Disenablers: Caylee Anthony’s grandfather and Robert Conrad’s daughters are our heroes of the month
Disenablers of the month:
Casey Anthony’s father, George Anthony, who has reportedly admitted to police having grave doubts about Casey’s innocence over the disappearance of his granddaughter Caylee. He seems shaken over the fact that he has caught his daughter in lies that border on the delusional, including her telling a friend her father had suffered a stroke, was divorcing his wife Cindy and was turning over their home to Casey. Armed with fabricated work sheets, phony emails and dummied-up date books, Casey convinced her parents she was an event planner at Universal Studios, when in fact she hadn’t worked in two years.
LaVelda Conrad’s daughters, Kaja, 25, Camille, 23 and Chelsea, 21, who reported LaVelda for cocaine possession to authorities, which resulted in a photo-op for the 48-year-old. “All my life,”the 30-year wife of “Wild Wild West”star Robert Conrad, 79, told reporters, “I’d prided myself on an idealized self-image as a loving wife and devoted mother. But looking at that police photo made me realize that I’m something more…I’m also an addict.”She credits the mug shot in the September 29 issue of The National Enquirer for having broken the “denial”to her addiction. As an aside, note the age difference. The Conrad’s married when he was 49 and she was 18. “Look at the handsome, wealthy, older hunk I got”may have been running through the young alcoholic mind of LaVelda Conrad for decades. “Check out the hot young babe I got my hands on”may have been in Robert Conrad’s subconscious alcoholic thoughts for much of that time as well. He was sentenced to six months of house arrest and five years probation after a conviction for crossing the center median and slamming head-on into another vehicle while under the influence in 2003, resulting in serious injuries to both him and the driver of the other car. His blood alcohol level (BAL) was .22 per cent”the equivalent of 14 shots of 80-proof liquor in four hours for a 200-pounder. A BAL of over .15 per cent while functional enough to do much more than sit upright is considered by most addiction experts to be excellent evidence of alcoholism.