Posted on 08/05/2004 5:36:28 AM PDT by runningbear
<Peterson Cries As Friend Gives Testimony
Peterson Friend: Scott Left 'Frantic' Message
Peterson Cries As Friend Gives Testimony
Peterson Friend: Scott Left 'Frantic' Message
POSTED: 4:20 pm PDT August 4, 2004
UPDATED: 8:03 pm PDT August 4, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson appeared to cry in court Wednesday during testimony from one of his Modesto friends about the pair looking at camouflage-patterned children's clothing in a catalog in the weeks before his pregnant wife Laci disappeared.
Greg Reed testified that he and Peterson looked at a catalog that included the children's clothing sometime before Dec. 24, 2002, the day Laci Peterson was reported missing.
During that portion of Reed's testimony, Peterson wiped his eyes and face with a hankerchief and several members of the courtroom audience sitting behind him and to his right say they saw a tear roll down his cheek.........----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEARFUL PETERSON LOSES IT IN COURT
TEARFUL PETERSON LOSES IT IN COURT
By HOWARD BREUER Post Correspondent
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August 5, 2004 -- Cries over testimony. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The usually unflappable Scott Peterson openly wept in court yesterday as an old friend recalled how Scott doted on his wife Laci in Lamaze class months before her disappearance.
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Peterson Cries During Friend's Testimony
Friend Says Peterson Left 'Frantic' Message
POSTED: 5:44 pm PDT August 4, 2004
UPDATED: 6:57 pm PDT August 4, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Accused killer Scott Peterson was moved to tears Wednesday by the testimony of a family friend..........
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Friend's testimony moves Scott Peterson to tears
Article Last Updated: Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 3:41:35 AM PST
Friend's testimony moves Scott Peterson to tears
Peterson described as being 'frantic' upon learning his wife, Laci, was missing
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson wept quietly Wednesday as one of his close friends testified about how they once flipped through the children's clothing section of a hunting-and-fishing catalogue, recalling how excited Peterson was about buying a camouflage outfit for his future son.
In 2002 Gregory Reed and Peterson seemed to lead parallel lives. Both were fathers-to-be, both had joined the Modesto Rotary Club and both belonged to the $23,000-per-member Del Rio Country Club.
Their wives had become close, often getting together to discuss their pregnancies. Scott and Laci Peterson even attended Lamaze classes hosted by Reed and his wife, Kristen.
As Reed slowly and deliberately testified in Peterson's double-murder trial about what once seemed a normal, seemingly happy life and friendship, the two men looked at each other with clear emotion. Wednesday's tears marked the first time in the 11-week-old trial that Peterson cried in the courtroom.
Reed said he received two phone calls from Peterson on the day Laci went missing. The first was a brief chat the two had as Peterson drove back from the Berkeley Marina. That was about 2:40 p.m., and Reed had called to congratulate Peterson on his new membership in the country club.
Prosecutors have characterized Peterson's actions in the days and weeks after his wife went missing as distant, unemotional and callous. But Reed described a man who sounded "frantic" upon learning his wife was missing.
In the next call on Dec. 24, the two did not talk. Peterson left a message on Reed's voicemail at 5:30 p.m. after he returned from the Bay.
"The message was, 'Have you or Kristen .........
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DA: Peterson plotted while Web surfing
DA: Peterson plotted while Web surfing
BY MARY PAPENFUSS
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The Internet was Scott Peterson's best friend.
It's where he turned to buy his girlfriend a romantic Christmas gift, where he went to sell a diamond watch his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, apparently inherited from her grandmother and even where he researched spots to dump her body, an investigator testified yesterday.
Now the Web may prove a fatal trap for Peterson, who could face the death penalty if he's convicted of killing his wife and unborn son.
Offering a detailed reconstruction of Peterson's cyberhabits in the days before he reported his wife missing on Dec. 24, 2002, prosecutors used data gleaned from five of his computers to portray him as a man refining his marital murder plot while pursuing the new object of his affections, massage therapist Amber Frey.
On Dec. 8, 2002, Peterson researched several bodies of water in northern California, looking up maps, currents, boat launch spots and information on fish and fishing licenses, said Lydell Wall, a computer expert with the Stanislaus County sheriff's office.
The next day, he secretly bought a 14-foot fishing boat with cash, according to earlier testimony.
Prosecutors contend the Web searches ........
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Witness boosts theory on when woman died
Posted on Thu, Aug. 05, 2004
Witness boosts theory on when woman died
By Jessie Seyfer
Mercury News
On the day his wife, Laci, was reported missing, Scott Peterson asked a friend whether he had seen her ``today or yesterday,'' the friend testified Wednesday, boosting support for the prosecution theory that Peterson may have killed his wife the day before he told police she disappeared.
