George & Cindy on 'Good Morning, America' - Tuesday, 6/15/10

George, Cindy talk to ‘Good Morning America’ on Tuesday

posted by halboedeker on June, 14 2010 3:32 PM

“Good Morning America” will offer an interview Tuesday with George and Cindy Anthony, the parents of Casey Anthony.

The Anthonys were flown to New York for the interview, which was taped Friday and conducted by Ashleigh Banfield of ABC News. Banfield was free to ask anything she wanted, an ABC News spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman said the network did not license any new photos or videos for the “GMA” interview, and that information will be disclosed on Tuesday’s show.

In 2008, ABC News paid Casey Anthony and her family $200,000 for photos and video of toddler Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony was later charged with first-degree murder in the death of her child. Any photos or video used in Tuesday’s segment was licensed under the deal two years ago, ABC News said.

“GMA” starts at 7 a.m. weekdays on WFTV-Channel 9.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/06/casey-anthony-george-cindy-talk-to-good-morning-america-on-tuesday.html

Well I knew it was too good to be true...The silence of the Anthony's, George and Cindy that is...Word is out that they will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow morning. I don't know what they think they can add that will convince the general population that their beloved daughter is innocent. I guess they decided to steal some of Joran's thunder since nothing noteworthy about KC's case has occurred in the media lately. Stay tuned, maybe they will even offer their condolences to the parents of Stephany Flores.

What? All the other cases in the news lately, are they are feeling left out, and need to get their mugs back on the tv? Yuck!

What are they possibly going to say? "Hi. Remember us?"

Exactly Estee, they're feeling neglected lately. No C&G news.

The funds in their fake foundation are probably running low......

The Anthonys were flown to New York for the interview, which was taped Friday and conducted by Ashleigh Banfield of ABC News. Banfield was free to ask anything she wanted, an ABC News spokeswoman said.

I hope Banfield didn't hold anything back and asked the questions we all want answered. I'm sure it probably didn't go down that way though. If it did, the interview probably ended with George and Cindy storming out.

I doubt that George and Cindy agreed to TRUTHFULLY answer any and all questions. Bet their attorney was sitting in and would pipe up with a Baez "Zip it" if he didn't like the question. The whole bunch of these bloodsuckers make me sick!!!

Oh...That's right..The unofficial anniversary of Caylee's last sighting/really the last time C&G saw her...I don't think either saw her on the 16th...It's all hogwash!!!

Maybe they are going to announce that Roy Kronk is AKA Roy Kalpoe...............and Joran was spotted in Puerto Rico en route to Aruba at the time Caylee went missing.

Caylee Anthony's Grandparents on Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot
Caylee Anthony's Grandmother Said She Can Identify With Natalee Holloway's Mom, Not Van der Sloot's

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010

On the second anniversary of Caylee Anthony's disappearance , the toddler's grandparents said they can identify with Natalee Holloway's mother, but not with the mother of suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot -- despite the murder charges against their daughter, Casey Anthony.

A judge in Peru officially has charged the young man with murder.

More Photos "I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-cindy-anthony-caylee-anthonys-grandmother-natalee-holloway/story?id=10913252

O brother! kh

Double barf.........my goodness. She is pathetic. Unreal.

Sooooo, she can't relate because Joran confessed...What about relating because of the lies he/she told...Guess that doesn't count...Annnnd, she says she hasn't seen the angry side of KC...She must have Altzheimers and can't remember the jail visits where KC was ugly angry...I taped the show but havent seen it yet, wanted to see what happened here first!!!!

Alot of these quotes were not on T.v....just on the interview page...

"[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee... I'm still her grandfather... I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will," he said.unquote...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-george-cindy-anthony-speak-anniversary-caylees-disappearance/story?id=10911174

I have to say that just coming home from visiting my one-and-only granddaughter, age 2-1/2, I find this case so deplorable. kh

photos of Baez allowing KC to view his cellphone and laptop
and showing her something under the table (a piece of jewelry from Cindy)

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Baez showing KC a piece of jewelry from Cindy, under the table


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note passed from female attorney to female guard

https://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq120/cayleecross/?start=720
Baez letting KC look at his laptop

https://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq120/cayleecross/?start=760
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Baez showing KC his cell phone

George and Cindy Anthony Speak on 2nd Anniversary of Caylee's Disappearance
Grandparents Call Time 'Unbearable,' Say Casey Anthony Is Innocent But 'Anything Can Happen' in Trial

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010



Two years ago today Florida 2-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished , sparking what would become one of the nation's highest profile murder cases and beginning a time of intense and painful scrutiny that has seared the entire Anthony family, Caylee's grandparents said today.

"The last two years have been just unbearable," an emotional George Anthony told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview today as he sat alongside his wife, Cindy Anthony . "To think about the last time we saw Caylee and Casey together, hear her voice, to see her little eyes and get a hug and kiss from her. It's not easy."

Caylee disappeared on June 15, 2008, but was not reported missing by her mother, Casey Anthony, until a month later.

In October of that year Casey was charged with her daughter's murder and in December the toddler's body was found less than a mile from the Anthony home. The intervening months have been full of court hearings and controversies, public protests and personal struggles.

