Research & Analysis : Misconceptions
Premeditated II – The
“Secret” Boat & Internet Searches
In the Prosecution’s
case against Scott Peterson, they suggested that prior
to 7 December, he already knew that he was going to
murder Laci and dispose of her body by putting it in the
Bay. According to their theory he didn’t want anyone to
know about the boat – it was to be a SECRET boat.
How would you go about
purchasing a boat that you don’t want ANYONE to know
about or be able to trace?
According to Scott
Peterson, even though you have planned this all in
advance, you don’t use the anonymity of buying a copy of
the ModBee, leafing through the classifieds and then
phoning up from a call box, no – you use your computer.
You use it to look up advertisements, you call the
owners from your own telephone and then you go one
Monday morning, purchase the boat legally giving your
correct name and address for the liability release forms
(which will be sent to DMV) and then drive it back in
broad daylight to your place of work and leave it there.
Are you confused? I am.
One reason is that Scott Peterson evidently knew that
the computer would sooner or later be searched by Law
Enforcement. How do we know this? Because apparently, he
specifically went on the home computer the morning of 24
December (with Laci’s body still in the house) to make
it look like Laci was alive at that hour and viewing
website. So how could he want the boat to be
a secret if he placed all the information in a place
where he knew MPD would find it?
If you suggest that he
DIDN’T know the computers would be searched, then why
was the home computer accessed by Scott? He’s sitting
with a dead body in the house with him which he needs to
dispose of and yet he can coolly surf the internet,
viewing Gap scarves and umbrella stands?
Furthermore, if he had
no idea the computers activity would be checked, why
didn’t he also use the computer check how much weight is
required to sink a body, or how easy or difficult it is
for one to resurface? Why didn’t he research how soon
Cadaver dogs can pick up a scent? Why was there no
research into insurance policy payouts and the law?
Since he’d already decided to kill Laci 23/24 December,
then why didn’t he even check in advance what the
weather was likely to be like those days? It could have
been blowing a gale and then he would have had a real
problem! All these topics are surely information that
someone who has spent approximately 3 weeks planning a
murder would have or should have read.
In truth, there was nothing incriminating whatsoever on
those computers. What was “researched” was exactly what
anyone purchasing and going out in a new boat on the Bay
for the first time SHOULD have looked up. Had Laci never
disappeared that day, but Scott had gone fishing, and
later washed up drowned, there would be plenty of people
who immediately would have asked “Which fool goes out in
unfamiliar waters, in an unfamiliar boat without looking
at the depths and currents etc. first.?” |
