Justice for Mom from Navarre Florida, Cassie Carli

09/09/2026

I check PACER often lately, waiting for the decision on whether we get to see you fight for your life or just for your lifetime.

Ten cents a page, every time. Your docket is 13 pages now.

Lately, I’ve been trying to remind myself not to let you continue taking up space in my head. Not to let you steal any more of my joy.

Because while we wait, you’re still locked up like a discarded animal, forgotten in a little cage, and that’s not ever going to change. You wouldn’t still be sitting there almost five years later if you were going anywhere. 🤨

No freedom. No parental rights. No life outside those walls. The world keeps moving, and you’ve become increasingly irrelevant to everyone outside of the justice we’re still waiting to see served.

And meanwhile, we get to keep living ours.

So there’s that.

09/05/2026

08/29/2026

I watched The Death of a Pastor’s Wife on Netflix, and it made me physically sick. I actually had to turn it off and finish it the next day.

And somehow, the part that makes me the most furious is that he isn’t facing more serious charges. How are these “men” continuing to get away with unaliving women? How does a woman end up dead and there are SO many questions, yet somehow there still isn’t enough accountability?

And maybe this one hits me differently because I know what it feels like to watch a case like this unfold in real life. I know Cassie didn’t unalive herself in Marcus’s trailer. Yet his trailer was the last place she was seen alive. He used
coercive control on Cassie too. He put cameras in her apartment without her knowledge. He would go to her place of work and speak with her employers. He called in false DCF reports on her. So much abuse. Cassie and Mica tried to tell others. Cassie and Mica tried to get out and protect themselves.

It’s infuriating.
It’s enraging.
And as a mother raising daughters, it absolutely terrifies me.

These women deserved better. They deserved to be safe. They deserved to still be here.

What happened to Mica Miller? This documentary series retraces her promising life, toxic marriage and the mysterious circumstances of her death.

08/24/2026

All the damn waiting.

This March will be five years. Five years since you took her from us. Five years of waiting for the justice we already know she deserves.

I’ve thought so much about the death penalty and the pending decision about whether it will stand. Part of me wants you to simply not exist anymore. But another part of me wants you to have to live a very, very long life with what you did. To wake up every day knowing exactly why you’re there and exactly what you took from so many people.

And maybe part of me wants the death penalty to stay for the simplest reason of all: because you don’t. I don’t want you to ever get what you want again. You’re done winning. You don’t get to control the story. You don’t get to dictate how this ends.

And what is with all the sealed filings?!?!?! Why do you keep filing things under seal? Because you know how many people are watching? How many people are waiting to finally hear the word guilty in a court of law?We’re waiting for the court to say it. But we already know the truth.

There is so much evidence stacked against you because somehow you actually thought you were smarter than everyone else. You thought you could do this and get away with it. You thought you could bury her body where you were living and no one would figure it out.

Evil and stupid is a hell of a combination.

Five years is a long damn time to wait.

But we’re still here. And you’re still locked up behind bars.

Your day of reckoning is coming.

08/01/2026

We wait.

Both sides filed their arguments by July 2, and now the decision is in the judge’s hands. Will the death penalty remain on the table, or will it be removed?

There isn’t a deadline. The judge could issue a ruling tomorrow…or it could still be weeks or even months away. We simply don’t know. That uncertainty is one of the hardest parts.
I’ve gone back and forth in my own mind more times than I can count.
If the death penalty stays, it likely means years more waiting, countless hearings and appeals, and an enormous amount of taxpayer money spent on the defense of the man accused of murdering Cassie.
If it’s removed, I can’t help but worry about what that means in the end. My greatest fear is that justice somehow falls short of what Cassie deserves. Part of me believes in “an eye for an eye.” Another part of me is simply exhausted and wants this nightmare to end with the certainty that he will never again have the opportunity to hurt another person.

I don’t know what the right answer is anymore.

I just know Cassie deserved to grow old. She deserved to raise her daughter that she wanted so badly. She deserved birthdays, holidays, ordinary Saturdays, and all the tomorrows that were stolen from her. From all of us.

So today, we wait. We pray for wisdom as this decision is made, and we promise what we’ve promised from the very beginning: those of us who loved Cassie and have fought for her will never stop seeking justice. We will continue to show up, continue to speak her name, and continue to make sure she is never forgotten.

06/27/2026

By July 2, both sides must answer the judge’s questions. Then we’ll see whether this motion survives… or whether the death penalty stays exactly where it belongs—on the table.

06/15/2026

**Update**
Here is a link the the full 27 page filing from 6/11/2026

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tq0tchvz80ie7p1zc3zr2/june15-2026filing.pdf?rlkey=v3ld57wked7mo2k25xpjtjlko&st=fhth0syy&dl=0

I just finished reading the latest filing, and I am DISGUSTED and ENRAGED.

Cassie Carli is gone forever.
Her daughter will grow up without her. Her loved ones have spent more than four years waiting for justice.

And now we’re reading arguments about more delays, more experts, more investigations, more funding, and potentially years more litigation.

Let that sink in.

Just nine days before Cassie disappeared, Marcus Spanevelo was ordered to pay $5,920 in attorney’s fees related to their custody battle.

$5,920.

Not $500,000.

Not millions.

Five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

Today, according to the defense’s own filings, a mitigation specialist alone has already billed $47,374.59, including travel expenses, and that’s just one piece of the defense team. Experts, investigators, attorneys, paralegals, and years of additional litigation are expected if this case continues as a death penalty prosecution. Estimates could easily climb into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

Let that sink in too.

Cassie doesn’t get another day.
Her family doesn’t get another holiday.
Her daughter was so little when he took her from us she probably won’t have any memories of her.

Yet we continue hearing about the resources needed for the man accused of kidnapping and murdering her.
Four years later, we are still fighting over whether the man accused of taking Cassie’s life should face the punishment the government has determined is appropriate.

Justice delayed is justice DENIED.

This isn’t about vengeance. It’s about accountability. It’s about remembering that behind every filing, every motion, every delay, there is a woman who should still be here.

Cassie mattered.

Her life mattered.

And we will continue to show up, continue to watch, and continue to speak her name until justice is finally served.

Justice for Cassie Carli. 💜🌻

05/29/2026

A hearing that was previously scheduled for July has now been moved up to June 18 at 1:30 PM in Anniston, Alabama.

This hearing will focus on Marcus Spanevelo’s attempt to block the Government from seeking the death penalty. The judge has ordered both sides to file additional briefs and address key issues before the hearing.

After all these years, all the delays, and all the waiting, I find myself thinking something I haven’t thought in a while:

I kind of want to be there for this one.

I don’t know yet whether Marcus himself will be in the courtroom, but I know this hearing matters. Every filing matters. Every step matters.

We’ll continue to follow this case, read every document, and stand for Cassie every step of the way.

June 18.

💜

05/26/2026

I haven’t posted in weeks.

But all day today Cassie has been heavy on my mind. Heavy on my heart.

This morning I posted about missing her without even knowing why the grief felt louder today. Then tonight I checked the docket because something in me just wouldn’t settle… and sure enough, new court documents had been filed.

Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe grief just has its own language.

But sometimes it feels like the people we love still find ways to pull at us when something important is happening.

Missing you extra today, Cassie. 🌻💔💜

05/26/2026

I don’t even know why but today feels heavy. Missing you Cassie Carli. 💔🫶🏻🌻