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........
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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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Just have to ask. Was that "IS" exculpatory ... or "MAY BE" exculpatory?
"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."
There he goes again. Looks like Amber will testify anyways, when court resumes. Boo hoo, Mr Geragos, you can't avoid what's coming.
I should have corrected that. Sorry.
Possibly exculpatory.
Not faulting you. I checked checked the boards at CTV and it appears that Geragos and Jackie are trumpeting this at one of his ubiquitous news conferences.
I'd put a couple of bucks down that pretty soon, he requests that his jury get the lockdown treatment and be sequestered.
BINGO !!!
You're kidding! How dare he, when this trial is already taking so long??
Regarding Amber, there's no telling WHAT they are doing to rattle her. Consider this: I remember a mere child custody case. (I say "mere" b/c it's way small compared to murder!) One party somehow finagled it so that the other party got arrested the night before the trial. The person arrested was someone who never got in that sort of trouble, no criminal record, etc. But she was duped into a situation where the police ended up being called. It took her all night to get out of it, and so at the trial the next day, she looked and felt like death warmed over.
Now. If someone would go to all that trouble for a custody case, what do you think Geragos and his ilk would do to rattle a major witness in a very public murder trial??
WHAT?? He may have TOLD someone what he was going to do??
Find out, CO, and let us know!!
She's suppose to be on Catherinr Crier's show today.
Okay, okay, everyone, I've figured it out!!
Court is in recess at the request of Scott's lawyer, and they need the time so they can purchase a tarp in Amber's size, approximately 40 pounds of cement, a very stable but hopefully inexpensive boat, and a launch ticket at the Berkeley Marina.
They are working on solving their Amber Problem.
LOLOL!
PsychesKnot.com says the alleged "possibly exculpatory evidence" refers to the possibility that there was FRESH water found in Laci's and/or Conner's tissues.
I'm still waiting to find out what Scott gave Amber for Christmas. One can only imagine..:~)
DANG IT!! I won't be able to see Catherine's show today!!
Would anyone who does see it please put a description of the show on this thread?
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Hi DA! This looks mostly like Geragos spin.
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