Will Lisa be another Caylee?

Here we go again.

This is Baby Lisa.

A 10 month baby from Kansas City.

She’s been missing since October 4th. 

Her parents stopped cooperating with the authorities and lawyered up on October 8th. 

Wait, what?

Their 10 month old baby girl has gone missing, clearly not on her own, and they have stopped cooperating with the very people who are their best chance of finding and bringing her home?  If it was my baby I’d be there every single day telling the police, the FBI, everyone whatever it is they wanted to know so as to eliminate me from their list of suspects.  If I clearly had nothing to hide, nothing to do with her disappearance, let’s get me cleared so the investigators can get busy finding the baby, and who took her.

The FBI is involved.  The mother failed a lie detector test.  This baby is still missing.  It’s another Casey Anthony story.  And yet, as often as I have defended the Casey Anthony verdict, right now, it looks like the parents had something to do with the disappearance of this baby. 

The parents are no longer talking to authorities, but have granted media interviews.  There have been several inconsistencies in what they told investigators and what they are now telling the media. 

In this country you are innocent until proven guilty, I get that.  But when babies go missing we tend to look at the parents because on some level they are responsible, right or wrong. 

Last night, the mother admitted in a news interview that she was drunk the night the baby went missing.  She told investigators she hadn’t seen Lisa since 10:40 that night. She told the media it was closer to 6:40 and she may or may not have blacked out that night. 

Today, the FBI sealed their house.  The parents, up to this point, have been able to come and go as they pleased, getting whatever they needed from their home, while staying somewhere else.  Today the FBI banned them from their house. 

And yet, they are innocent until proven guilty. 

A little girl, who hasn’t even celebrated her first birthday, is not in her home, does not sleep in her own bed, is not with her parents. 

And the questions go unanswered.

 

All they had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

I can not believe I am writing this post.  I can not believe that just over a month after Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter we are STILL talking about her.

But we are.

Ok maybe not we.

But there are people out there who will. not. let. it. go.

I’ll admit, when the story first broke,  I was firmly in the She’s-guilty-as-sin camp.  The more she lied, the more she was arrested, and released, and brought in for questioning, and the longer Caylee stayed missing, the stronger my belief in her guilt grew.

And then, the trial started.  I watched what I could, considering I was working.  I followed it on Twitter, I read news updates, I stayed informed.  I know that Casey’s attorney was the laughing-stock of the legal world, and that his attempt at a defense caused people across the country to laugh.

Guess who’s laughing now?

All he had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

Let me repeat that.

All he had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

A reasonable, believable, alternative situation that resulted in Caylee’s death. One that didn’t involve Casey killing her.

Falling into the pool and drowning?  Works.

They didn’t have to prove Casey DIDN’T kill Caylee.  They didn’t have to prove her innocence.  They just had to provide reasonable doubt.

And they did.

The prosecution did a piss poor job of proving its case.  Mainly because there was not enough evidence to convict Casey.  Look, the bottom line is we have no idea how that baby died.  Is it sad? Sure.  Did Casey hamper the investigation? Absolutely.  Did she lie to the police and the detectives? Without a doubt. And she was convicted of that, and served her time.  But did she kill her daughter?

We don’t know.

And that right there is the absolute bottom line.  We can NOT say that Caylee was murdered because we don’t know how or when she died.  And because we have no way of knowing the cause of death, we can not say Casey had anything, ANYTHING at all to do with it.

All they had to do was provide reasonable doubt.  And they did.