1 00:00:14,034 --> 00:00:18,240 >> THIS WAS A PERFECT TRUE-CRIME CASE. 2 00:00:18,274 --> 00:00:25,103 IT HAD MYSTERY, MURDER, SEX, MEDIA OBSESSION. 3 00:00:25,137 --> 00:00:26,344 >> HEY, SCOTT, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ALL THESE CAMERAS POINTED 4 00:00:26,379 --> 00:00:27,033 AT YOU? 5 00:00:27,068 --> 00:00:28,516 >> I'M JACK LEONARD. 6 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:30,240 I'M SENIOR EDITOR OF INVESTIGATIONS AT THE 7 00:00:30,274 --> 00:00:31,379 "LOS ANGELES TIMES." 8 00:00:31,413 --> 00:00:34,240 >> POLICE IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, HAVE VERY FEW LEADS 9 00:00:34,274 --> 00:00:38,240 IN THE SEARCH FOR LACI PETERSON, A 27-YEAR-OLD PREGNANT WOMAN 10 00:00:38,274 --> 00:00:41,758 WHO VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE ON CHRISTMAS EVE. 11 00:00:41,792 --> 00:00:45,033 >> WHOEVER HAS HER, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET HER GO, 12 00:00:45,067 --> 00:00:46,240 BRING HER BACK. 13 00:00:49,551 --> 00:00:51,103 >> Reporter: IT'S ONE OF THE MOST SENSATIONAL MURDER CASES IN 14 00:00:51,137 --> 00:00:57,067 YEARS-- SCOTT PETERSON ACCUSED, CONVICTED, AND SENTENCED TO 15 00:00:57,103 --> 00:01:00,896 DEATH FOR KILLING HIS PREGNANT WIFE AND DUMPING HER BODY 16 00:01:00,930 --> 00:01:02,274 IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY. 17 00:01:02,310 --> 00:01:05,034 BUT NOW, THERE'S A NEW TWIST. 18 00:01:05,067 --> 00:01:06,757 >> CALIFORNIA'S HIGHEST COURT OVERTURNED THE DEATH PENALTY 19 00:01:06,793 --> 00:01:10,275 FOR SCOTT PETERSON, WHO WAS CONVICTED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE. 20 00:01:10,310 --> 00:01:13,896 >> THE VERDICT DID NOT CLEAR UP ANYTHING. 21 00:01:13,930 --> 00:01:17,585 THERE'S NO SMOKING GUN IN THIS CASE. 22 00:01:17,620 --> 00:01:18,826 THIS MAN MURDERED LACI PETERSON. 23 00:01:18,861 --> 00:01:22,240 >> THE PROSECUTION COULDN'T TELL YOU WHEN IT HAPPENED, THEY 24 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:25,343 COULDN'T TELL YOU WHERE IT HAPPENED, THEY COULDN'T TELL YOU 25 00:01:25,379 --> 00:01:27,067 HOW IT HAPPENED, AND THEY COULDN'T TELL YOU WHY IT 26 00:01:27,103 --> 00:01:29,000 HAPPENED. 27 00:01:29,033 --> 00:01:30,620 >> SCOTT, IF YOU COULD SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR WIFE NOW... 28 00:01:30,655 --> 00:01:33,137 >> THIS WAS SUCH A FAMOUS CASE. 29 00:01:33,171 --> 00:01:38,240 EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT. 30 00:01:38,275 --> 00:01:39,275 CHRISTMAS EVE, 2002. 31 00:01:39,310 --> 00:01:42,310 YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN, LACI PETERSON. 32 00:01:42,343 --> 00:01:45,033 SHE'S EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT. 33 00:01:45,067 --> 00:01:46,240 SUDDENLY, SHE VANISHES. 34 00:01:46,275 --> 00:01:49,000 >> WE'RE SEARCHING, WE'RE LOOKING, AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND 35 00:01:49,033 --> 00:01:50,310 YOU. 36 00:01:50,343 --> 00:01:54,310 >> HER FAMILY IS DISTRAUGHT, BUT, AS THE REPORTERS SHOW UP, 37 00:01:54,343 --> 00:01:57,723 THEY SAY THAT HER HUSBAND, SCOTT PETERSON, IS NOT SHOWING 38 00:01:57,758 --> 00:01:59,965 THAT KIND OF EMOTION. 39 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,275 PEOPLE WONDER, "WHAT IS HE HIDING?" 40 00:02:02,310 --> 00:02:05,275 >> WHILE INVESTIGATORS ARE FOCUSING ON LACI'S HUSBAND, 41 00:02:05,310 --> 00:02:07,688 THEY ARE NOT CALLING HIM A SUSPECT. 42 00:02:07,724 --> 00:02:10,275 >> IT TURNS OUT SCOTT PETERSON WAS HIDING SOMETHING. 43 00:02:10,310 --> 00:02:11,310 HE HAD A GIRLFRIEND... 44 00:02:11,343 --> 00:02:13,965 >> SCOTT TOLD ME HE WAS NOT MARRIED. 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:14,861 >> ...AMBER FREY. 46 00:02:14,896 --> 00:02:17,103 >> WE DID HAVE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. 47 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:21,068 >> AND SUDDENLY, YOU HAD SCOTT PETERSON DECLARED AS THE MOST 48 00:02:21,103 --> 00:02:24,413 HATED MAN IN AMERICA. 49 00:02:24,448 --> 00:02:25,550 >> NOBODY BELIEVES YOU. 50 00:02:25,586 --> 00:02:27,068 NOBODY I'VE RUN INTO BELIEVES ANY PART OF YOUR STORY. 51 00:02:27,103 --> 00:02:28,033 >> IT WAS A CIRCUS THERE. 52 00:02:28,068 --> 00:02:30,240 IT WAS A FULL-ON MEDIA FEEDING FRENZY. 53 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:33,067 >> GUESS WHAT, SCOTTY? 54 00:02:33,103 --> 00:02:34,378 >> SAN QUENTIN'S YOUR NEW HOME. 55 00:02:34,413 --> 00:02:38,240 >> THIS CASE SPAWNED MADE-FOR-TV MOVIES AND A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE, 56 00:02:38,275 --> 00:02:39,067 "GONE GIRL." 57 00:02:42,275 --> 00:02:46,240 >> 20 YEARS LATER, THIS CASE STILL HOLDS A LOT OF INTEREST, 58 00:02:46,275 --> 00:02:49,481 MOSTLY BECAUSE IT REMAINS AN ENDURING MYSTERY. 59 00:02:49,516 --> 00:02:51,103 >> SCOTT DID NOT GET A FAIR TRIAL. 60 00:02:51,137 --> 00:02:54,310 >> I JUST DON'T BELIEVE A PERSON CAN COMMIT A MURDER AND 61 00:02:54,343 --> 00:02:57,033 TRANSPORT A BODY 90 MILES AND NOT LEAVE SOME TRACE OF 62 00:02:57,067 --> 00:02:58,275 EVIDENCE. 63 00:02:58,310 --> 00:03:01,000 >> Reporter: YOU THINK THIS IS ENOUGH TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE. 64 00:03:01,033 --> 00:03:02,275 >> ABSOLUTELY. 65 00:03:02,310 --> 00:03:03,241 MY NAME IS JANEY PETERSON. 66 00:03:03,275 --> 00:03:06,275 I AM SCOTT AND LACI PETERSON'S SISTER-IN-LAW. 67 00:03:06,310 --> 00:03:08,516 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT THE POLICE NEVER MADE A FOLLOW-UP 68 00:03:08,550 --> 00:03:09,550 VISIT WITH THEM. 69 00:03:09,586 --> 00:03:11,275 WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING TO GET TO THE TRUTH. 70 00:03:11,310 --> 00:03:13,688 EVERYTHING ON THIS BOARD IS A FACT. 71 00:03:13,723 --> 00:03:15,103 >> THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S COME OUT THAT'S MADE ME CHANGE MY 72 00:03:15,137 --> 00:03:18,275 VIEW THAT SCOTT GOT A FAIR TRIAL AND THAT SCOTT IS THE ONE 73 00:03:18,310 --> 00:03:21,068 WHO KILLED LACI. 74 00:03:21,103 --> 00:03:25,586 >> THE WRONG PERSON'S IN PRISON, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. 75 00:03:25,620 --> 00:03:27,068 >> WELL, I GUESS IT'S POSSIBLE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S STILL 76 00:03:27,103 --> 00:03:29,103 PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THE EARTH IS FLAT, TOO. 77 00:04:27,033 --> 00:04:30,000 Captioning sponsored by CBS >> Reporter: THAT'S THE INFAMOUS 78 00:04:30,033 --> 00:04:31,826 SAN QUENTIN PRISON, THE LAST STOP FOR MEN ON DEATH ROW HERE 79 00:04:31,862 --> 00:04:36,000 IN CALIFORNIA AND WHERE OUR STORY BEGINS, BECAUSE THAT'S 80 00:04:36,033 --> 00:04:37,550 WHERE SCOTT PETERSON REMAINS BEHIND BARS. 81 00:04:37,586 --> 00:04:39,896 >> NOBODY BELIEVES YOU. 82 00:04:39,930 --> 00:04:42,379 NOBODY I'VE RUN INTO BELIEVES ANY PART OF YOUR STORY. 83 00:04:42,413 --> 00:04:45,550 >> Reporter: FOR YEARS, I'VE HEARD ABOUT THE PETERSON STORY, 84 00:04:45,586 --> 00:04:48,000 A MURDER MYSTERY THAT CAPTIVATED AMERICA. 