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Don't you think this GHB thing is rubbish? If that was the "real" theory that the prosecution is cooking up they are in real trouble. They can't substantiate it at all, no broken thyoid bone (to prove strangulation) and no way to prove contents in the body being abnormal. Frankly if this was the real theory that the prosecution was going for...I doubt they would seek the death penalty. There has to be something more...or completely different. As far as this new "soft kill" theory (which supposedly came from the police), I am puzzled. Why would the police have PUBLICLY announced laci died as a result of a "violent homocide"? Soft kill and violent homocide are on the opposite ends of the spectrum...descriptively.

Well... I think the "Victor" thing is rubbish--does that count, lol?

Someone (I think it was you!) suggested maybe if he had an interest in GHB, maybe he was interested in it for something, ahem, unconnected with Laci. That is probably a lot closer to reality than his using it to put Laci out.

I think you are right that they have absolutely no forensic/toxicological way to prove that Laci ever had GHB in her system. I think if they are considering GHB, it has to be b/c of something they found connected to Scott. Maybe someone who's partied with him (such as Amber?) remembers conversing with him about GHB.

As for the possibility of strangulation, true, they probably aren't going to get forensic proof of that, if it happened. They might think she was strangled though--the fact that they called this a "violent homicide" or just "a homicide" (their statement back in March) does not rule out their thinking this a strangling! They would call it a violent homicide even if it were a strangling, b/c all homicides are violent, really--even poisonings--from their point of view. I think they are just using the word "violent" in a different sense than we usually think of it.