Five Things that Concern Me About Casey Anthony

Photo of Casey Anthony Partying

It’s hard to avoid coverage of the Casey Anthony trial if you live in the United States.  I mean, what a story, right?  Death is never a happy thing, but the senseless murder of a child is one that hits most of us on a visceral level.

And when you add in the possibility that said child’s mother killed her in cold blood, it grows ever more disturbing.

The nearly three-year-old Caylee Anthony disappeared in June of 2008 but was not reported missing until mid-July.  Noteworthy is that the missing child report was made not by Caylee’s mother but by her grandmother.

Before June of 2008, Casey and her young daughter lived in her parents’ Florida home.  After they moved out, Casey made excuses ranging from a busy work schedule to Caylee spending time with a nanny to keep …

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Boy Reportedly Killed by Mother

Computer Composite and Photograph of Camden Hughes

Sometimes we are reminded of the utter depravity that human beings are capable of.  Most of us shake our heads with disbelief at the atrocities of your Ted Bundys, your Manson families, your wannabe actors that kill their mothers.

While all murder is reprehensible, it is my hope that there is a special place in hell for mothers that kill their children.  Susan Smith, Casey Anthony, Andrea Yates … you can claim depression or a past plagued by abuse or that the devil made you do it or whatever, but the idea of a child being slaughtered by the very hand that brought it into the world …

It gives me the shivers.

And it pisses me off.

On May 14th, a Maine resident found the body of a young boy on the side of the road.  The little boy, whose death was considered a homicide from the get-go, was unidentified for days as police followed tips from all over the country with the help of a computer-generated reconstruction based on … well, you know.

The town of South Berwick, where he was found, rallied around this nameless child, creating makeshift memorials and holding …

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Death Stops Elderly Father from Death Penalty Activism

Photo of Death Penalty Activist George Cullins

In situations of murder, those affected ripple outward from the victim like rings in water.  The closest of those proverbial rings is almost always the immediate family of the victim, and the savage 1984 strangling of 24-year-old Janette Cullins is no exception.

The perpetrator, Dean Carter, was a real gem.   Strangling Janette Cullins and sticking her body into a closet in her San Diego home,  was not his first crime.  In fact, he’d killed three women just the day before in L.A. and had a history of raping women who didn’t exactly think he was Rico Suave.  Sick.

Anyway, this douchebag went to trial in 1991 and was convicted of all four murders and two rapes.  He was sentenced to death for his desecration of Janette …

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Looks Like Manson Follower Patricia Krenwinkel Will Actually SERVE Life in Prison

Manson Killer Patricia Krenwinkel, Then and Now

On August 8, 1969, three members of the so-called “Manson Family” entered a home on Cielo Drive in L.A. and slaughtered Steven Parent, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and pregnant movie starlet (and wife of Roman Polanski) Sharon Tate. The next night, the slaughter was brought to the home of businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.

It was bad.

Like, fork-sticking-out-of-a-stomach-with-“WAR”-carved-on-it bad. Like, people being stabbed 51 times bad. Like, torturing …

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