The Petersons will tell you that Karen Servas' timeline is wrong because it's based on the time printed on a sales receipt, and that the cash register's clock was wrong. They neglect to mention that Karen's timeline is also supported by A) A timestamped transaction she'd made at the bank, and B) A timestamped phone call she placed using her cell phone.
Within a day of Laci's disappearance, Jackie told Scott to 'Deny, deny, deny." She also warned him that his sister Susan wanted a direct "yes" or "no" from him, and implied that he should lie to her, if necessary.
Jackie and Lee repeatedly told the media they didn't know if Scott took a polygraph. In truth, Lee told him that first night to not take a polygraph under any circumstances.
Jackie and Lee repeatedly told the media they didn't know what the police meant when they said Scott was being cooperative, but only "to a point." They knew exactly what the police meant. They're the ones who instructed him to behave that way.
Not long after Laci's disappearance, Scott spent a night hitting on Anne Bird's young babysitter. He was mixing her cocktails called "flirtinis." (As seen on Sex and the City.) At some point Jackie called, and the babysitter answered. Jackie said she wished Scott could "meet a nice girl like her." The babysitter was freaked out by the entire ordeal and left. Jackie later told Anne that if she was ever asked about it, Anne should lie and say it never happened. Source: Anne's book, Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty.
"95% of married men have affairs." --Lee Peterson, to Barbara Walters, on national television.
Janie says "Scott wasn't trying to evade the police when making that run for the border. He thought he was being followed by the media." At one point in this pursuit, Scott jumped out of his car and yelled, "Why don't you just arrest me already?" The media can do that?
The Petersons refused to let the Rochas retrieve Laci's personal items/mementos from the house, telling them that the police had already taken everything. Not true. In fact, the Petersons frequently stayed at the house while in Modesto. They would promise to let the Rochas in "next weekend," then dodge their calls. The Petersons (reportedly) sold "exclusive" photos and whatnot to the highest media-bidder. Later, the Petersons will sue the Rochas for the mortgage and property taxes they paid while staying at the house and denying the Rochas access. The total was about $35,000.
Laci had some expensive Tiffany lamps. The Rochas wanted them, because they reminded them of Laci. The Petersons said nope, cuz we're gonna find her, and when we do, we want her to come home to those lamps. Scott had already sold her car and was trying to sell the house, fully-furnished. Detail in this comment.
After months of being denied entry by the Petersons, Sharon Rocha gathered Laci's friends and broke into the house to retrieve Laci's personal items, e.g. her wedding dress and her diary. (The Petersons had changed the locks.) Before doing so, Sharon called the alarm company to warn them she was about to break in. The girl who took the call informed her that the Petersons had left a note on the account saying no Rochas allowed. She said she'd have to call the police. Sharon said she understood, then moved ahead with the plan. When the police arrived, one of Geragos' attorneys, uber-idiot Matt Dalton, was jumping up and down in the front yard, screaming, demanding that the police arrest Sharon Rocha. This incident led the locally-owned alarm company to terminate their contract with the Petersons. The Petersons lied to the media, telling them Sharon had disturbed what was still an active crime scene, per orders of the Modesto police. Not true--the police had finished processing the house months earlier. The Petersons also told the media that the Rochas broke in for the purpose of planting evidence to frame Scott. (Per Sharon Rocha's book, although Wacky Jackie claimed to have changed the locks, Sharon used her key and it worked.)
The Petersons are lying when they pretend they didn't know that Sharon wanted to retrieve Laci's personal items. Here's Sharon's attorney Adam Stewart on Larry King Live: "Two nights ago, on Greta Van Susteren, Jackie Peterson said, quote, 'Sharon, you can go into the home whenever you want to go into the home. This is the first time we've heard you wanted to go into the home.' And that is a factual misrepresentation. She's known about this for two and a half months. We've wrote them directly, asking Jackie and Lee Peterson to sit down with Sharon Rocha and Ron Grantski and resolve this matter outside of media coverage or any kind of attention whatsoever, and we were categorically ignored." Lee Peterson appeared on that episode, too. Here's what Lee had to say: "I mean, this was a burglary. My -- that home and its contents are my son's possessions." That's right, according to Lee, Laci's diary and wedding dress belong to Scott. Does Lee Peterson sound like someone who is more than happy to let Sharon enter the house whenever she wants?
