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Subject: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
From ABC News:
April 14 — A body was found washed ashore today in Richmond, Calif., a day after a full-term male fetus was found not far away in an area where police have searched in the past for Laci Peterson, a pregnant woman who vanished Christmas Eve.
A dog walker found the adult body at the Point Isabel Regional shoreline. A fetus was found over the weekend about a mile away. The Contra Costa County coroner has identified the fetus — which still had its umbilical cord attached — as a full-term male, police said.
Police are not sure if the adult body and fetus are connected. Local police said the body appeared to have been in the water for some time and was so decomposed that they could not determine its gender right away.
"The body shows just some skeleton remains. There is flesh on the bones but it's been some time," " said Norm Lapera, chief of the East Bay Regional Park police in Richmond. "You could infer, however, that it is a female, given that we have contacted the Modesto Police Department. Modesto investigators were very interested and appreciated the phone call."
One report in the Contra Costa Times, citing one anonymous source, said the body was clothed in maternity wear and that its head and legs were missing.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/bodyfound030414.html
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I know the whole story of Laci Peterson is old news, but I thought this was quite interesting.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Oh Lord......please don't let it be true! :'(
I still had hope they would find this woman and hopefully a healthy baby with her
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Well, if it is her (which I am sure it is) I hope her family can be at Peace and her piece of sh!t husband gets the death penalty when he's found guilty.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Amen to that, Princess. If this is her and her baby, does that mean she was alive after she disappeared? The fetus was full term and when she disappeared didn't she have 6 weeks left? Or does 6 weeks early count as full term?
My heart goes out to her family :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
It's a sad story. Hopefully her family and her husband will see this whole ordeal come to a conclusion soon, and bring the person responsible for this to justice.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Whether it ends up being her or not this is a sad story to hear. :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Dag, if I remember right, anything over 2 weeks is considered premature, so you would be right. She was alive. And, considering the fetus was found separate from her, it would probably mean that she actually gave birth.
Anyway, yes. I feel for her family, but at least now, they can have some closure and a proper burial for her and her child. :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Didn't Laci Peterson's husband buy a new insurance policy or increase his wife's insurance benefits after she turned up missing? If so, that would be incriminating. It doesn't look like an accident. I guess without much proof, the police can't arrest him. :-/
Off the subject a little bit, a month ago, Bloomington police found bones in a cornfield that were later identified as missing 19-year-old bicyclist Jill Behrmann. What was strange about that case was that her remains were found 25 miles from where the target search area was. Officials thought she was just involved in a fatal accident, but this new revelation suggests foul play. In either case, another sad ending. :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I remember reading somewhere blood evidence was found in the kitchen of her home and on their mop.
I say the husband did it.
Yeap. I know I'm just jumping to conclusions, but it's very hard to tell a psycho from a regular person nowadays. :-/
At this point, IMO, I'd have to be seriously convinced by lots and lots of evidence that he didn't do it.
<now I duck to avoid rotten tomatoes>
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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Didn't Laci Peterson's husband buy a new insurance policy or increase his wife's insurance benefits after she turned up missing? If so, that would be incriminating. It doesn't look like an accident. I guess without much proof, the police can't arrest him. :-/
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I don't think he could increase the insurance legally after she disappeared. He did sell her car, though, not too long after she disappeared. That was a little suspicious.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I have to agree with Hairspray.....there are just too many strange indicators going on here. Maybe I am not being fair but it is the "impression" that I have formed. :-/
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I mean...
I remember in the mid 1990's, the seemingly distraught and innocent looking Susan Smith acting as if she had no clue as to the whereabouts of her children and begging for their return and doing a pretty good job convincing the nation.
Then we all find out she, herself, purposely killed her two precious and innocent children in the cruelest of methods.
After that whole Susan Smith thing, I have absolutely no problem jumping to conclusions and suspecting people from a victim's immediate circle.
There are a lot of sick people out there.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Why don't you put yourself in his shoes for a minute, his wife and his unborn child are missing and presumed dead, the media has convinced the nation that he is the one who killed them even though the police departement has concluded that he is not a suspect. I think that people should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to him.
