Oh, who are we fooling? We bought People in the grocery store and rushed home to read it. So there we were, holed up in the dentist's office on a hot afternoon in June, having waited for hours and having read the last six issues of The Atlantic cover to cover, when, out of desperation, clean out of anything smart to read, we picked up a copy of People. McCallie and Monkman are still avid court watchers, and New Times' story about their antics has drawn attention from screenwriters and television producers. McCallie was under a gag order for weeks, and while ultimately she was not called on to testify (the jury issued its "guilty" verdict before that), prosecutors say the photo was key evidence, useful in their courtroom strategy. When McCallie took a photo of a bag of cement in Scott Peterson's driveway, then posted it on the Web, suddenly both "Jordie" and "Katie" (their screen names) were in the middle of the story they loved to chat about. They were just in Redwood City, California, trying to get a coveted seat in the courtroom - the next logical step for two Court TV obsessors, who'd made names for themselves as frequent posters on the Court TV Web site - and figured that while they were in town they'd cruise around in their rental car, take a self-guided tour of the scenes of the crime. These two court watchers from Tempe never meant to insert themselves into the middle of the Scott Peterson trial.
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