just yesterday i finished reading 'mommy's little girl' by diane fanning. it is a VERY interesting book. while the author did'nt interview casey, lee, cindy or george she interviewed a whole lot of the people involved AND some of cindy's family. the stuff she got from cindy's brother in the way of e-mails that flew back and forth between him, cindy, cindy's mom and other family members is mind blowing (cindy's family were convinced caylee was deceased and casey was responsible from almost the very start based on casey's prior history).
apparantly there's a history of cindy and george going into the total blind denial mindset regarding casey even when the truth is staring them in the face. when casey was around 7 months pregnant with caylee she showed up at a family event very clearly showing and everyone was very surprised to see her in that condition because they had'nt heard word one about it-when they tried to talk to casey about it-she denied being pregnant, and george and cindy repeatedly said 'what are you talking about? she's not pregnant' saying that casey was just 'bloated'. the family was like 'that is not bloat, that is pregnant-how can you say she's not?'. cindy and george were adamant that casey could'nt be pregnant because at some point in her life she had promised her mom that she would let her know if she lost her virginity, and since she had'nt told cindy up to that point (and they were adamant that she never lied or withheld information from them

) she was definatly still a virgin, and a virgin can't be pregnant
when casey finaly fessed up some weeks later both george and cindy apparantly behaved like they were totaly shocked, that the idea she was pregnant never entered their minds and had never been brought up by anyone.
the trial testimony should be facinating-the stuff cindy has directly told other people about casey directly contradicts what she's said in depositions. i know allot of people wonder why the state is still pursuing the check theft charges with all else that's going on-after reading this i suspect it's so they can get some testimony on the record. the female friend of casey's whose checks that were stolen that are the basis of some of the charges did'nt find out from the bank about the theft-she was alerted by cindy who met with her when she was trying to locate casey and caylee. cindy was telling all kinds of things that casey had done, including what she (cindy) perceived as bad parenting, and told the woman that if caysey had ever had any access to any of the woman's money she'd likely been robbed blind. at that point the woman realized her checkbook had been left in her car recently when casey was borrowing it-she looked in it, found out there were missing checks so she called the bank and learned the extent to which her account had been drained.
there is person after person whose knowledge of casey is totaly different from anyone elses-she had different realities she would spin for different people depending on what they were like/what she wanted to present herself as (and she was adept at keeping people separate/unaware of each other so that people did'nt realize the glaring differences in what they believed/were told).