Re: Poor Mrs. Mitchell
686 Date: 2004-02-11 12:02:50
David Sween ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
The death of Vivian Mitchell is as eerie as locating the headless corpse of Laci Peterson and Scott's "pristine condition" son, to implicate an innocent man.
Vivian Mitchell was a key witness because, like Scott Peterson, she told the police that Laci was wearing black pants and a white top on Christmas Eve. If Scott was the murderer, the last thing he would do is lie about the clothes that Laci wore, when he killed her.
When you dig beneath the surface, the entire case against Scott Peterson has been about using the intelligence that only the murderers would know, to implicate Scott Peterson. As long as Vivian Mitchell was alive, she was in a position to clearly and convincingly expose the preposterous, prosecution suggestion that Scott Peterson is the murderer because he lied about what Laci was wearing, on the day she disappeared. Clearly, Scott Peterson did not tell Vivian Mitchell what to tell the police and that is what you call pure evidence. When Laci walked Mackenzie, on Christmas Eve, and I use the fact that Laci's own dog confirms the suggestion, to prove the point, she wore black pants and a white top, and this simple fact was widely reported in the media. Did anybody issue an "all points bulletin" to locate a missing woman in tan pants? Vivian Mitchell would have died laughing if that had happened.
Scott Peterson had no idea what Laci wore when she magically surfaced because he did not shoot his beautiful wife in the head. My ignorant critics say that if I am so smart, why don't I find Laci's head? The answer is simple. I am not responsible for the murder of Laci Peterson and I am not the one who is exploiting the knowledge that only the murderers would know. I merely point out the fact that Laci was probably dismembered before being dumped, probably to cover up the cause of death. All the preposterous, "magic head" theories that pundits routinely manufacture are so disgusting, that I have a panic attack, every time I hear a moron advance his so called, investigative skills, to suit the "revelations" that are published in the National Enquirer.
The people who are responsible for the murder of Laci Peterson are experts at exploiting their "intelligence" and the ignorance of all the pundits, but in the final analysis, they are directly responsible for proving that Scott Peterson is absolutely innocent. We are talking about innocent beyond the shadow of any doubt, because there is no greater difference between a "slam dunk" and this transparent scam which seeks to create the false appearance that Scott Peterson is guilty. There is no greater difference between Scott Peterson and the people who kidnapped his wife, on December 24, 2003. Vivian Mitchell may be dead, but her observations are as relevant as ever.
685 Date: 2004-02-10 23:36:57
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684 Date: 2004-02-10 23:27:38
Pam Clark ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
I know this sounds gross, but I was reading another board which suggested that Laci was buried in a shallow grave and then dumped, to implicate Scott Peterson and the argument makes a lot of sense because the evidence indicates that Laci was probably dismembered prior to going into the water.
Isn't that why her head is missing? I am not one to believe preposterous theories -the head is not there...period, and that strongly suggests that the head is probably still in the shallow grave the body was initially dumped in. If that was not the case, the head would have turned up by now.
Like the rest of you, I also think that Vivian Mitchell and Laci's dog are currently the most reliable witnesses to the fact that Laci was alive and well, on December 24, 2002.
683 Date: 2004-02-10 12:21:19
To accuse Scott, you need... ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
--A hysterical police force that refuses to return the calls of intelligent, reliable eye witnesses like Vivian Mitchell
--A hysterical DA's Office that repeatedly leaks to the National Enquirer to demonize Scott
--A gullible public that tolerates this excessive abuse
--Hysterical, neo-Nazi eye witnesses who replace independent witnesses like Vivian Mitchell because they claim that Scott Peterson is guilty
--Hysterical demagogues like Nancy Grace, who falsely claim that eye witnesses like Vivian Mitchell coached Scott Peterson's dog, to create an alibi
--The bizarre, disgusting list goes on and on.
All you need to conclusively prove that Scott Peterson was absolutely shocked when his wife was kidnapped on Christmas Eve is the ability to view the evidence without distorting it
--it's called, simple, common sense.
682 Date: 2004-02-09 18:12:52
Richard Reed ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Mrs Mitchell was not alone. At least two other residents of the neighborhood where Laci Peterson lived also claim they saw her walking her dog between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m. on the day she vanished. These witnesses are extremely reliable and only a fool would challenge them because Laci Peterson's own dog confirmed their onservations. I agree with everybody who considers Vivian Mitchel's testimony to be conclusive.
