When one follows the Casey Anthony story, it is clear that everyone you run into has an opinion of her guilt or innocence. It has become a charged atmosphere in public opinion, for sure. When I first started writing about the case and some of the events surrounding it, the one thing that shocked me was the inability of most people to even consider some other ideas that have not been part of their understanding of all of it. People simply weren’t able to have honest debate about a lot of stuff that has happened surrounding the story.

Everyone points their fingers and says, “This is why Casey is guilty” and “Here are the reasons why I believe she did it.” What pops up its nefarious little head, is the fact that most all of the reasons why people say she’s guilty has nothing to do with any evidence that proves she did it. Where’s the smoking gun? Where in all this hubbub and cacophony is the proof that she did it? Now I have heard countless reasons why people think she did it, but not one of them is based in any concrete fact of proof for the public that shows it, just conjecture and self-imposed opinions that make one believe she is guilty.

People will say she did it for this reason or that. Some say that no one would react the way she did or do the things she did, after her daughter was missing. Why didn’t she react this way or why didn’t she react that way? Why did she lie? It must mean she’s guilty. People will say, if my little girl was gone, this is what I would do. All valid points based and rooted in common sense. People just have a gut feeling and that’s that. They would have never done this or they would have never done that.

However, besides amateur Murder She Wrote types, no one has produced a single piece of evidence that she did do this. There is no smoking gun. There are holes in the prosecution’s case that you could drive a giant bulldozer through and a mob-like mentality to hang Casey for sure, but no direct evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that she did it. Any defense attorney worth anything at all could have a field day with all of this. This entire case appears to just be circumstantial and conjecture. All of it.

There are certain people who, thanks to the press and others, don’t personally like Casey and want her to burn for their own personal feelings they have for her. I even heard one guy say his wife hates Casey because she is so beautiful and hot. Could you imagine sending someone to Stark for lethal injection because it was a woman just hating a skinny and pretty woman and all that she does? Some feminine get-back or something could be their reason? The fact that they dropped the death penalty so quickly reveals how weak of a case this is. To drop the death penalty in a murder case is a sign of weakness from the prosecutor. 

One thing I know is people just act differently when it comes to dealing with stress or death. I once heard of a guy who was an only child, whose mother died of cancer. At the very moment countless people stood at attendance at the funeral, this guy went surfing. He literally was surfing on the beach at the time his mother was being buried. People were so upset at him. They said horrible things about him at the time. That was just how he dealt with it. Yes, it was strange looking and easily torn apart in public opinion, but it didn’t mean he didn’t love his mom.

Because Casey did all those odd things and said all of that, doesn’t mean she murdered her own child. If in fact the child was duct taped around the mouth, it means that the child was still alive. No one duct tapes a corpse to shut it up. The presence of duct tape around this child’s mouth destroys almost 75% of the public’s theories on how Casey did it, before “that evidence” was revealed.

Before that, so many people said Casey probably made some mistake and killed Caylee by accident and she just got rid of the body to protect herself. Many, many people said this. However, the presence of duct tape around the child’s mouth makes this something altogether different and more in line with what a stranger would do with an abducted child. The duct tape does not fit the public’s theory at all.

Before this was revealed, most people said things like that. Now they will just have to mold another theory to convict Casey. This is just one example of the public being wrong about their theories. Before people send Casey to life in prison, they better forget about all of their preconceived notions and wacky theories and look for some concrete proof that Casey did it. Being a liar or doing weird and unexpected things does not make someone a murderer. You cannot convict someone of murder on speculation and theory. The umbrella of reasonable doubt casts a large shadow and a civilized society does not execute people in the shadows or throw them into prison until they die. If she did it, pull her out into the light of day and prove it. Anything short of that is barbaric and vengeful.

C. Rich

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