Posted on 09/22/2004 5:26:00 AM PDT by runningbear
Two more witnesses will take the stand, including an expert testifying about the age of Laci Peterson's fetus. Grogan will resume testimony today and continue Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Jurors watch TV interviews revealing Scott Peterson's litany of lies
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Prosecutors tried to turn Scott Peterson into his own worst witness Tuesday by showing jurors television interviews in which the double-murder defendant repeatedly lied and made suspicious statements about the disappearance of his wife.
In the trio of interviews, conducted by the ABC network and two local stations a month after Laci Peterson went missing and three months before his arrest, the fertilizer salesman insisted he had nothing to do with her disappearance, often with tears streaming down his face.
But prosecutors attempted to focus jurors Tuesday on what Peterson said in between tearful declarations of innocence.
In an interview with ABC anchorwoman Diane Sawyer, Peterson spoke of his missing wife in the past tense before hastily correcting himself.
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Less than a month after Laci Peterson disappeared, police had 41 reasons to believe her body would be found at the bottom of San Francisco Bay, the lead detective in the case testified today.
Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan said that by Jan. 21, 2003, all evidence pointed to the bay and the spot where Peterson said he went fishing on the day his wife disappeared.
Grogan is using his testimony to carefully string together the long laundry list of evidence that led police first to suspect and later arrest Peterson in the murders of his eight-months-pregnant wife and the couple's unborn baby:
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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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Police report: Laci Peterson's yoga instructor initially suspected robbery
(Court TV) — Scott Peterson wasn't the only person who suspected his pregnant wife had been abducted for her jewelry.
According to a police report obtained exclusively by Court TV's Catherine Crier, Laci Peterson's yoga instructor, Debra Wolski, told police that when she first heard about the expectant mother's disappearance, she suspected Peterson might have been abducted for the flashy jewels she often wore.
Scott Peterson offered up the same theory to police less than 24 hours after he reported his wife missing, Modesto police detective Craig Grogan testified at the double-murder trial Tuesday.
Peterson's defense team has also suggested the same theory.
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
REDWOOD CITY
The lead detective assigned to investigate Laci Peterson's disappearance had "about 41 reasons" why police thought her body was in San Francisco Bay, he testified Tuesday. .........
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REDWOOD CITY — For Craig Grogan, it came down to simple math.
Reasons to think Laci Peterson’s body eventually would turn up in San Francisco Bay, where her husband said he fished alone the day she disappeared: 41.
Reasons to think the pregnant woman’s body was submerged in a lake or waterway near Modesto: about 10.
That’s what Grogan came up with during a late-night brainstorming session with another Modesto detective about a month after the substitute teacher was reported missing on Christmas Eve 2002, he told jurors Tuesday.
“The ultimate conclusion was that Laci Peterson’s body was in San Francisco Bay and that we needed to search there,” Grogan testified.
The search was unsuccessful, but a passerby eventually found the remains of Peterson and her baby in April 2003 along the bay’s eastern shoreline, less than two miles from where Scott Peterson said he fished Christmas Eve.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Four weeks after Laci Peterson's disappearance, detectives had 41 reasons to suspect her husband dumped her pregnant body in San Francisco Bay, the lead detective testified yesterday.
Modesto Police Detective Craig Grogan said cops were thorough in their investigation, but everything kept coming back to Scott Peterson and his suspicious fishing trip two hours from home on the day his wife disappeared.
"The ultimate conclusion was that Laci Peterson's body was in the San Francisco Bay and that we needed to focus our efforts there," Grogan said during his second day on the stand. .....
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Detective Outlines Why Scott Peterson Became Prime Suspect in Wife's Disappearance
(KCBS/AP) - The lead investigator in the Scott Peterson double-murder case outlined more than three dozen reasons today why investigators zeroed in on Peterson as a suspect in his wife Laci's disappearance.
KCBS reporter Bob Melrose at the courthouse in Redwood City says, in an effort to illustrate that a thorough investigation was conducted, the District Attorney asked Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan how many pages of documents were generated during this case.
Grogan answered 42,000 - 3,200 personally generated by him.
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Detective Connects The Dots For Peterson Jury
POSTED: 11:09 am PDT September 21, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- The lead detective assigned to investigate Laci Peterson's disappearance had "about 41 reasons" for why police thought her body was in San Francisco Bay, the officer testified Tuesday at Scott Peterson's double-murder trial.
Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan then ticked off the list for jurors in rapid succession, providing for panelists the first real narrative-like detailed account so far in the 17-week old trial. It appeared more filled with reasons for why police suspected Peterson than a list of reasons simply to look for Laci in the bay.
