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| From: _KAT April 22, 2003 I read the transcript of LKL tonight, and reporter Ted Rowlands confirmed that Scott did indeed have his brother's I.D.on him when arrested. Typically, the Peterson family confirmed this themselves and gave a "perfectly reasonable" explanation. According to them, Scott planned to golf at Torrey Pines that day, and an id is required to get on the links. Scott didn't want them notifying media of his presence, so his brother gave him his I.D. This might be marginally believable, except that, in another report, LE SAID THAT SCOTT HAD NO GOLF CLUBS IN HIS CAR WHEN ARRESTED! He was arrested on the street near the golf club, to on the premises. No indication that he planned to go golfing at all. Also, LE catalogued Scott's belongings when he was jailed. No mention that he had a wedding ring with him. Guess he tossed that in the bay as well. ++++++++++++++++ Cops' end game with slaying suspect THE STAKEOUT: Scott Peterson taunts as police wait and watch Sunday, April 20, 2003 Inside the Stanislaus County Jail, Scott Peterson sat on his bunk in a red jumpsuit. No one came to see him, not even his lawyer. The inmates couldn't see Peterson, but they knew he was among them. They'd read the papers and seen the state attorney general say on TV that there was no question in his mind that Peterson had killed his wife, Laci, and unborn son. "He seems anxious, polite and awkward, consistent with someone in jail for the first time," said Kelly Huston, a spokesman for the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office. Just about everyone in this tight-knit Central Valley city suspected that Peterson was behind the disappearance of Laci. He didn't seem saddened, or even very upset, when she vanished on Christmas Eve. His efforts to find her seemed half-hearted, not to mention that he'd had an affair with another woman and taken out a $250,000 life insurance policy on Laci. The authorities certainly had their doubts, too, but couldn't act on them until Monday, when the badly decomposed remains of a woman's torso washed ashore at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline. The months-long game of cat and mouse that police had played with Peterson was about to end. Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden was sitting down to lunch at a Mexican restaurant when he got an urgent page to call the office. Now. Wasden called. Assistant Chief Dave Young answered. They'd found a body in Richmond, not far from where Peterson said he'd gone fishing the day his wife vanished. There was more, Young said. The body of an infant had washed up the day before, not even a mile away. Five detectives raced to the rocky shoreline, some in a helicopter and some in cars. They combed the scene until 2 a.m. They decided they'd better figure out what Peterson was up to. He hadn't been seen in Modesto in about a month, and the cops knew he'd been in San Diego, where he was raised and still has family. Adding to the sense of urgency, Peterson had grown a mustache and goatee and dyed his dark hair blond. One jailer said it looked like it was rushed, with the orange tint that comes from a bad peroxide dye job. The police were worried that Peterson might flee. As a fertilizer salesman, he often worked outside the country. Attorney General Bill Lockyer agreed. He assigned four agents to the job. They tapped Peterson's phone and attached a transmitter to the maroon Mercedes-Benz coupe that he had been driving. Authorities watched him around the clock. Peterson soon realized he was being followed. It seemed to embolden him. He often baited the cops, jumping from his car and yelling, "Why don't you go ahead and arrest me?" When a four-hour autopsy on Monday night failed to identify the remains pulled from the murky waters of San Francisco Bay, investigators sent tissue samples to the state DNA laboratory in Richmond. The case was given the highest priority and assigned first thing Tuesday morning. Analysts compared DNA taken from the woman's tibia and muscle tissue with that of Laci Peterson's parents. Then they compared DNA taken from the femur and muscle tissue of the infant's body with blood taken from Scott Peterson under a court order. As investigators awaited word on the results, they spent Tuesday and Wednesday assembling their case, nailing down their time line of events and working out the jurisdictional headaches of a case involving at least half a dozen law enforcement agencies. On Thursday, the DNA lab called Modesto police to say they'd obtained viable DNA samples from both bodies. They would know whether the bodies were Laci and Conner within 24 hours. The investigators didn't wait that long. Detectives and prosecutors met with Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Wray Ladine to lay out their case. They left her chambers with a warrant for Peterson's arrest. Detectives Al Carter, Craig Grogan, Jon Buehler and Al Brocchini were on the road by nightfall, headed south on Interstate 5 in two cars. Their destination: San Diego. Peterson grew more brazen, taunting his pursuers as he drove, Lockyer said on CNN's "Larry King Live." "(He) was waving at them and being, you know, kind of a smart aleck," Lockyer said. "So they finally decided they ought to just pull him in." Two agents from the state Department of Justice followed Peterson. He didn't put up a fight. Peterson had $10,000 in cash with him at the time of his arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place Friday with a call from the DNA lab. "We've identified the bodies," they said. "They're Laci and Conner." Police Chief Wasden told Laci Peterson's family at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Lockyer ducked out of his own wedding reception to announce the news during a press conference televised live on CNN and elsewhere. Wasdenappeared at his own press conference a short time after. A few hours later, the Modesto detectives left San Diego. Carter and Brocchini rode in one car; Buehler and Grogan followed in another, Peterson handcuffed in the back seat. It was a seven-hour drive. Peterson didn't say a word the entire time. The two cars from San Diego arrived at the Stanislaus County Jail shortly before midnight. Police had blocked the street outside. About 200 people jeered Peterson as the convoy arrived. Once inside, jailers took Peterson's khaki shorts and white Polo shirt and gave him a baggy jumpsuit. They took his fingerprints and took his photograph. They summoned a psychiatrist to determine whether he might commit suicide. The expert said no, that doesn't seem likely. Authorities allowed Scott to make a phone call; he called a friend in Fillmore (Ventura County) whom he has known since college, but no one knows what they discussed. And then he was led to his cell. Peterson made a few more phone calls Saturday. And he had a cell phone conversation with his lawyer, according to the Los Angeles Times. But beyond that, he's been remarkably quiet. There's only one thing anyone could recall him saying: "Your staff has been very professional and fair," he said to a jailer. "Thank you." +++++++ Thanks to my daughter for the above story ++++++++++++++++ SCOTT: I'M JUST MR. INNOCENT The 30-year-old fertilizer salesman was arrested Friday after detectives feared he might try to flee to Mexico. He had bleached his dark-brown hair blond and grown a goatee by the time he was apprehended. He was nabbed reportedly with as much as $10,000 cash on him - as well as brother's ID and a passport application in his brother's name. At yesterday's arraignment, Peterson was clean-shaven - prompting speculating he shed his beard to appear more all-American. He was appointed a public defender after he told the judge he couldn't afford a private lawyer. FULL STORY THANKS TO JUDYW10 FOR THE LINK TO THIS STORY ======== From: Airplane (AIRPLAIN) Apr 22, 2003 Good grief! They guy wanted to get a passport in his brother's name? He'll use absolutely anybody, won't he? ======= HOME INDEX SCOTT ALIBI-WITNESS LIST LACI WIRETAPS EVIDENCE-NEWS AMBER INCONSISTENT STATEMENTS LARRY KING TRANSCRIPTS |
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