Posted on 01/31/2003 7:05:43 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
Jan. 31 — Police say they are unable to confirm whether a store clerk saw missing, pregnant California woman Laci Peterson sometime in December.
At a press conference today, Longview, Wash., police said they had reviewed between 40 and 55 hours of surveillance videotape taken from a convenience store between Dec. 24 and Jan. 19 and had failed to find any evidence indicating that Peterson had been there. Police reviewed the tapes after a clerk came forward late last week to say she believes she saw a missing, pregnant woman. Police said they are continuing to interview the clerk. Meanwhile, they added, a second woman has since come forward and claimed she has also seen Peterson.
‘I Was Kidnapped’
On Thursday, the Daily News of Longview reported that the clerk told police a pregnant woman came into Market Place in this southwest Washington town and said: "This is serious. I was kidnapped. Call the authorities when I leave."
The 45-year-old clerk said she intended to call police but became distracted and forgot, according to a police report. Late last week, the clerk was watching CNN and saw a story about Laci Peterson, 27, who vanished from Modesto, Calif., on Christmas Eve.
She told police the report triggered her memory of an unusual pair of customers who passed through her checkout line. The woman appeared to be in her 20s and in a late stage of pregnancy; Peterson was due to give birth to a boy on Feb. 10. The clerk said the woman was a "classic beauty" with sleek brown hair.
The woman was accompanied by a much older man with "strong features" and a ruddy complexion, the clerk reported.
After the man stepped out of line to get something he forgot, the clerk remarked to the woman that she should be wearing a coat on such a chilly day. The woman told the clerk she didn't have time to take a coat because she was kidnapped. She also told the clerk that the man had a weapon.
Why Didn’t She Come Forward Sooner?
The clerk told police she wasn't sure whether to take the woman seriously.
When the man returned, he asked what the two talked about while he was gone, the police report says.
"She said you kidnapped her," the clerk said.
The clerk said the statement seemed to make the man angry, and she teasingly added that her husband always kidnapped her to take her to dinner. The man relaxed and laughed.
"Yeah, I guess I kidnapped her," she recalled him saying.
After they left, the clerk unsuccessfully tried to find a phone book to call police, then became distracted and forgot about the incident. She told police she feels terrible about it now.
Scott Peterson, 30, has told investigators he last saw his wife the morning of Christmas Eve. Police have not named him as a suspect in his wife's disappearance, but attention has focused on him, in part because he admits he told his wife he was having an affair shortly before she vanished
Greta says she has on verified source that Scott did not have pics of him and his girlfriend, and that the pics were taken at someone's home (Amber's?), not at her workplace, as first stated.
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