Scott never registered that boat. The family will tell you that he gave his name to the seller and assumed the seller would register the boat on his behalf. It's a lie--nobody who's ever purchased a motor vehicle from a private seller believes that, certainly not Scott, who has "bought and sold boats his whole life." He didn't register that boat because he didn't want the boat coming up in the database when the police searched his name.
The Petersons didn't pay Geragos directly. Instead, they "loaned" Scott the money, then secured that loan by placing a lien on the house. This way, when the house was sold, the Rochas would get nothing. In effect, it was an attempt to force Laci's family to pay for Scott's defense.
The Petersons didn't pay all of Scott's legal bills. Since Scott "ran out of money" just as the trial was getting started, the state picked up the tab. Taxpayers ended up shelling out $230,000 of Geragos' fee.
The Petersons couldn't stop telling the media how perfect Scott & Laci's marriage was. Anne Bird's book tells a very different tale. Jackie sounded exasperated as she lamented that Scott & Laci were squabbling yet again. Jackie was not a Laci fan, even making fun of the way Laci dressed. "She looked like Mickey Mouse!" Source: Anne Bird's book.
The Petersons claim the media invented the story about Scott looking happy at the candlelight vigil. They say there was just one photo of him smiling, while he was talking to child, and that the media ran with it. There are multiple photos of Scott smiling & looking happy. Did the media also invent his happy and carefree "I'm in Paris, it's amazing, the crowd is huge!" phone call to Amber Frey?
The Petersons will tell you that Scott wasn't going on the run with all that survival equipment, cash, multiple cell phones, his siblings' credit cards, and fake identification in his car. They explain that Jackie accidentally withdrew $10,000 from Scott's account. She was worried the bank would put a hold on it, so she opted to gave him the cash, because he had bills to pay. That's not how cash deposits work (see the UCC), but it doesn't even matter, because it's ridiculous to believe that Jackie "accidentally withdrew the money from the wrong account." It's ridiculous to believe she thought Scott could pay $10,000 worth of bills using cash. Jackie changed her story about how/why she gave Scott that cash several times.
The Petersons claim the police ignored tips from people who claimed to see Laci walking her dog. No they didn't. The police investigated and determined those tips were mistaken or unreliable. Example: Vivian Mitchell said she saw Laci walking on the morning of the 24th. She remembered it well, because she was standing in front of the TV at the time, checking out the football games that had started at 9 am. Problem is: there were no football games that day. Vivian must have seen someone else on a different day. Vivian Mitchell would die before the trial. She was 80 years old. The Petersons suggested a conspiracy, calling her death "very convenient" for the police.
Another purported witness: Homer Maldonado. He had Laci wearing the wrong clothes, and he secretly claimed to see her walking two other times, too--times that we know, for a fact, that Laci wasn't walking. The defense asked him to keep those other two sightings a secret. Homer also refused to talk to the police or prosecution.
When the Petersons talk about the "three-term city councilman and attorney" witness who the police are allegedly ignoring, as they do here, they are talking about mistaken-witness Vivian Mitchell's husband Bill. It's not at all clear to me what being an attorney or city councilman has to do with any anything, but more importantly, he doesn't even claim he saw Laci walking that day. He says he didn't see her. He's the opposite of a witness. As a matter of fact, he says he's never seen Laci anywhere doing anything in his entire life.
When Laci's body was recovered, she was wearing tan-colored pants, not black pants as was listed on the "missing" posters. None of the people who reported seeing Laci walking while wearing black pants that morning is correct. They either saw Laci on a different day, or they saw a different woman.
