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Homicide victims usually know killer
The Modesto Bee ^ | Posted: January 28, 2003 @ 04:50:10 AM PST | Patick Giblin

Posted on 01/28/2003 5:13:29 AM PST by runningbear

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To: Yeti
I see your point. Sounds like the statistics-users are playing into the politically correct view: that women are in more danger in their own homes than out on the street. That is, in a way, an anti-family point of view--since the statistics are so cloudy that we can't necessarily draw that conclusion.

Why should "domestic violence" be considered a more urgent problem than other types of violence? [Readers, please wait and read the whole post.] And here's one that sticks in my craw: why "child abuse"? If you punch your young child in the face, it is an ASSAULT, plain and simple, the same as if you'd gone outside and punched your neighbor's child of the same age in the face.

If we treated violent assaults on children and other family members exactly the same as we treat violent assaults on other people, I think we wouldn't see as many unbelievably low sentences for things like, say, women who murder their children and claim it was "SIDS."

I am NOT saying that domestic assaults are in any way less deplorable than other assaults. I am saying that if we quit with the special designation, and treated such assaults exactly the way we treat other assaults, it would be to the advantage of the victims, and would probably result in greater punishment for the perpetrator. At least, that would be my hope.
161 posted on 01/28/2003 8:08:39 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: Velveeta
Thanks for the info!

"Diane Sawyer asked him if he expects people to believe that a very pregnant Laci was accepting of his relationship and they didn't fight about it! Scott stated that he and Laci didn't argue about it. "

Well, if the poor girl just left on Christmas Eve for the baby's sake rather than FIGHT him, that would be one thing..but would she leave without telling anyone else.. I don't think so..

162 posted on 01/28/2003 8:10:04 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (What is Chief Moose going to do with the $ from book deal?)
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To: PleaseNoMore
Oh, ok, thanks for clarifying some of Scotts statements.
I do believe him now.

NOT!
163 posted on 01/28/2003 8:10:27 AM PST by BonneBlue
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To: spectre
I missed Part One. (Hard to tell, I know, I've been going on the transcription, as though I'd seen it! Well, here's my confession!)

I hope I get to see Part Two. Thanks for the notice!
164 posted on 01/28/2003 8:10:56 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: spectre
P.S. I guess Diane Sawyer's a little too old for Scott to have asked her out after the interview.....?
165 posted on 01/28/2003 8:11:56 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: Space Wrangler
Wrangler, your thoughts are my fears. I suspect he hid her body, or parts of it, so well, we will NEVER find it.

I hope he goes broke paying his lawyer.

sw

166 posted on 01/28/2003 8:12:09 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (Scott is a Psycho))
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To: twigs
That's because, underneath all the false bravado and Potemkin Villages of "supporters," Hillary Clinton is a weak sister!
167 posted on 01/28/2003 8:14:34 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: Devil_Anse
LOL, you devil you! Any old port in a storm, tho. He has NEEDS, ya know!

sw

168 posted on 01/28/2003 8:15:39 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (Scott is a Psycho))
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To: runningbear
Thanks for the ping.I have spent so much time on these threads, my husband, is wondering when Scott Pederson is going to make his anchor blueprints available.(That is the one and only fact he knows about this whole case. Yes, he does think it a damming piece of evidence.) Please hurry with your response, I think he's hooking up the fishing boat now. Signed,Worried in Woodinville.....

169 posted on 01/28/2003 8:16:50 AM PST by MaggieMay (A blank tag is a terrible thing to waste)
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To: TexKat
LOL! Bet he wasn't wearing his cap!

He's saving his cap for The Jerry Springer Show.
170 posted on 01/28/2003 8:17:27 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: Devil_Anse
"Are you trying to tell us that someone else hid the body for you after you murdered her??!? "

I'm sorry I don't remember who said this, or which show it was on..I think it was one of the defense lawyers on greta's show... They said there is at least one third party involved.. the one that introduced them. Could there be any further involvement?

171 posted on 01/28/2003 8:18:38 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (What is Chief Moose going to do with the $ from book deal?)
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To: twigs
"I wonder if she would "disappear" to protect her baby from him and may have seen that as her only alternative."

I thought the same thing, but w/the publicity and her poor family.. it just doesn't seem likely.
172 posted on 01/28/2003 8:21:09 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (What is Chief Moose going to do with the $ from book deal?)
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To: Doc Savage
He is indeed the sleaze in this picture!

I do think that when Amber said "romantic relationship," that she was using that as a more polite code phrase for "yes, for all you people out there wondering, we did sleep together."

I don't blame Amber at this point. She appears to have redeemed herself well for her rash act of having developed a liking for this chameleon. She is just another victim of the fast-talking, smooth, "caring" con artist type.

I sincerely hope she heeds the great big loud wake-up call of learning that she had spent time alone with a man who could well be a murderer!
173 posted on 01/28/2003 8:22:45 AM PST by Devil_Anse
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
If a 3rd party was involved as you suggest, Scott may have been telling the truth;


Diane; Did you murder your wife?

Scott; I had nothing to do with her disappearance.
174 posted on 01/28/2003 8:23:23 AM PST by BonneBlue
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To: runningbear
thanks for the ping rb.

bump for later read.

175 posted on 01/28/2003 8:24:13 AM PST by jdontom (BacktheBadge)
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To: Velveeta
Putting aside what Scott told his wife, I don't believe for a
minute that the other gal didn't know or suspect he was
married. And the fact that Amber hasn't been challenged on
this speaks loudly to the Women=Good, Men=Bad media bias.
176 posted on 01/28/2003 8:25:30 AM PST by ElTianti
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To: ClearCase_guy
Her baby wasn't due until February. She had a month and a half to go on the date she disappeared.

I'm not saying he didn't kill her, in fact, I think he did.
That said, there is room for another fate.


177 posted on 01/28/2003 8:27:45 AM PST by SarahW
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To: PleaseNoMore
thanks for the new article..

"it creeps into my mind late at night, and early in the morning"


That is the final straw..Who wouldn't worry about that 24 hrs, 7 days a week?

178 posted on 01/28/2003 8:28:20 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (What is Chief Moose going to do with the $ from book deal?)
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To: CFW
Asked on ABC if he had murdered her, he said, ''I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance.''

Is that like when a clintoon says: "There is no evidence" or "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is."

Just asking.

179 posted on 01/28/2003 8:30:05 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: BonneBlue
exactly... or he could have killed her but didn't hide the body.. I don't know. That guy is warped.
180 posted on 01/28/2003 8:30:24 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (What is Chief Moose going to do with the $ from book deal?)
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