The Death of Caylee Anthony: Casey Anthony 'received cryptic calls' when Caylee was missing
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Cameron Campana, a former friend of Casey Anthony, claims that the mother-of-one appeared to be experiencing symptoms of "Stockholm syndrome." He also stated that she answered a series of cryptic calls during the time her daughter was missing, frequently leaving the house in order to respond.
Anthony, who was previously known as the most hated mother in America, celebrated her birthday on Sunday, March 19 as she turned 37. If Caylee, her daughter, hadn't been killed and dumped in a marsh in the summer of 2008, she would have turned 18 this year. Caylee was last seen alive leaving her grandparents' home in Orlando, Florida, with her mother in June 2008. After 31 days, her grandmother Cindy reported her missing and informed the 911 operator as she stated, "There is something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car," according to the Sun. Anthony had been residing with her boyfriend Tony Lazzaro and his three roommates at the time.
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'She had an excuse right off the bat'
Campana, one of Tony Lazzaro's roommates, claimed to the Sun that throughout the month Caylee was missing, Casey appeared "completely normal" and at ease. He even revealed that every time he'd questioned where Caylee was, Anthony reportedly had a multitude of answers prepped to explain her daughter's unusual disappearance.
Campana stated, "At one point, I remember [my roommate] and I asked Casey: 'Oh, we haven't seen our little friend Caylee around in a while,' and she had an excuse right off the bat. She'd be like: 'Oh, yeah, her and the nanny are going to Universal [Studios] this week, then they're going to Epcot one day, and the Magic Kingdom another day."
Campana added, "And it was believable, it wasn't like she had to think about it or whatever. Being a 20-something mom at the time who supposedly had a nanny, that wasn't unbelievable during the summer. There was nothing that would make us be like: 'Is there something weird going on here?'"
'Now I wonder who it was that she was talking to'
Campana claims that the only thing he ever witnessed, which now seems weird to him, was that she was regularly receiving phone calls, which she frequently took outside. He stated, "She would tell me her parents were driving her crazy, which didn't seem at the time to be out of the ordinary for an angsty 20-something."
Campana added, "I remember she would always say something about her mom being a control freak. She would always say it was her mom calling her, and she would go out to the pond behind our apartment to talk with her, and just pace around."
Campana claims that he once confronted Anthony about the content of the calls and the reasons behind her tendency to circle the pond when speaking with her mother. He stated, "She told me: 'Oh my mom and I get on each other's nerves, and it's my time to vent.' I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now I wonder who it was that she was talking to."
What conclusion did Cameron Campana draw from Caylee's death?
Campana said he's been contemplating the case and his interactions with Anthony over those 31 days after the release of the documentary in 2022, in which Anthony accused her father of sexually abusing her and Caylee and later killing the helpless two-year-old.
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Campana stated, "I've never been able to make a full stance on who I thought was responsible for Caylee's death. I never wanted to believe that she was capable of doing something to Caylee just because of how great of a mom she was - she just didn’t seem like someone who would do that."
Campana continued, "I'm not fully convinced but I am leaning towards that maybe she didn't do it. If she was traumatized and abused growing up, all the lies [she told police] made sense. After watching that documentary it seemed as though she'd been dealing with Stockholm syndrome for most of her life."
"I'd say I believed about 80 percent of what she said during the film, just on her raw emotion alone. But still, there are so many questions, maybe more than ever before. Either she's telling the truth, finally, or she deserves an Oscar for lying," Campana concluded.