# New Flash! Laci Peterson KilledBy satanists! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660 "2003-05-16T12:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/1 "2003-05-16T12:51:17Z")
Well, we all knew that Scott Peterson is just a regular guy! Everybody goes fishing Christmas Eve! His goofy defense lawyer has just announced (based upon autopsy reports) that Laci was probably abducted and mutilated by SATANISTS! So, don’t assume your local witch coven/Satan worship group is all that innocent! They could be murdering pregnant women as we speak! I KNEW Scott wasinnocent…he has such an honest face! By the way, where can I attend a “black Mass”? I’ve always wanted to see what satanists did at these affairs!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/2 "2003-05-16T13:42:57Z")
OK. So, on the one hand you complain about the lawyer’s claim that Laci Peterson was probably murdered by Satanists. You’re right. That’s idiotic. But on the other hand, you imply that Scott is guilty because, you know, he looks guilty. Not exactly the most scientific proposition is it? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/3 "2003-05-16T13:48:28Z")
Yeah, but going fishing alone on Christmas eve has got to be (even if true) the worst fucking alibi EVER. That said, this will probably be a difficult case to prosecute. ---
**Author:** ![Boo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Boo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/4 "2003-05-16T13:53:04Z")
actually, it would be a great time to go fishing…you’d be the only boat out there. Maybe Scott was an active christian…I haven’t seen any stories saying he even went to church at all. Maybe he is jewish? or maybe an atheist? ---
**Author:** ![Boo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Boo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/5 "2003-05-16T13:55:57Z")
typo - meant “maybe scott wasn’t an active christain.” ---
**Author:** ![Summertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Summertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Summertime)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/6 "2003-05-16T13:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ralph124c \* > \*\* > So, don’t assume your local witch coven/Satan worship group is all that innocent! \*\* um, they’re _not._ You think satanists have any morals or would consider it a sin to kill someone or some animal? Of course, i doubt thats how Laci was killed, but I wanted to hi jack. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/7 "2003-05-16T13:59:52Z")
Didn’t the workers at the marina say they didn’t remember Scott there? I recall people saying that he obviously didn’t go fishing but was home murdering Saint Laci and her unborn child. Now with her body in the water he had to go ‘fishing’, right? If he was the only person fishing then they would have remembered them. If it was soooooo unusual to go fishing on Christmas Eve why would the marina even be open? **Boo** , if he isn’t a Christian he should be declared a forien combatant and dragged off to an undisclosed location for some true justice. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/8 "2003-05-16T14:01:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Yeah, but going fishing alone on Christmas eve has got to be (even if true) the worst fucking alibi EVER. \*\* Agreed. My point is simply this. If you’re gonna complain about someone else’s idiotic reasoning, you might want to shy away from other reasoning that’s also pretty idiotic. Like the ever popular “He looks guilty” excuse. If were going to talk about this, can we please stick to the facts? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/9 "2003-05-16T14:05:18Z")
I’m still waiting to find out what ol’ SP’s answer was to the obvious question: [list][li]Detective: So, Mr. Peterson; where were you on December 24?[/li][li]Peterson: Heck, copper; I was at the marina where I go fishing all the time.[/li][li]Detective: Can you prove that?[/li][li]Peterson: Of course. Here’s the receipt for the parking lot.[/li][li]Detective: Cool! Got any of the other receipts?[/li][/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/10 "2003-05-16T14:24:54Z")
Other receipts for what? Bait? Maybe he doesn’t use live bait. Beer? Maybe he brought some from home. I dunno is there anything else you need for fishing? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/11 "2003-05-16T14:28:50Z")
I believe, **Zebra, Monty** is suggesting that they should have asked if he had his reciepts for all the other times he went fishing or did he only think to keep this one. IIRC, the boat was new, I also don’t know if this conversation that **Monty** relates actually happened, or if so, when (so for example, if it happened the same time he had reported her missing, it’d not be unusual at all to still have the reciept from that same day/day before) ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/12 "2003-05-16T14:49:09Z")
Or maybe he’s a receipt-keeper. My ex-roommate would be buried in them, huge boxes stacked one upon the other. I would love to be on the jury for this trial, strictly out of prurient interest. It will be fascinating. Do Satanists really exist? Have they ever, beyond the “disaffected teen” demographic? I’ve always heard rumors but it seems strange that I never meet a satanist, or meet someone who knows one. Satanist is very different from Pagan, right? ---
**Author:** ![Summertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Summertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Summertime)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/13 "2003-05-16T14:50:06Z")
I’ve known 2, personally. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/14 "2003-05-16T14:53:44Z")
I don’t believe there has ever been any proven case of a murder traced back to Satanists. Most crime linked to Satanic organizations tends to be of the inverted-pentacle-spray-painted-on-someone-else’s-wall variety. ---
**Author:** ![Boo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Boo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/15 "2003-05-16T15:06:13Z")
the marina was closed (business office) but they had two people working the marina at the time. I guess it is always staffed they saw someone who looked like scott by himself and asked if he needed anything…he said no… I beleive that came from a report I read on [foxnews.com](http://foxnews.com) ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/16 "2003-05-16T15:16:48Z")
[Here you go, **stolichnaya**.](http://www.religioustolerance.org/satanism.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/17 "2003-05-16T15:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Summertime \* > \*\*um, they’re _not._ > You think satanists have any morals or would consider it a sin to kill someone or some animal? > \*\* Are you telling us that religious folk, because of their morals, would never kill or harm any person or animal? Are you saying that anybody who isn’t religious is able to kill without remorse? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/18 "2003-05-16T16:40:54Z")
Well they are _Satanists_, and the stereotypical portrayal of them would be, um, people who worship Satan - and how angelic can you be when your god is known as the Lord of the Flies, Prince of Darkness, and Father of Lies? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/19 "2003-05-16T16:45:40Z")
Of course, now that I’ve read the [ReligiousTolerance.org](http://ReligiousTolerance.org) website, I’m seeing these would be, of course, _inaccurate_ portrayals of genuine Satanists, who are basically pagans, not worshippers of the Christian version of the Devil. But the myth persists in mainstream America - as I’ve just proven. 🙂 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660/20 "2003-05-16T17:15:50Z")
I just realized that Peterson’s lawyer is the same guy who defended (got off) Winona Ryder for shoplifting in Beverly Hills! I thought that defense was most creative! (Remember, she claimed to be doing research for an upcoming movie role, in which she would play a kleptomaniac. This guyis good! I can’t wait to see the farce(trial) begin! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-flash-laci-peterson-killedby-satanists/175660.md?page=2)