The Real Casey Anthony
Casey Anthony, who was accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter in 2008, has emerged as an influencer on TikTok and Substack.
Although she has hasn’t published any articles yet she has been active on Substack Notes. Her initial posts were largely political.
Her first notes, beginning on February 5, 2025, were in support of DEI programs, writing that officials are claiming the programs, “…are divisive, which is blatantly false,” and in support of the popular movement against billionaires, “to fight for these programs that help aid Americans.”
In her TikTok video, she introduces herself by saying, “I am a legal advocate. I am a researcher. I’ve been in the legal field since 2011…,” adding that she is, “…a proponent for the LGBTQ community. For our legal community. Women’s rights.”
Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who would be 19 if she was alive today, in 2011. She was given the now popular nickname “the most hated mom in America” by Nancy Grace.
In 2013, one of her attorneys, Charles Greene, told ABCNews that Anthony, $800,000 in debt as a result of the trial, had filed for bankruptcy protection. Greene also said Anthony might want to become a paralegal in the future.
"She's better than many paralegals I know," he told ABCNews, "she could be a paralegal or something like that right away. She is very organized, a very intelligent, very computer savvy person, so I think her skills and her desire may lie somewhere in that field."
Interestingly, despite being acquitted of murder, she implies in her video that people need her help because the system doesn’t work, saying she wants to help people “…so they actually know where they can turn to.”
She was found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement for the story she concocted about her murdered child being kidnapped. Casey told investigators that she had left Caylee at the apartment of a nanny who subsequently kidnapped the toddler.
When police investigated the apartment, they found it had been abandoned for nearly 6 months. Anthony then speculated that perhaps her daughter had drowned while she was sleeping, and blamed her father for what happened, also suggesting that he may have been abusing Caylee.
In Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies, a three-part documentary on Peacock, she mentioned allegations that she herself had been sexually abused by her father, and speculates that her father may have staged Caylee's drowning to cover up that he had been abusing his granddaughter the way she alleged he abused her.
Her father vehemently denied her accusations in court and has never been charged. An estimated 40 million Americans watched at least part of the trial, and the verdict was watched by close to 100 million people. The prosecution alleged Anthony, then 21, killed her daughter so that she could party with friends and have sex with her boyfriend.
In her TikTok video, she also talks about the importance of digital privacy. The year after she was acquitted of murder, WKMG reported that police never investigated the Firefox browser activity on Casey's computer the day of Caylee's death; they only looked at Internet Explorer even though Firefox was reportedly most commonly used by Casey Anthony.
A computer expert working for Anthony's defense team found the search before the trial. Her lead attorney, Jose Baez, mentioned the search in his book about the case but suggested it was George Anthony who conducted the search after Caylee drowned because he wanted to kill himself.
The Firefox browser history showed that someone in the Anthony household, using a password-protected account that Casey used, performed a Google search for "foolproof suffocation" at 2:51 P.M. There was also Firefox browser activity on MySpace, a site used by Casey but not her father. Baez was shocked the prosecution never brought it up.
Anthony has disabled comments on her TikTok video, which currently has about 2.5 million views. It’s been liked by about 25,000 people and she has over 50,000 followers.
“She isn’t going to get into flame wars with people,” her friend told the NYPost. “This is her platform, her space to say her piece. You can either watch, or you can move along. This is about what she wants to say.”
Her Substack, “The Real ,” already has over a thousand subscribers. If for some reason you want to watch her video for yourself, here it is:
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I’m guessing she’s just short on money.
Is she writing a “How to get away with murder” column?