True Crime Vault: One Last Chance: The Trial of Scott Peterson

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Discovered two bodies. Steuja identified female is Lacy Petersie. He's got it.

He's got it, he's got it.

He's got it. It's either someone actively frames Scott Peterson

“after kidnapping his eight months, right this way.”

Or he did it. That's it. But now, after 18 years, his sister-in-law doesn't just think he's innocent. She says she can prove it.

We made the decision to record some phone calls with Scott. That's something that he wanted to say. There really was nothing we shy away from talking about in those conversations. Just how frustrated that day and with people say that

I was the last one to see that day. Scott told me he was not married. We did have a romantic relationship. Soon as Amber Freish showed up, people are like he's guilty.

He is guilty. He's guilty. Scott Peterson has been found guilty of first-degree murder. Scott Peterson is where he deserves to be. You can't just pick Scott as the default

because you don't know what else it could have been. It's Scott Peterson's voice and he tells his story. Stay to California for the Scott Peterson. With a jury in the Bob and Tyler Cause, find a defendant, Scott and Peterson guilty

of the time of murder, the place in the D's Peterson. You want to talk about the romantic first? Bobby's crazy. He's just like this.

He made the horrible, critical action guy in.

Everything's just lit, kind of silent, or anything. I could feel anything. I could feel my feet on the floor. I could feel cherished living in. My family was even a little flurry,

and I just had to swear to station. That was falling forward and in town. There's going to be no end to this falling forward to town like there was no floor. Just lay it on.

This office is where we keep everything related to Scott's case. We keep the trial transcripts. We keep the case discovery here. This board represents the details of the day. My name is Janey Peterson, and I am Scott and Lacey Peterson's sister mom.

We're constantly evaluating the information we have from different perspectives. It's been 18 years, and there should be answers to questions.

“I think if people step back and look at the evidence in this case,”

they're going to see this crime as it's solved. The story of Lacey Peterson's disappearance is the case. I thought it was at some point. You think that's the case for one of the hard things.

I thought it was a police shot. What did they do now? My name is Mark. I thought it was at some point. I think it was at some point.

I think it was at some point. I think it was at some point. I think it was at some point. The story of Lacey Peterson's disappearance made news soon after she disappeared.

I think this is Christmas Eve 2002. It became national news pretty quickly. A California man is anxiously waiting to hear word on the mysterious Christmas Eve disappearance of his pregnant wife.

She's considered a high-risk, missing person under suspicious circumstances. I love my daughter so much. I miss her every minute of every day. I started reporting on it right away when she was a missing person that day after Christmas.

“I think that what caught everybody's imagination”

was Lacey Peterson and her picture. People saw this photo of this missing woman with the big smile and the brunette hair. Eight and a half months pregnant. Lacey was last seen by her husband Scott.

When she was walking her dog possibly in the area of East La Loma Park Dry Creek. He saw it in the morning before he went fishing and shortly thereafter. She went on her walk.

No one has seen her sex. The community mobilized immediately. As soon as Lacey disappeared people were helping to search for her. When I got there I was pretty shocked. They already had people making flyers.

I mean they were going door to door they were in the park. Lacey went missing Christmas Eve. She's 27 years old and she is over eight months. I'm not pregnant. Scott Peterson was this good-looking, kind, young husband.

He's about to have a baby. And that's a guy. A lot of people can relate to. And she is carrying their first child. She's just weeks out from birth.

“I mean at this point the baby Connor is viable.”

Had she given birth within days of her disappearance he would have lived. Scott and Lacey Peterson. I mean it's right out of a romance novel. They were both at school together and they met. And she fell ahead over heels in love.

And that was it. They were college sweethearts. Lacey was very headstrong. She was born in Maine. She was a Taurus and she fit the description to it to eat.

Once she made up her mind she was going to do it. And that's all there was to it. There was no change in her mind. Describe your son for me. Describe Scott Peterson.

Because where shall I start? He was a very affectionate. Just a really kind, you know, sweetheal guy.

Never in trouble of any kind.

He's too good to believe. She saw him at the little cafe that he worked at. And more away. And before she left that 80s she had written her phone number down. A piece of paper and given it to the other server to give to Scott.

When he gave it to Scott, Scott just looked at it. He threw it in the garbage because he thought it was kind of a joke. And just he came back. As I said, she wasn't intimidated by anything. How didn't you know you were in love?

Driving along a highway. I remember vividly. And for no reason, I was just... And so big as a mile. And she asked me where...

What the heck reached by little guy. And what I think was the chooseer. When I met him, I was impressed. He was very likable. He was a gentleman.

He was just a very nice person. They were just starting out. They had been married not very long. They had bought the house a couple of years earlier. Lacy was a homemaker.

I mean, she loved to cook. And her home was... And she was fast-duty, doesn't it? You see the photos of them all smiles. Lacy by all accounts was just a bundle of energy.

And it was always concerned about helping other people.

He was a fertilizer salesman. He had a decent job. She's in the cigar club. He's in the wine club. He belongs to the country club.

He wants to be that rich guy with a trophy wife. He was still in his 20s. He was about to turn 30.

“How did Scott feel about the fact that he was going to be a father?”

Very excited. Call us at 7am in the morning when she took the test. And I said, "How do you know?" She said, "I took the test." I said, "Those aren't always accurate."

And she said, "Yes, it is. Yes, it is because they've been... And they tried for three years to have a child." Yes. I remember the last time I saw Lacy.

She and I were sitting inside by side and Scott was sitting in the floor. And we were watching TV and she said, "The baby was kicking.

So I put my hand on her stomach because I'd never felt him."

She leaned over to me and she said, "Mom, she's Scott doesn't like to do this." She said, "I've asked him to feel my stomach when the baby kicks and he never wants to test my stomach." That really, really bothered me.

It seems that when she got pregnant with Connor, things started going sideways.

“It breaks my heart because she was trying so hard to have this perfect home for baby Connor to come into.”

And she had no idea. It was a house built on sand that was sinking quickly. No idea. Law enforcement zone down on Scott immediately. May have been to the detriment of opportunities missed.

Our family has known since the beginning that Scott is innocent. There was a burglary across the streets from the Peterson South, directly across the street. So you have someone who goes missing in this window of time, and you have a felony occurring in this window of time. And so it seems that they're not related.