"We've been dealing with this almost as long as Caylee was alive, because Caylee wasn't quite 3 when this started," Caylee's grandmother Cindy Anthony said. "So it seems like this nightmare has lasted longer than the moments than we had with her. That makes it very, very difficult.

"And I miss the last three years that I could have had with her, or the last two years. And then thinking about her starting school..," Cindy said before breaking into tears.

Though she maintains her daughter Casey is innocent and has "faith in the system," Cindy Anthony said that she did initially consider that Casey could have played a part in Caylee's disappearance. Acknowledging that a jury might feel the same way, Cindy Anthony said, "Anything can happen" when Casey goes to trial in the spring.

"I mean the thought did cross our mind in the very beginning. There may have been an accident," Cindy said. But Cindy said she dismissed the thought, even though Casey refused to tell her where Caylee was.

"I'm not angry about it so much as I am frustrated because I might be able to better understand why she's where she's at now. Because, I still truly believe that she is innocent," the grandmother said. "There's got to be a motive there that's much greater than this whole picture."

Cindy acknowledged that her daughter lied to investigators early on, but said nothing proves she did anything more than that.

"A liar doesn't make you a murderer," she said.

Many people felt differently and for months, protesters were a common sight outside the Anthony home.

The trial has made the family famous and turned their home into something of a Florida landmark.

"People drive from New Jersey or Wisconsin or whatever to come out and we're kind of like on the Disney route," Cindy said. "They come in and they want to see, you know, take a picture of our house or come in and say they've met us or whatever."



Cindy Anthony: 'Dead Body' Smell Was to Get Police Attention, Family Denies Sexual Abuse

Cindy Anthony also backed off statements she made in a panicked 911 call in 2008 at the outset of the case in which she said the car Casey drove smelled like "there's been a dead body in there," saying that she was only trying to get police to respond quickly.

"You can't take back anything that you say or feel at the time and I don't take [it] back," Cindy said. "All I know is I was desperate to get someone out to my house, desperate... When you're desperately needing something, especially when it comes to your children, you pretty much do or say whatever it takes to get help."

A Florida judge has yet to rule on whether the 911 tapes will be heard during the murder trial, but Brad Conway, an attorney for George and Cindy Anthony said today he doesn't doubt "for a second" the tapes will be entered into evidence.

Also likely to play a role in the trial are hundreds of pages of jailhouse letters Casey Anthony exchanged with another inmate, whom the Anthonys believe was part of an elaborate set-up by investigators. In the letters, Casey complains about her family's "betrayal," alleges that her brother sexually abused her as a child and that George may have as well. She said in the letters she didn't remember if some of the memories were dreams or not.

The Anthony family firmly denied those claims.

"I don't know where Casey was pulling stuff from, the stuff she's talking about. I have no clue," Cindy said. "It was very hurtful to George because I think for her to say that she had a dream, for her to even say that I think it was very hurtful for him."

Anthonys on Pain of Being Away From Not One, But Two Loved Ones

While Caylee Anthony may be gone forever, the Anthonys described how difficult it has been for them to be away from Casey while she spends a reported 23 hours of every day in her cell.

"I miss her. I miss her too much. And I think about where she's at. She shouldn't be there," Cindy said.

The Anthonys said they rarely see their daughter for fear of the media onslaught that's sure to follow any meeting.

"We'd love to, but we've been advised by her attorneys because they will play our videos over and over again and someone will sit there and critique," Cindy said. "If she cracks a smile, if she doesn't crack a smile. If she has a tear, if she doesn't have a tear."

Even in court the Anthonys said their daughter can't look at them while under the watchful eye of television cameras and reporters.

"I just want her to stay strong, know how much I love her," she said. "I've had dreams that Casey's home. I have faith that Casey will be home."

In a rare spontaneous meeting during a court recess in March, Cindy said she was able to give Casey a Mother's Day card.

Though Caylee will not be coming home, George Anthony said he found away to carry the toddler with him -- in a tattoo of the girl printed above his heart.

"Caylee's always in my mind. She's always in my heart. When I put her on my skin, she's really inside of me," George said.

He said it was desperation to see his late granddaughter that caused him to attempt suicide on Jan. 23, 2009.

"People thought when I tried to take my own life that that was some kind of publicity stunt or something like that. No, it wasn't," he said.

"[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee... I'm still her grandfather... I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will," he said.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to Caylee Anthony's murder and is expected to go to trial in May 2011.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-george-cindy-anthony-speak-anniversary-caylees-disappearance/story?id=10911174

Caylee Anthony's Grandparents on Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot
Caylee Anthony's Grandmother Said She Can Identify With Natalee Holloway's Mom, Not Van der Sloot's

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010

On the second anniversary of Caylee Anthony's disappearance , the toddler's grandparents said they can identify with Natalee Holloway's mother, but not with the mother of suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot -- despite the murder charges against their daughter, Casey Anthony.

A judge in Peru officially has charged the young man with murder.

"I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-cindy-anthony-caylee-anthonys-grandmother-natalee-holloway/story?id=10913252

I'm glad I didn't watch this crap today!

Cindy and George really need to get over themselves. They are not as important as they want to be. I wish the media would stop humoring them.

