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.

Chris Watts Interview: My Thoughts

Many of you have wondering if Christopher Watts revealed clues that he was deceptive. The answer is yes. If you don’t know, he has sadly confessed to the killing of his wife and their children.

In the beginning of the interview, Chris actually glows when he first starts talking, yet he is putting on a down-tone in his voice and working hard to keep his emotions baseline. You get that deadpan feeling? That’s him manipulating his responses–trying to “act” down when he really isn’t. It’s an epic fail.

You can see him suppress a smile when he is asked what happened. It’s creepy. This is not a man grieving for or worried about his supposed missing wife.

When talking about her not responding to “her people” he talks about “That is what concerned a lot of peoples.” If you notice, it didn’t concern him. Isn’t that interesting? He also makes a disgust expression.

As he talks about coming home, he says, “Nothing. Just vanished. Nothing was here.” This is extreme distancing from his wife and kids. He acts like they are objects, not human beings who went missing. He then corrects and says, “She wasn’t here. The kids weren’t here.”

Interestingly, when he talks about the kids and says their names, you see a slow blink. There is some, albeit slight, emotional response here about the kids that is revealed by this. Does it bother him he killed them? Are their visions that get into his head that cause him to feel some emotion here? I believe the answer is yes, even if it is a minor emotion. With his wife, there is nothing.

When Chris spells Celeste’s name, he has an awkward swallow. It’s making him very uncomfortable and its notable.

As Chris talks about where they could be, he has a glow again. I get that sense he feels he is being believed and is successfully duping the reporter here. It’s very creepy. And it continues as he talks about the girls, and how they would be eating dinner and how he supposedly (not) misses it. He actually breaks out in slight laughter at 3:24. What you are seeing is a man who is loving the fact he is duping the reporter and getting away with his lies and thinks he is being believed.

He laughs again at 3:51.

He says they had an emotional conversation. Yeah, a fight. No doubt. He laughs again at 5:01.

When the reporters question him about what the police or sheriff are saying to you, he shows real indications of being uncomfortable and nervous again, which only helped investigators! He shows doubt throughout this interview as well.

And in the end, he says, as he pleas for his wife, “IF you are out there…” IF??? I love when they say “if”. It’s quite common and a huge reveal.

I personally suspect this man was controlling, angered easily and kept his demons behind closed doors. And something happened, and he snapped.

OJ Simpson’s Lost Confession: Did you see it?

I must confess that I had no idea this was going to be on or I would have recorded it! But I can say the short clips I have seen of this show had my jaw on the floor.

Simpson says he is talking”hypothetically” as he supposedly recounts the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown.

From the clips I’ve watched, there is nothing hypothetical about it.

Are we seeing a chilling, cold calculating killer bask in the limelight again knowing he is immune from punishment?

Are we seeing the arrogance of a man who believes he can fool still fool people?

Are we seeing a deranged killer who loves toying with people and being the center of attention?

I plan to watch this show in full this weekend to get a clear picture of what is going on here!

I will share some of my thoughts either in another post or in the comment section below!  Check back soon!

What do you think?

Angelika Graswald: A Free Woman

ABC’s 20/20 did an updated story on Angelika Graswald this past weekend. She is out jail after serving 32 months. She pled guilty to reduced charges of criminally negligent homicide and was released just before Christmas 2017. She’s a free woman after only serving 32 months.

The case is fascinating because it polarized many people.

Many people found her credible, though the thought of that makes me cringe, like nails down a chalk board, cringe.

This case isn’t even in shades of gray. It is clear black and white.

Graswald shows every dangerous behavior known to mankind and anyone in her path should take deep care to protect themselves.

Remember how Jodi Arias played this sweet, innocent,  I-couldn’t-harm-a-flea demeanor?

These two are made of the same exact deadly cocktail of lethality.

I could write a 200-page book on Graswald’s behavior in this case.

My biggest piece of advice about this case?

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Graswald told you she had a dark side that no one should ever see. That statement wasn’t coerced, or forced.

That was the stark, cold, hard, deadly truth!

Decoding Body Language: Funny Video!

This is a great video to watch in the study of body language.

As you can see immediately, this isn’t even filmed in an English speaking country, but as you watch, you will see that we all respond the same!  We are the same regardless of language, though culture can and does have influential affects on behavior and body language.

Watch this video as this man eats his ice cream cone in a very seductive way.

It’s fascinating to see how the people around him respond. It’s flat out hilarious!

Then watch the people’s expressions as the man gets up.

What emotional and physical responses do you see?  What do they indicate?  I will share comments with you in the comment section.

And last, was there a telltale give away that you could have picked up live in this situation that would give you a strong indicator the man wasn’t blind (my favorite part!) and that he was using the cane as a rouse?  Do you see it?

Have fun!!

And thanks to DK for sharing this video. I needed a really good laugh!