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Posted on 01/16/2003 5:56:17 AM PST by runningbear
Hope is all volunteers have to lean on
January 16, 2003 Posted: 05:25:11 AM PST
By PATRICK GIBLIN
BEE STAFF WRITER
No matter how dismal the reports are from police in the Laci Peterson disappearance, people at the volunteer search center are holding out hope that the Modesto woman is alive.
Their optimism comes from friendship, prayer and the belief that they should always hope for the best.
"I look at her picture and call my friends whenever I'm feeling down about the case," René Tomlinson said Wednesday. She is a friend of Peterson's who staffs the center at the Red Lion Hotel in Modesto.
"We hope she will come back home safe. That's what we would like," Tomlinson said.
Peterson, 27 and eight months pregnant, has been missing for more than three weeks. Police say time is working against them in a case that investigators believe involves foul play. And, since last weekend's fruitless underwater search at the Berkeley Marina, police have had nothing to report.
Meanwhile, at the volunteer center Wednesday, Diana Edwards crafted blue-and-yellow ribbons for people to wear, in the effort to keep the Peterson case in the public's eye. She said she believes someone abducted Peterson to steal her baby -- due Feb. 10.
"I've thought that since the first day," Edwards said.
The first day was Christmas Eve, when 30-year-old Scott Peterson reported that he came home from a fishing trip and could not find his wife. He said he last saw her at 9:30 a.m. that day as he left for the Berkeley Marina. he said she planned to go for a walk in East La Loma Park with their dog.
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
Two arrests in slaying of woman The pregnant victim's body was dumped in a Greenhaven park.
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News10, Sacramento TV
Modesto Authorities Running Out Of Hope
POSTED: 7:28 a.m. PST January 9, 2003
UPDATED: 5:47 p.m. PST January 15, 2003
MODESTO, Calif. -- Modesto Police admitted Wednesday that they were fighting an uphill battle in their race to find Laci Peterson alive.
The 27-year-old Modesto woman has been missing now for more than three weeks and the Stanislaus County sheriff said he believes it's very unlikely that she was being held somewhere against her will.
"The more time that goes by, the greater chance we have of not finding the victim alive," Stanislaus County sheriff's Sgt. Bill Heyne told the Modesto Bee. "And the more time that goes by, if the victim is dead, the less chance we have of solving it."
Meanwhile, Police Chief Roy Wasden told the paper that much of the search has been focused on recovering a body.
"You exhaust the logical search places," he told the Bee. "And at some point you switch from looking for an injured, live person. That happens between 72 and 96 hours. For much of our search, when we're looking in places underwater, we're looking for a body."
But authorities said they were continuing to search and track down leads.
On Tuesday, family and friends of Peterson said they would open up operations in Southern California this weekend in an effort to turn up any new leads in the case.
A command center similar to the one already in operation at Modesto's Red Lion Inn was planned for a SoCal hotel and volunteers were to scour the area, putting up posters asking for information.
In an effort to keep the media focus on the case, family members appeared on national television Monday night. They remained solid in their support of Scott Peterson, Laci's husband, who has yet to be cleared as a suspect in the case.
"He's very emotional," said his father Lee Peterson. "He'd break down. He wouldn't be able to finish an interview. And he doesn't want the media focus on him. He wants it on having Laci's picture in front of the nation so that someone may report something."
Laci's stepfather, Lee Grantski, said he didn't find Scott's story about going fishing on Christmas Eve, the day Laci disappeared, unusual.
"It might seem unusual that he went fishing by himself but I go fishing by myself a lot," he said. "And forbid something happen here because I do it all the time."
Peterson, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared, had planned to have a baby shower Saturday, and volunteers said they were relieved when the search turned up the anchor rather than a body at the Berkeley Marina.
"They've remained focused," said Kim Petersen, executive director of the Carole Sund-Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation, a group assisting the volunteer effort and offering a reward for information leading to Peterson's return.
Volunteers are working to distribute more flyers about the case, Petersen said, trying to keep the
hummmm, they forgot to finish the story!....LOL....
Mark said he shot the intruder who beat his wife to death. We heard the tears and terror in the actuall 911 call Mark made.
They were, the perfect couple. For years, people believed this.
Long, story short. Mark had been screwing around with his wife's best friend, AND he was the one who not only killed his wife, but Shot a man he set-up to go to the house.
The story appears on CBS's web-site and goes into more detail.
Point is, not even his wife's family would have EVER believed Mark killed their daughter, untill the evidence proved otherwise, almost 7 years later.
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Oh yeah!
Just as in the Chandra case, the suspect in my mind is Condidit and in this case its the last one that seen Lacy alive. The Chandra saga has all but disappeared, hopefully LE will keep a tag on SP for quite a while.
Thanks for the update's RB.
Bump..........
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