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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Surely there must have been some kind of window covering. They wouldn't just have it so that anybody could just look in from the street. Venetian blinds....a window shade....
Drapes open, drapes closed = Window coverings open, window coverings closed. Everybody knows it, including the relatives on LKL. They are circling the wagons.
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