85 00:04:48,033 --> 00:04:52,379 >> LACI AND HER UNBORN CHILD DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE. 86 00:04:52,413 --> 00:04:54,343 >> Reporter: PETERSON WAS ULTIMATELY CONVICTED OF 87 00:04:54,379 --> 00:04:57,516 MURDERING HIS PREGNANT WIFE, LACI, AND THEIR UNBORN CHILD, 88 00:04:57,550 --> 00:05:00,033 CONNER. 89 00:05:00,067 --> 00:05:01,067 HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH. 90 00:05:01,103 --> 00:05:05,516 >> SCOTT PETERSON, GUILTY OF A CRIME OF A MURDER. 91 00:05:05,550 --> 00:05:08,033 [ CHEERING] >> Reporter: BUT SCOTT 92 00:05:08,067 --> 00:05:09,896 PETERSON'S DEATH SENTENCE HAS SINCE BEEN THROWN OUT, AND 93 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:12,343 SEVERAL QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN. 94 00:05:12,379 --> 00:05:16,067 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE HE IS INNOCENT, THAT HE WAS 95 00:05:16,103 --> 00:05:17,516 RAILROADED, EVEN FRAMED. 96 00:05:17,550 --> 00:05:23,137 OTHERS SAY THERE IS NO QUESTION HE IS GUILTY. 97 00:05:23,172 --> 00:05:28,033 IT WAS JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SAME BAY NEARLY 20 YEARS 98 00:05:28,067 --> 00:05:33,550 AGO, THE BODIES OF LACI PETERSON AND HER UNBORN CHILD, CONNER, 99 00:05:33,586 --> 00:05:39,033 WASHED UP ON SHORE. 100 00:05:39,067 --> 00:05:40,862 CHRISTMAS EVE, 2002. 101 00:05:40,896 --> 00:05:45,550 LACI PETERSON WAS FIRST REPORTED MISSING BY HER FAMILY. 102 00:05:45,586 --> 00:05:48,379 >> POLICE IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, HAVE A MYSTERY ON 103 00:05:48,413 --> 00:05:49,620 THEIR HANDS. 104 00:05:49,654 --> 00:05:51,000 A WOMAN WHO IS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 105 00:05:51,033 --> 00:05:53,516 TUESDAY, WHEN SHE LEFT HOME TO TAKE HER DOG FOR A WALK. 106 00:05:53,550 --> 00:05:55,447 >> Reporter: IT HAPPENED IN THE CITY OF MODESTO IN CALIFORNIA'S 107 00:05:55,481 --> 00:05:57,826 CENTRAL VALLEY. 108 00:05:57,862 --> 00:05:59,274 SCOTT AND LACI PETERSON LIVED HERE ON A QUIET RESIDENTIAL 109 00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:02,240 STREET. 110 00:06:02,274 --> 00:06:04,103 >> CHRISTMAS DAY MORNING, ABOUT 9:00, I GET A CALL. 111 00:06:04,137 --> 00:06:07,274 I WAS A POLICE DETECTIVE AT MODESTO POLICE DEPARTMENT. 112 00:06:07,310 --> 00:06:10,103 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE JON BUEHLER WORKED THE CASE FROM THE 113 00:06:10,137 --> 00:06:11,206 BEGINNING. 114 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,654 >> LACI WAS AS ABOUT AS PURE A VICTIM AS YOU CAN GET. 115 00:06:13,689 --> 00:06:15,379 >> Reporter: SHE WAS ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT WHEN SHE 116 00:06:15,413 --> 00:06:19,067 DISAPPEARED. 117 00:06:19,103 --> 00:06:21,172 >> WE WENT OVER TO THE PETERSON HOUSE, WHICH IS WHEN I FIRST MET 118 00:06:21,206 --> 00:06:22,447 SCOTT. 119 00:06:22,481 --> 00:06:26,379 >> Reporter: AND THE DETECTIVE REMEMBERS NOTICING SOMETHING ODD 120 00:06:26,413 --> 00:06:27,550 ABOUT SCOTT'S BEHAVIOR. 121 00:06:27,586 --> 00:06:31,343 >> HE WAS A LITTLE BIT-- HE JUST DIDN'T SEEM INTERESTED. 122 00:06:31,379 --> 00:06:34,137 >> Reporter: BEFORE THE SUN ROSE ON CHRISTMAS DAY, POLICE 123 00:06:34,172 --> 00:06:35,310 INTERVIEWED PETERSON. 124 00:06:35,343 --> 00:06:39,310 >> YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE LACI IS? 125 00:06:39,343 --> 00:06:41,413 >> I DO NOT. 126 00:06:41,447 --> 00:06:43,310 >> YOU GUYS DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS? 127 00:06:43,343 --> 00:06:46,137 MARRIAGE PROBLEMS? 128 00:06:46,172 --> 00:06:48,723 >> NO. 129 00:06:48,757 --> 00:06:50,447 >> EVERYTHING'S GOOD? 130 00:06:50,481 --> 00:06:51,689 >> MM-HMM. 131 00:06:51,723 --> 00:06:54,689 >> Reporter: SCOTT TOLD POLICE THAT CHRISTMAS EVE DAY HE LEFT 132 00:06:54,723 --> 00:06:57,586 LACI ALONE AND WENT OFF A FISHING TRIP. 133 00:06:57,620 --> 00:06:59,310 HE SAID WHEN HE GOT HOME LACI WASN'T THERE; ONLY THEIR DOG, 134 00:06:59,343 --> 00:07:01,343 MACKENZIE. 135 00:07:01,379 --> 00:07:03,379 >> MACKENZIE'S THERE IN THE FRONT YARD AREA, THE STREET 136 00:07:03,413 --> 00:07:06,103 AREA, WITH A LEASH ON THAT'S KIND OF MUDDY. 137 00:07:06,137 --> 00:07:09,033 AND HE'S THINKING THAT THIS IS KIND OF STRANGE. 138 00:07:09,067 --> 00:07:10,343 WHY WOULD THAT BE? 139 00:07:10,379 --> 00:07:13,516 HIS THEORY WAS THAT SHE HAD GONE DOWN INTO THE PARK AND HAD BEEN 140 00:07:13,550 --> 00:07:15,550 WALKING THE DOG, AND SOMETHING HAPPENED DOWN THERE-- ABDUCTION 141 00:07:15,586 --> 00:07:18,481 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 142 00:07:18,516 --> 00:07:21,516 >> Reporter: POLICE IMMEDIATELY STARTED A SEARCH. 143 00:07:21,550 --> 00:07:23,274 >> OFFICERS RETURNED IN FORCE THIS MORNING, COMBING THE PARK 144 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:27,067 AND CREEK BANK ON FOOT AND ON HORSEBACK. 145 00:07:27,103 --> 00:07:31,310 RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS JOINED IN DISTRIBUTING FLIERS 146 00:07:31,343 --> 00:07:32,343 AND SEARCHING THE PARK. 147 00:07:32,379 --> 00:07:33,654 >> YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? 148 00:07:33,689 --> 00:07:35,343 >> Reporter: BUT BUEHLER SAW NO SENSE OF URGENCY FROM SCOTT 149 00:07:35,379 --> 00:07:37,862 PETERSON. 150 00:07:37,896 --> 00:07:39,550 >> NO, I MEAN, I'VE ASKED YOU A COUPLE TIMES WHAT TO DO, UM, 151 00:07:39,586 --> 00:07:42,965 SO I HAVE THE ANSWER TO THAT. 152 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,447 >> OFTENTIMES, A VICTIM WHO'S LEFT BEHIND IS FIRING TONS OF 153 00:07:45,481 --> 00:07:47,310 QUESTIONS AT US, AND WE DIDN'T GET ANY OF THAT FROM HIM. 154 00:07:47,343 --> 00:07:51,379 >> Reporter: THE RESPONSE FROM EVERYONE ELSE CLOSE TO LACI WAS 155 00:07:51,413 --> 00:07:52,516 VERY DIFFERENT. 156 00:07:52,550 --> 00:07:56,240 >> WE'RE SEARCHING, WE'RE LOOKING, AND WE'RE GOING TO 157 00:07:56,274 --> 00:07:57,447 FIND YOU. 158 00:07:57,481 --> 00:07:58,137 >> EVERYBODY WAS GOING CRAZY. 159 00:07:58,172 --> 00:07:59,310 EVERYBODY WAS IMPATIENT. 160 00:07:59,343 --> 00:08:03,310 >> WHOEVER HAS HER, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET HER GO. 161 00:08:03,343 --> 00:08:05,447 BRING HER BACK. 162 00:08:05,482 --> 00:08:07,482 >> [ CRYING]: PLEASE, LET US HAVE HER BACK. 163 00:08:07,516 --> 00:08:11,310 >> Reporter: FAMILY, FRIENDS, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY MOBILIZED 164 00:08:11,343 --> 00:08:15,274 IMMEDIATELY TO JOIN THE SEARCH FOR LACI. 165 00:08:15,310 --> 00:08:19,274 >> WE'RE ASKING THAT YOU LOOK FOR WOMEN'S CLOTHING. 166 00:08:19,310 --> 00:08:23,274 >> SHARON ROCHA, LACI'S MOM; HER HER STEPDAD, RON GRANTSKI; HER 167 00:08:23,310 --> 00:08:26,896 FRIENDS; HER BROTHER, BRENT; HER SISTER, AMY-- THEY JUST SAW THIS 168 00:08:26,930 --> 00:08:27,896 WHOLE WORLD COMING DOWN. 169 00:08:27,930 --> 00:08:31,274 THEY WERE ALWAYS STRUGGLING TO HOLD BACK TEARS. 