Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to Party

By Sam Dennis McDonough

Synopsis: This crime became a media sensation after a frantic 911 call was the first public notice that a tiny tot had been missing for 31 days and the mother's car trunk had a dead body smell. Videos of the smiling toddler singing You Are My Sunshine tugged at viewer’s hearts. Reason for Reading: “Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to Party” comments on several factors that may influence high profile crime cases in the future. Factors such as: Jurors fatigued after being sequestered; the CSI effect where police need strong scientific evidence quickly; and jurors should know it's the elements of a crime that need proven beyond reasonable doubt, not every single fact. Why I wrote “Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to Party”: My greatest passion is searching for truth in real crimes. Why this book is an interesting read: Several polls called the Casey Anthony case the social media trial of the century and one of the biggest viewer ratings of all time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312372801

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Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to Party

Go to Sleep Baby,

Mommy Has to

PARTY

89 Clues that Show When,

Why, How and Who Killed

Two-year-old Caylee Anthony

and

What was this Jury Thinking?

Sam Dennis McDonough

ClueMaster SDM

Copyright Sam Dennis McDonough:  2014

Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to PARTY

Second Edition:  2014

All Rights Reserved

ISBN# 978-1-312-37280-1

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NOTE:  As author, compiler and editor, I am fully responsible for the contents in this book. The 74 clues are based on facts taking from evidence obtained from public information.  I affirm that the statements contained herein represent truthful facts or in a few cases, sincere opinion.  Feel free to disagree

Sam Dennis McDonough, Clue Master SDM

About This Book

"I can't find my granddaughter.  There's something wrong.  I found my daughter's car today and it smelled like there's been a dead body in the damn car," cried Cindy Anthony in her 911 call to the Orlando police dispatcher. 

Daughter Casey Anthony could have called 911 when she first lost her child but chose instead to go through other resources, which was, as she said, stupid.  "Go to Sleep Baby, Mommy Has to Party" gives the evidence and facts about this young mother who put her two year old toddler to sleep so she could hard party with friends. 

This case became a media sensation from the outset when the 911 call would be the first public notice that two-year-old Caylee Anthony had been missing for 31 days.  Photos of the smiling, brown-haired toddler and home videos of her singing You Are My Sunshine tugged at viewer’s hearts.  Those viewers also saw Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, scantily clad and grinding against other men and women at dance clubs, wondering what kind of mother would party every night while her baby’s whereabouts were unknown.

People followed the searches for the tiny tot and listened to the many lies the mother told authorities even after the decomposing body was found six months later less than a mile from home in a swampy wooded area.

Time magazine called the Anthony case "the social media trial of the century and one of the biggest viewer ratings ever.  Statistics reported by The Christian Post show this trial as the most publicized in U.S. history. 

The nation and much of the English speaking world was very surprised and even shocked when the jury returned its verdict.

Chapter 1:  The Facts and Evidence

(chronological)

July 15, 2008: 

Cindy Anthony has just found out from her 22-year-old daughter Casey that her two-year-old granddaughter, Caylee has been missing for 31 days. 

911 Operator: 911 what's your emergency?

Cindy Anthony:  "I can't find my granddaughter. There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smelled like there's been a dead body in the damn car." (1)

Caylee Anthony, age 2

911 Operator: Okay; what is the two-year-olds name?

Cindy: Caylee. C-A-Y-L-E-E Anthony

911: Your two-year-old is missing…Caylee Anthony?

2008

July 15

In her third 911 call of the day, Cindy tells the operator that Caylee has been missing for the past 31 days.

911 Operator:  Let me speak with Casey.

Casey (to her mother):  I don’t have anything to talk to them.

Casey Anthony: Yes

911: You lost her a month ago?

Casey: Thirty-one days ago.

911: Who has her? Do you have a name?

Casey: Her name is Zenida Fernandez Gonzalez.

911: Who is that, the baby sitter?

Casey: She's been my nanny for about a year and a half or two years. (2)

911: Why are you calling now? Why didn't you call 31 days ago?

Casey: I've been looking for her and have gone through other resources to try to find her--which is stupid. (3)

The fact is that the last time anyone other than Casey saw Caylee alive was on June 16 at 12:50 pm when the two said good-by to Caylee’s grandfather. 

Following are the last time her friends and family saw Caylee.

June, 2008

2: Casey's boyfriend, Anthony (Tony) Lazzaro, watches Caylee in his swimming pool. 

9:  For the first time ever, Casey tells her parents she is dropping Caylee off at her babysitter, Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez at the Sawgrass Apartments, while she is at work at Universal Studios. 

June, 2008

10:  Casey’s ex-boyfriend, Jesse Grund says he saw Caylee Anthony at the apartment of another ex-boyfriend Ricardo Morales.

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Caylee Anthony

15: On Father’s Day, Cindy takes Caylee to visit the toddler’s grandfather at an assisted living facility in Mt Dora.  Later, Cindy and Caylee allegedly go swimming in the Anthony's backyard pool. Afterwards, Cindy allegedly takes the ladder away from the pool and closes the gate.

As usual, Casey and her parents are not getting along even on this Father’s Day weekend.

Casey’s girlfriend, Amy Huizenga, advises Cindy that Casey stole money from her account. At home, Cindy confronts her daughter about stealing and lying.  By most accounts a huge argument broke out in which Cindy allegedly tried to choke her daughter to teach her a lesson.

June 16:  Casey is feeling family pressure and decides to punish her parents by taking Caylee and moving in with ex-boyfriend Morales and friend Amy Huizenga. 

12:50 pm: Grandfather George Anthony sees