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I recently watched an
A&E Series about the murder of Laci Peterson and her convicted husband. They gave a large chunk of time to Scot''s family and lawyers to throw out a bunch of theories on why Scott didn't commit the crime. IMHO, they didn't produce any actual evidence, just commentary.
This led me to watch some videos that challenge some of the claims Scott's family and lawyers made. One of the video begins with, "This is Scott Peterson, Scott is a profoundly unlikable man...". This line amused me. I believe Scott killed Laci. There was plenty of evidence he did this in the court record. The way he smiled during the Diane Sawyer interview while his wife was still missing never sat right with me. Who smiles like that when your near full term pregnant wife is missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yR6bDftT0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1P35FFOFg
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I agree with you but I'm also glad nobody is interpreting my body language or facial expressions all the time. I have enough twitches and painful moments that I'm sure they would interpret in their own way.
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I wouldn't watch that if you taped my eyes open
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At some point after high school, his pathway notably diverged from that of Phil Mickelson. Both were top prep golfers - teammates - in San Diego, both went on to fame (each in his own way). Scott maybe should'a stuck to hitting golfballs, though. Lots of local angles to this one, from birth to arrest. And yes, he's creepy.
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I agree with you but I'm also glad nobody is interpreting my body language or facial expressions all the time. I have enough twitches and painful moments that I'm sure they would interpret in their own way.
He had to turn on the PR because his affair had been revealed. Even with this set of circumstances, he couldn’t stop grinning like a goon. I believe he thought he was going to get away with the crime. He wasn’t aware that Amber Frey was recording the calls for police.
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Between the circumstantial evidence and Peterson's demeanor in his court appearances, I'm comfortable with him spending his prison time as LWOP.
To me, the evidence is fairly damning, but I'm also relying more on his demeanor.
Between the circumstantial evidence and OJ's demeanor in his court appearances, I would have been comfortable with him spending his prison time on Death Row.
I was 99.9% convinced of OJ's guilt, and 100% when upon hearing the verdict, he turned and grinned at Fred Goldman.
I saw that watching the live coverage of the trial, but haven't been able to find it since, only edited versions of it.
I'm also glad nobody is interpreting my body language or facial expressions all the time. I have enough twitches and painful moments that I'm sure they would interpret in their own way.
That is a real possibility.
I've seen people misread body language horribly, based on fairly obvious (not to them) biases.
And subtle conformational bias is always a possibility.
So there are times when relying on body language alone is absolutely not appropriate, but when one has a lot of interaction with a lot of people, one learns to what degree it can be trusted.
But it's probably more art and luck than science, so a margin of error should be considered.
It's all a situation.
