re: Watching Laci Peterson documentary and miss no social media days

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Maybe Scott used pliers to clear clogged drain then grabbed from garage and put in boat

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Transfer is a very real possibility there are plenty of times I get somewhere and notice the shirt or pants I have on has a strand or two of my wife's hair on it.

I won't argue for his innocence because I have not spent a lot of time following the case initially or over the years but the lack of physical evidence has always bugged me. You can argue it away but it still seems improbable to me. I do think the investigators got tunnel vision and didn't spend enough time on the alternatives but that is fairly common. Odds are high he did it without knowing a single fact about the case, it is almost always the spouse.

I do hope he did it because he is paying the price and if he didn't there is a killer probably still walking around free. Sometimes the innocent act more guilty than the guilty because they aren't thinking like a guilty person.

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Traveling guys used to have whole other families

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My maternal GF was a lineman for TVA in the 40's.

He had a wife and seven kids in Mayfield, KY and a wife and three kids in Knoxville.

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But this presents a logical problem for the prosecution because it would have been extremely difficult to dump a body over the side of that boat without capsizing it.

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If he used the weights he made strategically, he could counterbalance the load while maneuvering on the boat.

Once the body is overboard it’s easy to tie off to the weights. Then, simply dump the weights over.

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The Innocence Project

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I haven't watched the Peacock documentary, but it's my understanding that post conviction issues raised in his case were done by Los Angeles Innocence Project, which is unaffiliated with the Innocence Project created by Barry Scheck and The Cordoza School of Law.

Case Statement by Innocence Project

There are many Innocence Projects, unaffiliated, seemingly created by law programs due to success of the original.

FWIW... back in the day there was a doctor in Lafayette that I knew that was convicted of Attempted Second Degree Murder due to him injecting a nurse he was having an affair with... with tainted blood containing AIDS and HIV viruses. It was the first U.S. case based on phylogenetic DNA evidence. At the time, the doctor was being dishonest with me about the particulars, and I naively contacted Scheck, who subsequently refused to take his case on appeal.

ETA: The doctor... Richard Schmidt, was guilty af and died in prison. Scott Peterson seems guilty af.. and likely will die in prison.

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I won't argue for his innocence because I have not spent a lot of time following the case initially or over the years but the lack of physical evidence has always bugged me

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No evidence of her murder, kidnapping, or disappearance would also be circumstantial evidence against him, would it not? There’s no evidence of anything else happening, no struggle, etc.

It was also a missing person for days, the police barely searched their house initially it’s not like it was a crime scene right away. So he had tons of time to properly clean up. Drugging a wife at breakfast, strangling her in bed, whacking her on the head in the shower, etc would not have much evidence of a struggle or dna that wasn’t normally there.

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Drug

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Good lord can people stop saying this as the past tense for drag???????

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I haven't watched the Peacock documentary, but it's my understanding that post conviction issues raised in his case were done by Los Angeles Innocence Project, which is unaffiliated with the Innocence Project created by Barry Scheck and The Cordoza School of Law.

Case Statement by Innocence Project

There are many Innocence Projects, unaffiliated, seemingly created by law programs due to success of the original.

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This is interesting. I thought it was the well known Innocence Project, though I wondered why they would take on this case.

The Los Angeles Innocence Project website doesn't have Scott's Sil's name anywhere on it. She's not under Staff or the Board of Directors. If you click on Clients, there's only one name and it isn't Scott. It's a guy they apparently got out of jail.

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