Those who knew Peterson express shock

The Fresno Bee ^ | Published Friday, April 25, 2003, 4:45 AM | Laura Mecoy

[runningbear]

was trying to find KSND...can't find it..

But look at this clip on NBC11.com

POST INTERVIEW At Home with Scott Peterson

Go to the feed room shown on the land rover video clip, and click on Laci Peterson and watch the clip.

takes you to the feed room

Scroll the left top, 'in the news' to Laci Peterson case, and click the clip 'post interview' .... the clip is located in the right lower page.

[runningbear]

FYI: IF Anyone cares...;o)

A trove of video clips, but not all are accessible to view, they are archived

Peterson Video Archive

[belle99]

Regarding the missing co-ed;

IMO Scott did not have anything to do with the missing Co-ed, but it is interesting to note that he probably heard alot about the case while at school...knew that the suspected boyfriend was never charged with anything since no body was found...next the Chandra Levy/Gary Condit case, very high profile in Modesto, where no arrest was made because there was no body - until months later when decay had apparently destroyed all viable DNA evidence....next the near-by discovery of the missing/pregnant Hernandez woman in the San Francisco Bay, off the radar for most, but probably some news was made locally...again the boyfriend was suspected, but no arrest was made because of the decomposition of the body...to me, it is possible that he felt that his chances of getting away with it were better without a body. Just my opinion, by the way, not based on any evidence.

[uvular]

Didn't Scott tell Amber that he wanted to be a part of her family, really liked her family, or something along that line? If true, kinda sounds like he wasn't too crazy about his current in-laws, or perhaps that's just one of his standard pickup lines! I get the feeling that Laci's dad had him pegged from the start.

One of the stories at the beginning of the thread says Scott was the only one of the 7 kids that were Jackie's and Tom's; the rest were from previous marriages. That was the first I had heard that; basically raised as an only child, as others were much older. If other kids not around him that much, they probably don't know Scott as well, and perhaps that's why some of them have not come forward to defend him as much as mom and dad?

[Sandylapper]

You know, sonserae, I don't understand why, after Amber's national appearance on TV, Scott would have been contacting her--unless she made the first overture by calling him (at MPD's request). Yes, there may have been contact or phone calls after that, and yes, he may be as dumb as a brick, but surely he knew she was under MPD scrutiny. Everyone in America, who was keeping up with the case, did. The phone taps were no surprise to me or anyone else. So, it just makes me wonder if they were in contact, who made the first contact? If it was Amber, then I believe that could be a problem for LE (if and when it comes out). Maybe that's why everything is so hush-hush and secret.

[runningbear]

Posted from Yahoo.com/news

Crimes and Trials - Court TV
Hurdles remain in Peterson death bid

Peterson was nabbed on Friday, April 18 after police reeled him in only 30 miles from Mexico, sporting a new goatee and died hair. He was also carrying $10,000.

Ac cording to the U.S. Customs department
US Customs, $10,000 is the maximum amount of cash that can be brought across the border into Mexico without notifying officials.

Eric Dubin, a Los-Angeles attorney who is representing some of the surviving relatives of Bonny Bakley, actor Robert Blake's wife and alleged murder victim, says that the public defense team handling Peterson's case would do best to launch a case in the media as soon as possible. "It's almost like a public lynching at this point, said Dubin. "I really think they need to do some damage control and if they have a side of the case to get it out."

[texasbluebell]

Hey, you did it!

Congratulations!

[Sandylapper]

Hey you! I sent you some of Mama Sandy's Homemade Chicken Soup w/Noodles. Where's my yellow jasmine?

[sonserae]

It's only obvious that Scott is dumber than a stump by all the blatant mistakes he's made publicly and privately. I think he truly believed he got away with it and the police were making him think that so they could get more evidence against him through contact with Amber, etc. With a guy who's born without a brain like Snotty boy, he's his own worst enemy and the police got clued in that they could use him and his ignoramous butt to their advantage.

[NormsRevenge]

A tough choice here, Go with the OJ team strategy and force a Rush to Judgment by asking for a trial as soon as possible, or stal and delay the commencement of the trial as long as is humanly possible and hope everyone forgets about Laci and Conner or the jury pool memories of the hunt for Laci fade.

Decisions, decisions.

I think the Death Penalty decision by the DA and the panel is a foregone conclusion, quite frankly. And the defense team knows, this is an all or nothing game at this point.

just my 1 and 1/2 cents (2 cents after inflation).

[runningbear]

Bush Says Harming Fetus Is Federal Crime

Pres. Bush,Thursday, April 24, 2003.

Bush Says Harming Fetus Is Federal Crime

- AP

WASHINGTON - With Laci Peterson (news - web sites)'s husband charged in California with murdering her and their unborn child, the White House on Friday called on Congress to pass a law making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an assault on its mother.

The House passed legislation in 2001 supported by President Bush (news - web sites) that would make it a criminal offense to injure or kill a fetus during the commission of a violent crime. The Senate never took up the measure.

Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) declined to comment on the Peterson case specifically.

But asked whether it is appropriate for Scott Peterson (news - web sites) to be charged with two murders — that of his pregnant wife and their unborn son — Fleischer responded that the president believes that "when an unborn child is killed during the commission of a crime of violence, the law should recognize what most people immediately recognize, and that is that such a crime has two victims."

