The first time we, the public, can tell timer55 was possibly used as a password by either Casey or some one in the Anthony family was on May 14, 2008 at 8:49 am when the “owner” account on the Anthony desktop appears to have been changed from rico23. (Many thanks to Maura-pedia for this correction! I had to rewrite this whole first section, because it appears timer55 may have never been used on the desktop. At this time it is unknown what the password was on the “owner” account prior to May 14th, but it COULD have been timer55. Irrespective, the below article is to point out that 1. timer55 was apparently used by Casey LONG before June 16th, and 2. Cindy pushed the idea of timer55 being some code in the alleged kidnapping of Caylee when, in fact, it appears it was based on nothing but a story she was creating to replace Casey’s botched “Sawgrass apartment” story.)
According to a statement made by Lee, this most likely is not the first time Casey had used the password timer55. Of course, Lee could be lying, but we have the statement made by him in his 2009 deposition, on page 363. Lee states Jesse knew of Casey using timer55 as a password in just the first couple of days after July 16th, 2008. Lee was trying to figure out the password to Casey’s Photobucket (so he could destroy evidence there) and was talking to Jesse on the phone, who provided him the password to the account. Lee commented that Casey had a lot of weird passwords, and Lee states Jesse responded with “Yeah. You know, like timer55.”
If Lee’s statement is true that Jesse already knew of Casey using timer55 as a password, then Casey undoubtedly had used it prior to June 16th on at least one account for which she had shared the password with Jesse. Logic would have it that this would be a fairly substantial period back in time, since Casey and Jesse had not been in a relationship for some time. Since Casey and Jesse’s relationship in 2008 had diminished to phone calls and an occasional visit when Casey did not have any place else to take a shower, it’s kind of hard to come up with a reasonable scenario of how a password would be shared during the period from June 16th to July 15th.
That, of course, is based on the assumption Lee is telling the truth. And there is ample reason to doubt him, but at the same time, this type of statement can be verified in testimony in court. Since both Lee and Jesse will most likely be on the stand, we’ll sooner or later hear Jesse either confirm or deny this statement. Irrespective on when, prior to June 16th, Casey first started using timer55 as a password, due to the computer forensics we can say with certainty that the timer55 password is not a code passed to her by Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez as a time period to “teach her a lesson”.
The story, as it came from the Anthony camp, is that Casey told Lee, two days after being bonded out by Leonard Padilla, that Zenaida, with her sister Samantha, did the smackdown Caylee/kidnap routine in Jay Blanchard Park on June 16th and in this scenario handed Casey a script she was to follow for the next 30 days and then scurried off to change her myspace password to timer55. Changing the password, according to the Anthony legend, wasn’t just to remind Casey she had 55 days to learn a lesson, but so Zenaida could pass super secret instructions to Casey. Now, all of this works out as an OBVIOUS scenario because 55 days from June 16th is Caylee’s birthday on August 9th.
Except it’s not…55 days from June 16th is August 10th. Casey (or Cindy maybe) seems to use some New Age math that doesn’t work well for the rest of us. For instance, on the night of July 15th Casey repeatedly (even in her written statement) states she hadn’t seen Cayle in “31 days”. Not 30, 29 or 36. But then states the last time she saw Caylee was June 9th (that would be 36 days) and then later we find it was June 16th (which would be 29 days). Maybe Casey forgot the old rhyme we all learned as kids…
30 days hath September,
April, June and no wonder,
all the rest have peanut butter,
except Pasadena…
and it’s got the Rose Bowl.
Anyway, no matter what the reason for Casey being unable to count days, 55 days does not equate to Caylee’s birthday as Cindy promoted in her interview with the FBI on July 30, 2008. Let’s be clear that Casey had no problem sticking with her original story of Sawgrass apartments. The first visits with her parents, as well as Lee, happened on July 25th, nine days after she was first put in the county jail. She was still okie-dokie with the “en-seine” story of dropping her daughter with Zanny at her Sawgrass apartment. But another thing we notice in these first visits between family members and Casey is that this family is downright professional in guiding Casey into her next lie; even when she’s too dim-witted to figure out she needs to move to the next lie.
