Would it really matter how he transported her to the bay?Yes.
The DA would have to show "how" she ended up in the bay. Otherwise some chucking fool defense attorney will try to insinuate that Laci tied herself up in plastic and duct tape and hopped to the bay with weights attached to every limb and threw herself in where Scott was fishing. Just to spite him, of course.
This is the part I would have the most problem with if I were a juror. A normal, logical person on a jury is going to think "the guy had a truck and a boat, he was the last known person to see her alive, he goes fishing in a bay 90 miles away, her partial body (and that of her baby) is found 4 months later in that same bay, taped with HIS finger prints on the tape"--no brainer here, jury, do your duty. Why does it really matter whether her body was in the boat or the truck? Okay, just a little loose end prosecution wants to nail down. Could stuff like this be the reason why CA has the largest state budget deficit in the nation, including all the other states combined?
FWIW, I don't think they have a fingerprint. JMO
to insinuate that Laci tied herself up in plastic and duct tape and hopped to the bay with weights attached to every limb and threw herself in where Scott was fishing. Just to spite him, of course. Hey, it could happen. (NOT!) But, you know, there is a Sherlock Holmes story in which the husband was fooling around with the governess, and the wife killed herself but made it look like the governess had murdered her.
I was looking at weights today in a store, and I picked up some 5-pound wrist weights. Those things were HEAVY! What was that receipt of Scott's for? 20-pound ankle weights? (Who the heck could use such a thing... Arnold??) Someone would sink like a rock wearing such things.