'I'm such a good liar': Did Casey Anthony constantly mislead authorities since daughter went missing in 2008?
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Casey Anthony has a history of lying. The account of her own story has not been reliable over the years. She was found guilty of giving law enforcement false information during the trial of her dead daughter Caylee Anthony.
Casey had a history of fabricating intricate lies, first about how she was doing in high school, then about her fake career and even about her pregnancy with Caylee – a similarity she shares with several convicted killers who all went on to murder family members. However, Casey's parents had a unique history of supporting and participating in their daughter's falsehoods rather than holding her accountable for them, according to her brother Lee's evidence at her trial. Caylee, a 2-year-old, went missing on June 16, 2008, and was never to be found. Casey, who at the time was living with her boyfriend, kept her daughter's disappearance a secret from everyone for the following 31 days. Instead, she made contradictory answers about where she was staying, sometimes stating she was with a friend and other times saying she was with a nanny and did nothing to try to find her.
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Casey appeared "upbeat," "normal," and "happy" during that month, according to many friends who would eventually testify at the trial, according to a report from the Vox. “Oh, my god, I am such a good liar,” one witness recalled Casey laughing during her trial. Casey asserted to police and everyone else that Caylee had been abducted from the time of her mother's 911 call until her trial three years later when her account completely shifted. Caylee's whereabouts were allegedly known to a woman by the name of Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez who had looked after Caylee for the previous two years as per Casey. She told authorities that ‘Zanny the Nanny’ was someone she had met through a coworker at Universal Studios and Zanny had also looked after her child in the past.
Casey didn't, however, work for Universal. Furthermore, the male coworker she mentioned had not worked for Universal in six years, had never heard of a nanny by the name of Zanny and didn't even have children. And Zanny by herself? She wasn't real. She didn't know who the Anthonys were when the police located Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez on the opposite side of Orlando. But Casey was so determined to believe this lie that she confidently led investigators to the Universal Studios headquarters, had security buzz her in and then showed them throughout the office complex while she appeared to search for a plausible open space to pose as her office. After failing to locate one, she immediately stopped mid-step, turned around and admitted that she had lied about working there. She persisted in saying that Zanny the Nanny was genuine, though.
In the meantime, Casey was more concerned with receiving her boyfriend's phone number on a family call than talking about her daughter while she was in jail awaiting trial originally on charges of child neglect which were subsequently elevated to first-degree murder. Casey's response to her best friend's sobs over Caylee was a mocking "Oh, my god." On the other hand, the case put a tremendous amount of emotional stress on Casey's family. George Anthony, Casey’s father, died of suicide in January 2009 which would later be used against him by Casey's defense during her trial. In place of the 'Zanny the Nanny' theory, Casey's defense team asserted that Caylee accidentally drowned in the Anthonys' pool and that George assisted his daughter in covering up the death during the trial.
Jose Baez, her defense attorney, dropped the shocking charge that Casey had been physically and verbally abused by her father, hinting that this was the reason for her pattern of fabrications and her readiness to defend him. She was, however, proven to have lied to the police. After the trial, Casey appeared to carry on her life exactly as she had before; the media occasionally reported seeing her out partying and she grew distant from her family. “I don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks about me,” she told the Associated Press in 2017. “I never will. I’m okay with myself; I sleep pretty good at night.”