Free Republic

The brother and sister of missing Modesto woman Laci Peterson appeared on the "Today Show" Monday to talk about the continuing search and their feelings toward Laci's husband. Brent Rocha and Amy Rocha (pictured, right) said that they continue to struggle for answers as to what happened to Laci. "I think it has been a difficult process," Brent Rocha said. "We've taken it in phases. In the beginning, when she first went missing, I think friends and family just really focused on getting the word out. And then as time went by, I think that reality set in that the...

MODESTO, Calif. -- Modesto police say that their search of the home of a missing pregnant woman Tuesday has not led to a big break in the case, but that they will return to the home of Laci Peterson Wednesday to continue the search. Modeseto Detective Doug Ridenour is downplaying Tuesday's daylong search at the house. He said unspecified new discoveries led officers to return to the home. Investigators removed dozens of bags and boxes of potential evidence from the house Tuesday, and they also drove away with Scott Peterson's new truck, which was later returned. Detectives with gloves had...

<p>MERCED -- A Merced County grand jury has indicted two Gustine dairy employees on manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men in a manure pit nearly two years ago.</p> <p>District Attorney Gordon Spencer said Thursday that the indictment will be made public today after authorities arrest the two men, who work at Aguiar-Faria Dairy.</p>

Modesto, CA -[Missing pregnant woman] Laci Peterson's family fired another salvo at her husband Scott during interviews on two national cable shows Tuesday night, demanding he answer both their questions and those of Modesto investigators.Meanwhile a source with inside information about the case told KTVU's Ted Rowlands that Scott Peterson continued to be the focus in the case.The source added that even without a body an arrest 'could come in a matter of weeks, not months.'On FOX News Tuesday night, Ron Grantski-Laci's Stepfather--demanded that Scott answer all the family questions surrounding his possible involvement in Laci's disappearance on Christmas Eve.

<p>Shepard Smith just had a live report from on the spot in Modesto and the reported said that according to the Modesto Bee and a Sacremento TV station that Scott had checked out of a Mexican hotel on Wednesday when his Agriculture conference was Sunday.</p>

News 10 is now discussing Modesto City Council's meeting agenda on weather a licenced CC permit council member should be able to have a weapon with him at city council meetings. Matter is to slated be discussed at next council meeting.

KFI Radio broadcasters John Kobelt and Ken Chiampou reported at 5:45 P.M. on Friday that Longview, Washington police have completed a review of security tapes at Sinnett's Market Place where a store clerk claims to have waited on Laci Peterson, missing from Modesto, California since December 24th. The police report having seen no one resembling Mrs. Peterson on the tapes reviewed for a time period from December 24 through January. Most of the people seen on the tapes were identified as local residents. Police expressed interest in reinterviewing the clerk. The broadcast report included an interview with a news reporter...

Modbee.comSearch circles back to valley January 13, 2003 Posted: 06:25:09 AM PST By PATRICK GIBLIN BEE STAFF WRITER The effort to find Laci Peterson shifted back to the Northern San Joaquin Valley on Sunday, 24 hours after an intensive search of the San Francisco Bay turned up only a boat anchor. Rural areas of Merced and San Joaquin counties were searched Sunday by law enforcement officers in the case of the missing 27-year-old pregnant woman who vanished Christmas Eve. Modesto police said they will continue to search in the coming days but won't disclose details about where the investigation is...

MODBEE.COMLooking west toward Alcatraz Island from the restored Berkeley pier, you can see the old pier stretching out into San Francisco Bay. AL GOLUB/THE BEE Susan Caudillo, center, sister of Scott Peterson, and Kim McGregor, a neighbor of the Petersons, watch as Laci Peterson's brother, Brent Rocha, is interviewed on KFIV 1360 AM on Friday morning in Modesto. JOAN BARNETT LEE/THE BEE Divers set to renew search in SF Bay January 11, 2003 Posted: 04:55:09 AM PST By TY PHILLIPS and PATRICK GIBLIN Divers plan to return to San Francisco Bay today to determine if an object found two days...

Unable to retrieve today; may be a body.

