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| LACI & CONNER "May justice be served, and may your beautiful angels be with you forever." Leanne ~ Australia ~ Guestbook |
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September 9, 2004 Prosecutors called a string of women to the stand late Wednesday, all of whom were pregnant at the same time as Laci Peterson and walked for exercise in the same area, in an attempt to show that witnesses might have seen someone else. One by one, three young, attractive women took the stand. Each one said they lived in the Petersons' old neighborhood, regularly walked in the area and had been pregnant and showing when the 27-year-old woman vanished. The husband of a fourth woman testified that his nine-months-pregnant wife walked the couple's dog on the morning of Dec. 24, 2002, the day Scott Peterson reported his wife missing. |
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| VanSandt said that eventually he read in the Modesto Bee that Brocchini claimed that the witness had never seen the woman's face. VanSandt said he was so incensed that he called the newspaper to tell them that he had indeed gotten a good look at the woman. The defense attorney used VanSandt's testimony to bolster his claim that the Modesto police are incompetent investigators who ignored any lead that contradicted their theory of the crime. While questioning the three female witnesses, Geragos showed that at least two of the women had not gone walking on Dec. 24, 2002, and that three of them had dogs that were a different breed than the Peterson's golden retriever. One of the women didn't walk with a dog at all. HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT TRIAL ALIBI-WITNESS LIST WIRETAPS AUTOPSY PLIERS-DNA LACI'S ALBUM |
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| Using a giant screen, prosecutors flashed pictures taken around that time of the mothers-to-be. One in particular, Jordan Visola-Prescott, with her dark hair, small frame and bright smile, strongly resembled the victim. While the prosecution contends that Laci was dead by the morning of Dec. 24, the defense says her husband left her at about 9:30 a.m. that day alive and well to go fishing at the Berkeley Marina. Peterson's attorneys maintain that ne'er-do- wells nabbed Laci afterward in or near the park while she walked the couple's dog. Christopher VanSandt thought he had seen the Modesto woman in the park that morning while he was riding his bike, he testified Wednesday. He even called the Modesto police on Christmas Day to report the sighting after news of Laci Peterson's disappearance spread through the Central Valley. But after seeing a picture of the missing woman on the evening news, VanSandt said he was "100 percent positive" it wasn't Laci Peterson. During cross-examination, defense lawyer Mark Geragos asked VanSandt whether Modesto police Detective Al Brocchini had ever offered to show him a photograph of Laci Peterson. VanSandt said no and that, in fact, he had asked the investigator to fax a picture to him while he was staying in the near-by town of Manteca. "It didn't seem to interest him," VanSandt said. "I don't remember his exact words, but he seemed to brush it off." |
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| Jill LEAR and Elizabeth GUPTILL |
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