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Posted on 06/09/2004 5:34:54 AM PDT by runningbear
LACI STEPDAD DOUBTED SCOTT'S 'FISHY STORY'
LACI STEPDAD DOUBTED SCOTT'S 'FISHY STORY'
By HOWARD BREUER
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June 9, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Laci Peterson's stepdad yesterday testified that he was immediately suspicious of his son-in-law after the tragic mom-to-be vanished.
Ron Grantski said that from the start he scoffed at the idea that Scott Peterson had been fishing Christmas Eve 2002, the day the eight-months-pregnant Laci disappeared, and confronted Scott about it that same night.
"I think your Berkeley fishing trip is a fishy story," Grantski recalled telling Peterson that night during a search of a Modesto park for Laci.
"Did you have a girlfriend that you visited? If you did, you better talk now, because it's going to come out," Grantski said he told Peterson.
Grantski said Peterson — who had been having a secret affair with a leggy masseuse at the time — denied the accusation.
Grantski suggested two reasons he doubted Peterson's fish tale.
The stepdad said that for one, Scott didn't .........
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Testimony continues; both sides supported
Testimony continues; both sides supported
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By JOHN COTÉ and GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 8, 2004, 05:43:48 PM PDT
5:39 p.m., PDT: REDWOOD CITY - Scott Peterson told his sister-in-law he was “kind of hoping for infertility” when asked about impending fatherhood and told a family friend the night his pregnant wife disappeared that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if police found blood on his truck, witnesses testified this afternoon.
“He put up his hands and said, ‘I wouldn't be surprised if they find blood on my truck because I cut my hands all the time,’” Sandy Rickard testified.
She held up her hands to demonstrate Peterson’s position when the two talked in front of his home the night Laci Peterson was reported missing.
Peterson said he cut his hands ........
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THE PETERSON TRIAL Suspect's behavior described
"Just hours after he reported his wife missing, Scott Peterson told his mother-in-law's best friend that he "wouldn't be surprised" if his blood turned up in his truck during a police search.
"He put up his hands, and he said ... 'I cut my hands all the time,' " Sandy Rickard said in a Redwood City courtroom Tuesday, relating a conversation she had had with Scott Peterson as police scoured his home for clues that might lead them to the whereabouts of his wife.
Rickard was among several family members and close friends who testified Tuesday about what prosecutors are trying to paint as a pattern of strange and unemotional".........
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Stepdad Says He Found Scott Peterson Alibi Fishy
Tue Jun 8, 2004 05:29 PM ET
"REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - Immediately upon hearing of Laci Peterson's disappearance, her stepfather was suspicious of Scott Peterson's alibi that he had been fishing that day, he testified on Tuesday.
Ron Grantski of Modesto, California, who has been with Laci's mother for about 27 years but is not married to her, testified that he was always asking Scott Peterson to go fishing with him. ".........................
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Laci Peterson's Relatives Tell of Husband's Acts at Time of Death
"By ELIZABETH AHLIN
Published: June 9, 2004
EDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 8 - Relatives of Laci Peterson testified on Tuesday that Ms. Peterson's husband, Scott, acted suspiciously almost immediately after she was reported missing, but they also said they had no reason to believe that the couple had anything but a loving relationship.
Ms. Peterson's brother and stepfather took the stand here in the murder trial of Mr. Peterson, who is charged with killing his wife and her unborn child in December 2002. It was the second day of testimony from Ms. Peterson's family members, but unlike the testimony on Monday, when Ms. Peterson's mother, Sharon Rocha, wept on the stand, the testimony on Tuesday was more detailed than emotional.
In a surprise, Ms. Peterson's".............
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Well I heard that Geragos asked this man what he did on Christmas Eve. Answer: I went fishing. Geragos: Did you tell your wife? Answer: No. Geragos: No more questions. Did anyone else hear this? Believe it was Napolitano on Fox with John Gibson.
Anybody from the Modesto "police" work this Grantski over?
Yes, I heard it, and I also heard he said on the stand, "but I did not go fishing 90 miles away."
(PS...he also did not have an 8 month pregnant wife at home, or tell anyone he was going golfing....in addition, his wife did not turn up dead where he went fishing!)
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Good morning!LOL
I know. But I think Geragos was going for the "didn't tell my wife" angle and left it at that. Hopefully the prosecution will blow major holes in that statement.
Big whoop. How does this help 'prove' how Laci & son were killed & by whom? Nothing probative in a father not liking a son-in-law, or his love for fishing where others fear to tread.
It looks and sounds to me like Scott is headed toward a conviction. Maybe even the needle.
By itself, it doesn't mean much. But as one attorney put it, think of it as another brick that, with all the other bricks, builds a structure. Circumstantial evidence can be just as damning as, say, a videotape of the actual murder, if put together skillfully.
"...think of it as another brick that, with all the other bricks, builds a structure."
Or they can just as easily remain a 'pile of bricks' due to lack of mortar. My take is that the prosecution is building his house from either straw or sticks, not bricks. When the 'big bad wolf' (Geragos) comes by he will have a good chance of blowing down the house built by the prosecution.
Even though I believe him to be guilty, I can see where a reasonable person could argue that he is not. Like it or not, that is the litmus test. Right now I would have to vote not guilty.
Great recap of yesterday's events here...some interesting new info too....
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Updated June 9, 2004, 12:20 a.m. ET
Dread of fatherhood could be motive, witnesses suggest
Ron Grantski and Sharon Rocha, Laci Peterson's stepfather and mother, enter the courthouse Tuesday.
By Harriet Ryan
Court TV
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson might have had more motive than a mistress to kill his pregnant wife, prosecution witnesses implied at his capital murder trial Tuesday.
Relatives of Laci Peterson suggested the fertilizer salesman did not want a child and felt trapped and depressed about his life.
His sister-in-law recalled asking him whether he was ready for fatherhood.
"He looked at me and said, 'I was kinda hoping for infertility,'" testified Rosemarie Rocha, prompting several gasps in the courtroom.
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http://www.courttv.com/trials/peterson/060804-pm.html
As per the article: Geragos went fishing the same day/time as Peterson? What an idiot!
Scott had told police he & Laci were watching Martha Stewart that morning and on the show they were cooking meringue. Police say the show on the 24th wasn't about cooking meringue, but the 23rd show was. Geragos plays a tape where the word meringue is said once on the 24th show. It's reportedly aired at 9:40 a.m.
If the word was only mentioned once at 9:40, how could Snott have heard it if he left at 9:30??
Not Geragos...Laci's stepfather, Granski...
I also heard he said on the stand, "but I did not go fishing 90 miles away."
(PS...he also did not have an 8 month pregnant wife at home, or tell anyone he was going golfing....in addition, his wife did not turn up dead where he went fishing!)
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