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!!!
Did I mention it was 6 “long” years, the whole last year I wished I was dead (and I started to look like it) they really do suck the very life out of you….. then I guess she was done with what ever game they view us as and left, that started a whole new game, I had to fight to get my son back in this country and I could have never handled it with out this Site, Stout, Hare and the U.S State Dept. (and my Family for really being there for me Big Time)
Thats one area I really believe I can help, if anyone has a child abducted by their exSP (out of the country or even State), boy have I got some tips for you!
They SPs seem to view Children as Property, a way to get attention or a game.
bobert:
They without a doubt see children as possessions, nothing more, nothing less.
To True!!! in the case of Currie V Currie 4545 of 86 in the Perth Family Law Court, the father applied for- and won- Custody of a 14 month old breastfed infant because he wanted to punish the mother for taking her 5 yr old child to the Police Child Abuse Unit after a Sex Abuse Specialist interviewed/examined the 5yr old child and found they definately had been abused by the stepfather as the child alleged..When Police tried to charge the stepfather he denied the allegations and phoned the mother and members of her family, to threaten to punish the mother by taking his child from her.
He convinced another woman to become his defacto and support him in court. He managed to lie well enough in Court to take the child from its mother and siblings and 7 years later tossed the child aside, dumping it back on the mother when he was no longer getting any thrill or feedback, of how much it was hurting the mother, older siblings, grandparents and family members.
zoey:
They are all sick!
Zoey, I think the stupid judges and GALs that fall for this junk should be held accountable….like that Parole board that let the guy who had raped (repeatedly) out of prison for a 50 year fed sentence in 11 yrs, and 8 months of a nickle state sentence…I wish they would make them PAY IF THE GUY REOFFENDS, or say if they have higher than a 20% reoffense rate, then that means they got it right 80% of the time, but if they have a 20% or more reoffense then THEY GO TO JAIL! Would make them THINK hard before letting someone out. But then I’m just a cranky old biatch that thinks criminals belong behind bars.
Just read: “Upon her release from jail, Casey Anthony — perhaps, the most hated woman in America right now — is considering changing her name, changing her appearance, and re-locating to a new home in a secret location, according to a new report.”
“According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orlando, Florida woman is well aware of death threats made against her in wake of her shocking acquittal and is weighing her options for life back on the outside.
In addition to wearing a disguise, she even considered plastic surgery at one point, a source close to her defense team told the Sun-Times.
“There even have been discussions about cosmetic surgery, but Casey has rejected that,” the source told the paper.”
Upon her release, she’ll assume a pseudonym “almost as if she was living in a witness protection-like program,” the source added.
“If she moves on to another location, then it becomes someone else’s responsibility,” Orlando Sheriff Jerry Demings said. “We will not be providing security or protection for Casey once she leaves.”
I am from the UK. I have a child with a sociopath. I have been fighting a court battle for 17months. He is yet to crash and burn. The judge has now given him unsupervised contact with my two year old. He managed to manipulate not only the judge but my solicitor. He had observed sessions where someone watched how he was with my child, as it was a very young girl who did the observations (who wasnt qualified in child development) he managed to charm her, lie after lie, performance after performance. After been granted un supervised he said he couldnt see my child because he was working. Its been a month now. He would turn up stinking like he had been in the gutter and is always un kept, he is over powering with my child, constantly touching, kissing and holding tightly so my child cant move. He never provides for my child or thinks about my childs needs. He loses his temper. This is all a game to him, knowing its upsetting me and my child makes his game even more fun. Maybe sociopaths do crash and burn……its just the people with authority dont pay any attention to it. Until its to late…………
Welcome Liz. There are people on LF who are parenting children with spaths and will be better placed to advise you than me.
I’m sorry that you have had this horrible experience. Spaths use their ‘tricks’ and everyone falls for them!
What I can say is do not give him cause for drama. We call it grey rock on here. Just yes, no, maybe.
One thing that seems to help is if you document everything. dates, times anything you may later need in court.
If he’s not turning up for his visits that’s good. Document.
It has been suggested on here that any anger outbursts are taped for use later (obviously if you do this you need to be VERY careful)
You are right it is a game to him. Show NO emotion and remain NO CONTACT whenever possible.
To “Deb” who wrote, “we can only hope for karma”…
Oh, you bet it will happen to them! I do not even care if my ex spath knows it is ME up here posting this, since I will quote from one source where I exposed him. I wrote, on one exposure spot, that my stepdad
cheated on my mother in their 10th year of marriage. He died within 3 years, after that, of prostate cancer. And if you think there is no “bad KARMA” for men who “remove” the childbearing years of women/wives they have lived with, read the autobiography of Patty Boyd, former wife to musicians George Harrison & Eric Clapton. When she so wanted a child with Eric, he ran off & sired a son w/another woman. I think it was that SAME dead son, that DIED falling out of a window, after which he wrote the song “Tears In Heaven” .. one of the best songs I ever heard. The creating of it does not make him a “hero” in my eyes, nor does it FORGIVE what he did to Patty Boyd! Clapton was also known as an ALCOHOLIC. Not that I am glad that Clapton lost his son, I am not, but.. God Giveth and God Taketh Away. Oh yes. That happens. Don’t doubt it. It will! Yes, I included that statement in a profile about my ex (IMOP, a SPATH), and guess what?..I am NOT afraid if or not he knows that it is ME up here, who reiterates it! To me, exposure is KEY to helping other women to avoid my same fate.
Me having been a professional musical for years, I like to read biographies of famous female musicians, like Tina Turner and Tori Amos. They both seem to speak of horrendous misogyny within the music industry. I hope that more successful female musicians will write books about their “spaths” that affected their lives, for example, I hope that Shawn Colvin will write her own biography, or that someone else will, about her life, to explain just WHO WAS the apparent “spath” about which Shawn wrote her song, “Polaroids”.. get what I am saying? Too often we do not find out about who is/was a “spath” until too late. Think about Sylvia Plath and her ex hubby, Ted Hughes, who seduced, I think, one of Plath’s friends, while married to Plath. Guess what..both ladies committed suicide the SAME WAY! It was said that Hughes, a (wanna be?) writer or not so successful one, before Plath, lived on Plath’s “laurels” .. it was also written, about Hughes, that 1) he colluded with Splath’s psychiatrist, to allegedly have Plath “done in” by psychotropic meds. A lesson in literary history, for those who don’t know about it. That was just my interpretation from reading about Plath. Others might arrive at their own conclusions. It was also written that Hughes was “bisexual” , in one text.