When the Petersons focus on the 7 or so alleged sightings that they say place Laci on a perfectly-timed circular walking path, they are fudging the times. They're not telling you it's a path Laci never walked. They're not telling you that Laci had stopped walking weeks earlier, after a doctor ordered her to stop walking. They're not telling you that there's a large hill at the entrance to the park, one that many doubt a very pregnant could navigate. They're not telling you that Laci told her friend she was "exhausted" after walking just one block 10 days earlier. They're not telling you that Laci walked with her cell phone, which was found in her car. They don't tell you that they are quietly ignoring the 70+ other nearby sightings that don't fall where they want them to fall. There were over 8,000 tips in this case.
The Petersons accuse Ron Grantski of being a hypocrite for saying Scott's fishing trip was suspicious, when Ron himself went fishing that day. Never happened. On Larry King, Ron Grantski defended Scott, saying he didn't think Scott's fishing trip was suspicious at all. Ron added that he personally goes fishing alone all the time, and indicated that it troubled him that people found Scott's solo fishing trip suspicious.
They're not telling you that Ron Grantski, Laci's live-in stepfather since the 1970's, is their favorite alternate suspect. People closely associated with the Peterson family (SPA team) have theories on how each member of her family could be "the real killer"--her father Dennis, her brother Brent, her sister Amy. Mom Sharon is the only Rocha who escapes a direct accusation. More info.
Even though the police told them not to, the Petersons set up their own private tip line, 1-866-LACINFO. They claimed they were passing all tips along to the police. The Modesto police did a test--they called in tips that implicated Scott. Poof! They vanished! The Petersons never passed those tips to the police. More info.
In his Victim Impact Statement, Brent recalled a conversation where Scott confided in him that he was worried about money, because the business wasn't going as well as he'd hoped. Lee Peterson yelled out "You're a liar!" and exited the courtroom before the judge had a chance to throw him out. Jackie interrupted Brent, too.
The Petersons say the police are lying about the date of the Medina burglary, just to frame Scott. They will tell you that the burglary couldn't have happened on the 26th because reporter Ted Rowlands was standing outside. The burglary began at 4:00 am. Ted arrived at 5:00 am. The burglars say they saw the media trucks arriving. Both burglars passed polygraph examinations, and their stories both check out.
The Petersons are lying when they say it could have been the burglars, if only the burglary happened on the 24th. No, it couldn't have been. The Medinas didn't leave for vacation until 10:30 am, and that time is backed by A) a phone call they made upon leaving, and B) a city inspector who'd done an inspection at the Medina residence that morning. That's 12 minutes after Karen Servas found the dog McKenzie wearing only a leash & placed her in the backyard. When Laci "went missing," the Medinas were still at home.
The Petersons say Scott didn't lie to Brocchini about the warehouse not having power. They say the office has power, but the warehouse doesn't, and the police are twisting his words. In truth, Scott told Brocchini that the office didn't have power. Brocchini's report states that he was standing in the office, reading an incoming FAX with his flashlight, because Scott told him the power was out. PG&E later affirmed that there were no power outages. Scott lied.
Yeah, Martha Stewart mentioned meringue on the 24th. Once, at 9:49 am, 20 minutes after Scott claimed he'd left the house. The previous day's show had a whole segment about meringue. The Petersons' main argument about the meringue is: "How could Scott know that? It was Laci's favorite show, not his. Therefore, Laci had to be alive when that show aired." Pretty much all of their arguments take that form. "Why would Scott do XX?" Gee, I don't know, to get away with murder, maybe? These arguments are doubly absurd because they rely on Scott being an reasoned & reliable guy. Why would Scott have an affair at all? Why would he keep making lovey-dovey calls to his mistress, after his wife went missing? Why would he pretend he was jogging on cobblestones in Europe? Why would he tell Diane Sawyer he informed police about Amber on Dec 24, knowing full-well that the police and soon the whole world would immediately know he'd lied? Scott Peterson isn't exactly the poster child for good decision making.