681 Date: 2004-02-09 17:33:27
Lisa Kent ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Bill Mitchell defends the credibility of his wife. "I really think they had a theory, and facts that don't fit the theory sometimes don't impress others,'' Bill Mitchell, 84, said in a telephone interview from his Modesto home. "We're both long in years, but she was a good observer, and she was positive up to last Sunday when she could still talk."
Vivian Mitchell's account would have corroborated Scott Peterson's account of what happened Christmas Eve morning. Geragos has suggested that Laci Peterson was abducted by two men while walking her dog in a nearby park.
Bill Mitchell said that although he and his wife met several times with Geragos and his legal team, no formal deposition was ever taken. Without it, her account would be considered hearsay and would never make it to Peterson's trial.
Robert Talbott, a law professor at the University of San Francisco, says Vivian Mitchell's testimony could have been damning for the prosecution's case, which appears to be overwhelmingly circumstantial so far.
"If the jury would have found her credible, it would have meant big problems for the prosecution," Talbott said. "It would have thrown their whole timeline off."
God Bless Vivian Mitchell, she was a very credible witness to the fact that Laci Peterson was kidnapped.
680 Date: 2004-02-08 02:08:10
Jordan McQueen ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Vivian Mitchell was not an old fogey. It's too bad she is being treated like one -guess they have to do it now, to justify her death.
679 Date: 2004-02-08 01:46:35
This was posted, March 2, 2003 ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Has it been pointed out that the Bill and Vivian Mitchell live next to the same river bed park system as the Peterson's? I'm very curious if these three parks have a trail meandering throughout?
Mrs. Mitchell said she thought Laci was heading for Kewin Park. Kewin Park is also a part of the very same river bed park system as the La Loma Park next to the Petersons. Apparently these parks adjoin...Kewin being to the SW of La Loma.
Could Laci have been either entering (or exiting)the park in the area of the Mitchell home?
Of course the MPD doesn't want the Mitchell's statement. Their entire focus since day ONE evaporates along with their *93* sacks of "evidence" in the event that the sighting of Laci after 10 a.m. that morning is verified.
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Take a peek: Very interesting. recall the Peterson address is: 523 Covena Avenue, Modesto
William and Vivian Mitchell 231 Buena Vista Drive, Modesto
The Mitchells house has the star. The Peterson house is located at the upper right of the map (click on the arrow on the upper right side) The streets that follow the southern perimeter of this park run directly from the Peterson's to the Mitchell's. (The Peterson's resident is just around the corner from Edgebrook Dr., on Covena.)
No wonder the Modesto resident in this group who appears as a MPD mouthpiece wants to discount and disparage the Mitchell's as senile old fogey's. ..and the MPD doesn't want to hear anything about it.
It's obvious when you look at the map.
***You're right. The map certainly makes it look like the Mitchell house would be right along a likely dog walking route from the Peterson's. Interesting.
678 Date: 2004-02-07 15:08:23
Brian Walt ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
If the DA's Office uses emotional nutcases like Nancy Grace to discredit Vivian Mitchell, it raises serious suspicions.
Who else did they use?
I think it is very serious when a witness who proves that a defendant is innocent, is found dead. It's like the death of reason -to be replaced by the insanity that Nancy Grace promotes.
677 Date: 2004-02-06 22:55:54
James McDonnell ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
If four pregnant women were walking their dogs, Vivian Mitchell saw Laci Peterson because the other dogs were not reported missing.
Rick, have you seen the latest updates aout Merlin?
If you read the latest posts, it sounds like Vivian Mitchell's credibility is still intact.
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710 Date: 2004-02-25 21:47:52
Tom Wilkinson ( tom5515@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:
Modesto police detective Al Brocchini called off a search even though a bloodhound named Merlin appeared to be following Laci Peterson’s scent, the dog’s handler testified Tuesday. That is very strange. This lapse has made it clear that the police had no interest to verify or to dispute Scott's claim that Laci was walking her dog in the park, and that is a consistent lapse. Is it any wonder that the police did not follow up, on Vivian Mitchell's claim that Laci was walking her dog? These lapses are not, by any stretch of the imagination, excusable, and they make the prosecutor's dog handlers testimony, relatively useless, except for the fact that this testimony exposes an incompetent investigation.
709 Date: 2004-02-25 21:13:24
Jeremy Russell ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
It was getting late on Dec. 26, 2002 - two days after a pregnant Laci Peterson was reported missing.
“In spite of the fact a missing woman is out there whose scent is out there, Brocchini made the decision not to track it?” defense attorney Pat Harris asked.
