Lack - we're back to the satanic cult
Kris Baker
Defense outlines cult theory
Attorney Matt Dalton, right, briefs forensic experts Drs. Henry Lee, left,
and Cyril Wecht at the forensics lab in Ripon.
DEBBIE NODA/THE BEE
This photo shows an interior wall of a concrete structure that has paintings
on all sides. This and other artwork, below, are near where the bodies of
Laci Peterson and her unborn child were found by the bay.
DEBBIE NODA/THE BEE
By JOHN COTÉ
and GARTH STAPLEY
Published: August 13, 2003, 07:16:22 AM PDT
Scott Peterson's defense team Tuesday briefed two forensic experts on a
statanic cult theory, including paintings and artwork near San Francisco Bay
and an experiment showing that the pregnant Laci Peterson's body could have
been placed in the water at the art site.
Attorney Matt Dalton, using a laptop computer, showed artwork that he said
depicted ritualistic killings and occult practices, and said the artwork
could be found near the end of a peninsula in the bay.
Dalton also said that the defense team placed weighted flotation devices in
the water at the end of the peninsula, and they ended up in the Richmond
Inner Harbor, not far from where Laci Peterson's body and that of her unborn
son, Conner, came ashore in mid-April.
Scott Peterson is in Stanislaus County Jail, charged with both their
murders.
Dalton gave the briefing to criminalist Dr. Henry Lee and forensic
pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht while the three waited to review prosecution
evidence held at the state crime labora- tory in Ripon.
Tuesday afternoon, the bayside presented evidence of its own: more than a
dozen paintings on plywood and scrap lumber mounted on wooden frames at what
East Bay residents call The Bulb, the rounded point at the end of the
peninsula that holds the Albany Waterfront Trail, an area popular with dog
owners.
Some of the artwork features decapitation and devil figures. Many of the
paintings portray sexual activity, and several show pregnant women.
But, if the defense is trying to link the painters to Peterson's death,
"that's utterly ridiculous," said Bruce Rayburn, a member of an artist
collective known as Sniff. "That's reaching for straws."
He said he and three friends painted much of The Bulb artwork over the past
five years.
Rayburn, a 50-year-old general contractor, said Tuesday from his El Sobrante
home: "We're regular guys with full-time jobs who go down there once a week
on Saturday mornings with our families."
Rayburn said neither law enforcement nor defense investigators had contacted
him about the paintings.
One shows a man with an ax beheading a man in a rowboat on a body of water;
a topless woman kneels next to the beheaded man.
Another shows a devil figure beheading a well-dressed couple in a theater
balcony. And another portrays three children, their umbilical cords
attached, in a body of water as a giant octopus wraps its tentacles around a
naked woman.
"This is all done in fun and games," Rayburn said. "We've had a lot of
criticism by certain groups of people who are offended by some of the
paintings. There's a lot of good themes going on, but if you're looking for
something to criticize, you can find it."
On the inside of a concrete structure on the peninsula, Rayburn's group
painted a goat-headed figure spearing a caged man as a demonic image lurks.
"We called the inside of that place hell, because that's what it was to
paint," he said. "You had to lay on a board in a foot of water to paint it."
The Bulb for years was a landfill at the edge of the city of Al-bany. The
dump closed, and the land evolved into an encampment for homeless people
before becoming part of a plan for a waterfront park between Richmond and
Emeryville.
Albany police Sgt. John Geissberger said he was not aware of any ritualistic
activity at The Bulb -- but that does not mean that it has not occurred, he
quickly added.
"There are things that happen that we never hear about," Geissberger said.
Karla LaVey, founder of the San Francisco-based First Sa-tanic Church, said
the Peterson defense team was using the satanic tactic as an attempt to
deflect blame on a misunderstood and unfairly vilified group.
"Satanism does not involve any type of sacrifice or ritualistic killing,"
LaVey said. "Satanism obviously is a subject people are ignorant of, and so
they tend to be biased and prejudicial."
The experiment
Dalton, in his briefing with Lee and Wecht, said defense investigators
experimented with flotation devices -- putting them in the water at the end
of The Bulb, between Berkeley Marina and Point Isabel. The current then
carried them away.
Laci Peterson's body was found at Point Isabel, and her son's body was found
about a mile away in south Richmond.
Scott Peterson has told police that he launched his 14-foot aluminum boat
from Berkeley Marina on Christmas Eve, then went fishing for sturgeon off
Brooks Island.