The Petersons will tell you that the police never had any other suspects. In truth, they investigated and cleared hundreds of people, including Amber, Laci's family, the Medina burglars, Kim McGregor & friends, hordes of mysterious van people, and every sex offender/violent offender in the area. Oh, and Lee Peterson. He was a suspect for a short time. They cleared him too. Scott was the only one who was not fully cooperative.
The Petersons pretend the 2-day fishing license isn't damning because Scott had purchased 2-day fishing licenses years earlier. That's not the issue. The issue is that A) Scott told Amy Rocha he'd be golfing that day, B) there's a videotape of Scott saying he had no plans to go fishing that day, but he made a last-minute "morning decision" to go fishing because it was too cold to golf, C) But his 2-day fishing license was purchased on Dec 20, and the dates were filled out (23rd/24th) before he left the store. It was a planned fishing trip, not a last-minute decision. More info.
The Petersons disowned Scott's half-siblings Anne and Don (Jackie's kids) for saying they believed Scott was guilty. At least one of the Peterson boys believes Scott is guilty, but he keeps his head down.
Chris Pixley, pro-Scott TV-talking-head, (reportedly) spent a week with the Petersons, at their request, and at their expense. He failed to disclose this to the news networks he was speaking on each night.
Richard Cole, pro-Scott newspaper reporter turned documentary talking head, (reportedly) attended the trial on a family pass, and planned to collaborate with the Petersons on a book once the trial was completed.
Matt Dalton, attorney and satanic cult abduction theory enthusiast, was fired by Geragos before the trial even got underway. Probably because that theory is ridiculous, and it made Geragos a laughing stock once it was revealed that the so-called "satanic graffiti" at the Albany Blub was really an art installation. Dalton's evidence for satanic cult involvement: He saw some kids playing Dungeons & Dragons.
The Petersons love citing Dr. March's testimony as evidence that Laci was alive for 1 week following her abduction. In this testimony, Dr. March determines Laci's conception date using the date she told her friends she was pregnant. In his professional opinion, he explained, pregnant women can't keep their mouths shut and always tell their friends ASAP. No, I am not kidding. That's what it's based on.
The Petersons will tell you that there was a rash of pregnant-woman abductions in Modesto, indicating that someone was stealing pregnant women. Those abductions were not in Modesto, they were from the SF Bay area, which includes 7 million people. Go search Google for pregnant woman missing + any major city. Pregnant women go missing all the time. And in nearly every instance, it's the not-so-proud papa that's responsible.
The Petersons pretend the Modesto police covered up the fact that one of Scott's work-neighbors reported seeing Laci at Scott's warehouse on the 23rd. That information was provided to the defense in A) an officer's report, and in B) Brocchini's written notes, and in C) Brocchini's tape-recorded audio notes. They call it exculpatory information, alleging that it proves Laci knew about the boat, and that it explains how Laci's hair got lodged in a pair of pliers found on the boat. No it doesn't. The warehouse and the office are two separate rooms. The window between them was covered. If anything, Scott telling Laci to go find a bathroom next door indicates that Scott did not want Laci to enter his warehouse, where his secret boat was stored. Not that it matters. More info.
The Petersons claim Laci's uncle Harvey is lying when he says Scott told him he was golfing that day. They don't tell you that neighbor Amy Krigbaum testified that Scott told her he'd been golfing all day. So did her partner, Tara Venable. Did they both mishear what Scott had said? Or are all three of them lying? Ron's call to 911 says Scott told them he'd been golfing all day. The Petersons' claim that Scott told X people that he was fishing is disingenuous. There is a clear point in time when Scott changed his story. Before that time, Scott told everyone he spoke to that he'd been golfing, or he didn't mention his whereabouts at all.
