Large-scale searches for Modesto's Laci Peterson ended weeks ago. Now her family is trying to get the ball rolling again.

Laci Peterson's Land Rover became her family's property on Tuesday.

Modesto police said Saturday they had no new developments in their investigation into Laci Peterson's disappearance.

There's no way of knowing how many people paused Friday night to light a candle, flip on a porch light or offer a silent prayer for missing mom-to-be Laci Peterson and her unborn son.

Scott Peterson's eyes often shifted to the side when an interviewer asked him a difficult question.

Family members of Laci Peterson, a pregnant Modesto woman who has been missing since Christmas Eve, are asking people around the world to light a candle for her and her unborn son, Connor, at 7 p.m. Pacific time today.

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Police plan to begin reviewing surveillance tapes from a grocery store where a clerk came forward late last week to say she believes she saw a missing, pregnant California woman sometime in December. The Daily News of Longview reported Thursday that the clerk told police a pregnant woman came into Market Place in this southwest Washington town and said: "This is serious. I was kidnapped. Call the authorities when I leave."

Scott Peterson conducted several televised interviews at his home on Wednesday, address-ing numerous allegations and rumors surrounding the investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Laci.

Selling fertilizer would appear to be an easy job in the San Joaquin Valley, where agriculture is the No. 1 industry.

Modesto police refused Tuesday to comment on Scott Peterson's claim that he told them Christmas Eve about his affair with Amber Frey.

If Laci Peterson has been killed, statistics say she was likely slain by someone close to her.

John Walsh, the host of TV's "The John Walsh Show" and "America's Most Wanted," said he has pleaded with Scott Peterson to answer questions and make a public statement.

SOLANA BEACH -- Two things greeted visitors Saturday morning at 1508 Santa Sabina Court:

Amber Frey's father says his daughter's life has been turned upside down by her brief relationship with Scott Peterson, who she thought was single.

A 28-year-old Fresno woman said Friday she had a romantic relationship with Scott Peterson, whose pregnant wife has been missing since Christmas Eve.

A baby-shower date for Laci Peterson came and went with no party. The expectant mother, though, is still listed on a gift registry at Babies R Us.

The Laci Peterson case took a dramatic twist Friday when a 28-year-old single mother acknowledged having a recent romantic relationship with Scott Peterson.

(Last updated, Monday, April 21, 2003)

Modesto's Laci Peterson has been missing for a month.

Modesto police reported Wednesday that a suspect has been identified in a Saturday burglary at Scott and Laci Peterson's house.

His cell phone rings incessantly. TV camera crews capture his every move. Curious people drive, slowly, by his home every few minutes.

Dennis Rocha says he knows he is living "every parent's nightmare."

Burglars broke into Scott and Laci Peterson's home while he was in Los Angeles organizing an effort to find his missing wife, police said.

Scores of volunteers posted fliers in Los Angeles on Sunday as Scott Peterson took the effort to find his wife to Southern California.

Investigators in San Luis Obispo said Saturday they found no link between Scott Peterson and a missing Cal Poly student.

Volunteers who have worked daily since Christmas to help search for Laci Peterson have closed their Modesto center and canceled plans to open a temporary center in Los Angeles.

San Luis Obispo detectives are looking at Scott Peterson in connection with the disappearance of a college student nearly seven years ago.

Modesto police told Laci Peterson's family that her husband was having an affair and recently took out a $250,000 life insurance policy on her, a family member said Thursday.

No matter how dismal the reports are from police in the Laci Peterson disappearance, people at the volunteer search center are holding out hope that the Modesto woman is alive.

From the moment a missing-person case begins, detectives are in a race against time.

Volunteers will expand their effort to find Laci Peterson to Southern California this weekend, organizers said Monday.

The effort to find Laci Peterson shifted back to the Northern San Joaquin Valley on Sunday, 24 hours after an intensive search of the San Francisco Bay turned up only a boat anchor.