170 00:08:31,310 --> 00:08:34,102 BUT WHEN IT CAME TO SCOTT, HE ALWAYS WOULD HOLD BACK A LITTLE 171 00:08:34,136 --> 00:08:35,274 BIT. 172 00:08:35,309 --> 00:08:37,861 HE WOULDN'T SHOW YOU ALL OF HIS CARDS. 173 00:08:37,895 --> 00:08:39,413 >> OFFICERS BEGAN A SEARCH OF THE COUPLE'S HOME LATE LAST 174 00:08:39,447 --> 00:08:40,586 NIGHT. 175 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:43,274 >> WE KNEW WE HAD TO FOCUS ON HIM FROM THE START BECAUSE 176 00:08:43,309 --> 00:08:47,240 THAT'S THE WAY YOU WORK A HOMICIDE. 177 00:08:47,274 --> 00:08:51,000 >> NOBODY'S BEEN RULED OUT. 178 00:08:51,033 --> 00:08:53,551 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW. 179 00:08:53,586 --> 00:08:55,551 BECAUSE GENERALLY THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMEBODY WITH MOTIVE, AND 180 00:08:55,586 --> 00:08:59,240 GENERALLY THE MOTIVE IS GOING TO BE SOMEBODY CLOSE. 181 00:08:59,274 --> 00:09:03,000 >> Reporter: ON THE MORNING OF LACI'S DISAPPEARANCE, SCOTT TOLD 182 00:09:03,033 --> 00:09:05,517 POLICE HE DROVE TO THIS BOAT LAUNCH, ABOUT 90 MILES AWAY 183 00:09:05,551 --> 00:09:06,793 FROM HIS HOME. 184 00:09:06,826 --> 00:09:09,447 HE SAID HE WANTED TO TAKE HIS BRAND-NEW BOAT OUT ON THE WATER 185 00:09:09,481 --> 00:09:13,067 TO GO FISHING FOR STURGEON, BUT HE NEVER CAUGHT A SINGLE FISH. 186 00:09:13,102 --> 00:09:15,274 AS HE DROVE HOME, HE CALLED LACI AND LEFT A MESSAGE ON HER PHONE. 187 00:09:15,309 --> 00:09:17,413 >> HEY, BEAUTIFUL. 188 00:09:17,447 --> 00:09:19,413 I JUST LEFT YOU A MESSAGE AT HOME, 2:15. 189 00:09:19,447 --> 00:09:21,344 I'M LEAVING BERKELEY. 190 00:09:21,379 --> 00:09:23,206 I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO VELLA FARMS TO GET THE BASKET FOR 191 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,481 PAPA. 192 00:09:25,517 --> 00:09:27,413 I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD GET THIS MESSAGE AND GO ON OUT THERE. 193 00:09:27,447 --> 00:09:28,136 I'LL SEE YOU IN A BIT, SWEETIE. 194 00:09:28,172 --> 00:09:31,274 LOVE YOU. 195 00:09:31,309 --> 00:09:34,033 BYE. 196 00:09:34,067 --> 00:09:37,172 >> IT SEEMED LIKE A VERY SCRIPTED MESSAGE. 197 00:09:37,206 --> 00:09:38,447 IT JUST, IT SEEMED PHONY TO ME. 198 00:09:38,481 --> 00:09:40,102 >> Reporter: SKEPTICAL DETECTIVES ALSO WONDERED WHY 199 00:09:40,136 --> 00:09:43,309 SCOTT WOULD HAVE GONE FISHING IN THE FIRST PLACE; IT WAS 200 00:09:43,344 --> 00:09:46,102 CHRISTMAS EVE, AND HIS WIFE WAS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT. 201 00:09:46,136 --> 00:09:49,172 PETERSON TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO GOLF 202 00:09:49,206 --> 00:09:51,309 THAT DAY, BUT DECIDED TO GO FISHING BECAUSE OF THE CHILLY 203 00:09:51,344 --> 00:09:52,379 WEATHER. 204 00:09:52,413 --> 00:10:01,102 IT SEEMED TOO COLD TO PLAY GOLF AT THE CLUB SO... 205 00:10:01,136 --> 00:10:03,033 >> YOU GOT A GUY WHO CHANGES HIS ALIBI FROM GOLF TO FISHING 206 00:10:03,067 --> 00:10:04,274 BECAUSE HE SAID IT WAS TOO COLD TO GOLF, BUT IT AIN'T TOO COLD 207 00:10:04,309 --> 00:10:05,379 TO GO FISHING? 208 00:10:05,413 --> 00:10:06,206 ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 209 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:07,136 >> Reporter: DAY AFTER DAY... 210 00:10:07,172 --> 00:10:08,758 >> SIR, DO YOU MIND IF I GIVE THIS TO YOU? 211 00:10:08,793 --> 00:10:10,067 >> Reporter: THE SEARCH WIDENED... 212 00:10:10,102 --> 00:10:11,102 >> THAT'S LACI PETERSON. 213 00:10:11,136 --> 00:10:14,033 >> WHOEVER HAS LACI, THE REWARD IS $500,000. 214 00:10:14,067 --> 00:10:16,067 TAKE THE MONEY, BRING MY DAUGHTER BACK SAFE, AND TAKE THE 215 00:10:16,102 --> 00:10:18,413 MONEY AND GO GET AWAY FREE. 216 00:10:18,447 --> 00:10:20,413 >> Reporter: ...AND THE STORY SPREAD. 217 00:10:20,447 --> 00:10:24,758 >> FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAD AN ATTRACTIVE-LOOKING COUPLE. 218 00:10:24,793 --> 00:10:27,274 AND, WHY WOULD A PREGNANT WOMAN SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR WHEN SHE'S 219 00:10:27,309 --> 00:10:30,724 GOT PLANS TO BE WITH HER FAMILY? 220 00:10:30,758 --> 00:10:32,758 AND IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE, SO THERE'S NOTHING ELSE GOING ON IN 221 00:10:32,793 --> 00:10:34,136 THE NEWS. 222 00:10:34,172 --> 00:10:37,136 SO, THIS ATTRACTED ATTENTION FIRST OF ALL FROM LOCAL NEWS, 223 00:10:37,172 --> 00:10:39,274 AND THEN NATIONAL, AND THEN IT WENT GLOBAL. 224 00:10:39,309 --> 00:10:43,033 >> Reporter: BUT HOPES FOR FINDING LACI PETERSON ALIVE 225 00:10:43,067 --> 00:10:44,206 WERE FADING. 226 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,136 >> WE STILL DON'T HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT LEAD INTO FINDING 227 00:10:47,172 --> 00:10:47,826 LACI PETERSON. 228 00:10:47,861 --> 00:10:50,274 >> PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON US. 229 00:10:50,309 --> 00:10:51,309 >> PLEASE SEND LACI BACK TO US. 230 00:10:51,344 --> 00:10:55,274 >> Reporter: AND POLICE CONTINUED TO PLAY CLOSE 231 00:10:55,309 --> 00:10:57,895 ATTENTION TO SCOTT PETERSON. 232 00:10:57,931 --> 00:10:59,240 >> OUR DISCOVERIES DURING THE INVESTIGATION HAVE NECESSITATED 233 00:10:59,274 --> 00:11:02,895 THE REVISITING OF THE PETERSON RESIDENCE WITH A SECOND SEARCH 234 00:11:02,931 --> 00:11:04,000 WARRANT. 235 00:11:04,033 --> 00:11:06,688 >> Reporter: THEY ALSO ASKED HIM TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH. 236 00:11:06,724 --> 00:11:07,861 HE REFUSED. 237 00:11:07,895 --> 00:11:11,240 >> SCOTT TOLD US THAT HE WOULDN'T TAKE THE POLYGRAPH, AND 238 00:11:11,274 --> 00:11:14,206 SO THAT ARCHED OUR EYEBROWS A LITTLE BIT, THAT HE WOULDN'T 239 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,379 TAKE THIS THING. 240 00:11:15,413 --> 00:11:18,688 >> RECENTLY, INVESTIGATORS RELEASED PHOTOS OF PETERSON'S 241 00:11:18,724 --> 00:11:22,033 PICKUP AND BOAT, HOPING SOMEONE COULD BACK UP HIS STORY. 242 00:11:22,067 --> 00:11:23,240 >> GOT A QUICK COMMENT? 243 00:11:23,274 --> 00:11:27,309 >> Reporter: BOTH SCOTT AND LACI'S FAMILY STOOD WITH HIM. 244 00:11:27,344 --> 00:11:30,620 >> I MEAN, SCOTT, THERE IS NO WAY IN GOD'S GREEN EARTH THAT HE 245 00:11:30,654 --> 00:11:32,413 IS, YOU KNOW, EVEN REMOTELY INVOLVED IN THIS THING. 246 00:11:32,447 --> 00:11:34,136 >> WE FEEL SCOTT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. 247 00:11:34,172 --> 00:11:43,136 WE'RE LOOKING FOR LACI, AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND HER. 248 00:11:43,172 --> 00:11:44,586 >> Reporter: THEN, IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS A BREAK IN THE 249 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:45,481 CASE. 250 00:11:45,517 --> 00:11:46,551 >> WE RECEIVED A TIP YESTERDAY. 