What I find the most disturbing is that when Paula Yates drowned her children a lot of people supported her ( I think Katie Curic set up a defence fund for her) and tried to make it like she was a victim.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I saw on CNN this afternoon the autopsy did not prove nor disprove whether this is Laci or the child she was carrying. Guess it is gonna take more time to figure this one out
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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...even though the police departement has concluded that he is not a suspect...End Quote
Wrong. He is not "officially" a suspect, but he has not been ruled out yet, either. Considering these are the same waters, only a few miles in fact from the marina where he was supposed to have been fishing that day, if it turns out to be her it looks like an even more suspiscious eye will be turned towards the husband.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
My heart sank when I heard that the two bodies had been found yesterday. Judging by the location where they were found, I would say there is a good chance that they are the remains of Laci and her unborn son. :'(:'( And like many of you, I strongly believe that her husband did it! What a monster!!! >:(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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Wrong. He is not "officially" a suspect, but he has not been ruled out yet, either. Considering these are the same waters, only a few miles in fact from the marina where he was supposed to have been fishing that day, if it turns out to be her it looks like an even more suspiscious eye will be turned towards the husband.
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No not wrong, he is not a suspect. What's the first thing the police say when they have no idea who to focus an investigation on? "We are not ruling anyone out at this time". Which is exactly what they are saying now.
So before the body was found at the marina, everyone said that his story about fishing that day was a lie and that he was just covering up the fact that he killed her. Now that a body was found there, everyone now concludes that he was in fact at the marina.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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No not wrong, he is not a suspect. What's the first thing the police say when they have no idea who to focus an investigation on? "We are not ruling anyone out at this time". Which is exactly what they are saying now.
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When police use the term "not officially a suspect" all it means is that the "suspect" is under close investigation. Which in this case Laci's husband is.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I agree that my opinion on this is spectacularly unfair, Resinchaser, but call it my "gut" instinct. If he is innocent he will have nothing to worry about.
Many people look innocent on the outside and are raging monsters on the inside, I certainly hope that is not the case here.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Well, my opinion hasn't changed since my last posts on this issue yesterday. Whether with or without reproach, fortunately, I'm entitled to my opinion.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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No not wrong, he is not a suspect. What's the first thing the police say when they have no idea who to focus an investigation on? "We are not ruling anyone out at this time". Which is exactly what they are saying now.
So before the body was found at the marina, everyone said that his story about fishing that day was a lie and that he was just covering up the fact that he killed her. Now that a body was found there, everyone now concludes that he was in fact at the marina.
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But you are wrong. You stated that the police had concluded he is not a suspect. They did no such thing. This is from ABC NEws:
Police have said Scott Peterson is not a suspect in his wife's disappearance, but he has not been ruled out, either.
That means he could still be under investigation, but that at this time there is probably nothing actively linking him to the disappearance. It is not a conclusion, yet.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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But you are wrong. You stated that the police had concluded he is not a suspect. They did no such thing. This is from ABC NEws:
Police have said Scott Peterson is not a suspect in his wife's disappearance, but he has not been ruled out, either.
That means he could still be under investigation, but that at this time there is probably nothing actively linking him to the disappearance. It is not a conclusion, yet.
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Read your post,
Police have said Scott Peterson is not a suspect
That sentence is pretty clear, he is not a suspect. Ok they also say that he has not been ruled out either, but how many different angles do you think the police aren't ruling out? She could have been abducted, she might have run away, someone else might have murdered her, these are all possibilties i'm sure the police haven't ruled out.
My original opinion still stands, innocent until proven guilty. I live by that rule because I certainly hope that it would apply to me if I were ever in a circumstance like this.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
The problem is, innocent or not, Scott Peterson has been covered and practically indicted by the press for such a long period of time that there is absolutely no way he'd ever get a fair trial anywhere on the planet :-/
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
I hadnt heard about this story - it hasnt made it onto international news - bit hard these days when each and every news break is taken up by war tales.
But it certainly sounds like a very tragic story indeed. I hope you guys will keep this thread updated so I know whether indeed it is the husband or not.