“Yes,” said Cindee Valentin, a volunteer dog handler with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.
Valentin maintained that the her assessment that Laci Peteson left in a vehicle was accurate.
“Looking at the entire trail,” Harris asked, “Do you still think this was the scent of Laci Peterson in a vehicle?”
“Yes I do,” Valentin said.
But she said police never instructed her to have her dog search in East La Loma Park, where Scott Peterson told police his wife may have walked their dog.
Valentin also said it was her impression from talking to police on Dec. 26 they were looking at Scott Peterson and not trying to find his wife.
Sounds like the prosecutor's own witness proves that Laci was kidnapped and that Scott did not murder her, in their own home.
708 Date: 2004-02-25 14:06:59
Mike ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Not quite Tom. The "investigative developments" were well reported in the media. The police, Bill Garcia and Ava Frey were trying to "cement" the case against Scott Peterson, and when they failed to implicate Scott, they said "we are not going to disclose our investigative developments." The police obviously think they have a license to bury their failures. If they don't do that, they cannot justify the arrest of Scott Peterson.
707 Date: 2004-02-25 13:10:32
Tom Wilkinson ( tom5515@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:
How did the police know that Laci was dead when she was spotted in Longview Washington?
The fact that the gun-toting District Attorney intimidates witnesses is absolutely clear, but where is the proof that Laci was dead?
Scott Peterson is entitled to receive ALL the evidence, the trial is on. It was well promoted in the media that the police refused to reveal the investigative developments that caused them to clasify Laci's death a homicide and there is absolutely no justification for withholding this information at this point in time.
706 Date: 2004-02-25 02:11:08
Joe Sneider ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
The police have been acting like Laci was murdered on December 23rd, and then she is spotted walking her dog.
And then she was spotted in Longview Washington, by at least 2 independent witnesses.
And then they claimed that Laci was dead, but they refused to disclose how they knew [only the murderer would know that Laci was dead, without providing proof].
In the meantime, Scott Peterson was under 24/7 surveillance. He is the only one who had absolutely nothing to do with the disappearance of Laci Peterson, because all of his time has been fully accounted by the incompetent idiots who were tailing him.
Having been under surveillance since December 25, 2002, Scott Peterson has proved to be so absolutely innocent, that this prosecution cannot even rely on the old "jailhouse snitch" tactics, to frame Scott Peterson. Remember the hilarious effort to claim that Scott hired neo-Nazis to murder Laci. They tried to convert allegations that Scott visited strip clubs into a murder-for-hire plot.
The obsession to fry Scott is understandable. Scott Peterson can sue the MORONS who are responsible for the death of Laci Peterson, right out of their miserable existence.
The police classified Laci's death a homicide based on investigative developments they refused to reveal. It's time for the morons to expose all the creeps who are trying to cover up the truth about the murder of Laci Peterson. There is no more reason to cover for the creeps who convinced the police that Laci was dead. Why was Ava Frey, Amber's sister and Garcia, a creepy Private Investigator, looking for Laci's corpse when there was no proof that she was dead? Are they accomplices, are they hired guns, or are they just weird?
705 Date: 2004-02-25 00:02:18
God Bless Laci ! ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
704 Date: 2004-02-24 22:35:27
Mike ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Oh, that Vivian Mitchell was a nasty liar. She killed Laci !
703 Date: 2004-02-24 21:42:58
Joe Sneider ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Prosecutors say that Scott lied about his pregnant wife continuing to walk the dog into her third trimester. Hey, no wonder they murdered Vivian Mitchell.
702 Date: 2004-02-24 19:16:11
Tom Wilkinson ( tom5515@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:
Any journalist or legal expert who analyzes the bogus case against Scott Peterson clearly understands the fact that Scott Peterson is not guilty. In fact, Scott Peterson is the only person who has been absolutely cleared by all the scrutiny.
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This url is also fascinating, I posted it myself, under the heading, "SCOTT IS INNOCENT !"
CASE CLOSED
713 Date: 2004-02-29 18:08:15
David Sween ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
The case against Scott Peterson has been aired in the National Enquirer and it does not belong in any court room where Kangaroo Justice does not prevail.
