Posted on 01/09/2003 7:55:37 AM PST by landerwy
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:55:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Officers aboard a San Mateo County Sheriff's Department search and rescue boat check underwater.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A law enforcement official collects a water sample from the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday while searching for Laci Peterson.
By TY PHILLIPS BEE STAFF WRITER Searchers returned to the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday and used underwater camera equipment to hunt for clues relating to the disappearance of Laci Peterson of Modesto.
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
According to the linked article and others Laci was expecting the baby in a month and a half on December 24th. She was not in that critical period just two weeks prior to delivery.
Puh-lese! I'd never take one under these circumstances either. His wife is missing, he's upset. A question such as, "Did you murder your wife?" would likely cause a polygraph test to register distress when he truthfully answered, "No."
The polygraph is notoriously unreliable as well which is why the results of these "tests" are not admissable as eveidence in court. He may indeed be guilty, but to suggest that he is guilty solely on his refusal to take a polygraph test is, imho, totally wrong.
That the police wouldn't be searching in the marina unless the husband had either failed or refused to take a polygraph test...
x42 might well have PASSED one, about Monica or whoever!
No way would I ever agree to take one if I were someone whom LE was singling out, trying to hammer. Only if I were one of a hundred people being asked to take them as a general screen, with same questions and examiner, would I agree to this...
They apparently tried to convince him that such an interview would help him to clear himself. The response quoted was that the husband stated that it would be 'a waste of time'.
I certainly can understand a serious distrust of the media. Based on the pictures alone...a large husband with an alibi that doesn't really exonerate him 100% and attractive pregnant wife. Anything short of a convincing public weep-fest by the guy will be used against him by the media's morality show. He may be exacerbating his problems if the press turns against him, as may already be occurring with these stories this morning.
The guy should at least get a professional to help with his PR on his own terms.
She was taken right there before she started walking her dog. The burglars across the street were apparently cleared though. So for another criminal to just come along in the same time frame and see her seems beyond belief. Must have been someone she knew.
IF he's a weepy kind of guy. I'm trying to envision my husband in these circumstances. He'd be AWFUL on TV whether he was guilty or not.
The guy should at least get a professional to help with his PR on his own terms.
The Ramseys were pilloried for getting a PR person.
Somebody she knew, maybe once had a relationship with, maybe not so AWFULLY long ago...showed up, and on the spur of the moment, Laci jumped in the car --as did her dog.
The dog of course, would have been later released where it might have had to cross water or mudflat, creek or canal or river, to get home...
Is there the slightest CHANCE that this someone might have called her up and actually ARRANGED this, to see her while her husband was away?
Laci's brother was interviewed the other night on Greta and was asked about how the house looked, because he was there I think Christmas Eve or the next day after she was reported missing. The brother said that even though Laci was going to have people over for a brunch on Christmas morning, that there had been no preparations in the house, it looked like.
Now he didn't think that was unusual, but to me, if I were having people over the very next day, my house would already have had some signs of work for a party.
And her sister said that Laci and the husband came to the sister's place of work on Monday evening, and everything seemed fine. So she was seen Monday evening, and I guess she must have planned on using the whole day Tuesday to work on her party. It's just that it doesn't seem like enough time to put a party together.
Maybe that's just me though.
And Laci and her husband had lived in San Luis Obispo where they met at school, I believe, and then they had started a restaurant somewhere around there, which they had for 2 years, then she wanted to move back to Modesto to be near her family. They had been back in Modesto for 3 years according to a family friend of the husband last night on Greta.
So maybe there was someone in her past, from school or restaurant days, who just decided to look her up.
and then she was going to have the whole family in on Christmas Day, at her house, from some 10 AM on...
I too was thinking, wouldn't she need help, a sister or good girl friend, etc in to help her with all that, and that is why she would have wanted the husband out from under foot?
And then Scott said, when he came in there was nothing, NADA! No cooking, no shopping, no decorating, not one thing altered from when he left at 9:30. That alone [for my critics] would be pretty strong evidence of foul play.
[barring desperate medical emergency, which Scott and Laci's stepfather ruled out before calling police...]
Don't hold me to this, but didn't Scott also say that her keys were in her purse, as if she had not used them that day at all, and the house doors were closed but not locked at all, which was NOT her habit at ALL!
