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Posted on 01/21/2003 4:10:58 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
OAKLAND, Calif. -- With the clock ticking down to the one-month anniversary of Laci Peterson's disappearance, a former FBI profiler told KTVU Tuesday there are troubling questions that have arisen in the case.
Talking with Mornings on 2, Candice Delong -- who worked on several cases for the FBI -- said some of the developments have piqued her interest.
She said it was obvious that police long ago had decided that this was more than just a missing person case.
"I would imagine they are considering it a crime," she said. "They had a spokesperson say last week that Scott is the only focus of their investigation. If that's the case, and he doesn't have Laci, then they are considering this a crime."
When asked what she made of Peterson's decision to launch a search in the Los Angeles area last weekend, Delong responded that in her experience it didn't make much sense. As did Peterson's decision to go to San Diego this weekend.
"Well, a couple things come to mind," she said. "There doesn't seem to be any sense in going down there (Southern California). He says he's expanding the search, but why L.A.? The most logical place to expand would be the (San Francisco) Bay Area. And he also said next weekend he may go to San Diego. That's pretty close to the Mexican border. I'm wondering if he's thinking of splitting to Mexico."
"Another possibility is that he is trying to draw the search away from the Modesto area. Possibly because he is concerned, if he was involved, that here may be a discovery there."
Delong said she was also troubled Peterson's choice of words on a Good Morning America appearance very early in the case.
"It was very early and he seemed to be referring to Laci and his child in the past tense," she said. "He said words to the effect 'Gee, we worked so hard on the nursery and now we aren't going to use it.' And then he quickly corrected himself and said 'That is unless she comes home.'"
"I've been around a lot of people under stress and chaos of a missing person and the last thing they ever want to verbalize is their worst fear."
"These (Peterson's response) are the kind of things that raise the level of suspicion quite high."
Asked what she made of the National Enquirer report that Peterson had changed his clothes and washed the kitchen floor before beginning to search the neighborhood for Laci, Delong said it was also suspicious.
"Well, I don't know anything about changing his clothes or mopping the floor, but I also believe it was confirmed that some forensic evidence was recovered in the form of blood on the kitchen floor," she said.
Delong said it was notable that there have been no leaks out of the Modesto Police Department.
"It's a tremendously high profile case and no leaks out of the Modesto Police?" she said. "It's a sign they are putting this case together very carefully."
Meanwhile, in Modesto the war of words between Laci's family and Peterson was ratcheting up to new levels.
KTVU's Ted Rowlands talked off camera on Tuesday with Peterson. He said Scott had categorically denied not complying with everything the Modesto Police have asked of him. Peterson said he had been "fully cooperative" throughout the investigation.
Still, Laci's family went on national television Monday night and again demanded he tell police everything he knows about Laci's disappearance.
Reportedly, a family member of Laci's confronted Scott over the weekend and told him to come forward with what information he had.
On Monday, police revealed that the Peterson home was burglarized while Scott was in Southern California. Peterson reported the break-in Sunday night. Police said burglars entered the home through a window sometime between Thursday and Sunday.
"Detectives don't believe the burglary is connected to the Peterson case," said Detective Doug Ridenour, spokesman for the Modesto Police Department.
Police refused to say what was taken from the home. Peterson put a padlock on his front gate early Monday.
Meanwhile, a Doubletree Hotel in Los Angeles, site of the weekend volunteer effort, has received threatening phone calls.
Callers said the hotel was "supporting a murderer," said Brad Saltzman, general manager of the Red Lion Hotel in Modesto and one of the organizers of Sunday's event.
"The hotel's involvement is simply an effort to find Laci," said Saltzman, "but it's not supporting any individual."
Laci Peterson, a pregnant 27-year-old, has been missing since she took her dog for a walk near the couple's Modesto home on Christmas Eve. Scott Peterson told police he was fishing at the Berkeley Marina at the time of his wife's disappearance
"It was very early and he seemed to be referring to Laci and his child in the past tense," she said. "He said words to the effect 'Gee, we worked so hard on the nursery and now we aren't going to use it.' And then he quickly corrected himself and said 'That is unless she comes home.'"
"I've been around a lot of people under stress and chaos of a missing person and the last thing they ever want to verbalize is their worst fear."
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Good one!
Nearly 8 months. I believe the baby is (was) due Feb. 10, or thereabouts.
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