251 00:11:46,586 --> 00:11:48,826 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES DISCOVERED THERE HAD BEEN 252 00:11:48,861 --> 00:11:51,309 BURGLARY RIGHT HERE, JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE PETERSON 253 00:11:51,344 --> 00:11:53,274 HOME. 254 00:11:53,309 --> 00:11:55,240 ONE WITNESS TOLD POLICE SHE BELIEVED THAT BURGLARY HAPPENED 255 00:11:55,274 --> 00:11:59,136 THE SAME MORNING LACI DISAPPEARED. 256 00:11:59,172 --> 00:12:01,620 BUT POLICE QUICKLY PUT THAT CLUE TO REST. 257 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:04,102 >> WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT WE HAVE THE PEOPLE IN CUSTODY FOR THE 258 00:12:04,136 --> 00:12:07,240 BURGLARY, AND THEY ARE NOT CONNECTED WITH THE MISSING OF 259 00:12:07,274 --> 00:12:10,102 LACI PETERSON. 260 00:12:12,965 --> 00:12:14,517 >> Reporter: THEN, ABOUT A MONTH AFTER LACI WENT MISSING... 261 00:12:14,551 --> 00:12:16,102 >> SHE IS PREPARED TO GIVE A STATEMENT. 262 00:12:16,136 --> 00:12:18,895 >> Reporter: ...THIS CASE TOOK A DRAMATIC TURN. 263 00:12:18,931 --> 00:12:22,000 >> THE FIRST BIG BREAK WE GOT IN THE CASE WAS, OF COURSE, AMBER 264 00:12:22,033 --> 00:12:23,000 COMING FORWARD. 265 00:12:23,033 --> 00:12:25,000 >> WE DID HAVE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. 266 00:12:46,033 --> 00:12:48,861 >> I WANTED TO CALL YOU. 267 00:12:48,895 --> 00:12:50,136 >> THANK YOU! 268 00:12:50,172 --> 00:12:52,102 >> HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BE WITH, SOMEONE TO SPEND THE 269 00:12:52,136 --> 00:12:56,102 REST OF HIS LIFE WITH. 270 00:12:56,136 --> 00:12:59,000 >> Reporter: AMBER FREY HAD NO IDEA HER BOYFRIEND, SCOTT 271 00:12:59,033 --> 00:13:02,309 PETERSON, WAS MARRIED WITH A PREGNANT WIFE. 272 00:13:02,344 --> 00:13:04,136 SHE TOLD "INSIDE EDITION" ALL ABOUT THEIR LOVE AFFAIR. 273 00:13:04,172 --> 00:13:07,481 >> YOU KNOW, I WAS AT A POINT IN MY LIFE THAT I WAS READY TO MEET 274 00:13:07,517 --> 00:13:08,688 SOMEONE, TOO. 275 00:13:08,724 --> 00:13:11,344 >> Reporter: AMBER WAS 27 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE MET PETERSON. 276 00:13:11,379 --> 00:13:16,517 IT WAS NOVEMBER 2002, A MONTH BEFORE LACI WENT MISSING. 277 00:13:16,551 --> 00:13:20,067 AMBER SAYS SCOTT TOLD HER HE WAS A WIDOWER. 278 00:13:20,102 --> 00:13:23,067 THEY DINED ON STRAWBERRIES AND CHAMPAGNE, AND SHE WAS BEGINNING 279 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:27,481 TO FALL FOR HIM. 280 00:13:27,517 --> 00:13:31,551 >> IT WAS REAL FOR ME, AND IT FELT REAL FOR HIM, TOO. 281 00:13:31,586 --> 00:13:34,688 >> A WOMAN WHO IS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 282 00:13:34,724 --> 00:13:35,965 TUESDAY... 283 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,136 >> Reporter: BUT AFTER A FRIEND SAW THE PETERSON STORY IN THE 284 00:13:40,172 --> 00:13:43,931 NEWS, HE TOLD AMBER, AND AMBER CALLED THE POLICE. 285 00:13:43,965 --> 00:13:47,000 DETECTIVE BUEHLER AND HIS PARTNER RACED DOWN TO AMBER'S 286 00:13:47,033 --> 00:13:48,136 HOME. 287 00:13:48,172 --> 00:13:49,931 >> HER RECALL WAS FANTASTIC. 288 00:13:49,965 --> 00:13:52,274 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE IT WAS A SCRIPT FROM A HALLMARK TV SHOW 289 00:13:52,309 --> 00:13:54,551 OR SOMETHING. 290 00:13:54,586 --> 00:13:56,654 SHE COULD REMEMBER RESTAURANTS THEY WENT TO AND WHAT THEY ATE. 291 00:13:56,688 --> 00:13:59,033 SHE COULD REMEMBER WHAT SCOTT WAS WEARING. 292 00:13:59,067 --> 00:14:01,793 SHE WOULD REMEMBER WHAT SHE WAS WEARING. 293 00:14:01,826 --> 00:14:07,895 >> Reporter: AND AMBER HAD PICTURES. 294 00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:08,517 >> YOU KNOW, SCOTT'S IN A TUX. 295 00:14:08,551 --> 00:14:10,274 AMBER'S IN THAT RED DRESS. 296 00:14:10,309 --> 00:14:16,965 THEY'RE GETTING READY FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARTY. 297 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,895 >> Reporter: THAT CHRISTMAS PARTY WAS JUST A WEEK AND A HALF 298 00:14:19,931 --> 00:14:20,551 BEFORE LACI WOULD GO MISSING. 299 00:14:20,586 --> 00:14:22,965 THE DETECTIVES WERE STUNNED. 300 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,965 >> WE HAD A GUY WHO LOOKED LIKE THE GUY YOU WANT TO MARRY YOUR 301 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,136 YOUNGER SISTER. 302 00:14:27,172 --> 00:14:28,965 BUT NOW, WE FOUND THAT THERE WAS THAT CHINK IN THE ARMOR. 303 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,067 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE KILLED LACI, BUT WHAT IT MEANT TO US 304 00:14:32,102 --> 00:14:34,965 IS, THERE WAS ANOTHER SIDE TO HIM THAT HAD NOT BEEN EXPOSED 305 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:40,067 BEFORE. 306 00:14:40,102 --> 00:14:43,551 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS SAW AN OPPORTUNITY-- 307 00:14:43,586 --> 00:14:45,517 MAYBE AMBER COULD HELP THEM FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO LACI. 308 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:48,067 >> THEY ASKED HOW I FELT ABOUT TAPE-RECORDING CONVERSATIONS 309 00:14:48,102 --> 00:14:50,344 WITH SCOTT, AND I SAID YES. 310 00:14:50,379 --> 00:14:52,931 >> SHE HAD AN INVESTMENT, AN EMOTIONAL AND A BUDDING 311 00:14:52,965 --> 00:14:54,654 ROMANTIC INVESTMENT IN THIS GUY. 312 00:14:54,688 --> 00:15:00,067 I THINK SHE SAW IT CRUMBLING IN FRONT OF HER. 313 00:15:00,102 --> 00:15:04,931 >> Reporter: THE RECORDINGS WOULD BECOME PART OF A DAMNING 314 00:15:04,965 --> 00:15:08,033 CASE AGAINST SCOTT, BUT, FIRST, AMBER ADDRESSED THE QUESTIONS 315 00:15:08,067 --> 00:15:12,000 ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP. 316 00:15:12,033 --> 00:15:14,965 >> SCOTT TOLD ME HE WAS NOT MARRIED. 317 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,793 I AM VERY SORRY FOR LACI'S FAMILY AND THE PAIN THAT THIS 318 00:15:19,826 --> 00:15:25,551 HAS CAUSED THEM. 319 00:15:25,586 --> 00:15:26,965 >> HEY, SCOTT, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? 320 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,447 >> Reporter: LACI'S FAMILY TURNED ON HIM. 321 00:15:28,481 --> 00:15:30,379 >> I WOULD LIKE SCOTT TO KNOW THAT I TRUSTED HIM. 322 00:15:30,413 --> 00:15:31,793 HOWEVER, SCOTT HAS NOT BEEN FORTHCOMING WITH INFORMATION 323 00:15:31,826 --> 00:15:34,895 REGARDING MY SISTER'S DISAPPEARANCE, AND I AM ONLY 324 00:15:34,931 --> 00:15:38,931 LEFT TO QUESTION WHAT ELSE HE MAY BE HIDING. 325 00:15:38,965 --> 00:15:43,000 >> IT WAS HUGE, IT WAS WILD, AND IT MADE THE CASE EVEN 326 00:15:43,033 --> 00:15:44,067 BIGGER. 327 00:15:44,102 --> 00:15:47,136 YOU REALLY HAD THE RISE OF THE 24-HOUR CABLE NEWS. 328 00:15:47,172 --> 00:15:51,000 YOU HAD LARRY KING ON THERE INTERVIEWING LEGAL EXPERTS, 329 00:15:51,033 --> 00:15:53,931 INCLUDING NANCY GRACE. 330 00:15:53,965 --> 00:15:55,826 ALMOST FROM THE BEGINNING, SHE WAS ZEROING IN ON SCOTT. 331 00:15:55,861 --> 00:15:59,481 >> WHY DID HE LEAVE HIS WIFE ALONE, EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT, ON 332 00:15:59,517 --> 00:16:01,826 CHRISTMAS EVE? 333 00:16:01,861 --> 00:16:05,481 >> Reporter: SCOTT GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO ABC'S DIANE SAWYER 334 00:16:05,517 --> 00:16:07,033 WHILE LACI WAS STILL MISSING. 