In what may be perhaps the most ridiculous defense scheme ever concocted in a murder case, Scott Peterson’s lawyers are now suggesting that his wife Laci may have been slain by Satanists, reports WISTV News.
For Football fans this appears to be the equivalent of what is called the “Hail Mary pass,” which is a wild play based upon desperation.
Maybe this ploy by the Peterson defense team should be named the “Hail Satan pass”?
Myths about “Satanism,” “Satanic cults” and alleged rituals including “human sacrifice” were disproved and dismissed long ago.
Perhaps Peterson’s lawyers should have done more research before offering up this theory.
The FBI has studied such claims and issued a definitive report discounting these tales.
Other reports done in Great Britain and the United States have also dismissed fantastic claims about satanic cult activity.
The possibility that any cult was involved in the brutal murder of Laci Peterson is so remote, that only the most dedicated and predisposed conspiracy theorist would even begin to buy into such a story.
It’s hard to imagine what profile for jury selection the defense might contemplate to put this one over.
What’s next?
Laci Peterson was the victim of a UFO abduction/experiment?
Or was she somehow killed as part of a covert CIA operation gone wrong with a subsequent government cover-up?
It seems demeaning to the young woman’s memory and an insult to her grieving family to float such theories.
Scott Peterson’s lawyers must be running on empty if they have scraped the barrel for this one.
Reportedly the defense claims they have a “credible suspect” supposedly involved in “one of the known Modesto cults.”
This sounds more like a witch-hunt than a “credible” investigation.
If this is all the defense has in its arsenal, it is probably time to sit down with the prosecution and talk about a plea bargain, in an attempt to keep their client off death row.
Though maybe any hope that the prosecution will cut a deal with Scott Peterson, is as remote as a spaceship coming to spring him from jail.
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