Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies Analysis

If you’ve watched Casey Anthony Where The Truth Lies, your head should be spinning!  Casey’s words here are all over the place, which is common place for liars who weave complex stories. Casey admits herself that she is a liar–a convicted liar–so this is something you should never forget.

Her entire premise for doing this interview in the end is to blame her dad for killing Caylee, which is done in a very indirect and odd manner, and to say that she was supposedly abused and raped by her dad as a child. Furthermore, Casey wants you to believe as an abused child that she was just continuing the mindset of doing what abused people do–doing what she was “told”.

Was Casey in a toxic environment?  Quite possibly. We all witnessed the family in the media struggling in a very high stress situation so you have to take that with an element of caution–all people can look crazy in high stress. So there is some gray there, but it is not as Casey is painting it. Many people grow up in toxic environments, and do not go on to compulsively lie and steal as Casey does. Some do, some don’t. But those who religiously comply with their abusers? They don’t act defiantly as Casey did. That is inconsistent!

Many people want to make a black and white decision. Casey is either completely lying or she isn’t.  While some cases of deception are black and white, many times, there is a complex mix of truths and lies. That’s what successful liars do — they blend the truth and lies together so you can’t find reality. And Casey admits that, too! But then she (and other liars) play on YOUR emotional vulnerabilities, twist facts and make you question yourself.  Casey checks all the boxes.

There are many clues in this series as to what the truth and lies are.  I could write a book just on this series. So I am going to point out some elements mostly from episode 1 that paint a pretty clear picture for you.

When the producer asks Casey why she wants to talk to them now without creative control, Casey shows two non-verbal shrugs of doubt (which I teach in my training), and says “I just need someone to listen.”  It’s as if she is just rambling off the top of her head, not giving us a sincere, thought-out answer. She is thinking on her feet here, and shows doubt about what she is saying.  It doesn’t support she has a clear thought out purpose for the interview.

Casey Anthony then says she wants to make her daughter proud and to honor her daughter properly. If you look closely she makes a very subtle microexpression of contempt  when she says to “honor her properly”.   You may struggle to see it.  But it is powerful. She is expressing contempt when saying she wants to honor her daughter.  That’s a complete contradiction to her words and reveals the truth of what she actually believes.

Furthermore, she says, “I am responsible for answering everyone in the world’s questions about my daughter’s death.”  When she says this, she makes the most intense and powerful expression that is a combination of anger and disgust.  She is ultimately expressing her emotions that being responsible for answering for her daughter’s death disgusts her and makes her angry!

WOW. That says it all.

Her facial expressions are revealing that she feels completely different to the words she is speaking! It’s utterly mind blowing when you watch it.

Casey feels disgusted that SHE is responsible to answer questions about her daughter’s death!   To me that is completely inconsistent to the what she just told us–that she wants to make her daughter proud and honor her properly.  It actually reveals that she doesn’t give a damn about her daughter at all. It’s all about her being the victim here, which is typical for her personality type.

She should CARE to get justice for her daughter, but that isn’t even in the cards or consideration, is it?  No where does she want to hold George accountable outright nor does she call for it. It’s strikingly missing as are many details of the story she wants us to believe.

Casey says of her work with her defense team that she wants to give back to others as she doesn’t want another person to be “pigeon-holed or railroaded” as she has.

What on earth? Pigeon-holed and railroaded?  This is a load of nonsense no matter how you slice this case or what you believe!

Even if we believed Casey’s story–that she is truthful (not saying she is or isn’t here), that she was abused, and that her dad killed Caylee (which I am not saying is the case)–she CANNOT CLAIM she was railroaded. This is total bullshit.

Casey railroaded herself  by her own actions of pathologically lying and her carefree attitude after Caylee went missing. She railroaded herself by stealing and telling lie upon lie upon lie. Don’t let this woman fool you!

An honest person who is having an “honest awakening” would see this and would own up to it–that they railroaded themselves even if it was a horrible situation.

Casey later then plays the other side of the story and says, “I made myself look crazy…as far as I am concerned there is no justifying my actions or behavior.”  This is a ploy to keep people thinking, see she is honest!  It’s a manipulative tactic!

Several times in the interview, we hear Casey refer to Caylee as  the “kid”. Did you notice? This is distancing herself from her child who she claims to want to honor. I find it deeply troubling. Would you refer to your dear sweet child who was murdered or killed as “kid”? It has zero endearment!  I doubt many parents of lost children would.