It's a difficult thing to ignore. We began our media searchers to the car. And she's like, "Well, have you tried cadaver doll?" I mean, it threw me. I'm like, cadaver dolls.

“Scott, I hadn't considered her dead yet.”

In horror movies, the settings are usually quite ordinary. And this is what scares people, the darkest part of their mind. Things that look ordinary and safe may not be. Lacey Peterson was last seen walking her dog about 10-30 on Christmas Eve morning. After that, she simply disappeared.

We started an investigation on the 24th about 5-47 p.m. That's when I heard about it. I didn't know nothing about it until I was having my Christmas Eve dinner when I got the call. And then I drove down.

The first person you focus at in a homicide investigation is a person closest to the victim,

and the last person to see the victim. And because boom boom, we got both of those with Scott. He claims that he woke up in the morning, and he and Lacey had breakfast together. They watched the Martha Stewart show on television. They were together. She ate cereal.

She got dressed. She curled her hair. She put her shoes on. He thought maybe he was going to play golf, but because it was rainy and cold, he decided not to play golf, but to go fishing. She leased up her dog. She walked out her gate, and she went on a walk. Remember, this is December 24th.

Christmas is the next day. They're going to all have a family dinner that night. Scott finished fishing that day at some point in the afternoon, and made a phone call to Lacey. If you had a phone call, I won't be able to get to the villa bars to get that basket for Papa. I hope you knew we'd get the message, and I'd go on out there.

I'll see you in a bit, so you love it, bye. I mean, Scott's telling me, when I interview, I went fishing, and I tried to comb my wife three times. I called her cell phone, I called her house, and I'm driving home from Berkeley, and she ain't answering,

so I'm thinking it's something's up. Then I get home, her car is in the driveway. So, lighter to the back end, but kids became really happy to meet. To get out of the restaurant, which isn't that weird. I can tell that she wasn't at home because it's quiet in the house.

But I just assumed she'd gone over to help her mom with the preparations. He assumed that her mom had come to pick her up. They had plans for dinner that night with her mother, Sharon, and her stepdad, Ron, and so when Scott arrived home, he was not alarmed. So what does he do?

Well, he goes over to the washing machine, he takes all the clothes out, he takes all his clothes off, and washes them, then he gets some pizza out. He drinks some milk and eats some pizza. That's an extra special rush that I have a piece of pizza lives in the shower. What's out of that, I have.

When the bedroom has to rest, it's nice or close. Back in the kitchen, I noticed that there was a message. That was a message from Lacy's stepdad, Ron. Scott asked if Lacy was there. I learned Lacy was missing when Scott called that evening,

and asked if she was up for her house. And of course, I said no. She's not here. And immediately he came back with saying that she was missing.

“And I remember feeling that just a little agitated.”

We've got that word that he used missing. I was like, how can you be missing? She's not missing. Then I asked if he called her friends, called me back again. Nobody had seen her.

That basically became the moment when Scott realized Lacy wasn't where he thought she was.

Sharon said go to the park.

I'm going to meet you later at the airport. Remember running around in the park and yelling her name. She's nothing worse than living up a trash can looking for your child. The safer body is in a trash can. But I remember doing that.

When it's happening to somebody else, you think that's a horrible thing to happen to those people. And you think that you can imagine how they feel. You don't. You have no idea what it's like.

“I mean, everything, everything from that minute on, your life is completely changed.”

She didn't turn up at the park where she would have walked the dog. She was not in the neighborhood. Her body was nowhere. She was nowhere. There was no evidence of a struggle.

The exterior of the house was secure. No evidence of tampering or forced entry. We didn't find any fingerprints that were present in the house that didn't belong there. There was nothing that was missing from the house. TV was still there.

All the normal things that burglars will take quickly so that they can get out of there. So what scenario does that lead? An unknown assailant? Grabs are in a park where there are other people. And spirits are a way.

Typically that is not how an unknown assailant. Murder occurs. The murder goes down the body's left on the sand and bam. The killer's gone. Okay?

So of course, the place start looking at him.

“Well, I suspect it's got what I first met him.”

Didn't mean he did it. But I was a little bit thrown off by his calm, cool demeanor. On Christmas Eve, he was cooperative. In my mind, I'm not even thinking he didn't even. But I am documenting all this stuff.

When we get to his shop to look at his boat, it's got tells me I have no power in the shop. I mean, there's no lights. This shop is in a strip mall. And it's a mill of the night.

There ain't nobody there, it's just us. And so I'm not even thinking that's suspicious. I just, okay, there's no power. Do you mind open in the door? I'll put my headlights in.

I want to look at the boat. So I put my headlights in and I take four or five pictures. You know, of the boat. And then later, I called M.I.D. and I talked to the supervisor to find out

when the power was out for that area.

“He used to the power's number out for that area.”

So he was questioned for over seven hours.

The first night at Lacing at Missing,

continued to talk to police. So when we got to the boat, we took off. We could go very far. Well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. To dump his wife's body in broad daylight, it just defies logic. Whoever has her, please, please, please, let her go.

Bring her back up. We've over so much. Come on. You want her back? Please, come on.

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What do you really want you to do? What do you really want you to do? I want you to do it. That was more of an extension. I was in the morning or something.

I was in love with a vision. Okay. See if you hold them. But stay calm. I've decided to, you know, I have to read it.

I've done a lot of missing person cases, and I don't recall ever asking the husband of the wife to come down to the station and sit through a video now. So today, she told me what she's done to prove today. Yeah.

And what was that? Take the dog for a walk, and then she fled to the store by her. Christmas morning back this time.

He was calm.

His demeanor wasn't urgent.

“He didn't have that sense of urgency that you would expect.”

That you saw from other people. Do you guys, you guys have any problems? A lot of the marriage problems. Are you kidding? You think you're married four years?

Yeah. It just doesn't seem like the guy whose wife is missing. In the initial hours where normally you would think the husband, we would be like, stop talking to me and get out there and find my wife. You know, I didn't do it.

Leave me alone. But he just didn't get something about him in the way he was answering questions. His demeanor was suspicious. Okay, you're going to straighten there. Get your phone in.

How long can you stay in the water? How much? How much?

You have enough for that area.

Wait. I remember asking him about the boat. I asked him to wind it to ride the boat. His answer to that question was, "It was a surprise for Rod." He didn't tell me when he bought it.

