I’d like to hear from some area Dopers…is Peterson keeping his cool? Has Atty. Geragos brought forward any bombshells? Like his assertion about Laci being done in a by a pack of crazed satanists?
And, as the gory evidence is shown in court, have any of laci’s relatives broken down?
I wonder how long the trial will go on for? I’d be willing to bet that Scott’sparents will winfd up living in a trailor park (they mortgaged their house to pay the legal bills).
They found out that Laci’s former boyfriend, William Kent Gain, is in prison for attempted murder of a later girlfriend. William and Laci went to the prom together, and later he shot his girlfriend in the back with a .44 bullet in an arguement with her. To have 2 consecutive boyfriends atttmpt murder of a girlfriend is quite a coincidence.
http://www.findlaci2003.us/ne-7-8-03-inmate.html
They also found out that Laci DID know of the affair with Amber before she disappeared, and that it was not something that Laci would end the marraige over- just as Scott said last year.
Laci also knew of a couple of other affairs that Scott had while they were married, and they didnt affect their marraige either.
They also found out that Laci hated her car and wanted to get rid of it, so the idea that Scott was selling it made sense.
They also found out that Laci was pawning her jewelry herself before she disappeared, so again, nothing unusual.
Also, a former prosecuter, called police before Laci disappeared to say she that shehad death threats on her life , she looked like Laci and was pregnant like Laci, around the same time, and walked a dog like Laci with the same name as Laci’s dog and in the same neighborhood.
The prosecution’s case ends this week, and since William couldnt have killed Laci, everyone knows Scott did it, but the prosecution hasnt proven that the did it. The police never found anything to show that Scott did it.
The strongest evidence against so far that the police have brought forth to link Scott to the crime, is that he went fishing on Christmas eve.
As someone who can’t escape news of this trial, I’d never heard this before, I’ve heard it alleged, got a cite?
To the OP, the most damning peices of info so far are that Laci and the baby’s bodies turned up where Scott was fishing. That it’s pretty much established that Laci didn’t leave the house to walk the dog (the weather was 35 degrees, yet all of her jackets and shoes were accounted for). Also that there appears to be 80lbs or so of missing cement, which Scott claims to have used around the home, but test revealed he didn’t, although they did find concrete dust throughout the home. They’ve also proved through wiretaps (calls with Amber and his family and friends) that Scott can’t be believed if he tells you the sky is blue.
Overall I couldn’t tell you how the jury is going to go. Garragos has done a good job of providing reasons that things that point at Scott’s guilt could have alternate interpretations. If I had to guess I’d say a hung jury.
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They also found out that Laci DID know of the affair with Amber before she disappeared, and that it was not something that Laci would end the marraige over- just as Scott said last year.
It was reported on court tv, Thursday or Friday. It also said that Laci told a girlfriend about the Amver affair, as well as the others, and that she did not tell her mother of those affairs, which discredits her mother saying that Laci would have told her mother.
As far as the bodies, if I killed Laci by mistake for that prosecutor, the best place to dump her body would be the bay where all the news stations were saying is where Scott Petterson was at and where the police were dragging the bottom in order to pin the crime on him and get me off scott free. If you discount that the real murderer moved the body to the bay to fram Scott, then the rest of the prosecutor’s case is extremely flimsey.
It would be pretty stupid for Scott Peterson to dump the body in the place where his alibi was. IF Scott killed Laci and if he had any brains, he would have buried Laci in the desert if his excuse was that he was in the Bay.
I agree that Scott is a liar, but all married men who have affairs, or try to pick up women are liars. If we could somehow force all men in the United States not/never to lie when they pick up women, then Scott’s lying could be used as proof of a crime.
That’s weird, I’m a Court TV junkie, and I completely missed that, but I’ll take your word for it.
The major problem with that theory is that by the time it was widely reported of where Scotts alibi had placed him, there was a heavy police presence there looking for the bodies.
That’s true enough, but he’d told other people he had went golfing instead of fishing, so he may have been trying for a dfferent alibi at first.
I dont think there was any police presence at night- it would be easy for the real killer who was really after the prosecutor to dump Laci’s body at nite without anyone seeing you do it.
