There has been ample discussion about the rapid-fire phone calls made by Casey to Cindy’s cell phone and the Anthony home on the afternoon/evening of June 16th, 2008 as well as on June 18th. Some believe that the first “flurry” attempts at trying to get Cindy on the phone may have been an indicator that an accident had happened that had harmed or killed Caylee. I do not believe this. I believe this was Casey attempting to hand Caylee off to Cindy so that Casey could spend her evening with Tony. And I believe this “flurry” immediately precedes the murder of Caylee.
The main reason I believe this is that this was not a-typical behavior of Casey. And not answering Casey’s phone calls was not a-typical behavior for Cindy either. This dysfunctional family appears to have used not answering the phone as a way to force Casey into the responsibilities of being home for Caylee, and I hope to prove this out by looking at the calling behavior of Casey in the weeks preceding the 16th – the day Caylee was murdered.
Stepping all the way back to June 1, 2008, we see that at 8:51 pm Casey is at Tony’s apartment. There is a call made from the Anthony home to her cell phone which she does not answer and lets go to voicemail. She immediately listens to the voicemail, which is most likely Cindy telling her she needs to come home and take care of Caylee. Casey does not react to this phone call for 26 minutes. She then begins to try to call the Anthony home and Cindy’s cell phone beginning at 9:17 pm in “rapid-fire” style. In a matter of 4 minutes she makes 7 calls to the home and Cindy’s cell phone. None of these calls are answered.
This is the method the Anthonys used to get Casey home. Cindy would call and either get her, or leave a voicemail, with a content that was most likely “get home now”. Then they would NOT answer her phone calls because they knew it would be her wanting to give a “work excuse” or whatever for why she couldn’t come home and tend to Caylee. If we look at June 1st as an example, we see this method worked to some extent. While Casey still didn’t come home for hours (apparently until after midnight) she did, nonetheless, end up at home that night.
The next example we can look at is on Monday, June 9th. June 9th (with the exception of the murder of Caylee) is almost a mirror image of Monday June 16th. Right before 5 pm (when Cindy would be getting off work) Casey begins her “rapid-fire” attempts to try to get Cindy. Casey is still at the Anthony home at this point. What appears to be happening here is that Casey wants to drop Caylee off with Cindy, or ensure Cindy will take her. This is most likely the time of day when Casey would spin her “I’ve got to be working late tonight” excuse for why Cindy would need to babysit Caylee that evening, and Casey wouldn’t be home until up in the morning. In a matter of 2 minutes there are 5 attempts to get Cindy’s cell phone. On June 9th, as on June 16th, we see that Cindy does not take any of Casey’s phone calls.
When Casey is unable to get Cindy on the phone she leaves the Anthony home, with Caylee, and heads over to Ricardo and Amy’s apartment where she ultimately spends the night. Cindy does not return a phone call until 5:42 pm. That phone call is 6 minutes long and we can only guess that Cindy either refused to take Caylee for the evening, or Casey was giving Cindy the “Caylee is staying at Zanny’s tonight because I’m working late” story.
On June 16th we see the same behavior. Beginning at 4:11 pm, just before Cindy would be getting off work, Casey begins trying to get her on her cell phone. In 2 minutes 4 attempts are made. There does not appear to be anything different about this series of phone call attempts from the Monday before. Again, it appears that Casey is attempting to set up a hand-off of Caylee to Cindy so that Casey can spend the evening with Tony. Cindy does not answer any of these calls. At 4:21 pm Casey attempts Jesse Grund, and I wonder if this was not an attempt to see if he would watch Caylee since Casey couldn’t get Cindy on the phone. In 1 minute Casey attempts Jesse twice. It appears she leaves a voicemail on the second one and then 4 minutes later attempts Cindy again.
If we look back at June 9th, we see that Cindy DID eventually return Casey’s calls – approximately 40 minutes after the last attempt by Casey in which it looks as though Casey left a voicemail on Cindy’s cell. On June 16th, I’m assuming Casey expected that eventually her mother would call her and then she could work out leaving Caylee with Cindy. But this time Cindy did not return the phone calls. At some point after 4 pm on June 16th, Casey leaves the Anthony home, probably with the idea that she would go by Cindy’s work at Gentiva and drop Caylee off with Cindy.
At 4:53 pm Casey’s phone receives a Facebook alert. She is in the vicinity of Gentiva – most likely finding that she has missed Cindy. I believe she…and a living Caylee…are in the car. And Casey has become desperate to unload Caylee. Immediately after this Facebook alert is received, Casey’s cell phone appears to be switched off for an hour. Where Casey was for that hour, no one can be certain because of the turned off cell phone. But I believe this is the period in which Caylee was murdered.
At 5:57 pm when Casey’s cell phone is switched back on a voicemail is waiting. We do not know from Casey’s cell records who that call was from because of the phone being off. Was it Cindy returning Casey’s calls? The reason I speculate that it could be, is because beginning at 6:31 pm a second series of attempts to get Cindy’s cell or the Anthony home phone is made by Casey. If Cindy had left a message on Casey’s phone telling her she was now home and she could take Caylee, with Caylee now dead, Casey would have to get hold of Cindy and give her a new story as to where Caylee was.
The last “flurry” of phone calls occurs on June 18th just past noon. This not a desperate attempt to get hold of Cindy or George because something has happened to Caylee, this is Casey trying to ensure no one is home at the Anthony house, because shortly after these attempts, Casey heads to the Anthony residence. I believe this is when the “ladder” event occurs, and I believe this is when Caylee’s body was “prepared” (i.e. bagged, possibly duct taped, etc.) This would have given ample time for the unbagged body lying directly on the trunk liner to have created the stain in the trunk. And contrary to much argument in opposition, I do believe the duct tape would have sufficiently adhered to Caylee’s face at this point. The motivation to place the duct tape would have been because of the grotesque distortion that was taking place on Caylee’s face at this point.
Valhall.
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