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Services for Peterson will be private
The Modesto Bee ^ | August 26, 2003 | John Cote'

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: avoidingchildsupport; baby; babyunborn; conner; deathpenaltytime; dontubelievemyalibi; getarope; ibefishing; laci; lacipeterson; smallbaby; smallchild; sonkiller; unborn; wifekiller
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To: RGSpincich
The drug stuff might go a long way towards explaining that other, more secret, storage warehouse that Scott rented. And the mailbox he'd gotten, too.
141 posted on 08/29/2003 5:37:43 AM PDT by Devil_Anse
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To: Velveeta
Things that make you go BLEAHHHH, you mean! Geragos is in with the liberal powers that be, and People is/was nothing but a spin-off from Time magazine!
142 posted on 08/29/2003 5:42:36 AM PDT by Devil_Anse
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To: Velveeta; Tombolo
Don Meredith? What's the song?

Glad you both asked, lol. Monday Night Football's Don Meredith used to sing a little song when the results of the game were pretty well determined before the game ended. I'll sing a few bars, went something like this "Turn out the lights, the party's over..."

Now you remember, huh?

143 posted on 08/29/2003 5:47:04 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Devil_Anse
Definitely had a parallel Bizarro world life style going on.
Be interesting to see his client list and past orders from Tradecorp.
144 posted on 08/29/2003 5:56:55 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Tombolo
"Isthmi" nature to be curious.
145 posted on 08/29/2003 6:20:47 AM PDT by Velveeta (I thought Tombolo was a guy we needed to "be on look out" for. Shows what I know)
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To: Devil_Anse
I think he got the mailbox because he was going to have all his mail forwarded there after the quick sale of his house. Premeditation.
146 posted on 08/29/2003 6:22:42 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Devil_Anse
Can't you just picture that Dalton guy slithering over to a People reporter hissing out what he wants them to hear?
147 posted on 08/29/2003 6:24:05 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: RGSpincich
Now you remember, huh?

Oh....ahem, yeah. Willie Nelson?

148 posted on 08/29/2003 6:33:00 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta
Good thought! Yes, he's definitely enough of an idiot to think he could easily sell real estate while one of its owners is MISSING! It fits in with the many other stupid things we know he's done.

Still, though... why an ANONYMOUS P.O. box? Why not one at the post office?
150 posted on 08/29/2003 7:13:44 AM PDT by Devil_Anse
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To: Velveeta
I figure it's "I'll-scratch-your-back-you-scratch-mine" in the liberal Martha's Vineyard/cocktail party/friends crowd, the same way as it is among so many groups of people. Geragos might do some favor(s) for some high-muckety-muck at People, and then later he cashes in his "chip", asking them as a favor to do a story slanted in his direction. Which they have now done.

And those three broken ribs on Laci. Could she have been dropped from somewhere--like, from a bridge, maybe? Or maybe the broken ribs are just more boat propeller damage...
151 posted on 08/29/2003 7:17:07 AM PDT by Devil_Anse
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To: RGSpincich
You got it!! Nordby definitely is trying to "put out" for the Defense. What is wrong with Fox tho? Dr. Spitz has completely debunked this People story already.
153 posted on 08/29/2003 5:51:47 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks belong South)
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To: Howlin
Howlin the same as what applied to Geragos with the Evelyn Hernandez case. Remember he submitted a brief to the Judge with his "evidence" of why he wanted the case file turned over to him. The Judge shot that down and said that he had no evidence. The same is applying to this Cult theory on an issue of a witness or witnesses I believe. Anyway, there is an EVIDENCE hearing on September 2nd. WHAT is Geragos going to show - "the Bulb"? *groan*
154 posted on 08/29/2003 5:57:05 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks belong South)
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To: Velveeta
Thanks vel. I just tried to explain that to Howlin from memory!!
155 posted on 08/29/2003 5:59:02 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks belong South)
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To: All
I see they had the funeral for Laci and Connor:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030830/ap_on_re_us/laci_peterson_1
156 posted on 08/30/2003 1:13:04 PM PDT by brneyedgirl
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To: brneyedgirl; Velveeta; Howlin; Devil_Anse; Canadian Outrage
Thanks for the heads up. My ping list is kapoot.
157 posted on 08/30/2003 1:20:44 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: RGSpincich
RG,talk about bringing back memories...."turn out the lights, the party's over...."

158 posted on 08/31/2003 1:30:08 PM PDT by Rusty Roberts (RB and RG have memories like elephants, thankfully for those of us who read but post infrequently)
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