Cindy dreams of Casey coming home

posted by halboedeker on June, 15 2010 8:24 AM

George and Cindy Anthony were the opening act for Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on “Good Morning America” this morning.

Cruise and Diaz promoted their new movie, “Knight and Day,” and a stunt they will perform on Wednesday’s “GMA.”

The Anthonys were on “GMA” to promote themselves and their views. But they didn’t say anything new in their interview with Ashleigh Banfield. They discussed their pain about granddaughter Caylee’s death and their belief in daughter Casey’s innocence.

Cindy said she dreams Casey will come home — evidently, Cindy thinks Casey will be acquitted. Casey is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

“The last two years have been unbearable,” George said. “It’s not easy. It’s not easy.”

The grandparents talked about tattoos and bracelets they wear in Caylee’s honor. Cindy said she talked about a body in a 911 call to get the attention of police — evidently an attempt to play down that dramatic call. Cindy said she thought investigators were frustrated with Casey because they couldn’t break her in 24 to 48 hours.

“They didn’t break her, and they haven’t broken her, because there’s nothing to break,” Cindy said.

Cindy said she could understand investigators’ suspicions because of Casey’s lies. ”A liar doesn’t make you a murderer,” Cindy said.

George and Cindy have read Casey’s letters to a jail pen pal, and Cindy said they were “very hurtful” for George. He said he still has “unconditional love” for Casey.

George Stephanopoulos had billed it as an emotional interview with the Anthonys two years after their granddaughter’s disappearance. Cindy broke into tears when talking about the thought of Caylee going to school.

Bottom line: George and Cindy just never help themselves with their TV appearances. I have a feeling that Cruise and Diaz will be more successful with their stunt Wednesday morning.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/06/casey-anthony-cindy-dreams-of-casey-coming-home.html

Casey Anthony's dad on GMA: 'The last two years have been just unbearable"
Casey Anthony's parents appeared on Good Morning America today, the two-year anniversary week of their granddaughter's disappearance.

Compiled by Orlando Sentinel
9:25 a.m. EDT, June 15, 2010

Casey Anthony's father told a national audience today that he and his wife have faced overwhelming sadness since their granddaughter vanished two years ago today.

Anthony is accused of killing her daughter, Caylee Marie, in 2008. Her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, have defended their daughter.

"The last two years have been just unbearable," George Anthony told Good Morning America, according to the show's website.

The Anthonys spoke about their thoughts on their daughter's innocence, Casey Anthony's jail letters, Cindy Anthony's panicked 911 call about the smell of a dead body in the car and George Anthony's suicide attempt, among other topics related to the case.

Cindy Anthony said she still believes her daughter is innocent.

"I'm not angry about it so much as I am frustrated because I might be able to better understand why she's where she's at now. Because, I still truly believe that she is innocent," Cindy Anthony said. "There's got to be a motive there that's much greater than this whole picture."

She admitted that her daughter lied to investigators, but said, "A liar doesn't make you a murderer."

The grandmother also said she told 911 operators her daughter's car smelled like a dead body because she was trying to get authorities to quickly respond to her house.

"You can't take back anything that you say or feel at the time and I don't take [it] back," Cindy Anthony said. "All I know is I was desperate to get someone out to my house, desperate...When you're desperately needing something, especially when it comes to your children, you pretty much do or say whatever it takes to get help."

Cindy Anthony said she and her husband were hurt by the comments Casey Anthony made in letter she sent to a former Orange County Jail inmate. The letters contained allegations of sexual abuse at home and her family's betrayal. The Anthonys have denied those accusations.

"I don't know where Casey was pulling stuff from, the stuff she's talking about. I have no clue," Cindy Anthony said. "It was very hurtful to George because I think for her to say that she had a dream, for her to even say that I think it was very hurtful for him."

Lastly, George Anthony spoke about his Jan. 2009 suicide attempt.

"People thought when I tried to take my own life that that was some kind of publicity stunt or something like that. No, it wasn't," he said. "[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee...I'm still her grandfather...I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casey-anthony-parents-gma-annivers20100615,0,4028570.story

The grandmother also said she told 911 operators her daughter's car smelled like a dead body because she was trying to get authorities to quickly respond to her house.

"You can't take back anything that you say or feel at the time and I don't take [it] back," Cindy Anthony said. "All I know is I was desperate to get someone out to my house, desperate...When you're desperately needing something, especially when it comes to your children, you pretty much do or say whatever it takes to get help."

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She was trying to get authorities to quickly respond to her house....ok, so the fact that the car DID smell like a dead body just happens to be another one of those coincidences, right?

It's probably a good thing that when George reported his gas cans missing, he didn't "try to get authorities to quickly respond to his house" by saying, what.......the house is on fire, I'm trapped under my car, I'm being attacked by a grizzly bear, my arm is stuck in the garbage disposal.

Using Cindy's logic, it is ok to LIE to get help quickly.

All together now... "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family....."

Anthonys Speak On GMA, George Shows Tattoo

Posted: 8:52 am EDT June 15, 2010
Updated: 10:57 am EDT June 15, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George and Cindy Anthony spoke out about the case against their daughter Casey. Wednesday marks the two year anniversary of when they last saw their granddaughter Caylee alive.

