For those of you who have been following the Casey Anthony case, you will already know a few of the facts, but for those who have missed the news over the past two years, I suggest reading the Wikipedia page about Caylee Anthony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caylee_Anthony_homicide)
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Here are some excerpts from the letters:
“I was a great mom! And I love my daughter with everything that I have. I would give my life to have her back even for 5 minutes. it’s so frustrating!…I may have a big mouth, but I can keep a secret.”
“I’ve had to forgive what happened to my Caylee, but I’m still angry. If it weren’t for God, screw where I’m sitting now, if it weren’t for him and for my unconditional love for my daughter, I would end whoever is responsible.”
“I know that Caylee’s nanny, the “real” Zenaida, the girl who was my friend for 4 years; I know in my heart that she’s not responsible. And I don’t blame her for not showing her face.”
“It sucks having to deal withy my “old life” (the real and media-made), but one thing that I know for sure, no matter how hard it seems, we’ve already gotten through the worst of things. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Caylee and wish that I could have protected her better. I tried my hardest and it wasn’t enough.”
“Boy do we have tons in common! And as far as us being ‘partners in legal crime’, I’m not sure where I was going with it, but I’m glad you enjoyed it!”
“I miss my Caylee so much, L but knowing that she’s waiting for me in Heaven: sigh: honestly, it’s a great relief.”
“I don’t know one single mom who doesn’t try to get their freedom regardless of how old they are.”
“I’m going to use this experience to help others, especially Missing and Exploited Children. We are very similar creatures, my friend.”
“I always wanted to adopt a baby or child from another country – is it selfish to want one from Ireland? Accent and all?”
“I’ll adopt local – U.S.-wise. So many kids and teens are homeless and that’s something I want to target. and yes, missing children as well. that sits too close to my heart and I wish there was something we could do to prevent it.”
“My mom isn’t sure if she and my dad are going to stay together, after hearing/watching his interview with the FBI F**K LLL”
“In order to have life we must lose our old lives so that we may be reborn. Check. The light is clearly shining at the end of the tunnel.”
“At least I know I, well, am 99% sure that Cays isn’t Jesse’s. We had a paternity test done when she was a couple weeks old, and it took forever to get the results back, which I’ve been told shouldn’t have been the case, and according to the paper he brought to my house in late Sept. ’05, Jesse wasn’t the father. Joy to the world!”
“I despise that loser, and I pity him and his self-righteous ‘Christian’ family. His dad claims to be the ‘right hand of God.’ Hate to burst his bubble, but Jesus sits there.”
“Nice guys may finish last here on earth, but in Heaven, we are all winners. A satisfying thought.”
“I’m not sure if you hear about my dad or not; it’s been all over the radio and I know that everything has been bouncing around every station. I can’t believe he tried to take his own life! What is he thinking???”
“My dad quit or got fired back in November, never mentioned it to my mom, but kept disappearing day and night, never telling her where he was going, what he was doing, or with who. Too many questions unanswered.”
“I’m the only person who has tried to protect Caylee throughout all of this, and it kills me!’
“I’ve officially lost my entire blood-related family in the blink of an eye, in the midst of mourning my daughter’s death, trying to exonerate myself, and figure out what steps to take in achieving these things, and I get f***ed over by my entire family.”
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I of course, agree with Bart, very immature, lives for the moment, etc. There aren’t many resentment or violent strokes, I believe that if she did in fact kill her daughter, it wasn’t exactly her intention, she probably just wasn’t thinking very clearly. didn’t put the two and two together.
I also noticed a few things that Bart didn’t mention, namely occasional VERY large self deceit loops in her o’s and sometimes a’s. Also, that a lot of times, her t-bars are crossed primarily to the right side of the stem, which indicates that she has a temper. Granted, as I said, it’s not the case with all of her t’s, but I do find it significant enough to take notice of.
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One more thing, she also leaves off the dot on a lot of her lower case i’s. Perhaps indicating absentmindedness or forgetfulness?
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I also noticed slant indicates a introversion towards self. she has the stinger in her C so has issues with opposite sex. I did not see lying loops on the left indicating self-deceit so she probably does know what she did but is hiding it because she understands that everybody else sees it as wrong so she is using the God language to assuage others from being negative towards her.
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I found Bart’s analysis to be very insightful, particularly about the writer’s inability to perceive the consequences of her actions indicated by the large middle zone writing, coupled with a nearly non-existent upper zone. Further, her excessive secretiveness explains why she would not confess facts, such that she changed her story on several occasions.
