It had come across to me (the point I was making and why I wrote to Telecom Digest) that someone had checked where the phone number was! (Apparently, checking where it was gave an insight which might have been missed otherwise.)
I too have wondered why the Scott/Laci Peterson case got that much attention. I don't mean to trivialize the case (there are deaths involved), but I can quickly list two other cases of the death of a pregnant wife, with husband being charged:
- Jeffrey MacDonald, while he was an Army doctor in North Carolina in 1970.
- Michael ("Mick") Fletcher, an attorney in the Detroit (Michigan) area, who was having an affair with a judge who as a result became a "judge behaving badly".
I do distance myself from "tabloid" treatment of a story, because I think that may be more designed to make money from a story than being concerned with getting it right. I am more interested in the forensics, and you could consider finding the location of a telephone number to be a science of sorts.