What do you think about a change of venue? I don't think it will get moved myself.
Here is a lovely and sad summed up story of events!
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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.