What Do Casey Anthony And Scott Peterson Have In Common?

Unclear Cause Of Death Only One Similarity

POSTED: 4:36 pm EDT September 29, 2010
UPDATED: 6:29 pm EDT September 29, 2010

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Casey Anthony’s defense team renewed its attention this week on the fact that medical examiner Jan Garavaglia could not determine how Caylee Anthony died. However, the Anthony trial will not be the first high-profile murder case where the cause of death was unknown.

In the case of Scott Peterson, the trial ended with a death sentence. Like the case against Anthony, most of the evidence against Peterson was circumstantial.

Jurors believed the prosecution’s claims that Peterson killed his pregnant wife to regain his freedom.

It was months before investigators found the remains of Peterson’s wife, Laci Peterson, and her nearly full-term baby.

Prosecutors said Peterson was dating another woman while claiming to be concerned about his missing wife.

In the Anthony case, the prosecution maintains that she was out partying, enjoying her freedom from single motherhood.

Laci Peterson’s remains washed ashore four months after she was last seen. The area was close to where Peterson claimed he’d gone fishing the day his wife vanished.

Caylee Anthony’s remains were discovered six months after she disappeared, close to the Anthony home.

In both cases, the victim’s cause of death was never determined.

California investigators found a single strand of Laci Peterson’s hair in a pair of pliers on her husband’s boat.

Inside Casey Anthony’s car trunk, Orlando authorities found a single strand of Caylee’s hair.

Like Anthony’s team is doing now, Peterson’s lawyers based their defense on a lack of scientific evidence while downplaying the circumstantial.

Jurors in the Peterson case later pointed to Peterson’s lack of emotion while his wife was missing. They said all of the pieces of circumstantial evidence added up to his guilt.

Jurors later recommended death for Peterson because he betrayed his responsibility to protect his wife and unborn child.

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Headline news is going to have something about the Anthony case - it seems that the defense is disputing
Cayee had duct tape over her mouth and nose.

A caller just made a great point - if Caseys innocent
why does there being duct tape found on Caylees skull
matter? Couldnt they make a case that a kidnapper would duct tape the childs mouth so she wouldnt cry?

That's basically what Kathi Belich asked Bozo the other day. Did he respond? Hail no!

NO HEART NO SOUL NO EMPATHY FOR OTHERS. it is all about them, always and forever.