Hell, his own testimony put him at the scene where the body was found, many miles from his home. He is incredibly unlucky that his wife’s murderer decided to dump her body at the same place as he claimed to be fishing, or he is as guilty as hell.
And on the same day she was murdered, an extraordinary coincidence…….
“Hell, his own testimony put him at the scene where the body was found, many miles from his home.”
True. But those statements were made at the outset of the case when Laci went missing.
Right at the start Peterson told the Modesto PD that he had been fishing at Emeryville in his small boat. They refused to believe him saying that no one would use such a small boat on the SF Bay. So they made a big show of searching orchards, canals, reservoirs, and etc.
When the Emeryville PD went to search the bay the Modesto PD asked them to stop because it was a distraction.
Then when the two bodies washed ashore in Emeryville the Modesto PD were all, “AH_HA!!! WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG!” and pretended that their previous assertions had never existed.
Some people forgot all of that but I did not.
The fact that a body washes up in a particular place does not mean it was put in the water there, especially if a lot of time has passed, which seems to be the situation in this case (about which I know very little).
So, his wife went missing at the end of December, and the body washed up in April. A body can travel a long way in the currents in that amount of time.
Not saying anything about his guilt, just that his saying that when she went missing he was at the place where 3 or 4 months later her body washed up does not indicate anything at all.
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So he was fishing, came home and found his pregnant wife was not there, and put his clothes in the washing machine.
Under other circumstances, he would have been praised for being considerate to his wife!