After Scott and Laci went home, she went into the bedroom, hung up per purse, and changed into pj's. Possibly had some hot chocolate, or tea. Went to bed. Sometime in her sleep, Scott smothers her with the pillow. She struggles, and scratches him. He moves her to the warehouse in the night, takes some clothes and changes her. Returns home. Even with a suffocation, there is clean up. As a person dies they release fluids. It would be pretty tough to explain fluids in the bed or on the floor as he moved the body, he mops the kitchen and changes the bed clothes. Gathers things up for the 'fishing' trip, lets the dog out, and is on his way to the warehouse. He logs onto the internet and checks out the tides and currents. He places her body in the tool box in the back of the truck and proceeds to the bay where he dumps her.

This is only a basic theory, I thought some of it up, heard other parts, and evidence supports other parts.

Anyone care to dissect it with me? Help me point out errors, or point out things that the evidence supports.

I don't think he killed her in the bed.

As far as clothes, I'm not so sure he would have been that careful. Most men really don't pay attention to the exact clothes a woman is wearing. Plus, he may have thought he was slick but in the dark of night, and the anxiety of having just committed a murder, he may have just grabbed the first thing he saw, and has luck would have it, it was the clothes she had worn the night before.

If she was in bed ready to sleep in her pj's, he would have to change her clothes to go along with the dog walking story. She would have to have on 'street' clothes if (and it turns out was) found.

But I just find it hard to believe that if he had to DRESS a dead body he would have remembered better WHAT he had dressed her in. It would have been quite a task to dress her. No, I don't think she was re-dressed after death.

Of course, suffocation is a definite possibility- nearly ANYTHING is at this point- unless there is a confession, I don't think we'll ever know exactly HOW she died.

If he suffocated her, the pressure of him pushing down on her face could have snapped her neck. I read somewhere that it takes 90 seconds to pass out and 4 minutes (or so) to die when suffocated. 90 seconds is enough for her to struggle and scratch him and that could explain his blood in the truck.

Clothes? maybe she was relaxing on the bed, having a cup of tea, reading a book in the same clothes that she wore that day and never did change into pj's. I can say that when I was pregnant, and to this day when I come home from somewhere, I change out of my good clothes and into pj's or shorts and a t-shirt, and I'm thinking that she may have too in light of the fact that her purse was hanging in the closet of the bedroom. Maybe he should have remembered if he changed her clothes, but all murders make some mistakes, this may just be one of them. It's a fact that she did not leave that house in black pants that morning.

I still think she was killed in the clothes she wore to the salon.

But you're probably right about bludgeoning- it would have left more evidence. However, I haven't ruled it out in my mind. I keep thinking about the golf clubs.

I wonder if once police found her body and realized that she had on the tan slacks, not black as Scott said, if that was the perverbial straw that broke the camel's back. They then had proof that Laci never left that house in black slacks to walk the dog. That the witness's that saw a lady in black slacks with a dog could not have seen Laci. That she probably didn't live through the night to even put on her pj's. That may have been the one last piece of evidence that they needed to get the arrest warrant. I believe that until that moment, there was still a remote possibility that she did leave in black slacks, that those people did see her with the dog, and someone did kidnap her.

JMO

The article basically said that Laci was suffocated after she went to bed- evidence that points to this is the fact that one pillowcase was missing (Scott disposed of it with body because it got damaged during struggle). Also it said that Scott & Laci had an argument probably earlier in evening, bad enough that Laci threw up (traces of vomit and blood found on mop).

Also says that a bag with Laci's pajamas was found during the two-day search, and the top she wore to the salon was found in dresser drawer, inside out and crumpled on top of clean clothes (and it was said that Laci would have never put a dirty top in with clean clothes).

Also Laci's body- said that Scott tied the drawstring of her tan maternity pants extremely tight over top of her belly (under breasts) and then duct-taped her thighs tightly together to prevent baby being spontaneously expelled before he could dispose of her body.

Also said that during the first-day search for Laci, Scott struck up a conversation with mother of one of Laci's friends, and mentioned that "if the police find blood in the house, it doesn't mean anything, because I work outdoors and I'm always getting cut up". They say he went to unusual lengths to begin explaining away any blood they might find before they found any.

Of course, one must always consider the source of this info......

I guess we'll find out at trial if any of this evidence is real.

I'm sticking with suffocation. Maybe the pillow case had a tear or mark where she bit it...

I'm pretty sure if that loaded gun had been fired they could have told, and the swabs of his hands would have been tested.

And that information would have been leaked...

JMO