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Posted on 01/13/2003 6:57:47 AM PST by runningbear
Search circles back to valley
January 13, 2003 Posted: 06:25:09 AM PST
By PATRICK GIBLIN
BEE STAFF WRITER
The effort to find Laci Peterson shifted back to the Northern San Joaquin Valley on Sunday, 24 hours after an intensive search of the San Francisco Bay turned up only a boat anchor.
Rural areas of Merced and San Joaquin counties were searched Sunday by law enforcement officers in the case of the missing 27-year-old pregnant woman who vanished Christmas Eve.
Modesto police said they will continue to search in the coming days but won't disclose details about where the investigation is headed.
"We have some specific things we are working on and places we want to look at, but we aren't going to release those locations," said Sgt. Ron Cloward, the officer in charge of the search. "I don't know if we will be going back into Berkeley. That will be decided when I sit down with the chief (today)."
Police spent four days last week going through the waters near the Berkeley Marina. Thursday, a sonar device detected an item on the bottom that looked like a human body. It was the anchor.
Scott Peterson, Laci Peterson's husband, told police he went fishing in Berkeley on the morning his wife disappeared. He told police he last saw her as she was getting ready to walk their dog in East La Loma Park at about 9:30 a.m.
While police continued their search Sunday, volunteers at the command center at the Red Lion Hotel spent most of the day making more fliers to be posted throughout the state in the hopes of finding Peterson alive.
Volunteers said they will continue to get the word out about Peterson, whose baby is due in mid-February. On Sunday, they trickled into the center and offered to post fliers throughout California.
"It has been a slow day, but we are still doing our jobs," said Judi McKinney, a volunteer at the center. "We will keep moving forward."
Scott Peterson showed up at the center Sunday afternoon and told some volunteers that the events of Saturday left him "emotionally drained."
"I'm kinda numb today," he said. "I'm speechless."
He has declined all interview requests.
Speculation is frustrating
His mother, Jackie Peterson, a regular volunteer at the center, said her son is under a lot of pressure because many people are assuming that he is responsible for the disappearance of his wife.
"Everyone always thinks the husband or the boyfriend did it," she said. "They have to put up with all of this simply because they didn't have a solid alibi."
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"I'm kinda numb today," he said. "I'm speechless."
He has declined all interview requests.
Speculation is frustrating
I am getting from the Bee reporter that this SP fella, is a pure jerk! Dang, how can someone say, I am numb and speechless on my missing pregnant wife? What a moron his is. And I don't care what people say, unless the reporters aren't saying all they know in the interview statements. My opinion on SP is very low!!!
Ah, the homeless have a say, and a little nit description on their lifestyles. A bent out of shape humor here from the homeless!
His willingness to avoid the media makes him HIGHLY suspect....the fact that he has a lawyer "ïnsulates" him from the police. You would think he be spending all of his time with them aiding in the search efforts. I wonder how common it was for him to go 24 hours without contacting anyone as he did at this critical time. Has anyone heard if there is any life insurance involved ? If so it would be double indemnity for accidental death so he is really going to be "in the chips". This whole thing looks well planned, he probably knew where to stash the body ahead of time (if he did it), so it would involve going for a drive and her possibly alive until they got to where he planned to bury her. Unless you are snooping around at all hours of the night, somebody, a neighbor, would have seen him at some point but this is too coincidental that nobody saw him. If he had planned all this he would NOT have to have gotten gas either for the truck or the boat. Normally someone going fishing would gas up that day rather than keep gasoline stored, don't you think ? And if he had gotten gas he would have had a witness. In all their pictures, she looks to be a very loving person but he looks as if he is just smiling and "along for the ride". You know the kind, who say "you'll do", as they survey the assets of another individual.
I'll be back, off on the roads a bit this morning... ;o)
Yep. And his ego is what pushed him over the edge, IMO. Baby would cut into Ralph Lauren wardrobe money.
In that case, many people speculated that the victim's husband, Harold Whitlock, was responsible for the murder. His alibi was he was at a bachelor party that night, and he told police he found his wife's body in the hallway when he came home at about 4:30 a.m.
He was never arrested, but the rumors about his involvement eventually forced him to move out of the area. He died in a car crash in Oregon in 2001.
In 1999, Scott Avery Fizzell confessed to the murder and was sentenced to 31 years to life. An informant called the police and told them he knew the whole story. He was moved to finally share the information he kept for 11 years because he was reminded of what he knew every time he saw a poster asking for information in the Whitlock murder, Jackie Peterson said.
"That's why we have to get these posters into every pizza parlor and on every pole," she said. "Maybe someone will finally call police and spill their guts about who really took Laci."
A different ending.
I don't doubt he is speechless. He obviously doesn't care and isn't a good actor. He doesn't know what to do.
It's possible, in cases of major depression, for example, not even to feel hunger before you've eaten, satisfaction after you've eaten, sleepiness, or restfullness. Whether Scott has killed her or not (my opinion on this case is "innocent until proven guilty"), he has had one hell of a time lately. Give him the benefit of the doubt -- it's the Christian and the legal thing to do.
"Several homeless said colleagues with arrest warrants had left the parks[.]"
I LOVE IT!!
"Colleagues." Their "colleagues" in their "career" of being homeless?
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