Richard Alex Jacobs
Posted on 07/14/2004 5:35:38 AM PDT by runningbear
A BLOODY BAD DAY FOR SCOTT AT TRIAL
A BLOODY BAD DAY FOR SCOTT AT TRIAL
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 14, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A Modesto detective yesterday offered up the first pieces of physical evidence in Scott Peterson's slay trial — a single hair wrapped around needle-nosed pliers in his fishing boat and drops of blood in his truck. DNA analysis showed the hair was probably from Peterson's dead wife, Laci, who disappeared Dec. 24, 2002, the same day her husband says he went fishing.
Detective Henry Dodge Hendee, testifying on the 22nd day of the trial, said bloodstains were found on the steering wheel and driver-side door handle of Scott's truck. Sources later told The Post tests show some of the blood is Scott's.
Peterson is accused of killing Laci, who was eight months' pregnant, in the couple's Modesto home, weighing down her body with homemade concrete anchors and then dumping it in San Francisco Bay.
Her corpse and that of her fetus were found washed up on shore the following April.
In presenting what little physical evidence the cops have in the case, Hendee also testified about chips of cement found on the bottom of a trailer in Peterson's warehouse, hinting they could have been remnants of the anchors.
The detective described photos showing Peterson's boat trailer, shop-vacuum and a pair of Nike tennis shoes in the warehouse that were covered with a white, powdery residue. .........
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Focus on Concrete Evidence in Peterson Case
Focus on Concrete Evidence in Peterson Case
Scott Peterson is accused of killing his wife Laci and her unborn child.
Simon Perez
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The prosecution in the Scott Peterson trial focused on concrete evidence Tuesday.
The homemade cement weights were found inside Scott Peterson's warehouse, which prosecutors have suggested he used to hold Laci Peterson's body at the bottom of San Francisco Bay.
Also discovered in the warehouse was a hair in a pair of pliers. Experts have said that the hair likely belonged to Laci Peterson, who disappeared on Christmas Eve two years ago. She was eight months pregnant with the couple's first child.
The prosecution went on and on Tuesday, asking questions of just how the detectives collected evidence. To lay observers it appeared tedious, but to the experts, the lengthy questioning had a purpose -- to ward off a potential attack from defense attorney Mark Geragos, who's expected to blame police for sloppy work all along the investigation.
"There's been so many attacks on the lack of professionalism of the police, that this gives a chance to show that the police went about things very methodically and very competently," said UCSF law professor Robert Talbot..........
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Cops found blood stains in Peterson's truck
No mention of whose it might have been, however
Cops found blood stains in Peterson's truck
No mention of whose it might have been, however
By Diana Walsh and Stacy Finz, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
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Police who searched Scott Peterson's pickup truck after his wife disappeared found several stains that they suspected were blood, a detective testified today at Peterson's double-murder trial.
Modesto police Detective Henry Dodge Hendee said investigators found the stains during an extensive forensic search of the truck three days after Peterson's wife, Laci Peterson, was reported missing Dec. 24, 2002. Hendee said the stains were located on the driver's side door, the steering wheel and the tool box.
Hendee, who was responsible for collecting evidence from the truck, testified that some of the stains tested positive for blood, but did not say which. He also did not say whose blood the stains may have matched......
Evidence given in Peterson case
Detective testifies hair was found
Evidence given in Peterson case
Detective testifies hair was found
By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press | July 14, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Prosecutors yesterday presented their first piece of physical evidence in Scott Peterson's murder trial -- a single strand of dark hair found on a pair of pliers and believed to be from his pregnant wife.
Detective Henry Hendee testified that he noticed the hair while collecting items from the warehouse where Peterson stored a 14-foot boat.
During Peterson's preliminary hearing, specialists testified that a DNA analysis indicated that the hair probably came from Laci Peterson, but the defense has not conceded that point.
Prosecutors say Peterson killed his wife in their Modesto home around Dec. 24, 2002, trucked the body to San Francisco Bay in a large tool box, and dropped it overboard from the boat.......
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Thief seen conning Peterson neighbors in days before Laci's disappearance
Richard Alex Jacobs
Thief seen conning Peterson neighbors in days before Laci's disappearance
(Court TV) — A petty career criminal was seen harassing neighbors of Laci and Scott Peterson around the time she disappeared, according to documents obtained by Court TV's Catherine Crier.
Richard Alex Jacobs — whose rap sheet for drugs, theft and fraud dates back to 1977 — was conning residents in the Petersons' Modesto, Calif., neighborhood on Dec. 23 and 24, 2002, the day Laci disappeared, according to police reports.
