| Guns Found During Peterson Search July 11, 2003 When police searched the home of Scott Peterson who is accused of killing his wife, Laci, and the couple's unborn son on Christmas Eve, they seized shotguns and a handgun. Scott's father, Lee Peterson, made the revelation in an interview with the paper. He said that his son was an avid sportsman and the two often went bird hunting together. "Police have Scott's guns," he told the paper. "He had some bird guns and a handgun. It's not against the law. This is the United States." It was not known when the authorities seized the weapons. Modesto police staged two extensive searches of the Peterson home -- once shortly after Laci's Christmas Eve disappearance and then on Feb. 18-19 when officers concluded a meticulous two-day search, driving away with more than 90 items. The warrants for those searches remain sealed under the order of the Stanislaus County Superior Court.Lee Peterson also revealed that when he stays at the couple's home -- the alleged site of Laci's Christmas Eve murder -- he sleeps with a shotgun near his side. He simply does not feel safe in the home because he believes that the killers of his beloved daughter-in-law and grandson remain at large. The gun is kept in its case "by the side of the bed with shells nearby." "I'm not going to stay in that house without some kind of protection," Peterson told the paper. "I'm going to continue to take it up there." Scott Peterson's defense team and family members have remained undaunted in their contention that someone other than the Modesto fertilizer salesman killed Laci. Lee Peterson told the newspaper that the couple's home had been subject to "two or three break-ins" and family members have heard "people banging on the gate." One of those break-ins was a highly publicized raid by Laci's family when several items -- including a rocking chair and nursery furniture -- were removed from the home. Jackie responded with anger. The paper reported that the Petersons were making the mortgage payments on the house for their son and were staying there to maintain the home and also save on hotel expenses while traveling back and forth from their San Diego home to visit their son in the Stanislaus County jail and also attend court hearings. HOME INDEX EVIDENCE & NEWS STORIES MAGAZINES LACI SCOTT AUTOPSY WIRETAPS INCONSISTENT STATEMENTS ATTORNEY PICTURES-LINKS PETERSON TREE PETERSON ALBUM ALIBI-WITNESS LIST |
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| LACI & CONNER PRAY FOR JUSTICE |
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| Lee holding gun case leaving Laci's home with Jackie |
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