It was a surprise for Rod. Which made no sense at all, of course. Those are the kind of answers I would get to questions I asked. Never a straight answer. We began a media search.

We took part in the river areas. Waterways. They can watch the buildings. The abandoned cars, the abandoned barns. I want to make sure that everything's been checked.

Tip lying top number is 34261. The Madasto police had issued a press release that Lacey was missing. And in that press release, they publicized what Scott Alibay was. They said that he was fishing in the San Francisco Bay area. I was absolutely stunned that they had released Scott Alibay.

“And I remember thinking, you know, we don't know who has her.”

We don't know what their intent is. And if their intent is to harm her, they're going to go put her body in the bag. Whoever has her, please, please, please let her go. Bring her back up. We've got her so much.

We've got her. We've got her back. Please. We've got her back. The room is packed.

Then we got the chief up there and talking about her. And the fact that Scott went fishing, and man, the hands start come up. He went fishing, where do you go fishing at? And he got off the walk down. Scott did.

And so we obtained a search warrant for his house. And we went in and he was reading the newspaper at the dining room table. So we give him this form and it says, I give consent for us to search all that stuff. And all he has to do is sign it. And we could search.

And he picks it up. He reads it.

“He's like, you don't expect me to sign this without lawyer, man.”

Well, we weren't sure, but we have a search warrant. And he's like, he looks at what he says to me. Where's the trust? I mean, that's what he says to me. Where's the trust?

Scott Peterson wanted to give off the impression that he was being completely forthcoming and helpful to the police. But there were lines that he drew.

Scott was always in the background.

He was adamant that his photo not be put on posters, that pictures of him not be taken. He didn't want to do their picture at all. Everything of her and him had to come down off the wall. It only could be pictures of her.

And he, but the way he took it down his wall. I'm thinking of this. We had this wall in there when you first walk in. There was this wall and we had pictures of her everywhere. And he would make sure every picture of him was down off the wall.

Daily. Daily. We would put more up. They would come down. Let me go to you, Jackie Peterson.

Where is Scott tonight? I would imagine he would be out begging the viewers to help in the search for his wife. He is, and he has, and he is with friends this evening that have been searching all day.

There is a lot of questions on why I have not been in the news. I have not been in the media. Media will put, I believe. The emotional stuff out there for a couple days. And then the story will get dropped for something else.

There's our thoughts that if I was to hold back from the media. The media will continue to come because, frankly, cameras reporters, they want something they, they can't get right away. This was our way of keeping the media coming back for us.

He's as smooth as they get. He's cool. He doesn't seem to get rattled. He seems authentic. So many people say Christmas Eve. You have a very pregnant wife.

And you decide to go fishing? My day was open to, you know, like offering a fishing. I chose fishing that day which was, you know, choice I made tonight.

You know, like just decided to stay home.

That's what happened. It was nervous. He was under the spotlight. He was being questioned. And he hid a terrible secret. Well, a base search has started.

I believe it was the end of December. They're about, they were also doing searches in the freshwater reservoirs up in the sea areas. But when it came to the base searches, that was pretty widely publicized.

Because Scott had maintained that, you know, his alibi was he went fishing, you know, at the Berkeley Marina launching his boat. He said he went to the bay. He had proof he went to the bay.

We believe she was in the bay. So we're searching the bay. So to believe that Scott's guilty,

“you have to believe that someone bought a brand new boat”

that they've never had in the water before.

And then took this boat to the busiest Marina on the San Francisco bay, you know, to dump his wife's body and broad daylight. It just defies logic. I'm a very cynical person when it comes to spousal mystery.

I always blame the husband. And I am almost always right. I start with the presumption that the husband did it. But they were alternative theories. One issue was kidnapped by a satanic called

another one was a burglary that was across the street from the Peterson home. You had a neighbor, Diane Jackson, who saw three men in a van. In front of the Medina home on December 24th

at about 11.40 in the morning. I was coming down Colvina towards the park, going past Lacey on one side, and Medina's on the other. And I just looked over and there were three guys

on Medina's property and a van out front. And the only reason it caught my eye

“is that they turned around looked at me.”

Sort of made me feel a little bit uncomfortable. When this information came out, immediately there was a sense that, okay, maybe Lacey who was walking the dog came across this burglary,

and that's what happened to her. This was a viable explanation. Maybe she could front to the burglars, something happened, and they kicked after. We caught the guys that went in there and broke into that house

and interviewed them and they talked about the abduction. They said, "We don't want our hands are clean on that." Also, there were people who say they saw her, walking her dog at a time after Scott Peterson left to go fishing.

And if so, then, obviously, she wasn't dead in the back of his truck when he left. We had a tip line up 24/7. As far as the tips are concerned, some of the people who actually saw Lacey

that they should have talked to, they never did talk to.

So, these are the people who were calling in. Responding to the police. People are seeing Lacey walk the dog after he left. The mother asked to police department

“or the investigators that never came to us, we anything.”

On the day after Christmas, when I, after I talked to the motorcycle policeman and gave him my statement that I had seen the dog in the park, nothing was followed up after that. They just figured people who knew better than I

and knew more about the case had pretty much made a decision that what I had to say wasn't all that relevant. Anyone saw her after 10 o'clock. Then, that let Scott out. And that would be horribly inconvenient.

You've done the best of the police department after we've met. We have no idea who killed this beautiful pregnant woman. We actually found the pregnant lady with a golden retriever that walked her dog on that day.

The conclusion was that was not Lacey and McKinsey. It appears that the description was somewhat different and we're not sure it was her. And yet, at the same time,

they're having press conferences and they're saying we cannot confirm she was walking the dog. So they're creating a public perception that Lacey didn't walk her dog,

which leaves them free to say that Scott was the last person to see his wife alive. I mean, it's sure the police needed to look at other possibilities, but they needed to stay on Scott.

They needed to do what they did. I spent a great deal of time with the police and then forth kind of with the police, in every instance. Is it possible they thank you,

know where she is? I think a lot of people believe that. Are you afraid police will arrest you? No. I know there's no basis.

I don't know where to do where it appears. So there's no possible evidence or anything like that. There's absolutely no physical evidence at all that Scott committed this crime.

We pretty much dealt with all of the Satanic cults,

The only thing we couldn't eliminate was Scott.

