marlene wrote:
I do think Scott seems pretty distracted that day -- he piddles away at the warehouse, barely leaving himself enough time to actually get the boat in the water, and as it is, he takes too long and misses picking up the basket for Amy. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that he told Laci about Amber before the last date he had with her, and Laci didn't know about that date, and it's troubling him. And with Amber being so 'needy' -- I think he really wondered how he would get himself out of that mess. Just conjecture, of course.
I really do think it is possible that he told Laci about Amber. I also do not believe it was something that would have broken their marriage, although it probably did hurt her terribly.
I do not know what the statistics are but, as awful as it sounds, I do know of MANY women that were pregnant and their husbands cheated on them during the pregnancy, myself included in my first marriage.
You also make a good point of Scott not seeming to be in any hurry that morning. What also struck me as odd is in the appeal it is stated that the prosecution believes that the body was placed in the toolbox portion of the truck. Please excuse my next comment, I am not here to offend anyone, but it is something I believe must be considered....
If we consider that rigor mortis sets in beginning in 2-3 hours after a death, it makes me more doubtful of the evidence the prosecution presented with the pregnant woman climbing into the back of the truck...more importantly, into that toolbox. It would seem to me that Scott piddling at the warehouse for at least an hour that morning would only have been making this particular situation worse. It is one thing for a pregnant woman to freely climb into the back of a truck toolbox, but it is quite another to manipulate a 153 lb. dead body into a truck toolbox.
When I expressed to my husband that not one bit of evidence of a dead body was found in the back of the truck or in the toolbox, he stated that he does not believe the body was in either the truck bed or the toolbox (mind you, he is not convinced of Scott's innocence in this case...but he is not convinced of his guilt either...he is only relatively sure Scott did not receive a fair trial). Not only that, but if we look at the pictures of back of the truck and at the pictures of the toolbox, it certainly does not look to me as if Scott had taken the truck to the car wash or anything in an attempt to clean those areas or remove any sign of evidence. I also do not believe that a tarp, as difficult as they are to stay wrapped around anything, let alone a body that is most likely changing relatively quickly because of rigor mortis, would have prevented any evidence of death from escaping and leaving a trail of some sort.