Mark Geragos does not need a defense to make it clear that it is not plausible to legitimately convict a man who has been cleared by 24/7 scrutiny. The slanderous and spurious allegations which are now called "the evidence" have been published in detail, in the National Enquirer and if this disinformation is to be pawned off to an unsuspecting jury, they need to be informed. And so, if the trial against Scott Peterson is to be fair, the judge must instruct the jury accordingly; "Members of the jury, I am supplying you with 10 issues of the National Enquirer. The theories of nine of the issues have been rejected by the prosecution because they made you all laugh. The January 6, 2004 issue is indisputable because the National Enquirer published a picture of Merlin the tracking dog, and THAT is what you call INDISPUTABLE evidence. If, in your infinite wisdom, you determine that the National Enquirer is a credible source, you must find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If you think that the National Enquirer is not credible, then Investigators like David Sween gets the last word."
This case is clearly over as far as the guilt or the innocence of Scott Peterson is concerned.
The judge in the Laci Peterson murder trial was supposed to be Richard Arnason, a retired Contra Costa County judge who was choseny by California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George. Arnason is a well known, criminal law expert with extensive death penalty case experience and having served on the Superior Court of Contra Costa County for 31 years, he would never tolerate the tactics of prosecutors who are pretending to have a case against Scott Peterson. Needless to say, the prosecutors had to shop around, to find a judge who was willing to listen to a case that would have been thrown out a long time ago, if a reasonable judge like Arnoson was not replaced.
Clearly, any Judge who determines that the National Enquirer had showed probable cause that Scott Peterson had killed 27-year-old Laci, who was nine months pregnant, and dumped her body in San Francisco Bay, needs his head examined.
I know what I am talking about. In my experience, reasonable and fair Judges are irresponsibly replaced when prosecutors understands the weakness of their case.
Michael Cardoza, a criminal defense attorney in the San Francisco Bay area, thought that both the prosecution and the defense would approve of Arnason and every legal expert was shocked to hear he had been replaced.
"He does what's right and he controls his courtroom," said Cardoza, who tried a case before Arnason in 1998.
If the prosecution had a case, they would have accepted Arnason. Instead, they made sure he was disqualified because they [try not to laugh] claimed that an experienced and distinguished judge was biased against them.
Mark Geragos is understandably frustrated and angered by the kangaroo court that the prosecutors are seeking to construct for the sake of lynching Scott Peterson. The prosecution selected judge is even refusing to sequester the jury, and in this case, a jury that is not sequestered is subject to the manipulation that the Skakel jury was subjected to, when demagogues like Dominick Dunne dined within earshot of the jurors that lynched Michael Skakel. Needless to say, this prosecution is seeking an equally creative way to manipulate the Peterson jury; is that why they opposed the request to sequester the jury?
Judge Alfred A. Delucchi said jurors will be allowed to go home each night with an admonishment not to discuss the case, "and we'll see what happens." We'll see what happens, if this selected fool who is supposed to be a judge, continues to preside over a kangaroo court.
I repeat; The case against Scott Peterson is OVER, because Scott Peterson, the most investigated man in America, has been absolutely cleared by 24/7 scrutiny. In the alternative, you can promote the so called credibility of the January 6, 2004 issue of the National Enquirer, because every other issue has prompted widespread laughter --and now, it's just a matter of time... before the media rejects the latest fraud.
712 Date: 2004-02-29 15:44:47
Jake Stewart ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
By Kim Curtis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:22 a.m. February 26, 2004
REDWOOD CITY – Laci Peterson's trail ended at the water's edge.
It began as a scent path picked up by police dogs, leading from Scott and Laci Peterson's Modesto home down the road to nowhere.
According to testimony this week by the dogs' handlers, Laci Peterson's scent was again picked up at a nearby warehouse that Scott Peterson rented and on a boat he had stored inside – the same boat prosecutors say he used to ferry his wife's body out into the San Francisco Bay.
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Wow, Associated Press read the January 6, 2004 issue of the National Enquirer, and it publishes it as "the news" for February 26, 2004. LOL
711 Date: 2004-02-28 14:31:58
You Read it here first. ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
There's no horse race, or, as some of you prefer to say "horse raise". John Kerry was the clear frontrunner, from start to finish. It's Kerry versus Bush !
709 Date: 2004-02-28 00:33:07
Alex Pintura ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
I read that exact story in the Modesto Bee yesterday [actually, February 26, 2004]. This is quite thedisgrace for the media, for the police and for the Modesto Bee reporters who have lost all credibility. Arrest should be based on evidence, not on the stories that the media picks up after the National Enquirer publishes bullshit.
708 Date: 2004-02-27 22:17:46
Jake Stewart ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Want to know where all the morons [the imbecillic prosecution] are getting their evidence from? Today, it's all in the mainstream media, including the retarded Modesto Bee, that is supporting John Edwards because the morons think they are powerful enough to manufacture a horse raise. Check it out for yourself, don't take my word for it.
