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USA Network Giving Scott Peterson Telepic Treatment with ''A Perfect Husband"

USA Network Giving Scott Peterson Telepic Treatment with ''A Perfect Husband"

Written 10-07-2003 by ChrisFaile

USA Network has set its sights on the Scott Peterson case, with sources telling FilmJerk.com that production on a movie-of-the-week entitled “A Perfect Husband" will begin filming on or around November 3 in San Diego. Continuing its tradition of presenting telepics torn from the headlines, producers are trying to hire actors and actresses who bear a resemblance to the some of the real-life people in the Peterson case, but are “not looking for absolute look-alikes.” The telepic is said to be scheduled to air sometime in 2004.

First reported missing on Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson was nearly 8 months pregnant. Her decomposed body was found 4 months later on the shore of San Francisco Bay; Her unborn child’s body was discovered a mile away from her own crime scene. Scott Peterson, the Modesto fertilizer salesman accused of killing his family, has pleaded innocent to two counts of murder, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Oct. 20. Peterson could face the death penalty if convicted.

The telepic is listed as “the true story of one of the most baffling and sensational investigations in recent history” and charts how, from the beginning stages, Peterson eventually fell under suspicion of his wife’s murder. There is no word on whether this film is authorized by any of those involved in the case.

Among the roles producers are looking to fill, revealed via casting documents obtained by FilmJerk.com, include:

Scott Peterson: The role is listed as being between 30 to 35 years old (the real Peterson is 30, as of April), and “a charming, athletic, attractive man, loved by everyone. “A fertilizer salesman for a European firm, Scott is married to pretty, pregnant Laci Peterson. When Laci disappears without a trace at Christmastime in Modesto, Scott seems genuinely stunned. However, as the dedicated efforts of hundreds of volunteers fail to turn up any clues to Laci's whereabouts, Scott's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and suspicious. When his loyal friends and Laci's family learn that he was having an affair with another woman at the time of Laci's disappearance, their sympathy for Scott turns into hostility and suspicion, but Scott resolutely maintains his innocence while a media firestorm rages around him. The chain of evidence against Scott grows ever stronger and shortly after two grisly discoveries, Scott is arrested -- apparently while fleeing to Mexico with $10,000 in cash.

Tommy Vignatti: A slightly out-of-shape man and former high school jock, Tommy Vignatti is one of Laci's closest friends since their time together in grade school. In recent years, Tommy has become quite close to his "golfing buddy," Scott Peterson. Tommy and his wife are both horrified to learn of Laci's disappearance, but they are completely supportive of Scott, whom they consider a victim .........

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Peterson's defense seeks evidence ban

Peterson's defense seeks evidence ban

By Associated Press, 10/8/2003

MODESTO, Calif. -- Scott Peterson's lawyers have asked a judge to exclude strands of hair and other evidence in the murder case, accusing two detectives of mishandling items. In documents filed Monday, Peterson's defense also wanted to exclude testimony from a neighbor who had been hypnotized, and evidence retrieved through tracking devices hidden in vehicles used by Peterson.

Scott Peterson is charged with murder in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and their son, Conner. Laci Peterson was almost eight months pregnant with Conner when she disappeared from her home Dec. 24.

The two bodies were found in April along San Francisco Bay.

According to defense documents, police found a single hair in a pair of pliers at the bottom of Peterson's boat during a Dec. 27 search......

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Peterson boat evidence may be difficult to bar

[Devil_Anse]

Let's ask Frank Muna who will play him and his client in the movie.

Scott never seemed "genuinely stunned" to me.

[Diver Dave]

Mornin' rb.
With the recall behind us, it's time to move on to pressing matters here in Motown.
The Bee has been tickling our interest with a few stories these past few days gearing up for a front page story on the 21st filled with some of the evidence the prosecution has been holding back all these months.
Gearloose and Scaughty, ma and pa will shed some tears for the cameras, but in the end, the judge will rule that the case move forward to trial.
If I didn't have a conflict with my time, I'd love to grab one of those seats in the courtroom.

[Devil_Anse]

If the hair comes in, its length alone will tell plenty. 5-6 inches long? (Let me guess: "Ladies and gentlemen, Scott took another woman fishing with him that day...")

But if there was one hair when the evidence was checked in, and there are two now... well... ? What the heck does that mean?

[Howlin]

Physically linking Laci Peterson to her husband's newly purchased fishing boat -- bought in early December while she was about seven months pregnant -- is "potentially very powerful evidence," Hammer said.

Yowzer.

[MaggieMay]

This is a quote from an article in the Oct 8th, Modesto Bee,titled,"Defense Question Hair Evidence".This begins about the 17th paragraph.
link for the entire article:
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7561226p-8471812c.html

Many explanations for extra hair

There are explanations short of planting evidence to explain the appearance of a second hair after police reports only referred to a single hair, said Dr. Michael Baden, a New York forensic pathologist who worked on Simpson's defense team when the former football star was accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend in 1995.

"Sometimes people can make a mistake," Baden said. "Some kinds of hair can break."

Roger C. Park, an evidence law specialist at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, said the appearance of two hairs did not automatically taint the evidence.

"The fact that it was one hair here and two hairs later, I don't know if that's enough for a jury to conclude it wasn't the same hair sample," Park said.

If prosecutors could effectively demonstrate the hair they want to submit was found on the pliers in the boat, a judge would be compelled to allow it into evidence, observers said.

"It all comes back to relevancy," said Bradley Brunon, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney. "There has to be enough reliable identification of the source and identity of the hair to connect it the investigation."

"The significance would be for the jury to decide," he said.

That significance was an open question, according to some observers.

"Her hair would have some evidentiary significance if she'd never been in that boat before," Baden said. "Then the issue comes up, what if one hair got caught on Scott's clothing and then was passed to the boat and dropped there?"