Casey Anthony Has Supporters, Criminals Keep Sending Her Money, She Doesn’t Thank Them
July 15, 2011 by Hollywoodite
The real story here is that Casey Anthony has a distinct group of supporters. Moreover, there are people who’re empathetic enough to the former murder suspect to want to send her their hard-earned money (maybe it’s money that would otherwise have been spent on hallucinogens and this was a better way to go). She has also received fan mail and letters of support. It’s being reported that after being found not guilty of the murder of her two-year-old daughter – the memorial for whom was hit by lightening and then was suddenly underwater – has been gaining growing support from people aware that she now needs to leave prison and start a new life. Since, you know, she still has hers.
Since May, at least 17 people have sent money orders to Anthony, according to jailhouse records from the Orange County Corrections Department. Strangers are showering her with more money than her parents. George and Cindy Anthony haven’t sent their daughter a cent since May 8, more than two weeks before her trial began.
The donations have increased since Anthony was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee last week, the records show. As of today, Anthony has $472.18 in her bank account, nearly $200 more than what was in her account the day she received the verdict. One stranger donated $100 this week. The average balance in an Orange County jail inmate’s account is $36.30. – via ABC News.
With no real additional time spent behind bars, being found guilty of providing some false information to police, Anthony is reported to want to change her appearance and change her name. Which won’t stop people trying to harass and harm her; nor will it help other people with her name getting unwanted attention – like a much-older African American man, in the news recently, with the name Casey Anthony who’d been harassed online and off with people threatening him and not realising he was only a namesake.
Well, it’s been speculated by Star and other outlets that Anthony will become un-recognisable and try to begin a new life and that will be all the easier with additional the money she’s received.
According to ABC News, most of the strangers sending money are men – no surprise – but, some of them are women too; ages range from “as young as 19, to middle aged women, and to men in their late fifties.” And then it gets interesting. There are some professionals in the bunch, including bankers, but some of the donors have criminal pasts, including “charges of aggravated assault and sex offenses.” Shudder, right? Multiple donations have even come from the same people. One of the strangers even offered her a secluded home, if she needed somewhere safe to live once she left jail.
One donor even offered Anthony a place to stay when she leaves jail on Sunday.
“If she ever did contact me and wanted to live in the middle of nowhere I have three houses out here…I’m scared for her,” Gary Bradfield told ABCNews.com. Bradfield, a 44-year-old man who lives on a ranch in Texas, donated $99.40 to Anthony in February 2011 so she’d have money to celebrate her birthday in March. – via ABC News.
It would appear Anthony has thanked none of the people in question.