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As most people, I am sad to see the justice system did not convict Casey Anthony of murder. Her behaviors clearly indicate otherwise and most people see it.
Krystal Holloway took the stand today and told the people in the courtroom that she had an intimate relationship affair with George Anthony and that George said about Caylee’s death, “It was an accident…that snowballed out of control.” If these are true, of course, it is good for the defense. Unfortunately, I do not believe either of them.
I do not believe Krystal Holloway had any type of affair with George outside of a friendship nor do I believe that George told Krystal that what happened was an accident. What George did at the time, if you want my opinion, was speculate and Krystal actually confirms this for us.
Krystal isn’t a person where we look for emotions to give her away. Krystal’s untruths are uncovered by flat out inconsistencies in what she says. One days she says one thing and the next she changes her story — the classic hallmark of a liar. Honest people don’t do this, but Krystal does, and she does it again and again and again. Sadly, Krystal’s own sister, Cecelia, even says she lies and Krystal told the Orange County Sheriff investigator that she has lied in the past herself. Nothing supports Krystal’s story–not even her own words.
If Jose Baez could convince a jury that Krystal really did have an affair with George, he would have gone for it, but he couldn’t because he had no proof.
If we dissect the two things that Krystal wants us to believe, she has major inconsistencies with both.
With regard to the affair, she’s told two stories now. The first time she told the Orange County Sheriff’s office she didn’t have an affair, and now she admits she did. When asked why she didn’t tell the truth the first time, Krystal tells us she was afraid it would harm George, and she was embarrassed. If that were true, she wouldn’t have sold her story a week later to the National Enquirer, would she? It makes her story ridiculous, but it shows motive on Krystal’s part–motive to change her story for money. No credible source would take her story because it was nonsense and she knows it.
And when it comes to what George said, Krystal wants us to believe as she testified today that George said, “It was an accident…that snowballed out of control.” However, the Orange County investigator in February 2010 asked Krystal precise questions and got to the truth. George did not say those words–those are Krystal’s words. She strangely can’t remember what he said verbatim.
Read here, on page 17, what the investigator at Orange County asks Krystal. He says, “Did he say to you that Casey told him it was an accident? Or is that something you just believed?” Krystal responds, “He didn’t say, he um…like he knew it was an (inaudible — I suspect the word is accident).”
Sure, what parents whose grandchild is missing is going to assuming it was anything other than an accident? People don’t assume their relatives are murderers, for Pete’s sake! That makes sense and is the truth. However, when pushed by that investigator, Krystal quickly goes back to claiming her story and says again, “He just said it was an accident that went wrong.”
You can’t have it both ways, Krystal.
I see nothing that makes Krystal even remotely credible in my eyes. She isn’t able to share word-for-word conversations with George about Caylee and her accident theory, she is not able to make solid credible statements or give any proof for anything she says. Instead, she talks out of both sides of her mouth and changes her story like a 2-year old changes clothing. And worse, her story about being romantically involved with George only changed when she talked to the National Enquirer and $4,000 were laid in front of her. Hmmmm….
As I predicted, Krystal is a train wreck!
Yesterday the Casey Anthony defense team dropped a bombshell. Not only did they say that Casey did not kill Caylee, but she didn’t even find nor dispose of her body. Who did? Her father, George Anthony. But it gets worse. Not only did she have nothing to do with the tragedy, but she now claims that she was a victim of sexual abuse.
We had heard about letters that Casey Anthony wrote from jail, but few people gave them any credence at the time because so much of what Casey Anthony said was lies. Do you remember those letters? In a letter to another inmate, Casey wrote after accusing her brother of inappropriate behavior, “I think my Dad used to do the same thing to me, but when I was much younger. I can see him in my room exactly the way it was when I was in elementary school and everything gets fuzzy.”
The words “I think” are important here. Casey doesn’t seem to have any clear memories, which I would expect if she is claiming in court that she was abused by her father. This is a red flag for me.
According to this MSNBC article (link above), Casey allegedly told the police she had intercourse with Lee for three years until she was 15. If her dad abused her, too, why wouldn’t she have said that then? Why would she throw Lee under the bus and not her dad?
In my eyes, Casey is not able to speak the truth and is willing to lie at the drop of the hat, so we have no reason to put any credence in this claim unless we see or hear something that truly gives this claim validity. In watching George, I don’t see any clues that he is lying, but I would like to see him or Casey talk more about this before I draw any final conclusions.
48 Hours profiled the story of Dr. Mark Wrangler and his wife, Kathy last Friday. Kathy ended up dying in the family home of carbon monoxide poisoning. Dr. Wrangler was an anesthesiologist, and was eventually convicted of killing his wife by directing the flow of carbon monoxide to the upstairs where Kathy slept. I have no doubts the jury got it correct.
I thought you might enjoy listening to his 911 call. It’s loaded with hotspots! Which ones do you see? There are many of them…
Tiffany Hartley defies all that we know about emotional understanding as she recalls painful, scary and stressful events the day she saw her husband get killed, yet she is eerily missing any emotional recall.
When people are truly sad, we know they produce oblique eyebrows. In simple terms, it means your eyebrows knit together into an “A” shape above your nose. In fear, our eyes widen and our mouth pulls back. Even months and years after a tragedy, most people will show flickers of true and genuine emotional recall when talking about an emotional experience.
Yet when we look at Tiffany, she is eerily missing genuine indicators of sadness and she doesn’t express any fear. Tiffany has not displayed them when talking about her husband since his death (in the interviews I have seen). It’s a notable red flag. Tiffany shows very few true indicators that she was shocked, stressed, saddened or afraid by what happened. When we watch her family members, however, the indicators are overly abundant, as we would expect.
People could argue in defense of Tiffany that she is emotionally in shock, but shocked people do not talk so freely about the horrifying details of the event like Tiffany does, because shock means they cannot accept what happened. Clearly Tiffany can talk about everything, including the bullet hole to her husband’s head that she found, up close and personally.
When people feel genuine emotions, science has identified that we all react the same. We all use the same muscles and those muscles often cannot be voluntarily contracted for most people. Even more interesting is that when we fake emotions, we don’t realize we are giving away tell-tale signs that we aren’t really feeling what we say we are feeling.
This is a fascinating interview because Tiffany is a classic example of this. She can recall seeing her husband being shot and killed, and she even recalls having a gun pointed at her and her life threatened, but she has no emotional reaction. No sadness, no fear, no stress, no anger…nothing. Biologically, it doesn’t make sense unless Tiffany feels something she isn’t telling us.
TIFFANY’S SLIP OF THE TONGUE
Furthermore, in this interview, Tiffany Hartley self-censors herself and what she says is fascinating. It’s a subconscious slip, a leak, if you ask me. She says, “I think it just hasn’t hit me. It just seems like how on earth……did we d– this happen? It just doesn’t seem real. It seems like it hasn’t connected…in my brain.”
Did it not appear that she censored herself from saying, “How on earth did we do this?”
Do this? What did Tiffany and David do? Did they pull something off? Why would she be leaking this?
I personally (in my own opinion) do not believe Tiffany Hartley has told us the truth about what she knows happened that day. I have said that from day one and I still will say that I have yet to see one interview with Tiffany that isn’t littered with hotspot after hotspot after hotspot.