I think many people will be thrown for a loop by the testimonials of people who say Casey loved Caylee.   Did it make you question yourself?  Let me say this:  Manipulators will often play a loving mother, a caring kind person in front of others, but once the door closes–the truth is very different. And here, we have evidence of that when Casey complains of not being able to have fun due to motherhood in texts to her friend Richardo on Facebook.  She texts about Caylee, “I’m going crazy over here. At least the kid is passed out.”  Does that sound like a loving mother?   It doesn’t.

When I watch George Anthony talk to investigators about the last time he saw Caylee, I see no indicators that he is lying.

Casey is HONEST when she says that she felt “nothing” when talking to the 911 operators.  I found that fascinating that she would admit it.  She knows this is off and calls it “weird”. She knows she doesn’t feel normal emotions of loss and empathy. It puzzles even her.

The other element I have trouble with in this interview is that if Casey wants to accuse her father of rape and murder, then own it 100%. Say it clearly, but instead she is very convoluted when you listen to her accusations. She says things in twisted ways and beats around the bush. It’s hard to swallow. I see it as manipulative. Could there have been abuse?  Yes, there could have been. I can’t rule it out by watching her as she does show some emotional response, but I can’t say conclusively either because she is such a pathological liar. It would take more interviews to say conclusively, and at what level.

Casey says, “Over the past few months, I’ve been really having vivid dreams and its obvious that they are dreams of things that have already happened. I “THINK” my dad used to do the same thing to me.”

Think??? She doesn’t know???  She is clearly evasive and indirect–continually, which is suspicious. She just can’t quite own it outright, directly and call for accountability for her daughter–which clearly supports what we saw in the beginning of this interview.  It isn’t actually about Caylee. It’s about HER.

Casey tells you that she lied her whole life because that was what was expected of her. And then she changes her tune and says, “I completely replicated by father’s behavior during those 31 days.”  Only during those 31 days??!!  The insanity.

She goes on to say, “I used and manipulated all of the people around me in an attempt to appear normal.”  You used and manipulated people to appear normal?  How ridiculous–she is just excusing her behavior with no accountability.  None whatsoever.

When Casey says about her tattoo “Bella Vita”, “It was a fuck you to my family.”  That is true without question. But it likely is much darker than that. It was to the world. She was finally free, I think, of Caylee, and that was her celebration.  It’s horrible to think about.

Another chilling part in the interview for me is when Casey says about getting the tattoo, ” I got the tattoo in the first place, especially during that time period because that was a subconscious way for me to a…(grin) speak out against all of it.”

Her story of being raped as to how she conceived Caylee is questionable. There are hot spots throughout. She leaves off pronouns, she has subtle undertones of positive emotions the entire time she is talking about it, and then she says, “The first person I would have told would have been my mom. Would she have believed me?”

Would have told?  That’s an “as if it happened” statement — not a memory! A real recollection would have been, I  couldn’t tell my mom! She never would have believed me, or she would have blamed me or whatever. So I call B.S. on that one.

When she talks about how soon she figured out she was pregnant, she says almost immediately. We see disgust here. She was clearly disgusted she was pregnant yet tells us earlier that getting pregnant with Caylee was the best thing that ever happened to her.  She is constantly playing both sides.

When Casey cries over how it all hurts her, in my opinion, she is crying over HER pain from the ordeal–of being social isolated, rejected and not able to have a public life anymore. I don’t see any sadness for Caylee whatsoever. I think she did this interview in hopes of gaining sympathy and maybe some acceptance. Life has thrown her to the curb, without question.

Many people think Caylee died by accident.  I want to say that I do NOT see any evidence of that. And this is why:  If Caylee died by accident –which could be in the pool or by a drug overdose from sleeping medication given to her by Casey–then Casey would have some emotional response to that because she would have lost her daughter to an accident — unexpectedly. She wouldn’t have gone out and celebrated and partied for 30 days.  She would have felt the pain of that. She would have reacted differently.

No, this story is much, much darker. This is a woman who tired of her “kid”, who wanted to party with the other young adults her age, and Casey, in her dark moments, ended that life, and was very happy about it as we have evidence by that tattoo and life in those 30 days. You do not see a woman who is mourning the accidental death of her child. That information there tells the truth more loud and clear than anything else.

How could she have done it?  Remembering that Casey tells half-truths, I wonder if the pillow talk she gave saying it was her dad putting a pillow on her to knock her out, was actually her projecting what she did to her child.  It sure makes me wonder.