In an interview on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday morning, Cindy wore jewelry in tribute to Caylee, and George even showed off a tattoo he got in memory of his slain granddaughter.

GMA INTERVIEW: Raw Video | See Images

The couple reaffirmed their belief that Casey is innocent, and also said that investigators have tried to paint her as a monster.

"I think they were frustrated with Casey because I was told by the investigators the first night that they took her that they were going to break her in 24 to 48 hours. And they didn't break her, and they haven't broken her because there's nothing to break," said Cindy Anthony.

Casey Anthony is facing the death penalty for Caylee's murder. Casey's murder trial is set to begin in May of 2011.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23903372/detail.html

LottieM wrote:

In a rare spontaneous meeting during a court recess in March, Cindy said she was able to give Casey a Mother's Day card.

SIIIICCCCKKKKK!

Oh no she didn't!!!!!!!!!! What is wrong with these people?

George and Cindy Anthony Speak

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

From ABCnews.com. The Anthony quotes are italicized and the Statement Analysis is in bold type.

Exclusive: George and Cindy Anthony Speak on 2nd Anniversary of Caylee's Disappearance
Grandparents Call Time 'Unbearable,' Say Casey Anthony Is Innocent But 'Anything Can Happen' in Trial

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010 —

Two years ago today Florida 2-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished, sparking what would become one of the nation's highest profile murder cases and beginning a time of intense and painful scrutiny that has seared the entire Anthony family, Caylee's grandparents said today.

"The last two years have been just unbearable," an emotional George Anthony told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview today as he sat alongside his wife, Cindy Anthony. "To think about the last time we saw Caylee and Casey together, hear her voice, to see her little eyes and get a hug and kiss from her. It's not easy."

Extra words give us extra information. When we see some of these extra words when used descriptively, it means we have come across an area of high sensitivity to the speaker.

George says "The last two years have been just unbearable" rather than "the last two years have been unbearable", with the word "just" added in, which marks the sensitivity. Sometimes, these additional words are used to persuade, especially if the subject thinks that his audience may not believe him, therefore, he adds in "just" for emphasis, and it could be related to persuasion. If we see a patten, we may conclude the sensitivity is an attempt to sway an audience in one direction or another.

"To think about the last time we saw Caylee and Casey together, hear her voice, to see her little eyes and get a hug and kiss from her. It's not easy"

Although George is speaking, he uses the pronoun "we" which reduces commitment to his statement, which is about the time being "unbearable". This may indicate that the time in life has not been "unbearable" though he may not want his audience to know it. What has the last two years been like? We know that George has not had to work to support himself and went a reported 9 months without making a mortgage payment, yet went on a cruise. The chronic underemployed, it would appear that he may have found the success of leisure that he has always sought, but this time, rather than lawsuits or disability, but through the death of his granddaughter, as he showed off an obvious tattoo on a tanned chest.

What was the last time he saw Caylee and Casey together? Caylee is mentioned first, and order is important. Was the last time an explosion of anger? choking by Cindy? George then mentions things missed about Caylee. He does not tell us that he misses these things, so we cannot assume he does. In Statement Analysis, we know what we are told, and no more. If somoene says, "I got up and made the bed" we may have an indicator that the person is married ("the bed") but if we are not told there is a spouse, for our analysis, no spouse exists. George does not tell us that he misses Caylee's voice, eyes, hug, kiss, though it appears that he is speaking of her, and not of Casey. He tells us that "it is not easy" but not specifically what is not easy for him. Therer is much speculation about what happened that final day that he saw Caylee and Casey together and it is not likely a happy or fond memory.

Caylee disappeared on June 15, 2008, but was not reported missing by her mother, Casey Anthony, until a month later.

In October of that year Casey was charged with her daughter's murder and in December the toddler's body was found less than a mile from the Anthony home. The intervening months have been full of court hearings and controversies, public protests and personal struggles.

"We've been dealing with this almost as long as Caylee was alive, because Caylee wasn't quite 3 when this started," Caylee's grandmother Cindy Anthony said. "So it seems like this nightmare has lasted longer than the moments than we had with her. That makes it very, very difficult.

Cindy now speaks and also uses the pronoun "we" which reduces commitment to a statement (First person singular, past tense is the accepted formula for strong commitment). Cindy also talks about the past and likens it to the length of time Caylee was alive (just shy of 3 years, and the event referenced is now 2 years). For whatever reason, time is important to Cindy. "when this started" reference is "this" ("this" shows closeness; "that" shows distance") as central in her thinking.

"So it seems like this nightmare has lasted longer than the moments than we had with her. That makes it very, very difficult

Whenever "so" or "since" or "because" enter a statement, we know it is sensitive. "this" nightmare has lasted longer than the "moments" (short periods of time) she had with Caylee. She did not say "that makes it difficult" and not "that makes it very difficult" but "that makes it very very difficult" which now employs our rule of extra wording increasing sensitivity, but here, she doubles the wording. This doubles the sensitivity.

