Posted on 01/17/2003 4:05:53 AM PST by runningbear
Friends of Laci Peterson, missing since Dec. 24, pray on Friday, January 10 outside of the Laci Peterson Volunteer Center. Police informed Laci's family Wednesday that they believe Scott Peterson, Laci's husband, is responsible for her disappearance.
Joan Barnett Lee/The Bee
Laci Peterson’s family says police disclosed affair, insurance policy
January 16, 2003 Posted: 11:21:00 PM PST
BY TY PHILLIPS
BEE STAFF WRITER
Modesto police told Laci Peterson’s family that her husband was having an affair and recently took out a $250,000 life insurance policy on her, a family member said Thursday.
Detectives met with Laci Peterson’s side of the family Wednesday night to tell them why they believe Scott Peterson is responsible for the disappearance of his 27-year-old pregnant wife, the family member said.
Police refused to comment on the investigation Thursday, and Scott Peterson did not return calls Thursday night. “I don’t think she ever saw it coming,” said the family member, who asked not to be identified. “As to exactly what happened to her, I don’t really know.”
According to the family member, detectives told the family that:
Peterson took out a $250,000 life insurance policy on his wife last summer, after she got pregnant. Peterson was having an affair with a woman in the Fresno area. Detectives showed family members pictures of Peterson and the woman posing together.
Laci Peterson was reported missing on Christmas Eve. Scott Peterson, 30, has told police he went fishing that morning in Berkeley and could not find his wife once he returned home that evening.
“We’re not going to confirm or deny anything,” Police Chief Roy Wasden said. “We’re not going to discuss this investigation.”
Wasden said Peterson had not been eliminated from the investigation. He said that about 200 registered sex offenders, parolees, and mentally ill homeless people — as well as many people close to Laci Peterson — had been ruled out in her disappearance.
“If he’s innocent, fine, then take a lie detector test,” the family member said. “At first, he told us he was willing to. But then he said he talked to his parents and they told him not to.”
Laci Peterson’s friends and family did not open the volunteer search center at the Red Lion Hotel Thursday for the first time since opening there about three weeks ago. It appeared that the center would not open again.
“Obviously, it was hard to close it down,” said a longtime friend of Laci Peterson’s, who asked not to be identified. “Everybody’s numb right now. It’s hard to hear that (Scott Peterson) is not the person we all thought he was.”
Since the case began, Peterson declined most interview requests, telling friends and family he wanted to keep the emphasis on his wife. On Thursday, he talked to a reporter from Sacramento-area TV station KCRA.
“I really don’t care what people think of me as long as it continues to keep Laci’s picture, description, tip line in the media,” Peterson said. “Make me the biggest villain if you want to as long as it keeps her picture in the press. … They can think anything they want of me. Let’s find Laci.”
The change was not lost on Laci Peterson’s family. “All of a sudden, Scott is talking to the media,” the family member said. “He is realizing people are finding out about the girlfriend, so he’d better go out there and do some damage control.”
Before Thursday’s interview, Peterson had issued only one public statement in the form of a message written in black marker that hung in the volunteer center:
Volunteers:
As I see every person come through this door, or out searching, I tell Laci about them, looking for her. Early this morning, I felt she could hear me. She thanks you. Laci’s husband
Investigators met with the family Wednesday because they wanted to disclose information before it came out in the National Enquirer on Thursday, the family member said.
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
sw
Then there were 2 posts the other day on that thread, and the poster went away again, even though others wanted to know where the information came from. Several of us kept trying to get her to come back and tell us, and eventually she posted quite a few more posts there.
That might help, especially if the examiners don't know eachother. Or hire a well-respected examiner of your own.
Slam-dunk!!
Hello runningbear and all,
I've been following the Laci Peterson case on all the boards and done some research myself. Looks like Scott may have a girlfriend in Los Angeles, or at least he did back in 2000. Found a post on a chat board where he mentions he took the girlfriend to a restaurant in LA. She had lived, for a time, in England.
Also, from some of the ditties that he uses as signatures on his posts, his true personality is on the dark side, IMO:
Here are a few that I found from Scott Peterson:
Auntie EM:
"Hate you,
hate Kansas,
taking the dog"
--Dorothy
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what
do humanitarians eat?
Nothing is foolproof to
a sufficiently talented fool.
No problem is too big it can't be run away from
Here's a scary one where he quotes Mark Twain:It is by the goodness of God that in our
country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom
of conscience, and the prudence never to
practice either of them.
Mark Twain
The plot is thickening.
I think the only time we'll see him feeling something like "sad" is when he's arrested for the murders.
If you add that to the recent $250,000 life insurance policy he took out on the victim and the girlfriend and the little problem that was about to be born, then I think you have a pretty good idea of who is to blame.
Sounds reasonable to me now.
But I still must say that I want to know more about this woman. Was this recent, are they true, the reports I have heard about the way she went public? "Why are they posting pictures of my boyfriend?" That sounds like some simple-minded preemptive butt-covering to me.
Many men can tell you, women will do some crazy things.
That's really interesting to know...puts more perspective on things he's done etc ...
everything about this Scott "the fisherman" is odd to me.
Tell the truth, brother.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.