60-90 pounds of Redi-Mix is one bag, FWIW.
Posted on 09/21/2004 5:25:54 AM PDT by runningbear
Lead Peterson detective hints at 82 pounds of missing cement
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The lead investigator in Laci Peterson's murder tried to give the circumstantial case against her husband more weight Monday by suggesting that at many as 82 pounds of the fertilizer salesman's cement are missing and may have been used to sink his pregnant wife's body to the San Francisco Bay floor.
Modesto police detective Craig Grogan said Scott Peterson admitted purchasing "something like" 60 to 90 pounds of cement at Home Depot in an interview 10 days after his wife's Dec. 24, 2002, disappearance. Police who searched his property could only account for eight pounds of that material: a single, homemade concrete anchor.
"Did he tell you what he did with the bag when he was done making the anchor?" Chief Deputy District Attorney Birgit Fladager asked Grogan.
"I think he said he took it home and threw it in his trash," the detective replied.
Story continues ......
Detective relates Peterson's theory on Laci's disappearance
Scott Peterson had his own theory about what happened to his pregnant wife.
A day after Laci Peterson disappeared, the Modesto fertilizer salesman told police he believed his wife had been taken by a local transient who wanted to steal her jewelry, a police detective testified today.
According to Peterson, his wife had taken to wearing gold and diamond jewelry she'd recently inherited from her grandmother and she was wearing several of the items when he last saw her the morning of Dec. 24, 2002, Detective Craig Grogan of the Modesto police department told the jury in Peterson's double-murder trial in Redwood City.
Peterson told police he left their home that morning for a fishing trip in San Francisco bay and returned in the afternoon to find his wife missing. She was eight months pregnant at the time.
He was charged with her murder .......
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Peterson Defense Hammers on Evidence Processing
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What defendant told police made them suspicious
Scott Peterson told police he believed transients took his pregnant wife for her jewels or that someone abducted her for the baby.
But Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan said that in most cases the culprit is someone close to the victim, and Laci Peterson's murder was no different. He says her husband did it - plain and simple.
Grogan, the lead investigator on the case, told jurors Monday that there was a lot about Scott Peterson that made him suspicious. Peterson was the last person to see his wife alive, the first person to find her gone, he had an odd alibi and it looked as though the former fertilizer salesman had been making concrete anchors in his warehouse. Grogan indicated that it was strange that only a small weight was found in Peterson's aluminum fishing boat. ........
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Peterson Trial: Scott's Theory On Disappearance Presented
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- The day after Laci Peterson disappeared, her husband had a theory of what happened, suggesting to the lead detective that she was abducted by transients in the park near her home because she often wore expensive jewelry inherited from her grandmother.
That was one of the revelations from Detective Craig Grogan Monday. And as the defense claims Modesto police rushed to judgment, he's the man in the hot seat because he led the investigation.
During testimony Monday, Grogan explained why he focused on Scott, saying he was the closest to Laci, the last to see her, and the one who discovered she was missing. Grogan also said Scott had no alibi, he spent the day fishing, alone, and wet mops and fresh laundry at his house that night suggested a possible cover up.
"It's clear to the jury, right now, that everything he learned from Scott Peterson pointed to Scott Peterson, not away from Scott Peterson. So, he could not make that elimination," said legal analyst Dean Johnson......
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SCOTT HAD LACI-ROB THEORY: COP
September 21, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson offered his own theory of what happened to his pregnant wife within 24 hours of her disappearance, the lead detective testified yesterday at Peterson's double-murder trial. Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan said Peterson theorized "that she had been wearing jewelry that she inherited from her grandmother and that he'd seen her wearing it on that morning, and when she went into the park a transient had robbed her."
Grogan conducted a three-hour, unrecorded interview of Peterson on Dec. 25, 2003, a day after Laci Peterson was reported missing......
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Detective: Scott Had His Own Theory About Wife's Disappearance
Sept. 20 (AP) — Scott Peterson offered his own theory for what happened to his pregnant wife within 24 hours of her disappearance, the lead detective at his double-murder trial testified Monday.
Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan said Peterson theorized "that she had been wearing jewelry that she inherited from her grandmother and that he'd seen her wearing it on that morning, and when she went into the park a transient had robbed her for her jewelry."
The theory came out during Grogan's three......
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Detective: Tarp didn't smell of decomposing body
A detective testifying today in the murder tribal of Scott Peterson discounted another investigator's earlier report, saying a tarp found near Laci Peterson's body smelled like ``stale seawater and algae'' -- not like a decomposing body.
Detective Ian Frazier, with the East Bay Regional Parks Police, testified that he was one of the first officers called to the scene when Laci Peterson's body was found wedged in rocks and broken concrete at Point Isabel at the edge of the San Francisco Bay on April 14, 2003.
Defense lawyer ........
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CRAIG GROGAN
Grogan is the lead Modesto police detective investigating the case. He said a number of things made Scott Peterson suspicious from the start. Peterson, a self-described slob, was vacuuming his living room the day after his wife disappeared, and Grogan said he found it strange that there was a big mess of concrete dust all over Peterson's flatbed trailer when Peterson said he made only one eight-pound anchor. Grogan said he believes Peterson made numerous anchors to weight his wife's body down. Grogan also said Peterson lied to police about having a mistress for weeks and responded, ``Is that supposed to be me?'' when presented with a photo of himself with his mistress.
WHAT'S NEXT
Grogan will remain on the stand through Thursday. The prosecution is expected to rest its case by the end of next week, before turning it over to the defense.......
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60-90 pounds of Redi-Mix is one bag, FWIW.
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The cement was made in haste...... didn't set..... thus didn't keep body from surfacing and baby's too. Gruesome.
I can picture him putting them in an obscure dumpster on his way to the Bay.
Regardless, he made a mess with the concrete at his warehouse.
If he was going to make one little anchor, why not make it at home as long as he was repairing some stuff there? Oh...he was planning something he didn't want Laci or anyone else to know about.
Poor Scotty, if he'd only lost 31918 more pounds he's have a perfect alibi.
Best way to weight down a body would be in 20ft of heavy chain wrapped around the dead person. Best case would be to drive out of state and pay cash for it. Better yet, get an illegal alien Mexican to go in and buy it for you. They hang around many Home Depots looking for work.
Chain is the best way to keep a body underwater for years.
Scott tried to get a handle on the tides via computer.
The best witness to this whole thing is Scott himself. He's like the little kid who covers his eyes and walks by you thinking you can't see him and then lies when you catch him.
There was something about him having dinner Christmas day with his family AND the neighbor who (I think) found the dog. I believe this would have been for the purpose of telling THAT GROUP the same story. I don't know the TIME of that sitting. If it was daylight, everyone should have been looking for Laci. WHY INVITE THE NEIGHBOR?
You don't have to be a specialist to mix concrete or weight something down in water. You do have to be a specialist in "What happens to a body and materials in water" and "the action of tides".
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All true but if you haven't mixed concrete much you can easily make a mix too dry or too wet that may look OK but cannot endure underwater. Especially when you are nervous and all is done in haste
I'm not gonna ask....
You got the best info now. You can run with it if you have to. "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap"
The downside of knowing this is that up here in the NM mountains, there isn't a body of standing water big enough to lose a shoe in.
It's the heat process which sets it. While "slump" is a factor, it's just not rocket scientist stuff for an anchor and "how to" is on the bag. Can't tell you how many anchors we made when I was a kid. We used old paint cans and u-bolts.
http://www.bmzc.org/directions.html
Very nice hot springs there when I visted in 1975
If I were your other half...I'd sleep with one eye open! ;o)
Scott, seriously. Let's leave Rob out of it.
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