It may be that Cindy Anthony is attempting to persuade that the last two years has been more difficult than it has been. Prior to this, we have learned that Cindy has had a history of financial woes, including George raiding her retirement and mortgaging her house, with gambling and other debts which have been reported to have been in the 6 figure range, but now, she sports new jewelry, has not worked a single day in 2 years and went on a well publicized cruise. This perception may be what causes the sensitivity to enter the language and show why the emphasis is needed. If someone says "I am really really really really happy..." you would do well to question the genuineness of the alleged contentment, like the Shakespearean "me thinks thou does protest too much" phrase. It is important for Cindy to persuade the public how terrible her ordeal has been, unlike what the public may perceive from media,or from drawing their own conclusions. Cindy has, in the past, shown awareness of public perception of her family as mercenary and knows the outrage people expressed when she sought to market Caylee's name for profit.

"And I miss the last three years that I could have had with her, or the last two years. And then thinking about her starting school..," Cindy said before breaking into tears.

Here we have a switch to first person singular, yet, Cindy is incorrect about the number of years Caylee has been gone. the number #3 often shows up in deception, though here, we have Caylee almost 3 years of age when she was murdered, and the date of her murder close to 2 years. First person singular is stronger than the previous "we" and is likely that Cindy has considered Caylee approaching school age, and the family things associated with that period of life.

Though she maintains her daughter Casey is innocent and has "faith in the system,"

note not "faith in her innocence" or "faith in her attorneys". I would have expected the faith to be not in a faceless system, but in the actual innocence but if innocence is not believed in, then faith in the attorney might be said. However, in this case, it may be that Cindy has faith in neither innocence, nor in an attorney. With her knowledge, she does not claim faith in God. Faith in God, and faith in her daughter's innocence would have been stronger statements. In SCAN, as well as Statement Analysis, we do view what the subject didn't say as well as what they did say.

Cindy Anthony said that she did initially consider that Casey could have played a part in Caylee's disappearance. Acknowledging that a jury might feel the same way, Cindy Anthony said, "Anything can happen" when Casey goes to trial in the spring.

This is interesting. "Anything can happen" would lead me to ask, "like what? What things might happen?". Here we find no statement of belief in her daughter's innocence, but rather a phrase that would be more fitting for a "she got off on a technicality" type of case. It may represent the hopelessness that Cindy feels regading the case. This sound fatalistic and not optimistic. When someone is innocent, statements are strong.

"I mean the thought did cross our mind in the very beginning. There may have been an accident," Cindy said. But Cindy said she dismissed the thought, even though Casey refused to tell her where Caylee was.

Here we have the use of softening language. Rather than think something, it only "crossed the mind"; which is passive. Yet, it is in the first person singular, which shows commitment. Notice this is not "we" as she has used previously? Not only "in the beginning" but in the "very" beginning; also weak. Cindy is firmly taking a very weak minded position in an attempt to appear open minded. We don't know the follow up question but it may be shown in the words that follow that this thought "only crossed her mind" EVEN though Casey refused to tell her where Caylee was. It strains credibility. Cindy is clearly owning ("I") the weak and reduced statement of thought. Why? Perhaps George thought differently? Is this why she does not say "we"?

"I'm not angry about it so much as I am frustrated because I might be able to better understand why she's where she's at now. Because, I still truly believe that she is innocent," the grandmother said. "There's got to be a motive there that's much greater than this whole picture."

Cindy reports being frustrated (first person singular)

Cindy acknowledged that her daughter lied to investigators early on, but said nothing proves she did anything more than that.

"A liar doesn't make you a murderer," she said.

Many people felt differently and for months, protesters were a common sight outside the Anthony home.

The trial has made the family famous and turned their home into something of a Florida landmark.

"People drive from New Jersey or Wisconsin or whatever to come out and we're kind of like on the Disney route," Cindy said. "They come in and they want to see, you know, take a picture of our house or come in and say they've met us or whatever."

Cindy Anthony: 'Dead Body' Smell Was to Get Police Attention, Family Denies Sexual Abuse
Cindy Anthony also backed off statements she made in a panicked 911 call in 2008 at the outset of the case in which she said the car Casey drove smelled like "there's been a dead body in there," saying that she was only trying to get police to respond quickly.

"You can't take back anything that you say or feel at the time and I don't take [it] back," Cindy said. "All I know is I was desperate to get someone out to my house, desperate... When you're desperately needing something, especially when it comes to your children, you pretty much do or say whatever it takes to get help."

A Florida judge has yet to rule on whether the 911 tapes will be heard during the murder trial, but Brad Conway, an attorney for George and Cindy Anthony said today he doesn't doubt "for a second" the tapes will be entered into evidence.

Also likely to play a role in the trial are hundreds of pages of jailhouse letters Casey Anthony exchanged with another inmate, whom the Anthonys believe was part of an elaborate set-up by investigators. In the letters, Casey complains about her family's "betrayal," alleges that her brother sexually abused her as a child and that George may have as well. She said in the letters she didn't remember if some of the memories were dreams or not.

The Anthony family firmly denied those claims.

"I don't know where Casey was pulling stuff from, the stuff she's talking about. I have no clue," Cindy said. "It was very hurtful to George because I think for her to say that she had a dream, for her to even say that I think it was very hurtful for him."

Anthonys on Pain of Being Away From Not One, But Two Loved Ones
While Caylee Anthony may be gone forever, the Anthonys described how difficult it has been for them to be away from Casey while she spends a reported 23 hours of every day in her cell.

