Caylee Anthony Update 30 October

California death-row inmate Scott Peterson is not writing letters to Casey Anthony after all. (Just when it seemed like it couldn't get weirder...BAM! It does.)

Several people close to the case said Wednesday that the Orange County woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter had received correspondence in jail from Peterson, who was convicted three years ago of killing his wife Laci, and unborn son, Conner. (He thought murder was the way of getting rid of an unwanted child too. Why people who don't want children to interfere with their "lifestyle" have them anyway is beyond me.)

After that information appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com, officials began checking it out. They found that Anthony has never received a letter from the convicted killer. OrlandoSentinel.com found that the story may have originated with Anthony, who talked to a corrections officer about mail she received. (The attention is starting to diminish and this was her way of bringing it back to herself. More people have been interested in the Hudson murders than her. Because when it comes down to it, nothing is really happening in her case. Maybe she'll tell officials where her daughter is. Then George and Cindy can bury her.)

A spokesman for her lawyer, Jose Baez, said Anthony had received a letter from a person with the last name Peterson who lives in San Diego (If I remember correctly isn't that where his parents live. Did they send the letter?), but nothing from the convicted killer. The spokesman said Baez screens his client's mail and would know if such correspondence had taken place.(Why is he screening her mail?Is he trying to protect her feelings. She has to know that everyone thinks she is a baby killer by now.)


None of the sources who spoke to the newspaper saw the actual letters.

A spokesman at San Quentin State Prison in California, where Peterson is held, said the prison does not track his mail. The spokesman said he did not believe that any letters came from the prisoner.

There is no known connection between Peterson and Anthony, other than similarities in their cases. (They both decided too late that they would rather party than be parents. And instead of just walking away decided murder was the answer.)

Anthony reported in July that her daughter had disappeared after being left with a baby sitter in mid-June. The child's body has not been found, but Anthony was charged with first-degree murder earlier this month.

Peterson, originally from San Diego, Calif., reported his wife missing in December 2002. The bodies of his wife and unborn child washed ashore in April 2003 in the San Francisco Bay. Peterson was convicted of the killings and sentenced to death in 2005. He maintains he is innocent. (Don't most murderers maintain their innocence no matter how strong the evidence.)

Efforts to contact Peterson's lawyer for comment Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Also of interest:
Caylee Anthony Update 29 October
Why Mothers Kill To Be Free
Did William Balfour Have Help Murdering Hudson Family
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