I'm Lacey's mother and Scott's mother and I want to thank all of you for the love that I've pointed out. So now there's a big memorial for Lacey and the Modesto. Can't lie memorial. I thank everybody for coming out here tonight.

Lacey would be so happy this year. She had so many friends and some quarters. And just keep looking for Lacey. They sound cute about it. There were a lot of people who came to that vigil in the park.

Lord, tonight we lift Lacey Peters and Teeth father. I do remember I didn't see Scott's entire evening. He was there apparently, but I didn't see him.

“The only thing I saw were the pictures in the media from him that night.”

Never saw him. They asked about the candlelight vigil that we held in the park. And they asked why weren't you on that stage with the family? And frankly, because this is about us to be out in front of the camera. It's about us to work towards bringing home the one person who's written the most of them.

Peace for our families missing right now. We are kindling a fire in this cold world full of hatred and selfishness. Our little place may seem to be unveiling. There's a vigil going on for Lacey, a candlelight vigil. And I said, "Well, where's the husband?"

Well, I'll tell you where he was. He was off in the corner talking on the phone to his mistress, Amber Fraud. And she recorded it.

“And the great thing is that I'm the only one who's been there.”

I'm the only one who's been there. Earlier this week, the Minister Police Department was made aware of an article that was to appear in the National Equate Enquirer, revealing new information regarding Lacey's case. Out of respect for the family, the Police Department felt they should provide the information to them directly, so they wouldn't have to read it in the media.

At that time, the family members were shown very recent pictures of Scott and a girl friend.

Okay, first of all, I met Scott Peterson, November 20th, 2002.

Scott told me he was not married. We did have a romantic relationship. I am very sorry for Lacey's family. And the pain that this has caused them and I pray for her safe return as well. Amber Fraud contacted Minister Police Department on Monday, December 30th, 2002.

She met with the tactics of giving the information about the relationship with Scott Peterson. And Amber Fraud has been eliminated as the suspect in Lacey Peterson disappearance. Amber Fraud was a single mother who was fixed up with Scott Peterson through a friend. She was his girlfriend, and she thought she had met the man of her dreams. I was just starting my career in massage therapy.

My daughter was very young, very small, and a single mother. He was good-looking. He was nice. He was funny and attentive to me. I feel like we had a connection that conversation was easy. He was courting her. They had a whirlwind romance in the few weeks they knew each other.

On the very first night, Scott meets her at the hotel.

And basically he smoothed, but he gets her to go upstairs with them. Just for he can take it quick shower and change, and then they can go to dinner well. Upstairs is, I don't know, four or five dozen roses and chocolate strawberries and champagne. That was the start of the relationship. When you look forward to hearing from somebody and seeing them again,

and that excitement there, and you could, you know, it all felt very good. She really thought she had missed a ride. I really liked him, and felt really good about where things were going, and our conversations and time spent together. Unfortunately, Scott had an infidelity problem, and he traveled in conjunction with his work,

and that created opportunity for him, and his own words are that he was weak.

“You remember an asking him if he had ever been married? He said, "No."”

But that wasn't true, of course.

and confronted him and said, "If you don't tell Amber, I will." So Scott did tell Amber.

“Scott knew Amber for 16 days when he got caught being married.”

He was very emotional, and said that this would be the first holidays without her.

And he was crying at that point. I took it as she died, didn't know how if, you know, an accident or cancer. I had no idea. I didn't pry to ask. He just said it was painful, and so I'd asked if he was ready for a relationship. Like, and he said yes.

She was obviously a girl who had been duped. She was a girl that thought she was going to meet an ice guy, and the ice guy turned out to be Scott Peterson, who was a married man with a missing wife, who, you know, took it to another level in terms of deceit. She didn't know about Scott and Lacey missing until her friend told her,

"Hey, that guy you brought to the Christmas party is on TV every day." And so I went to the other room and called the Modesto Police Department hotline that they had. I was in shock.

I mean, I literally was in shock.

I'm standing behind our clerk, and she's typing, and I'm watching,

“and it's, Scott Peterson is my boyfriend. We've been dating exclusively,”

said he wasn't married, and I'm like, "Bab, is that lady on the phone?" Yeah, and so I talked to her, and I was Amber Fryan. Couldn't get any words out for a while. And I was like, "It is him. Like, this is him." I'm like, "Okay, don't go nowhere. I'm going to come visit you right now."

Amber Fryan started cooperating with police. As soon as she learned that the man of her dreams was really a married man who's wife had disappeared, and he had been lying to her all along. I buy her a tape recorder with some cassette tapes and a wire that can hook onto her phone, and I tell her, "Okay, he ever calls."

Just pushed through. These two buttons, and just talk normal. Phone rings, and it's Scott Peterson. I'm like, "That's him." Showtime girl. Ever. Hey. Happy New Year.

I'm going to call you. Thank you. What they heard on December 31st, 2002, was a Scott Peterson, who, while a candlelight vigil is being held for his missing wife, and he's attending it, is also on the phone with Amber Fryan, being recorded unbeknownst to him, telling her that he's in Europe.

I'm like, "You're the apple tower. Me and somebody's in the real. Get the card. It's huge." The card's huge. He was right down the street, where the vigil was taking place. It was incredibly bizarre.

This guy's wife is missing. The entire country is looking for her, and he's not only keeping his girlfriend at bay. He's entertaining her with these outlandish lies. Think about this.

If his wife comes back, and everyone in the world knows that Scott was cheating with Amber Fryan, he's tearing his family. It's like the end of his family. The last thing that he wants, innocent our guilty is for Amber Fryan to get involved,

and he would have told her anything. He was said he was in Borneo on an expedition if it kept her away. I can't remember the area here. It's not really that long, but I'll jot down the links

where she's going to need to then. And I'll picture you back from. Yeah, I don't even know where each is out there. No. No, I don't even know.

I don't like the times, and really some pain. It says, you know. I'm in the hospital now. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to be there.

Amber Fryan was critical to the case,

because she provides a motive for why now? Why is he killing his wife now? It was almost like, ah, ha! He killed Gracie to be with this woman. Instantly, as soon as Amber Fryan showed up,

people are like, he's guilty. He is guilty. For me, I was the opposite. I thought, oh my gosh, this explains it. This is not a killer. He's a cheater. It wasn't just that he'd had it affair.

