Posted on 06/23/2004 5:28:39 AM PDT by runningbear
Posted on Tue, Jun. 22, 2004
Link to mistress revealed
SHE SPENT NIGHT AT HOME OF LACI PETERSON'S FRIEND AROUND TIME SHE WENT PUBLIC
By JESSIE SEYFER
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
One of Laci Peterson's best friends testified Monday that Amber Frey stayed overnight at her home around the time Frey held a press conference to tell the world she had been Scott Peterson's mistress............
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JOKESTER SCOTT
By HOWARD BREUER
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June 23, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Jurors at the Scott Peterson double-murder trial yesterday traveled back in time to Christmas morning 2002 — and watched as the "calm, cool, relaxed" suspect laughed as he told a detective about his missing wife's fastidiousness. With Detective Al Brocchini in the witness box, prosecutors played a DVD on a big screen that showed Peterson being interrogated at the Modesto police station 16 hours after he claimed he went fishing, leaving his eight-months pregnant wife, Laci, at home mopping floors.
"Why was your wife mopping the floors on [Christmas Eve] morning?" Brocchini asks Peterson on the recording.
Peterson leans back in his chair, chuckles and replies, "She was very meticulous about it, with it being Christmas and with the dogs and the cats in the house." Police later learned that the Petersons' housekeeper had mopped the floors the previous day.
Peterson was also seen snickering when Brocchini asked ........
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Jury shown video of cop quizzing suspect
Peterson was calm, emotionless, detective testifies
Diana Walsh and Stacy Finz, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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Scott Peterson appeared calm and emotionless even as a police detective grilled him on his whereabouts the day his wife disappeared and later when the detective accused him of having multiple extramarital affairs, according to testimony at his double-murder trial Tuesday.
Peterson sipped from a coffee cup, stuck his hands in his pockets, talked in a steady and calm voice and even joked about misfiring his gun, during the interview by Detective Al Brocchini at the Modesto Police Department. The interview, recorded by video camera and played for jurors Tuesday, took place just after midnight Dec. 25, 2002, six hours after Peterson reported his wife, Laci, missing.
Throughout the hourlong video, Peterson expresses little concern for his missing pregnant wife. He also appears unconcerned about questions relating to what he'd done and where he'd been earlier that day......
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Detective says Scott Peterson was 'relaxed'
Detective says Scott Peterson was 'relaxed'
Associated Press
REDWOOD CITY - Jurors heard yesterday for the first time Scott Peterson's own account of what he did the day his pregnant wife disappeared, and a detective's descriptions of a man seemingly void of emotions who never would be ruled out as a suspect........
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Jurors hear Peterson's alibi in his own words through taped interview
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(Excerpt) Read more at ledger-enquirer.com ...
"I said, 'You got some explaining to do,'" Brocchini recalled of the Feb. 1, 2003, exchange. "I said he wasn't acting like somebody who was missing his pregnant wife."
He said Peterson was dismissive, saying "Right. Other girlfriends," and then walked away."
PINGING.......
PINGING.......
PINGING.......
Detective details showdown
BY GARTH STAPLEY and JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 23, 2004, 04:20:00 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- The confrontation was almost inevitable. Scott Peterson, realizing he was being followed, shifted from prey to pursuer as he approached the unmarked police car.
Detective Al Brocchini, who had appeared on a national crime-fighting program during the search for Peterson's pregnant wife, Laci, had followed his No. 1 suspect to Fresno on Feb. 1, 2003.
Scott Peterson pierced the detective's shield of secrecy near the home of Amber Frey, who had told the world only a few days earlier that she was Peterson's "other woman."
Brocchini exited his car for the showdown.......
By Michelle Durand, Daily Journal Staff
Claims that an elderly “stealth juror” tried sneaking her way onto the Scott Peterson double-murder trial jury in hopes of convicting him have “no factual basis,” District Attorney Jim Fox said yesterday.
On Monday, Fox hinted at his findings to the Daily Journal but only officially said yesterday he would not file criminal perjury charges against Dawn O’Dell, the 66-year-old woman accused of trying to undermine the jury.
“There is insufficient evidence,” he reported.
O’Dell told others on a bus trip to Reno that she planned to be picked and become the foreperson in the sensational trial, according to a man who alerted Peterson’s defense team. O’Dell allegedly felt Peterson is guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and wanted him to receive the death penalty, said the man who was reportedly sitting in front of O’Dell on the bus......
>>On Greta last night they said that the cement anchor, the only one Snott had left, was brought into court today. Fieger said it was a very chilling moment....it was a small, 8"x8" homemade anchor. He said it was painfully obvious that this along with the other missing ones were made to weight a body down. He said it was much too small to anchor a boat of that size in the tides of the bay.
His words sent chills thru me.<<
Good Morning!!
You know I used to dislike Feiger, BIG TIME, but I'm liking him more and more.
"NE EXCLUSIVE LACI MURDER TRIAL COVERAGE
KEY DEFENSE EXPERT REFUSES TO TESTIFY
CYRIL WECHT WILL NOT TESTIFY ON SCOTT'S BEHALF
BY David Wright and Don Gentile
SYNOPSIS
The difference between life and death for Scott Peterson may be the ability of his attorney Mark Geragos to prove his claim that Laci's baby was born alive.
But one of the experts hired by the defense won't support that claim, The, NE has learned exclusively. And top experts have told the NE flat-out that the child died while still in his mother's womb!
