Casey anthony why do we care

Ex-roommates and a group of women who worked at a nightclub that Anthony frequented also testified. Prosecutors entered into evidence several photos of Anthony at the nightclub, creating a veritable scrapbook of Anthony's clubbing during the month that her daughter was missing. Anthony, 25, faces a battery of charges related to the disappearance and death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

She faces first degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated child abuse and providing false information to law enforcement. She is facing the death penalty if convicted of the most serious charge. Lazzaro, a college student and party promoter in when Caylee disappeared, said Anthony was a "pretty girl" and said that the two "hit it off. Photos of the couple submitted into evidence show a beaming Anthony sitting on his lap at a nightclub days after Caylee disappeared, although authorities had not been alerted that the girl was missing.

Lazzaro testified that on one of their first meetings, Caylee and Casey Anthony went to the pool at his apartment building. He said that Anthony disciplined Caylee like "any mother would do" when she got too close to the pool. The testimony came a day after the bombshell claim by Anthony's lawyer who abandoned the story that Caylee had been kidnapped by a babysitter and said Caylee drowned on June 16, in the family pool. The lawyer said that Anthony hid that fact in a bizarre emotional quirk that was the result of alleged sexual abuse by her father.

Lazzaro was about to say that the two became close enough that she shared secrets about her family, but when defense lawyer Jose Baez started to ask whether those secret involved Anthony's father, Judge Belvin Perry cut off questioning on that point. Anthony's defense team claims that she was sexually abused by her father, George Anthony, and brother, Lee Anthony. Lazzaro has previously stated in a deposition that Anthony spoke of being physically abused by her father.

Casey Anthony moved in with her boyfriend and his roommates in the month that her daughter Caylee vanished, partying with them , even competing in a hot body contest, while telling them Caylee was at Disney World and a beach with her babysitter, witnesses testified. The prosecution questioned the roommates along with women who worked as "shot girls" at a bar frequented by Anthony. The testimony appeared intended to depict Anthony as a woman who exhibited no remorse over Caylee's death or disappearance, and instead reveled in no longer having to care for Caylee.

The prosecution does not have a cause of death for Caylee and its case will consist largely of circumstantial evidence that includes Anthony's behavior during the days after Caylee died and forensic evidence of human decomposition in Anthony's car. They want to know everything they possibly can about this guy even though he repulses them.

Because they just thought that these victims were so -- it was just a tragedy that their livens were ended so quickly. And they were beautiful girls, their lives were promising, they were both bright, they both had something in front of them. So people could glom onto something. And people got involved in the search for them too. So they had an emotional investment. So did the law enforcement, which I'm finding out, this case, sheriff Bill gore told me this case was the most emotional for him out of any case.

And he was in the FBI for years and years. So you look for something that really pulls emotion from people, where they're emotionally invested. And in this case, they're local.

So it helps that it's been on TV, people know about it, they want to buy the book. Carla, is this just voyeurism or is there any actual value do you think to this programming? I think it gets people riled up, as Caitlin said. I think it makes people more frightened than they need to be. But people have always been obsessed with evil.

I think we want to know why, we want to know what makes a person evil, we want to know why would a mother kill her child, if indeed that's what happened. We want to know why -- what makes the serial killer do what he does. Sherlock homes. How far back does that go? We love our crime. We want to know why. I think we think if we can figure out what makes a person do something, we can figure out how to stop it.

We want to figure out why we're safe. If we can figure out why we're not safe, maybe we can figure out how we can be save. I think that's how we get so wrapped up in these stories. We see the crime scenes, we go into the trials and see the trials. Is this murder as entertainment, Caitlin? We can learn from these cases.

That's part of what my goal is. I went into journalism because I wanted to do good. And I'm an author because I want to continue that mission. And teach people, number one, how to protect themselves. Number two -- if you want to turn a blind eye to somebody like John gardener, how are you going to possibly know if you ever meet someone like him?

How are you going to protect yourself and your daughters? And how are you gonna get over that fear unless you know what to look for and how to protect yourself and your family? And frankly, I think it also has a healing aspect for some people. There are many people who have had molestation in their family, there's usually detection involved in these cases. There are many sides to our society that aren't pretty.

But we have a lot of them in many of our families. And these things resonate with people, these themes. Life and death, it doesn't get more -- you can't relate to something like that more than that. We all deal with life and death. And we hope that this doesn't happen to us. But how are we going to learn how to prevent it if we don't learn about it. But people who have just watched the verdict comparing this Casey Anthony case, and its not guilty verdict to the OJ Simpson trial.

Do you think this massive coverage distorts the perception of the criminal justice system? I think because you see so much coverage, you think you know. And you think you're in a position to judge. I think that the legal system is more complicated than that. And I think that it -- there is the danger of the snap judgment and thinking that it's an easy process.

And we have to, I think, remind ourselves that it isn't. I want to thank you both. Search Query Show Search. Support KPBS. Watch Live. Experts would testify that air samples indicated that decaying human remains had been present in Casey Anthony's trunk.

In the end, prosecutors proved Casey Anthony was a liar, but convinced the jury of little else. The government failed to establish how Caylee died, and they couldn't find her mother's DNA on the duct tape they said was used to suffocate her. After a trial of a month and a half, the jury took less than 11 hours to find Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse.

Still, the Florida Department of Children and Families concluded that Anthony was responsible for her daughter's death because her "actions or the lack of actions She was convicted of four counts of lying to police though two counts were later dropped , and served about three years in prison while awaiting trial. A thousand people were there to see her released.

She admits that she lied to police: about being employed at Universal Studios; about leaving Caylee with a baby-sitter; about telling two people, both of them imaginary, that Caylee was missing; about receiving a phone call from Caylee the day before she was reported missing.

Because cops believe other cops. Cops tend to victimize the victims. I understand now I see why I was treated the way I was even had I been completely truthful. She added: "Cops lie to people every day. I'm just one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied. At the trial, lead defense attorney Jose Baez suggested that the little girl drowned and that Casey Anthony's father, George, helped cover that up — and sexually abused his daughter.

Her father has vehemently denied the accusations. Anthony doesn't talk about her parents much, other than to say she was disappointed when they took money from television's Dr.