Laci Peterson Crime Scene Blood Work Due Back Next Thursday/Friday [multiple samples found]

FOX News ^ | January 25, 2003 | Rita Cosby

[ewing]

Rita Cosby again quoting local LE sources saying that three different samples of blood were found in the Peterson house, not just in the kitchen.

Authorities confiscated Scott's computer in the earlier search and some outdoor patio chair furniture.

The blood work is taking some time to process and will be ready late next week as was indicated in Rita's initial report, the authorities will wait to make an potential arrest until then.

[Devil_Anse]

Hey, I know Canada doesn't want to extradite when the death penalty is a possibility, but I'd never heard that about Mexico. (?) Also, I really can't believe that a Mexican jail would be comfortable for Scott or for anyone. At least, not from what I've heard.

[Devil_Anse]

Well, I agree with this: that a good many decent men have gone fishing on Christmas Eve, or even while their wives were very pregnant. But I don't think any man who cheats on his wife is decent. (Same rule for the wives.) Those people may be common--but not decent!

I see your point now, thanks for explaining it.

[Devil_Anse]

so this means that he did not try to sell the house until after she was missing?

That's what I've been trying to figure it out. At the moment, I am thinking that he was looking into selling the house before her disappearance, and that he was also looking into selling it SINCE her disappearance.

No doubt he will tell the realtor now, "I really need to go ahead and sell it, it has too many memories for me of my poor wife and our hopes for our baby boy." The realtor, as all realtors will do, will try to be agreeable to whatever he wants to do. But there will still be some sticky points about selling it w/o the permission of his wife, who is not legally considered dead yet. Wonder what he'll do about that. Wonder if the house was in both their names--I think it was.

It occurs to me that maybe Laci and Scott exchanged durable powers of attorney some time in the past, so they could handle each other's business affairs if need be. Seems to me that that could enable him to go ahead and sell the house. (?) If this couple owned the house in a joint tenancy with right of survivorship, I am wondering, seems to me one party COULD sell the house. I am thinking that it is really only things like banking rules that would insist on the other owner's signature. I could VERY easily be wrong about this. Any California realtors out there?

[iaf97]

No way unless there was a death certificate or proof of conservatorship. DPOA don't give you carte blanche usually come into effect after certain specified events ie incompetence etc.

[Devil_Anse]

He was never too devoted to her anyway, appearances at the time notwithstanding.

Truer words were never spoken.

Yeah, we all know that Scott has to struggle every time he has to tear himself away from that sad telephone in his and Laci's house--the telephone that has yet to ring with news that his wife has been found!

You know, for some reason, I just got thinking about Laci's last month before her disappearance. We know she apparently didn't confide her troubles to family members or even friends. It must have been terribly lonely and depressing--I imagine her alone, "talking" to that little boy she was carrying, saying, "don't you worry, things are terrible, but I'm going to take care of YOU no matter what!"

That, to me, is the most depressing thought I've had yet.

[Palladin]

HAHAHA! Good observation on Mickey "The Loser" Sherman!

[runningbear]

trust deed is most likely titled "Scott and Laci Peterson, husband and wife".... It is in both parties names.. As of March 2002, still in both names..(all public records, but perfer to not blast them on the net. FYI: If anyone gains that information, please do not post on the net.)

[Devil_Anse]

Is he distantly related to the Kennedys?

Heh-heh!!! I don't think so, but he appears to be using their play book!

Did you catch what that Ramsey lawyer, Lin Wood, said in one of the recent articles about this case? He said (paraphrasing), nowadays, a politician who had a driving accident while having a woman campaign worker in his car would be crucified! It's all thanks to 24-hour news cycles! It wouldn't be like it was when Ted Kennedy had his incident in 1969!

And this is a BAD thing, Mr. Wood? Mr. Wood, I think you've hit upon one of the few advantages of our having "the 24-hour news cycle"!

[Devil_Anse]

I know, I know, I agree with you on that one!

Let's face it, if there were any justice in this world, Ted Kennedy would have been convicted of manslaughter at the very LEAST.

[STOCKHRSE]

"Amber Frye is a Victim"

Very Profound And very "rash"....If she is a victim...but if she is any part of this...Fry the _itch! tears en all...

We have two sure victims here...Laci and Conner...And that is exactly how I feel....


RAIDERS should be able to beat Tampa ONCE...SAINTS beat em TWICE....This year...:-)))

[Rusty Roberts]

Even if Scott does have Laci's power of attorey, to have approached a realtor about even possibly selling the house less than 4 weeks in to this case shows a callousness rare among men. Scott says he wants to keep the focus on finding Laci, yet he's playing golf, diappearing for time while others are are working on trying find her, he won't answer questions because his lawyer won't let him (and this is priceless-when someone in his family asks him to call his lawyer and talk to him about this, he says he can't because he doesn't have his lawyer's pager number--this was on Rita Cosby last night). I want to know, what is he going to if the MPD come for him on a weekend, politely say:Okay, take me away, I don't have my lawyer's pager number, so go ahead and process me and I'll call him on Monday?

