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Episode 165: Scott Peterson
December 24, 2002. Modesto, CA. A pregnant woman disappears while supposedly walking her dog. After authorities are notified, they react quickly in the hopes of discovering her whereabouts. It will not take long before one man becomes the focus of the investigation. Her husband, Scott. Suspicious circumstantial evidence turns up, including hair in a pair of pliers consistent with his wife's as well as evidence of 5 homemade cement anchors of which only one remains. Could he have murdered her and weighted her down to hide her in the bay where he claims to have gone fishing? Months later, the bodies of Laci Peterson as well as that of her unborn son are found near the bay about a mile apart. It appears as though they had washed ashore. A jury would ultimately find Scott guilty. Some say that Scott was not given a fair trial and that his conviction was not supported by enough evidence. Was there a sufficient case made to prove his guilt? Or did his questionable lifestyle doom him from the start? A true crime episode.
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In this episode of Generation Why, we get into the story of Scott Peterson who was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and anchoring her body to the bottom of the bay after evidence was found of homemade anchors. Listen to Aaron Habel and Justin Evans breakdown this story through their true crime podcast, Generation Why, all about true crime, true crime stories, killer psyches, murder stories, documenting true crime, reviewing true crime documentaries and true crime shows -- yes, all things true crime!
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It's clear Laci knew Scott was a cheat but she might have thought after they were married he would change. I think Scott enjoyed the way Laci loved him. She cooked, cleaned and took care of him. Scott continued being Scott and once she got pregnant it was over for him. Connor was going to be the center of all the family and Laci's attention, she also would want Scott home more. If he got a divorce the thought of having to pay alimony to Laci and Conner I believe would be unimaginable for Scott. This was a man who spent lots of money on his mistresses...wine, dozens of roses, dinner, drinks, hotel rooms. There would be no way for him to continue paying, not to mention his favorite pass time was golfing at a country club. Everything he was doing cost a lot of money. I think in his sick mind getting rid of Laci and Conner was his only option to continue his fantasy life style. I say fantasy because he wanted to be that guy who travels the world and is not held down by any one person.
He's held down in his prison cell.
@@margaretmorgan1551 face down or face up ??
TEF
Finally yes he was the "Golden Boy". He did not want competition he regressed to a 9 yr old narcissist socio path psycho
lacy and connor show up dead in the exact same bay that Scott went fishing to obvious he is fcking Guilty
You don't need more than 7 minutes to determine what happened. If you do, you need a second head.
lol
A much smarter second head.
still no evidence.........
@roseaugatzke7877 lol. You think if you keep saying that, it'll become true. LMAO. Over 1100 items entered into evidence says otherwise.
When I saw the picture of the fishing gear that Scott said he was using to fish for stergeon I knew he was guilty. The fishing gear was light tackle for freshwater fish not the heavy rods and reels that are needed for huge and heavy stergeon.
Yes, I agree. How can anyone even play with the idea of him being innocent, when it's so obvious he's guilty???
He should have just been honest. He went there with his new boat to dick around for a little while. But he can't help himself. He is a pathological liar
He was in a lake boat. It didn't even belong in salt water. There are so many lakes near Modesto, but for "some reason" he wanted to take it 90 miles out from his home and fish for Sturgeon that...even if he was lucky to catch one, wouldn't even fit in his boat. Those fish are really big! Scott Peterson is a LIAR!!
My thing is this: I do not believe that a woman would leave the house and leave the door unlocked. When I go walking, I lock the door and my keys are with me. When Peterson got home, the door was unlocked and Laci's keys were still there with her purse. Hard to believe she ever left the house.
She didn't leave the house. Not alive anyway.
Scott killed Laci and just left things where they were instead of trying to get rid of her things. I'm just so glad that storm we had was so harsh it brought Laci and Connor up to the surface, otherwise he would be walking among us.
@@rhondapowell3054 I agree with this. However what if burglars entered their unlocked home while she was in it & threatened her with the gun they had just stolen from the neighbors that same morning as they were canvassing the entire neighborhood. Maybe they saw Scott leave & thought he was gone for the day.
There’s also a guy who knew at least 1 of the alleged 5 burglars who said Laci confronted the burglars at the neighbors when she saw them.
If either circumstance happened, she likely didn’t lock her door behind her.
If he'd confessed an affair, Laci would've thought the fishing trip was a mistress trip. She wouldn't have allowed it.
good point
Ridiculous. I have some oceanfront property in AZ to sell you. This is a waste of time. The poor woman and her unborn child got in his way. He is guilty, boys. Sorry.
Totally 💯 agree.
In California, a person does not have to be missing for 24-48 hours. Never let any California’s agency tell you that.
So he drives 90 mins hooks the boat, gets a ticket, checks e-mails, spends 90mins on the boat...Does he ever try to reach his very pregnant wife during these hours ? 🙄🤔
Why bother? He murdered her.