"I miss her. I miss her too much. And I think about where she's at. She shouldn't be there," Cindy said.

The Anthonys said they rarely see their daughter for fear of the media onslaught that's sure to follow any meeting.

"We'd love to, but we've been advised by her attorneys because they will play our videos over and over again and someone will sit there and critique," Cindy said. "If she cracks a smile, if she doesn't crack a smile. If she has a tear, if she doesn't have a tear."

Even in court the Anthonys said their daughter can't look at them while under the watchful eye of television cameras and reporters.

"I just want her to stay strong, know how much I love her," she said. "I've had dreams that Casey's home. I have faith that Casey will be home."

In a rare spontaneous meeting during a court recess in March, Cindy said she was able to give Casey a Mother's Day card.

There is no direct quote here. I know readers likely are enraged reading this.

Though Caylee will not be coming home, George Anthony said he found away to carry the toddler with him -- in a tattoo of the girl printed above his heart.

"Caylee's always in my mind. She's always in my heart. When I put her on my skin, she's really inside of me," George said.

He said it was desperation to see his late granddaughter that caused him to attempt suicide on Jan. 23, 2009.

"People thought when I tried to take my own life that that was some kind of publicity stunt or something like that. No, it wasn't," he said.

"[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee... I'm still her grandfather... I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will," he said.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to Caylee Anthony's murder and is expected to go to trial in May 2011.

On the second anniversary of Caylee Anthony's disappearance, the toddler's grandparents said they can identify with Natalee Holloway's mother, but not with the mother of suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot -- despite the murder charges against their daughter, Casey Anthony.

"I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody.

Casey Anthony is charged with murdering her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. The Florida toddler disappeared in June 2008, but Casey did not report the child missing until a month later. In October she was formally charged with the little girl's murder and in December, Caylee's body was found less than a mile from the Anthony home.

Casey Anthony pleaded not guilty and is expected to go to trial in May 2011. The Anthony family has maintained that Casey is innocent

Natalee Holloway disappeared five years ago on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba. Van der Sloot, recently charged in a separate murder in Lima, Peru, was the prime suspect in the Holloway case.

Anthonys Met Holloway's Mother in 2008
Cindy Anthony said that Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, met the Anthonys in August 2008, three years after Natalee went missing and two months before Casey was charged with Caylee's murder.

"She wanted to share some of the things that she had been through and her heart was breaking for us," Cindy said. "And my heart breaks for her." However, she said she only feels "numb" for van der Sloot's mother.

"I can't make judgement because I don't know what she's feeling," Cindy said. "I don't identify with her. I really don't."

http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-and-cindy-anthony-speak.html

Updated WFTV article:

George Anthony Shows Off Tattoo On GMA

Posted: 8:52 am EDT June 15, 2010
Updated: 1:19 pm EDT June 15, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George and Cindy Anthony spoke out about the case against their daughter Casey. June 15, 2010 marked the two year anniversary of when they last saw their granddaughter Caylee alive.

In an interview on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday morning, Cindy wore jewelry in tribute to Caylee and George showed off a tattoo he got in memory of his slain granddaughter (raw video | images).

GMA INTERVIEW: Raw Video | See Images
VIDEO REPORT: George Shows Caylee Tattoo

“It just means so, so much to me. Like, when people, like, pledge allegiance or something like that. Even when I do that or I put my hand of my heart, I'm like, ‘Ah man. She's here with me,’" George Anthony said to reporter Ashleigh Banfield.

“Do you foresee a day where you might stop wearing those bracelets?” Banfield asked.

“No,” Cindy Anthony replied.

“Not gonna do that,” George said.

In July 2008, people in Orlando remember a now infamous 911 call made by Cindy when Caylee disappeared.

In the call, Cindy told the dispatcher, "I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car."

But Cindy insists she only mentioned a body to get deputies to her East Orange County home quicker.

“So when you said that it smells like there's been a body in the trunk, you didn't mean that? You just wanted the police out faster?" Banfield asked.

“Yeah, because, there was never, I never thought that," Cindy said Tuesday.

The Anthonys believe their daughter is innocent and claim investigators have tried to paint her as a monster.

“I think they were frustrated with Casey, because I was told by the investigators the first night that they took her that they were gonna break her in 24 to 48 hours. And they didn't break her and they haven't broken her because there's nothing to break,” Cindy said.

But Casey lied to investigators multiple times during the first 48 hours.

“I can understand their suspicion. But there's still nothing that proves that Casey did anything, except lie to them about her work and things like that,” Cindy explained.

“But isn't that powerful?” Banfield asked Cindy.

“I don't know. A liar doesn't make you a murderer,” Cindy replied.

As the Anthonys enter the third year of this, they're still trying to come to terms with Caylee's death.

“We've been dealing with this almost as long as Caylee was alive, because Caylee wasn't quite three when this started. So it seems like this nightmare is, has lasted longer than the moments that we had with her. That makes is very, very difficult,” Cindy said.

Cindy said she believes Casey will not be convicted and will return home to their house on Hopespring Drive soon.

Casey Anthony is facing the death penalty for Caylee's murder. Casey's murder trial is set to begin in May 2011.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23903372/detail.html

"I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody."