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Cyril Wecht will not testify in Scott's trial, "Although Wecht told the NE the matter was still up in the air." "The obvious conclusion has to be that he doesn't agree with the defense theory," said a source.
Geragos stunned the court in his opening statement by asserting that Scott could not have murdered his wife and unborn child Christmas Eve 2002 because the child was born alive. "The evidence will show that the baby lived beyond the 24th of December." "If that happened, then Laci was alive, or the baby was born alive and kept alive, one or the other."
Geragos' claim is one of the most crucial elements in his defense strategy. He bases it on a comparison of Conners' estimated age on Christmas Eve 2002, the day Laci vanished, with the baby's estimated age after he washed ashore four months later on April 13, 2003.
DR. Brian Peterson, who conducted the autopsy on Laci and Conner and testified at Scott's preliminary hearing, stated that the infant was between 33 and 38 weeks old, approximately the age of a full-term baby.
"Although he strongly believed the baby was not born alive, he could not rule it out, Dr. Peterson said under questioning from Geragos.
On the day Laci vanished Conner's age was 32 weeks, according to her gynecologist, said Geragos. The attorney intends to point to the difference between the 32 weeks and the 32 to 38 weeks as an indication that Laci and her cild where alive for some time after she disappeared. In that case Scott, who was fishing at the Berkeley Marina that day, could not be the killer, he said.
But Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, professor of forensic science at New York's famed John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told the NE: "his argument is horse crap!' "There's no way he can prove the baby was born alive.
"What he's really saying is that when the dead infant was looked at, the impression was that the fetus was older than the fetus would have been had Laci been killed December 24 and dumped in the water."
"That's based on physical characteristics of the fetus, but any knowledgeable medical person knows that's an imprecise science.
"You have variants such as state of nutrition of the mother, her health, the date of conception. The correct age of the fetus, can vary by weeks."
Forensic scientist Dr. Werner Spitz added that a fetus does not grow all that much after 31 weeks. "This baby was not born alive," Spitz told the NE.
While Geragos may be able to bring in experts to replace Dr. Wecht and muddle the issue, he won't be able to explain away a key factor about Conner's body, according to Kobilinsky and Spitz.
The infant's corpse was in a much lesser state of decomposition that his mother's corpse. In, fact, Dr. Peterson's autopsy estimated the baby had been exposed to underwater elements for no more than two days. There were no signs of animal feeding, he said.
The baby's skin appearance was identical to that of a child who dies in the mother's womb, a condition known as "maceration," Dr. Peterson noted.
Laci's body was obviously in the water for months. It was nearly skeletal, missing the head, hands, feet and most major organs, but her uterus was present.
"With time and tidal actions and animal feeding, as the abdominal wall wore away, eventually the upper part of the uterus wore away. At that time, the fetus was released," Dr. Peterson testified at the prelim.
Dr. Spitz explained that the uterus is the last organ to decompose in a woman.
Conner was protected from the elements inside his mother until the very end. "There is no other explanation," said Spitz.
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Geragos also told the jury he will prove that tape or twine found knotted around the infant's neck had to be deliberately placed there by someone, another indication the baby was born alive.
But Dr. Spitz, who has examined numerous bodies found in water, said all sorts of debris can become attached to the body in strange ways. He added: "The loop of the tape could have possibly floated onto the child's feet and worked its way up to the neck with tidal action."
OK TO COPY TO OTHER FORUMS!"
Thank you RickAMorti1
>>Peterson told police in the taped interview that on the morning of Dec. 24, he and his wife watched the Martha Stewart show in which Stewart talks about meringues. Brocchini reviewed a tape of the show from that day and found no mention of meringues, indicating that Peterson was lying and suggesting that the show on meringues actually aired the day before.
But during opening statements, Peterson attorney Mark Geragos took much pleasure out of showing a video of Martha Stewart mentioning meringues on the very show Peterson said they'd watched.
On Tuesday, Brocchini acknowledged to prosecutor Rick Distaso that he'd missed the reference to meringues, which was mentioned only once in the Dec. 24 show, but eight times on the Dec. 23 show. <<
BINGO!!!!
From the Chronical article!!!
More from Purgatory forum:
The gun:
"Lead Det. Al Brocchini found a Llama 22-caliber handgun in the glove compartment of Peterson's Ford F-150 pickup truck. Peterson told the cops he had been pheasant-hunting about a month before, bu the gun was "dry-fired," then it "misfired again," so he put it in the glove compartment and forgot about it.
Famed forensic pathologist and ballistic expert Robert H. Goldberg found the gun testimony fascinating. "They wouldn't go to the trouble and expense of bringing in a firearms expert unless they had some physical proof," he tells the GLOBE. "There could be blood or gunshot evidence we haven't heard about yet."
Goldberg says the prosecutor's firearms witness will be able to tell if the gun is broken like Peterson said it was. "If the gun can be fired, the Scott is caught in a lie." he notes. "And if not why bring in this witness?"
Ressler concludes "If Scott Peterson is innocent he's certainly made some odd statement." ""
I just wish the talking heads on TV would SHUT UP!! Michael Cardoza made me so mad when he was on LKL Monday, that I won't watch it again!!
These articles today are fascinating!!
Don't let his occasional moments of clarity and sensibility get to you -- he's still a dickweed.
Why, speak of the devil!!!!!
Thanks for carrying that over from yesterday's thread sis, you read my mind...I was just about to do that!
Mornin'!
Good Morning, and you're welcome!!
ROTFLMAO!
Pheasant hunting with a pistol!
That's as crazy as fishing with packaged lures.
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