by Peter Hyatt
Each person has their own linguistic code. Statement Analysis seeks to "break" or enter into that code, and gain insight into truth or deception. In most cases, it is used to discern deception, but in the incessant deception of Casey Anthony, it is more useful to attempt to learn when, or if, she is telling the truth.
First, the internal code:
When a subject speaks, we must learn: does it come from the free editing process? This means that the subject is choosing her own words, freely, not reflecting back the language of the Interviewer. The words are chosen in less than a micro-second based upon patterns set in early childhood. This free editing process is highly reliable for learning what is truth and what is deceptive.
It helps us determine: does the language come from memory? If so, does it come from the subject's own memory? If so, does it come from the subject's own experiential memory, or did it come from the memory of a movie, book, or what someone else said?
It can get complex.
In the free editing process, lying is difficult and it is stressful. To avoid the internal stress of lying a person will most likely withhold information rather than lie. The percentage of lying by withholding rather than lying by creating a false reality is more than 90 percent. Fabrication of reality is rare, indeed.
This is why "I didn't do it" is so vital to Statement Analysis and it is something so incredibly simple that most investigators ignore it.
It is almost never said, in the free editing process, by guilty people, and it is almost always said, in the free editing process by innocent people, and it is (while in the free editing process) incredibly reliable.
While teaching analytical interviewing to investigators, I choose a single word, say it aloud, and ask the class to tell me what comes into their mind. This simple exercise highlights that each one of us has an internal, subjective and highly personal dictionary, or linguistic code.
Example: "boy"
I say the word "boy" and what comes to mind?
For some, it may be the "boys" fighting in the Middle East (because one investigator has a son in the military). This means that her personal, subjective, internal dictionary defines "boy" as a 19 or 20 year old in a military uniform and provokes a level of fear that her son will be killed.
For another, "boy" was a blue ribbon on a basinet at the hospital where his son had just been born.
For another, "boy" was not an infant, nor a 19 year old, but a 7 year old, wearing a Little League uniform, with a big smile on his face.
The word boy spoken aloud brought forth answers ranging from 2 days old male child, all the way up to a young man in the military.
This is why interviewing, when done skillfully, must 'break' or enter into the 'code' that each person has, including Casey Anthony.
Casey Anthony's code is broken.
Casey Anthony's personal, subjective, internal dictionary, or linguistic code is not difficult to discern.
You may know that Casey Anthony is lying when certain signals are present, and you may know that there is a higher element of reliability in her statement when the same signals are absent.
If this code is followed, we may have 100% success, but we will have a high percentage of success, especially since Casey Anthony lies so very often.
These patterns are particularly highlighted for the reader in the articles: "Statement Analysis of Casey Anthony" Parts 1 through 3, which show the interview/interrogation conducted early in the investigation that was videotaped allow the reader to know the linguistic indicators of deception, that uniquely belong to Casey Anthony. Much of this has already been verified by the facts of the case, but it does present a unique and, perhaps, new insight into Casey Anthony's words:
When she is telling the truth.
Casey Anthony's personal patterns of lying.
When Casey Anthony lies she does several things:
1. Additional words.
The analysis has shown a principle of Statement Analysis: that 'unnecessary words are doubly important to the analyst'.
Unnecessary words are words in which, when removed, the sentence still works.
Take the sample from a famous eatery: "all you can eat" and then add in one word, of which, without, the sentence still works. The additional word "today" changes the meaning of the sentence and limits the offer.
"I have never told you a lie" is not the same as "I have never told a lie", with the first sentence significantly different than the second. The first sentence tells us that the subject has told lies, just not to "you" but to others. Although the second sentence is still a complete sentence without the word "you", the additional word "you" is of great importance.
2. The overabundance of detail.
Casey Anthony not only uses additional and unnecessary words, she adds in details that were not asked for, thinking, as most liars do, that she will be believed because of the overabundance of detail. Cindy Anthony not only fell for this, but practiced it herself.
Casey Anthony invented a nanny.
She gave the nanny a name and a basic description. This is the norm for both truthful and deceptive people, but it is only the deceptive who feels the need to go on and on, about the phantom nanny's sister, her dog, her hair and her teeth. Cindy, picking up where Casey left off, told the press that the nanny had a dog, therefore, the nanny existed.
Casey went as far as to giving the fake nanny a hair straightener. The phantom nanny not only had curly hair, but Casey had to tell us that she often straightened it with a straightener, as if this detail would then 'prove' the fake nanny's existence. Casey then could reference the 'hair straightener' later (in the jail house visit with Cindy) as having borrowed it.
Yet Cindy doesn't think it is odd to be talking about a hair straightener while her granddaughter is "kidnapped" and her daughter is sitting in jail, charged with murder? Cindy and George thought it was normal for a mother of a 'kidnapped' child to be giggling about her weight?