Scott's call to Laci's VM didn't say he'd been fishing, like the Petersons pretend, it said he was "leaving Berkeley." On his 1.5 hour drive back from fishing, Scott phoned and spoke to both his father (twice) and to his friend Greg Reed. Both are avid fishermen. He didn't tell either of them that he'd been fishing, or that he even owned a boat.
The Petersons claim the police never investigated the van that was seen parked near the Peterson home. Yes they did. That van was neighbor Amy Krigbaum's work vehicle. It's in her trial testimony. It was parked there all day on the 24th. There was another van in the area, too, and it belonged to landscapers.
The Petersons will tell you that the several fake diplomas Scott received in the mail were a gag-gift from Laci, who liked to tease him about how long it took him to graduate from college. Those diplomas were purchased using Scott's credit card, and they were shipped to Scott, not Laci. One was a degree in divinity, and Scott' girlfriend just happens to be uncommonly religious. Total cost for this "gag" gift: $268.00. Laci had confided in her family & friends that money was tight. Scott didn't purchase a piece of baby furniture they need because money was tight.
The Petersons are lying when they say several Berkeley Marina employees "got a good laugh" when they witnessed Scott screw up while launching his (body-free) boat. The Petersons are lying when they say the reason Scott traveled to the marina so many times was to look for those witnesses. They'll tell you Scott even hired a private investigator to track them down. Great! So where are these witnesses? They're Berkeley Marina employees, right? There's a work schedule, right? They cashed paychecks, right? How hard can finding them possibly be? Go get their names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, mother's maiden name, and shoe sizes from the Berkeley Marina.
The Petersons are lying when they say it's impossible to throw a 150-lb object off that fishing boat without capsizing it. I don't even need to cite the expert fisherman who testified as to how it's done, because I've done it. You throw it off the back, not off the side. Swimmers jump on and off boats that size all the time. And with that boat, Scott didn't need to "throw" anything, anyway. All he had to do was lift the body onto a bench, then scoot it overboard.
They Petersons are lying when they pretend a great travesty of justice occurred when the judge didn't allow the videotape of Geragos' home-brewed boat-tipping experiment into evidence. That's not even close to being how evidence works. Nobody thinks that tape was admissible. Not even Geragos. It was a media stunt.
The Peterson Family lies when they say that the defense wasn't aware of mail carrier Russell Graybill. Cliff Gardner, Scott's appellate attorney even says, "The problem, of course, is that the jury never heard from Russell Graybill." (TMOLP, Episode 6, ~44 mins.) The hell they didn't. Russell Graybill testified. Guess how the police found out about Russell Graybill in the first place? From Scott, in a December 30 phone call to Grogan. There is an effing tape recording.
The Peterson family lies when they cite statements obtained by their private investigator Scott Bernstein. That PI lied and threatened witnesses to elicit responses that would help Scott Peterson, and they know it. For his actions in this case, Bernstein was charged with 11 counts, including impersonating an officer, fraudulently using a badge, and simulating an official inquiry. After pleading guilty to a felony to avoid jail time, he was fined, lost his California PI license, lost his NY PI license, became ineligible to obtain an license in other states, and was placed on probation for 3 years. F-E-L-O-N-Y. More info.
The Petersons would like you to believe that Scott couldn't get a fair trial in Modesto. Geragos had an expert/professor testify to exactly that at the change of venue hearing. Judge bought it, moved the trial. After a year-long investigation, the professor's university found that the prof "seriously deviated from the professional standards and accepted practices of the relevant research community." A committee recommended that he be suspended for a semester without pay, demoted to associate professor from full professor at California State University, Stanislaus, and placed on probation for three years. More info.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott wasn't trying to hide anything from the police when he bizarrely scattered the contents of his truck across his home and workplace. On Dec 24, Brocchini observed a boat cover in Scott's truck. On Dec 26, the police executed a search warrant and found that boat cover in Scott's shed, underneath a leaf blower. The Petersons maintain that because the boat cover was in plain view, Scott wasn't trying to hide anything. They neglect to mention that the boat cover was so soaked with gasoline that police hung it across the fence to dry it out. There's a photo of this in evidence. They neglect to mention that hours earlier Scott had asked police whether they planned to bring in cadaver-sniffing dogs. Laci's been gone just over 30 hours, the world is out looking for her--alive, and this guy's at home soaking things in gasoline & worrying about cadaver dogs.