He said his wife was gone when he returned home. Family members reported her
missing at about 6 p.m.
Dalton, an attorney with lead defense counsel Mark Geragos' Los Angeles law
firm, hinted at another possible defense strat-egy -- telling Lee and Wecht
about a man accused of killing and dismembering a woman in Las Vegas.
Geragos said little as he and his team left the Ripon lab less than an hour
after arriving, apparently without viewing prosecution evidence.
Geragos entered the lab carrying a manila envelope labeled "evidence" and
accompanied by Lee. He declined to comment on what took place inside other
than to say, "We accomplished something."
Chief Deputy District Attorney John Goold said a gag order in the case
prevented him from talking about what specifically occurred in the lab but
said no arrangements had been confirmed for the defense to view prosecution
evidence Tuesday.
"If they're going to look at the evidence, I imagine we're going to be
present," Goold said. "Nobody (from the prosecution) was out there today."
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Kris Baker
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"Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigyy.net> wrote in message
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Mark Mellin
"Kris Baker" quotes:
> http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7281680p-8207305c.html
>
> [ snip ]
>
> Tuesday afternoon, the bayside presented evidence of its own: more than a
> dozen paintings on plywood and scrap lumber mounted on wooden frames at what
> East Bay residents call The Bulb, the rounded point at the end of the
> peninsula that holds the Albany Waterfront Trail, an area popular with dog
> owners.
A somewhat more balanced interpretation of the Albany Bulb can be
found at:
<http://www.baynature.com/2002julysept/ott_2002julysept.html>
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Mailstop 408-85 Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 USA
stargazer
> (typo correction)
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> "Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigyy.net> wrote in message
> news:O9x_a.2998$yE4....@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> > http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7281680p-8207305c.html
> >
> > Defense outlines cult theory
Wait a minute, I thought just last week Geragos said 'he was afraid the real
killers would bolt'?
sg
IBegg2Differ
Alex
cult wanted to set up Scott by dumping the body where he
had established his alibi.
Did they have a personal grudge. Why did they go to such
lengths? Or better yet, who are they?
Alex
"Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigyy.net> schreef in bericht
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Kris Baker
"IBegg2Differ" <ibegg2...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I think the subject line was meant to read "Laci", so I fixed it. ;)
So did I ;)
I can't believe I did that...but I also misspelled my own name
on a newsgroup last year.
Kris
IBegg2Differ
>I can't believe I did that...but I also misspelled my own name
>on a newsgroup last year.
Don't feel too bad. Once I told a new employee, "Some people think I pace the
floor. In reality, it's just that I keep getting up from my desk, walking
across the room, forgetting what I got up for, going back to my desk, then
remembering what I needed, and starting the whole process over again. Don't
worry about it, but if you know what I was looking for, maybe remind me." ;)
goldenm...@yahoo.com
> > Defense outlines cult theory
Will the judge do anything about
gag order violation to defense team?
GM
Robert St. James (el corazon del demonio)
"Alex" <avdeele...@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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> What Mark Gerragos will have to do, is show that this satanic
> cult wanted to set up Scott by dumping the body where he
> had established his alibi.
> Did they have a personal grudge. Why did they go to such
> lengths? Or better yet, who are they?
>
> Alex
a) drug the jury
b) because that's what satanic cults do
c) last I heard, it was some man in a tan van (with satanic helpers
in the back).
Geragos acts like this is some elaborate practical joke. He needs to
snap out of it. His client is up on two counts of 1st degree murder,
not frigging shoplifting.
What an unbelievable waste of time, effort, and money--some of which
will have to be footed by the taxpayer.
RstJ
Mark Bosley
<goldenm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Judge cannot gag the defense team. That's a free pass to an appeal.
That said, Geragos & Co (mostly Co) can spew all kinds of wacky theories to
the super eager press. It's scummy but he only needs one or two Calli flakes
on the jury.
goldenm...@yahoo.com
My JD says otherwise.
GM At Law
No1sBish
> "Mark Bosley" <de...@optonline.net> wrote >
> > Judge cannot gag the defense team. That's a free pass to an appeal.
> >
> > That said, Geragos & Co (mostly Co) can spew all kinds of wacky theories to
> > the super eager press. It's scummy but he only needs one or two Calli
> > flakes on the jury.
>
> My JD says otherwise.
So does Judge Girolami, methinks.
http://www.modbee.com/reports/laci/story/7286345p-8211790c.html