| From: RICKAMORTI1 Aug-7, 2003 NATIONAL ENQUIRER August 19, 2003 SCOTT"S "SATANIC CULT" DEFENSE IS FULL OF HOLES by DAVID WRIGHT new picture: Homeless family: Donnie and Mary Ann Renfrow and their children Rayoune and Sherry at their campsite near Modesto. ( 2 of the women and the older man have no teeth, they look really down and out)! {synopsis} An NE investigation has uncovered stunning info that blows a huge hole in Scott's murder defense. On July 22, Scott's lawyers announced they had evidence in the Laci Peterson case that "totally exonerates" Scott and would lead to Laci's "true killers"- but their claims are pure fiction. Scotty's attorney, Mark Geragos, has suggested that Laci was the victim of a Satanic cult whose members were spotted in a battered van near the Petersons' Modesto home, around the time of Laci's disappearance on Christmas Eve. But what Scott's lawyer said were bloodstains in the van is actually barbecue sauce. And a Satanic image on a window of the van is tinting that was scratched off by a child. What's more Scott's lawyers cited a "mystery woman's" claims of being abducted by a Satanic cult even though she had a history of mental problems, the NE has learned. And a source close to the case revealed that defense attorneys have been unable to locate the woman. "Now that the so-called evidence in the van can be innocently explained, you can expect the defense team to abandon the Satanic cult theory faster than Liz Taylor abandons her husbands," said Craig Silverman, a former chief deputy district for Denver who has tried dozens of homicide cases. Defense attorney Geragos repossessed a 1987 van belonging to May Ann Renfrow, 64, to use as possible evidence in the case. But Mary Ann, her husband Donnie, 55, son Rayoune Miranda, 32 and daughter Sherry Moulton, 37, say that neither they nor their van had anything to do with Laci's murder. "Obviously Mark Geragos was trying to clear his client- and using us to do," Mary Ann told the NE. Cops first interviewed Mary Ann and her homeless family at their campsite at the Woodward Reservoir outside Modesto on Dec. 30. They were looking for a brown van in connection with Laci's disappearance and wanted to see the vehicle the family used to pull their trailer from one campsite to another. "We told them our van had broken down on Dec.22 and hadn't been repaired until the 29th, "Rayoune told the NE. "They examined it thoroughly and after we satisfied them that we'd never been in Laci's neighborhood, they went away. We didn't hear anything for nearly five months." Then on May 21, police investigators came back to see Rayoune. They'd had a report that implicated him in the Dec. 14 rape of a woman, Rayoune said. "The woman told a rape counselor she'd been subjected to Satanic rituals in a brown van, that her attacker had Satanic 666 tattooed on his neck, and that she overheard him talking with other people about the plans to kidnap a baby on Dec. 24th, Rayoune said. "I had to show them I didn't have a 666 tattoo, by pulling up my hair." "Eventually the police told us the woman was nuts and had accused quite a few other men of rape." "But they said they had to follow up because Mark Geragos was now pushing the issue." After lead detectives in the Peterson murder case questioned family members, and cops collected hair and saliva samples, authorities took the family's van and trailer away for examination. They were eventually cleared in the murder. But the defense team's Satanic cult theory, began making the TV news, with Geragos pinning the blame for Laci's death on four or five people in a mysterious brown van. "Mom was behind in her payments- she owed $600- and Mark Geragos bought the van by making the payment," Rayoune recalled. One June 4 the family watched as CNN reporter Dave Mattingly declared, "a source on the defense team tells me that they are more certain than ever of their theory because of things they have found after they examined the van. "They claim to have found duct tape inside the van, as well as blood stains. They also claim to have found a Satanic image sketched in the glas of the van." "We couldn't believe our ears," Sherry said. "Of course there was duct tape- our trailer's canvas was ripped in several places and we used duct tape to hold it together to protect us form the cold." "As for the bloodstains the police know the truth. When my son was helping one of the detectives move an ice chest in the van, they spilled a bottle of BBQ sauce. That's the stain the defense is talking about." And the satanic image? "The van windows are tinted and my grandchildren tore at the tinting material with their fingers one day so they could see outside better." It left a strange pattern on the window-but there's nothing Satancic about it." The family has also been told, she said that defense team investigators found the picture of the devil in the family trailer. Sherry showed an NE reporter a sticker of a sexy woman with bat wings and horns stuck to the trailer door. "My kids got it out of a machine," she said adding that it's ridiculous for her family to be accused of being Satanists. Gergagos or his investigators never talked to the family. The defense is operating under a gag order, but a source told the NE, "The defense has the van and it's being tested at a laboratory. Results are expected by the end of August." After cops returned the family's tattered trailer, a friend helped them tow it back to their campsite, where despite the fact that they have been cleared and people drive past their campsite honking and hollering insults. "Mr. Geragos has destroyed our Lives," Mary Ann said. "I don't know how he could be so cruel." "MYSTERY WOMAN PAWNS WATCH?" HOME INDEX PRELIMINARY HEARING TRIAL ALIBI-WITNESS LIST GERAGOS THEORY EVIDENCE-STORIES |
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