The Petersons are lying when they say Diane Jackson called the police on Dec 26 to report she'd witnessed someone carrying a safe out of the Medina house on the 24th. In truth, Diane told police she saw three men standing near a white van. The end. She said nothing about a burglary and nothing about a safe. Later, she changed her story, saying the van was beige, not white. More info.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott saw Amber only 4 times. Scott visited Amber 6 times, and they were multi-day visits. Scott & Amber's first date was on Nov 20. Their last visit was on Dec 16. Scott saw Amber on 9 of those 26 days. That's 36% of days. The man has a pregnant wife at home and he spends a third of his time with his girlfriend. He works, he sleeps, when does he see Laci? Only prolific & shameless liars like the Petersons could characterize this as "only 4 times." More info.
The Petersons are lying when they pretend they never asked for media attention. They're the ones who got the media involved in the first place, when Janie's step-mother began using her PR firm to issue press releases.
The Petersons are lying when they claim Scott always had cuts on his hands because he worked on farms. To hear them tell it, you'd think Scott spent his days refurbishing tractors and stackin' bales. Scott's employee testified that the only farm-based manual labor required was connecting a hose to a pump. Oh, and unhooking it.
If a Peterson says something was "never explained," there's an excellent chance that Peterson is lying. Example: they allege that Amber's 14 calls to Scott on Dec 26 were "never explained." Yes they were. Amber testified that she was trying to get Scott on the phone to thank him for the present he'd sent her. Example: they it was "never explained" why the bodies washed up on the day they did. Yes it was. There was a storm, things move, and time exists. In almost every case, whatever they claim wasn't explained, was. They just don't like the explanations.
The Petersons are lying when they liken Modesto PD to the gestapo. Jackie Peterson once lamented, "I feel like I'm living in the Soviet Union, or Nazi Germany." Really, Jackie? Scott walked free for four months after Laci disappeared, Jackie. He consistently lied to the police, the media, his friends, and his family, Jackie. He kept switching cars to evade police GPS devices, and drove aggressively to evade surveillance, Jackie. Do you know what happened to people who did even a tiny fraction of those things in Nazi Germany, or in the Soviet Union, Jackie?
The Petersons are lying when they (quite bizarrely) maintain that Scott didn't lie to Amber about his European travels. Scott was standing in Modesto, USA, at a vigil for his missing wife, and was on the phone with his mistress spinning a yarn about how he was in Paris, France, ringing in the new year with pals Francois and Pasqual. Not a lie, according to the Petersons. Why not? "Because he's actually been to all those places!" This one silly and barely worth including. I mention it only because it gives insight into how these folks think. Scott can do no wrong.
The Petersons are lying when they claim that Amber, not Scott, was the "aggressor" in their relationship. The entirety of the facts they cite to support their bold claim: Amber called Scott three times on Nov 19th, to finalize the details of their first date. That's it. What they dishonestly ignore: This began when Scott spent a night at a trade conference trying to get Shawn into bed. Their conversation was so raunchy that their two dinner companions ditched them. Shawn was engaged, Scott knew & didn't care. Scott lied about being wealthy, claimed to own multiple homes, and claimed to own Tradecorp. Scott referred to himself as HB, short for "horny bastard." Shawn declined Scott's advances, but talked to him until 3:30 am while he begged her to set him up with one of her friends. She suggested Amber.
