A search for a missing girl became an investigation into a tragic death. Her mother Casey Anthony was charged with her murder. Then came a verdict that outraged a nation. Marcia Clark Investigates s1e1: Casey Anthony, CI 2018
At 3:50 a.m. Orange County homicide detectives … arrive at the Anthony residence. ibid.
The car was submitted to the forensics lab as evidence. Analysts immediately smelled a very familiar odour which they think is human decomposition. ibid.
How does she party? How does she go out with her boyfriend when her baby is missing? ibid.
Finding all this evidence linking the Anthonys’ residence with the crime scene is incredibly significant. ibid.
Whoever disposed of Caylee’s body did it in the most careless and haphazard of ways … dumped in the woods. ibid.
Somebody in that house did a search for foolproof suffocation … Her [Casey] computer search history was erased. ibid.
This is the very first time, OK, where we’ve investigated a missing child, where the mother wouldn’t tell us the truth. Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak, rozzer, QuestRed 2022
She was laughing and joking and having a good time while her daughter is missing. ibid. friend
An appalling tragedy cloaked in secrets and lies leads to a sensational murder trial that grips the nation. The verdict ignites public outrage. What I want to know is, what did the justy not get that so many others clearly saw? True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s3e2: Casey Anthony: Bella Vita, ID 2013
She goes out to bars and even enters a ‘hot body’ contest at the Orlando nightclub Fusion. And she gets herself a new tattoo. Later she’ll say know she knew Caylee was dead during these thirty days of partying. ibid.
Casey Anthony is an exquisite liar. ibid.
Cadaver dogs made positive hits … At some point Caylee’s dead body was inside the trunk of Cayse’s car. ibid.
Caylee’s skeletal remains were discovered less than a half mile from the Anthony’s house. They are stuffed inside a trash bag … They do find a small piece of duck-tape hanging from Caylee’s skull. ibid.
Casey Anthony: Acquitted for the murder of her daughter Caylee, she’s breaking her silence about what went on behind closed doors in a three-part Peacock docu-series called Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies. True Crime Recaps: Will We Ever Know the Truth? Casey Anthony Case 17.36, 2023
ANTHONY, DONNA [viz Miscarriages of Justice]: Evidence Based Justice online - The Baby Killer Conspiracy TV -
Donna Anthony was convicted of the murders of her two children who both died as infants. Anthony’s husband believed she had been suffering from post-natal depression. At trial Roy Meadow testified that he believed Anthony had smothered her children. On appeal, Professor Meadow’s evidence was shown to be incorrect, and it was concluded that an unnatural death was not the only conclusion that could be drawn. Evidence Based Justice online article
2021: At the time of filming Kathleen Folbigg had spent 19 years in prison for murdering her four children. The Baby Killer Conspiracy s1e1: Kathy Folbigg, Reality 2024
Sarah is the third child to die at four and a half weeks. ibid.
Sally Clark: ‘The police officer says that there is evidence that Harry was unlawfully killed.’ ibid. comment
I never never shook him. He is just so precious. ibid. Sally Clark
It gets worse … He [pathologist] decides to go back to Christopher’s post-mortem, and he changes his mind. He decides his [Christopher’s] death wasn’t natural causes: he was smothered. ibid. comment
She [Sally Clark] was charged with the murder of Christopher and the murder of baby Harry. ibid.
Donna Anthony found guilty of killing her two children, smothering first Jordan, then a year later Michael. ibid. TV news
The star witness was Professor Roy Meadow. ibid. comment
Kathy: Laura Elizabeth Folbigg, 1 year 8 months: The autopsy report was undetermined. ibid.
8 months after Kathleen loses her fourth child, a woman in Salisbury is arrested on suspicion of the murder of her 3 babies: Angela Cannings. ibid.
Meadow’s Law: One sudden death is a tragedy, two suspicious, three murder unless proven otherwise. ibid.
After 2 years, Sally Clark goes on trial for the murder of her babies, Christopher and Harry. ibid.
Sally Clark trial: Professor Meadow walked in as if her was the star of the show. ibid.
He [Professor Meadow] was convinced he was never wrong. ibid.
Sally Clark: The solicitor who was found guilty of murdering her two sons when they were babies was given two life sentences today. ibid.
Meadow’s Law: This was a very dark time for women. ibid.
Sally Clark: Life For Baby Killer Mother. The Baby Killer Conspiracy s1e2, newspaper headline
Professor Roy Meadow ended up being the Witchfinder General. ibid. comment
My name’s John Sweeney and I’m an old-school reporter and I write books. In 2001 when I was at the BBC I started digging into the facts of the Sally Clark case. I talked to a ton of doctors, and people who know their way round statistic. And they said that the statistic that Roy Meadow gave to the jury in the trial was just plain wrong. ibid.
1 in 73 million: The statistic was taken completely out of context … I was horrified by this statistic. ibid. professor re Meadow
Poor Sally Clark had her life ruined by a grotesque mistake. ibid. Sweeney
Professor Meadow destroyed these women. ibid. Levin
It remains unexplained. That doesn’t mean it is murder. But like the witches of Salem, they want someone to go down for it. ibid. Michael Mansfield QC
Angela Cannings: What are we saying? That this mother decided she was going to have more children so she could kill them. I couldn’t believe it. ibid. Meadow
Angela just fell on her seat. I think she was just numbed and stunned. ibid. comment
Convinced on the word of doctors with a theory. ibid.
I rang Macclesfield hospital. They were very unpleasant. ibid. Marilyn Stowe investigates
Microbiology report Harry Clark: Natural causes. ibid. Stowe
Sally Clark, the woman convicted of killing her two baby sons has been freed by the Court of Appeal in London. ibid. TV news
Cannings: The pathologist had withheld evidence. ibid. Sweeney
Folbigg: There is no evidence of smothering, so the diaries are circumstantial. ibid. comment