Why is the Casey Anthony case so famous?

[mickie]

I know that Caylee's death is horrible and devastating but this kind of stuff happens all the time. There have been tons of cases just like this or even worse! Why is Casey Anthonys case super famous? Theres been people who have done worse things to their kids, why is Casey Anthony the most hated person in America?

[happywithlife]

The reason behind it all was because she hadn't reported her child missing for over a month. She refused to tell her mother were she is and lied to the police also. Secondly the media had help with also, it was the media fault that it became so famous. Reporters like Jane Velez and Nancy Grace have a heart for small children so they try to report every mistreatment of a child.

[Namaste]

"Famous" suggests an positive accomplishment/event of some sort.

Casey Anthony and her case are NOT famous; they are INFAMOUS.

Like Al Capone, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Osama bin Laden, Ted Bundy, and others.

They contributed nothing positive to the world and gave only pain and death to others.

Casey Anthony is definitely INFAMOUS....

[Charisse V]

I believe the reason the Casey Anthony case became “famous” and has drawn such attention is that unlike other mothers believed to have murdered their children, Casey Anthony never confessed. Susan Smith drowned her two sons in a lake, lied about it; then wrote out a full confession.

Andrea Yates murdered her children then called authorities and told them what she had done. Casey Anthony lied from the beginning, continued to lie to investigators, lied to her parents, lied in jail, then during her trial, her attorney stated that Caylee Anthony drowned in the family swimming pool. Not to mention how she turned around and blamed her father for sexual abuse.

Investigators who interviewed Casey said they had never encountered anyone who could lie like she did- they used all their methods to “break” people; and she wouldn’t budge. Her lack of caring for Caylee pushed the story further into the media and in the early days of July and August 2008, HLN’s Nancy Grace and Fox News’ Greta Von Susteren continued to give nightly coverage to the case.

I think everyone followed in the early part of the investigation hoping Caylee was alive and waiting for Casey to confess; neither would happen.
People became emotionally invested in Caylee’s case and wanting to see her come home. She didn’t; then they expected to see she would have justice; she hasn’t.

We have a group on Facebook that has covered the case from the beginning.

[who da man?]

Because she's guilty, it's obvious she's guilty, and the prosecutors messed up when they pushed for the death penalty. Her daughter went missing for A MONTH while she parties and slept with a bunch of guys before reporting it to her mother. She lied to her parents and to police to cover it up and really has no alibi as to what happened to her daughter. She then was sent free, to reap the rewards of all the fame the media gave her because of how much it built up over time and how much many reporters went on about it.

[cw21dlr]

This case was picked up very early by Nancy Grace and the other talking heads at HLN and flogged to death. It was the main topic on their shows for months/years and the trial was covered 24/7. You're correct that there are similar cases occuring in the United States but this captured people's attention because of (1) the unusual circumstances of the case (i.e. the child being missing for so long before being reported, the "nanny" story), (2) the main suspect being an attractive, white 22-year old (at the time) middle-class mother, and (3) the little girl was adorable.

[littleHunter634]

Every five years or so, it has been decided by the inscrutable American Media Mechanism that a polarizing case must be fed to the always hungry American public: O.J., Jon Benet Ramsey, Natalie Halloway, Casey Anthony, even little Maddy McCann from the UK we know about from the sensationalism attached to it. Look how much fun the Western World has had vilifying their annoying parents, guilty or innocent! Just now the shyt hit the fan in Aruba because another young American woman has come up missing. Isn't that damned place in the Bermuda Triangle, or something?

The really nasty part of this little diatribe is the hypocrisy behind it. When pretty little rich girls come up missing it's big news, but when regular girls come up missing under ominous circumstances, it's rarely more than local news and is forgotten about in a week, with only the immediate family to listen for the 11th hour call.

[TMI]

The difference with this case has more to do with how facts got worse every day. Casey was seen to be such a skitzo, liar and skank. Her daughter, Caylee, was collateral damage. It wouldn't have mattered who she murdered, the interest would have been the same. More and more lies of hers unravelled every day. People hate it when the trust of a helpless child is so grossly violated, into the ultimate betrayal as Casey did to her daughter. The brutal and torturous way she killed her, strapping chloroform to her face with duct tape and throwing her in a hot car to go off and party is tattooed on the public psyche.