From:  RickAMorti1
GLOBE COVER STORY:
SCOTT PETERSON LIES EXPOSED!
March 1, 2004

HIS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR TIPPED COPS
THAT HE WAS GUILTY FROM GET-GO!
SYNOPSIS

Scott Peterson's peculiar actions after his wife went missing sent up red flags, quickly changing the
cops heartfelt sympathy for the young husband, into suspicion that he was a cold blooded killer.

Scott left a message on Laci's cell phone at 2:15 p.m. on the day that she vanished, telling her
he was leaving the marina after his fishing trip.  But it was well known among her friends
and family that Laci's cell phone battery was dead and had been for weeks.

Detective Brocchini knew Laci's cell phone battery was dead as early as Christmas Eve, because
he had examined the phone and taken messages off it.  "If the cell phone had been dead for weeks,
why had Scott left a message on it on Christmas Eve,  that started with the words, "Hey, beautiful?",
asks a source close to the case. "Brocchini figured it was highly suspicious.

"Was the message part of Scott's alibi, left for the benefit of LE whom he knew would listen
to it after Laci disappeared?"  "Did he know Laci would never hear it anyway because she
was already dead?"  Brocchini was concerned enough to record the conversation in his report.

Just 24 hours after his pregnant wife disappeared, Scott hosted his parents for turkey dinner on
Christmas Day at his home in Modesto.  He also invited next door neighbor Karen Servas, who
had found McKenzie running loose near her home on X-mas Eve. She turned him down because
she is a vegetarian, but a calm and cool Scott called her a few minutes later to tell her he was
also making tortellini.  "The only other guests at Scott's house where his parents, Jackie
and Lee, who unlike their son seemed "very upset."

After some small talk, Scott left the table, opened a bottle of wine and began cooking the tortellini
-- which the neighbor found bizarre seeing as though his pregnant wife was missing.  "Karen told LE,
he was acting like everything was fine," says the source.  "She couldn't believe it.  "During the meal,
he told his parents several times that he'd volunteered to take a polygraph test, but that police had
advised him he was "too emotional" and shouldn't do it. Later he said he couldn't take a
polygraph because too much time had passed since the disappearance.

"Police were more than surprised when Karen told them. The truth was, they'd been trying
without success to get Scott to take one." Karen says that from the look in Scott's eyes
and his demeanor, she was so scared of him that she fled her home and stayed with friends.

Scott's stonewalling and curious behavior practically screamed out that he was a prime suspect. 
When police went to the warehouse with him, to photograph the boat he'd been fishing in, Scott
suddenly blurted out "Don't let my boss see that."  He obviously meant that he didn't want his boss
to know he stored his boat in the company warehouse. "Brocchini made a mental note that it
seemed like a very odd thing for someone to be worrying about when his wife was missing."

Another officer, Deputy Chris Boyer, who was in charge of the bloodhound tracking team, was
left speechless when he wanted to take a pink slipper, a hairbrush and a pair of Laci's
sunglasses to give his dogs a scent to track her and Scott demanded a receipt for them.

"Boyer later told colleagues that in 20 years of experience, it was the first time anyone
had asked for a receipt for something that could help find a missing person."

And while trying to corroborate the Christmas Eve fishing trip, Det. Grogan had alarms go off in his
head when Scott refused to give him his debt card number to check out his gas purchase at a filling
station.  "A few days later Scott gave Grogan a piece of paper with the Chevron station location and the
amount $13.08 handwritten by himself and still refused to give Grogan his card number" said a source.

On one occasion, cops found witnesses who thought they had seen Laci walking the dog at the
time Scott said she had gone out.  But instead of being elated by someone who might help
find his wife, the source reveals, Scott said, "It wasn't Laci.  She doesn't walk that way."

Adds the source, cops were forced to ask themselves, "Did Scott dismiss the sighting
because he KNEW she never walked in the park that day?"

LE also had doubts about Scott from his interaction with other witnesses.  Stacey Boyers, a close
friend of Laci visited Scott on Christmas Day and while she was there, he spent an unusual
amount of time vacuuming, especially around the couch, armchairs, and washer and dryer. 
"No one had ever accused Scott of being a 'clean freak' and Stacy thought it was very weird that
he was calmly vacuuming, while Laci's family and friends were joing the police in searching for her.

On Jan. 9, 2003, Laci had been missing for 16 days.  Bishop Bergstrom, 57, a volunteer searcher,
asked Scott if there where any new leads. Says the source, "In a flat, cold tone and with
an odd smile on his face, Scott told him, 'No- I doubt they'll ever find her."

Laci's Mom, was also puzzled by Scott, when she over heard him tell someone that
Conner's due date was Feb. 16, says the source.  "She asked Scott when it
had changed and Scott didn't say a word, he just looked at her." (Due date was Feb. 10)

According to a source Scott also told Sharon that he last saw Laci sitting in a chair with a
beautiful smile on her face, combing her hair.  "She looked very cute."  But Scott told
police and others that "Laci was mopping the kitchen floor when he left."

Finally, as police were trying to keep the case in the public eye, they got a video from Laci's Mom to pass
clips along to media.  But Scott forbade them to use any shots of him, and they figured out why when they
saw the tape, which was dated Dec. 21, 2001, a year to the day before Laci disappeared.  "In the video,
Laci has someone's baby and asks Scott to hold it," says the source.  "He says, 'This isn't much fun.'

The detectives looked at each other,  "From Scott's own mouth had come confirmation of something
they had heard from his own friends-Scott wasn't happy about his own impending fatherhood."

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