Laci's Unborn Son Had Tape Around Neck and Large Cut on Body

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[Mihalis]

Laci Peterson's unborn child was found with one-and-a-half loops of plastic tape wrapped around his neck and a large cut on his body, believed to have come from a knife or some sort of sharp object, an investigation source told Fox News.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Geraldo said it was nylon and twine.

I sure hope it's debris. No one has mentioned anything about the baby's umbilical cord, and whether it was attached. Unless I missed it. Poor sweet baby...

[beckett]

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[Mihalis]

It sounds strange to me too.

[Lower55]

had the strength to plunge a knife deep enough, that it could have also cut the baby?

No.

[Howlin]

The first reports in April said the umbilical cord was still attached, but it wasn't mentioned today.

[TheSpottedOwl]

sorry sorry sorry sorry for the repeat repeat repeat repeat. slow slow slow slow server server server server

You have hiccups ;-)

Pro abortion advocates would do well to stay away from this case. Using this tragedy to further an agenda, will backfire big time. Really, it's digusting to even think about it.

[beckett]

The defense is trying to spin this as a boost to its theory that a satanic cult did the gruesome deed. After all, they opine, only cultists under the spell of Satan could carry out such a vicious act.

Few little problems though. Peterson's team better hope and pray (to Satan perhaps?) that the tape around the child's neck cannot be traced to Scott. And if they expect a jury to believe that satanic ritual was involved in the killing, they better be able to find an expert who can show the jury a documented satanic ritual that includes the ritual killing of a pregnant woman and her child.

[Ichneumon]

That they can't tell if her son was born or not and can't decide whether it should be called a "fetus" or a "baby" should be telling us something...

An unborn child is a "fetus", by definition, a "baby" is a child which has been born, by definition. Thus the indecision you note in the second part of your post is identical to the indecision described in the first part.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Arghhhh, I mixed up the posts!!! George I mixed them up, see my last reply to HiTech ;-)

During the murder might Scott (or whoever) have stabbed Laci so deep that it penetrated Connor in womb too? Shriekingly shocking.

Yes it is possible. I remember seeing my babies kicking and stretching while I was pregnant. My stomach would bulge because they were kicking or pushing with their hands. Being short-waisted, I had to walk around with my arms up in the air at times so my son wouldn't take out my lower ribs :) There isn't much between an 8 month old baby and the outside world. The uterus is stretched pretty thin at that stage. Unfortunately it is quite possible to kill an unborn child with a knife.

[Howlin]

Today the report said that baby was older than they thought, between 33 and 38 weeks.

[TheSpottedOwl]

See post 29, damn I'm getting confused :/

[ewing]

Breathless Rita Cosby's 'special sauces' say that Connor was stabbed in the chest/upper shoulder.

Correpond that location in Laci's womb via sonnagram with doctors records and I'll bet it will very likely be in a place where she could have died from an accidental kitchen stab wound due to loss of blood.

Connor probably didnt die right away as a result..

[org.whodat]

Crime must be way down in this country,I believe this is the only woman killed in the last year that I've heard of????

[AKA Elena]

Perhaps this is a ploy by the defense to skew the facts and muddy the waeter ... but with the high level and variations or versions of Santaria and other forms of Satanism in thise state (CA) wherein even wierd deaths vanish under a cloud of secrecy, I cannot throw out this defense theory.

[Ditto]

Girolami had said he was considering a gag order in the case to prevent news leaks.

PLEEEEEEEEEEESE gag them all.

[TheSpottedOwl]

The first reports in April said the umbilical cord was still attached, but it wasn't mentioned today.

Today the report said that baby was older than they thought, between 33 and 38 weeks.

Yeah, I was wondering about the umbilical cord. The placenta would probably deteriorate, but the umbilical cord is part of the baby. The new report about Connor seems consistent with how far along Laci was. Isn't it 42 weeks for the typical gestation period?

I should know better, but the thought that someone could do away with their own child like that really makes me ill. That is of course if Scott did it. I'm leaning strongly towards the guilty side.

[mass55th]

"I had to walk around with my arms up in the air at times so my son wouldn't take out my lower ribs :) "

Been there, done that. My youngest weighed 9 lbs. 5 ozs. and I had horrible heartburn during my whole pregnancy. He ended up being 3 weeks late and I ended up with gas trapped in my esophogus because he was so big. I thought I was having a heart attack because I had such bad pain in the middle of my chest. We went to the emergency room and the doctor said: "Honey, you ain't getting rid of that gas until you get rid of that baby!" He sent me off with bottles of Gelusil which briefly helped. Later that night I was back in the hospital because my water had broke. 32 years later, the heartburn never left. I've been living on medication for acid reflux. So many of us women who gave birth suffer from this due to damage done to the sphincter muscle that covers the esophogus.

[Howlin]

stabbed

Not one other person has said that.

[mass55th]

No.

I just heard on Fox that the wounds were inflicted on the baby after birth.

[Howlin]

Fox is saying, per Geraldo, that it is really nylon and twine around the neck.