MSNBC REPORTING LACI'S BODY FOUND BY SONAR IN MID MARCH

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[KE]

MSNBC reporting that police had found the body of Laci back in mid March by using Sonar. It looked to be wrapped; it was not accessable; it was in very dark murky water; sonar team found; only 4 miles from where ScottyBoy was fishing. But a ship or troller moving through the channel displaced it - then washed up on shore almost ? 3 weeks later. Developing.

Watch Rita Cosby at 6 pm ET on Fox. They are hinting at new info to come out. Maybe the same as MSNBC.

[JustPiper]

So was she decapitated before or after being dumped?

[JustPiper]

My wife and I are expecting twins

Congratulations!

[Ichneumon]

I wonder why, even early on when there was no body, the police focused on him as the likely suspect. Instinct?

They may have found little bits of physical evidence early on, but even if they hadn't, from the very start the husband just wasn't acting right -- at least not like an innocent husband who was worried about his missing wife and wanted her to be found. Instead, he acted like a) he didn't miss her at all, and b) he knew for certain that she'd never be returning home. He even refused to let the police look in the house for clues that might help them figure out how/why she was missing.

Plus, a neighbor had seen him loading something heavy and wrapped in a tarp into the back of his vehicle at the time the wife went missing. He claimed he had wrapped up some yard umbrellas to take them to a storage locker (?).

And he had "bad liar" syndrome. There were some bags of cement at home. When police asked what they were for, he said contractors had left them. But when asked, the contractors said that it wasn't *their* cement...

And so on.

[shadowman99]

Thanks. We're in week 36, so it could be any time now.

[skr]

One report said that his friends didn't even know he had a boat. Rather odd for a fisherman. Perhaps it was one of many inconsistencies that had the police wondering.

[ArmstedFragg]

RE: (Womb to Tomb! Birth to Earth!!!)

When you're a Jet you stay a Jet.

[dsc]

Well, that certainly looks pretty bad.

[dsc]

What fisherman doesn't take a friend or two with him from time to time?

[farmfriend]

I would think it depends upon the sonar. High-frequency equipment with image processing capapbility would probably be able to do it.

Not if what they have is the same as the stuff they use to look for Nessy. They can't tell a sea monster from a school of fish.

[JustPiper]

When you're a Jet you stay a Jet.

Oh Fragg, you are quick ;)

[JustPiper]

Do you know boys, girls, both?

[libertylover]

Even if they can't tell a body from a log it was probably worth investigating. About the right size, about the right shape...

Your data that the water in the area is shallow makes the notion that it was disturbed by a passing boat more credible to me.

As someone who knows the area well, what's your take on this?

[Tallguy]

Even if they can't tell a body from a log it was probably worth investigating. About the right size, about the right shape...

Not necessarily. There's a lot of cr@p located in shipping channels and beneath bridges. You'd be amazed at the stuff people chose to dispose of in a body of water. Bridges are convenient for a quick dump, but a deepwater channel presents different challenges. Many heavy ships use depthfinders to make sure that they stay in the designated channel. You'd need to shutdown most commercial shipping to be able to do a dive operation because you can't have divers in the water with sonar banging away.

Also, depths of over 130 fsw require decompression for the divers. This may be the chief reason that the Navy is using marine mammals to identify sea mines -- it conserves your divers for mine clearing activities.

[Marysecretary]

I would say after.

[daylate-dollarshort]

"When Flight 800 went down, they called the Navy in with their best, to search the debris field. They found the flight data recorder on the first pass - in 13,000 feet of water."

When Flight 800 went down the debris field wasa located in approximately 125 feet of water, not "13,000 feet."

The side scan sonar was used to map the debris field in order to send divers to locations (ie. the tail section) to look for the black boxes. This process took several passes, not one, in at least two axis. In the end the divers searched under the debris for days before finding the data recorders.

[geege]

I can't watch Rita Crosby....her voice just gets on my nerves.......

[shadowman99]

2 little girls, and our first. They share a placenta and a joined sack, which only happens in a case of identical twins. We had our final ultrasound this morning, and they estimate the weights to be 5 pounds for the first girl, 4 pounds 10 ounces for the second. We are in week 36, so we could go any time. My wife has gained 50 pounds (up from 130 pounds) so she is quite ready for pregnancy to be done. We will probably be born this week, and the doctors are very pleased with our current development and will not stop any labor after this point.

We've had three big surprises and one scare so far. First surprise was that we were pregnant (quite the 10th anniversary gift), then a month later to find that we are having twins, and then in our 3rd month to find they were identical.

The scare is the size difference. Since they share a placenta, there has been the risk that one girl could grab all of the nutrition from mom and the other girl would not thrive. We had a 13% size difference at one point. Up to 20% is normal, but after that you could have many different kinds of terrible things happen. Fortunately, the size difference narrowed to only 7%, so the doctors consider them to be well within normal.

Many people get the wrong idea about identicals. The girls divided from the same cells early in pregnancy, so they have identical DNA, but after that there is a lot of room for randomness in our genes. They will likely be identical, but they can be slightly different in height, hair color, or other factors. But they will look far more alike than fraternal twins (twins from 2 separate ovum).

There are no known twins previously in our families, nor does that really factor in a case of identicals. The odds are about 1 in 1100.

I can't help but think that this animal killed his wife and child right at this point. We have names. I've seen their faces on ultrasound. The nursury is done. They kick when I put my hands on her tummy and talk to them.

Scott Peterson should die for this crime. But I know he won't because he's in CA.

Innocents are dead, and the guilty will live. And my daughters are being born to this broken world. I sure hope they can fix it.

[jackbill]

When Flight 800 went down the debris field wasa located in approximately 125 feet of water, not "13,000 feet."

Oops. Wrong plane accident.

From: http://www.edgetech.com/twa.htm

McCord has years of experience in his highly specialized field, which has included recovering pieces of the space shuttle Challenger after it exploded in 1986 and recovering the flight data recorder from a jetliner that crashed this year in the Caribbean Sea near the Dominican Republic.

"That was in 13,000 feet of water, and we found the data recorder on the first pass," a Navy spokesman said. "When a situation like this happens, we send in the pros."

This was in an article about Flight 800.

[Howlin]

I'll be thinking of you this week; looking forward to hearing your daughters are here! Have fun!

[WKB]

I can't watch Rita Crosby....her voice just gets on my nerves

I "fell out" with Rita when she got all giddy when she thought Algore had won the election.
Fast foward to the war and she got on my nerves saying "MY sources tell me blah, blah, blah" As if she was the only one with sources!
I don't like her voice either.