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So i mean, i've -- i've fished that berkeley marina lots of times. i've probably got four or five of them on my dashboard right now. but i don't know what made him decide to, "okay, i'm done fishing. i'll take it off my dashboard and then i'll put it in my pocket in case i need it for later." i don't know. but that just, he was ready. prepared. >> reporter: scott said the fish weren't biting that christmas eve afternoon, so he headed back to modesto and got home around 4:30 where he found the dog with the leash attached. an unlocked back door, but no laci. >> grabbed some pizza from the fridge...

Pregnant. >> reporter: golfing on a cold christmas eve? odd but, okay. meanwhile, sharon followed up on something scott told her, that he came home to find the dog out in the yard wearing a leash. >> i went directly to the park. >> because of that leash on the dog -- >> yes. we had walked together in the park before. i was absolutely panicked. i was running around. i was looking in trash cans. i was screaming her name. >> reporter: no sign of her anywhere. laci's friends spent the early hours of christmas morning making "missing" posters. >> the next morning i walked in, was it christmas day? ...

I went north, found a -- like a little island kinda deal there. the island had a bunch of trash on it. i remember a big sign that said, "no landing." it looked like some broken piers around it. and i just assumed it would be a decent, you know, shallow area. >> did you troll? >> a little bit. i mean a lot of -- a lot of the reason i went was just to get that boat in the water. >> reporter: details that sounded plausible enough. except to detective brocchini. >> he drew a short straw when he got a fisherman to talk to. >> me and the -- and the officers. they were fishermen too. his fishing pole...

Like al brocchini had hidden evidence. he asked him on the stand. "did you delete information from a police report about laci visiting scott's warehouse december 23rd?" >> the answer was, "i did." and then, "okay, we're done for the day." and it's like, you know, can i answer? >> and that was a very good point for him to make, because it would create the impression that, in fact, laci did know about the boat as scott said she did, and it lent credibility to the rest of his story as a result. >> well, maybe, maybe not. but he could have got the whole story. >> reporter: of course, the whole sto...

The prosecution. geragos, who believed the modesto pd had it out for his client, tried to make it look like al brocchini had hidden evidence. he asked him on the stand. "did you delete information from a police report about laci visiting scott's warehouse december 23rd?" >> the answer was, "i did." and then, "okay, we're done for the day." and it's like, you know, can i answer? >> and that was a very good point for him to make, because it would create the impression that, in fact, laci did know about the boat as scott said she did, and it lent credibility to the rest of his story as a result. ...