We see this in the video of the visitation with Cindy and George when Cindy asks about the picture of Caylee with the drums in the background. At first we think we are about to see Cindy force Casey to admit a lie, but no – that’s not how this family plays. Cindy asks Casey if the picture was taken in Zanny’s apartment. Cindy knows the answer because Ricardo has already been to the Anthony home and identified the picture as being taken at his apartment. Cindy knows that Casey has told her previous to that revelation that the picture was taken at Zanny’s apartment. Cindy admits this in her FBI interview on July 30th. So Cindy asks Casey the question about the picture, and Casey gets the deer in the headlights look and stammers “Zanny has drums in her apartment”. Cindy pushes again, asking if the specific picture was taken in Zanny’s apartment, and Casey just goes – believe it or not – speechless. No worries – Cindy brings in the save and says “I know whose apartment it is”. At that point Casey is off the hook and free to admit that apartment is Ricardo’s – but it’s a whole lot like Zenaida’s apartment, she adds!!!
We also see this “leading” in Lee’s visits. He asks Casey “is there any importance to your passwords?”. You can see Casey’s eyes light up with this new way of “kerflunkeling” the mess she’s in. YES! And in particular, she does NOT point to the timer55 password. It should be pointed out that at the point of this question there are at least two – possibly three – passwords that the question applies to, so at no time does Casey put more importance on the Timer55 password than at least one other (cays234).
Now, Lee states in his 2009 deposition, page 182, that the first time he learned the timer55 password was on the night of July 15th while Casey was sitting in a patrol car out in front of the Anthony home. Lee stated he felt it an urgent need to get all her passwords just before he left for Tony’s apartment to pick up the laptop. He states one of those passwords was timer55 and that Casey stated that was the password for her Yahoo and Myspace accounts. She apparently gave rico234 as the password for her user account on the desktop. We know this from a discussion between her and Lee in the July 25th visitation video. He tells her he needs her desktop account password and she states it is rico234. He responds, “I have tried that, Casey, it does not work.”
Now, it should be pointed out that in the July 25th jail visitation Lee asks for Casey’s Myspace password and she gives cays234. So apparently (one would assume) he did NOT have this password before that visitation, and it apparently is not, at the time of the visitation, timer55. But this leaves the Facebook account password as possibly timer55. Anyway, Lee swears (literally – in his deposition) he was told of timer55 that first night. During the Friday, July 25th visitation, he leads Casey to POSSIBLY indicate that the timer55 has importance. And that’s about it. Now – during that same visitation it should be pointed out that he asks specifically if there could be clues in Casey’s Myspace or Facebook accounts. Casey does not in any way bite on this suggestion. She rather apathetically responds to both as “possibly”, but truly not with any conviction. This is kind of important for statements made by Cindy just days later in her FBI interview.
Now, let’s stop here and look one more time at the exchange between Lee and Casey. He asks her if any of her passwords have meaning and her eyes light up like – ewww! good one, Bubba! and says yes. She then states the computer password doesn’t (that’s rico23 or rico234 depending on whether you want to look at what it is, or what she says it is – HA!). But then she says Myspace and Facebook passwords DO. Well, we’ve just learned that the Myspace password is cays234. The only way timer55 has become important (by anything Casey has to say about it) is if the Facebook password is timer55.
