New Details Emerge About Condition of Laci's Body (WARNING: GRAPHIC)

Fox News ^ | 5-23-03 | Fox News

[buffyt]

And when John Walsh and Mark Klauss reported their missing children they welcomed the cops in to search their homes, they offered to take lie detector tests. Scott refused both.

[buffyt]

My husband would have been hysterical and would NOT have been anywhere near a golf course!! We were 30 and having our first child in 1973. If I were missing, or if they had found the bodies of a woman and baby near a body of water, he would have rushed THERE to see if it were us! He would have been frantic!

[buffyt]

I was living in LA during that trial. I listened to daily updates on KFI am, John & Ken show. They had Laura Ingle (spelling?) sitting in on that trial and the Cary Stayner trial, Yosemite killer. She did an excellent job. Just listening to her reports daily, I knew they would find the killers guilty. She told more than Court TV or any other news source. She had been at Yosemite while they were looking for the killer, Stayner. She saw him while she was there, he walked past her while she was in the hot tub. EERIE! She is just an excellent reporter. They had her all over the state during the major trials. IF Condit had gone to trial for killing, or having killed, Chandra--- Laura would have been a good report on that case too! KFI am, you can find John & Ken on internet. They are the BEST! I will listen to them during the Snotty Peterson trial

[traditional1]

I don't know if anyone else suggested this possibility, but what about the propeller of a large ship in the bay? Is it possible that the body was damaged while in the water, and only a few knife wounds were the cause of death?

We don't have all the evidence available that the prosecution has, but this looks an awful lot like one of those "bungled police work" defenses like the O.J. case to me.........

[Devil_Anse]

Yes, that's been mentioned occasionally, and I have yet to hear anything against that possibility. That might well be what happened to the body, to sever limbs and head.

There was a report that Laci's body was spotted by sonar in March--about a month b/f her remains actually washed ashore. The report did indeed say that the object (which was thought to be the body) was in a ship's channel. Those channels, of course, are quite deep. The rest of the water near where she was found is only about 10-12 feet deep, according to what I have read. So yes, if someone were going to dump her, and if he knew anything about that area, he would certainly choose the deep shipping channel.

And supposedly the police found evidence on Scott's computer that he had researched that area of water--for tidal information. (But probably in there with the tidal charts, there would also have been depth information.)

The police denied the reports that the body was spotted in March, but then, the police seem to deny everything. The guys who were actually doing the sonar work are supposedly the ones who leaked the info that they may have seen the body in a shipping channel in March.

[mass55th]

" If the client tells the attorney he's guilty, can the attorney come out and defend him like he's not guilty? Would that be lying to the court then?"

This question came up during the David Westerfield/Danielle Van Dam trial in California. The lawyers knew the guy was guilty, and had been in talks with the authorities to get them to agree that they wouldn't seek the death penalty if he told them where the body was. While the talks were going on, the little girl's body was found, thus there was never any agreement. None of this info came out until after he was tried and convicted...given the death penalty. It seems that his lawyers knew all along that he was guilty, but they lied through their teeth and presented a defense that attempted to put the blame on someone other than Westerfield. I know that there is a law in California that prohibits lawyers from fabricating false defenses if they know that their client is guilty. This law was covered thoroughly on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. Bill O'Reilly was very hot on the trail of these two lawyers. I'm not sure if the authorities in California have made up their mind yet regarding pursuing charges in this matter.

[cgk]

Understandable. I wrote that based a lot on what Laci's mom had to say on the subject, shortly after Laci and Connor were identified. It struck a chord with me. Very creepy and another sign evil lives among us, no matter how defense attorneys try to explain it away.

[F16Fighter]

"Maybe it would matter to you if it were you or your child and you wanted justice?"

I suppose the other 280 million of us needs to know and savor ALL the gory details of EVERY single murder commited?

The original post and this ongoing thread is goulish voyeurism at best, which has NOTHING to do at all with administering "justice."