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However, any lawyer will ALSO tell you, the WORST client is the 'bad woman' - the indifferent, arrogant, 'emotionless, having fun after the crime and blaming others' type. They very often do get the death penalty or get convicted of the more serious charge.
Then, single, white, young and pretty don't mean nothin'. In fact for the 'bad woman', 'single, white, young, pretty' makes it all the worse.
The other possibility of course, is that she was kicking up her heels after the death so much because:
1.) She knew something and was going to hold it over someone for the rest of their life
2.) She thought it would make her less guilty looking
3.) She normally acts that way and didn't want to change any of her habits, in hopes of continuing to conceal the death of the child, on her behalf or on the behalf of someone else, who as long as they were not in jail, was going to be her cash cow for the rest of her life
4.) The person who was responsible for the death, told her to
5.) She WAS s. abused as a child, and has abnormal responses to situations as a result
6.) The persons involved in the death, felt sure that they had come up with an airtight plan that would keep them out of suspicion. You know, like, the mother calling up the police in a panic, the husband with his suicide attempt, the daughter with her insistence that the nanny took the child - and all that.
7.) Whoever is responsible told Casey to act that way, with the hopes that if their plan DID fall apart, attention would shift from that person - right to Casey.
My own feeling is that the mother, the father and Casey were all complicit in concealing a death which was to one degree or another, accidental.
And that the problem with the case, and the REASON for the lack of evidence sufficient for a conviction on any of the more serious charges, is that the authorities couldn't get any of them to turn on each other.
WHY couldn't the authorities get anyone of them to turn on each other? Because one of the parents, someone with a strong will, and good at deception, had a material role in the plan to conceal the death, and was highly motivated to keep the facts from not coming out.
In a crime where the facts cannot be discovered, it is almost ALWAYS true that all or some of the most closely involved people, are working together to conceal the facts.