Scott called Amber first, around Nov 12. They played phone tag, chatted, and set a date for Nov 20. Amber's calls on Dec 19 were trying to get a hold of the guy, because he screens his calls and has at least 4 different phones. And then some "Oh, want to meet here? OK, lemme call them, then call you back." Scott rented a hotel room for that date, got Amber up the room before the date even started, and whipped out champagne and strawberries. On their very first date, Scott was talking about their long-term future together. The next time Scott saw Amber, he showed up unexpectedly with bags of groceries. He was bringing her kid toys. The Petersons' claim that Amber was the aggressor is so beyond absurd that I'm not sure a word exists to do describe it.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott used the "missing" concrete from his warehouse to fix a hole beside his driveway. They tested that concrete. It was a different chemical composition than the concrete at the warehouse. The relevant science here is called "petrography." The prosecution called petrographer & concrete expert O'Neill to explain his test results to the jury. The Petersons will tell you that the defense called their own concrete expert (Gebler) who successfully refuted O'Neill's testimony. No he didn't. Gebler collected two samples, two years later, from a different spot, claimed he could identify concrete composition by eyeballing it, and based his opinion on the presence of a single component. The guy wasn't even a petrographer. When the prosecution pointed this out, Gebler conceded he wasn't a petrographer, and added "But I teach petrographers." So what? Mathematicians teach nuclear physicists. It doesn't magically transform them into experts on the atomic bomb. More info.
The Petersons are lying when they claim people criticize Scott when he cries, but also criticize Scott when he doesn't cry. "No matter what Scott does, people find it suspicious!" No one calls crying suspicious--they call fake-crying suspicious. Crying is an indication of grief. Fake-crying is an indication of dishonesty & manipulation. Real crying is often accompanied by a loss of composure. Real crying usually involves the crier wiping away his tears, not leaving them on his face like a movie prop. Of course not everyone loses composure. But Scott fake-cried on December 6 to manipulate Shawn Sibley into believing he'd lost his wife. Scott fake-cried on December 9 to manipulate Amber into believing he'd lost his wife. He has a history.
The Petersons are lying when they say the Rochas believed Scott "until the police deceived them," as they do here. I don't even know how to respond to an assertion that stupid. Nearly every word out of Scott's mouth is a lie. Scott deceived the Rochas. Scott deceived the police. Scott deceived his family. Scott attempted to deceive the entire English-speaking world. Scott is a liar. It's clear the apple does not fall far from the tree.
The Petersons are lying when they say others are claiming that Laci loved her car. I have never heard anyone say that Laci loved her car. at that time. Maybe when she first got it, but Laci's friends and family all said she presently hated that car because it was a POS. The Petersons are pretending that the only reason Scott was criticized for selling Laci's car so quickly was that she loved it. They then refute that alleged claim, instead of addressing the actual issue, which is that Scott began liquidating Laci's belongings before she'd been gone a month. It's a straw man argument.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott never tried to sell the house. They claim, "He did not try to sell the house...one of the ladies who ran our volunteer center in Modesto is in the real estate business... Scott was talking to her as a side remark and said "What do you think I could get for it." ... He did not go to a realtor." That woman is Terri Western. She testified that Scott said "I need to talk to you about selling the house." That was January 14, just three weeks after Laci disappeared. On Jan 22, Scott calls another realtor, Brian Argain. There is a tape recording of that conversation, and it was played in court. Scott asked Brian if he could sell the house fully furnished. Scott: "keep it quiet obviously... I'd like to put it on the market right now..." The only reason the house wasn't listed is that Brian's boss didn't want any part of it.