Cindy.....ya got a problem with saying MURDER?

How dare she! She knows Stefany was murdered! And all she can say is 'confessed to SOMETHING'!? Then further trivialize Stefany's vicious beating that resulted in her death as 'HURT'?!

*breathes deeply and gets off this thread*

For Lottie:

from above:

“So when you said that it smells like there's been a body in the trunk, you didn't mean that? You just wanted the police out faster?" Banfield asked.

“Yeah, because, there was never, I never thought that," Cindy said Tuesday.
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Wasn't it Cindy who walked into the garage where the car was and said "What died?"

Yes, Julie, you are correct. That was Cindy.

Cindy lies like a rug!!!

George and Cindy are still spin dancing...with the devil.

Everyone was using their inside voices today.

Ashley Bannfield actually said: They have barely spoken out since this happened??? WHA??? kh

"People drive from New Jersey or Wisconsin or whatever to come out and we're kind of like on the Disney route," Cindy said. "They come in and they want to see, you know, take a picture of our house or come in and say they've met us or whatever."

Ah..........the fame. They just don't get it..........

khintx wrote:For Lottie:

8)

Hey Cindy, have you thought about charging these tourist a fee for taking pictures and getting interviews.

Respectfully snipped from AJ's post and BBM:

especially when LE begged her fore the truth and the wherewabouts of her daughter and KC felt she had to keep her mouth shut...

Remember the words of her boy, Jose.... "It isn't in the best interest of my client to tell what she knows."

WHAT????

I wonder if they really believe the stuff they are saying. I think that Cindy & George have agreed to tune out all the negatives and accentuate the (for them) positives such as early retirements, cruises, tattoos, jewelry and not to mention how they are recognized everywhere they go - My gosh! they have become "famous celebrities".

You are so right AJ.

Yep, the 2 year anniversary was the 15th, unless you want to count George saying he saw Caylee on the 16th and Cindy saying she heard Caylee in the bedroom the morning of the 16th.

Just the same, it's been 2 years minus a month since media and shrink-type pundits began to give Cindy and George an excuse for their horrid behavior...DENIAL! I wonder if they still think the grandp's are in denial?

I never thought they were, but that's just me.

Even while Cindy vehemently protested any thoughts of searching for a body, and screamed at everyone to 'go find a live Caylee', it was odd to me that she didn't instead say something like...

'you all have to find this Nanny! You have to help us find this nanny before any harm comes to Caylee! She made threats that she'd do harm if the cops were called, and the cops have been called! We have to move on finding the nanny as fast as we can! Please, everyone, here's her description again and that of the car she was driving etc....please help us find this nanny who was the last one to have Caylee!'

Jump to after the remains were found and - besides eating Crab at the Ritz on someone else's tab- we never heard a single word from the grandp's about "OH NO! That nanny went and killed out baby!"

And finally...on GMA yesterday...did George and Cindy reach out to the public to 'help us find this nanny and set Casey free'? Did they go "She's still out there while our daughter sits in jail being blamed!"?

No, it was a pity-fest...and all about them and Casey, as usual, as it has been since day one!

I just can't wait until the grandp's get what's coming to them...and I don't mean another free trip to NY or CA.

Despite Cindy Anthony’s Image Makeover, Her Body Language Shows Signals of Deception And Denial In Refusing To Identify With Joran Van der Sloot’s Mother

June 15, 2010

CINDY ANTHONY’S IMAGE MAKEOVER



Outer image makeovers to make someone more attractive and likeable only work if the person is attractive and likeable on the inside to begin with. That is clearly not the case with Cindy Antony, mother of Casey Anthony. who is accused on murdering Cindy’s grand daughter Caylee.



As I have said repeatedly, the body does not lie. Neither does the voice or speech.

You can use all the bleach you want to lighten you hair, grow it and style it into a more feminine less severe looking hairdo, the real you will always leak out.

You can even follow a coache’s advice and speak in slow and soft measured tones void of anger and upset, but the real you will always emerge.

Your real voice will always leak out and so will your lies in how you move. How you sound and what you say will always give away the lies you tell.

CINDY’S MULTIPLE SIGNALS OF DECEPTION

People are not stupid.For the most part they know if someone is telling them the truth or not.

I believe in her GMA interview with Ashley Banfield, Cindy was not being honest and forthright as there
were so many signals of deception which leaked out when she spoke.



Her first signal of deception was when Cindy gazed upwards up after Ashley confronted her with You didn’t say that?”

Ashley’s question was in response to Cindy’s denial about the 9ll tape. During the 911 tape, Cindy said
that she found her daughter’s car that was missing and it smelled a dead body in the” damn car.

As Cindy gazes upwards as you can see in the above photo, it is evident that she is trying to manufacture an answer that is most likely not true.

She said she lied to police when she told them she smelled a dead body in the car in order to get police out quicker. As she said this, she not only looks up and not directly at Ashley, she shrugs her shoulder,

Her looking up. along with her shoulder shrug, indicate two huge “tells” that show deception.

George even knows she is lying as he looks at her with a scrunched up facial expression showing disdain at her lie.



Suddenly, Cindy gazes looks down, also another tell of deception and says “ there was never… I never thought that….”