Very illuminating. The fact that the writer is an independent thinker and does not care what others think is interesting, too. Above her writing sample, a few of the quotes indicate this sort of attitude on her part.
Thank you for sharing your insights, Bart. You gave me new knowledge that I will apply in conducting handwriting analyses of others who show similar primary traits.
Lianne Boas
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Yes Casey is capable of killing her daughter Caylee but from the handwriting one would have to assume that it was just as she said (probably) that she did drug her, to keep her asleep so she could party. The child must have died from too much medication at one sitting. Because there are no resentment strokes. However I should think there would have been some because not wanting your child lively and active seems to be resentmentful to me.
But if you take the fact that Caycee’s handwriting is primary middle zone, indicative of “being in the now” and “me me me,, and slow mundane writing, she wouldn’t have given Caycee much thought. In Caycee’s mind, being the independent thinker that she is (low d stems) that stands to reason that she might want to do away with her child—she actually is and WANTS to be INDEPENDENT of her child! It proabanly was an accident that went too far. But with the lack of upper zones, it reveals that her moral values seem to be lacking
so it doesn’t seem to faze her, the value of a life, so no remorse or very little of it.
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I hate to throw a curve ball out at everyones assessments of this woman.
Regardless of her loops – slants -upper zones and lower stems, I personally
feel that she is innocent of the crime. I myself have a warm heart for the
underdog sometimes – but -I truly believe she did NOT kill her daughter.)
From reading everybody’s comments, it seems to me that you all aspire
to be FBI – BAU agents and maybe that’s a good goal. You all have
great immagination in surmising that this young woman is a killer. If we
all combine your projections and your ideas of her hand writing it might make a good episode for Criminal Minds. Regardless, I believe whole
heartedly that she did NOT kill her child. What she needs is a great deal
of Psychological Rehabilitation. She she may be a bit of a renegade in terms relating to authority figures and such… but I still maintain that she
is not capable of killing the child. If she fries for this deed, I think
it would be a great miscarriage of justice. REALLY.
Rita Keays
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It’s been over twenty years since I’ve been active with doing any handwriting analysis but this trial sent me to the web to look at Casey’s handwriting. I found hundreds of pages of her jail journal to look at. I almost feel her handwriting is a persona writing and it reminds me of Susan Smith that drove her children in the river years ago. There’s a feeling of what you see is not what you’re getting. I don’t have a sample to compare with Susan Smith but the midzone roundness seem similiar. Casey is concerned with just the here and now and doesn’t respect others space and she’s very emotionally needy. She’s stubborn and has a fear biter,shark’s tooth defiant K’s and warrant a closer inspection. On the word love she has has angular connections of the l to the o and I think that is telling. In some of her writing samples she has an indepentent PPI but in other samples it’s like a baby cradle, again showing immaturity. Her cradle PPI showed that her parents were not of a united mindset. I thought the sentences pulled from the journals are very revealing. Her bent t bars are also revealing. I was almost sucked in with all the religious references but then slapped into reality when obvious lies popped off the page. This gal believes her own lies and I feel is not totally in touch with reality. I was struck by a sentence where she said in order to start a new life you had to get rid of the old life. She said this in a religious connection but I feel it may apply to her desire to get out of her parents home and be free and was cloaked as a Biblical reference.
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What I find most disconcerting about this “handwriting”, is that it seems more like printing than cursive. That says to me that she’s arrested in her development somewhere along the line, early childhood most likely, as confirmed by the amoral and egocentric nature, the immaturity, just like a small child.
I’m very new at handwriting analysis, and appreciate not only Bart’s analysis, but the other comments as well.
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You can tell she wants to be independent of her parents as her I is just a straight line. She definitely lives in the present as ther margrins are equal. If you look at the word Cookie it has swirls like a child does when dotting an i. Her t’s look like swords or daggers towards other people. She underlined “ever” so she felt she had to emphasis the word in that sentence. It is connected to betray so “ever betray” was her way of saying to keep it secret. No attention to detail, i’s are not dotted. She seems to be very intense and would be in your face if you disagreed with her.
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First thing I noticed was that the sample appears to be very heavy. Combined with the slant towards self, she feels things very intensely but will hold-in rage until she explodes. Go-to-hell K also present.
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I don’t believe that Casey intended for her daughter to be murdered but because most of her writing is middle zoned, immaturish, it speaks to me of neglect of some sort to the point of death of little Caylee. and of course the excessively secret O’s kind of give me a creepy feeling. Why be that secretive unless you have a lot to hide or you have a severe imagination problem.
