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3 Mar 2003 Arrest is imminent Sources say the Modesto police were 'right on track' for an arrest in the Peterson case, adding that authorities have discounted alleged sightings of Laci on the day she disappeared. KTVU's Ted Rowlands reported that sources close to the case have told him that 'it's not a matter of if, but when' an arrest will come in the more than two-month-long investigation. Scott, meanwhile, remained a suspect.
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4 Mar 2003 Spilled concrete
Private Investigator Bill Garcia found some spilled concrete mix on a path along the Delta-Mendota Canal, a waterway near Modesto. Garcia said the mix appeared to be marked with the track of a trailer tire. The Delta-Mendota Canal is twenty feet deep, 116 miles long and stretches all the way from Mendota to Tracy.
5 Mar 2003 Case classified a homicide / Reward Offered
Police classify the Laci Peterson case a homicide. "As the investigation has progressed, we have increasingly come to believe that Laci Peterson is the victim of a violent crime" says the lead investigator, Detective Craig Grogan. A reward of $50,000 is announced by the Carole Sund Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation for information directly leading to the location and recovery of Laci.
10 Mar 2003 Case file to DA
The police file on the case was submitted to the District Attorney's office in Modesto.
13 Mar 2003 Laci's body discovered
Gene Ralston, the man Modesto police hired to search part of San Francisco Bay with sonar, believes that what he saw March 13 was Laci's body, based on where she was found. "Piecing all the information we have now, I believe it probably was Laci Peterson," Ralston said. But, he admitted, at the time, there was doubt. At the time, the police kept this find by Ralston a secret, fearing Scott would flee. This map shows the location where the body was found, and its relationship to Brooks Island, the Richmond Marina, where Conner's body was found, where Laci's body was found, and the Berkeley Marina. These charts show the wind velocities in the storms the area experienced over the next few days.
When the bodies were found on the 13th and 14th of April, LE suggested strong winds in a spring storm over the weekend washed the bodies ashore. Wind and tide data is available for the entire time period, and general information about water levels, and water temperatures is also available.
14 Mar 2003 Calls from Amber to Buehler
Phone logs obtained by the ModBee show that Amber called Detective Jon Buehler's office phone, cell phone and home phone 191 times in the 75 days from December 30 through March 14, totaling more than 19 hours of conversation. Many of the calls came immediately after her conversations with Scott.
Sometime in Mar 2003 Amber Frey's vacation
Amber Frey, stressed out from her involvement with the investigation of Scott, left Fresno with her daughter for a brief vacation in Vero Beach, Florida. Det. Jon Buehler actually drove them to the airport in San Jose himself and watched as they boarded the plane to make sure Scott didn't make an unexpected appearance.
18 Mar 2003 Brocchini interviewed Brian Argain again
Argain told Brocchini that "he had rejected
invitations to go golfing with him at the country club because 'he
did not feel comfortable golfing with Peterson any more'"; "several
members of the exclusive club had expressed displeasure at
Peterson's use of the facilities and said the country club board was
going to buy back Peterson's membership from him"; Scott "had asked
him to talk to the press about what a good guy he was, but that he
had refused after Peterson seemed to 'beat around the bush' when
asked about circumstances of Laci's disappearance."
19 Mar 2003 Grogan interviewed Michelle Buer, Sweet Serenity
Grogan asked Michelle Buer to identify the clothes she thought Laci wore to the Sweet Serenity Day Spa on December 23rd. Buer testified that she was shown photographs of clothing and she identified the Mary Jane shoes Laci wore that day. In his cross examination of Buer, Pat Harris noted several incorrect statements in Grogan's report, which said Buer had worked at the volunteer center at the beginning of the search but stopped doing so because Scott's behavior was unusual and she was uncomfortable because Laci's friends were defending Scott. Grogan also reported that Buer said she suspected Scott on the night of December 24. Buer said those statements were incorrect and/or misinterpretations. Buer had told Brocchini in her Jan 17 phone interview with him that she did not become suspicious of Scott until Christmas Day. Buer also told Grogan that Laci never griped about Scott, or ever said anything negative about him.
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