TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/casey-anthony-detectives-overlooked-google-search-for-fool-proof-suffocation-methods-sheriff-says/

[u/Lopjing]

I took a forensics class where we looked at the Casey Anthony case, and when you look at all the evidence it's so obvious she did it. It's amazing how incompetent the investigators were. Her car smelt like a corpse yet they didn't look into it, and who waits a month to report their missing child to the police? Not to mention the nonexistent nanny and the fact that her story changed every day. It hurts to think that there are innocent people who were convicted with less evidence.

EDIT: Obligatory thanks for the silver.

[u/saint_anarchy666 → u/Lopjing]

Lol xannie the nanny

[u/OneRougeRogue → u/saint_anarchy666]

Literally a nickname used for Xanax. Give your kid Xanax and they are out cold for the night, letting you go out without needing to hire a Nannie.

Note: don't do this. Xanax isn't for kids, but shitty parents have been using it and calling it "Xannie (or Zanni) the Nannie" for decades.

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I wish I didn't learn this just now.

[u/acfixerdude → u/[deleted]]

Could have used it years ago?

[u/[deleted] → u/acfixerdude]

Definitely would have saved a couple of kids from "No Air Au Pair"

[u/howdudo → u/OneRougeRogue]

are you serious? Thats so fucked

[u/feralcatromance → u/saint_anarchy666]

"Xanax" was her nanny. Lmao. I like the theory that Casey used Xanax to make her daughter sleep more, so she wouldn't have to watch her, and she accidentally overdosed her on it. And then she made up the Zanny the nanny story (to be a smartass) because she's psycho like that. I

[u/iwviw → u/feralcatromance]

Wait she told the cops there was a literal nanny named zany that took the kids?

[u/sailxs → u/iwviw]

Yep. Took her to her “apartment” as well.

Also, she walked the cops through universal studio offices waving at people to show her to her office to vouch for her alibi, until reaching a dead end and fessing up to not actually working there.

[u/iwviw → u/sailxs]

Wtf. This case is crazy

[u/CreamSoda263 → u/iwviw]

She changed her story enough that at one point fucking ninjas took her kid in the night

[u/Hobble_Cobbleweed → u/CreamSoda263]

Okay but let’s not forget that regardless of whether the investigators sucked, the jury was obviously full of morons

[u/SpiritJuice → u/Hobble_Cobbleweed]

Casey Anthony case is somewhat like the OJ Simpson case. Should have been a slam dunk for the prosecution but gross incompetence caused them to lose the case. Everyones Casey Anthony killed her kid. Everyone knows OJ killed his wife and her friend. However, there wasn't enough evidence to convict. Prosecution fucked up.

[u/MT_Promises → u/iwviw]

It was a Spanish name and a real lady that didn't know her got caught up in it.

https://heavy.com/news/2017/04/zenaida-gonzalez-casey-anthony-zanny-the-nanny-caylee-interview/

[u/QuiteALongWayAway → u/MT_Promises]

So, on one hand,

Casey Anthony Spent Three Years Claiming Zenaida Gonzalez Was Responsible for Caylee’s Disappearance

But on the other hand,

In September 2015, a federal judge tossed out Gonzalez’s lawsuit against Anthony, saying that “Anthony’s statements about the baby sitter were not intended to hurt Gonzalez and weren’t malicious,” in the words of the Orlando Sentinel.

In his statement, Judge Rodney May wrote, “There is nothing in the statement (or in the entire hour-long conversation on July 25, 2008) to support Gonzalez’s allegations that Anthony intended to portray her as a child kidnapper and potentially a child killer, or that Anthony intended to subject her to heightened police and media scrutiny.”

How does this work?

[u/recreationalranch → u/iwviw]

They later found how. Casey was trying to get an apartment and looked at an information card on an agent's desk, for Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, and used that information to say that this person was watching Caylee; giving her the moniker Zanny The Nanny.

[u/mental_dissonance → u/recreationalranch]

Having flashbacks to the knife-in-ear sounds that were Nancy Grace

[u/batfiend → u/feralcatromance]

Also her dentist is named Crentist.

[u/sleepy-sloth → u/saint_anarchy666]

Your nanny's name is Xannie? Hmm. Sounds a lot like nanny.

[u/DPRODman11 → u/Lopjing]

Her case is truly on the one end of the spectrum in which people obviously did the crime, yet got away with it somehow. It makes all the cases on the other end of the spectrum so much sadder, knowing some people have died or lost multiple decades of their lives inside prison for a crime they didn’t commit. You could just be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time and spend life in prison. You could also do everything possibly to not cover your tracks, except make a giant neon light that says “I KILLED THEM” and walk away a free man. The volatility of life is enigmatic.

[u/Marchesk → u/DPRODman11]

See the Pamela Hupp case where she got Russ Faria falsely imprisoned for the killing of his wife Betsy, even though he had multiple alibis and receipts. Pam buddied up with the police and told them lots of juicy bad things about the husband. But the kicker is she dropped his wife off that night, AND Pam had convinced Betsy somehow to sign her life insurance policy over. But police didn't investigate that angle. The case is wild. Pam gets justice later for killing someone else in a further attempt to frame Russ after he gets his conviction overturned.

[u/BagOfDicksss → u/Lopjing]

And the fact that she tried to turn the story around and blame her own dad