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Dec 23rd National Enquirer. (Thanks to Rickamorti at Purgatory)

Laci was Smothered

by David Wright and Don Gentile

Scott killed Laci in her sleep---cops' chilling evidence!

Scott's strange statement to friend the day Laci disappeared: "if they find blood anywhere, it doesn't mean a thing!

synopsis

When cops searched Scott and Laci's home, they removed several items from the bedroom, and found a pillow that was missing its cover. They now believe Scott used the pillow to kill Laci in her sleep and then took the pillowcase with him when he removed Laci's body and began his detailed cover-up say sources. Tragic Laci died while she slept in her bed- smothered to death with a pillow held over her face by Scott!

Then, after driving to a wharehouse where he'd hidden his boat, he removed Laci's pajamas and redressed her in the tan maternity pants she'd been wearing earlier in the evening.

Finally, Scott pulled tight a drawstring at the waist of the pants and strapped her thighs together with duct tape- in an apparent effort to ensure that Laci's baby would not be born before he dumped her body in San Francisco Bay.

That's the shocking never before disclosed scenario of Laci's death, presented by detectives to prosecutors-and revealed for the first time in the NE. This sensational info, obtained from insiders close to the case-will be used by prosecutors to answer the question all America is asking---How did Laci die?

The NE has learned that police seized chilling evidence from the Peterson bedroom-supporting their contention that the cold blooded killer smothered Laci after she had gone to bed.

Detectives also discovered a pillowcase was missing from the couple's bedding-possibly disposed of by the killer after becoming stained in the struggle.

Investigators became so sure of their horrifying murder scenario that weeks before Laci's body was discovered in April, they informed her family that all the evidence pointed to her being killed in her sleep, reveals a source.

Police believe that when Scott and Laci got home on December 23, they had a fight. "It was physical enough for Scott to suffer cuts and Laci to throw-up," says a source close to the case.

As reported in the NE in March, traces of vomit and specks of blood matching Laci's, were found on a kitchen mop---evidence that the couple had a physical fight and that Scott mopped the floor clean.

"After the confrontation, police believe, Laci got undressed and went to bed-not knowing that minutes later her young life would be cruelly snuffed out," said a source close to the case. But the killer was unable to cover all of his tracks.

"When police got a search warrant for Scott and Laci's house on February 18, they took away a lot of things from the master bedroom, including a white comforter, a blanket, a fitted bottom sheet and a top sheet-- even the ruffles and matress cover.

Detectives made a startling discovery-- a bloodstain that proved to be from Scott on the comforter on the top of the bed, disclosed a source. And in a strange twist, a pillowcase was missing from one of the pillows in the master bedroom. Investigators theorize that Scott got rid of it because it became stained or damaged as he held the pillow over Laci's face. The detectives also found blood on a door frame in the house and in his truck.

Hours after Laci was reported missing Scott told a friend of Laci's mother, Sandy Rickard, "If they find any blood anywhere, that doesn't mean a thing." "Then he added something about getting cut often because he was an outdoorsmen." Sandy thought the remark was very strange because everyone else was still focusing on finding Laci.

Amy Rocha also helped out the detectives on February 18, when she was brought to the house to see if anything was missing. "In a dresser in the master bedroom, Amy found a black maternity blouse like the one Laci had worn to the shop on Dec.23. Oddly it was inside out--as if someone had pulled it off Laci. And it was scrunched up in a ball and on top of other things in Laci's underwear drawer, revealed the close source.

"Amy told detectives that Laci would never have put a dirty blouse on top of her underwear." Then one of the detectives found a grocery bag in a bedroom closet. It contained blue pajamas that had obviously been worn.

"The police who had searched the house on December 26 and 27 were called in and they were absolutely certain that the blouse had not been in the drawer on that date, nor was the bag with the pajamas in the closet!

"Detectives had concluded that Scott had taken the pj's off Laci before he dumped her body, then hid them until he thought all the police searching of the house was over."

"They theorized that Scott also had taken the blouse from the house with the intention of putting that on Laci, too, but for some reason changed his mind and hid it with the pajamas."

"I think Scott made a huge mistake, but had no way of knowing that police would find they had enough evidence to get a search warrant in February," and come back to the house."

When Laci's remains washed up on April 14, she was still dressed in her tattered tan maternity pants. Forensic pathologist, Brian Peterson, testified in court, that the cloth draw cords at the waist of her pants were still intact, and that duct tape was stuck to the front of the waistband, stretching to Laci's left thigh. When her remains were first examined, it was discovered that her pants had been tied very tightly around her waist above her stomach, an insider reveled to the NE.

Investigators believe Scott feared the baby would be born after he killed his wife and in a panic he grabbed the tan maternity pants Laci had been wearing that day, put then back on his wife, and tied the drawstrings as tightly as he could.

"Then he wrapped duct tape tightly around her upper thigh area to keep her legs together."

Dr. Peterson, who conducted the autopsy, said during the hearing, he was unable to establish the exact cause of Laci's death. But the detectives scenario about her last moments is based on closely guarded clues not released at the hearing. The trial is set to start January 26th.