Casey Anthony-Why a Mother Might Kill Her Child

Is Casey Anthony capable of murder?

On Wednesday, Christmas Eve, even NBC's morning show, "Today" wasn't taking a break from the headline-making case.
Guest Pat Brown, criminal profiler, joined Ann Curry for an interview regarding the case. The discussion helped answer the question why a mother might kill her child.

Ann Curry asked about Casey Anthony's behavor -- such as partying -- before and after her daughter Caylee's disappearance.

"I wouldn't call this inappropriate behavior," criminal profiler Pat Brown said. "I'd call it evidence of psychopathy. The fact that she lies constantly. The fact that she has no empathy for that missing child, has no interest in that missing child, shows a person that didn't really care about another human being. Is she capable of therefore doing something to that child? Absolutely."

Brown, who stressed that she's not a forensic psychologist, noted that a psychopath knows what she's doing. Brown said she couldn't call Casey Anthony a psychopath in court, but added that the young mother exhibited psychopathic tendencies. Brown theorized that Casey had fooled former fiance Jesse Grund.

"The fiance -- he's one of those who got caught in Casey's net," Brown said. "What happens with a person with a psychopathic personality is that they will act in a certain way according to what it will get them."

A psychopath would use a baby as an object to get attention, Brown theorized. But when that child grows older and gets in the way, a psychopath "would easily cut that person loose," Brown said. "That's what the fiance is confused about."