DNA Dispute In Laci Case

CBS News ^ | Oct 30, 2003

[Jackie-O]

Night's out with Amber, LOL! Yes it could be quite costly to live a double life...dinners, motels, gifts, x-tra cell phones, PO Boxes, storage facilities, and so on.

[Cloe]

That is what I had thought - but now I am not so sure.

[Cloe]

I had wondered about the jewelry too - maybe he had taken some, sold it and bought the boat.And maybe Laci had discovered it missing on Dec.23rd.

[Canadian Outrage]

YES, I do, without her legs being taped together, it would have been a "normal" coffin birth imo.

[Sandylapper]

Did MPD behave properly when they took the mops? Did they tell Scott that we think there may be evidence here that there's been foul play, and you are naturally a suspect? Did they properly document what they were thinking/doing? I just don't think any defense attorney is going to let that one slide.

[Velveeta]

It seems so wrong to think that SP could have killed his lovely, pregnant wife....I hear where you're coming from.

But, there's so much information out there about SP's own behavior and we watched him ourselves. The cops were whispering to each other right off the bat. Didn't know what he was fishing for? No bait? We don't yet know if he had the pole or not.

OK, let's say I'm going to TRY very hard to believe his story:

*SP says he told Laci he was going fishing in a boat that he says WAS going to be a surprise for her the next day because it was too cold to golf, but plenty warm enough to fish. (Right off the bat, I've got a problem with those but I'll let it pass for now)

*Says he left at 9:30am to stop at the office and then go fishing. (Actually stopped at secret warehouse first to pick up the boat and then went to his office warehouse)

*Says he launched around 12:00 and fished for a couple hours. Let's say until 2:00pm. During that time, he calls his dad when he's supposedly out on the lake and never says "Hey Dad, I'm fishing".

*Says he called Laci twice around 2:00pm when he finished fishing cause it was cold.

*Gets home around 4:30-5:00pm. Now it should dawn on him that Laci's cell phone and purse are at home. She has NOT retrieved the message he left her on either the cell OR the home phone. At this point, this innocent man knows that it's highly unusual for the dog to be in the yard with it's leash on. At this point he can deduce that Laci hasn't been around for almost 3 hours (if we calculate just from his attempted call). Her car is there, it doesn't smell like the Christmas cookies that he said she was going to bake. He must be curious.

What does he do??????

Eats some pizza cause HE'S hungry.
Takes a shower cause HE'S dirty.
Starts laundry cause HIS clothes are stinky.
Empties a laundry bucket.
THEN FREAKS OUT and calls his mother-in-law saying "LACI'S MISSING!!!"

He calls all Laci's friends.
He calls their neighbors.
He DOES NOT call ANYONE in HIS family. Did he call his brothers? NO. Did he call his sisters? NO. Did he call his parents? NO!

Why not? Can you give me a reasonable excuse for him NOT calling anyone in HIS family? He had just talked to his dad a few hours ago. Why not call his family?

[Jackie-O]

I guess we will see if they will enter this mop evidence..I think that's why the Pros. covered theri asses in the cross by asking the Det. if Snott willingly let them take the mop and bucket.

[Sandylapper]

Anse, I perked up when I heard the Carroll story. Now, it might be total BS, but since I'm totally looking for ANYONE AND ALL, who might have had a hand in "who killed Laci and Conner", I just can't summarily dismiss all that I've heard on TV about Carroll, Dirty and Skeeter, and I believe the ball is in the DA's court to tell us if there is a connection. If I'm suspicious of anyone and everyone's "behavior" at this point, it's not just Scott's Peterson's. Sorry, for me, that has to include MPD's reluctance to say or tell us "ANYTHING". We're just supposed to "trust" them implicitly, no questions asked?

[Sandylapper]

FWIW, I believe he had an expense account and would have "expensed" his nights out on the town with Amber.

[Sandylapper]

If a family member smelled it, and MPD didn't detect it, what would that say to us? That MPD was reacting to the family's say-so very early?

[Sandylapper]

That's a possibility, Cloe! But I still want to know if Amber (per chance) called the Peterson home on the 23rd, and for the life of me and in the interest of justice, I don't understand why it's such a deep, dark secret!

[Jackie-O]

I'm not done reading your post yet but right off the bat I see something very important..
He tells everyone he is going golfing, but goes fishing instead...
Did he tell Laci he was going fishing or golfing?? Why would he not tell his 8 mo. pregnant wife where he was going, especially if he was driving 90 minutes away, when his wife was not feeling well, fatigued and swollen.
There goes the x-mas surprise..he sure would have told his wife he was going fishing, wouldn't he? I wonder if anyone asked him that?

[Velveeta]

Right. He can't have it both ways. He can't say that the boat was "going" to be a surprise, AND that he told her he was going fishing in the same breath. It doesn't compute.

[Sandylapper]

*Says he left at 9:30am to stop at the office and then go fishing. (Actually stopped at secret warehouse first to pick up the boat and then went to his office warehouse)

Is that a documented fact, Vel? That the boat was definitely at the "secret warehouse"? Could he have actually backed that boat into the "secret warehouse"? I don't know that! Don't think I've seen a pic of the "secret warehouse".

THEN FREAKS OUT and calls his mother-in-law saying "LACI'S MISSING!!!"

That's not exactly how I understood it. I thought he called Sharon and asked the question, "Is Laci there"? She's says, "no", and he says, something to the effect, "Well, then, Laci is missing".

Vel, I also don't quite get that, if a man were innocent, why he would go outside the parameter of Modesto, and start alerting everyone in San Diego that Laci was "missing" at that particular point in time. Would there be some special reason that Laci went to San Diego and not tell him?

Hey, I've gotta lot of catching up to do! Haven't even been to today's thread!

[Devil_Anse]

That would depend on who reported it to the press. I don't know who reported it to the people who reported it to US!

I know it's almost a cliche that cops supposedly are sloppy all the time, and don't care if they frame people, but really, sometimes things are exactly as they seem. IMO, that's pretty much the case here. They had/have no motivation to frame this 2-bit manure salesman. I'm sure they'd never even heard of him b/f.

[Devil_Anse]

I don't think Tradecorp gave him an expense allowance. That's never been how it's worked with any of the reps I've known. (Obviously, the reps I've known repped for other things.) As a matter of fact, the reps I've known had to even pay for their own samples. They made up for all this stuff by having a lot of tax deductible things. And the field can be very lucrative.

But in order to have the deduction, of course, you still must spend the money! I don't think Tradecorp was paying for Scott's sales/social things.

[Devil_Anse]

Very well expressed!!!

[Devil_Anse]

Hey, Carroll and Tony-Dirty and Anthony-Skeeter (or was one of them Doug?) may well exist, and maybe they are involved.

BUT to me it all adds up the same b/c the Carroll story, if true, still implicates Scott in murder for hire, which is CAPITAL murder. For that reason, proving/disproving the existence of their plot does not change it for me from trying to find out if Scott alone killed her.

[Devil_Anse]

One thing I don't get is why you seem to trust this Frank Muna and his convict client more than you trust the Modesto cops.

[Devil_Anse]

Greta VS just said now b/f her commercial: "Why is the defense raising questions about a fax at Scott's warehouse?"

Obviously she's talking about his work warehouse, not his secret one. What's this about, I wonder?