Posted on 07/14/2004 5:35:38 AM PDT by runningbear
Nobody messes with our Devil!
Thanks, Rusty!! I appreciate it!
I just wish everyone who doesn't follow this case would believe that we are here not to "get" Scott. Why on earth would we have had it in for an obscure manure salesman whom none of us have ever met??? It's not our fault if following the evidence has kept us "close" to Scott all these months!
LOL!!!
Think of it this way. You're trying to analyze a complicated criminal novel based on the Hollywood cartoon version video release. The THs are useless entertainment, go to prelim and trial transcripts, evidence photos, archived articles and videos of conflicting statements by SP.
"Maybe he was somehow trying to make it look like Amy was implicated in Laci's murder."
I think he did imply that as a possibility which really made my skin crawl. Can you imagine losing your sister in such a horrific manner and then having some creepy defense attorney imply that you killed her for money? I know we need defense attorneys for our system to work but I'm sure glad I don't have to do it.
I was reading a discussion of calcification, over on that other site. About the little round stones the med examiner found attached to the threads of her pants.
They said if you take calcium carbonate (which is the main ingredient of limestone, if I read correctly), add to it some sort of bacteria, plus water, and then ionize it, you get mineral deposits--like the little stones.
I am extremely ignorant about stuff like ionization, but it's my understanding that sea water is a good place for this process to occur.
Limestone? Calcium carbonate? And where might such substances have come from, and why would they be on Laci's body? Ahem.
Suppose he laid Laci's body on a tarp or something, then sprinkled a lot of dry cement powder on it, with emphasis on the crotch area (can't have that area being free... the baby). Then suppose he wrapped her up really well. Then suppose he took the package out to Brooks island, as you said. He might have taken her out there during the night. Suppose he then submerged her (using the cement anchors to keep her down?) under that old pier, which is very big looking, but making some sort of provision to allow water to seep slowly into the "package"? Then suppose he came back the next day on his "fishing" trip, cut her loose from under the pier, towed her back into the Bay, and sank her?
After staying hours in the water under the pier, with cement powder covering her, the powder would have combined with the water to produce the hard, heavy cement. She would then have been very heavy--especially if the greater part of a 90-lb. bag of cement had been sealed up with her in the "package" (but not sealed so tightly that water couldn't seep in.) He could've used the missing life preserver to keep her just enough afloat to be towed.
Or would he have had to first pull her up from the hiding place under the pier and dry her out a little, to allow the cement to harden? Quick-drying cement wouldn't take that long to harden. I read somewhere it could take well under an hour.
Then Laci would've been at the bottom of the Bay wearing a cement overcoat. This, and the tarp or shrink-wrap she was wrapped in, would slowly have worn away, through being buffeted about by the powerful currents over the period of 4 months. There may have been less cement dried over the TOP of her pregnant belly b/c it didn't occur to him that the baby could escape out that end. He'd have concentrated on securing her crotch area.
Incidentally, I remember hearing that on Monday there was testimony that a length of rope was found during one of the dives. I can't recall the length--might've been 33 feet?
At least this gives an alternative explanation as to why he so "generously" and casually invited Amy over that evening. It sort of neutralizes the idea of "if he had this big murder plan, why would he want Amy around".
The other possibility I've considered is that maybe it was actually Laci who first came up with the idea of Amy joining them for pizza, and perhaps Scott (playing it cool) chimed in with, "Yeah, come on over!" Amy doesn't seem to have that great a memory, and Laci isn't here to speak for herself, so it could've happened that way.
Oh, and as a footnote to my post above: regarding her arms, legs, and head, perhaps those things which stick out didn't get encased the way her torso did. Or if those limbs and head did have cement on them, it would still have chipped away more quickly from the motion of the water. This would then leave her arms, legs, and head especially vulnerable to feeding by sea animals of all kinds.
criminal novel = crime novel. We don't allow no stinkin' illegal books here.
Well, your idea about Brooks Island fits in with the fact that he described the place well during, I think, one of his earlier interviews with police.
I hope they hurry up and stop "proving a negative" and get down to analysis results, as you said.
And that thing about the baby having meconium--to me and to many of us that was SO dispositive of Geragos' b.s. of her being "held hostage". It just blows it out of the water, and blows out of the water the idea that the baby lived outside the womb.
So, given that, I am anxious to see an expert from the state get up there and make that point about the MECONIUM!!!
Terri Schiavo and Laci Peterson have something in common. I realize that Scott hasn't been convicted in a court of law, but the circumstancial evidence and the lies cannot be ignored. He is of the same ilk as Michael Schiavo.
Most of the trolls here on FR come from DU type websites, however there is a different breed of troll out there, also. I can believe Felonious paid those particular ones.
Shrink wrap?! Wouldn't he want the body to decompose ASAP?
True. It's just that it seems to me that shrink wrap might keep that messy blood/fluids from getting on anything. And there is that persistent report that some substance, possibly a trace of plastic, was found on the hair in the pliers.
If, as I speculated, he wrapped her up and poured in dry cement powder on top of her, then whatever he wrapped her in, he'd have had to make some holes in it to let the water seep in and mix with the cement to form concrete.
She would then have been very heavy--especially if the greater part of a 90-lb. bag of cement had been sealed up with her in the "package" (but not sealed so tightly that water couldn't seep in.) He could've used the missing life preserver to keep her just enough afloat to be towed.
OMG OMG what an excellent theory devil....I have always believed in 2 trip theory
I can believe Felonious paid those particular ones.
Spooted owl you just solved the Laci murder..Felos did it and all he had to do was think about it and it happened..ROFLMAO
oops not spootedowl but spottedowl
You Know, I've been thinking about this, and all along, I've been one to think he did tow her with the vest, however...I can see, if she was wrapped tightly, there would be some leverage. With leverage, there come ease of lifting. Wouldn't it make sense for him to tip out the bow of the boat, counter balancing the weight of the motor? He would be seated, and basically sliding her over the bow, IF she was wrapped and not all lose as MG likes to have people suppose. Well, I go back to the chicken wire, wondering about that, and I also think about the shrink wrap he had in his warehouse. You wrap a body (anything) in that enough times and it become quite stiff.
Think about this: What if he actually placed her in the boat and positioned her in the warehouse, then duck-taped her for THAT reason...not to keep the baby from being born, but to keep her below the boat line so he could shrink-wrap her?
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