LA Innocence Project takes up notorious case of convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson

[Anonymous]

All of the reasons individually seemed circumstantial, but when you added it all together as a larger picture he looked guilty as hell. When it came out he called his girlfriend from his wife’s vigil, that sealed his fate as guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just seems so odd that any young husband would murder his pregnant wife. Was he in another relationship?

Um, Christopher Watts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess anything is possible but why, if Scott is innocent, did he dye his hair and appear to be fleeing to Mexico with $10,000 in cash?

"Scott Peterson was sporting a different hair color, a new beard, and toting $10,000 in cash and someone else's identification when he was arrested about 30 miles from the Mexican border on suspicion of killing his wife, Laci, reports say."
https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=131979&page=1

If I remember correctly, the prevailing opinion was that he was guilty. It was a very public case. I could see an innocent person running in that situation. He had had an affair, which made him look guilty, even though all the evidence against him was circumstantial.

He didn't just have an affair. He had an affair and carried it on while his wife was "missing" and he was pretending to be involved in looking for her. He had a Happy New Year phone call with his paramour in which he pretended to be outside the Eiffel Tower in Paris while he was actually just outside a vigil her parents were putting on.

His compartmentalization skills were quite advanced. It's the kind of thing spouse murderers tend to be good at. That's not evidence that he's guilty; I'm just refreshing the collective recollection of exactly how messed up his behavior around this event was.

[Anonymous]

It's far easier for me to believe that the LA Innocence Project has been hijacked by Scott Peterson devotees (there has always been a group of them) than it is for me to believe that the Innocence Project, as I have known it, has objectively come to the conclusion that Scott Peterson is actually innocent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not many details yet, but I always assumed he was guilty. For the Innocence Project to get involved does that give anyone else pause to think...."hmmm maybe he is innocent?" If not Scott then the last 20 years have been wasted with any possible suspects being long gone.

https://abc7.com/scott-peterson-innocence-project-laci-murder/14337140/

The motions for DNA testing of evidence and access to other evidence have to do with the burglary across the street from Laci and Scott’s house; the theory that she witnessed the perpetrators on her way home from the dog walk and they abducted her has been in existence for years. The theory also suggests that her body was dumped in the Bay by the real killers after it was widely reported that Scott was fishing there on the day Laci disappeared.

I posted about that theory here a few years ago and people lost their minds berating and ridiculing me, so it’s interesting to see LA Innocence taking up the case as those projects don’t get involved without strong evidence of actual innocence.

If it turns out Laci’s DNA is on the mattress from the burned out can, thus Scott is innocent, how will all the people who demonized him for simply being a run of the mill philanderer going to feel?

Probably just glad he paid for his cheating with a couple decades of his life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not many details yet, but I always assumed he was guilty. For the Innocence Project to get involved does that give anyone else pause to think...."hmmm maybe he is innocent?" If not Scott then the last 20 years have been wasted with any possible suspects being long gone.

https://abc7.com/scott-peterson-innocence-project-laci-murder/14337140/

The motions for DNA testing of evidence and access to other evidence have to do with the burglary across the street from Laci and Scott’s house; the theory that she witnessed the perpetrators on her way home from the dog walk and they abducted her has been in existence for years. The theory also suggests that her body was dumped in the Bay by the real killers after it was widely reported that Scott was fishing there on the day Laci disappeared.

I posted about that theory here a few years ago and people lost their minds berating and ridiculing me, so it’s interesting to see LA Innocence taking up the case as those projects don’t get involved without strong evidence of actual innocence.

If it turns out Laci’s DNA is on the mattress from the burned out can, thus Scott is innocent, how will all the people who demonized him for simply being a run of the mill philanderer going to feel?

Probably just glad he paid for his cheating with a couple decades of his life.

Burned out van, no thanks autocorrect!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The burglars couldn’t take the chance of getting caught and so they killed Laci and then they dumped her body where Scott had been fishing because that information was released earlier when she was still just missing.
The police ignored the leads. He is not a saint, or even a good person really for what he did as far as having an affair, but I don’t believe that he did this. Even just watching the American nightmare documentary on Netflix has changed my view of how low the police will sometimes go to be able to pin a crime on somebody else, or ignore obvious leads.

What is the chance some random strangers committing burglary knew the exact spot a some neighbor across the street was going on an unplanned fishing trip on Christmas Eve? And said neighbor has just diy’d concrete anchors at his office and had no reason to be fishing in that area and the weather was not conducive to fishing and was also having an affair. So these burglars killed a near term pregnant women and managed to load her into their van and also on a boat to dump her without one single person seeing them and also having a air tight way to frame her husband all because they are some minor league house burglars. Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This group (the LA Innocence Project) is a spin-off group from the main, most well-known one and doesn’t necessarily have the same standards to take a case.

That doesn’t mean the LA group doesn’t have good reasons, but people are attributing extra credibility because they think “The” Innocence Project is advocating for him.

