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PROSECUTORS HYPNOTIZE LACI LOOKALIKE

By HOWARD BREUER and DAVID K. LI

August 20, 2003 -- The prosecution in the Laci Peterson murder case hypnotized a dog walker who resembles her in hopes of poking holes in husband Scott Peterson's defense, sources told The Post yesterday.
Cops believe Scott murdered Laci last Christmas Eve, before driving her body to Berkeley, Calif., and dumping it into San Francisco Bay. The defense has claimed witnesses spotted the pregnant woman walking her dog in Modesto at the time Scott Peterson allegedly murdered her.

To cut off the defense, prosecutors hope to show those witnesses were mistaking dog-walking Modesto resident Kristen Dempewolf, 34, for Laci, sources told The Post.

Both women were at about the same stage of pregnancy on Christmas Eve. Dempewolf delivered her baby at a Modesto hospital in early January - around the same time Laci Peterson would have given birth to son Conner.

Dempewolf's name surfaced on Monday, when unsealed court documents listed her - misspelled as "Deppenwolf" - as a witness interviewed under hypnosis. Investigators hypnotized Dempewolf so she could specifically recall when and where she was walking her dog on Christmas Eve, sources said.

Prosecutors need to discredit witnesses who reported seeing Laci walking her dog on Dec. 24 so they can defend their theory that Scott killed Laci in their home "on or about and between" Dec. 23 and 24 and dumped her body near San Francisco.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/3670.htm

WOW!!! Thanks, Vel!!

I think the prosecution deliberately misspelled her name in that document b/c they knew it would be released, and they hoped to give her a few more days of freedom from the mobbing press. LOL! Needless to say, as soon as Sandylapper pointed out that name in the pleadings, I was looking it up on Anywho.com--and finding absolutely nothing, since the name was misspelled.

Prosecutors need to discredit witnesses who reported seeing Laci walking her dog on Dec. 24 so they can defend their theory that Scott killed Laci in their home "on or about and between" Dec. 23 and 24 and dumped her body near San Francisco.

Thanks a million, Vel! Good info. The bad news is that there is not good, hard evidence in the home that she was murdered there. I was hoping that LE was "holding out".