Laci Peterson waves to her husband, Scott, in a homemade video jurors viewed Thursday at his double-murder trial.
Posted on 09/24/2004 5:43:25 AM PDT by runningbear
Jurors view home movies starring a cheerful Laci Peterson
Laci Peterson waves to her husband, Scott, in a homemade video jurors viewed Thursday at his double-murder trial.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — After four months of testimony about her death, jurors on Thursday saw Laci Peterson alive, happy and joking with the man accused of murdering her Thursday.
Prosecutors at the capital murder trial of her husband, Scott, played a home video shot by the fertilizer salesman the summer before the 27-year-old expectant mother went missing.
The 25-second clip shows Laci Peterson and a female friend in the couple's kitchen dressed in bikinis.
When she asks who he is making the tape for, Peterson is heard off-camera saying, "I was going to send it to Osama and make him envious."
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Scott Peterson lowered his head and shed a tear when told the body of his missing wife and the fetus she carried had been found along San Francisco Bay, a detective testified Thursday.
Modesto Police Detective Craig Grogan, the lead investigator, recounted for jurors the events that led to Peterson’s April 18, 2003, arrest in San Diego.
The same day, DNA testing was being conducted that would later identify the bodies. Media coverage was intense, Grogan said, later implying that he feared Peterson might try to flee once the bodies were positively identified.
Grogan said he “......
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Jurors see tape of living victim
REDWOOD CITY — Jurors on Thursday got their first glimpse of Laci Peterson alive, hearing the Modesto woman banter with her husband and seeing her move during a snippet of video.
Lead Detective Craig Grogan, who narrated some of the footage, also told the jury about a tear Scott Peterson shed shortly after his arrest when informed that authorities had identified the remains of his pregnant wife and the son she had carried.
Peterson’s attorney also began a point-by-point attack on the prosecution’s case, methodically questioning Grogan, who has provided the prosecution’s narrative to a sprawling police investigation.
Laci Peterson, clad in a bikini top with a towel wrapped around her waist, busies herself in the kitchen of her Covena Avenue home in the video apparently filmed by her husband.
Accustomed to still pictures of the former substitute teacher, jurors appeared to watch intently.
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District Attorney Jim Brazelton, of Stanislaus County, California, has decided to seek the death penalty against Scott Peterson under the special circumstances statute in the multiple murders of Laci and Connor Peterson. This case has opened up a much publicized debate across the nation regarding the question of whether or not Connor qualifies as a murder victim.
Marva Stark, the Morris County (New Jersey) chapter president of the National Organization of Women, stated, ''Was it born or unborn? If it was unborn, then I can't see charging [Scott Peterson] with a double-murder.''
While Marva Stark is facing a conundrum, the 2003 California Penal Code is specific regarding the law. Penal Code section 187 (a) states: Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. 187 (b) specifies where the law does not apply including therapeutic abortion or in the case of 187 .........
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In police car, Peterson shed a tear, detective testifies
Scott Peterson, seated in the back of a police car, lowered his head and shed a tear when he was told that two bodies found along San Francisco Bay were those of his missing wife and the fetus she carried, a detective testified Thursday.
Modesto police detective Craig Grogan recounted for jurors in Redwood City the events surrounding Peterson's arrest in the parking lot of a San Diego golf course on April 18, 2003, while the DNA test results that would confirm the identities of the bodies -- found four days earlier -- still were pending.
With media coverage of the case intensifying and concern mounting that their prime suspect might flee the country, authorities who had trailed Peterson to San Diego and noticed his driving becoming more erratic decided to arrest him even before the identifications came in, Grogan said..........
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Detective: Scott Silent After Bodies Found
Scott Peterson never called the lead detective on his missing pregnant wife's case to inquire whether the bodies of a woman and fetus found on the Richmond shoreline were his spouse and unborn child, according to testimony this morning in the double-murder trial.
For a week in April 2003 the media publicized the gruesome discoveries, speculating that the bodies were Laci Peterson, who had been missing since just before Christmas 2002, and her baby. But Modesto police Detective Craig Grogan said he did not receive a call from Peterson that whole week.
It wasn't until the former fertilizer salesman was arrested and was sitting in the back of a police car in San Diego that he showed any emotion, according to Grogan, who informed Peterson that the remains were indeed those of his wife and son.
"He removed his sunglasses, put his head down and a tear came down the right side of his face," Grogan recalled. "Then he wiped the other side."
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Developments Thursday in the Scott Peterson case
MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS: Modesto Police Detective Craig Grogan explained how Peterson shed at least one tear when the officer informed him that two bodies found along San Francisco Bay were those of his missing wife and the fetus.Peterson had just been arrested.