If he was not going to use the fishing as an excuse, then why get and keep gas and admission receipts proving that you drove to the bay and docked a boat?
I also know people who fish every Christmas eve in Florida - it is a great thing to do before having to do the family thing, and to avoid all the crowds, if you dont have to go to the store to finish your shopping. What else are you going to do during the day on Christmas eve if you have finished your shopping?
It’s a nice theory, whether it’ll fly who knows. I guess we’ll have to see what happens when Garragos put on his case in cheif. But that prosecutor was one of I think one of several women who were Laci clones that walked their dogs in the same park. That the police were notified about that potential lead in the early stages leads me to belive they must have checked it out, though I couod be wrong.
As for fishing, again :shrug: It was pretty cold here in the Bay Area and there were tons more closer places to go fishing than the bay, I in fact go fishing pretty often near Modesto. There are a lot of deltas out that way as well as a couple of lakes and a reservoir I believe. As for keeping receipts, that in itself seemed a little odd since he could have launched his boat for free a couple of blocks away. Additionally Scott was susposed to be running errands that day, one of his messages on his call back to Modesto was to “ask” Laci to pick up something he was susposed t have picked up earlier that day.
Crap, I can’t believe how much I know about this case.
Thanks for the info…the only thing not clear to me is this: How did Scott manage to carry the body into his truck and load it into the boat, without anyone seeing anything? Presumably, he did it in the early morning hors, or late at night. A murderer always loses something, however, which is why most of them return to the scene of the crime (to pick up what they have lost). Peterson’s trips back to the bay…was he concerned that the body would bloat up and eventually float to the surface?
And his paln to escape 9to Mexico)…how does Geragos explain this? The bleaching of the hair and growing a goatee wre just a tad suspicious.
Of course, I was really EAGER tolearn about those Bay-Area satanists (who murder babies)! :eek:
I disagree that they proved Laci knew. This information came from Scott’s half-sister, and was her recollection of a conversation she had with SCOTT, not with Laci. No one has ever shown that Laci knew about Amber, no one has ever testified that Laci told them she knew about Amber.
Cite.
As for it being something she wouldn’t end the marriage over… she forgave him once before, that does not mean that it can be assumed that she would forgive him every time.
If he went fishing and used a fishing licence he’d purchased in advance for that day, then why did he tell Laci’s sister beforehand that he planned to go golfing, and why did he tell family members and neighbours afterwards that he’d been golfing?
This would only prove that Scott was stupid, not that he didn’t do it. Goodness knows that the pages of criminal history are filled with bonehead blunders that would make this pale in comparison.
Tell me, which scenario do you feel is more likely:
- Someone/some people grabbed an anonymous nobody from the suburbs without anyone noticing them, then kept her (alive or dead) while they watched the media for news of her husband’s alibi (without even knowing for sure that such a thing would be reported - most missing persons don’t get that much coverage). Once the husband’s alibi was established, they then carted her body 90 miles and loaded it into a boat, dumping it at sea. They took the body there in order to frame the husband, but then they weighted it down and dumped it in a shipping channel, risking the chance that it would never be found which would make all the trouble and risk of taking the body there to frame him pointless.
- A husband who had found a new love interest and wasn’t eager to face the responsibilities of impending fatherhood killed his wife and dumped her body at sea, claiming to have been fishing when she disappeared because he was sure that her body wouldn’t wash up out of the shipping channel he’d dumped her into with concrete weights attached, and perhaps because he thought there was a chance that someone would have noticed him at the marina, or remember NOT noticing him at his first choice of alibi, the golf club.
The day Laci disappeared, Scott decided to move the patio umbrellas to his warehouse. He packed them all up and loaded them in the back of his vehicle, but forgot to unload them at the warehouse and ended up bringing them home again. The prosecution has suggested that Scott loaded the umbrellas into the back of his vehicle to conceal anything that might be under them. I believe it’s also considered likely that Peterson killed Laci in the early morning hours and was able to accomplish a lot under the cover of darkness.
Scott says he changed his appearance because he was trying to avoid the media spotlight, but denies that he was planning to flee to Mexico.
Progress? Not much.
66 day and counting.
Taxpayer’s expense too great and growing daily.
Boring? Yes, very. SameO SameO.
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