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"Seems awfully funny that any burglar would just take a maternity outfit. Even if the burglar was a "clothes thief", why wouldn't he have taken all the clothes? Frankly, I've never heard of a burglar taking clothes, period."

The clothes are also important for another reason. I believe (not 100% sure) that Scott reported that Laci was wearing black leggings and a white top when he left. Many, if not all, of the witnesses who saw her walking the dog reported her wearing black leggings. We've talked extensively on this forum about how memories can be faulty. If the witnesses said they saw her with black leggings that's a problem for Geragos. If Amy reports she was wearing the cream leggings, the cream leggings were missing from the house, and she was found in the cream leggings, Scott has a real problem. Of course, one could argue that she was abducted in black leggings, held by someone, and, while being held, changed into cream leggings. Any jury, however, is going to find that highly unlikely.

There's an FBI notice out there somewhere (I think hergus has it) which describes Laci as wearing black pants and a white top. Scott is the person who provided this information to the FBI. And you can bet that whatever FBI personnel took that report from Scott will be available to say, "He told me she was wearing black pants and a white top when he last saw her."

And there's the question of a coat. People have pointed out that Scott never said Laci would have been wearing a coat (when she "went missing"), or pointed out her coats to anyone. But I notice that we now hear that it was indeed chilly enough that Laci was wearing a coat the evening before, when Amy saw her.

If Laci was killed by Scott after they got home, I imagine that coat would be found in the closet. (Which, I guess, proves nothing.)

As soon as that burglary happened in January (while Scott was away, looking for Laci near the Super Bowl, in San Diego), I knew that the burglary would become an arrow in the defense's quiver. It adds an element of "unknown" into the case. "Ladies and gentlemen, when the house was broken into, how do we know WHAT the burglar might have touched, or taken? These items could be anywhere!"