Actually it wasn't the fact that he cheated that convicted him. I watched CourtTV yesterday and two lawyers were talking about the verdict and both agreed to the fact that what probably convicted him was the timeline. According to Scott he was 80 miles away (in the exact spot where the bodies washed up) on Christmas Eve when Laci disappeared. Scott claimed that he watched Martha Stewart the night before and she said a particular thing, well the prosecution found out that the show he was talking about watching actually aired Christmas Eve at like 9am. Then there was something about a phone call he received at 10:08 and Laci "reportedly" went missing at 10:18. They (the lawyers) were saying that it is unlikely that Laci, who was what 7 months pregnant at the time, could 1) mop the floor, 2) get dressed (shoes and all) and 3) get the dog and put him on the leash in 10 minutes. Which I have to tend to agree with. It can take you 10 minutes to mop a floor (depending on how large it is). Plus pregnant, that far along, don't move very quickly. Plus, if their dog is anything like mine, she gets super excited when she sees me grab the leash it can take me up to five minutes just to get the leash on her because she is running around and barking and all excited that she gets to go outside on a walk.
They also said what also didn't help him was the fact that there were (I believe) recorded conversations that he had with Amber saying that he was 1) widowed 2) going to be spending his first Christmas without his wife 3) did not want any biological children of his own but being a step father to Ambers son was "okay".
I personally believe and have always believed that he is guilty as sin. He is a pathological liar and his alibi was crap.
As for the evidence being circumstancial and convicting him, I'm sure if we did research we would find cases where the person was convicted with far less circumstancial evidence. Also, there was FIVE months worth of evidence and not all of it was released to the public. Some of the evidence the prosecution and police had we will probably never know.
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