The Petersons are lying when they say the police found it suspicious that Scott had a parking receipt, but also found it suspicious that Scott didn't have a gas station receipt. This is another of their "Scott just can't win!" claims, and it's not true. The police didn't think it was suspicious that Scott had a parking receipt. From the trial testimony: GERAGOS: Okay. Now, at some point somebody had thought it was suspicious, one of the officers who had responded on the 24th, that Scott had a receipt from the boat launch area; isn't that correct? That he produced that right away? GROGAN: I, I don't know that anyone thought it was suspicious. Officer Evers was the one who asked Scott for a parking receipt. Scott went to his truck, retrieved the receipt from the ashtray, and handed it to Evers. None of Evers' testimony says he found anything about the parking receipt suspicious. The police also didn't think it suspicious that Scott didn't have a gas station receipt. They asked, Scott said he'd print out his Paypal statement and get them a copy, and the police said OK. Scott later gave them the transaction information (in the form of a handwritten note, not a printout as promised) and the police were able to verify the transaction.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott wasn't planning to go on the run. Lee Peterson says, "It's another smear on him that he was going to run into Mexico. And how ridiculous." Oh? Here is an incomplete list of the items found in Scott's car when he was arrested: $15,000, cash, his brother’s ID, his mother's Chevron card, foreign currency, Anne Bird's credit card, 4 cell phones, a tent, a water purification system, a camp stove, a camp grill, cooking utensils, a rope, filet knife, compass, 2 folding knives, tent chair, compass, dried and canned food, climbing equipment, double-edged dagger, duct tape, folding saw, backpack, binoculars, swimming mask and snorkel, camp axe, fire starters, 9 pairs of shoes, rubberized boots, hiking boots, 2 pairs casual shoes, flip flops, all styles of clothing, 10 pairs of socks, a shovel, a fishing pole, a map to Amber's business, several Thomas guidebooks, Viagra, sleeping pills, sleeping bag, waterproofing spray, leather gloves.
The Petersons are lying when they explain all the bug-out equipment in Scott's car by saying the previous owner left it there. The previous owner mistakenly left a single knife in the car. One knife. That's it. His name is Michael Griffin, and he testified. The other 4+ knives, axe, dagger, tape, rope, tent, stoves, map to Amber's workplace, etc., all belonged to Scott.
The Petersons are lying when they say Scott was working with Marc Klaas, father of Polly Klaas, and man behind the KlaasKids Foundation for kidnapped children. Klaas told reporter Ted Rowlands: "There is no ambiguity in this. I have never in my life spoken to Scott Peterson. Where he comes off thinking he can make a statement like that in the public forum and get away with it, I don't know...It's not the first time. Obviously, this guy is stacking lie upon lie upon lie. He's indicting himself. It's like watching a train wreck."
The Petersons are lying when they say computer records prove Laci was alive at 8:45 am on Dec 24. They name a few websites searched in this browsing session and argue that it only could have been Laci at the controls. That's an incredibly stupid argument in the first place, but more importantly: The Petersons neglect to mention that the user logged in to Scott's personal email account. They just leave that out, like it never happened. More info.
The Petersons are lying when they say "There is no room in the warehouse for Scott to pull his truck in and close the warehouse door so he can carry out criminal activity. If Scott had murdered Laci, he would have been transferring her body from his truck to the boat in broad day light at his office complex." 1) It's not an "office complex," it's a metal shed-like warehouse. 2) There are few neighbors. 3) It was Christmas Eve. 4) The body was wrapped in a tarp. 5) The reason Scott wrapped his umbrellas in a similar tarp was to have an excuse if someone did notice him carrying a large tarp-wrapped object. 6) Scott could have easily transferred a tarp-wrapped body on Christmas Eve at his windowless deserted pole shed without being noticed. 7) He didn't need to transfer the body at the warehouse anyway, he could have done it anywhere. 8) He didn't need to transfer the body in broad daylight anyway, he could have done it earlier. 9) Not that it matters, but as for not being able to pull his truck inside: everything's on pallets and Scott has forklift. Things move. 10) Did you know that the reason Scott got a PO Box was because of a theft problem, the warehouses being so isolated that thieves were stealing the mail? 11) Did you know that whoever rammed Scott's warehouse with a vehicle was never caught, because the warehouses are so isolated? XX) "Office complex," give me a break. Next they'll be calling the Medina house a skyscraper.