When people repeat words and speak in changed fragments, rest assured they are usually lying.

Another major tell that indicates she was most likely not being truthful was that her voice pitch rose up
higher as she spoke those fragmented statements.

CINDY’S SEMANTICS

Cindy then looks straight at Ashley as she says in a strong and full voice “ a liar doesn’t make you a murder.”

The operative word here is the word “you”. It make not make “you” at home who is watching the show. a
murderer.

But repeated lying may very well make anyone a sociopath and a sociopath has often been found to be a
murderer.

So in Casey’s case, using the associative property applied to Cindy’s language, lyingto police about her missing daughter’s whereabouts may very well make her a sociopath and also murder.

THE REAL CINDY LEAKS OUT

When asked about Casey accusing George of molesting her, Cindy replied in measured unemotional tones, “ I read the letters and they were hurtful.”



As she says this she looks to George instead of maintaining her direct eye contact with Ashley

As she looks at George. it may be that she may perhaps be giving him the message that what he allegedly did to Casey did indeed hurt Cindy.

Then Cindy is back to her old Cindy ways – in running George and speaking for him as she adds “ It was hurtful to George”

GEORGE’S TELL’S OF DECEPTION



Next, without one hint of emotion, as if on cue, George nods and does his “golly gee shucks lip pursing, chin scrunching. I want everyone to like me, ” facial expression. And as if it was rehearsed a hundred times says “It still is.”

Well if Casey did manage to eek out the truth and let it be known what George did her- sexually molest her. then it is even more hurtful to Casey.

Maybe what is “hurtful” to George is that Casey may have betrayed their family secrets and in doing so, let it out for the world to know.

Then Ashley asks if what Casey said hurt him. What George does next is very telling body language wise.

First he shakes his head no when he should be shaking it yes and says “ I’m still gonna be there for my daughter. “ He then closes his eyes as you see in rhe photo above and looks down, as if to shut Casey out.

His words say one thing but his body certainly belies him.

He says “I‘m still gonna be there for my daughter.” It is said in a soft tone that dies off at the end.

He adds “That’s unconditional love. “ Now we see his most telling tell. He shrugs his shoulders as he says these words.

This clearly indicates that he is NOT telling the truth here. His shoulder shrug indicates that he is not
only lying to us, but lying to himself as well.

MESSAGE TO GEORGE

Here is a reality check George Anthony. When your own daughter accuses you of sexually molesting her and if as you say, it isn’t true, then maybe it is high time you put some conditions on what you call “love.”

On the other hand, if it is true and you did sexually molest your daughter, then you need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If that is the case, it is no wonder your daughter is such a TOTAL mess.

THE ONLY TIME CINDY SPOKE THE TRUTH

The only time anything Cindy said in the interview rang true was when she looked directly at Ashley and said how much she misses Caylee. She said that Caylee was gone for as long as she had been alive.

You could heard the true heartfelt emotion and grief in Cindy’s voice and see it in her face. She was clearly distraught and her emotions were genuine.

CINDY GETS BACK INTO DENIAL AND GEORGE JOINS HER

Then Ashley asks Cindy “ Are you prepared for the outcome?” Both Cindy and George look down without a hint of emotion.

To me it is apparent that they have no doubt prepared for the worst outcome but refuse to admit it.

That is when Cindy in a measured unemotional tone says that she has dreams where Casey as home.

I believe that deep down Cindy knows that the only time she will ever see her daughter come home again is in her dreams. I think that this may be Cindy’s way of coping with the brutal truth.

CINDY’S DENIAL AS SHE CAN’T RELATE TO THE MIRROR IMAGE OF JORAN VAN DER SLOOT’S MOTHER



Cindy continued to be in denial when she told Ashley that she identifies with Beth Twitty, the mother of Natalie Holloway, but NOT with Joran Van der Sloot’s mother.

I can certainly understand why she would identify with Beth Twitty from the standpoint that they both lost daughters forever and will never see their daughters live out their lives ands share experiences together.

On the other Cindy tried desperately to draw a line with the differences between Casey and Joran and between herself and Mrs. Van der Sloot. “

In fact she said to Ashley, “You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don’t know that of Casey. I don’t know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody.”

Cindy must have a very short memory. There certainly were instances where Casey went off on her mother and got very angry.

She just needs to go back and look at the jailhouse tapes. Casey is absolutely livid with Cindy. It looked as though Casey was so angry, that if she could get through the glass partition, she may have smacked Cindy.

There has also been a reported history of violence between Cindy and Casey. In fact brother Lee addressed it as did bounty hunter Leonard Padilla.

Casey’s anger was also directed towards her father on multiple occasions. She even told him to act like a father for once and not a cop.

So it is clear that Cindy is in denial here. Looking in the mirror and seeing another mother who will soon face seeing her child on trial and knowing that her child may probably end up dead because of being killed in prison or dying in prison for some other reason, hits Cindy too close to the bone.

The similarities between Anita Van Der Sloot’s situation and Cindy Anthony’s situation is clearly evident.

Mainly, they have both been enablers and have let their children get away with too much for way too long.

Next. it must be excruciatingly painful for Cindy to admit that like Anita, she too spawned a lying and alleged murderous sociopath who destroyed her life.

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