Thanks Maggie. The area search dogs are trained to look for *humans* and not necessarily with a scwnt article. So Twist was down by Dry Creek looking for "any lost human".
Since Laci was not hiding in the boat, Twist didn't hit. Makes sense to me. Either that or I'm getting dog tired.
You know there is a lot of information on the attempt to crosstrain these dogs. But keeping them all straight and which do what,I am just too tired tonight to comptempate it anymore :)
I guess we will have to wait to the preliminary to get all the information we need on these dogs and their trainers.
More about Twist and OTHER things:
"Peterson Defense: Laci's Body Never In Boat
October 16, 2003
MODESTO, Calif. -- On the eve of a court hearing, Scott Peterson's defense team submitted a filing late Thursday claiming that an investigator 'willfully omitted' evidence that allegedly proved the body of Laci Peterson was never in her husband's boat.
According to the filing, the defense believes that the prosecution's claim that Laci Peterson's lifeless body was placed in Scott Peterson's boat and dumped in the San Francisco Bay off the Berkeley Marina on Christmas Eve day is pivotal to the case against the Modesto fertilizer salesman.
Kirk McAllister, a member of Peterson's defense team, asked the court for a 'Franks Hearing' on the alleged omission.
A 'Franks Hearing' is simply an evidentiary hearing on a motion to suppress evidence based on a challenge to the facts included or omitted from a search warrant.
In the filing, McAllister claims that a cadaver dog named Twist was placed in the boat by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team and failed to 'alert' -- to signal that a scent of Laci Peterson had been detected.
"This information was purposely omitted from the search warrant affidavits because it destroys the theory on which the prosecution has based its case," McAllister stated in the filing.
He added that such an omission "fatally undermines a finding of probable cause." McAllister went even further to claim that the "prosecution's own investigation proved that Laci Peterson's body was never in Scott Peterson's boat."
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A preliminary hearing in the case was scheduled to begin Monday but several reports say that the defense team will ask for at least a one-week delay at Friday's hearing.
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http://www.ktvu.com/news/2560743/detail.html