Reply #142: No, there was a weaker case in Delaware

[MADem]

The governor's secretary, dating a lawyer, think he was in the AG's office, and he killed her and dumped her in the water in a cooler. The only reason they got him, with no body, ever, was that they turned his brother, who was a bum, and he testified as to seeing the leg--just the leg--of the victim as they tossed the cooler overboard. The cooler washed up way later, a guy was using it to store fish. Then, the guy tried to claim that his OTHER girlfriend was the killer--it was a sick tale, if you made it up and wrote it as fiction it would have been rejected as too farfetched.

It's the whole story that got Scott Peterson. Coincidence upon coincidence, added to his lying to his girlfriend and saying he was posting flyers whilst chatting on the phone. Sneaking down to the marina, lying about his whereabouts, and then, the obvious change of appearance in a car registered to his momma, carrying camping and survival gear and a ton of dough, headed for Mexico.

I think the guilty verdict was an accurate call. I'm not enamored of the death penalty, though. Odds are probably even or better that he'll end up with life after the appeals process.