Prosecutors allege Peterson killed his eight-months pregnant wife on or around Dec. 24, 2002, in their Modesto home, then dumped her weighted body into the bay......
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Thank you runnning bear! After all the stuff in the last few days I think the jury will find him guilty. I was worried for a while.
I had a mistress. I told her that "I Lost my wife" and "this would be the first holiday without her". (So she died after Thanksgiving...just a few days ago.)
I was 90 miles away, out of Town fishing in my "surprise boat" and believe it or not, that's where the bodies were found.
I made 5 anchors and still have one.
I washed my fishing clothes right away because I'm a professed slob.
I found the jewelry that I said Laci was wearing and she was found in different clothes than when I left her.
I invited Amy over Christmas to make sure I told everyone the same story. I know one would want to be with their family privately but I'm different and I knew I was screwing up my alibi and Amy was the only one who knew when the dog came home. I had to make sure that fit my story.
Let common sense rule the courtroom.
P.S. A POX ON GERRAGOS
If only this trial would develop this fast.
Thank you, rb! :-)
Reading in one of the articles, it says that Jackie was quietly crying and that Susan was comforting her. OMG! Does even his mother see what a lying, murderous sack of $hit this man is???
Then I thought she was probably just crying along with his fake tears as he tried to pull the wool over Grogan's eyes... All Scott's critters have a place in his choir. I wonder if she gave Scott crying-on-cue lessons when he was a lad, or if she was content to just be his first (and best!) patsy. GGggrrr.....
Pinz
He didnt get this way overnight, his parents enabled him by giving him whatever he wanted instead of their time. Instead of bringing him up right with respect for others and his Creator, this sack o sh*t thinks everyone else (like his parents) are here to serve him. Never a thought like hey these people are just like me, Scott just uses everyone. Has no regret that all those involved searching for Laci could be spending time with their own families.
I was so heartened to hear Laura Ingle's description on KFI AM in L.A. this morning of the mood in the courtroom. We are gonna get this guy fried. WHEW. I am a lot less worried after hearing what she said.
She said that one man (newsman?) summed up the palpable feeling in the courtroom since Amber and the change of prosecution questioners as "There is death in that courtroom." She said the entire courtroom now feels very sad and very eerie.
Scott bounding into the courtroom or whistling his little tunes is so jarring that anyone who sees or hears it HAS to say "What's wrong with this guy?"
With all the latest difficult testimony about the bodies, the jurors have been obviously moved. With all the evidence that has come out against Scott, all of his lies show him to be highly duplicitous, with no apparent inhibition.
I think the truth is worming its way out of even what started to be a disjointed prosecution of the case.
Since day one, I've thought there's something
mighty strange about Jackie. She has a natural
"cold, hard" look about her. Then, I learned,
Jackie had given away two of her kids and had
a granddaughter taken away from her.
You're so right, S4J.
He's seems perfectly comfortable having all of those people tramp into the courtroom everyday to hear his next pack of lies. He's just oblivious to the pain and horror he has inflicted on Laci's family, his family, the Modesto area and the family of man.
I bet he figures he'll walk away from this, join another country club and start picking up girls again, by oh, Halloween. He'll have a chance to celebrater, er, spend his first Christmas holiday alone... in peace and quiet finally. He'll be able to eat all the treats he wants, too, with his new svelte profile.
Lee and Jackie are probably making holiday menus with him! They're all daft!
Pinz
Whistling past the graveyard?
Nah, that would take a certain amount of awareness. He's locked in his own bizarro land.
Pinz
I don't think I've heard about the grandchild. There is a certain emotional fracture in the Petersons. How can they taunt the Rochas about the day-to-day running of the case, without seeming to hold onto the idea that a young woman and her baby son were murdered? Even if they choose to deny that their son is the one who did it?
I can't fathom enough meanness in them to overcome common sense and human compassion toward the senselessness of Laci and Conner's deaths. They must be very broken people. I'm almost glad they found one another, that saves two regular people from insane spouses. lol
Pinz
It seemed to me, LP was insinuating RG killed Laci.
Yep. I agree. That's a good example of what I can't fathom. Is it meanness? Can a seemingly functional person really stoop to that level? Is Lee's view of the world THAT competitive?
Or is that whole family walking around with some very important screws loose?
No wonder Scott STILL doesn't seem to see what all the fuss is about. Neither do his parents!!!
Pinz
I only heard it mentioned breifly the other day on tv. No one elaborated on it, which was disappointing to me. I wanted to know, why, when, etc.
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