335 00:16:07,067 --> 00:16:10,861 WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE MARRIAGE, HE APPEARED TO REFER TO LACI IN 336 00:16:10,895 --> 00:16:11,758 THE PAST TENSE. 337 00:16:11,793 --> 00:16:18,447 >> WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER VERY WELL. 338 00:16:18,481 --> 00:16:19,551 SHE WAS AMAZING... IS AMAZING. 339 00:16:19,586 --> 00:16:22,620 >> YOU EVER HEARD THE PHASE, "A SLIP OF THE TONGUE"? 340 00:16:22,654 --> 00:16:25,240 >> Reporter: AND THERE WAS ANOTHER INTERVIEW SCOTT GAVE 341 00:16:25,274 --> 00:16:29,033 WITH THEN-CBS REPORTER GLORIA GOMEZ. 342 00:16:29,067 --> 00:16:30,654 >> WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE LACI ALONE TO GO FISHING ON CHRISTMAS 343 00:16:30,688 --> 00:16:30,965 EVE? 344 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,517 >> OKAY. 345 00:16:33,551 --> 00:16:36,586 >> Reporter: SCOTT EXPLAINS THAT, AS A COUPLE, THEY HAD 346 00:16:36,620 --> 00:16:37,793 DIFFERENT INTERESTS. 347 00:16:37,826 --> 00:16:39,102 >> WE HAVE SEPARATE PURSUITS. 348 00:16:39,136 --> 00:16:42,274 AND BEING, YOU KNOW, SEVEN AND A HALF MONTHS PREGNANT, SHE'S NOT 349 00:16:42,309 --> 00:16:43,861 GOING TO WANT TO GO OUT IN A BOAT. 350 00:16:43,895 --> 00:16:47,000 >> Reporter: BUT CRITICS OF SCOTT SAY THE MOST SURPRISING 351 00:16:47,033 --> 00:16:51,000 MOMENT MAY BE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SCOTT'S PHONE BEGAN TO RING 352 00:16:51,033 --> 00:16:51,895 DURING THE INTERVIEW. 353 00:16:51,931 --> 00:16:53,379 >> SO I... 354 00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:55,274 [ PHONE RINGING] >> Reporter: LACI WAS MISSING, 355 00:16:55,309 --> 00:16:58,172 AND SCOTT DOESN'T PICK UP THE PHONE. 356 00:16:58,206 --> 00:16:58,965 >> YOU WANT ME TO TURN THAT OFF? 357 00:16:59,000 --> 00:16:59,758 >> YEAH, WHAT IS THAT? 358 00:16:59,793 --> 00:17:01,826 >> THAT'S MY PHONE, UNFORTUNATELY. 359 00:17:01,861 --> 00:17:02,826 I THOUGHT IT WAS OFF. 360 00:17:02,861 --> 00:17:05,205 YEAH, IT'S KIND OF GOING CRAZY, ISN'T IT? 361 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,689 >> HE DIDN'T HESITATE TO TURN IT OFF. 362 00:17:09,723 --> 00:17:11,378 AND SOME WOULD SAY THAT, IF YOU'RE A CONCERNED HUSBAND, IF 363 00:17:11,413 --> 00:17:13,000 YOUR WIFE IS MISSING, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD HAVE THAT CELL PHONE 364 00:17:13,034 --> 00:17:21,344 CLINGING TO YOU, AND EVERY CALL WOULD BE AN URGENT CALL. 365 00:17:21,378 --> 00:17:23,000 >> Reporter: AND THEN, MORE THAN THREE MONTHS AFTER LACI 366 00:17:23,034 --> 00:17:24,964 DISAPPEARED HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY, OVER HERE, THE 367 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,964 BODIES OF LACI AND CONNER WASHED UP, ONLY A FEW MILES AWAY FROM 368 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,964 WHERE SCOTT PETERSON SAID HE WAS FISHING. 369 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,000 WITH THE DISCOVERY OF THE BODIES, DETECTIVES DECIDED TO 370 00:17:39,034 --> 00:17:41,000 MOVE QUICKLY. 371 00:17:41,034 --> 00:17:43,000 >> OUR CONCERN WAS, MAYBE HE'S GOING TO HEAD FOR THE BORDER. 372 00:17:43,034 --> 00:17:46,136 >> Reporter: AUTHORITIES FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH SCOTT AT A SAN 373 00:17:46,172 --> 00:17:48,862 DIEGO GOLF COURSE. 374 00:17:48,895 --> 00:17:52,000 HE TOLD THEM HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PLAY A ROUND WITH HIS FATHER. 375 00:17:52,034 --> 00:17:56,034 HE ALSO HAD ABOUT $15,000 IN CASH, AND HIS HAIR WAS DYED 376 00:17:56,067 --> 00:17:58,862 BLOND. 377 00:17:58,895 --> 00:18:02,448 >> HE HAD HIS BROTHER'S DRIVER'S LICENSE IN THE CAR WITH HIM, TWO 378 00:18:02,481 --> 00:18:06,000 OR THREE CELLPHONES. 379 00:18:06,034 --> 00:18:08,550 AND SO, YOU KNOW, NOT THE NORMAL STUFF YOU HAVE IF YOU'RE GOING 380 00:18:08,586 --> 00:18:10,240 DOWN TO THE LOCAL WINN-DIXIE TO GET GROCERIES. 381 00:18:10,275 --> 00:18:13,067 >> SCOTT PETERSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED. 382 00:18:13,103 --> 00:18:21,723 HE IS IN THE CUSTODY OF MODESTO POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES. 383 00:18:21,758 --> 00:18:23,895 >> Reporter: JUST OVER A YEAR LATER, HERE IN REDWOOD CITY, 384 00:18:23,931 --> 00:18:25,172 CALIFORNIA, SCOTT PETERSON WENT ON TRIAL. 385 00:18:25,205 --> 00:18:29,205 THE TRIAL HAD BEEN MOVED ABOUT 90 MILES FROM MODESTO BECAUSE OF 386 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:30,205 THE HUGE AMOUNT OF PUBLICITY. 387 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,067 >> THIS IS A CAPITAL CASE. 388 00:18:31,103 --> 00:18:34,205 I'M WORRIED ABOUT MY CLIENT'S LIFE. 389 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,205 >> Reporter: PETERSON HAD A HIGH-PRICED HOLLYWOOD DREAM TEAM 390 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,000 OF ATTORNEYS, LED BY MARK GERAGOS, FAMOUS FOR DEFENDING 391 00:18:41,034 --> 00:18:42,275 CELEBRITIES LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON. 392 00:18:42,309 --> 00:18:45,034 >> IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN REDWOOD CITY. 393 00:18:45,067 --> 00:18:50,103 >> Reporter: WHAT DID THE STATE SAY THEY BELIEVED HAPPENED? 394 00:18:50,136 --> 00:18:51,103 >> WHICH PART OF THE TRIAL? 395 00:18:51,136 --> 00:18:53,103 [ LAUGHS] THEY CHANGED THEIR STORY A 396 00:18:53,136 --> 00:18:54,309 COUPLE TIMES. 397 00:18:54,344 --> 00:18:57,826 >> Reporter: ATTORNEY MICHAEL CARDOZA ALSO WORKED ON SCOTT 398 00:18:57,862 --> 00:19:01,103 PETERSON'S CASE, AND, THOUGH HE WAS NOT PART OF THE COURTROOM 399 00:19:01,136 --> 00:19:04,895 DEFENSE TEAM, HE SAYS THE PROSECUTORS' THEORY OF WHAT 400 00:19:04,931 --> 00:19:06,205 SCOTT DID TO LACI WAS CONFUSING. 401 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,034 >> FIRST, IT WAS, HE KILLED HER THE NIGHT BEFORE, PUT HER IN THE 402 00:19:09,067 --> 00:19:11,792 RUG, PUT HER IN THE TRUCK, TOOK HER TO THE WAREHOUSE, TOOK HER 403 00:19:11,826 --> 00:19:14,240 TO BERKELEY AND DUMPED HER IN THE BAY. 404 00:19:14,275 --> 00:19:18,240 THEN, LATER, IT WAS, "YEAH, I GUESS WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHEN 405 00:19:18,275 --> 00:19:20,826 SHE WAS KILLED, WHERE SHE WAS KILLED, BUT WE DO KNOW HE DID 406 00:19:20,862 --> 00:19:21,689 IT." 407 00:19:21,723 --> 00:19:26,240 WELL, COME ON, GUYS, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. 