He’s kinda cute actually.
Wait - this just in: Looks like the Peterson case is going downhill fast!
I originally “heard” about this case on a message board for expecting mothers - you can imagine why it was watched in that crew.
Since then, I haven’t heard a thing. I get my news from NPR, and about the only TV I watch is The Wiggles, and neither has made mention of it.
Yesterday at the gym, I saw something about it on the huge TV screens in the cardio room, but I wasn’t listening to the sound. I was surprised and disappointed that it was still getting coverage nationwide.
As far as I can tell, the only reason we know about this case is that the victim was *all * of the following: white, rich, pretty, and pregnant.
Bingo.
I’m sick and tired of it too, and the worst things is that I can’t get away from it, because I live in Northern California.
Me too. It’s always nice to see a local make it big, but this isn’t usually what I have in mind.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: God I’m tired of hearing this. SO FUCKING WHAT?
Does that take anything away from the fact that she was viciously murdered?
White- No. She was not. She was hispanic. Her husband is white.
Rich- No. They were on the verge of bankruptcy. Try to pay attention. They. Were. Not. Rich. Are you telling me because she lived in suburbia, she must have been rolling in dough? Get a grip.
Pretty- Hell, you’re right. She was! OMG!! The nerve of that woman!
Pregnant- And your point would be?
Try to knock back that cynicism dial a bit, huh?
Look, I know everyone thinks he’s guilty, because if he’s not, why would the police have arrested him. Besides, I heard with my own ears, presented as evidence, the fact that Scott Peterson’s favorite movie was The Shining . All the reporters wrote it down, the print and video media reported it, so it has to be significant. Then there was the hair they found on the pliers, only it belonged to one of the crime scene technicians. There was the boat Laci never heard about, but eyewitnesses say she was seen on board. There was the life insurance Scott forced her to buy, that insurance agent says it was his idea, and that Laci wanted to buy more, but Scott didn’t agree.
I don’t know if he killed her or not, and neither do you. This whole case has been tried by the prosecution in the media. They run to the press with every theory and circumstantial piece of “evidence” they come up with, and then look like idiots when it turns out to be premature. The investigators in this case couldn’t find a fart at a bean eating contest. Other than adultery, which only includes what, 100 million Americans, what has he been proven to be guilty of?
I never said he was. In fact, I said the evidence was circumstantial, and they haven’t come up with anything better than “He talked with his mistress every day.”
My point was that it shouldn’t matter what the victim’s social standing was, or what she looked like. Anyone who is brutally murdered, as she was, deserves to have their murderer brought to justice.
Hispanics aren’t white? Well they can be, depends how you define it. ie, Ramon Estevez aka President Bartlett aka Martin Sheen.
I think the media is “forcing” DAs to make bad cases. You watch these cold case shows where prosecutors didn’t make cases and years later justice was served. Seems like that’s what should have happened here.
But then Petersen starts running for the border. Did that force their hand? Good strategy for suspects, pretend to run…
Tell ya what. Tell my brother in law and my ex husband they’re white. See how they take it. I’ll just stand about fifty yards back or so. 
Yeah, running for the border of Mexico with someone else’s ID, bleach blond hair, camping equipment and lots of water did not look too good.
Definitely. Someone earlier asked why he was arrested if that’s all the evidence the prosecution had. That’s why.
I’ll say, even considering that I’m not sitting in the courtroom every day, being exposed to all the evidence, if Amber Frey is actually the real star witness of the prosecution, then whether or not Petersen did it, the prosecution is in big trouble.
Yeah, count me in as getting sick of hearing about it every day over and over. The media must get listeners out of this crap or they would not do it to such an extent. I do think that he may have a good chance at getting off because I think that he may have done it but the evidence does not seem that convincing.
Maureen, points taken, but it doesn’t really address the thrust of my post.
My point is that very frequently, all over our land, both men and women are murdered. How come there isn’t national media coverage of the recent murder of Karla Patricia Chavez, in my town?
And I’m in no way saying that her murder is any less horrific or that the killer (don’t know if it’s her husband or not) shouldn’t be punished. My point is that if we tried to care deeply about every murder in the United States, we’d run into sympathy fatigue very quickly. Therefore, typically, such stories are rarely of interest outside the immediate community.
Yet for some reason news outlet latched on to this story. And the reason seems rather base: (I probably should have reversed my statement above.) If you are black, poor, or ugly, evidently the national media don’t care if you get murdered.
Nitpick: She is white, her family is of Portugese descent. Not uncommon in the Central Valley and SoCal.
Any idea how many hours this Atty. Geragos has billed for? I assume that he charges around 400-500 $/hour.
Scott Peterson’s parents will probably lose their house. Of course, if their darling son is acquitted, there will probably be a book/movie deal!
I was going to point that out, but I figured, what’s it worth? Hispanic could also apply to Portugese. On most race-based forms I think it says “Hispanic(not of Latino descent),” or something to that nature.
BTW, I have a hispanic last name, am of Portugese decent, and am very familiar with the confusion of race in our society(as I pick up the phone and listen to a Spanish-speaking telemarketer).
Sam
Agreed. And what sucks worse is that without that national coverage, the possibility of getting the murderer to trial seems to decrease exponentially.
ralph124c, there was a made for TV movie on the victim network (USA or Lifetime, I forget which) that my mother in law SWEARS made her believe in Scott Peterson’s innocence. :rolleyes:
That, and the body turned up something like 90 miles from where she disappeared but only 2 miles from where her husband was on the day she vanished, after her body was apparently dumped in a stretch of water he’d been researching on the internet for a fishing trip he only decided to go on at the last minute though he’d bought a 2 day permit for Dec 23 and 24 several weeks earlier, despite having told people both before and after that he was golfing that day.
The prosecution is doing a lousy job of presenting the evidence, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him walk. I still find it easier to believe that an unhappily married man killed his wife to be with his mistress than to believe that someone else kidnapped and killed a nobody from the suburbs and then monitored the news to find where the husband’s alibi put him so they could dump the body there and frame him, or even that the husband being at the body dumping location was just a lucky coincidence for the “Real Killer(s)”.
Bill Door, got a cite on the hair belonging to the technician and the sighting of Laci on the boat? I haven’t heard either of those before and would like to know more. I have heard about the controversy over the one bagged hair turning into two but thought the absence of a root meant they could only determine that it was consistant with Laci’s hair, and with a large percentage of the population’s hair too. I hadn’t heard that she’d been seen on his boat, only that she’d been to the warehouse where he kept the boat - hidden or not - and that it was inconclusive when trying to determine if that meant she knew about the boat because it was obscured from view and she was heavily pregnant so not likely to have climbed around to find it.
Not a big deal, it’s just that normally “Hispanic” is normally used in the context of peopel from Mexico, South America, Cuba, Pueurto Rico, and… you know we should just start calling ourselves people. Less and less are geographic discriptors an accurate way of building a picture of a person.
Actually, Latinos are from South America and Mexico, and Hispanics are from Spain(and depending on your definition, Portugal).
Sam