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National Enquirer
January 6, 2004
Heroic Tracking Dogs Prove Scott Lied to Police
by David Wright, Don Gentile & Charlie Montgomery
Three dogs that police used to search for Laci produced incredibly damning evidence against her husband Scott just days after she vanished.
Merlin, a bloodhound tracking dog that follows a person’s scent indicated Laci was taken from her home and then Scott’s warehouse in a vehicle.
Twist, a Labrador “cadaver dog” that searches for the scent of a dead body, picked up the scent of a body in Laci’s home and on a blue tarp Scott owned.
And Trimble, another Lab tracking dog, produced the most compelling evidence against Scott. He showed that Scott left his warehouse in his truck, headed for the Berkeley Marina, and the dog picked up Laci’s scent – at the marina!
"Trimble was brought to the area where Scott said he launched his boat to go fishing,"
"The dog grew excited. She pulled hard on the leash, taking her handler out to a pier where she stopped and stared out at the water. She then turned and looked into the eyes of her handler, indicating that Laci was out there somewhere. At that moment, detectives were convinced that Scott had sent his wife to a watery grave.
Scott was obviously worried about tracking dogs implicating him. Detective Al Brocchini testified at Scott's preliminary hearing that Laci's husband had asked him on Christmas Day, less than 24 hours after the search for her began, whether police were using cadaver dogs.
Brocchini was stunned. He told Scott cadaver dogs are used to search for bodies and he wasn't ready to say Laci was dead.
And the dogs' discoveries so unnerved Scott's lawyers, Mark Geragos and Kirk McAllister that they challenged the credentials of the dog handlers in an attempt to have the tracking evidence tossed out of court.
But the prosecution has no fears about the ability of Merlin, Twist and Trimble. The dogs and their handlers, Cindee Valentin and Eloise Anderson, are members of the prestigious California Resuce Dog Association (CARDA), the largest search dog group in the nation, which serves as a model for other search dog teams.
A pack of CARDA dogs joined Merlin, Twist and Trimble in the search for Laci. CARDA dogs have participated in over 2,000 searches in the past few decades, and have helped in such disasters as the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, the Northridge, CA earthquake and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Merlin the bloodhound, guided by handler Cindee Valentin, was brought in two days after Laci disappeared. A sunglass case belonging to Laci was used to give the dog her scent as a search was conducted outside the Peterson home.
Merlin when nowhere near the park where Scott had said his wife went to walk their dog McKenzie. Instead the bloodhound made a beeline in the opposite direction following Laci’s scent for many blocks until his handler reeled him in.
Valentin said she’d learned enough to know that Laci was taken away from her home in a vehicle.
“The handler explained that the dog never sniffed sidewalks. It only followed Laci’s scent on a direct track right down the middle of streets.” Said the insider.
Valentin told detectives that a trained tracking dog following a scent down the middle of the street is a sure indication a person was in a vehicle.
Merlin was then brought to an area near Scott's warehouse Again the dog quickly picked up Laci's scent at an intersection and headed down the middle of streets until it wound up on Higyway 132-- a route on the way to the Berkeley Marina.
Merlin was finally taken to the door of the warehouse and again the bloodhound picked up Laci’s scent, following the trail out of the parking lot and on the same track down the middle of streets to the same spot on Highway 132.
“Detectives now knew Laci was taken from her home in a vehicle, then to the warehouse and then from the warehouse in a vehicle to Highway 132.” Said the insider.
The ENQUIRER learned that police believe Scott deliberately tried to confuse Merlin as the bloodhound was used to search along Highway 132.
“Scott was driving Laci’s Land Rover,” said the insider. “He had just come from his lawyer’s office and and he tried to drive past police officers on Highway 132 who were helping direct traffic away from the search area. “He was told he had to go a different way. Scott never identified himself to the cops or thanked them for helping in the search.
“But he was being followed at the time by surveillance teams who watched him stop and put of a search flyer on a pole that was in from of the location where the search was being conducted.
Detectives were convinced Scott was using Laci’s Land Rover to confuse the dog by introducing Laci’s scent in the area of the search. His lawyers could later say that’s the reason Laci’s scent was detected.”
Twist, the cadaver dog, and her handler Eloise Anderson were brought into the case to find out if the dog picked up the scent of a dead body. Inside the Peterson home, the dog showed interest in a spot on the carpet in the family room.