Grogan also sought to show that police followed other leads and didn't, as defense attorneys suggest, focus solely on Peterson, ignoring other possible suspects. Grogan said even some of Laci Peterson's family members and Scott Peterson's mistress were investigated.
Defense lawyers noted Peterson ........
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Ultrasound expert on death of baby
Doctor contradicts defense, says date probably Dec. 23
Laci Peterson's baby most likely died Dec. 23, 2002, the day before her husband reported her missing, an expert who testified at Scott Peterson's double murder trial said Wednesday.
The date of the baby's death has become a major point of contention in the 17-week-long trial. Prosecutors have tried to show that the baby was still inside the eight-months-pregnant Laci Peterson when her husband allegedly murdered her. Defense attorney Mark Geragos, however, has told jurors that the baby was older -- possibly by several weeks -- when he died.
Geragos has theorized that an unknown assailant cut the baby out of Laci Peterson, then, in an effort to frame Scott Peterson, dumped the bodies in the bay near where Peterson says he went fishing on Christmas Eve 2002.
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REDWOOD CITY - Jurors on Thursday got their first glimpse of Laci Peterson alive, hearing the Modesto woman banter with her husband and seeing her move during a snippet of video.
Lead Detective Craig Grogan, who narrated some of the footage, also told the jury about a tear Scott Peterson shed shortly after his arrest when informed that authorities had identified the remains of his pregnant wife and the fetus she had carried.
Peterson's attorney also began a point-by-point attack on the prosecution's case, methodically questioning Grogan, who has provided the prosecution's narrative to a sprawling police investigation.
Laci Peterson, clad in a........
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Jury Gets First Glimpse Of Laci In Video
Jury Gets First Glimpse Of Laci In Video
Laci Peterson
By Peterson Shed A Tear When Notified Of Bodies
Sept. 23 (AP) — Scott Peterson lowered his head and shed a tear when he was told that two bodies found along San Francisco Bay were those of his missing wife and the fetus she carried, a detective testified Thursday........
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Jurors Catches Glimpse Of Laci On Video
Jurors in the Scott Peterson double murder trial got to see and hear Laci Peterson for the first time Thursday when prosecutors played a videotape recovered from the woman who burglarized the Peterson home after Laci Peterson's disappearance.
Laci Peterson appeared briefly at the beginning of the tape along with another woman, possibly her friend, Stacy Boyers. Both women were wearing bikini tops and sarongs or towels around their waists. The date superimposed on the lower right side of the screen read July 4, 2002 at 5:25 p.m. ........
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Peterson Became Emotional When Bodies Identified
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson lowered his head and shed a tear when he was told that two bodies found along San Francisco Bay were those of his missing wife and the fetus she carried, a detective testified Thursday.
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Modesto Police Detective Craig Grogan, the lead investigator in the case, recounted for jurors the events that led to Peterson's April 18, 2003 arrest in San Diego.
It was the day DNA testing was being conducted that would later identify the bodies. Media coverage was intense, Grogan said, later implying that he feared Peterson might try to flee once the bodies were positively identified.
Grogan said he "didn't want Mr. Peterson to be able to get away."
Finally, the decision was made to arrest Peterson even before the identifications came in, Grogan said. Peterson was stopped by authorities at a San Diego
Laci Peterson is heard saying "whoo hooo, hi" and waving to the camera near the end of the segment.
The rest of the videotape includes segments of a car driving through the Peterson's Modesto neighborhood as well as segments that appeared to be related to Peterson's work as a fertilizer salesman..........
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More Scotty's speed.
"What struck me about the video was Scott Peterson's closet. He is a very organized man. All his shoes were neatly lined-up in a shoe rack, at least 15 pairs. AND his shirts were arranged by colors. I couldn't believe it. I have never known a man who color-coordinates his clothes. From whites, to blues, to the more reddish colors. We thought, maybe Laci did it. But when the video filmed Laci's closet, it was not organized by colors. So, it appears Scott did the color-things on his own. What does that say about a man? Maybe he's a fan of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.".............
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They're busy getting somebody else ready for trial.
Scotty's motor home in the trailer park, all ready to hit the road...
LOL...... you rock... ;o)
I can just see Scott color-coordinating his clothes in prison. "Stripes.... okay, what next? Stripes.... next?... stripes..."
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
Turn off the waterworks, baby, they don't move me no more!
LOL..... hummm, what color stripes can I get!!
Snot sure has the gift of crying on queue! What a 'girlie-man.'
posted from another freeper:
No doubt Snott was crying for himself, and he could only choke up one (1) tear...
When the inmates get through with him, it won't be hard to do.
Forget the crying....where was his outrage at the "killer"??
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