408 00:19:26,275 --> 00:19:30,240 >> Reporter: BUT THE CASE AGAINST SCOTT WOULD GET A LOT 409 00:19:30,275 --> 00:19:33,517 CLEARER WHEN PROSECUTORS STARTED PLAYING THOSE RECORDINGS, THE 410 00:19:33,550 --> 00:19:38,205 ONES AMBER FREY MANAGED TO SECRETLY MAKE. 411 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:39,481 [ PHONE RINGING] 412 00:20:12,034 --> 00:20:14,000 >> Reporter: JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO WAS INSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE 413 00:20:14,034 --> 00:20:15,550 AT THE TIME AGREES IT WAS THE TAPE-RECORDED PHONE CALLS 414 00:20:15,586 --> 00:20:19,550 BETWEEN AMBER FREY AND SCOTT PETERSON THAT REALLY GRABBED THE 415 00:20:19,586 --> 00:20:20,413 JURY. 416 00:20:20,448 --> 00:20:23,550 TAKE A LISTEN TO THIS. 417 00:20:31,619 --> 00:20:34,586 >> Reporter: THAT'S SCOTT PETERSON, ONE WEEK AFTER LACI 418 00:20:34,619 --> 00:20:37,448 WENT MISSING, ON THE PHONE WITH AMBER, PRETENDING HE'S CALLING 419 00:20:37,481 --> 00:20:39,586 FROM PARIS, WHEN AUTHORITIES SAY HE WAS REALLY IN MODESTO WHILE 420 00:20:39,619 --> 00:20:42,034 THE SEARCH FOR LACI WAS STILL GOING ON. 421 00:20:42,067 --> 00:20:43,586 >> DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LACI 422 00:20:43,619 --> 00:20:44,448 PETERSON? 423 00:20:44,481 --> 00:20:47,034 >> AMBER FREY. 424 00:20:47,067 --> 00:20:47,723 SIMPLY. 425 00:20:47,758 --> 00:20:50,448 THAT'S WHAT TURNED THAT TRIAL. 426 00:20:50,481 --> 00:20:53,517 IT WAS THE PRETEXT PHONE CALLS THAT AMBER FREY MADE TO SCOTT 427 00:20:53,550 --> 00:20:54,378 PETERSON. 428 00:20:54,413 --> 00:20:56,448 >> Reporter: THEY WERE PRETTY DAMNING. 429 00:20:56,481 --> 00:21:02,448 >> THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT'S WHAT CHANGED THIS TRIAL. 430 00:21:02,481 --> 00:21:05,723 >> Reporter: AS JURORS LISTENED, AMBER CONFRONTS PETERSON ABOUT 431 00:21:05,758 --> 00:21:07,550 LACI. 432 00:21:07,586 --> 00:21:10,413 >> I DESERVE TO UNDERSTAND AN EXPLANATION OF WHY YOU TOLD ME 433 00:21:10,448 --> 00:21:11,654 YOU LOST YOUR WIFE AND THIS WAS THE FIRST HOLIDAYS YOU'D SPEND 434 00:21:11,689 --> 00:21:14,413 WITHOUT HER? 435 00:21:14,448 --> 00:21:15,689 THAT WAS DECEMBER 9. 436 00:21:15,723 --> 00:21:18,481 YOU TOLD ME THIS, AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN YOUR WIFE'S MISSING? 437 00:21:18,517 --> 00:21:20,413 ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 438 00:21:20,448 --> 00:21:22,517 >> I NEVER CHEATED ON YOU. 439 00:21:22,550 --> 00:21:23,205 I NEVER DID. 440 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,136 >> YOU'RE MARRIED! 441 00:21:24,172 --> 00:21:26,034 HOW DO YOU FIGURE YOU NEVER CHEATED ON ME? 442 00:21:26,067 --> 00:21:26,550 EXPLAIN THAT ONE TO ME. 443 00:21:32,517 --> 00:21:35,136 >> Reporter: AFTER THE JURY HEARD THOSE CALLS WITH AMBER, 444 00:21:35,172 --> 00:21:36,964 ATTORNEY CARDOZA SAYS EVERYTHING CHANGED. 445 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,758 SO, YOU'RE SAYING THE EMOTION, THE HIGH EMOTION HERE DROWNED 446 00:21:38,792 --> 00:21:42,689 OUT THE FACTS THAT WERE INTRODUCED BY THE DEFENSE? 447 00:21:42,723 --> 00:21:49,689 >> THAT EMOTION WAS SO LOUD, THEY COULD HEAR NOTHING ELSE. 448 00:21:49,723 --> 00:21:51,586 >> Reporter: AND THEN, WITH CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE AND NO 449 00:21:51,619 --> 00:21:58,103 CAMERAS ALLOWED IN COURT, ON NOVEMBER 12, 2004, A VERDICT. 450 00:21:58,136 --> 00:21:59,964 >> WE, THE JURY IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE, FIND THE 451 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,758 DEFENDANT, SCOTT LEE PETERSON, GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF MURDER 452 00:22:02,792 --> 00:22:06,067 OF LACI DENISE PETERSON. 453 00:22:06,103 --> 00:22:08,448 [ CHEERING] [ HORNS HONKING] 454 00:22:08,481 --> 00:22:14,448 >> WHEN THE GUILTY VERDICT CAME BACK, YOU COULD HEAR THE 455 00:22:14,481 --> 00:22:19,550 CROWD OUTSIDE WHEN YOU WERE IN THE COURTROOM, CHEERING. 456 00:22:19,586 --> 00:22:23,103 [ CHEERS] CHEERING. 457 00:22:23,136 --> 00:22:25,240 YOU DON'T THINK THE JURORS HEARD THAT? 458 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:27,309 WHAT KIND OF EFFECT DID THAT HAVE ON THE NEXT PHASE OF THE 459 00:22:27,344 --> 00:22:28,067 TRIAL, THE DEATH? 460 00:22:28,103 --> 00:22:30,034 >> Reporter: FOUR MONTHS LATER... 461 00:22:30,067 --> 00:22:31,862 >> WE, THE JURY IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE, FIX THE PENALTY 462 00:22:31,895 --> 00:22:37,758 OF DEATH. 463 00:22:37,792 --> 00:22:39,103 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Reporter: SENTENCED TO DEATH, 464 00:22:39,136 --> 00:22:39,758 THE APPLAUSE WAS EVEN LOUDER... 465 00:22:39,792 --> 00:22:42,689 >> OH, MY GOD. 466 00:22:42,723 --> 00:22:44,481 [ CLAMORING] >> CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY. 467 00:22:44,517 --> 00:22:47,586 >> Reporter: ...BUT, INSIDE THE COURTROOM, IT SEEMED TO LACI'S 468 00:22:47,619 --> 00:22:50,448 FAMILY THAT SCOTT HARDLY RESPONDED. 469 00:22:50,481 --> 00:22:54,034 >> IT WAS JUST LIKE ALWAYS-- NO EMOTION, NO NOTHING. 470 00:22:54,067 --> 00:22:56,448 THE MAN IS A DEFINITE PSYCHOPATH. 471 00:22:56,481 --> 00:22:59,136 HE IS GETTING EXACTLY WHAT HE DESERVES. 472 00:22:59,172 --> 00:22:59,723 >> I'VE GOT PLENTY. 473 00:22:59,758 --> 00:23:01,689 THERE'S MORE COMING UP. 474 00:23:01,723 --> 00:23:03,586 >> Reporter: AFTER THE SENTENCING, SOME OF THE JURORS 475 00:23:03,619 --> 00:23:06,172 LASHED OUT AT PETERSON. 476 00:23:06,205 --> 00:23:08,448 >> HE IS A JERK, AND I HAVE ONE COMMENT FOR SCOTT: YOU LOOK 477 00:23:08,481 --> 00:23:11,654 SOMEBODY IN THE FACE WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO YOU. 478 00:23:11,689 --> 00:23:14,448 >> WELL, SCOTT CAME IN WITH A GREAT BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE, 479 00:23:14,481 --> 00:23:16,723 LAUGHING. 480 00:23:16,758 --> 00:23:19,205 IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE FOR SCOTT. 481 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,448 BUT HE'S ON HIS WAY HOME, SCOTT FIGURES. 482 00:23:20,481 --> 00:23:23,550 WELL, GUESS WHAT, SCOTTY? 483 00:23:23,586 --> 00:23:26,448 >> SAN QUENTIN'S YOUR NEW HOME. 484 00:23:26,481 --> 00:23:31,619 >> AND IT'S ILLEGAL TO KILL YOUR WIFE AND CHILD IN CALIFORNIA. 485 00:23:31,654 --> 00:23:34,895 >> JUROR NUMBER SEVEN, MISS NICE-- LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS. 486 00:23:34,931 --> 00:23:36,136 >> SAN QUENTIN'S YOUR NEW HOME. 487 00:23:36,172 --> 00:23:38,723 >> YOU'VE JUST SENTENCED A MAN TO DEATH, AND YOU'RE THAT BOLD 488 00:23:38,758 --> 00:23:42,481 IN YOUR STATEMENTS? 489 00:23:42,517 --> 00:23:44,481 YOU'D THINK YOU'D BE A LITTLE INTROSPECTIVE ABOUT THAT, 490 00:23:44,517 --> 00:23:47,586 BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING WORSE, NOTHING MORE ULTIMATE, NOTHING 491 00:23:47,619 --> 00:23:50,481 MORE FINAL THAN TAKING SOMEONE'S LIFE. 492 00:23:50,517 --> 00:23:55,205 SCOTT PETERSON, I HAVE NO OPINION ON WHETHER HE'S GUILTY 493 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,586 OR NOT GUILTY, BUT I DO KNOW SCOTT DID NOT GET A FAIR TRIAL. 494 00:23:59,619 --> 00:24:05,413 HE ABSOLUTELY DID NOT. 495 00:24:05,448 --> 00:24:07,586 >> Reporter: SCOTT'S ATTORNEYS FILED APPEALS, AND, NEARLY 16 496 00:24:07,619 --> 00:24:10,826 YEARS AFTER HIS CONVICTION, A DECISION. 