MODBEE.COMAlameda County personnel return from the search on San Francisco Bay near the Berkeley Marina on Thursday. A Christmas tree lies discarded in front of the Peterson house in Modesto's La Loma area Thursday. AL GOLUB/THE BEE Object spied in bay January 10, 2003 Posted: 04:55:08 AM PST By PATRICK GIBLIN and JOHN COTÉ The Laci Peterson investigation turned grim Thursday with the discovery of one body and possibly another in San Francisco Bay. Authorities pulled only one body from the water, and it was not Peterson's, Modesto police quickly determined. Then, at 6:30 p.m., police announced that a sonar...

As the widespread search for Laci Peterson continued Monday, nine divers spent a second consecutive day focusing on a small section of Lake Tulloch. Sheriff's divers from Stanislaus and Calaveras counties concentrated in the area under O'Byrnes Ferry Bridge at the border of Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. Patrick Kelly, a member of the Stanislaus dive team, said he didn't know whether a tip or evidence might have pointed investigators to Tulloch, but nothing had been found there so far. Police did not return calls seeking comment about the Lake Tulloch search effort Monday. At an afternoon news conference, police said...

<p>For almost two weeks, more than 1,000 people have signed up to pass out fliers or to search neighborhoods for Laci Peterson, the pregnant woman who disappeared Christmas Eve.</p> <p>Most of the volunteers have never met each other, nor have they met Peterson. Yet they are so dedicated that their work has reached from Modesto west to the Bay Area, east to Yosemite National Park, north to Sacramento and as far south as Mexico.</p>

<p>MODESTO - He shuns the daily press briefings, the cameras and the numerous requests for interviews. No Larry King. No Connie Chung. No ``Good Morning America.''</p> <p>Instead, every morning Scott Peterson slips quietly through the double glass doors of the Red Lion Hotel and walks down the hallway, past the atrium with a pool and a gazebo, past the poster advertising a $500,000 award for the safe return of his wife, Laci Peterson. He enters a makeshift command center for volunteers and works quietly, answering e-mails, making phone calls, talking to volunteers.</p>

<p>A burglary across the street from Laci Peterson's home had nothing to do with the Modesto woman's disappearance, police confirmed Friday.</p> <p>The announcement coincided with police saying they had arrested two suspects in the burglary and determined that they were not involved in the missing-person case.</p>

<p>Modesto police on Thursday asked the public for help corroborating the story of a Modesto man who reported his pregnant wife missing Christmas Eve.</p> <p>Police released photos of Scott Peterson's truck, boat and boat trailer, asking anyone who saw Laci Peterson's husband the two days before Christmas to call the Police Department.</p>

<p>Modesto police on Thursday asked the public to help verify the whereabouts of Scott Peterson, the husband of a pregnant woman missing for more than a week.</p> <p>Police released pictures of a pickup truck, boat and boat trailer they impounded from Laci Peterson's husband, and asked the public to tell them if they saw Scott Peterson before Christmas.</p>

A week after Laci Peterson disappeared, Modesto police said Tuesday that foul play had become the main focus of the investigation. Detective Jon Buehler said other possibilities had not been ruled out. But, he said, "as we continue to profile Laci's background, gather witness statements, recognize her close relationship with family and friends, investigate the circumstances of her disappearance, and in view of the timing with the holiday season, it is becoming more apparent that her disappearance is the result of foul play." Police spokesman Doug Ridenour said: "We are hopeful that we will find her alive. But seven days...

Laci Peterson left her home in a car, not by foot, the handler of a bloodhound used in the search for the missing 27-year-old Modesto woman told detectives. Peterson, who is 8 1/2 months pregnant, disappeared Christmas Eve. Since then, hundreds of volunteers and police officers have searched parks, neighborhoods, fields, rivers and streams. A $500,000 reward has been offered for her safe return. Her husband, Scott Peterson, told police he last saw her at 9:30 a.m. as she prepared to walk the family's golden retriever in East La Loma Park. He said he was leaving on a fishing day...

Investigators expanded their hunt for clues Friday to a warehouse used by the Modesto man whose pregnant wife has been missing since Christmas Eve. Also, police and FBI crime-scene analysts spent a second day working inside the La Loma neighborhood home that belongs to the missing woman, Laci Peterson, 27, and her husband, Scott, 30. The warehouse, which Peterson uses in his work as an agricultural salesman, is on North Emerald Avenue near Kansas Avenue in Modesto. Police sealed the warehouse as well as the Peterson home. In other developments: Modesto and Berkeley police went to a marina on San...