It was that he was continuing to pretend as if his wife wasn't missing. You were more worried about her than you were lazy. How dare you? To commit a crime like this,

“you have to have a screw loose at the very least,”

and those Amber Fryan tapes made it seem like Scott Peterson has a screw loose.

Scott, what are you doing?

Scott, what are you doing? Scott, what are you doing? Scott, what are you doing? He now is enemy number one. Everybody hates Scott Pierce.

Did you murder your wife? My name is Janey Peterson. My brother, Scott,

“has been on death row in California since 2005.”

So ever since that time, we've just consistently taken every step that we can take to prove he's innocent. Our family was. It was very surprised and disappointed

to find out that Scott had been unfathomable to lazy.

Oh, all of a sudden, Amber Fryan lays out her story to the world. Amber Fryan prepared to give us statement and she will a lot accepted me. Questions, Ms. Amber Fryan.

The story gets elevated from a media perspective when Amber Fryan comes out. I literally was having a panic attack and I was like, I can't breathe. When I discovered he was involved in the disappear

the lazy Peterson disappearance of case, I immediately contacted the Medes Jovelies department. It was just so scary because I'm putting myself out there. I am a single mother,

about 23-month-old child. And I asked her to respect my privacy. Thank you. The press conference was short. She didn't answer any questions,

“but she was a sympathetic and credible person.”

That changed everything. Not only changed it for at least his family, but also it just ignited the media firestorm and took it to a whole another level. She's asked to have her privacy respected.

We are going to do that. We're not going to comment about Amber for private life. Amber wants to be able to go on with her life. It was so hard. The media was labeling me as the mistress.

And I was pretty much out there on my own from months. Read as like a story to solicit an emotion from them. Love, height, anger, sadness. And unfortunately, this was one case that provided all of that. The roaches turned on Scott.

They closed the volunteer center down. And then they said that Scott was not truthful and they were urging him to come out and tell the truth about everything. I would like Scott to know that I trusted him

and stood by him in the initial phases of my sister's disappearance. However, Scott has not been forthcoming with information regarding my sister's disappearance. And I'm only left to question what else he may be hiding. To make you think that indeed he may have had something to do with what happened to Lisa.

“I think it raises questions for all of us.”

Scott needs to come forward and answer the questions that are put to happen. Once Amber Fry came out, suddenly Scott Petersen had a lot of explains. He's got anything to say. Scott, is there anything you want to say today? It was a tsunami.

Yeah, a frenzy. He was the most hated man in America at that time. He started receiving a lot of animosity from the public in general, from media. He was on the tabloids every week. Yeah, I understand. He was virtually run out of town.

Yeah, he got a second, Scott.

He had media following him. He was taking a holy lunch rest. Hounding him every day. He had such a shock. Lined up in front of his house with bull horns. He was screaming murderers. I can nobody saw it, the birthday marina.

And nobody saw Lacy walking the dog. He was tired of the tabloids and the networks and everybody. Hounding him wherever he went. I'm sorry. This has been naturalism. We apologize, Scott. We're asking questions about all the untrust you told.

So when you heard that he was seeing another woman, what did you think? What do you think now? Well, it was surprising. It was disappointing. But I mean, that's the reality of life men have affairs. Women have affairs.

When there were eight and a half months pregnant? Probably more than men do. We've learned that I had no idea. What was it like to realize that your insinuity may have to be a role in the search.

So that I'll die with that.

And I've realized the search for it is my fault.

So that's just that so much to what I do. He has to die knowing that everyone stopped looking for Lacy because he was having an affair. The entire country thought that he was guilty and responsible for Lacy's disappearance.

So the Peterson family urged him to get out there, do some interviews, and get people looking for Lacy again. I am going to speak to the press. It's coming weeks. And if they don't win, it should be done. Because today is the state of the union address

and I want Maxwell coverage. This morning, an exclusive interview with Scott Peterson breaking his silence in the case of his missing, pregnant wife.

“I think everybody's sitting in home once the answer”

to the same question. Did you murder your wife? No, no. I just don't. And I absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance. You use the word murder.

And right now, everyone's looking for a body. And that's a hard of saying because that is not a possible resolution for us. And I know that suspicion has turned me because of the inappropriate, romantic

that I had with Amrified it. Did your wife find out about it? I told my wife. Why didn't you early December? A lot of arguing?

No, that would break us apart. There wasn't a lot of anger. No. Do you really expect people to believe

“that an 8 and a half month pregnant woman learns”

her husband is having a fair and distinctly and casual about her? A comidating makes a peace with it? Well, yeah, you don't know. No one knows our relationship with us.

There's no way that Lisa and you about it and would not have told us. Not all of us, but one of us and said, "Oh, my God, I need to leave Scott." That would be okay.

And be okay with it. I don't buy it. I don't buy that one at all. We make no excuse for Scott's behavior in that sense. We make no excuse for the things that he said to Amr

but unfortunately a lot of that is being used to convict him a murder.

“And really, what all of that is is evidence of adultery.”

There was one report that a neighbor had seen you loading something into a vehicle. I'll have to stop if you ask for more detailed questions about their investigation. I knew he had killed her.

I knew she was dead.

I'll never know what happened.

I know that, but I needed to have her back. That was so important to me. I just needed to have her back. And that was one of the things that was just so absolutely frustrating because you know somebody knows where she is, but he won't die.

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The police always believed that Scott Peterson had waited down Lacey's body with anchors that he made.

But she broke free of the anchors because of the storm. On Monday, a badly decomposed adult torso was found in a marina in Richmond, California. Not far from where Scott Peterson said he had been fishing.

On my way, I'm not the businessman to discover the body of an unborn baby boy. My understanding is that making arrangements to have the autopsy perform this evening. I knew that they were hoping to find Lacey. You know, they felt that if we had her body, then they would be able to arrest him and move forward. And I was very concerned about that.

She never appeared that maybe they wouldn't be able to arrest him.

Maybe they wouldn't be able to prosecute him. Not enough evidence.

“What can you tell us about what the desto police have gathered so far from the body?”

We're still trying to find out the identity of the body. And one of the key questions we're trying to answer right now is whether or not there's any relationship between the adult female and the baby male. That was found from two days ago. It's not knowing. It's just unbearable.

