| From: RICKAMORTI1 THE GLOBE - JULY 1, 2003 LACI'S MURDER: IT WAS MISTAKEN IDENTITY BY: David Thompson, Lynn Allison, and Dawna Kaufman Pictures: One of a prison yard and a sheild with Aryan Nations Symbol synopsis Laci's brutal murder was a tragic case of mistaken identity, according to the latest theory of her husbands defense team. While prosecutors insist that the pregnant 27 year old teacher was killed by her husband Scott Peterson, the defense is now speculating she was really an unintended victim caught up in a vendetta by white supremacists against the family of another California man named Scott Peterson. That theory has outraged Laci's loved ones. "It looks like Scott's attorneys are really clutching at straws," Laci's devoted dad Dennis Rocha tells Globe. "Its totally outrageous." But sources close to the defense team fighting to save 30-year old Scott from a lethal injection say a worker at a California prison overheard a furious argument between two inmate members of the Ayran Nations- one of whom coincidentally has a cousin named Scott Peterson. According to the prison employee, one of the inmates told the other, "I'm going to deal with you- and your family isn't going to be safe either." A source close to the defense team calls the prison employee a "very credible" witness. "He says the inmate was telling the cousin of the other Scott Peterson that he knew people on the outside who could get to him and his family," explains the source. "That was before Laci disappeared and the prison employee didn't pay much attention to it. "But after the news broke, the prisoners were watching TV and the employee says he heard the one inmate tell the other, "See, we got you. We got her." The inmate who was threatened had a girlfriend staying with his cousin Scott, so now defense investigators are striving to make the connection. "The thugs on the outside may have staked out the wrong house and unwittingly mistook Laci for the inmate's girlfriend, the source explains. "These are the kind of people who act first and ask questions later, so Laci wouldn't have stood a chance." Former FBI agent Ted Gunderson notes that hitmen sometimes do murder the wrong person. "It can be something as simple as someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time or having a similar name," Gunderson said. "The Ayran Nation has tentacles inside and outside the prison system and their killers are frequently hopped up on drugs, which doesn't make for careful assassins." Globe recently detailed a case in which two Houston women named Mary Morris were killed in their cars just days apart."There's a strong belief that the assassin got the wrong one in that case, then found the one he originally meant to kill and killed her too," says Gunderson. And Mark Hamm, a criminolgy professor at Indiana State University, tells Globe that bloodthirsty white supremacy groups are growing"by leaps and bounds" behind bars. "We believe that 10 percent of the prison population is affiliated with racist, hate gangs like the Aryan Nations" says Hamm. "They are extremely violent group of people capable of plotting a vendetta against anyone they consider they enemy." Scott's attorneys have also theorized that Laci, who went missing from home Dec. 23, 2002 was killed by a member of a twisted satanic cult. But Laci's family members are not buying either of those scenatios."They're going to any lengths possible so the finger isn't pointed at Scott," says Rocha. "The whole idea of an Aryan Nations vendetta is totally ridiculous." HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT AMBER EVIDENCE & NEWS STORIES WIRETAPS AUTOPSY MAGAZINES MAPS |
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