The Curious Case of….Scott Peterson - Part 2

To recap: Police round-up the Usual Suspect in the murder of a mother-to-be, and that would be the pater famili-as in Scott Peterson.  Violating the Sherlock Holmes dictum - let the evidence drive the investigation - the police instead rely on the Idiot’s Guide to Solving Homicide: the husband/boyfriend/butler did it. 

Calling Sherlock Holmes: The Scott Peterson investigation is a textbook case about the power of the self-fulfilling prophesy. Scott Peterson has always been the focus of the investigation. Let US ignore the facts as well as the Prosecution’s failure to establish trivial details such as Motive and the Psychological profile of the Accused.  And let’s ignore any clues that get in the way of “justice”.

Curious Clue – Who let the dog out, who?

Six witnesses in the neighborhood saw Laci walking her dog around the block the day she was supposedly killed.   Some of the witnesses said Laci was being followed by two men.  At the same location, screaming is heard.  At the same location, a suspicious van speeds off.  Reportedly, the same van was in front of her house 45 minutes before. 

Vivian Mitchell says she saw Laci Peterson walking her dog Christmas Eve morning, about 45 minutes after Scott Peterson left for a fishing trip. Mitchell said it was between 10 and  10:15 a.m.  when she saw Laci Peterson, wearing black and white clothes. She  called police and reported the sighting but they did not call her back.  Vivian  had been washing dishes at her sink on Dec. 24 when she saw Peterson walk by her La Loma neighborhood home. "I had glanced out the window, and the sun had come out and it was a very nice day," she said. "It had been raining recently, so the sunshine brought out all the dog walkers. I'm sure it was Laci on Christmas Eve morning," she insists. "That was the lady I saw. And she is so striking. Beautiful Lady and a Beautiful Dog."

Her husband, Bill Mitchell, a former three-term  Modesto city councilman, said he was flipping through television channels when his wife called to him. "She said there was a pregnant lady with a beautiful dog."

Karen Servas, a neighbor, said she spotted the Petersons' golden retriever about  10:30 a.m. The dog was wearing its leash, which was muddy, and the possibility that Laci was abducted shortly after Mrs. Mitchell spotted her, demanded a very thorough and comprehensive investigation.

 

Homer Moldanado also saw Laci as he was driving to work that morning, he noted she was wearing a white shirt and black pants.

 

Curious Clue – Scott left a slew

For the Perfect Crime, Scott apparently screwed up when told the police the exact spot he went fishing where the body was eventually found.  He travels 80 miles to go fishing, comes home with a receipt where he bought buy gas and food along the way, keeps the  receipt of the dock and tells the police exactly where he went fishing.  This is why you don’t put a defendant on the stand.

Curious Clue – Nice guy through and through 

What about Scott’s psych profile? There was no history of domestic violence. No drugs. No financial problems.  Scott worked three jobs to put himself through college and put his wife through college.  Laci’s family talked about how much they loved each other. How happy they were. How happily married people they were.

Curious Clue – Money a motive too?

What about the $250, 000 life insurance policy?  It's not a policy. It was a retirement policy that has insurance attached.

(Tomorrow – If not the money, then what about that Honey?)

Comments

[A Voice of Sanity]

He was convicted by the media, not by any facts. The police spent 20,000 hours - and found one hair and some cement mess, nothing else. No evidence of murder was ever found. It cost the state $11 million to 'get' him to slake the public desire for vengeance.

Most who believe Scott is guilty don't know what the evidence actually is and so misstate it. Look at
http://tinyurl.com/65fvud
to see what the prosecution had - which was nonsense.
Then look at
http://tinyurl.com/6d3g4a
to see what the real circumstantial evidence in this case actually proved (3 minutes to read both). 18 items of evidence for fetal abduction. Zero for uxoricide.