I have a daughter who’s also a really good kid, but whose stubborn independance has often worried me to no end; like when she would take off for the mall, late at night, and alone. I’d worry. Mentioned that her boyfriend was hammered. My daughter has a friend who’s boyfriend crushed her skull with a hammer before using the clawed end to rip half of her face off. She survived, after having been in a coma for 3 months, but she will not ever be the same again. Physically or mentally.

Ah, yes, I have worried about my daughter, and you, dearest Lucy, you lived my worst fears, and as I can only imagine, and there aren’t words enough within me to express how marvelled I am by your strength and your courage. Your anger toward the Anthony’s is equally shared here, but rather than see her rot from the inside out, I would rather she died in the same manner in which she killed her little girl, if not worse. Slap three layers of duct tape over her face then toss her into the trunk of a car in the middle of June, in the South Florida heat, and watch her eyes fill with the same horror she caused, and just before she loses consciousness, remove the tape, let her gasp and writhe, and then reapply it, and do this over and over again, until she’s begging for mercy, and show her none. Regardless, may she suffer greatly. I am with you there.

Willow

The thing about this article that standsout for me, and perhaps for Casey, is this:

Microorganisms

Chloroform is antiseptic, and even in such a dilute solution as “chloroform water” (1/2 per cent. in strength) will retard putrefaction and fermentation, as in urine.

It strikes me that Casey could have seen this and decided that she had a dead body on her hands which needed to be stopped from putrefaction for as long as possible while she decided what to do with her daughter permanently. That would have been one way of trying to hold off decomposition for awhile while driving around with her daughter in her trunk.

Of course, we still can’t know how Caylee actually died. It seems possible to me that she would have thought of this application for chloroform after Caylee was dead though….

The reason I decided to come out of silence is to offer a simple thought about the duct tape. You presented the terms Casey had searched for, one being “cholorformhabit”. I did a search on that and found an interesting link.
http://chestofbooks.com/health/materia-medica-drugs/Pharmacology-Therapeutics-Prescription-Writing/Chloroform.html

They make a statement “Elimination is chiefly by the lungs and is rapid”.

This made me wonder if Casey could have found this too and the tape was placed to insure that chloroform wasn’t ‘breathed’ out for elimination if she indeed used chloroform. No way to know for sure how she died or how Casey thinks but this popped out at me.

Also worth asking – If Casey was using tape to constrain the child, there is no evidence of taping her legs. A 3 yr old if not drugged, would kick! Where is that tape if we go with the constrained theory? Something just doesn’t fit the State’s theory comfortably. If she was drugged, there was no need to tape her hands. If she wasn’t drugged, she could kick but again, there is no evidence her legs were bound.

http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/whatsinyourwater/FL/Orlando-Utilities-Commission/3480962/

This is even more likely when taken with the fact that neck breaking was also searched on, but there is no evidence of damage to a vertebra which would indicate that the neck of Caylee was broken. I think that chloroform may not have played a roll in this case at all or, conversely, it could have played a significant roll. Only the murderer knows for sure.

Yeah, I definitely think there are teeth marks on the tape. Maybe earmark can tell us more. His original post was very informative.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, William, to you and yours.