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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What is your argument?
I don't get it.
Thanks, rb! I'm still glued to the TV watching Reagan ceremonies as we speak.
I love you
Nuttin', honey!
You mentioned that the yoga instructor might be the one person who might have known of a problem btw Scott and Laci, and I was just pointing out that Brent had alluded to the fact that it wasn't exactly true that Laci and Scott NEVER argued.
I've been following this case so long, and all we heard from everyone for so long was "They were the perfect couple" and "They never argued." Frankly, I wanted to retch, b/c anyone who's ever BEEN part of a couple for years knows that a few disagreements are inevitable. I am alway skeptical when a couple tells me "We NEVER argue". (I always think to myself, yeah, right, and I'm perfect, too... sure... lol.)
So, anyhow, it appears that they did sometimes argue, and that both Brent and the yoga instructor had seen signs of discord.
Yer nuts!
(lol)
LOL
Dev I LOVE the head of steam that the Prosecution is building. I think it's just getting going. I believe I heard that the next testimony will be GPS experts!!
thanks and I am thinking he got those cuts on his hands from his own fingernails as he gripped her throat....not in the car and why the loaded gun ? in case someone else saw him dump the body ?
;-)
Didn't SP send tennis shoes to the "psychic"?
Good observations.
And if your going to "plant" a body where SP was fishing, your not going to weight her down to the extent that she may never have surfaced!
ROFL, full circle to Chinatown!
Perhaps she had one shoe off and one shoe on...
(Diddle, diddle, dumpling)
Many talking heads have expressed concern regarding Scott not having a motive and not having a violent past. To me this is no big deal. Far too many murders of a spouse have been committed for an unknown or flimsy motive by a person without a violent past.
Just to mention two: Dr. Grenedier (sp?), an internationally known doctor, who murdered his wife for whatever reason and had no violent past. Same with a ME from Florida who had a mistress but apparently felt it would be cheaper to kill rather than divorce his loving wife even though he would have had plenty of money left.
Both of these physicians were considered intelligent and well read and many believed they had a happy marriage.
Yes he made that in his opening statement and he will be called on it. The prosecution most likely investigated this claim already and didn't find it credible but Geragos seems confident so we'll see.
I went on a poker weekend with the guys to a cabin on a lake three hours from home one week before my wife's due date. She's still alive. (I almost didn't survive, but she did just fine.) Of course, I had a good reason, my dear, sweet mother-in-law decided to grace us with her presence two weeks prior and decided she was going to stay for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Yup, my wonderful, sweet, sweet, dear ol' mother-in-law, she'd plop her butt down in my chair with her daily copy of USA Today, turn on Larry King Live, slugging down four or five scotch and waters and start bitching and moaning about "those (hic) God-be-damned evil Republicans" and every morning I would come down to the kitchen and she would leaving clippings of articles from Time Magazine and the latest editorials from the NY Times and Washington Post with paragraphs highlighted and little stars with notes such as "GOOD READ!".
Yeah, all it took was one quick call from my buddy, he said, "We're going to the lake..."
I said, "I'll be ready in 15 minutes!"
LMAO I would be looking for available flights to the moon ! phew and they say the daughter eventually turns into her mother !!!! it happened here good luck !
I don't know about the gun. The prosecution made what sounded like an ominous reference to it, in their opening statement.
But whether the gun was the murder weapon or not, I think Scott probably just carries it b/c it makes him feel more masculine to own a pistol. (lol)
Your theory about the cuts on the hand(s) sounds good. I guess it depends on how bad the cut or cuts was/were.
OJ (and other cases) showed us that when you really grip a knife, and tear through something tough (like human tissue) with it, you stand a good chance of cutting your hands--blood makes your grip get slippery, the handle may break, etc.
Was it tennis shoes? I thought it was a sandal or sandals.
Aha, I hadn't thought of that! Bears repeating: IF SOMEONE WAS PLANTING THE BODY IN THE BAY TO FRAME SCOTT, WHY WOULD THEY WEIGH IT DOWN SO THOROUGHLY THAT NUMEROUS DIVERS COULDN'T FIND IT AND IT TOOK A MAJOR SPRING STORM TO DISLODGE IT FROM THE DEEP?
Instead, why not dump the body near the boat launch? There, it would be sure to be found, and the news had reported Scott presented a ticket from the boat launch. So, in the public mind, Scott was associated with that boat launch early on.
You're right about those cases. I just saw that one about the FL medical examiner, as a matter of fact, on a recent "City Confidential". No criminal record.
And there are so many more cases like that. The person closest to the victim would have more of a motive. And if a person IS killed by a stranger, it usually has to do with robbery, and this slaying is SO different from the average slaying connected with robbery/theft.
It sounds like YOU were very lucky that you didn't end up at the bottom of a bay with cement shoes on!
(Do you have a "beware of mother-in-law" sign that you put up when she visits?)
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