Posted on 06/10/2004 5:28:09 AM PDT by runningbear
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SCOTT BURNED IN RAGE
By HOWARD BREUER
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June 10, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson was more distraught when he burned chicken at a family barbecue than the night his pregnant wife Laci vanished, a witness testified yesterday.
Laci's cousin, Harvey Kemple, also said that Peterson gave conflicting stories to relatives regarding his whereabouts on the day of the tragic mom-to-be's disappearance.
"I saw more reaction out of him when he burned the God-darned chicken than when his wife went missing," Kemple said at the fertilizer salesman's double murder trial.
Kemple, a self-proclaimed grill guru, said he tried to give Peterson tips on how best to cook the chicken during a July 4 backyard barbecue just months before Laci's disappearance.
But Peterson, 31, wouldn't listen, and became visibly.......
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Peterson Relative Says He Noticed Inconsistencies
Peterson Relative Says He Noticed Inconsistencies
By CAROLYN MARSHALL
Published: June 10, 2004
EDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 9 - Statements made by Scott Peterson to relatives of his missing wife, Laci, were so inconsistent, one family member testified on Wednesday, that he secretly followed Mr. Peterson to a shopping mall and a golf course to see if something was amiss.
"I was very suspicious from that first night," said the relative, Harvey Kemple, in testimony at the murder trial of Mr. Peterson, who is accused of killing his wife and unborn son. "That's why I followed him to the mall, hanging back a bit to see what was happening."
Mr. Kemple, who is married to a cousin of Ms. Peterson's mother, said he was put off when Mr. Peterson told him that he had been playing golf on Dec. 24, 2002, the day Ms. Peterson disappeared, because Mr. Peterson had told Mr. Kemple's .......
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Peterson defense homes in on witness discrepancies to create reasonable doubt
Peterson defense homes in on witness discrepancies to create reasonable doubt
By Associated Press
Thursday, June 10, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Scott Peterson assured some of his in-laws he was fishing the day his pregnant wife disappeared, although he told one member of his extended family and a neighbor that he had been golfing.
It's a contradiction prosecutors in Peterson's capital murder trial revisited several times Wednesday in their effort to assert that Peterson switched his alibi after saying he returned to an empty home on Christmas Eve day, 2002.
Peterson, 31, ultimately told authorities he went fishing alone on San Francisco Bay. ..........
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Surveillance gets a satellite assist
Posted 6/9/2004 10:31 PM Updated 6/9/2004 11:45 PM
Surveillance gets a satellite assist
By Richard Willing, USA TODAY
Just after Laci Peterson disappeared in Modesto, Calif., on Christmas Eve 2002, her husband, Scott, assured police that he had nothing to do with it.
But police were suspicious. Without Peterson's knowledge, they received court permission to attach global positioning system (GPS) tracking devices to the undersides of three vehicles he was known to drive. The devices, which use cell phone networks and signals from orbiting satellites to pinpoint land locations, indicated that twice in January 2003, Peterson drove to a San Francisco Bay marina near where the bodies of his .........
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Witness testifies that Peterson lied about golfing
Witness testifies that Peterson lied about golfing
Kemple
By JOHN COTÉ and GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 10, 2004, 05:22:12 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson was more upset about burned barbecue chicken than he was about his wife's disappearance, an extended family member testified Wednesday during Peterson's double-murder trial. "I was so gol-darn mad because I saw more emotion out of him when he burnt the damn chicken than when his wife was missing," said Harvey Kemple, a construction worker married to a cousin of Laci Peterson's mother.
Kemple's testimony dominated a day in which the prosecution continued to cobble together a case against Peterson -- attempting to establish a timeline of what happened along the couple's quiet street on Dec. 24, 2002, and to highlight allegedly inconsistent statements Peterson made. ...........
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Burnt chicken testimony at Peterson trial
Stacy Finz and Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writers
Scott Peterson seemed more upset about burning his chicken than he did about his wife's disappearance, said a fiery construction worker who had jurors and observers erupting into laughter during the second week of the capital-murder case today.
Peterson, 31, is on trial in Redwood City for allegedly murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn child.
Harvey Kemple, a lifelong Modesto resident and Laci Peterson's cousin by marriage, told reporters outside the courthouse that while other family members stood by the defendant in the beginning, he was suspicious of the fertilizer salesman from the start.
Inside the courtroom, Kemple glared at the defendant while testifying. Peterson, dressed in a suit and tie, looked away.
"I saw more reaction out of.........
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You are seriously out of LEFT field. Clearly, you know Nothing of the DETAILS of this case. Laci's FAMILY have shown nothing but Class unlike the Petersons.
He will get the death penalty...
Laci's stepdad went fishing on Dec. 24th BUT he went fishing right near home, his wife knew where and what he was doing AND she did not go missing and she is still alive. BIG difference.!!