That just makes him an a hole, not a murderer
@@janlundberg5924the “totality of the (circumstantial) evidence”, makes him the murderer. Can’t escape it.
He called her on the way home and left a phony message about picking up a basket for Papa.
He probably went fishing to get away from her.
Who leaves texts and phone messages you don't expect an answer to, and don't wait for any to, unless you already know that the person is no longer alive and can't answer because you killed them? And I believe he killed her the night before. She never was on the computer that morning, it was Scott. He simply accessed her account to make it look like it was her. I have some of those online ordering accounts on my computer and they could easily be accessed by someone pretending to be me while browsing or putting items in a 'cart' online. Doubtless, that's what he did.
And what about the plastic bags and ropes found in the vehicle. 10s of 1000s in cash. Map of Amber's area. No regard for human life.
I thought he intended to kill A
mber also. If the affair with her came out to the police that would be the motive for killing Laci.
24 hr period does not count if you are a vulnerable person . As she was pregnant, she was a vulnerable person.
Correction - all fishermen claim Scott was full of sh*t. He didn’t have proper lures and was in a small boat generally used in fresh water, not the San Francisco Bay
Yes! Along with over 1100 items entered into evidence against SP. It's ridiculous anyone tries to claim, 'There was no evidence.' Over 1100 items will never be considered no evidence on any planet.
And Scott the beginner said he fished for Sturgeon, a huge fish.
Not all fishermen. The guy at the bay who worked on boats said boats like Scott’s could and would be used for fishing. He also told police he just wanted to test the boat in the water since he’d never used it since purchasing.
@truecrimematters if he just wanted to test the boat, he didn't have to drive 90 miles.
@@truecrimematters
Are you one of the delusional ppl who thinks he's innocent?
Rainy wet weather IS often when U want 2 go fishing because in those conditions most fish R biting better. Just a friendly FYI!!
I doubt Scott knew that. That was his first fishing trip alone. He could not name the bate he used and said he's fishing for sturgeon. He is a beginner and fishes for a huge fish. Yeah...nah.
yeah he sure caught a big one that day!
Laci's StepDad was such an avid fisherman that he actually kept fishing rods in his vehicle and he didn't require a cheap " freshwater fishing boat " or need to drive 90 miles out to go to a saltwater ocean bay to fish . He literally fished within a few miles of his home ! Big difference .
His cell was picked up by the cell tower near the house at 10:08 am. Servas put the dog back in at 10:18. Laci’s were found in the house. She didn’t leave voluntarily and he didn’t leave at 9:30 as he claimed.
Totally agree that the rationalization of EVERYTHING to do with the boat & the hairs consistent with Laci's hair in the pliers points to Scott's guilt -in the face of the fact that the bodies ended up washing up almost in the exact area Scott was boating in , in a boat pretty much noone knew he owned and that he paid cash for a few days after lying to AMBER that he had LOST his wife and it was the first Xmas he would be spending without her ! He says this almost 2 weeks before she actually went missing !! Like WTF ?? The fact that he supposedly went fishing last minute and lied to a few people and said he went Golfing , when he actually got a fishing license ahead of time on Dec 20th , good for only Dec 23 and 24-says a lot ! Apparently the last time this guy ever got a fishing license was in 1994 0r 1997 . . And who goes fishing out of the blue on a cold rainy day ALONE last minute like this or even planned on Christmas EVE, INCOGNITO , when you have plans with the family and errands to run that your 8 month preggers wife has asked you to do ( pick up a gift basket for Papa ) and when your wife is definitely not feeling the best ( this is well documented by her Doctor , friends and yoga teacher ) ??? Laci would have most likely spoken about the boat to her family and friends if she knew about it ! The theory about the so called flimsy boat unable to hold Scott and Laci is ridiculous . Tall , big beer bellied Men go out on the water with their "fishing buddies" in boats like this all the time . Laci is only a 5 ft 1 , 153 pound woman , so that BS theory makes no sense ! Lastly obviously he picked the best day he could have to commit this act and dispose of the body . Almost Noone is out on the bay " Fishing " on a very cold , rainy Xmas eve , so it was indeed the best time to dispose of the body in the daytime . Another thing -if I am not mistaken , LE pretty fast got a search warrent for the house and Scott's warehouse , and pretty fast they found pretty compelling evidence hat it appeared he made between 4-5 homemade anchors , yet they could only account for 1 anchor , which was supposedly used for the fishing trip to the bay , yet it was missing any kind of rope and he denied making any more anchors and instead he used the rest of the 90 pound bag of cement for his driveway-which they later tested and said was not consistent with the type of cement from the 90 pound bag . So where did the rest of the cement go ? . The main take away about these " Anchors and cement " is LE predicted right from the beginning that Scott weighed her down with those 4 anchors they believed he made with that 90 pound cement bag and there really is no other logical way she managed to wash up 4 months later missing her limbs ( and head ) and in such a decomposed way and yet Connor was relatively in tact . They knew she was in that bay right from the get go and thats the only reason Scott kept making secretive trips to the bay in rental cars -to see if they were looking where he dumped her and if they would find her ! Otherwise , why wasn't he helping more in the searches and present ? It's clear she was anchored probably with 4 anchors, 1 on each limb . There's only one person we know for sure who went out on the same bay on the same day she went missing and its almost exactly where she ended up washing up on the shore decomposed and missing her limbs consistent with being anchored on each limb !! Anyone who thinks Scott is innocent after doing a deep dive -needs their head seriously examined .
