by Erin Banks, with C. Cortez
There have been a few odd misconceptions (some call it deliberate disinformation) in relation to the Medina burglary over the years.
Upon being questioned, Steven Todd stated to law enforcement that when he and Donald Pearce burglarized the Medina’s home on December 26, 2002 they knew the Medinas were gone because Todd had ridden by the house on his bike earlier that day (December 25th) and saw mail sticking out of the mailbox.
Team Peterson immediately misconstrued this admission as Todd having been untruthful about the date of the burglary because mailman Russell Graybill stated that he had to remove the outgoing mail to place the incoming mail through the mail slot into the mailbox, and Mrs. Susan Medina testified as to when she and her husband had left for L.A. on December 24th, and he had checked the mailbox as per her instruction. Thus, team Peterson and apologists claimed there was no mail to be seen on the 25th, as no mail had been delivered on Christmas Day.
Now, what happened on the 25th going forward, though? Volunteers flooded the LaLoma neighborhood with Laci’s missing flyers! Volunteers went door to door and affixed flyers onto neighbors mailboxes, windshields and doors with tape, until they ran out of it, that is. Otherwise, I was told by people I spoke to, the volunteers would fold the flyers up and place them under windshield wipers, in screen door jams or wedge them into mailboxes with a part of them sticking out so the neighbors would immediately see them.
Below you will find a video example to show the process using tape. While the video was not filmed on December 25th or at the Medina’s, it is an example of a volunteer who placed them in plain sight.
Many Modestans answered my posts and shared with me their stories how and when they first found out Laci Peterson went missing, and, if they volunteered in the neighborhood, about the process for distributing flyers. Tape or no tape, plenty of them were found on or sticking out of mailboxes. In many cases, this was how they actually learned about Laci being missing. One neighbor even commented on the “mail” – meaning the missing flyer – in her mailbox on Christmas Day, just as burglar Steven Todd did, who merely misidentified the flyer as “mail.” An easy mistake to make, considering he saw the home while driving by, so his gaze would not have lingered on the mailbox for very long.
This decade old tale of Steven Todd lying about seeing a piece of paper protruding from the mailbox is completely absurd because it is so easily explained. Covena Avenue was the first street to be blanketed with flyers in the early morning hours of December 25th, including the Medina household. Period.
So we can state with certitude that the burglary occurred on December 26th, and not, as team Peterson claims, on December 24th. – Steven Todd was with his family on December 24th. Several of his family members have attested to this in the past. Being fully aware of this, Scott Peterson’s attorney Mark Geragos didn’t bring Todd in to testify in court. Instead more untruths are being fabricated and spread about the man – Todd – who willingly took and passed a polygraph, on the contrary to Peterson, who to this day refuses to take one.
Photos
#1-2: Screenshots from my Facebook post looking for Modestans to share their Peterson stories.
#3-5: From the late Marlene Newell’s blog “Justice For Scott Peterson.”
#6: From Scott Peterson Appeal, Facebook page.
#7: Police footage.
#8: From the trial transcripts.
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