As Amy Harper changes the sheets on her 6-month-old daughter's crib, she thinks about Laci Peterson, the Modesto woman who has been missing since Dec. 24.

Laci Peterson's family got the word first: The mystery object in San Francisco Bay was an anchor, not a body.

Modesto police Sgt. Ron Cloward confirmed at 3:20 p.m. Saturday that a mystery object in San Francisco Bay had been identified as an anchor.

Divers plan to return to San Francisco Bay today to determine if an object found two days ago is a body.

The Laci Peterson investigation turned grim Thursday as searchers found something in the San Francisco bay that police said possibly could be a body.

The Modesto Police Department recorded about 1,400 missing person reports in 2002.

Searchers returned to the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday and used underwater camera equipment to hunt for clues relating to the disappearance of Laci Peterson of Modesto.

The state crime lab in Ripon is analyzing evidence collected in the Laci Peterson disappearance, and the evidence could be blood, saliva or semen.

The Laci Peterson investigation and search effort is costing the Modesto Police Department several thousand dollars a day in overtime.

As the widespread search for Laci Peterson continued Monday, nine divers spent a second consecutive day focusing on a small section of Lake Tulloch.

The search for Laci Peterson has expanded beyond the Berkeley Marina and the Highway 132 corridor, police said Sunday.

For almost two weeks, more than 1,000 people have signed up to pass out fliers or to search neighborhoods for Laci Peterson, the pregnant woman who disappeared Christmas Eve.

Search dogs and scuba divers came up empty Saturday in the water and on the shore of San Francisco Bay, as the investigation continued into the disappearance of Modesto's Laci Rocha Peterson.

Self-styled psychics, tarot card readers and pet communicators are offering their skills to help locate Laci Peterson, the expectant Modesto mother who was reported missing Christmas Eve.

Sharon Rocha lies in a hospital bed at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, woozy from the combination of painkillers and pain. It is May 4, 1975. A nurse cradles a tiny baby girl and hands her to Sharon, who gently takes her daughter into her arms. Sharon stares at the child, and the two melt into one. The pain disappears. Laci is here.

Robert and Susan Levy understand better than most the pain and anguish being felt by the family of Laci Peterson, the 27-year-old pregnant Modesto woman who disappeared Christmas Eve.

A burglary across the street from Laci Peterson's home had nothing to do with the Modesto woman's disappearance, police confirmed Friday.

The disappearance of mom-to-be Laci Peterson has brought out the best in many people -- and a little of the worst and weirdest.

Modesto police on Thursday asked the public for help corroborating the story of a Modesto man who reported his pregnant wife missing Christmas Eve.

The search for Laci Peterson, the pregnant woman who disappeared Christmas Eve, took a break Wednesday.

As the sun set on another year, more than a thousand people held aloft glowing candles Tuesday in a tearful vigil for Laci Peterson, the expectant mother who has been missing for more than a week.

Laci Peterson left her home in a car, not by foot, the handler of a bloodhound used in the search for the missing 27-year-old Modesto woman told detectives.

Scores of volunteers fanned out across Modesto on Sunday as the search intensified for Laci Peterson, the expectant mother who disappeared Christmas Eve from her La Loma neighborhood home.

Police pushed 10 miles west of Modesto, to 4,000 acres of wetlands along the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, in the search for Laci Peterson, the 27-year-old expectant mother who disappeared Christmas Eve.

(Originally published Dec. 28, 2002)

(Originally published Dec. 28, 2002)

(Originally published Dec. 27, 2002)

(Originally published Dec. 27, 2002)

Modesto police and firefighters carried out a massive and futile search along Dry Creek on Wednesday for a woman who is eight months pregnant who disappeared Christmas Eve while walking her dog in East La Loma Park.

Modesto police and firefighters carried out a massive and futile search along Dry Creek on Wednesday for a woman who is eight months pregnant who disappeared Christmas Eve while walking her dog in East La Loma Park.