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Report: Florida Twist In Peterson Case
Scott Peterson Paid Cash For Car, Showed Florida License
Report: Florida Twist In Peterson Case
Scott Peterson Paid Cash For Car, Showed Florida License
Posted: 7:19 a.m. EDT April 25, 2003
Updated: 7:30 a.m. EDT April 25, 2003
A San Francisco Bay-area television station is reporting that at the time of his arrest for the alleged murder of his pregnant wife Laci, Scott Peterson was driving a recently purchased used car.
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Peterson was arrested last week in San Diego. KNTV-TV reported that Peterson paid $3,600 cash for a 1985 Mercedes about a week ago.
Sources reportedly told KNTV-TV that when Peterson bought the car, he gave a Florida driver's license number and said his wife's name was Jacqueline -- his mother's name. Modesto, Calif. district attorney Jim Brazelton said he is still putting his case together against Peterson -- who is charged with the murders of Laci and their unborn son, Connor.
Brazelton reportedly told the television station that if it were up to him, he would seek the death penalty. But he wants to make sure people understand that it still has to go to a panel and also to the family of Laci Peterson.
Brazelton also said that this should be a death penalty case. He said he owes it to Laci and to Connor, the family and the community to seek the ultimate punishment, Brown reported.
Brazelton said that if Scott Peterson were to plead guilty, to admit to the crime, that he would not accept a plea for life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Car Bought Before ArrestCar Bought Before Arrest
New details in the Laci Peterson murder case, including word that husband, Scott, bought a car just days before his arrest.
Neighbors tell ABC News that Peterson purchased a used Mercedes Benz from a private seller in Ocean Beach.
It was being sold through an auto newspaper.
Neighbor Brian Turner says Scott paid cash for the car, the same one he was arrested in last Friday.
Peterson pleaded innocent Monday to charges of murdering his wife Laci, and unborn son, Connor.
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Scott Peterson said he went fishing on Christmas Eve at the Berkeley Marina, seen here, about three miles south of where the woman's body was found.
Photos of ABC30.com