Peterson Case Tips Were Probed, Police Testify
Prosecutors in Scott Peterson’s murder trial sought Tuesday to counter defense claims that police were so eager to charge their client with his wife’s killing that they ignored other credible tips.
Two investigators testified that in the weeks after Laci Peterson vanished they pursued a tip that the pregnant schoolteacher was held in a rural area about 30 miles from her hometown. Prosecutors allege that Peterson killed his wife in their Modesto home on or around Dec. 24, 2002. He then drove to San Francisco Bay and dumped her body in the bay, prosecutors allege.
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