He says I came out of the Berkeley Marina went right to that Brooks Island. There was a sign there that said no landing. I mean, he told me he was there and that's where the bodies come up.

I believe it was premeditated. He planned it.

When the bodies came up, what it did is it it automatically injected a big sense of urgency in the case. I just thought we got to find Scott right now. We knew he was in San Diego at the time. Did have a tracker on his car down there?

“San Diego was pretty darn close to the Mexican border.”

Scott knew the area pretty well. I mean, that's where his parents lived. That's where he lived. So it wasn't like he was going to have to get on map quests and try and figure out a way to get to, you know, Tijuana. So I was concerned that he was going to disappear before they had the opportunity to arrest him.

Scott is driving all over San Diego area, driving quickly.

He was driving 80 miles now in a freeway and he would slam his brakes on and pull over.

I mean, he got to the point where we had a helicopter with Washington. I mean, he was driving so erratically and abacibly. They were unmarked vehicles. No one was attempting to pull him over. He thought he was being followed by members of the media. He probably spent three and a half to four hours driving around.

Trying to shake him.

“We need to end this. We need to take him in custody.”

Even though we don't yet have the DNA results. And that's when Scott was by the exit to Tory Pines. And they turned on the red blue lights and stopped him right there at the entrance. When Scott realized it was law enforcement, he immediately pulled over. And was arrested.

Earlier this week, he's Bay Park authorities discovered two bodies. There is no question in our minds that the unidentified female is Lacy Peterson. The unidentified fetus is the biological child of Lacy and Scott Peterson. I don't feel that I need to know what happened exactly what happened. That is not going to make me feel better in any way knowing exactly what happened.

But I didn't need her to come home. This is a tragedy that is affecting many lives. Scott Peterson has been arrested. There are no other suspects in this case. We ended up finding out on the news, or not only finding out that he's arrested. We're also finding out that Lacy and Scott are gone.

So it was a tough, tough, shocking day. I went out once a vehicle was there to do the inventory search on it. And it's just a whole bunch of stuff in the corner. Guy had like, I don't know, $14, $15,000 cash. He had his brother's ID. He has camping supplies, some ropes, some knives, 15 pairs of shoes, and hiking boots,

my shovel, and fishing poles. Scott Peterson couldn't have done anything to make himself seem more guilty. Then to die his hair, have some disguises at a ton of cash. Anywhere near the Mexican border. He has not disguising himself to evade law enforcement.

He had a lot of things in his vehicle. He pretty much became nomadic. At the point of arrest, your hair color had changed. And what was your objective in color in your hair? Oh, I wanted to answer many, you know, I was truthful.

There's been reckless tons of orange and shoes. It had people still meet, so yeah, I changed my hair color. I wasn't recognized as it was, apparently. They seem kind of profound in a Sunday to Monday. And Scott was the rest of my Friday.

It'd just be great, sir. He will be a book end of the Stanley Flush County gel when he arrives. He'll be charged with capital murder. Once we heard that Scott had been taken into custody, hundreds of people started to gather around the jail.

And by the time he pulled up, it was an incredible scene.

There were people yelling. He pulled up, he's in the backseat of this unmarked car. Suddenly a sleepy, sluggish little talent, Modesto, is transformed into a media circus. We will seek justice for her and Connor,

and make sure that that person responsible for their discipline. That for their deaths will be punished.

“I think the fact that there has been this much media attention”

cuts both ways. Where are you going to go to find somebody that hasn't heard about this case? I would hope there's a fair trial wherever it's held. More people believe that the moon landing was faked than believe that Scott Peterson was innocent.

That's what we were up against here. The trial began on June 1st, 2004, with opening statements. This was a big day.

It will report his crawling all over each other.

They'll do a satellite trucks every month. This was a huge story for hundreds of miles of cable strewn all over the place. We were going every day because people were watching. He wants him to fight and do this to his wife, the child.

And there's somebody out there still. People forget that the preliminary hearing in this case was televised. But the case itself. No cameras.

“There were hundreds of people there every day.”

In fact, they had to have a lottery for the public seats to see who could get into watch, the trial that they announced the numbers like a bingo game. Four or five nights. And people would like it.

We got some going into the day.

There were local radio stations that had taken out billboards

around the courthouse that had people vote man or monster. It reminded me of something out of the Jim Crow song. Just because of the lynching mentality of... Margueros. The high profile of the journey has been a frequent guest now.

Margueros is as about flying buoyant. Oh, well, here's you can imagine. The people who know have best believed totally unequivocally in this young man's innocence. Margueros owns a courtroom, right?

He's got a lot of self-confidence. And he's got a swagger.

“And I think it's only a matter of time before we're able”

to turn America's head around. And you have a lot of high profile clients. So it was a big deal that, you know, the celebrity lawyer was now defending Scott Peterson. I think everybody helps me not to take the case

because they said it was a no-win situation. The thinking was, if you win the case, you're a pariah. If you lose the case, your career is over. Is that correct, Mr. Peterson?

You're feeding not billions of two charges of murder, plus these special, and denying these special allegations. That's correct, got it. When you got to see Scott Peterson in person, in court, there's no way that this guy was guilty of this heinous crime.

Attractive, handsome, charming. It just did not drive with the concept of the brutal nature of the double killing in this case. I looked at him and I said, "My God, he's the same age as my old son."

And so this poor kid, what he must be going through right now, if he's innocent. Scott did not look like a killer. That was one of the things we talked to the jury about during jury selection because we had to overcome that,

you know, what does a killer look like? The strongest argument for the defense in my mind is that someone else yet to be found committed this crime. The most likely thing that happened is that she was abducted

and she was abducted by someone other than my client and that she was abducted while walking her dog. On the 24th, the neighbors across the street left their home to go to Los Angeles. Someone robbed their home.

This was right across the street from the Peterson house. And maybe they were carrying a TV set into the van, something like that. And she says, "Hey, what are you doing there? I'm calling the police."

And they panic. And they grab her. Dog gets loose, runs away. They put her in a van. And it's a stupid panicky thing to do, but they do it.

If I'm a defense attorney, and I've got a burglar across the street within 24 hours of the time my client's wife goes missing in our home,

So the defense in this case was that, Scott Peterson didn't do it.

Basically, the wrong guy is on trial.

He didn't do it.

