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Laci and Conner grant to aid dive team
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Laci and Conner grant to aid dive team
Nov. 24, 2008

A fund honoring Modesto's best-known murder victim will give a $5,100 grant to a team playing a key role in searching for Laci Peterson six years ago.

The Modesto Police Department's dive team scoured lakes and San Francisco Bay after her husband, Scott Peterson, reported the pregnant 27-year-old missing on Christmas Eve 2002. The remains of mother and unborn son washed ashore nearly four months later, and Scott Peterson remains on death row awaiting appeals of a death sentence.

Laci Peterson's mother, Sharon Rocha, established the Laci and Conner Search and Rescue Fund in December 2005 with proceeds from her national best seller, "For Laci." Since then, the fund has provided $194,000 in grants to 38 search-and- rescue organizations in 10 states.

The fund was infused last month by "Laughing for Laci," a benefit at Modesto's Gallo Center for the Arts hosted by TV talk show giant Larry King with performances by celebrity stand-up comedians.

The Police Department most involved in searching for Laci Peterson intends to use its grant for scuba equipment, according to a city staff report. Modesto City Council members are scheduled to formally accept the money at Tuesday's council meeting.

Tuesday's Modesto City Council meeting is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. in the basement chamber at Tenth Street Place, 1010 10th St.

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Re: Laci and Conner grant to aid dive team
« Reply #1 on Sept 11, 2009, 1:31pm »

Thursday, Sep. 10, 2009

A fund honoring murder victims Laci and Conner Peterson has awarded another grant to the Modesto Police Department's developing scuba team.

Divers from the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department and other agencies helped police search for the pregnant woman after her Christmas Eve 2002 disappearance.

The remains of mother and unborn son washed ashore nearly four months later and Scott Peterson remains on death row awaiting appeals of a death sentence.

Police formed their own dive team in 2005, the year that Sharon Rocha, Laci Peterson's mother, founded the Laci and Conner Search and Rescue Fund with proceeds from Rocha's national best seller, "For Laci."

Since then, the fund has provided more than $219,000 in grants to 44 search organizations in 11 states.

Recipients include the Merced County Sheriff's Department dive team, which accepted $8,000 in July, and the Modesto police dive team, which received $5,100 for scuba gear in November and $2,356 more this week. The team has mobilized six times this year to recover evidence in waterways.

"Many people spent countless hours helping in the search for my daughter," Rocha said in a release. "I believe that every missing person deserves to be found and returned to their loved ones."

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/850045.html

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