Now, Maura, and others, have speculated that the Jay Blanchard Park/Timer55 story may have been passed via Jose to Lee on the weekend (July 26th, 27th) after this visitation. There is a phone call between Casey and Lee on Saturday the 26th, and Lee is just as clueless in that phone call as he is was the day before in the visitation, so we know up to that point he hasn’t been “enlightened”. When Lee returns for a jail visit on Monday July 28th, he has been given some message by Baez from Casey, but all we can discern, to some reasonable extent, is what he does NOT know from the conversation in this visit. He does NOT know “who is involved”. He is asking about Jesse and Amy (indirectly by asking about the people who called Casey just prior to the “flurry of phone call attempts” to Cindy). This is important in two regards: 1. There has been NO specific story passed that Zenaida and Samantha did a smackdown on Casey, or there would be no reason to be asking about “who could be involved”, and 2. the message over the weekend OBVIOUSLY involves a communication from Casey that ties something happening to being JUST BEFORE the flurry of phone call attempts to Cindy. THAT is a logical conclusion. So while we can’t deny SOME message has been passed on that weekend, we can conclude with some reasonable assurance – it apparently does NOT include the specific names of who did what.
So let’s move to July 30 – Cindy and George’s interviews with the FBI. Let’s be straight that the Anthonys have stepped outside the proper chain of command in the investigation and they have requested these interviews with the FBI. The FBI are NOT formerly involved in interviewing potential suspects or witnesses in the OCSO investigation. The FBI agents agree to these meetings because the Anthonys are now bugging them. What we know leading into this interview is that Casey did the gleam in the eye *wink wink* about there being importance to SOME password. And we know she passed what appears to be some amorphous “seed” to a new story, but it still has Lee clueless to who he should be investigating.
But there’s something else we need to point out prior to these FBI interviews. Just the day before, on July 29th, Lee is interviewed by the OFFICIAL investigation team at OCSO – and he does not pass a single syllable of a potential new lead. NOTHING is uttered about Jay Blanchard Park, timer55, the Zenaida/Samantha smackdown, or any change in the original story.
So, Cindy meets with the FBI. And she is the first Anthony member to utter the Jay Blanchard Park smackdown. She assigns her knowledge of this new story to Lee, stating Casey told him this “a few days ago”. Included in this story she references the “timer55″ password. At 14:10 minutes into Part 5 of Cindy’s inane blather-fest with the FBI she first utters “timer55″. She states Casey told Lee that the password means she was given 55 days to learn a lesson from Zanny. Now let’s be clear on this VERY important statement by Cindy. Zanny gave Casey 55 days from the time she nabbed Caylee to learn her lesson and that 55 days from the time of the kidnapping to Caylee’s birthday is 55 days (no it isn’t).
The next important part to this interview comes at 1:15 minutes into Part 11 (the end) of the interview. This is when the FBI agent throws a wrench in Cindy’s monkey-works by asking Cindy if, in this new smackdown story, if Zanny gave Caylee 55 days (until Caylee’s birthday) to learn her lesson, shouldn’t we all be able to expect Casey to come forward after the 9th of August to give details on where Caylee is because the “55 days” will be up. Let’s keep in mind that August 9 is just 10 days away! (or 11 if you count like an Anthony) Cindy knows damned well there’s not any truth to what she’s just barfed out on the table in this interview and she responds with…
She doesn’t know when the 55 days started because she doesn’t know when Casey put the password in – IT COULD HAVE BEEN JULY 16TH SHE SAYS. Which means that Cindy is now stating the 55 days is now tied to the exact date when Casey changed the password to timer55 and has NOTHING to do with the day Caylee was kidnapped.
She also states that Lee has been passing all this information to OCSO. As previously pointed out – that’s a crock of crap. He told nothing.
Now, we go to George’s FBI interview on the same date. George states in this interview that Cindy had been Googling “timer55″ to try to come up with a meaning for it! He mentions nothing of Lee having new information. IF Lee and Cindy were conspiring to come up with this new story, they were keeping George (and have to this date I would offer), in total darkness. Which is exactly how we have seen George as far as the entire family’s history – so this fits the pattern, doesn’t it? BUT, Cindy is trying to find a meaning via Google for timer55! She hasn’t been told anything about the meaning of timer55, other than possibly Lee telling her Casey said there’s “some meaning” to “some password”. At this point George is stating it could be anything from computer programming to terrorism!