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CASEY ANTHONY HANDWRITING ANALYSIS by KAHEA
submitted to the editor.
I am new at this so this I could be off on my analysis, your feedback is appreciated.
Looking at Cookie- to decorate a name indicates a special person. Cookie is special and she is encased in double knotted secrets (double knots on ovals means secrets, dishonest to self and others). Both o’s in Cookie are hearts turned onto their sides facing left (the past). The heart shape means anxiety, possibly preoccupied with sex, deceptive. There is another heart shape inside of the second o. These are the only heart shaped o’s on the page, is she preoccupied with sex towards Cookie?
Were they lovers?
They definitely share secrets shown by all the double knotted ovals surrounding her name. Line 3 the word You has a very strange tail, it goes towards the right in a small tight c stroke. A reversed loop on a stem is unconventional behavior. Lower zone of y going to the right can indicate deviant sexuality. This is the only occurrence of this Y in all her printing.
All the other Y’s have tails going to the left. She has twenty-one y loops exiting with a very tight small curve to the left, shy with no sexual confidence. The open lower loop on the g shows unsatisfied sex life, physically restless, excessive self love. There are twenty-two of these on the page.
The K should have a page written about it, there is one double knot, there is a circle, the other two knots you can’t tell what she did, the starting stroke of the K has a half circle coming into it – no where on the page does Casey have a lead in stroke on a letter with the exception of this k which should be a small letter. Did she just make this a capital letter K in the middle of the word? Her other capital letters on the page do not have lead in strokes. Very unusual for her to do this.
The other strange thing about Cookie is the o’s and ie are both elevated off the line, the C and K remain on the line. It appears the C and K are capital letters and the oo and ie are small case letters but elevated physically off the line. This means something but I don’t know what. Another thing on the C of Cookie, the bottom circle, if you blow this way up you will clearly see she has drawn 3 or 4 lines coming from the left into the center of that tiny circle and the circle is colored inside. What could that possibly indicate?
Tics indicate temper or anger. There are 31 temper tics on the page.
Stabs in ovals indicate someone who lies or speaks with forked tongue. There are 21 stabs in ovals.
The word “I” indicates how you think and feel about yourself. Casey has eight I’s on the page. Line 1 the I has a very slight bend to the right, line 6 the I has a bend to the right that is more prominent, line 7 the I slants to the left (past), line 10 the I has a bend to the right, line 20 there is an extreme bend to the right with the top of the I being a clubbed stroke also the apostrophe before the m is also bending, line 24 the I slants to the left, line 27 I slants to the left. The bent I’s remind me of someone who sees herself as broken; the I slanting to the left is seeing herself in the past. She is avoiding the present.
Dishonesty is shown by words/lines entangled. Her lines are entangled throughout the page. See line 2 the g on get goes almost all the way through the h on with. Almost every line has at least one word that is entangled with the line below. Some words are entangled with the next word- see line 14 the f on ‘of’ is entangled with the th of ‘this’ and on line 17 the t of ‘at’ is entangled with the w on ‘what’. See line 23 on the word ‘winners’ she takes the e and crosses out the first part of the word, she does not think the exes are winners.
There are 96 t’s on the page, they vary in style throughout. Some have straight bars, some have convex bars, some have long bars, some medium bars, and some are just plain distorted. Line 25 the second t on test starts at the top, angles to the right goes down and then curves back to the left. There are 15 t’s with tails to the left; for example, line 11 see the t on everything. The crooked t stem is a neurotic person with difficulty in making adjustments to life, self-involved. Lines 24-27 her t’s start to become more distorted, she is showing her neurotic side more and more in the last 4 lines of the page.
Retracing – Repaired letters are supposed to indicate a cover up of something. Line 5 ‘add handcuffs’ has 6 retraced letters. It is interesting the letters that indicate a ‘cover up’ are on the word which deals with her arrest. Remember how her story about Caylee’s disappearance kept changing, like she was covering up for something?
Spacing – The distance between letters shows how she relates on a personal level to other people. Casey has very cramped connections between letters, this shows narrow mindedness that fears discovery. Line 14 the ore of ‘before’, line 9 the ope of ‘open’, line 11 the betra of ‘betrayal’, line 18 the word ‘reborn.’ There are too many to mention.
She is cautious and introverted, craving contact.
When a small case letter becomes as large as an upper case letter this is significant. See line 12 the e’s on the word ‘someone’ are taller than the s,o, m and n. I think this implies she is definitely thinking about a particular person (someone) she cared about. I don’t know if this means she did the betraying or someone else did it. A large e within word can also mean unconscious opposition to rules.