Peterson has maintained that he last saw his eight-months-pregnant wife on the morning of Dec. 24 when he left to go fishing on San Francisco Bay. When he returned that day, he told police, she was gone........
(San Jose Mercury News is a suscribed type read online newspaper...no cost?)............................................
Scott Peterson's demeanor at a Dec. 31, 2002, vigil for his missing wife has been described by witnesses at his trial.
BART AH YOU/THE BEE
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Peterson computer use focus of trial
By JOHN COTÉ and GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: August 5, 2004, 05:10:31 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Prosecutors Wednesday focused on Scott Peterson's computer activity, trying to show that online queries about boating and San Francisco Bay indicate he planned weeks in advance to murder his pregnant wife. A close friend and outdoorsman also testified that Peterson didn't mention that he had just taken his boat for its maiden voyage when the two spoke by phone on Dec. 24, 2002 -- the day Laci Peterson was reported missing.
Prosecutors contend that Peterson murdered his wife and unborn son that morning or the night before, dumped her body in the bay from a newly purchased boat and crafted a fishing story as cover. Peterson told police his wife was mopping the floor when he left that morning.
The friend, Gregory Reed, testified that Peterson left a "frantic" message on his answering machine Christmas Eve asking if he or his wife had "seen or talked to Laci today or yesterday. … I can't find her."
Prosecutors could argue that Peterson hadn't gotten his alibi straight at that point, legal analysts said. Three other witnesses have testified that they heard Peterson say Christmas Eve that he went golfing earlier that day..........
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yeah, the pundit heads are really calling him a scumbag cad now! ;o)
Hey! that is not nice! (/said with humor!)
http://www.ktvu.com/news/3616001/detail.html
At the end of this article the computer specialist Wall explains the Dec 5th date means nothing on the tides,etc search as the web manager had not updated the site's date..Scott started his search after his tearful confrontation with Shawn Sibley on Dec 6th over whether he was married...despite Geragos pointing out date on site of Dec 5th...
Thant hanky was laced with mace!
Right. And, correct me if I'm wrong, when they found the bodies, Scott showed no interest.
Formatting? Oh, yeah, I know all about that!
not!
LOL!!! You GO!!!
There ya go!! Smart girl!!
Or how about this: "Reporters noticed a strong smell of onion shortly after the defendant cried... courtroom regulars began whispering about where they would go for lunch..."
Okay, none of what I'm saying here is new, but let's all remember:
ANYTHING deceptive Scott did after about mid-December MUST have related to something naughty he was doing OTHER than just having an affair. How do we know this? Because SCOTT HIMSELF told us (and will shortly tell jury in TV interviews) that he had ALREADY told Laci about his affair by then, and that she was okay with it. Therefore, there was no need for him to be sneaky after that!
But the files themselves should have been dated, right? Was the date the same?
house payment
his car payment
her car payment
house insurance, life insurance, health insurance, car insurance
country club membership
utility bills
$1400 for boat purchase
cable bill
Now I am sure I missed a couple of things such as groceries, cleaning, maternity clothes, etc. but he seems to have had plenty to spend on Amber, let alone the purchase of the Mercedes car (he got busted in) and the $5,000 cash !!!! this guy seems to have a cash flow right thru his living room w/o leaving the house !
Yeah Scotty had Kitchen duty before court, chopping onions 5,000 inmates.
Oh wait, I am ahead of myself that is going to be after his ass is convicted and sent to death row.
Scott wasn't crying on cue, he had a fleeting moment of thinking that his pale frail prison cell butt misses playing golf.
yea all he has to do is remember a putt he missed and he can cry on cue lol
perhaps a little eyeliner will be the finishing touch for "the boys" in cell block 5. no need for viagra there, and maybe Snott will get some more color in his face from all the bending over lol
All I know is what is at the bottom of that article I linked linked...Scott had printed out the info at a later date but the date on the site showed Dec 5th..a fact Geragos has emphasizd..Obviously Wall could tell about the date not being updated on the site itself...Scott looked at it first on the 7th if I recall correctly, printed it out even later.
I was just recalling that in that other case (whose name shall not be mentioned), they could tell when the file was downloaded in addition to when the file was dated (on the website). I thought that was standard?
Oh let's not forget the Preperation H for his bowels and I also here it works wonders on puffy eyes for all the tears being shed.
I try to follow the Peterson trial, but I must say the media isn't doing a very good job of it. If you have a ping list, please add me to it!
I'm confused about this: Scott logged onto the computer at his boat-storage warehouse at 11a.m. on the day Laci went missing. What does this tell us? Did he dump the body the night before and the Christmas Eve boat trip was just for cover? Or are we to believe he went to the bay and dumped her AFTER 11 am?
Does anyone know what time his ramp ticket at the marina showed him arriving/leaving?
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