Washington State Clerk Claims to Have Spotted Laci Peterson

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[chance33_98]

Washington State Clerk Claims to Have Spotted Laci Peterson

A clerk in a Longview, Washington, grocery store claims to have seen 27-year-old Laci Peterson sometime in December.

According to a report in the Thursday edition of The Daily News of Longview, the 45-year-old clerk told police she saw a pregnant woman who looked like Peterson in the checkout line at Sinnett's Market Place. The clerk said the woman and a male companion were buying food items that could be easily consumed while driving.

According to the clerk, at one point the man stepped out of line to get an item he forgot. The clerk said she remarked on the fact that the woman wasn't wearing a coat. The woman replied that she hadn't brought a coat because she'd been kidnapped, then said the man had a weapon.

When the man returned, the clerk said she asked him if he was kidnapping the woman. The clerk said the man became angry, so she smiled and told him that her husband often kidnaps her to take her to dinner. At that, the man smiled and said "Yeah, I guess I kidnapped her."

The clerk said she wasn't sure what to make of the incident. She claims she intended to contact police immediately after seeing the woman, but became distracted and forgot about it. When she recently saw Peterson's picture on television, she said she remembered the encounter and called police.

The clerk described the woman as being a "classic beauty" in her 20s with sleek brown hair. She remembered the woman as being in the latter stages of pregnancy. The clerk said the woman's male companion was an older man with strong features and a ruddy complexion. She said he did not resemble 30-year-old Scott Peterson, the missing woman's husband.

Longview is located just north of the Oregon border, 715 miles from Modesto. Driving time between the two cities is just under 12 hours.

Laci Peterson was last seen by her husband as he left on a solo fishing trip at about 9:30 on the morning of Christmas Eve.

Longview police are reviewing surveillance tapes from the store to see if the woman might have been Peterson.

[fightinJAG]

This clerk should receive Brain-Donor of the Year award.

There was enough here to warrant a call to the police. If this was Laci, it might have saved her.

[quark]

Bogus report by a clerk wanting 15 minutes of fame.

[clamper1797]

True or not ... this clerk has got to be the dumbest person on the planet

[mountaineer]

Yours is the most likely scenario.

[EggsAckley]

My take on it as well. The only information she gave she could have gleaned from the *massive* media coverage. And she only saw a photo *last week*?

[SarahW]

concur. ANd I'm sure the tapes have been recycled by now.

If truthful, the stupidity of this clerk killed Laci.
If false, her story can be used to defend the person who took Laci and her baby.

[HEY4QDEMS]

She claims she intended to contact police immediately after seeing the woman, but became distracted and forgot about it

This blows me away.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I think so, too.

Pregnant Woman with no coat on in December in Washington state: "I've been kidnapped. He's got a weapon."

Clerk: "I forgot to call the cops. Someone came through my checkstand with a coupon I've never seen before, and I got all distracted and stuff."

Yeah, right.

[TomGuy]

She [the clerk] claims she intended to contact police immediately after seeing the woman, but became distracted and forgot about it.

On the Penn and Teller BS meter, that would ring up a big BS....she got distracted, forgot....uh, oh yeh, the lady said she was being kidnapped, but she forgot!

This clerk is BSing, either for attention/15 minutes of tv time or as an associate paid by Peterson to throw the police off his trail.

[clamper1797]

What would you expect from someone in the People's Republik of Wasteington

[theFIRMbss]

>Clerk: "I forgot to call the cops. Someone came through my checkstand with a coupon I've never seen before, and I got all distracted and stuff." Yeah, right.

This is completely
believable. Have you shopped
at convenience stores?

Have you ever talked
to the clerks in those places?
Some are very nice,

but most are geckos
in jeans and tee shirts. A new
coupon would blitz them...

[CWOJackson]

Sounds perfectly reasonable for Seattle to me Duchess.

[chance33_98]

She claims she intended to contact police immediately after seeing the woman, but became distracted and forgot about it.

Here, huld muh receipt

[savedbygrace]

"And the dog ate my brain."

[chance33_98]

If the claim was intentionally fake maybe she is some wacko who wants to get close to Scott Peterson; the - he's cute and could not done it syndrome, and hey maybe I can save him and he will like me.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Good point, well taken. : ) (I guess it's probably about the same down in Longview, huh?)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

She's a grocery checker, not a convenience store checker...one would assume she'd have a little more on the ball - you know, say, like an iguana.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I think the dog sniffed her brain and walked away. : )

If a woman told me she had been kidnapped and the guy had a weapon, it seems to me it wouldn't matter what else I was doing - I could be performing brain surgery, or the Packers could be in the Super Bowl, for example - I would not forget about it. My goodness...

[L.N. Smithee]

If the claim was intentionally fake maybe she is some wacko who wants to get close to Scott Peterson; the - he's cute and could not done it syndrome, and hey maybe I can save him and he will like me.

I don't think that people this stupid think clearly enough to conceive of something like that.