I enjoy listening to this dynamic duo. Scott didn't HAVE to sell Laci's car to get himself another truck. He knew she would not be back. When he was finally arrested he had come up with that red car and 15 grand on him🤔
Right! Back then, 15grand could get you a fabulous car!
4-8 ads within the first 10 minutes, this is worse than tv
I am so sickof the Kachava commercials
Cheating doesn’t make him a murderer. They’d say that about Chris Watts if he hadn’t confessed.
Think they were struggling with money, and they were just about to have a baby. Everyone is trying to save money when you are having a baby
And he heard the message from Ron asking Lacey to pick up Cool whip, That's when he calls Ron back because he thought Lacey was over there
Wgy bother to do this? The questions these guys have no answers to have all been answered comprehensively and definitively. Do the research.
Yes, they have been answered. He's guilty.
Typical innocence fraud bs.its disgusting and evil those who are crapping on all these victims familys by shilling for dispicable people like scott
There are huge problems with the statements from so called witnesses who see Laci with black trousers on. Because she was not found with that colour on the waist band when the torso was washed up. Secondly she'd have to be barefoot because her walking shoes were at home . Police established there were other pregnant women with dogs in the area at the time. Some of these witnesses are bored people who simply want to be famous. NB if you murder someone at home at night and then dump them somewhere else you might well forget to put their outside shoes on before you do the removal.
Finally by Scot's own admission her keys were in the house and the door was open. It sounds as if he 's thinking of a story that she was snatched from the house because if she was out with the dog, then she must have locked the door if she left after he did - which is what he says. At this point, he has no idea that a convenient burglary is about to happen but only in a 50 hour window of time.
The neighbour who was burgled could have been burgled any time from about 11am onwards on 24th, on the 25th or on the 26th. The police say the 26th December but that's based on what the criminals told them. Most burglars do not operate in the middle of the day. There are exceptions but that's the general rule.
Scott initially tells people he's going to go golfing . Then he goes out on the bay. He then tells someone he went fishing. He 's go the receipt to prove it. Finally when the LE get involved he sticks to the fishing story. He likely told the golf story because it was a windy cold day and going fishing would make no sense to those of Laci's family he told firstup. Also Ron was a fisherman , Scott does not want Ron G to come along. When he's out at the warehouse he cuts himself on the hand while messing around with assembling a router machine. This is highly convenient if he cut himself earlier and wants and alibi for a cut. So there's no rush about going fishing even though it is an hr and a half at least away from Modesto.
When he gets back he sees Laci is missing because the keys have been left behind (give him benefit of doubt) and rings the Rochas immediately without ringing Laci's phone to check where she might be. Now that's strange, she went out presumably on foot or in a friend's car without her keys and purse but she did take her phone. The door is left unlocked - he says. That's unprovable. it seems highly inconsistent.
However he's already rung Laci's phone - alibi call- on the way back from the fishing trip. It of course goes unanswered. It's Ron Granski who rings the LE, not Scott.
Rather than leaving the boat cover on the boat out in the warehouse , he brings it back home and puts it in the garden shed where it gets saturated in Gasoline in a pseudo accident . It is therefore useless forensically.
What a chain of coincidences and inconsistencies and we are only about 7 hrs in.
TEF
You can’t sell the boat. It was state’s evidence.
Generation Duh
I was pregnant at the same time she was, I was high risk. My ex-husband was always running out the door no matter what the day, so idk I don’t think it’s really that odd for him to leave on Christmas Eve Morning
You stated the Modesto Police did a "fantastic job". I would disagree. The manager of Scotts' warehouse said Lacy was there with the boat and Det. Brochini left it out of his report. The Aponte tape was given to the Modesto police and it disappeared . And the van that was seen by Diane Jackson, which she saw Lacy with the men had a mattress with blood on it and set on fire a mile from lacys house, which the police never tested! So where exactly is this "fabulous job" that the Police did??
Documentary watcher 😂
Who else had a motive to murder this woman? Who? Only him.
bestiality?? what.the.hell.
It's a real puzzle tbh. What do you think of the theory that a serial killer framed Scott? Outlandish I know, but there's a doc on it. Will post if i find it again.
Total bs.
I saw that doc. No way he killed Laci.
@@sophie8394 it's crazy anyone gives the EWE theory a second thought, right? Even crazier is. . . anyone believing a so-called 'documentary' backed by the killers family.