More debunking of Art's misinformation just e-mailed to me:
1. Laci was murdered
(Disputable. No determinable cause of death)
Scott retrieves the blue tarp from the shed, spreads it out on the bedroom floor next to the bed and puts Laci on top of it and rolls it up around her body. This not only contains forensic material but also provides a convenient means of dragging the body out the house and into the truck, all without leaving behind any forensic evidence, if any existed.
If Laci was dragged through the house in the tarp, tarp fibres would have been left behind. None were found in the house or in the vacuum. See testimony of Kyo.
“Valentin told the Detectives at command center that Merlin indicated Laci left in a vehicle, not on foot, because Merlin was pretty dedicated to always going back and checking those Bott Dots as they traveled through the neighborhood.” The trail led from the house to the warehouse to the marina.
Can you cite your citations – where is this from?
The trail DID NOT lead to the warehouse, it led to Gallo winery where it came to an end, but Brocchini decided not to perform a search of the winery.
Judge Delucchi: I tell you what, there's a pointer. Can you go to the board and just keep your voice up, Ms. Anderson, so the jury can hear you. We'll do it the old fashioned way, we'll use a pointer. Show us the direction now where the scent took the dog.
Eloise Anderson: I scented her here. She made a circle, lined out on her line, went down here, down here, down here, down to this pylon. That's where she gave me the first end of trail. I stood for a minute just to see if she would try to locate more trail, she turned, went this way, went down there, turned around, came right back and stopped and gave me another hard end of trail indication.”
Anderson, used Trimble. Trimble, is a trailing dog. She could have used her Cadaver dog, Twist, but chose not to. There are other reasons why Laci’s scent could have been at the marina without Laci ever having stepped foot there. I suggest you read Ron Seitz’s testimony.
8:40-8:45. – Scott checked the weather on the computer while Laci’s lifeless body lies wrapped in the blue tarp in the master bedroom. He was already committed to dumping the body in the bay but still wants to know the weather conditions. Don’t you ever plan a picnic and then check the weather before you leave to determine what to expect? What to wear? I’ll even take it a step further and add that Laci used that computer primarily so it’s entirely possible she had the butterfly and shopping sites as her home page; or, that those were “pop-up” ads or any number of other possibilities, including Laci saving them to her favorites. Yahoo provides content specific to a user’s surfing habits, so if Laci used that computer often and visited shopping and butterfly sites, it would acknowledge that and those are the types of popup ads and menu selections that would appear on that computer.
What is all this talk about a butterfly? Laci, didn’t look up butterflies. Perhaps you have made another basic mistake and you are thinking about Laci’s sunflower tattoo and the sunflower umbrella stand…
If Laci had any of these sites as her homepage or saved to her favorites, Lydell Wall would have testified to it. He did NOT. May I suggest you reread his testimony.
Rick Distaso: And what she told you about that was, you asked her, I mean, did she, was she still going to the park or, and then she kind of cut in and said, um, not that I remember specifically, but she said she always walked McKenzie with her, which was a safety feature. She didn't let her off the leash because she couldn't control McKenzie like Scott could. So I know she always kept McKenzie on the leash, or that's what she said in our conversations. And then she tells you the part that I already went over about reading this vehicle, right?
Allen Brocchini: Yes.
This is a misrepresentation of tesstimony. You have interpreted this testimony to read the way that suits your scenarios. Reed doesn’t say Laci can’t control McKenzie, in fact she says that when McKenzie is OFF THE LEASH she can’t control him the way Scott can.
In the mean time, Laci is still in the bow of the boat; Scott wants to get that computer usage record established as quickly as possible. Laci rotting away means nothing to a psychopath incapable of emotion.
Firstly, if Peterson knew that MPD would look at his computer and check what he’d been viewing, why did he use the same computer to buy the “secret boat” and to look up tide/current data knowing it would incriminate him!?
If Laci was “rotting away” then why did the cadaver dogs not alert at the warehouse, boat, truck or at the Marina? No, showing “mild interest” is not an alert.
Why do you say it was rough that day? Have you checked historical weather data? I suggest you do. Winds were approximately 4-5mph at the time he went out. You say Scott wasn’t a good seaman – link please. He’d owned a boat before at Morro Bay.
You have also contradicted yourself again – you say that Scott was not a competent seaman, and yet further on in your theory you suggest that he was good enough to plough through the sea at 20mph. That’s fast for an incompetent seaman in a boat he’s never taken out on the sea before! Heck, he doesn’t even know if the motor works!
11:22 – Scott leaves for the marina. Driving 90 miles at 55mph = 1hr. 38 min. 10 sec. (T=D/S) driving time, Scott arrives at the marina at 1pm.
Do you honestly believe he drove at a constant 55mph all the way from Modesto?? That is impossible. You are suggesting that he never needed to slow down, stop at lights or for traffic etc.. It is much more likely to have taken him closer to 2hours.
The only jewelry she was found with were her earrings -
Laci was found with her earrings!!
How? Laci's head was missing!
Duct Tape - The duct tape could have been floating in the bay and attached itself to Laci; duct tape retains its adhesive properties for long periods of time, even underwater. It also could have been one of the things Scott used to affix the anchors to Laci’s body. We know Scott kept duct tape in the warehouse because that's where he went to get it when they were putting up fliers. The tape found on Laci’s body did not match the tape found at the warehouse but it is a fact that Scott is no stranger to duct tape. He could easily have used a different roll to attach the anchors to the body and disposed of whatever might have remained in the bay.
Duct tape was tested and compared with that which Peterson used to put up fliers – they did not match.