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...would like to say we have passed the saturation point on procedurals. But I wouldn't bet my pocket change on it. America is addicted to Amber Alerts and Laci Peterson--type cases, and every cable marathon of lost-child and missing-white-woman coverage is free advertising for Close to Home. This TV season has been notable for ever more gruesome cop shows (Wanted, Killer Instinct) with sensationalistic stories about brutalized women and children. Close to Home, whose early episodes involve a kidnapped young woman and doe-eyed kids on the witness stand, is a softer, more accessible...
When it comes to the Laci Peterson case, forensic psychiatrist and Court TV expert Keith Ablow knows all the angles. His new book, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson (St. Martin's Press) painstakingly analyzes what Ablow, 43, calls the psychological "perfect storm" that created Scott Peterson, Murderer. Can Albow, a graduate of Brown and Johns Hopkins Medical School, really get inside the mind of Peterson? You be the judge...
...involvement in the case started as a commentator for Court TV, and then on Oprah, providing the beginnings of my theory about what had created Scott Peterson. That resulted in Sharon Roche [Laci's mother] calling me, and saying that it was the first one that made sense to her. Anne Bird [Scott's half-sister] called and said the same thing...
...Geragos credit. A lot of lawyers are actually afraid to try cases. They're house pets. You've got to give that to Geragos - he's not afraid to try a case. But I disagree with his tactics. To float such preposterous theories, such as a satanic cult killed Laci Peterson. It's ridiculous - nothing whatsoever to support it. It's basically a say-anything defense. The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position. To me, it would be an unacceptable way to make a living. Under...
...going to burn in hell for this." DENNIS ROCHA, Laci Peterson's father, speaking directly to Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, at a hearing in which a judge sentenced Scott to death for killing his wife and unborn child...