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New Search Saturday For Laci: Family Searches As Husband Reportedly In MexicoNew Search Saturday For Laci Family Searches As Husband Reportedly In Mexico POSTED: 10:22 a.m. PST February 7, 2003 UPDATED: 10:57 a.m. PST February 7, 2003 MODESTO, Calif. -- A new search for Laci Peterson of Modesto gets under way this weekend. Saturday, her family and volunteers will be searching the Delta-Mendota Canal area, west of Modesto. They'll return there again each Saturday of this month. The pregnant woman disappeared Christmas Eve and her due date was in early February. Her husband, Scott, who admitted having an affair, has...

Defense begins presenting case Monday in Scott Peterson trial SAN FRANCISCO Scott Peterson's murder trial is scheduled to resume today in Redwood City, California. The defense may call experts to say the fetus Laci Peterson was carrying when she disappeared on Christmas Eve, 2002 was born full term. Her due date was February tenth, 2003. Scott Peterson was under police surveillance at that time. Legal experts agree that if Peterson's team can convince jurors the fetus was carried to full term, Scott Peterson could be acquitted. Prosecutors allege Peterson killed his pregnant wife, then dumped her body into San Francisco...

<p>February 1, 2003 -- Police in Washington state said yesterday a possible sighting of missing pregnant California woman Laci Peterson in a grocery store is likely not her, after they reviewed the store's video surveillance tapes.</p> <p>Hopes were raised after a clerk in the Longview, Wash., store remembered serving a woman who might have been the missing Peterson in December.</p>

<p>Modesto police told Laci Peterson's family that her husband was having an affair and recently took out a $250,000 life insurance policy on her, a family member said Thursday.</p> <p>Detectives met with Laci Peterson's side of the family Wednesday night to tell them why they believe Scott Peterson is responsible for the disappearance of his 27-year-old pregnant wife, the family member said.</p>

Peterson Undergoes Mock Cross-Examination With Trial Analyst Cardoza REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson is being prepared by his defense team to possibly take the witness stand in his own defense, according to a Bay Area attorney who said today he spent several hours questioning Scott Peterson over the last week at the behest of Peterson's defense team. Former Alameda County prosecutor Michael Cardoza has been providing legal analysis of the Scott Peterson double murder trial for a number of news organizations since early this year. He was approached last week by defense attorney Mark Geragos and asked to simulate...

Van Sustren interviewed 20 year Berkley Bay fisherman Craig Stone. Stone said that nothing about what Scott Peterson did on the fishing trip to Berkley Bay seemed out of the ordinary to him from a fishing viewpoint. The bait was appropriate and available. The sturgeon were available. The boat size was not unusual. The optimal fishing area was not far off shore. The fish are prized but not easily caught. The time of day peterson was fishing was appropriate. It all seemed plausable to him.

Expert: Laci Peterson's unborn son lived at least five days after her disappearance REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A defense medical expert testified Thursday that Scott Peterson's unborn son lived at least five days after the Christmas Eve disappearance of his pregnant wife, Laci. But the witness's conclusion — a finding that held the potential to exonerate the fertilizer salesman — was severely undercut when he admitted his assessment relied on personal notions of "realistic" behavior by women at baby showers. The obstetrician, Dr. Charles March, told jurors at Peterson's capital trial that he decided Dec. 29, 2002, was the earliest...

My beef isn't, as some journalism-school types sniff, that the Laci Peterson story has received too much coverage. My complaint is that cable networks might help get a guilty man off. The preliminary hearing for Scott Peterson -- who has pleaded not guilty to charges that he murdered his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner -- hasn't begun. So it's the boring season of the story, the factual doldrums. Still, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC air hours of talking-head debates, whether there's news or not. This is when TV news is at its most dangerous, as standards become dispensable and...

Scott Peterson's Defense Could Rest TuesdayScott Peterson's defense team could rest its case Tuesday. On Monday, his lawyer called on Peterson's mother to try to explain why he had nearly $15,000 in cash on him when he was arrested. She says she gave him back $10,000 that she accidentally withdrew from his account. His lawyer also questioned police about whether someone else could have been responsible for the death of Scott's wife, Laci, and her baby. Prosecutors say he killed her and dumped her body into the San Francisco Bay nearly two years ago. The defense maintains ........

Nearly five months ago Scott Peterson's lawyer stood up in a packed courtroom and swore he would prove that

DA thiks it's LaciDA thinks it's Laci A memorial continues to grow in front of Laci Peterson's home on Covena Avenue in Modesto amid growing speculation the bodies of an adult female and baby boy recovered from the SF Bay are Laci and her son. ADRIAN MENDOZA/THE BEE LaciTiffany Roe, facing, and her sister-in-law, Raynette Roe, hug at the memorial set up in front of Laci Peterson's home Wednesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By GARTH STAPLEY and JOHN COTÉ BEE STAFF WRITERS Published: April 17, 2003, 05:01:13 AM PDT Stanislaus County District Attorney James Brazelton said Wednesday he thinks Laci Peterson...

Just heard on KFBK in Sacramento. KFBK is sending reporters to Richmond, CA where skeletal remains of a woman and fetus were found a little while ago. Richmond is on the San Francisco bay, north of Oakland.

Redwood City, CA, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Jurors could hear some new ground plowed Monday when they listen to closing arguments in the Scott Peterson murder trial.

Divers still searching Lake Tulloch with waters of 51 degree temperature. Divers have completed a search grid of about 3000 square feet from bridge outward. Modesto police say since search efforts have come up empty in and near Modesto they are relying on other experts who have directed them to the bridge over Tulloch lake.

<p>May 16, 2003 -- Laci Peterson was savagely carved up, her killer cutting off her head and removing internal body parts, a chilling new report said yesterday.</p> <p>Fox News quoted a source on the legal team of her husband, Scott, as saying the condition of Laci's body was "horrendous" - "awful, awful, awful."</p>

When the tiny body washed ashore, it was identified as a baby. When a woman's body was discovered only a mile away, the nation was gripped with the horrifying possibility that Laci Peterson had been found and that the infant found earlier was her baby, whom she had named Connor. When DNA testing identified the bodies, television networks interrupted coverage of the Iraqi war to report the double homicide of Laci and Connor Peterson. People around the world reeled with shock and grief at the brutality and callousness of the murders committed, unbelievably, on Christmas Eve. But not everyone saw...

<p>MODESTO, Calif. - Where is Scott Peterson?</p> <p>As cops struggle to identify the grisly remains of a woman and newborn washed up on a Richmond, Calif., shore over the weekend - strongly hinting they could be his missing wife and child - it appears Scott has vanished.</p>

Washington, DC -- Two leading pro-life groups that handle state legislation say the Peterson case, involving a pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed in a double homicide, highlights the need for laws that protect mothers and unborn babies who are victims of such crimes. Prosecutors say that Laci and Conner Peterson were killed on or about December 23 or December 24, during the eighth month of pregnancy. The bodies of the two victims were recovered and identified separately last week after washing up on the shores of San Francisco Bay. "This tragic case dramatically underscores the need for...

On fox now, DNA proves its Laci and her baby

For release: Wednesday, May 7, 2003 For further information: Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director, (202) 626-8820, Legfederal@aol.com, www.nrlc.org Family of Laci and Conner Peterson Urge Approval by Congress of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act WASHINGTON (May 7, 2003) -- The family of California murder victims Laci and Conner Peterson are urging congressional passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, saying the bill "is very close to our hearts." In a letter to the prime sponsors of the bill, Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R-Pa.) and Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), the family requested that the bill be referred to as "Laci...