“It's all these little things that kind of add it up”

to where you really had to sit back and think, "Okay, wait a second, something's not right here." This is all about building doubt. So if there are enough doubts that are put out there, maybe a juror will think,

"Okay, the prosecutor has not proved his case." I believe very strongly in my heart that she was taken off the street that day by the people who were involved in the burglar in the house. I know from my own experiences with Scott

and from the evidence in this case that that is a much more likely scenario than Scott having murdered his wife. When it came time for the defense case to start, everyone was expecting all this evidence to come forward

and very little of it did. There was too much reasonable doubt, especially in my mind. The burglar he should have been looked at a lot stronger.

“He should have been the defense's number one thing”

and they should have really put a lot more evidence out on that.

Worker goes never certainly proved

in any way shape or form that there was an abduction. I thought one way I thought basically innocent for a long time and then it started going shifting the other way. I expect that I will be asked to testify. In this case, and I am prepared to do so.

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Defense is asked for a movie. Claiming prosecutors have been too slow to turn over evidence. The day is time. I mean, we all know he had an affair. That's not the issue here.

The issue is about Lacy and I don't think the two are connected whatsoever. Actually, let's call for speculation that borders on the moon across. The defense blames pre-trial publicity for tainting the San Mateo County. There was no evidence whatsoever. Other than circumstantial evidence, and the problem in this case was the interpretation

the Medesto police put on the circumstantial evidence was just incorrect. They had a motive. They had means for sure. They had opportunity. What they didn't have was a lot of forensics.

They looked at his computer use. And they saw that he was looking at the currents in San Francisco Bay. Scott would say, and he wanted to know what the currents would be. If you look at it through a different lens, it's because he's going to drop his dead white body there.

Their forensic computer expert conceded that Lacy had access the computer on the morning of the 24th. Someone was on the computer in the house, looking at sunflower umbrellas and another shopping site. Clearly, that was Lacy, right?

Or it was Scott pretending to be Lacy. In the warehouse where he stored the boat, it believed that he made these homemade anchors and probably attached them to her body so she would sink on the bay.

Four anchors, 40 pounds, will never sink that body.

That body would have just flowed away.

“Then the question becomes, how do the bodies get to the Berkeley Marina?”

And that one to tell me is the easiest one. I think the burglars are probably initially panicked, kept there for a while. And then the realization hits them that they can't let her live because now they've committed kidnapping. And now we're not talking about a burglary for a year or two in jail.

We're talking about, you know, life and prison. And so they say, "We've got to get rid of her." And so I said, "Yeah, but what do we do with the body?" And they say, "Hey, you know what? Everybody in the country knows that Scott Peterson went to the Berkeley Marina.

That was the one smart thing that they came up with.

The babies here require such logical leaps. That it's just not credible. It's either someone actively framed Scott Peterson after kidnapping his eight-month pregnant wife. Or he did it.

That's it. This has to be debated since I've ever heard of.

“I mean, I guess I mean, you predicted your wife would you think?”

On August 10th, when Amber Fry started her testimony and those recordings started to play, it was a turning point for the prosecution. From the moment I learned the truth, it wasn't about me. It was about a missing pregnant woman.

There was an information that I had that nobody knew or heard. Amber Fry and those tapes totally turned the case upside down. And it's some Scott Peterson.

The jury was absolutely taken aback by those tapes.

And you could feel the entire trial shift during that four or five day period. Scott realized that as soon as it came out that it was Amber, the whole best were off. Oh yes, you said you'd lost your wife. No, obviously without me saying much.

But we were gone. I said that last my wife. Yes, you did. I did. And yes.

How did you lose her that before she was lost? Explain that. It's a different kind of mind. The guy supposedly out there searching desperately to find his missing wife.

And he's telling his girlfriend he lost his wife. That's tough. He's a testimony overcome. The prosecution couldn't tell you when this happened. They couldn't tell you where it happened.

They couldn't tell you how it happened.

“The only thing they could do was just say Scott Peterson's a bad person.”

We live in a day and age of CSI and forensics and timeline. And nobody does that with this crime. It's just he did it. He was a dirt bag of adulterer and he did it. And that's not good enough.

That's not good enough. I do not believe that Scott Peterson killed his wife. No. I certainly don't believe that anybody proved that in the trial. I absolutely don't believe that.

The media attention and the atmosphere at the courthouse. Wasn't the problem for Scott Peterson. The problem was the evidence. The problem was Amber Fraud. The problem was where the bodies were found.

So that was the problem for Scott Peterson.

You never know one of the things about a jury trials.

And then you're sitting there waiting. Your heart is pounding. Mr. Forkerson, this is my understanding. The jury is right. They're already in this case.

Yeah.

“So here we are at five minutes after the hour of four o'clock.”

We are awaiting this audio feedback of this verdict. He's guilty. There were throngs around the courthouse. The people holding up signs. The people yelling murderer.

It is just a very difficult tent moment outside of that courthouse for everyone involved. Thirty years to life. If there is a conviction in this case. At this point, the whole world had decided. Scott Peterson's guilty.

I fought the best result possible in this case. We'd be a hunter. After a five-month jury trial. 180 witnesses. Hundreds of pieces of evidence admitted.

But for the jury to consider. After all that, the jury concluded very quickly. You can look at it. One of two ways. Either they say the prosecution didn't prove it or.

Of course. He's the one that didn't. And we're going to find him guilty. We'll find out in matter moments. One of the things about a jury trials.

Man, when you're sitting there waiting. Your heart is pounding. None of the witnesses were attached to Friday. Being put in a hole in the courthouse. And while I was like, he's you.

Really. And it was perfect. I was so expecting that. There's a whole med day. It's not like that.

We're going to have to go back to. You know. You know. You know. There were definite butterflies.

When we got word that there was a verdict. There were hundreds of people outside the courthouse. To listening to the verdict, which was being broadcast from the court room. Okay. I'm understanding that the jury is entering the court room right now.

Just a four person.

“The smile understanding that the jury is arriving at the verdict.”

In this case, that's right. When you're waiting, it just seems like it takes so long to spit. Just spit it out. State of California versus Scott Peterson. As the verdict was being read, it was dead silence.