PS resinchaser it was Susan Smith and not Paula Yates who drowned her kids. Paula was the wife of Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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PS resinchaser it was Susan Smith and not Paula Yates who drowned her kids. Paula was the wife of Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence.
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I think resinchaser was trying to refer to Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who drowned her 5 children in 2001 in the bathroom of her home.....she was suffering from PPD
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
They arrested Scott Peterson a few hours ago. They didn't say for what, but there is going to be a news conference sometime tonight.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Here's a link to the arrest.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&cid=578&u=/nm/20030418/ts_nm/crime_peterson_dc
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
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They arrested Scott Peterson a few hours ago. They didn't say for what, but there is going to be a news conference sometime tonight.End Quote
Anybody know what was discussed in the news conference?
It was supposed to air at 6 p.m. I missed it, I guess.
This is a link to the site dedicated to finding Laci:
http://www.lacipeterson.com/
No updates there as of yet though.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Gonna be on at 6 PST......so start watching in about 10 minutes Hair
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
It was them.....Laci and Connor......
God Bless their souls :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Official: Bodies Are Laci Peterson, Baby
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO - California attorney general says remains that washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay this week were those of Laci Peterson and her unborn child.
Meanwhile, Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego on Friday in connection with the Christmas Eve disappearance of his pregnant wife, a sheriff's deputy said.
Scott Peterson was being transported to Modesto, according to the deputy who spoke on condition that his name not be used.
Peterson has not been seen in public since the decomposed remains washed ashore in Richmond, 90 miles away from the couple's Modesto home. The bodies were found on Sunday and Monday by people walking the shoreline.
Scott Peterson's attorney, Kirk McAllister, had refused to disclose his client's whereabouts this week. McAllister did not immediately return a telephone message Friday from The Associated Press.
Scott Peterson's parents live in Solana Beach, north of San Diego. A knock at the door of their home went unanswered Friday evening.
Peterson had told police he last saw his 27-year-old wife Christmas Eve as he left to go fishing at a Berkeley marina, which is three miles from where the bodies were found.
Modesto police seized his boat, pickup truck and nearly 100 items from the couple's house but had not formally named him as a suspect in the disappearance.
From virtually the moment his wife was reported missing, Scott Peterson's moves and statements have been scrutinized by authorities.
Peterson traded in his wife's Land Rover for a new pickup truck, considered selling their home and eventually admitted an extramarital affair with a massage therapist while his wife was pregnant with the couple's baby.
Peterson said he'd told his wife about the affair in the days before she vanished.
"It (the affair) was not a positive, obviously ... but it was not something that we weren't dealing with," he told ABC's "Good Morning America." "It wasn't anything that would break us apart."
The affair turned Laci Peterson's family against the son-in-law they had earlier supported. They begged him to cooperate with Modesto police, who had labeled him "uncooperative."
Scott Peterson launched his own search effort, separate from the one organized by his wife's family and sanctioned by police. At one point, as searchers looked in the San Francisco Bay and around Modesto, Scott Peterson showed up in Los Angeles to distribute fliers to volunteers at a local hotel.
"We simply have to expand the geographical area," he said at the time.
In February, Scott Peterson told MSNBC he missed his wife.
"I can't drive. I can't sleep," he said then. "Sometimes I feel I just can't do it. I feel like I'm in a dark corner and I just can't function."
God rest them and keep them. :'(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Yeap. That so called husband is a total psycho. I hope he gets what he deserves. >:( :'( >:(
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
My heart goes out to Laci Peterson and her unborn child. And if Scott Peterson is proven in a courtroom as the killer, he should get the ultimate punishment.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Poor Laci and Connor. :'( I hope the monster that did this to her and the baby rots in hell for all eternity.
Subject: Re: Body and fetus found...possibly Laci Peterson
Wow, this is so sad. :'( Her family will be in my prayers but at least know they know what happened (if not the killer)...they have a body they can bury and won't always wonder if she is alive. If he did do it (and I think he did) I hope he rots in jail. >:(