That occurred to me too after I posted. I really feel bad for this guy, assuming he's innocent. This is almost like a 'Fugitive' scenario.
Generally like detector tests are unreliable if the subject has any knowledge of the case. The results are not admissible in court either, and cannot be used to prove guilt or innocence.
It is hardly an admission of guilt that the husband has not submitted to a lie detector test. I understand he has hired a lawyer. Any prudent lawyer would have advised him not to take the test either way.
Yes, you're right. She was most likely the sort of person who could pull a party together in one day, from what her brother was saying. She was very organized, her house was always perfect, nothing ever out of place, he said. So it was probably nothing to her to get this done in one day.
We can rule one thing out - she obviously didn't freep several hours per day. :)
Yes, you're right. It sounds more like foul play. Though I know the percentages are with a husband being involved in something like this.
And if the keys were still in her purse, she may have answered the door at just a critical moment, when she had the dog already on the leash, ready to walk out the door, but someone rang the bell, she answered, was taken, dog ran out, for some reason the creep closed the door or it slammed, she was put in vehicle.
But it just seems to defy the laws of probability that there was a break-in across the street in the same time frame, and then something happens to her just around that time, and those burglars were cleared in her disappearance apparently.
You nailed it for me, I'm afraid!
Speaking of which, I really need to cut back. I have a to-do list a mile long. It used to be, I would just spend alot of time here when there was a crisis.
he may already have that help and if he knows he's not the perp, he'll have a higher dollar in mind for interviews, book deal etc. fertilizer salesman salary can't be all that great. giving his side now won't be near as lucrative.
Women in late pregnancy sometimes get turned off of their husbands, suddenly boyish First Love shows up, she melts, away they go.
By the time reality begins to dawn, the police have been notified, a search is on...he knows he is in trouble, knows she will call home if he turns his back, may feel he has no choice but to kill her.
Another idea is this, HER relatives are so effusive, go way beyond the c o d to praise Scott to the heavens, how great he is, while his own parents and SIX siblings...are more ordinary and restrained...
Can it be that Laci's family and siblings know something WE don't? That perhaps she was a bit of a problem, a little bit wild, had gone into what her family didn't approve of, and this Scott brought her back to earth, saved her from a life of drugs or promiscuity or whatever...they may have been very grateful to him, felt their own sister had feet of clay, tended to think when this happened, oh, no, there SHE goes again, ...and not even THINK of blaming Scott...
Marc Klass took one. So did John Walsh. Both of them have said that if you are NOT guilty, it's the first thing you should do to HELP THE POLICE.
I see you're willing to smear HER to defend HIM. All with wild, ridiculous speculation.
That does it, he's guilty. Of something....
And all over this forum for any number of reasons. But most people who have followed the case lately are now aware that they had nothing to do with her murder. I have yet to see any retractions, and I'm not holding my breath either.
Q: Did you have an argument with your wife in the last 24 hours?
He could have had a simple disagreement with her over which TV show to watch, but if he answers "yes", he has a "motive" and is a suspect. If he answers "no", he is lying and is a suspect.
I once had to take one of these "tests" after the fast food joint I worked at in high school had a theft. I had the flu the day I was scheduled to take it, but they told me I'd be fired if I didn't go anyway. I went and the results came back "inconclusive" and even though I was/am honest to a fault and had never stolen anything, I was still fired over this "test" result.
If I were in this situation, I would cooperate fully with the police, but I would not take one of those "tests".
You bring out good points BUT
you'd only be guilty if you did something to cause harm etc
...you'd "look" guilty if you were the last person to see her, she's vanished, there are NO CLUES, foul play is suspected and you really can't prove too much about where you were (witnesses etc)....
But you say you go biking (I'm assuming often ), I don't believe this guy went fishing all the time (normal routine)....
and it was CHRISTMAS EVE - some think that normal I think it's a bit odd ---did he have gifts all bought and wrapped?
(and I do believe he left pretty late for a 'fisherman'...dont' the fish 'bite' earlier than 9:30 am???)
amazing isn't it?
This is theory out of the "nuts n sluts" handbook - CHAPTER "What to do when those WOMEN cause trouble, go public, end up dead etc, etc....
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