With a jury in the Bob and Tyler Cause, find a dependent Scott Lee Peterson guilty of the crime of murder of Lacey Denise Peterson. [crowd cheering]

After almost two years, the verdict has been read and Scott Peterson has been found guilty of first

degree murder. That comes with death penalty or life without the loyalty of second degree murder with regard to his unborn child. Baby Connor 15 years to life. The penalty phase, according to judge, will start in less than a week. I still hear the voice. I mean, the guilty guilty.

It's a crime. It was a relief. It was a sigh of relief. We were bawling. It was like I've been holding my breath for two years here almost.

And yeah, when I heard the verdict, it was just an all the emotions come out. I mean, because like I said, it's like we've been holding your breath and holding everything in all this time and then boom. And then okay, it's dead, it's dead.

“Hugs, tears in front of me and the wrong one front of me, right?”

The roadchairs and Lacey's friends. As the verdicts are being read and I'm making all these observations around the courtroom, I'm looking at Scott Peterson too. And I don't see any emotion. I see nothing. I can't hope you want to see.

You have a second five and you realize what they're doing.

Huh? You've already had no wrongness once. There was gasps from the defense side just like, they couldn't believe it. They absolutely could not believe it. You could see it. They just, they were stunned.

When they actually announced the verdict, I thought that I just didn't hear the word not. I thought maybe, you know, I just missed it. We were completely shocked and numb just numb.

I'm haunted by the very dull time. This is what you crave as a lawyer. The opportunity to prove an innocent man innocent. And given that opportunity, I fail. [applause]

Thank God! I know that millions of people in this country were praying for justice. I think there was justice today with the jury's verdict. And the Peterson family, when they left the courthouse, haven't just heard that their loved one was found guilty.

The crowd was jeering and haunting them. We were kind of a little taken back by that they were going to provide us the nest court to walk us to our car and it kind of made us think, "Whoa, what's out there?" It was like the Roman Coliseum.

It was obscene. This is a court house. And people were cheering and screaming and hugging each other. This is a tragedy all the way around. What are we celebrating here?

I just remember in my head thinking that they have no idea. They have no idea.

“That's the only thing I remember thinking.”

This trial is not over. There's going to be a penalty phase. A week from Monday, this jury will begin to consider whether on Scott Peterson lives or dies for the murder of his wife and child.

The sentencing was actually the close call. I think many believe there was a real chance for Scott Peterson to get life in prison instead of the death penalty. What convinced you to choose the sentence of death? I played in my mind over and over conspiracy.

Was somebody trying to set up Scott? Was somebody after Lacy? It didn't add up for me. For her to be where she was found and to go through with but seemed to be in the end to me a charade.

It just wasn't. It wasn't fair. What an nightmare. It hasn't changed. It's still a nightmare.

It should never have happened.

It's hard too many people for no reason. But just as was served.

Obviously, we plan on pursuing every and all appeals.

“I don't think anybody who sat in that courtroom”

could think that they'd put on case beyond a reasonable doubt. However, it didn't matter what the rational facts were. It didn't matter what the evidence was.

It's hard to convey to somebody who wasn't there at the time. What was going on in 2004? And the hatred and vitriol that was directed towards Scott Peterson. I don't care. I just know he's guilty.

That was the feeling. Guess what, Scotty? Sam Quinn's your new home. And it's illegal to kill your wife and child in California. The one thing that happened right at the end of the trial.

Had been called into the Medesto Police from a lieutenant uponte at Norco Prison. He overheard one of the people in the jail. One of the inmates telling somebody on the phone who was outside, they had brought up Lacey Peterson's name.

This is something that you want to say. It's just how frustrated that day and with people say that I was last one to see Lacey that day because there's so many ways in this. It's our walkier than in the afternoon after I left.

This case is driven by headline narratives. To have a case that's been this highly publicized, to have people have such a small understanding of what happened on this day is it's profoundly frustrating. Right now with the Peterson case, there are essentially two different tricks.

The first track is the death penalty part of the trial. That has been overturned. We are getting ready to do a subsequent retry of the death penalty phase. There's a second track, however, to determine whether or not the entire case gets retried.

Scott Peterson is up for appeal and probably his strongest most compelling arguments to get this conviction overturn is jury misconduct. Turns out, one of the jurors did not disclose how to get a restraining order against someone in connection with her being pregnant

and being concerned about her baby. Little man was the hardest for me.

“Little man, that's what I call him, Connor.”

It's a pretty relevant detail in a case like this.

When I was filling out that application, my situation never came to my mind.

Peterson appealed his case to the California Supreme Court, the idea of reasons that the conviction should be overturned. The High Court ordered the trial court to reconsider just one issue. That question about potential jurors' content. You know, I think about it.

I don't know what a jury or an appeals court is going to do, but it's out of my control. I hope it doesn't come to that. It is difficult as it is to think about sitting through another trial or prepared for another trial.

If we're allowed to put on the evidence in this case, and we're able to show the jury everything that's out there, I'm very confident Scott will be found not guilty. Some of it includes what's known is the aponte tip. The tip had been called into the Modesto Police

from a lieutenant aponte at Norco Prison. He overheard one of the people in the jail, one of the inmates, telling somebody on the phone who was outside, they had brought up Lacey Peterson's name. The aponte tip was in discovery.

“I believe we sent our investigator down to interview Lieutenant”

Aponte, who confirmed.

At first he said the inmates claimed he'd heard that Lacey

had seen one of the burglars and the burglars at Thrender. Aponte later backtracked on the details of that call. We were going to call him in as a witness, and he changed his story, and he started saying, "Wow, I don't really know what I heard."

He started backing off everything. We are going to call him in this trial. We're going to read the declaration. Let the jury see what he signed him. Well, they only have to get reasonable doubt.

This is far from a smoke and gone. When I want the public to know in this trial, this coming trial is just at the evidence. Don't go on a motion on this. Give us a shot.

It's rare in life if you get a second chance.

It's taken 18 years for Scott sitting in a jail cell. I'm ready to go back to court. Let's do it again. I'd be ready to testify. I'd go back out again, because he deserves to be where he is.

I'll have to go through a trial again. Of course, it'd be excruciating.

And I'm sure you'll find him guilty again.

Scott Peterson is still in prison,

but no longer on death row.

“That death sentence, as you heard, overturn,”

pending a retrial on the penalty phase.

And now the Peterson defense team is asking the court to begin again

“to retry the lazy Peterson case from the beginning.”

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