Now he says he went to his office for a few hours on 12/24 then decided to go fishing---just how long could he have fished being that it was 85 miles away and given that he says he never reached Laci after 9:30 that morning this also means Laci didn't know he was fishing that day. Most of the things I just listed are from AMW web site or Lacipeterson.com

I still would have loved to have been a fly on the wall as Scott sat with his family as Amber approached the microphone. Bet that was the one time color drained from his face, the closest he has come to showing emotion yet.

[Devil_Anse]

Spectre, I am very sorry to hear about your lost moral compass, but if you bring back the person who pointed out that it was lost, I'm going to lose it! (And by "it" I DON'T mean my "moral compass!")

LOL!

[Devil_Anse]

I second your questions about the "break-in." If Scott had something to do with it, why would a break-in be necessary?

[Taffini]

Did this guy actually go out and play golf while everyone else was looking for his wife? Is he O.J.'s brother?
What is the deal on the break-in? Something was PUT back in the house???? Did he really put the house up for sale?
Why doesn't he just admit he killed her?

[Spunky]

Hey, I know Canada doesn't want to extradite when the death penalty is a possibility, but I'd never heard that about Mexico.

I think this is something new with Mexico. I just read an article about Vincinti Fox going before the United Nations declaring in-humanity (or something like that) against the United States for our stand on the death penalty.

I wish I could find the article, I know it was on FR, but I can't. Anyway I was floored when I read it.

[Yaelle]

It must have been terribly lonely and depressing--I imagine her alone, "talking" to that little boy she was carrying, saying, "don't you worry, things are terrible, but I'm going to take care of YOU no matter what!"

That is indeed very sad. I wonder, though, if Mr. Convincing Liar didn't soothe away all of her worries about where he was all the time, etc. I mean, every friend and family member (except her Dad) has said that they were such a GREAT couple, so in love, etc. I think he was playing his psychotic game pretty well there, and she may have had some worries, but knew NOTHING of his true nature until the end.

I am reminded of Condit, whose flight attendant girlfriend called him after she saw HIS photo on TV in the missing Chandra case, and who, according to the flight attendant, completely convinced her and reassured her that he was not involved, and "made everything OK again" with his soothing words. These guys are VERY convincing when they want to be. They think they can do/get everything with their charm.

[Yaelle]

If Scott had someone do it, why not just give the person a key?

To make it look like he was not involved?

[Yaelle]

Yes. Ted Kennedy skating (swimming?) out of that little "problem" is amazing today. No hokier alibi has ever been heard. No one would ever have thought anything innocent was going on there, and he would never have been able to tell his story without research going into the drinking part of it. (As I recall, there were MANY with him in that beach house, and they had been drinking for MANY, MANY HOURS before the incident.) Even if the relationship WERE innocent, the drunk driving part of it all would have earned him at least a manslaughter conviction.

[Devil_Anse]

Thanks for the answer. So, what are we to make of the stories that Scott has been making overtures of selling the house, since Laci's disappearance?

(As for possible plans by him to sell it b/f her disappearance, he could simply pressure her until she finally gave in.)

You mention conservatorship. While obviously that is more likely to be used for an incompetent person, I wonder if it could also possibly be applied to this situation--after the passage of some time? (This situation=devoted husband bereft of wife through circumstances, in desperate need of money to further fund search for her. *Cough*.)

Or how about this more likely scenario: perhaps Scott's equity in the house (if any) has been pledged to his attorney for future payment? You can bet his attorney is trying to figure out the best way for Scott to get money out of the house.

One thing I think you would agree on. If they are joint tenants with right of survivorship, then if she is provably deceased (complete with death certificate), he owns the house. I would think that would be the case regardless of slayer statutes, too.

[Devil_Anse]

LOL! Yeah, if they come to arrest him, you can BET that he'll miraculously remember his lawyer's pager number in a heartbeat!! Wouldn't it be cool if it was during the Super Bowl, and his lawyer was at the Super Bowl? ["Sorry, guys, I've got a pager call...Hello? Who? Mr. Peterson? Oh, really? Well, look, I'll be there, don't worry. Yeah...halftime's comin' up...don't worry....what? *Get him!!! Get him!!! Get him!!!* No, no...not YOU Mr. Peterson, a player who was about to score...never mind..."]

Scott's timeline didn't fit very well before, if he's now adding in time that he "worked", it REALLY won't fit! "If it doesn't fit, he's full of sh--!"