497 00:24:10,862 --> 00:24:14,481 LAST SUMMER, AS SCOTT SAT BEHIND BARS IN SAN QUENTIN, THE 498 00:24:14,517 --> 00:24:22,000 CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT THREW OUT HIS DEATH SENTENCE. 499 00:24:22,034 --> 00:24:23,895 >> THE SUPREME COURT SAID, "HE IS GOING TO GET A NEW TRIAL ON 500 00:24:23,931 --> 00:24:25,344 THE DEATH PENALTY PHASE." 501 00:24:25,378 --> 00:24:27,000 >> Reporter: PAT HARRIS WAS PART OF SCOTT'S DEFENSE TEAM IN THE 502 00:24:27,034 --> 00:24:29,481 ORIGINAL TRIAL, AND HE CONTINUES TO REPRESENT HIM. 503 00:24:29,517 --> 00:24:32,517 >> THEY DETERMINED THAT THE JUDGE HAD MADE A MISTAKE IN HOW 504 00:24:32,550 --> 00:24:35,619 THE JURORS WERE SELECTED, BASED ON THE DEATH PENALTY PART OF THE 505 00:24:35,654 --> 00:24:38,517 TRIAL. 506 00:24:38,550 --> 00:24:43,275 >> Reporter: THE RESULT OF THAT MISTAKE, SCOTT SUPPORTERS SAY, 507 00:24:43,309 --> 00:24:46,136 WAS THAT THE JURY WAS STACKED AGAINST HIM, WITH PRO-DEATH 508 00:24:46,172 --> 00:24:47,586 PENALTY JURORS. 509 00:24:47,619 --> 00:24:50,344 SCOTT'S TEAM IS ALSO ARGUING THAT IT'S NOT JUST HIS DEATH 510 00:24:50,378 --> 00:24:51,413 SENTENCE THAT WAS ALL WRONG. 511 00:24:51,448 --> 00:24:56,481 THEY SAY SCOTT DESERVES A COMPLETELY NEW TRIAL TO 512 00:24:56,517 --> 00:24:59,275 DETERMINE GUILT. 513 00:24:59,309 --> 00:25:00,172 AND THE REASON? 514 00:25:00,205 --> 00:25:02,481 THAT JUROR, NUMBER SEVEN, RICHELLE NICE. 515 00:25:02,517 --> 00:25:04,619 >> ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE JURORS WHO WAS INTERVIEWED, HE 516 00:25:04,654 --> 00:25:06,448 SAID THAT SHE WALKED INTO THE JURY ROOM AND SAID, "WHAT ARE WE 517 00:25:06,481 --> 00:25:07,586 WAITING FOR? 518 00:25:07,619 --> 00:25:10,000 LET'S GET RID OF THIS GUY." 519 00:25:10,034 --> 00:25:12,689 >> Reporter: NICE DECLINED OUR REQUEST FOR AN INTERVIEW. 520 00:25:12,723 --> 00:25:17,000 HARRIS MAINTAINS THAT NICE WAS BIASED FROM THE BEGINNING, AND, 521 00:25:17,034 --> 00:25:20,826 WHEN THEY WERE PICKING THE ORIGINAL JURY, NICE WAS NOT 522 00:25:20,862 --> 00:25:23,000 FORTHCOMING ABOUT HER OWN HISTORY. 523 00:25:23,034 --> 00:25:26,067 >> IT'S PRETTY CLEA THAT SHE LIED TO US, STRAIGHT TO OUR FACE 524 00:25:26,103 --> 00:25:27,275 ABOUT HER OWN SITUATION. 525 00:25:27,309 --> 00:25:31,723 >> Reporter: PROSPECTIVE JURORS FILLED OUT A QUESTIONNAIRE 526 00:25:31,758 --> 00:25:35,000 ASKING IF THEY HAD IN THE PAST BEEN IN A LAWSUIT, AND IF THEY 527 00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:36,240 HAD BEEN CRIME VICTIMS. 528 00:25:36,275 --> 00:25:37,517 AND NICE CHECKED NO. 529 00:25:37,550 --> 00:25:40,309 >> AND WE'VE COME TO LEARN THAT, IN FACT, THERE WERE ISSUES IN 530 00:25:40,344 --> 00:25:42,240 HER OWN CIRCLE OF PEOPLE, AND THERE WERE RESTRAINING ORDERS. 531 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:45,309 >> Reporter: IN FACT, NICE WAS INVOLVED IN TWO DOMESTIC 532 00:25:45,344 --> 00:25:48,205 DISPUTES IN THE PAST. 533 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:53,344 BUT PROSECUTORS SAY WHEN NICE FILLED OUT THAT QUESTIONNAIRE, 534 00:25:53,378 --> 00:25:57,275 SHE DIDN'T LIE; SHE JUST DIDN'T THINK HER PAST EXPERIENCES WERE 535 00:25:57,309 --> 00:26:00,205 RELEVANT TO THE QUESTION, AND SHE DIDN'T SEE HERSELF AS A 536 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,586 VICTIM. 537 00:26:05,309 --> 00:26:08,758 NOW, A LOWER COURT WILL CONSIDER IF PETERSON WILL GET A 538 00:26:08,792 --> 00:26:14,000 COMPLETE RETRIAL, AND HIS DEFENDERS ARE READY. 539 00:26:14,034 --> 00:26:17,000 >> EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION WE FIND OUT ABOUT THIS DAY 540 00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:22,792 FURTHER CONFIRMS THAT SCOTT IS INNOCENT. 541 00:26:22,826 --> 00:26:25,689 >> Reporter: SCOTT'S SISTER-IN- LAW, JANEY PETERSON, SAYS THERE 542 00:26:25,723 --> 00:26:31,000 ARE WITNESSES WHO CLAIM THEY SAW LACI VERY MUCH ALIVE AFTER SCOTT 543 00:26:31,034 --> 00:26:33,413 HAD ALREADY LEFT FOR HIS FISHING TRIP THAT DAY. 544 00:26:33,448 --> 00:26:37,413 AND YOU THINK THIS IS ENOUGH TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE? 545 00:26:37,448 --> 00:26:39,448 >> ABSOLUTELY. 546 00:26:54,034 --> 00:26:56,000 >> Reporter: WHERE ARE WE RIGHT NOW? 547 00:26:56,034 --> 00:26:57,275 >> THIS IS OUR FAMILY BUSINESS. 548 00:26:57,309 --> 00:27:01,000 AND WE HAVE A BACK OFFICE HERE THAT WE'VE DEDICATED TO THE CASE 549 00:27:01,034 --> 00:27:03,205 FILES... 550 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:03,792 >> Reporter: OH, WOW. 551 00:27:03,826 --> 00:27:04,895 >> ...FOR SCOTT'S CASE. 552 00:27:04,931 --> 00:27:08,000 >> Reporter: SO, THIS IS REALLY THE WAR ROOM, HERE? 553 00:27:08,034 --> 00:27:11,000 >> Reporter: AND SCOTT'S SISTER- IN-LAW, JANEY PETERSON, HAS BEEN 554 00:27:11,034 --> 00:27:15,000 AT WAR, FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW. 555 00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:18,619 EVEN THOUGH SCOTT HAS ONLY BEEN GRANTED A NEW TRIAL ON THE DEATH 556 00:27:18,654 --> 00:27:23,000 PENALTY, JANEY IS GEARING UP TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE. 557 00:27:23,034 --> 00:27:26,034 >> JANEY IS THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE-- THE CASE. 558 00:27:26,067 --> 00:27:28,000 >> I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT EMOTIONS, 559 00:27:28,034 --> 00:27:28,826 I'M TALKING ABOUT EVIDENCE. 560 00:27:28,862 --> 00:27:31,550 EVERYTHING ON THIS BOARD IS A FACT. 561 00:27:31,586 --> 00:27:33,895 THERE'S NO SCENARIO OF GUILT FOR SCOTT. 562 00:27:33,931 --> 00:27:37,895 >> Reporter: MUCH OF THE CASE FOR SCOTT, SHE SAYS, COMES DOWN 563 00:27:37,931 --> 00:27:41,895 TO THE TIMELINE, WHAT HAPPENED THE MORNING LACI DISAPPEARED. 564 00:27:41,931 --> 00:27:45,309 >> IF SCOTT PETERSON IS GUILTY, WHAT TIME DID HE COMMIT THIS 565 00:27:45,344 --> 00:27:46,586 CRIME? 566 00:27:46,619 --> 00:27:49,964 HE'S ON DEATH ROW FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND CHILD, AND NO 567 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,205 ONE HAS EVER SAID WHAT TIME HE DID THIS CRIME, HOW HE DID THIS 568 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,931 CRIME, OR THE SERIES OF EVENTS OF HOW HE CARRIED OUT THIS CRIME 569 00:27:57,964 --> 00:28:00,619 THAT FITS THE EVIDENCE. 570 00:28:00,654 --> 00:28:03,172 BASICALLY, THE DAY STARTS ON THE LEFT SIDE. 571 00:28:03,205 --> 00:28:07,000 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO SCOTT, THAT MORNING, HE AND LACI HAD 572 00:28:07,034 --> 00:28:10,378 BREAKFAST AND WATCHED MARTHA STEWART. 573 00:28:10,413 --> 00:28:11,654 >> YOU REMEMBER WHAT PART YOU SAW? 574 00:28:11,689 --> 00:28:13,758 >> COOKIES OF SOME SORT. 575 00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:15,550 THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH MERINGUES. 