Scott Peterson pleaded innocent Monday to murdering his wife and unborn son. Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, disappeared on Christmas Eve, and the bodies washed ashore last week in San Francisco Bay, three miles from where Scott Peterson said he was fishing.

California law permits a murder charge for a fetus if a pregnant woman is slain, even if the fetus is not viable.

"The president calls on the House and calls on the Senate to again pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act," Fleischer said.

I think this case caught the attention of the Pres. ;o)

[runningbear]

If I was the DA, I would plot out a solid course of court dates. Not too fast, nor slow, and leave some run for short delays. Pending any defense difficulties to long term delay, have all the evidence ready to go. Leave no piece undone unlike the OJ case. That was dramatics Hollywood style.

[BSunday]

Those who knew Peterson express shock

They always do, don't they.

[Sandylapper]

I can only hope you're right and that this will all work out like MPD thinks it will.

[NormsRevenge]

Agreed, if it takes 2 years, it takes 2 years.

What do you think about a change of venue? I don't think it will get moved myself.

[Sandylapper]

That's great news, isn't it?

[runningbear]

a change of venue is fair game to me only if close to the area of the crimes committed, excluding crazy SF jurist. ;o)

Here is a lovely and sad summed up story of events!

Unraveling of couple's life

EXCERPTED:

Posted on Sun, Apr. 20, 2003

Unraveling of couple's life
MODESTO HOME FULL OF PROMISE SITS EMPTY AFTER DEATHS, ARREST

By Julia Prodis Sulek
Mercury News

MODESTO -For a time, this little green house with the pair of miniature palm trees and flowering brick planters seemed filled with promise. This is where Scott and Laci Peterson planned to start their family. Laci should be a mother here, her son 2 months old.

This is where, on a warm spring day like Saturday, Laci might have been tending her prized garden with her infant lying on a blanket beside her.

But betrayal and lies invaded this house. And when she disappeared on Christmas Eve, the home she had lovingly prepared for the birth of her son began to die with her.

Weeds have taken over the front beds. The edges of the lawn, once perfectly manicured, creep into the driveway. The nautical-themed nursery is dark, the shades drawn. The gate to the courtyard is padlocked.

Police believe that Scott Peterson killed his wife, who was eight months pregnant, and dumped her into the turbid waters of the San Francisco Bay. The remains of her body washed up at Point Isabel near Richmond last week, separated by storm-churned currents and decomposition from the baby she carried in her womb. The tide pulled his little body to shore a mile away.

Maybe it's the photos that make it so hard to believe. Scott, 30, and Laci, 27, young and healthy, grinning cheek-to-cheek, toasting wine glasses, or her showing off a pregnant profile. But during the past several months, as authorities searched land and sea, a haunting story emerged that belied the couple's exuberant smiles.

It took nearly a month for Laci Peterson's family and the rest of the captivated nation to learn about her husband's affair. In the meantime, however, friends and family were at a loss to find chinks in the seemingly perfect marriage.

Scott and Laci met as students at California State Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, and were married five years ago. In 2001 they bought their first house in the quiet Covena Avenue neighborhood of well-kept bungalows. And finally, after years of trying, they conceived their first child. It was a boy, the ultrasound showed. They would name him Connor. Work began to turn a spare bedroom into a nursery. Scott spent weekends finely edging the lawns, improving the house, and building a brick barbecue pit next to the pool they had installed in the summer.

Laci, a former high school cheerleader and ornamental horticulture major, kept her front planter boxes weeded and filled with azaleas and camellias. Geraniums bloomed full and bright pink in the terra cotta pots lining her courtyard -- a view she enjoyed from the sliding glass doors of her living room.

Laci stopped working as a substitute teacher in December to get ready for the mid-February birth. She watched ``Martha Stewart Living'' in the mornings and waved to her neighbors as she walked her golden retriever to a hilly, wooded park just a block away.

They seemed to have it all: an upscale Land Rover in the driveway, a subscription to a ``wine-of-the-month'' club, and a golf membership for Scott at the Del Rio Country Club. As Scott told interviewer Diane Sawyer in January, he bought Laci a Louis Vuitton wallet for Christmas and, a few months earlier, a small fishing boat for himself. Sturgeon were running in the bay, he was told, just outside the Berkeley Marina.

The Petersons were the kind of charming young couple that inspired neighbors to peek out their windows and watch them walk past, hand-in-hand, on evening strolls. Neither arguments nor raised voices were ever heard coming from their home.

``They matched each other,'' said Amie Krigbaum, 28, who lives across the street. ``But you never know what happens behind closed doors.''

In fact, Scott, a fertilizer salesman who often traveled on business, was having an affair. It started in November, when his wife was seven months pregnant. He told massage therapist Amber Frey from Fresno he was single.

[runningbear]

yes it is. Not only then would this be up to each individual states, but if I read this right, Federal too?

[An American In Dairyland]

>>It really is amazing how there have been no pics or sightings of Amber since the press conference and the NE photos. Since when do reporters grant requests of actually leaving people alone?<<

It's almost as though Amber Frey disappeared into the witness protection program or something.

[landerwy]