There are innocence projects all over the country, aLL spun off from the original concept, and as a rule they are very well respected and do very detailed research before even making any kind of motions in a case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not many details yet, but I always assumed he was guilty. For the Innocence Project to get involved does that give anyone else pause to think...."hmmm maybe he is innocent?" If not Scott then the last 20 years have been wasted with any possible suspects being long gone.

https://abc7.com/scott-peterson-innocence-project-laci-murder/14337140/

The motions for DNA testing of evidence and access to other evidence have to do with the burglary across the street from Laci and Scott’s house; the theory that she witnessed the perpetrators on her way home from the dog walk and they abducted her has been in existence for years. The theory also suggests that her body was dumped in the Bay by the real killers after it was widely reported that Scott was fishing there on the day Laci disappeared.

I posted about that theory here a few years ago and people lost their minds berating and ridiculing me, so it’s interesting to see LA Innocence taking up the case as those projects don’t get involved without strong evidence of actual innocence.

If it turns out Laci’s DNA is on the mattress from the burned out can, thus Scott is innocent, how will all the people who demonized him for simply being a run of the mill philanderer going to feel?

Probably just glad he paid for his cheating with a couple decades of his life.

Burned out van, no thanks autocorrect!

You mention the theory and that you posted about it. Just curious, do you think this is what happened?

[Anonymous]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/innocence-project-takes-case-notorious-killer-scott-peterson/story?id=106487571

It sounds like Scott Peterson or someone put forth a theory, and claims that there is evidence, and LAIP tentatively believes him and asked for the evidence.

They have not published any evidence or specific claims yet. I'd ignore until they out forth some info or complaints if they can't get the production files.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This group (the LA Innocence Project) is a spin-off group from the main, most well-known one and doesn’t necessarily have the same standards to take a case.

That doesn’t mean the LA group doesn’t have good reasons, but people are attributing extra credibility because they think “The” Innocence Project is advocating for him.

There are innocence projects all over the country, aLL spun off from the original concept, and as a rule they are very well respected and do very detailed research before even making any kind of motions in a case.

And yet I’m in agreement with the PP. I’ve lost respect for them as a whole because of this case.

[Anonymous]

Maybe his AP or associate murdered her and he "only" helped clean up afterward. Technically innocent of murder but not innocent of crimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The burglars couldn’t take the chance of getting caught and so they killed Laci and then they dumped her body where Scott had been fishing because that information was released earlier when she was still just missing.
The police ignored the leads. He is not a saint, or even a good person really for what he did as far as having an affair, but I don’t believe that he did this. Even just watching the American nightmare documentary on Netflix has changed my view of how low the police will sometimes go to be able to pin a crime on somebody else, or ignore obvious leads.

What is the chance some random strangers committing burglary knew the exact spot a some neighbor across the street was going on an unplanned fishing trip on Christmas Eve? And said neighbor has just diy’d concrete anchors at his office and had no reason to be fishing in that area and the weather was not conducive to fishing and was also having an affair. So these burglars killed a near term pregnant women and managed to load her into their van and also on a boat to dump her without one single person seeing them and also having a air tight way to frame her husband all because they are some minor league house burglars. Really?

You’ve got the timeline all wrong, poster. You really should watch the recent docuseries on the case because it lays out exactly how this could have happened and it’s very, very plausible.

By the way DIY concrete anchors are SOP for small boat fisherman. And in the documentary series they show how difficult it would have been for Scott to take Laci out in that tiny boat and toss her over without being swamped himself, especially with anchors attached to her. The physics don’t work out.

Also there is evidence of jailhouse phone calls between suspects which suggest knowledge of Laci’s death and attempts to cover it up.

For the record I’m a former prosecutor and former defense attorney so I bring that perspective- I’ve also been a follower of actual innocence exonerations for decades, since before I attended law school. I’m a strong supporter of conviction review units and innocence projects because I know firsthand that mistakes happen in the criminal justice system and sometimes law enforcement has tunnel vision from day one and prosecutors follow through with the mistakes of LEOs.

We should all want justice so we should all support the DNA testing of evidence related to Laci’s case using the most sophisticated technology at our disposal. If her blood is on the mattress from the burned out van, then that’s where she and Conor died and Scott is actually innocent. Still a pig of a husband, but not a murderer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just seems so odd that any young husband would murder his pregnant wife. Was he in another relationship?

Um, Christopher Watts?

unfortunately, men kill their pregnant wives/girlfriends all the time (I can't find the right phrase, not saying it happens often, trying to say that the incidents are not unheard of or an impossibility)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess anything is possible but why, if Scott is innocent, did he dye his hair and appear to be fleeing to Mexico with $10,000 in cash?

"Scott Peterson was sporting a different hair color, a new beard, and toting $10,000 in cash and someone else's identification when he was arrested about 30 miles from the Mexican border on suspicion of killing his wife, Laci, reports say."
https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=131979&page=1

If I remember correctly, the prevailing opinion was that he was guilty. It was a very public case. I could see an innocent person running in that situation. He had had an affair, which made him look guilty, even though all the evidence against him was circumstantial.

He didn't just have an affair. He had an affair and carried it on while his wife was "missing" and he was pretending to be involved in looking for her. He had a Happy New Year phone call with his paramour in which he pretended to be outside the Eiffel Tower in Paris while he was actually just outside a vigil her parents were putting on.

His compartmentalization skills were quite advanced. It's the kind of thing spouse murderers tend to be good at. That's not evidence that he's guilty; I'm just refreshing the collective recollection of exactly how messed up his behavior around this event was.

+1 not exactly what most of us would expect from a grieving father to be