Jacobs allegedly knocked on the doors of two Peterson neighbors claiming he was stranded and in search of gas money.
The small-time con was one in a string of petty crimes that took place in the area of generally well-to-do families around the time of the 27-year-old's disappearance. Police discovered her remains and those of her unborn son, whom she planned to name Conner, in April 2003 in the San Francisco Bay..........
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Jury told of weights, hair, blood spots
Jury told of weights, hair, blood spots
By GARTH STAPLEY
and JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: July 14, 2004, 05:00:23 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Testimony in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial centered Tuesday on collection of crucial evidence: blood, hair and concrete.
The blood, jurors already had been told, came from the defendant and not his pregnant wife, murder victim Laci Peterson; the hair might have been hers; and authorities suggested her husband forgot to clean up after making concrete weights to sink her body in San Francisco Bay.
Today, Peterson's lead attorney, Mark Geragos, is expected to ask the judge to dismiss the charges against the 31-year-old Modesto man because of what the defense contends are prosecution errors. Jurors, unaware of the likely battle that will take place outside their presence, were told to show up after lunch.
Central to Modesto police Detective Dodge Hendee's testi- mony Tuesday was his account of collecting samples from dark spots in Peterson's Ford F-150 pickup soon after Laci Peterson was reported missing on Christmas Eve 2002. He thought the spots might be blood, he said.......
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20 disciplined for falsifying survey
20 disciplined for falsifying survey
By MELANIE TURNER
BEE STAFF WRITER
Last Updated: July 14, 2004, 05:00:23 AM PDT
Twenty students in a criminal justice course at California State Univers-ity, Stanislaus, cheated on a survey related to Scott Peterson's double-murder trial, school investigators have found.
All 20 have been disciplined. Five others hired lawyers and so far have refused to talk to Jim Klein, interim dean of the College of Arts, Letters and Sci-ences, said Stacey Morgan-Foster, vice president for student affairs.
In all, there were 58 students in the fall 2003 course taught by Professor Stephen Schoenthaler.
A survey conducted in Schoenthaler's class showed that bias against Peterson, accused of killing his wife and unborn son, was significantly higher around Modesto than in the Bay Area and Southern California. The survey was a factor in a judge's decision to move the trial to San Mateo County..........
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He thought he was real smooth when he tried to cover himself with this move...little did he know that the meringue would do him in and lock down a 10 minute window....
Is he still saying that Laci was murdered by a gang of trans-sexual Nazi Eskimos?
I wonder what that mask and snorkel was for..........LOL.
thank you.... ;o)
Does one need water purifier anywhere in this country? One certainly does in Mexico.
LOL-Don't forget to mention "transient"
I haven't really been keeping up to date on the Peterson trial, so thanks to you all for the info.
That Mercedes sure must have been cramped with all the things in the car. What's up with the Viagra? Isn't he too young to need that?
All I can say is that there is a lot of things pointing to his guilt. If he is found guilty, can his family be charged as accessories after the fact?
the first pieces of physical evidence
the first pieces of physical evidence
the first pieces of physical evidence
the first pieces of physical evidence
yep.
scottie walks unless they have something better than this
I wondered about that, too!
BTW, did you all see that Scott's mother is upset with President Bush about putting the mention of the Laci Peterson vote in his last ad?
Don't forget that they had to have been OB/GYN doctors in order to deliver that baby!
LOL! Perhaps a second job as a golf course landscaper. ?!?
I see you've been doin' your homework. You get an A+ for the day.
If they were OB-GYN, then John Edwards' cronies would be crawling all over the place looking for them.
Mask and snorkel for looking for water source while camping/hiding in Mexico.... ;o)
Guess he was on his way back up to Modesto to get the clubs from the warehouse. A grueling 500 mile trip would require camping out along the route. Yeah, that's the ticket. :)
Mornin' NN
No I didn't see that, but I'm not surprised. Her interviews and comments have been apalling. I hope they are charged with something when this is over. Obstruction of justice, perhaps?
Good list!
Maybe, just maybe, he had them for an emergency cash source. I've heard that Viagra is sold on the black market. You'd think sex would be the last thing on his mind.
The thing that struck me about it was that she was upset that it would prejudice Scott's case; now, if she believes he's innocent, why would a law that punishes the person who murdered HER grandchild bother her?
"I saw a few TH's (Beth Karras) say that they wish LE would have let him get a little closer to the border before they pinched him."
Good grief! They were probably scared to death that he would slip over that border. He was very close. Anyone with half a brain can look at what he had in his car and know that he was getting ready to go into Mexico. Nomad? Yeah, right.
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