Actually Laci's stepdad did not make a big deal, he just thought it odd. And so do I that Scott that far away even though Laci might go into labor.
I have a different perspective.
I love fishing and seafood. My husband loves fishing. At one time I was 7mos. pregnant with twins. I went fishing with my husband in a flat boat I needed the nature outing. He dressed me up like an Eskimo. I felt I looked like a whale. He was so sweet to me and ours I felt pampered on that little flat boat we didn't stay long but I'll never forget.
I can't imagine my husband ever keeping a boat a secret from me...
Poor Laci--
LOL the visual gave me a chuckle. I am very petite and when I was pregnant I couldn't even see my feet. Walking was almost unsafe for me. I literally could not get in and out of the bathtub without help. My husband would have NEVER left me alone (for an entire day and be gone over an hours drive from home)!! This isn't normal but then as we know, Laci was DEAD and dumped by the time Snott made his SECOND trip to the bay.
Not sure. First he said she was getting ready to walk the dog, then he said she was mopping the floor when he left, then we heard she was actually watching Martha Stewart when he left, and lately we've heard that she was sitting at her dressing table arranging her hair when he left.
He was the only other person there. All this has to be coming from him. I guess the woman was just really versatile.
Thanks for your reply. I am a bit oversensitive b/c there ARE some posters who pop in and out of these threads b/c they think that this is a "women's" story, or a "soap opera" and that it is somehow trivial.
IMO, there is NOTHING trivial about murder, and whether Scott did it or not, this pregnant woman was brutally murdered and dumped in the Bay.
I have not always thought that Scott was necessarily the one, but it keeps coming back to him, over and over and over. It never ever seems to point in any other direction.
I note, from reading summaries of Brent's and Amy's (Laci's sibling and half-sibling, and her fellow trust beneficiaries), that in fact the police apparently DID very carefully check out the alibis of Brent and Amy. No way do I believe that the police closed their minds and deliberately focussed on Scott.
From all that we've been told, and all that has come out of the trial and preliminary so far, there is only one person who had MOTIVE, MEANS, AND OPPORTUNITY. Only one person had ALL THREE at once. That person is Scott.
Hey, it took my dense little mind a while, but that article really makes it clear: the Medina burglars couldn't be the ones who took Laci. The dog was found with the muddy leash at 10:18 a.m., and the Medinas didn't even LEAVE--and thus their burglary didn't even happen--till at least 10:30 a.m.
CO is right. The defense is being increasingly boxed in as to the time.
Another good point that has been brought up before, but which bears repeating: If you are a stranger and you kill someone in a place which ISN'T associated with YOU in any way, WHY would you bother to carry the body away? The place where the body is found is not going to give away your identity! If, OTOH, you kill someone on your own "turf"--in a place which IS associated with YOU--then you may well want to get that telltale body out of there. More proof that if Laci was killed in her home, she was killed by someone whose identity was ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PLACE. Someone, for example, who also lived there.
What a very good point.
Yes, I guess we could call it "The Persecution Complex Defense". Motto: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get me."
I think it's extremely hazardous to get between Geragos and a camera. All show, no substance.
Let's see. She was barefoot when I left... She was wearing tennis shoes when I left.
She was getting ready to walk the dog when I left. She was mopping the floor when I left. She was watching Martha Stewart when I left. She was sitting at the dressing table, looking so cute as she arranged her hair, when I left.
I was golfing. I was fishing.
She's my daughter. She's my sister. She's my daughter. She's my sister...
(Ooops--sorry, that last part is from a movie I saw...)
GAG ME WITH A STURGEON!!!
LOL.
From what I heard, Brent hinted that, while they were not contemplating divorce or anything like that, they did have problems sometimes.
And he said Scott pretty much would end up doing what Laci wanted him to do, in a disagreement.
Anger can build up over years...
(I'm certainly not saying anything justifies killing someone, though. I think Ron Grantski also found Laci frustrating at times, and he lived in the same house with her for longer than Scott ever did, but HE didn't kill her, that's for sure.)
Yes, but the only way he could really line up an alibi would be to get another person to lie for him--to get a person to say he was with him/her at the time Laci "disappeared". He may not have had anyone he trusted enough to confide in.
I think you must be referring to Geragos' statement in his opening that Laci had seen the boat over at Scott's warehouse. Geragos says this will come out.
I'd be wary of promises from Geragos, though. I understand he often fails to deliver. We'll see if he really produces a witness who says they saw Laci going in and out of Scott's warehouse when the boat was in there. I kind of doubt he will.
Yes, after a wobbly start, the prosecution seems to be building up steam. More power to them!
I am REALLY disappointed that this trial is not televised! But then, I'd be having to force myself to get up from the TV and do work, anyway!
That's a good theory you have there!
As you say, once he was the new man in Amber's life, he could enjoy center stage once again!
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