More than 50 letters and notes written by Casey Anthony to an inmate, Robyn Adams in the Orange County Jail, were released today. Of the more than 250 pages made
public, Anthony’s musings run the gamut, from her miscarriage in 2007; to physical, emotional, mental and sexual abuse by her family; her engagement to marry; and to cross county travel plans in an RV when she is released from jail.
But perhaps more damaging for the defense is a Supplementary Report released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office today which contains information from an interview that investigators conducted with Maya Derkovic, another Orange County jailhouse inmate who claimed that Casey had several conversations with her. Derkovic told investigators that Casey told her (Derkovic) that from time-to- time she would “knock” Caylee out with chloroform to get her to sleep so she go out.
In Casey’s letters, she writes that she has so much in common with Adams, “both good and the bad”.
“I know how it feels to be physically, emotionally and mentally abused,” Anthony writes. “And I also know how it feels to be sexually abused.”
Anthony claims that she was abused by her brother Lee for three years and it began when she was 12-years-old.
“I woke up night after night with my sports bra lifted up over my chest or if I had on a regular bra, it would be unhooked,” Anthony writes. “I woke up many times to a flashlight on my face, and he (Lee) would be sitting on my floor in front of the bed, staring at me.”
She claimed that when she told her mom about the abuse two years ago, her mom made excuses, told her she was lying, and said that her brother was sleep walking. She writes her mother blamed her for “my own brother walking into my room at night and feeling my breast while I slept.” When she explained everything to her mother, who responded, “So that’s why you’re a whore?”, it was like a knife in her chest, Casey writes.
Casey says that she finally stood up to Lee when she was 15-years-old, telling him if he ever came back into her room she would kill him.
“I think my Dad used to do the same thing to me, but when I was much younger,” Casey writes. “I can see him in my room exactly the way it was when I was in elementary school and everything gets fuzzy.”
She writes that she has been having very vivid dreams over the past few months in jail.
“Over the past few months, I’ve been having really vivid dreams, and it’s obvious that they are dreams of things that have already happened,” Casey wrote.
Anthony writes that she was going to take Caylee and move away.
“Unfortunately, my plan got tangled when Zany wouldn’t tell me where she and Cays (Caylee) were,” Casey writes. She says that she asked Zany to take Caylee for a few days so she could put their things together–“money I had saved, new clothes, new everything.”
“That’s why I waited to report her missing, because she was and wasn’t,” Casey writes. “I would give anything to go back to that day and to not have let Caylee out of my sight.”
Casey Anthony is charged with first degree murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee. If convicted she could face the death penalty. Anthony’s trial is expected to begin in May 2011.
