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<\/a><\/p>\nDid the Porn Biz Kill Them?<\/h1>\nFormer sex crimes prosecutor Wendy Murphy says the grisly murders of Caylee Anthony and Sandra Cantu may have been linked to the child-porn industry\u2014and their killers likely didn’t act alone.<\/h2>\n\n\n![](\"http:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/d_placeholder_euli9k\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_585\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1\/articles\/2009\/04\/30\/did-the-porn-biz-kill-them\/murphy-killers-huckaby-anthony_24240_p5ukvz\")
<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nWendy Murphy
\nDaily Beast<\/p>\n
It\u2019s fascinating to hear one \u201cexpert\u201d after the next analyzing the \u201cunusual\u201d nature of the cases now pending against Casey Anthony in Florida and Melissa Huckaby in California.<\/p>\n
Anthony is accused of killing her little girl, Caylee, and Huckaby is charged with murder in the death of her neighbor, 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Most people are scratching their heads, trying to understand such brutality at the hands of these two seemingly nice women.<\/p>\n
OK, maybe not so nice, but not exactly Jeffrey Dahmer types, either.<\/p>\n
A few pundits have suggested the women did not act alone. As a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, and an advocate for victims for more than 20 years, here\u2019s why I think they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
Casey Anthony\u2019s computer was taken and searched, and early reports said certain photographs of little Caylee\u2014who went missing last June, two months before her third birthday, and whose skeletal remains were discovered in December\u2014had been deleted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nMaybe Casey Anthony didn\u2019t kill Caylee. Maybe she died while engaged in some nefarious business\u2014and Casey was forced to dispose of her child\u2019s body. Maybe Huckaby found herself in a similar situation.<\/p>\n
In both cases, there\u2019s evidence the crimes are related to sex offenses.<\/p>\n
A notice referring to the prosecution of Casey Anthony as a sex crime was filed with the court in August\u2014around the same time a detective from the sex crimes unit visited the Anthony home.<\/p>\n
Huckaby stands charged with child rape in addition to murder in the death of Sandra, whose body was discovered in a suitcase, submerged in a pond, on April 6, 10 days after her disappearance.<\/p>\n
Both women had money problems. Casey Anthony was reportedly stealing from her own family and friends; Melissa Huckaby had a past criminal record of theft crimes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth asking whether women desperate enough to steal might also be desperate enough to get involved in the dangerous business of selling kids for sex and porn. The U.S. attorney general says child porn is a multibillion-dollar business and that the most common producers of the stuff are parents.<\/p>\n
Both cases also include evidence that children have been sedated, and experts in the child porn business know that drugs like valium and chloroform are commonly used to make young victims compliant. Such drugs also affect the memory, so victims have no recall of the abuse when the drugs wear off\u2014a nice benefit if you\u2019re trying not to get caught.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nWendy Murphy
\nDaily Beast<\/p>\n
It\u2019s fascinating to hear one \u201cexpert\u201d after the next analyzing the \u201cunusual\u201d nature of the cases now pending against Casey Anthony in Florida and Melissa Huckaby in California.<\/p>\n
Anthony is accused of killing her little girl, Caylee, and Huckaby is charged with murder in the death of her neighbor, 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Most people are scratching their heads, trying to understand such brutality at the hands of these two seemingly nice women.<\/p>\n
OK, maybe not so nice, but not exactly Jeffrey Dahmer types, either.<\/p>\n
A few pundits have suggested the women did not act alone. As a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, and an advocate for victims for more than 20 years, here\u2019s why I think they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
Casey Anthony\u2019s computer was taken and searched, and early reports said certain photographs of little Caylee\u2014who went missing last June, two months before her third birthday, and whose skeletal remains were discovered in December\u2014had been deleted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe Casey Anthony didn\u2019t kill Caylee. Maybe she died while engaged in some nefarious business\u2014and Casey was forced to dispose of her child\u2019s body. Maybe Huckaby found herself in a similar situation.<\/p>\n In both cases, there\u2019s evidence the crimes are related to sex offenses.<\/p>\n A notice referring to the prosecution of Casey Anthony as a sex crime was filed with the court in August\u2014around the same time a detective from the sex crimes unit visited the Anthony home.<\/p>\n Huckaby stands charged with child rape in addition to murder in the death of Sandra, whose body was discovered in a suitcase, submerged in a pond, on April 6, 10 days after her disappearance.<\/p>\n Both women had money problems. Casey Anthony was reportedly stealing from her own family and friends; Melissa Huckaby had a past criminal record of theft crimes.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth asking whether women desperate enough to steal might also be desperate enough to get involved in the dangerous business of selling kids for sex and porn. The U.S. attorney general says child porn is a multibillion-dollar business and that the most common producers of the stuff are parents.<\/p>\n Both cases also include evidence that children have been sedated, and experts in the child porn business know that drugs like valium and chloroform are commonly used to make young victims compliant. Such drugs also affect the memory, so victims have no recall of the abuse when the drugs wear off\u2014a nice benefit if you\u2019re trying not to get caught.<\/p>\n