But further to that, George shows that he is actually at the same level of confusion on the new Jay Blanchard Park story as Lee shows in the July 28th visitation (after the weekend where SOME message may have been passed from Casey). Because he, just like Lee, is speculating Jesse did a smackdown, Zenaida did a smackdown, or SOMEONE did a smackdown!
So two things are apparent on the day of the FBI interviews. Cindy is telling lies and then backing out of them about the meaning of timer55. George is confessing that Cindy is trying to find a meaning to attach to timer55. And Lee is withholding potentially new evidence from OCSO – IF Cindy is being honest that Lee even knows this new story she’s concocting. An important gap in the discovery to date is that there are no videos of an FBI interview with Lee on July 30th. During Cindy’s interview the FBI agent states that Lee is in the lobby with George and that they both are filling out the questionnaires concerning Casey’s personality and behavior. Are we to assume Lee didn’t get interviewed on that date? I don’t know.
Now, moving forward to the depositions of Cindy, George and Lee in 2009, Lee states he learned of the timer55 password on the night of July 15th. He states he did NOT learn of the “55 day” meaning of timer55 until two days after Casey was out on bond. He states at that time he heard the Jay Blanchard Park story for the FIRST TIME and the timer55 meaning for the FIRST TIME. At that point, he adds that Casey told him that the timer55 password to her Myspace account was changed by the kidnapper (Zanny) and that the kidnapper was using Casey’s Myspace account to “pass instructions”. But we clearly have, in the July 25th visitation video between Lee and Casey, no indication that there was truly any importance to Casey’s Myspace account. The best response he got from her was a distracted, “possibly” – just like he got when he asked about her Facebook account.
Now, as we’ve previously reviewed in the Jay Blanchard Park article, in George’s 2009 deposition he specifically states (and he does this as well in the July 30th FBI interview) that the whole Jay Blanchard Park/timer55 story is speculation on their (the Anthony family’s) part. They were “brainstorming” – which in and of itself seems to not register as abnormal behavior for this family. On page 427 of Cindy’s deposition the SA begins to question her about the Jay Blanchard Park story. They ask her if Lee was told by Casey about this story after Casey was bonded by Padilla on the 21st of August. Cindy says YES. The SA pushes her again on this answer asking if she is sure it was on or after the 21st of August and she replies:
Yeah. I can’t say for sure when. But I know I didn’t hear it when Casey was first — before she was incarcerated. It had to have come after. I did not know that story, because I never gave that to the authorities. And I don’t believe I gave that to them when we did the timeline on August 1st, so it had to have been sometime after that.
Cindy has both lied and told the truth in two back-to-back statements. She DID tell authorities about the Jay Blanchard Park prior to August 21st. She told the FBI. And she’s ABSOLUTELY telling the truth when she says she failed to utter a single syllable of this new story when she established the timeline with OCSO in her only official interview with them just 2 days later!
As I have stated and detailed in the Jay Blanchard Park article, I believe Cindy detailed the new story to Casey on the first day she was home on bond. I believe Cindy immediately whisked her away to the shower, and told her what story she was going to be sticking with. Leonard Padilla says after Cindy spent several minutes in the bathroom with Casey, Cindy came out to the living room and announced Casey had just told her the whole Jay Blanchard Park smackdown story. Cindy was the first to utter this story to a public audience when, in that living room while Casey was showering, she gave detailed information on the Jay Blanchard Park story. Immediately after that Casey came into the room and repeated the story almost verbatim – according to Leonard Padilla.
In Cindy’s 2009 deposition, on page 445, she responds to whether she talked to Casey about the case while she was home on bond as follows:
No. In the first week that she was home with — when Leonard bailed her out, it was pretty hard to talk to Casey alone. The only time we really had to talk alone was if I went into the bathroom with her and we shut the door and the fan is on.
One of those rare moments when Cindy told the truth.
Valhall.
Related posts:
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Cindy lies to John Allen
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: Lee talks about Imaginanny
- Lee Anthony: ‘He knows what he has done.’
- The Anthony Encycliepedia: George comes home
- Caylee Anthony case: Question concerning Laura Buchanan/TES documents
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