Posted on 08/26/2003 5:29:27 AM PDT by runningbear
Services for Peterson will be private
Services for Peterson will be private
By JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITER
Published: August 26, 2003, 04:52:21 AM PDT
Laci Peterson's family on Monday had not decided on funeral arrangements for her, but had determined that any ceremony will be closed to the public, a family spokeswoman said.
"They held the public memorial and appreciate the outpouring of support from the community," said Kim Petersen, executive director of the Carole Sund- Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation. The foundation has assisted the family since Laci Peterson, 27, was reported missing Christmas Eve.
"If they choose to do anything else, it will be done in private."
The search for the expectant mother and substitute teacher from Modesto rallied a community and drew the nation's gaze.
In May, an estimated 3,000 people flocked to a Modesto church for a memorial service on what would have been Peterson's 28th birthday.
Four months after her family reported her missing, Peterson's body was found washed up on the eastern shoreline of San Francisco Bay. The body of her unborn son, Conner, was found just over a mile away.
Peterson's husband, Scott, has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths. He has pleaded innocent.
Last week, the Contra Costa County coroner's office released the remains to the Rocha family after Scott Peterson's defense team examined the bodies and later X-rayed the fetus.
The remains were transferred to the Stanislaus County coroner's .........
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I Am Not a Member of a Satanic Cult
I Am Not a Member of a Satanic Cult
By Osha Neumann, AlterNet
August 26, 2003
I am not a member of a satanic cult and I did not kill Laci Peterson.
I'm not actually accused of killing Laci Peterson, the pregnant California woman who disappeared earlier this year and whose body was recently found. Scott Peterson, her husband, is currently the prime suspect. But his defense team has floated the theory that a satanic cult may have murdered his wife. The "evidence" for this theory is the paintings of a group of artists collectively known as SNIFF , with which I have been associated for four years.
For five years, SNIFF has worked in relative anonymity on the Albany Bulb, the tip of a wild and beautiful spit of overgrown landfill that juts out from the east shore of San Francisco Bay, just north of Berkeley. SNIFF artists began by painting on hunks of broken concrete that protrude along the shoreline. When they ran out of concrete, they began a series of paintings on plywood scavenged from the abandoned campsites of a prior generation of homeless squatters. Propped up on crude easels constructed of wood that washed up on the beach, the line of paintings now extends a considerable way along the waterfront – a gallery of outsider art without guards, curators or admission fees.
According to Scott Peterson's lawyers, the paintings of SNIFF depict "ritualistic killings and occult practices." That's ridiculous. Severed heads, yes. Ritual killings no. There's a painting intended as a warning to vandals who have savaged some of our art, that depicts an executioner chopping off their heads with an ax. There's a painting of a decapitated saint adrift in a row boat with a naked woman. His head with a halo lies at his feet. In a painting of a boxing gym, some of the boxers have had their heads literally knocked off.
The Modesto Bee reporter who broke the story informs readers that, "Many of the paintings portray sexual activity, and several show pregnant women."
That's true. They also show mermaids and volcanoes, carnivals, dancing bears in a circus, a hot tub, a horse.....
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Bags and Baggage
Greta Van Susteren Goes on the Record In Her New Book
Bags and Baggage
Greta Van Susteren Goes on the Record In Her New Book
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 26, 2003; Page C01
After the O.J. Simpson trial that propelled her to the pinnacle of legal punditry, Greta Van Susteren was on the phone trying to land the first interview with the disgraced football star.
Forty-five minutes later, she said: "O.J., can I have your phone number to call you back? I have to go pick up my husband, and if I'm late, he'll kill me."
She apologized after an awkward pause, one of the few times the mile-a-minute talk show host has been at a loss for words.
In her about-to-be-released book "My Turn at the Bully Pulpit," Van Susteren, 49, recounts her rise from loudmouth lawyer to plastic-surgery cover girl to cable news queen. Since defecting from CNN to Fox News last year, the former adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School has parlayed a no-nonsense interviewing style into a ratings bonanza, making her the most popular woman on prime-time cable.
But for all her success, Van Susteren says over a Diet Coke in her North Capitol Street office, she doesn't feel like a star and isn't sure how many more years she'll be on the air.
"I never thought of myself as a TV person," she says. "The shelf life of women on TV I didn't think was particularly long. I never thought it was forever. I still don't. I love my job, but it's a very fickle business."
Despite her Nielsens success -- her "On the Record" show drew an average of 1.07 million viewers in May, June and July, compared with 598,000 for CNN, 221,000 for MSNBC and 168,000 for CNBC -- Van Susteren doesn't spew opinions like her colleagues Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
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Scott Peterson admits knowledge of wife
Scott Peterson admits knowledge of wife
MODESTO, Calif., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Accused wife-killer Scott Peterson is reported to have admitted knowledge of his pregnant wife's disappearance in a taped conversation.
Fox News quoted sources close to the case saying during a taped phone call between Peterson and his girlfriend Amber Frey, Frey asked whether he'd had anything to do with Laci Peterson's disappearance.
Peterson reponded, according to the Fox report: "Yes ... uh ... uh ... but no. But I know who did and I'll tell you later when I see you."
According to Fox, this was the first public suggestion Peterson initially admitted playing a role in his wife's abduction.
Laci, 27, disappeared on Christmas Eve from the Petersons' Modesto home, a little over a month before she was scheduled to give birth to the couple's first child.
Her body and that of her unborn son washed ashore along San Francisco .......
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
The investigator told The ENQUIRER, " You don't need undercover detectives in a homicide investigation. You use undercover investigators in a narcotics investigation."
I have to take these stories in chronological order to come to any conclusion. Wonder who the "family friend" is, that is beginning to talk about a drug connection? Would this person not be a witness in a capital murder case, especially about Laci's concerns about the lavish spending? Direct quotes from Brazelton? We've been looking to the NE for reporting for months--are we now supposed to think that their stories are bogus? Something ain't right here, as we say in the south. I'm really beginning to wonder why the Sept. 9th article comes to the forefront at the same time we're beginning to look at the Aug. 28th article. Also, the media is beginning to push the People's article. I'm feeling like we're being jerked around.
Up until now the story was that Laci had no idea that SP had bought a boat. He was going to surprise her with it on Christmas, isn't that what he told Diane Sawyer?
The drug stuff makes about as much sense as anything else he's done, so it could be true.
Living beyond his means and living off ill-gotten gains are two different things. There still is no evidence that his finances were strained. House remains unattached by non-mortgage creditors and only a first loan exists on the property. Property taxes have been paid as required.
Makes sense to me. The other guy, Nordby, seems to trying out for a spot on the Peterson defense.
Great stuff, Vel. If this autopsy information is accurate, I hear Don Meredith in the background singing SP's soon to be theme song.
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