Printer – Casey prints. Printers feel rebellious towards traditional social situations and can be hermits, self-centered, or anti-social neurotics. They can have feelings of inadequacy and isolation. Some people print write, but Casey does not even attempt to join two letters into writing. The only exception is line 23 on the word ‘exes’ she does join the e and x in a writing manner. I wonder if she is left-handed because many left-handers use printing as their mode of writing.
Strange letters – Line 1 the o of cool and line 12 the o of not, both have loops outside the boundary of the o. Line 15 the o of “on” has a loop at the top and the bottom. This is such a strange o I cannot find it referenced in any books. Try to draw it. Perhaps Bart knows what it means. Line 16 the d on ‘and’ she appears to have made the stem short and then went in and tried to correct it but veered off to the right; she did the same thing on line 14 the d on ‘and’ the stem had two strokes to complete it. Line 15 the G on “God” is very odd. I cut the letter out, taped it to a clean sheet of paper, blew it up, and showed it to several people at work asking what they thought it was.
One person did not know, another person thought it was a pornographic symbol, a third person thought it might be a ‘cr’. If you look through the reference books I doubt you will ever find another G that looks like that. I would be amazed if anyone else on the planet wrote their capital G like that. What does this mean, I don’t know. She has two s’s that look like an 8 with a dagger cutting through at the top, line 14 the s on ‘summer’ and line 23 the s on ‘sure’. At this point I do not know what this indicates.
Things that struck me as strange. She is writing on lined paper. Why then did she choose to start three words below the line and angle them up into the line. Line 3 the word ‘used,’ line 14 the word ‘last,’ and line 24 the word ‘least.’ This must mean something significant since she had the lines to follow and chose not to for just these three select words. It is coming up from the lower zone, the unconscious drives and biological needs area into the middle zone of practical and social expression of the ego. Perhaps Bart knows what this signifies? Also line 25 look at the word ‘couple’ she elevates the le off the line just like she elevated the oo and ie of Cookie. Again on line 26 the word ‘it’ she elevates the t off the line. Could the elevated le on ‘couple’ indicate lying, Caylee was not a couple of weeks old when the paternity test was done? I have not found what elevating selective lower case letters indicates.
I found it helpful to blow up the page 200% to see details; for the word “Cookie” I blew that up 400%.
I would love to see the rest of the letter. Her signature could really help finish telling the story. Also it would be interesting to see if her t’s continue their increased distortion on the next sheet.
Thanks much.
KAHEA
I have put the following details below so you can see what I was referring to:
31 Temper Tics – line 1 bottom of exclamation point, line 2 smiley face has 2 tics on smile line-clubbed ending on eyes (eyes are not open but slits peeking open, like she is afraid to see what is happening), line 2 on n of thanks, line 4 t on try, line 10 t on about, line 11 h on the, line 13 h of both and h of that and I of since, line 14 d on andk line 16 I of ourside, line 17 m of must and t of must and l of lose, line 18 b of reborn, line 19 l of light and I of shining and t of the first the, line 21 I of hide and t of the, line 23 exclamation mark and a and t on at, line 24 t of least and w of well and y of Cays, line 26 on both sides of the w on weeks, line 27 h and t on shouldn’t, on line 26 & 27 the commas become a line with anger tics at both top and bottom. See her other commas which are just a line drawn downward.
21 Stabs in Ovals – line 3 e of used and g of something, line 5 a of mean, line 7 o of how, line 8 o of or and o of two, line 9 o of honest, line 10 o of conversation, o of about, line 11 o of horrible, line 12 g of wanting, line 15 a of any, line 16 o of our and a of greatest, line 17 a of what, line 19 g of shining, line 23 a of are, line 24 a of that, line 25 a of paternity, line 26 d of old and a of back.
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What is really interesting is to look at the police statements and video’s of Casey’s mother and father. There is genuine concern over their grand-daughter’s disappearance. Their written statements show no signs of deception or cover-up. And yet during the trial they infer that Caylee died as the result of an accidental drowning. Had the police taken heart in investigating the 911 call when someone reported a suspicious bag in a lot evidence may have proved that Caylee hadn’t drowned. I point this out because when looking at handwriting sometimes we need to look at appropriate samples of all concerned to get a fuller picture.
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The reference to the “accidental drowning” means that they would have been privy to the supposed cause of Caylee’s death when writing those police statements.