“Detectives felt this could be the spot where Scott wrapped up Laci’s body before removing it from the home,” the insider disclosed.
Outside the Peterson home, in a backyard shed, Twist came to a full alert at a blue tarp Scott had placed over a lawn mower. It was the same tarp Det. Brochini had found in the back of Scott’s truck the night he reported Laci missing
Back in the house again, Twist gave another indication a body had been in the family room.
At the warehouse, Twist was confused by chemical smells – but not as much as has been previously reported. “By Scott’s boat, the dog gave an indication a body had been inside,” said the insider.
“The dog also gave a stronger indication by three milk crates up against a wall in the warehouse. One crate had a large roll of shrink-wrap inside it. Detectives felt some of it was used to wrap around Laci's body.”
The next day, tracking dog Trimble was brought to the Berkley Marina. After sniffing at Laci’s sunglass case, the dog picked up a scent at an entrance to the
launch area where Scott said he put his boat in the water to go fishing.
“Trimble tugged hard on the harness, taking her handler to the westernmost pier at the launch area,” said the insider. “The dog continued along the pier, stopping at one pylon.
“That’s where the dog stared out at the water. The dog was indicating the end of the trail.”
Trimble was also shown a bedroom slipper belonging to Scott.
On Jan 4, 2003, the dog was placed in three different locations near Highway 132. And each time, Trimble picked up Scott's scent and wound up heading west on the highway -- on the route toward the Berkeley Marina.
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Now you know exactly how the cops manufacture evidence and coach witnesses, when they need to convict an innocent man. First and foremost, Laci's sunglasses had Scott Peterson's scent all over them because HE is the one who found them, but that is just one of about 50 thousand points that the NE fails to mention. In the whole, this isn't contaminated evidence. It is absolutely fabricated, as one would expect, from the National Enquirer.
I just love the part where Scott deliberately tried to mislead Merlin LOL. This is SICK !
If you want to know the truth about the murder of Laci Peterson, just listen to what David Sween has said, otherwise, you can rely on the imbecilles who are promoting ALL the crap that the Globe and National Enquirer publishes.
707 Date: 2004-02-25 22:14:00
Joe Sneider ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
The dog handler evidence is explosive, it has made Scott Peterson and Vivian Mitchell stand out. The only potentially damaging "evidence" is in the category of "mild interest", and that smacks of a handler who wants to turn up something, even though the dog is not alerting.
706 Date: 2004-02-25 21:47:52
Tom Wilkinson ( tom5515@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:
Modesto police detective Al Brocchini called off a search even though a bloodhound named Merlin appeared to be following Laci Peterson’s scent, the dog’s handler testified Tuesday. That is very strange. This lapse has made it clear that the police had no interest to verify or to dispute Scott's claim that Laci was walking her dog in the park, and that is a consistent lapse. Is it any wonder that the police did not follow up, on Vivian Mitchell's claim that Laci was walking her dog? These lapses are not, by any stretch of the imagination, excusable, and they make the prosecutor's dog handlers testimony, relatively useless, except for the fact that this testimony exposes an incompetent investigation.
705 Date: 2004-02-25 21:13:24
Jeremy Russell ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
It was getting late on Dec. 26, 2002 - two days after a pregnant Laci Peterson was reported missing.
“In spite of the fact a missing woman is out there whose scent is out there, Brocchini made the decision not to track it?” defense attorney Pat Harris asked.
“Yes,” said Cindee Valentin, a volunteer dog handler with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.
Valentin maintained that the her assessment that Laci Peteson left in a vehicle was accurate.
“Looking at the entire trail,” Harris asked, “Do you still think this was the scent of Laci Peterson in a vehicle?”
“Yes I do,” Valentin said.
But she said police never instructed her to have her dog search in East La Loma Park, where Scott Peterson told police his wife may have walked their dog.
Valentin also said it was her impression from talking to police on Dec. 26 they were looking at Scott Peterson and not trying to find his wife.
Sounds like the prosecutor's own witness proves that Laci was kidnapped and that Scott did not murder her, in their own home.
704 Date: 2004-02-25 14:06:59
Mike ( no email / no homepage) wrote:
Not quite Tom. The "investigative developments" were well reported in the media. The police, Bill Garcia and Ava Frey were trying to "cement" the case against Scott Peterson, and when they failed to implicate Scott, they said "we are not going to disclose our investigative developments." The police obviously think they have a license to bury their failures. If they don't do that, they cannot justify the arrest of Scott Peterson.
Poor Mrs. Mitchell 
This makes me so angry.
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