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Was Casey Anthony Trying to Run?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 9:26 pm
It's a given that we shouldn't expect neutral reporting from anyone associated with the Nancy Grace show where Casey Anthony is concerned, but I'd imagine that show is also pretty tied in to good sources working the case. That's why the CNN.com article written by Grace producer Natisha Lance (linked at the end of this post) is so interesting. Particularly this passage, describing today's arrest of the alleged killer mom:
Anthony was arrested during a traffic stop after the indictment and taken to jail, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.
Undercover officers followed Anthony as she traveled in her mother's SUV. The officers saw the SUV stop under a highway overpass, at which point Anthony got into another vehicle and drove off. Officers made the traffic stop after she entered the second vehicle, the spokesman said.
Emphasis was added.
Reading that I couldn't help but think of Scott Peterson's arrest in La Jolla, CA in April, 2003. Peterson said he was meeting some people at the Torrey Pines golf course, but police felt pretty sure Peterson was making a run for the border. The large amount of cash he had at the time together with multiple credit cards and camping equipment didn't make Peterson all that believable, either (the countdown to the inevitable Peterson troll who posts defenses of Scott on ALL blog entries even halfway referencing the case has just begun).
The passage quoted above was buried in the middle of the story, but it stood out in neon, to me. I'll be very interested to learn what reasons Casey might have had for making that odd stop and vehicle switch. I'm sure her mother, Cindy Anthony, will have some sort utterly implausible explanation ready for the news cameras very soon.
UPDATE
A friend e-mailed shortly after this post was up to tell me that Casey's vehicle switch was to the bail bondsman's gray SUV. My friend wrote that "There was communication between Cindy and [bail bondsman] Mike MacDonald about Myfox orlando 'chasing' or following them from Jose [Baez's] office." My tipster added, "Mr. MacDonald also may have been concerned about her whereabouts at that point as well."
[CNN.com]
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