True Crime Stories

This one is going to be a bit different. My past posts so far have dealt with past/closed cases. I admit that I have not completely kept up on this case, I have gotten bits and pieces.  How can you not?  It is rare that you can turn the television or the Internet on and not see something about this case. Here's what I do know: On February 2, 2012 17 year old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.  Zimmerman was armed with a 9mm gun and Trayvon was armed with Skittles and iced tea.  It was IMMEDIATELY known that it was Zimmerman.  He had called the police before approaching Trayvon as a member of a neighborhood watch reporting he found him suspicious.  The police asked if he was following Trayvon and when he said he was the police told him not to.  Zimmerman states that when he approached Trayvon he was hit, pushed to the ground and beaten to which he shot in self defense.  Trayvon died..... Zimmerman was not arrested. Today,...

Undisputed Facts: 1.  On July 15, 2008, Florida 9-1-1 received a call from Cindy Anthony to report her granddaughter, Caylee Anthony, missing.  Cindy also tells the operator that her daughter, Casey, says she has not seen Casey in 31 days and in the heat of the emotion she announces that the car Casey drives smells like a "dead body" had been in the trunk. 2. Casey got on the phone with the police and announced that she had not seen her daughter in the 31 days and that the last she saw her she was with her nanny, who either Casey referred to or the media picked up the spin of "Zanny the Nanny." 3. Between July  and October, Casey continually kept telling different stories as to the last time she saw Caylee as well has lied to the police about her place of employment and people involved in her life. 4. In October 2008 Casey was charged with the first degree murder of her daughter, although Caylee had still not been found. 5. On December 11, 2008 the skele...