attempt, letter, calls to family? We are not to judge this. But, if the cover-up was not working, and his daughter was now arrested and set for trial in a death penalty case, that could cause some significant concern on his part. Could he have been concerned that the sexual abuse allegations would be brought forward? And he would be asked to testify?”
Casey admitted to using chloroform to drug Caylee and left her in the car[most likely in the trunk] so she could go out/party. She blamed the ability to get the chloroform on her mother who worked at a health clinic. According to Docs the use of chloroform has long since been abandoned because of its toxic effects. Doc said that it could not be obtained, even by a doctor. How about ‘Zanny the Nanny’ which is drug talk for Xanax. While the father is a quirky character and certainly looks psychopathic, as does the brother and mother, for that matter, we don’t know that. Casey is psychopathic and I do not for ONE second believe that gal would take the rap for anyone, mom or dad. She’s not going to take her own rap….