| Day 10 of the Scott Peterson Trial Thursday, June 17, 2004 FULL TRANSCRIPT GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Day 10 of the Scott Peterson double-murder trial began with Laci's mother expressing her disgust with the defense. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SHARON ROCHA, LACI PETERSON'S MOTHER: ... I just think Mr.Geragos needs to stop joking so much. This is not funny. There's nothing humorous about the fact that my daughter was murdered. (END VIDEO CLIP) LAURA INGLE, KFI RADIO: Sergeant Ron Cloward with the Modesto Police Department was on the stand for the majority of the day. Now, this is the man put in charge of the search effort for Laci Peterson December 26, 2002, two days after Laci Peterson was reported missing. He described the painstaking search to find Laci, how he put helicopters in the air, he put horse teams on the ground in the park and put officers on the ground to look through the neighborhood.They went through everything. They went through every street. They looked in every back yard. They talked about looking under manholes, looking through alleys, talking to sex offenders, talking to transients, doing everything they could to make sure that she wasn't in the neighborhood and try to find her alive, of course. But then the testimony took a very dark turn when he got into the portion where they turned to the San Francisco Bay and how they started to put divers in those dark, murky waters. And it was very stormy around that time. They had to use sonar (UNINTELLIGIBLE) similar devices on the boats, those divers going in under water, going down, plunging down to the sea floor, feeling around to see if they could find signs of a body. Now, he described that in great detail. But on cross-examination, defense attorney Mark Geragos was able to talk to him about some other things that came out during the search, i.e., tips that were called in. And weren't there people that, in fact, spotted somebody that looked like Laci Peterson walking in the park on Christmas Eve 2002? He said yes, they did receive those tips and they did follow up on them. There was also another report that somebody had seen a dog that looked like McKenzie, Scott and Laci Peterson's dog, barking like crazy in an area that was near Scott and Laci's home. So he was able to elicit some of that testimony from the officer. And of course, the defense is trying to say that the police did not look at other leads in this case. They instead zeroed in on Scott Peterson right away, allowing the real killers to slip away. On redirect, Rick Distaso was able to get him back to talking about some of the things that they did investigate. They did call people. They did investigate a store, for instance, where Laci was reportedly spotted on Christmas Eve. And they went and they talked to those people that worked there,where this sighting allegedly happened. They went through six hours of surveillance tapes but never saw any sign of Laci Peterson. HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT TRIAL ALIBI-WITNESS LIST WIRETAPS AUTOPSY EVIDENCE-NEWS MAGAZINES TV TRANSCRIPTS |
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