Convicted killer Scott Peterson is back in the news. Once again, he’s claiming his innocence and you can watch it all unfold from the comfort of your own home.
Peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his pregnant wife Laci or their unborn son, Conner. The case made national headlines.
Peterson returned to the headlines this year after the Los Angeles Innocence Project announced it would take up his latest appeal.
Peterson is now breaking his silence after two decades in a “Face to Face with Scott Peterson” interview now streaming on Peacock.
His bombshell interview is once again a platform for him to claim his innocence.
Peterson, who has always maintained his innocence despite a conviction at trial and two decades of failed appeals, is still hoping he can convince a court he didn’t kill Laci, who was 8 months pregnant with their son Conner.
“If I have a chance to show people what the truth is, and if they are willing to accept it, it would be the biggest thing that I can accomplish right now,” Peterson claims in the interview. “Because I didn’t kill my family.”
However, during his original trial prosecutors revealed a slew of evidence against him.
He had been arrested near the Mexico border with bleached hair carrying thousands of dollars in cash and his brother’s passport.
Peterson has also floated the possibility that the men responsible for a burglary across the street from the Modesto home he shared with Laci were responsible for her death. However, prosecutors say the burglary happened two days after she was reported missing.
Investigators also poked holes in his alibi. He claimed to have gone fishing in Berkeley, where a police K9 unit picked up Laci’s scent at a boat ramp. They also found her hair in the teeth of a pair of needle-nose pliers they found on his boat.
When an officer asked him what he was fishing for and with what bait, he allegedly mumbled an answer, walked outside, slammed a flashlight on the ground and said “F—.”
Both her remains and Conner’s washed up separately in the body of water in April 2003.
Laci was missing her head and three limbs. A forensic pathologist determined she had not been dismembered, but her body likely came apart due to the marine conditions after being anchored down.
Prosecutors argued that the homemade concrete anchor Peterson used for his boat would have been easily duplicated. They suggested he made more and used them to try and hold his wife’s body on the seafloor.
Despite his new appeal, experts believe Peterson’s interview will not help him.
“Peterson’s lawyers are probably unhappy he did the Peacock interview,” said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor practicing privately in Los Angeles. “It’s unlikely he’ll get a new trial because there was so much circumstantial evidence of his guilt. He was fishing almost a hundred miles away where his wife’s body was found, and her hair was on his boat.”
Coincidently, Netflix also unveiled the “American Murder: Laci Peterson” true crime docuseries today, featuring interviews with Laci’s mother, Sharon Rocha, and Peterson’s former mistress, Amber Frey.