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.
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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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In other news: "Kobe Bryant sneezed in court today"
Tabloid gossip. Bet you guys stop to gawk a road-side accidents too.
O I am thinkin he might need that stuff for a little relief when the boys are done for the day with him....or if he runs out maybe some toothpaste will do.
Must be interesting news. Sure caused you to click on this article, didn't it?
PS, if you only want articles you like, why not start your own forum?
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You are right..the download wan't on the 5th..it was the site itself that had the 5th date on its page ..Geragos is just blowing smoke.
Dante I have no doubt, Geragos has "instructed" his client to show some emotions, and tears if possible. Guess he mustered them up somehow. I still think he's crying for HIMSELF.
Your sick!!
At least one of you knew I was being sarcastic.
sarcastic or whatever, - that's not funny.
The evidence -- not any single piece but all of them taken together -- sure demonstrated that Scott and only Scott could be the killer. Only his dysfunctional parents and others, such as the mentally challenged former juror 5, appear to believe or claim to believe that he is innocent.
Alert!
Geragos has requested -- and apparently received -- a continuance until next Tuesday because he says he has some evidence he needs to have tested.
Here we go with the Thursday Hollywood Act!! Don't be too concerned, he's scared of Amber's testimony and the wiretaps coming up. Wonder what he's going to attempt? Did you get that news blurb this morning about some woman coming forward who states that apparently Peterson TOLD HER he was going to do his wife in? I'm not sure if that is the exact wording, I just caught the statement as I was walking out of the bedroom. I'll go and check the TV now.
KCBS) - The Scott Peterson double murder trial has been halted until Tuesday.
KCBS reporter Bob Melrose says new evidence may have been uncovered, and the judge ruled it needs to be tested before the trial can resume.
The judge and attorneys spent an hour behind closed doors this morning before coming out and dismissing the jury for the weekend.
Court will be back in session Tuesday morning.
Well said Dante!!
The key words here Howlin are "may be". With Geragos it never is. Since day ONE he's been going to produce the REAL KILLER. Uh-huh!!
Fox says a happy Geragos reported that the newly found evidence is exculpatory and was turned over reluctantly by the prosecution.
I'll be so glad when this trial is over. Not only is seeing Geragos' fat face on TV getting more than tiresome, it also bothers me to see the images of the Peterson house. I grew up three doors down from it, and spent many hours there as a child.
Gives me the heebies AND the jeebies!
newly found evidence is exculpatory ...
Just saw that also... What could it be? Only thing that could clear Scott would be a suicide note from Laci and I doubt that's what it is.
Tell that to the freeper who thinks the Peterson or Utah jogger stories are not newsworthy.
And try a FR search yesterday on an ABC story that showed that 20 percent of deaths of pregnant women are homocides.
If you are not satisfied with my response to that article, then you can come back and flame me.
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