Posted on 04/19/2003 6:06:03 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
He even dyed his eyebrows!!! Serious stuff! LOL!
He doesn't have O.J.'s money. Also, I don't think there is a court in the land that won't find Scotty guilty. It's so sad when you think that this young couple had it all, and he threw it all away for whatever...freedom?
The odd thing is both bodies washing ashore, muchless around the same time.
That a very good question.
MPD sends out little coded messages. "We are going for the death penalty" is what this says to me.
Citizens visit a makeshift memorial on the front lawn of the home of Laci and Scott Peterson Saturday, April 19, 2003, in Modesto, Calif. Investigators have determined that the remains of two bodies found last week on the California shore were Laci Peterson and her unborn baby. Scott Peterson, Laci's husband, was arrested in San Diego, Calif., on Friday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
By Andrea Orr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -California's top prosecutor said on Saturday there was a "very compelling" case against Scott Peterson (news - web sites) in the death of his pregnant wife and that he was confident the 30-year-old fertilizer salesman would be convicted of murder.
"There is a very, very compelling case against him. I think it is going to result in a conviction," state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on local television.
Peterson was arrested in San Diego on Friday, a few days after the decomposed remains of his wife, Laci, and the fetus of their son washed ashore near San Francisco.
Authorities said the cause of death of Laci Peterson (news - web sites), a 27-year-old substitute teacher who had been missing since Christmas Eve, has not yet been determined. There was also no known motive for murder.
Under California law, a double murder conviction constitutes murder with special circumstances, which could make Peterson eligible for the death penalty, if he is convicted.
Peterson was being held in jail in Stanislaw County, near his hometown of Modesto, 90 miles east of San Francisco, and was expected to be arraigned early next week. When he arrived back in town about midnight on Friday, he was greeted by a crowd of angry locals who cried out "Murderer" and "Baby Killer."
Although he had been the subject of suspicion since his eight-month-pregnant wife disappeared four months ago, Peterson consistently denied he had any knowledge of her whereabouts. By several accounts, he had been uncooperative with police investigating the case. But he did lead his own search efforts and even traveled to Los Angeles to hand out flyers.
In recent weeks, Peterson had been staying with his parents in San Diego, near the Mexican border, and police feared he might be planning to flee the country. He had changed his appearance since Christmas, and photos taken after his arrest on Friday showed he had dyed his dark hair blond and grown a beard.
Plainclothes agents who had been tracking him with phone taps and car sensors pulled him over on Friday as he was driving a sports car near San Diego.
Scott and Laci Peterson met when they were both students at California Polytechnic State University in central California. After graduation, they opened a coffee shop in the college town, and a few years later moved inland to Modesto to be closer to Laci's family.
Friends told The Modesto Bee the couple had always appeared to be happy together and Scott had been excited about becoming a father, spending hours working on his son's bedroom.
"No one else ever made my son smile like that," his mother Jacqueline Peterson, told the newspaper.
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