Treachery

The Five-Month Search For Caylee Anthony

If Casey Anthony put her two-year-old daughter's body in a forest a quarter mile from the Anthony home, why did it take five-months to find her? The second narrative in the Hopespring Series unpacks the astonishing two week aftermath following Casey Anthony's arrest in crystal clear chronological detail. It interrogates Caylee Anthony's mysterious paternity in the most persuasive analysis yet Through this book Van der Leek also introduces a brand new and fascinating concept to the true crime genre - Criminal Intertextuality. The efficacy of this tool to plumb the murky family dynamics of this case is what sets this narrative apart.