Looking up the Casey Anthony case, it is clear that everyone thinks she literally got away with murder. Every news source calls her a bad mother, Time even has a link to another article, "Moms who kill" right in their story. While CNN seemed to attempt to simply go over the facts, when you got down into it, it still described how Caylee was theoretically killed, taped, and dumped, and then her mom went out partying and participating in a 'hot body' contest. Fox news talks about how she allegedly admitted she killed her child, and paid her lawyer in sex! Every news source also discusses how she lied so many times, and even her attorney called the people in her lies her 'imaginary friends' (CNN). All of this fits right into Whiteley's 'mad' theme, with women who kill fitting into the mad and abnormal theme, versus men who fit into the bad and normal. Evil and demonic are indeed words that many have used regarding Casey Anthony, fitting right into Whiteley's description of how society reacts to a mother who kills her own child. As Whiteley describes, murder challenges the femininity of the subject, as homicide is a 'male' act. Almost every news source describes her, then, as a sexually driven woman who didn't care about her child. Multiple report her having traded sex for her lawyers fees, and going to nightclubs to party. Even a news source discussing the DNA expert the defense used almost immediately puts up a rather unflattering image of Casey Anthony. Other sources, not so much news as sensationalism, discuss that she was a loving mother... to her dog. In all media, Casey Anthony has been turned into a monster, even after her acquittal she is still living in the spotlight. Every happy thing she does is turned into a discussion of what a monster she is, enjoying anything after 'killing' her daughter. Even now, she is still thought of as a murderer, and worse, a killer of her own tiny defenseless child. Overall, Whiteley would say that this is the typical female homicide case, with a mother killing her own daughter, and being labeled both mad, and evil. This case was covered at an astonishing rate, and just like Whiteley discusses, female homicide is a bestseller.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/05/florida.casey.anthony.trial/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/25/casey-anthonys-lawyer-admits-killed-daughter-caylee-investigator-says.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/casey-anthony-attorney-denies-trading-sex-for-defense_us_57488919e4b03ede4414bbdf?utm_hp_ref=casey-anthony
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/casey-anthony/os-casey-anthony-dna-expert-rejected-20160906-story.html
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2077969,00.html
http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/14/casey-anthony-with-a-dog/
