In a previous blog entry entitled The Telling Private Moments we looked at how Casey’s behavior seemed to change right around the same time Tony left Orlando for New York on June 30th, 2008. But on the “other end of the line”, so to speak, Cindy showed an abrupt change as well. I believe there is a connection.
As previously stated Casey had a tendency to not answer cell phone calls. Her MO was to allow it to go to voicemail, immediately check the message, and then either call back if she felt like talking to that person, or just ignore the call. From June 16th to the evening of June 30th we find there was on average one or two phone calls from the Anthony home each day. In fact, on June 16th, and again on June 18th, when Casey had her “frantic call” periods where she attempted to get hold of her parents repeatedly and in rapid fire, we don’t see any evidence of an attempted call back by the Anthonys to Casey during those periods of time. Cindy’s claim that she spoke with Casey daily is ALMOST true when you take into account the text messages, voice messages and phone calls sprinkled across the calendar.
But on the afternoon of June 30th, just past noon, things changed. Cindy began attempting to contact Casey very frequently, ultimately getting to less than 1 minute between calls. Cindy would continue to try to get Casey to answer her calls until after 2 am July 1st. Cindy’s sudden persistent and frequent calls shouldn’t be viewed as “she knew something was wrong”. In fact, the change in calling frequency appears to have a rather benign explanation to it. Saturday, June 30th, was the first day of a 5 day vacation for Cindy. She had taken off the full first week of July and, as she has stated in interviews and depos, she hoped to spend that week with Caylee. So for the previous 2 weeks Cindy had played the game of calling Casey, asking her where she and Caylee were and when they were coming home, and swallowing whatever daily story Casey fed her. But now it was time to cut the bullcrap and she wanted Caylee home for her week of vacation.
The connection between Cindy’s change in call pattern and Casey’s apparent behavioral change, in my opinion, is Cindy’s insistence on seeing Caylee. I believe it was at this point that the light bulb went on in Casey’s delusional brain that “this was probably going to be more difficult than I first imagined”. I say “imagined” because I’ve come to believe, personally, that Casey’s brain works such that she firmly believes “if I say it is so, so it is”. So, apparently, as Casey had functioned for several years, she had made up the story she was going to tell and stick with, and therefore – that is what happened. Period, no one dare question it. I can see each subsequent voice message from Cindy becoming more forceful, more demanding, and more of a reality check for Casey. A dead baby is not as simple to explain, or to get mommy to blow off when you say “I’m sorry”, as an unapproved purchase on a JC Penney card. Casey was most likely beginning to fear that she had crossed a line where her “skills of deception” might not be as uber as she had deluded herself into believing.
So Cindy called and called and called. From June 30th just past noon until after 2 am July 1st, Cindy called and left voicemails. It appears Cindy finally went to bed for a few hours and then beginning at 6:56 am on the 1st, she called and called and called, and left voicemails. She would do that throughout the day of the 1st until making the last call at a little after midnight on July 2nd. When Cindy got up on the 2nd, just a little after 7 am, she called again. And then she seemed to all but give up, trying Casey once later that night. But around 1:30 pm July 2nd, Cindy called Lee from the Anthony home.
In Lee’s deposition, starting on page 51, we have his account of that day. He states Cindy called him at around 8 pm that night and asked him to try to find Casey because Cindy was not being able to get her on the phone and Casey wasn’t returning her calls. If this call happened, it must have been from Cindy’s cell phone, as it does not show up on the Anthony landline records. Lee states he got on Casey’s myspace and found that she was going to be at the Dragon Room (a club in downtown Orlando) on the night of July 3rd. Lee goes on to state he contacted Annie Downing and Lauren Gibbs by phone and asked them if they had seen Casey, both said no. Lee then states that Annie contacted Casey (although I have seen no phone records to back this) and “tipped her off” that he was looking for her. Lee claims this is why Casey was not at the Dragon Room on the night of July 3rd.
However the means that Casey was tipped off not to go to the Dragon Room, she ends up going with Troy Brown and his girlfriend Melissa to The Lodge. Troy Brown states, in his interview with OCSO, at some point during the night at The Lodge Casey became “visibly upset and said that her brother was coming to get her and she just wanted to get out of here.” Troy Brown stated he believed Casey’s brother was calling her. But, of course, this assumption would have been based on what Casey was telling him. Troy states in the interview, “I didn’t know what the content of the calls were.”
So let’s look at the cell phone ping map and the cell phone records (both courtesy of Websleuths) during this time and see what caused Casey to get upset and want to immediately leave The Lodge.
At 8:10 pm on July 3rd there is a 3 minute phone call from the Anthony home to Lee. Shortly after that, at 8:37 pm Cindy calls Casey from the Anthony home two times in a row. The first lasts 23 seconds, the second 2 minutes. Both times Casey does not pick up, but immediately listens to the voicemail afterward. At 8:44 pm Cindy makes her “my caylee is missing” entry on her newly created myspace page. At 9:09 pm Cindy calls Casey again from the Anthony home with the call lasting 50 seconds. Again, it goes to voicemail and Casey listens to the message immediately afterward.
From Casey’s cell phone pings, beginning at 9:09 pm, she is at The Lodge. Beginning at 9:22 pm there is a series of text messages exchanged between Cindy and Casey. They continue through 9:43 pm. The sequence of text messages and Casey’s movements are listed below:
9:22 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey at The Lodge
9:23 – Casey texts Cindy – Casey at The Lodge
9:25 – Casey texts Cindy – Casey at The Lodge
9:26 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey at The Lodge
9:27 – Casey texts Cindy – Casey heading north from The Lodge
9:30 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey north of The Lodge headed toward Ricardo’s apartment
9:39 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey north of The Lodge headed toward Ricardo’s apartment
9:40 – Casey texts Cindy – Casey north of The Lodge headed toward Ricardo’s apartment
9:43 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey almost to Ricardo’s apartment
10:23 – Cindy texts Casey – Casey at Ricardo’s apartment
This is why Cindy is her (and her daughter’s and her granddaughter’s) worst enemy. She is a verbal bully. We have seen her engaged in this behavior in front of media and in formal depositions. We can almost imagine a text coming across Casey’s phone saying “I know where you are and Lee is coming to get you.” While odds are that Lee would have never have found Casey that night, Cindy insured failure by apparently engaging in what makes her feel in control. It is apparent that Cindy is the “friend” Lee refers to who tipped Casey off that night. It is apparent that Cindy could not let Lee accomplish what she had asked him to assist her with because she needed to be in control of the situation. She had to say something that let Casey know she was in control. And it was at that moment Casey reacted.
Valhall.
Related posts:
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Cindy lies to John Allen
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Cindy talks about money
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Cindy talks about Imaginanny
- Flurries of Phone Calls
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: George comes home
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