This is the picture of a family who lived in deceit; even if it is self-imposed deceit of "denial."
This is a glimpse into where Casey learned her patterns of thinking and patterns of speech.
Because of her patterns, if we take every sentence of Casey's in which she piles on lots of 'unnecessary' detail, and flag it for a lie, we will have a very high, if not perfect, percentage of accuracy.
3. The use of qualifiers is abundant in the language of Casey Anthony.
Qualifiers are naturally used by the truthful. "I think I left my keys in the car" leaves room for another possibility where as "I left my keys in the car" is affirmative. Casey Anthony uses these phrases far more than honest people and it shows up more often than anyone else I have ever analyzed. This enables her to leave herself an "out" later on. She uses them in extreme numbers.
"think, guess, maybe, often, sometimes, about, around, " but also likes to say "on the other hand", "but at the same time..." so that she may remain ambivalent or non-commital about everything she wishes to lie about. It is only when someone affirms her lie that she will say "oh, yes, absolutely" or "exactly my thinking" etc.
"I have perspective ideas where Caylee may be..." said Casey. Does she even know what "perspective ideas" means?
4. The use of hyperbolic-like words are in abundance in the sentences of Casey Anthony.
These words include "absolutely, exactly, completely," and so on. She has a continual need (from continual lying) to persuade rather than to simply state.
"I have absolutely no idea where my daughter is." For Casey Anthony, the need to use words like these is constantly present, so much so, that after analyzing her words for the last three years, I have found that their presence is not so much flagged, but their absence. She thrives on being agreed with, as her face lights up with a smile. Yet each time she employs a word like this, she is likely lying, or affirming a lie.
From the analysis already published, as well as this conclusion, we may say that Casey Anthony is not a brilliant sociopathic liar.
She is a sociopath and she is a liar, but she is not brilliant, but of average intelligence. She does have nerves of steel, which likely came from the self confidence she got from her parents' refusal to challenge her lies.
In the jail house videos, we see two parents fearful of asking her questions. If we consider the setting, it becomes a shock to the senses.
We are supposed to believe that two innocent grandparents have been told that their grandchild is kidnapped by a nanny, who has been watching Caylee for 2 years, yet have never met, spoken to, looked in to, or have even seen a picture of; this after smelling human decomposition, the distinct gut wrenching odor, in the car, even on the child's doll.
Casey the Bully
Yet, when they ask Casey a question about locating the kidnapped child, Casey blows up, so they quickly stop asking questions, under the threat that Casey will stop answering questions.
In the jailhouse videos, Cindy and George Anthony are playing for the camera, being deceitful in their own way, in order to save Casey from the murder charges she faced. They knew that Caylee was dead, with their suspicions confirmed the day they smelled her decomposing body in the car. When Casey was out on bond, George and Cindy Anthony even knew that approximately where the body was buried, as they sabotaged recovery efforts from a highly successful search organization, just to protect Casey.
To George you says to Casey ” you are the boss
Casey answers: “- Not anymore. No I haven’t been since I got here
Casey ruled the roost with her lies as her parents empowered her by refusing to challenge her. This is why she is so fearless of the detectives.
Now, as the world knows that Casey lied, they are forced to listen to the incessant lies they pretended to believe, but this time, the nation is listening in. George and Cindy's self-deceptive "denial" is now being undraped for the nation to see.
In spite of their millions, I do not envy them; I pity them.
Frequently given opportunities to intervene on Caylee's behalf, they chose rather to turn their backs upon their grandchild. While Casey stole from them and their extended family, they refused to ask her why she needed money. While Casey was supposed to be dropping off their grandchild with a nanny, each day as she 'went to work'; not once did they say "we need to meet the woman who watches our Caylee!" or "I need to tell the nanny my work number" or any of a hundred possible contacts that people casually make about babysitters or even kennels or pet sitters.
Lee employs many of the same sentence structures that his sister does, though not nearly with the same frequency.
This is a family of deceivers and should George, for example, continue to be cross examined and answer with a multitude of words, it may be that a juror or two will catch on that he is not 100% truthful, and maybe, just maybe, will feel doubt towards his testimony.
I think such doubt will be overcome by the other jurors as the evidence shows that Casey Anthony murdered her own child, and went through an elaborate cover up process, that once exposed, took her 3 years of working with her attorney, Jose Baez, to come up with another lie about accidental drowning.
Casey Anthony appears to have made peace with herself about going to prison, in some strange way. She knows, just as Misty Croslin did, that choosing to be jailed was preferable than telling the truth, and so, for 3 years, Casey has sat in jail and now wants us to believe that she sat in jail, all this time, simply for an accident.
We may now proceed to go back over Casey Anthony's statements, looking for sentences without the indicators of deception, to learn of the few things she has said that were true.
"Not everything I told you is a lie".
In deed.
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