576 00:28:15,586 --> 00:28:18,550 >> OH, YOU WANT TO MAKE LITTLE MERINGUES? 577 00:28:18,586 --> 00:28:23,309 >> OH, THAT WOULD BE NICE. 578 00:28:23,344 --> 00:28:25,275 >> Reporter: SCOTT TOLD POLICE LACI WAS GOING TO CLEAN THE 579 00:28:25,309 --> 00:28:27,344 HOUSE AND THEN WALK THEIR DOG, MACKENZIE. 580 00:28:27,378 --> 00:28:29,862 HE TOLD THEM THAT HE LEFT THE HOUSE AROUND 9:30 A.M. 581 00:28:29,895 --> 00:28:31,586 HE SAID HE WENT TO A NEARBY WAREHOUSE WHERE HE HAD AN OFFICE 582 00:28:31,619 --> 00:28:35,586 AND SENT AN EMAIL FROM HIS COMPUTER BEFORE SETTING OFF WITH 583 00:28:35,619 --> 00:28:38,481 HIS BOAT TO THE BERKELEY MARINA. 584 00:28:38,517 --> 00:28:41,275 THE PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT SCOTT HAD KILLED LACI SOMETIME 585 00:28:41,309 --> 00:28:46,517 BEFORE HE LEFT THE HOUSE THAT MORNING. 586 00:28:46,550 --> 00:28:51,136 >> THE STATE ASSERTS THAT SCOTT MURDERED LACI AND THAT HE LOADED 587 00:28:51,172 --> 00:28:54,586 HER BODY IN HIS PICKUP, DROVE IT TO HIS WAREHOUSE. 588 00:28:54,619 --> 00:28:58,448 >> Reporter: BUT IF LACI WAS SEEN ALIVE AFTER SCOTT LEFT THE 589 00:28:58,481 --> 00:29:03,654 HOUSE, JANEY SAYS THE PROSECUTION'S CASE FALLS APART. 590 00:29:03,689 --> 00:29:06,517 THERE'S AN ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THAT LACI WAS ALIVE 591 00:29:06,550 --> 00:29:07,378 WHEN HE LEFT FOR THE DAY. 592 00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:09,103 >> Reporter: WHAT DOES THIS SHOW HERE? 593 00:29:09,136 --> 00:29:11,586 >> THE PINK SQUARES ARE ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHO 594 00:29:11,619 --> 00:29:14,000 REPORTED SEEING LACI OR MACKENZIE THAT MORNING. 595 00:29:14,034 --> 00:29:15,309 >> Reporter: JANEY SAYS MOST OF THESE WITNESSES REPORTED THE 596 00:29:15,344 --> 00:29:20,067 SIGHTINGS BETWEEN 9:45 AND 10:30 IN THE MORNING, AFTER SCOTT SAID 597 00:29:20,103 --> 00:29:22,000 HE LEFT THE HOUSE. 598 00:29:22,034 --> 00:29:26,000 SHE SAYS SO MUCH DEPENDS ON THESE WITNESSES, BUT THE DEFENSE 599 00:29:26,034 --> 00:29:28,931 NEVER CALLED THEM TO DEFEND SCOTT AT HIS TRIAL. 600 00:29:28,964 --> 00:29:34,034 BUT IF SO MANY PEOPLE SAW LACI, CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN LACI AFTER 601 00:29:34,067 --> 00:29:38,034 THAT POINT, WHY DIDN'T THE DEFENSE BRING THEM TO THE STAND 602 00:29:38,067 --> 00:29:41,964 SO THAT WE COULD HEAR FROM THEIR MOUTH WHAT THEY SAW? 603 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,034 >> I THINK THERE WERE MULTIPLE FACTORS THAT PLAYED INTO IT. 604 00:29:46,067 --> 00:29:50,034 YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO, AS TIME WENT BY, THOUGHT THAT MAYBE WHAT THEY 605 00:29:50,067 --> 00:29:52,378 SAW WASN'T RELEVANT TO THE CASE. 606 00:29:52,413 --> 00:29:54,862 >> THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CRITICISM BECAUSE WE DIDN'T CALL 607 00:29:54,895 --> 00:29:58,964 SOME WITNESSES WHO SAW LACI THAT DAY. 608 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,034 >> Reporter: SCOTT PETERSON'S ATTORNEY, PAT HARRIS: 609 00:30:02,067 --> 00:30:04,964 >> THE ORIGINAL THOUGHT PROCESS AT THE TIME WAS, A NUMBER OF THE 610 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,205 WITNESSES WHO SAW HER DIDN'T HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OR HAD 611 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,172 CONTRA-- WERE CONTRADICTING EACH OTHER. 612 00:30:13,205 --> 00:30:15,586 >> Reporter: POLICE DETECTIVE JON BUEHLER SAYS NONE OF THE 613 00:30:15,619 --> 00:30:20,964 WITNESSES WERE ACTUALLY SURE IF THEY DID IN FACT SEE LACI. 614 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,931 >> THERE WERE THREE GIRLS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, TWO OF WHICH WERE 615 00:30:22,964 --> 00:30:26,000 PREGNANT AT THE TIME, AND TWO OF THEM HAVING DOGS WALKING IN THE 616 00:30:26,034 --> 00:30:27,378 NEIGHBORHOOD. 617 00:30:27,413 --> 00:30:29,275 SO, IT WOULD BE REAL EASY FOR SOMEBODY TO MISTAKENLY SEE ONE 618 00:30:29,309 --> 00:30:33,964 OF THOSE THREE GIRLS AS BEING LACI. 619 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,826 >> Reporter: STILL, JANEY PETERSON SAYS THERE IS A WITNESS 620 00:30:37,862 --> 00:30:42,000 WHO HELPS PROVE LACI WAS ALIVE AFTER SCOTT LEFT THAT MORNING. 621 00:30:42,034 --> 00:30:44,448 IT WAS THE MAILMAN. 622 00:30:44,481 --> 00:30:46,344 >> WHAT THE MAILMAN SAID IS THAT "WHEN I WENT BY THE 623 00:30:46,378 --> 00:30:50,034 PETERSON HOUSE THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 24, I WENT BY THERE 624 00:30:50,067 --> 00:30:52,205 BETWEEN 10:30 AND 10:50." 625 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:58,034 THE GATE WAS OPEN, AND MACKENZIE WAS NOT ON THE PROPERTY. 626 00:30:58,067 --> 00:31:00,275 >> Reporter: JANEY SAYS THAT'S BECAUSE LACI WAS OUT WALKING 627 00:31:00,309 --> 00:31:01,758 MACKENZIE. 628 00:31:01,792 --> 00:31:04,964 IF MACKENZIE HAD BEEN HOME, SHE ARGUES, HE WOULD HAVE BARKED 629 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,205 AT THE MAILMAN, BECAUSE HE ALWAYS DID. 630 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,413 >> AND THIS DOG, IN PARTICULAR, BARKED AT THAT MAILMAN EVERY 631 00:31:07,448 --> 00:31:13,000 SINGLE DAY, WHETHER HE WAS BEHIND THE GATE OR IN THE HOUSE. 632 00:31:13,034 --> 00:31:15,378 >> Reporter: SO, WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS, DURING THIS TIME, 633 00:31:15,413 --> 00:31:19,103 LACI HAD MACKENZIE, AND THEY WERE... 634 00:31:19,136 --> 00:31:20,931 >> ON A WALK. 635 00:31:20,964 --> 00:31:24,481 >> Reporter: AND, ACCORDING TO JANEY, IF LACI WAS OUT WALKING 636 00:31:24,517 --> 00:31:27,517 HER DOG, THEN SCOTT, WHO WAS IN HIS OFFICE SENDING AN EMAIL, 637 00:31:27,550 --> 00:31:28,689 COULD NOT HAVE KILLED HER. 638 00:31:28,723 --> 00:31:32,654 BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO TESTIFY, THE MAILMAN DIDN'T HAVE 639 00:31:32,689 --> 00:31:35,964 A CLEAR RECOLLECTION AND SAID "NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY" 640 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:36,964 HAPPENED THAT DAY. 641 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:45,448 MAYBE MORE IMPORTANTLY TO A NEW DEFENSE CASE, THOUGH, IS 642 00:31:45,481 --> 00:31:49,000 WHAT JANEY BELIEVES ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO LACI. 643 00:31:49,034 --> 00:31:51,931 INSTEAD OF SCOTT KILLING HIS PREGNANT WIFE, SHE SAYS IT'S 644 00:31:51,964 --> 00:31:55,654 MORE LIKELY IT WAS THOSE BURGLARS WHO ROBBED THE HOUSE 645 00:31:55,689 --> 00:31:56,931 JUST ACROSS THE STREET. 646 00:31:56,964 --> 00:31:59,689 >> THERE'S TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT BURGLARY TO 647 00:31:59,723 --> 00:32:01,000 SET IT ASIDE. 648 00:32:01,034 --> 00:32:05,000 >> Reporter: THE DAY LACI DISAPPEARED, DECEMBER 24, THE 649 00:32:05,034 --> 00:32:09,034 HOMEOWNERS LEFT TO GO ON A TRIP AROUND 10:30 IN THE MORNING. 650 00:32:09,067 --> 00:32:12,931 SCOTT AND HIS TEAM BELIEVE THAT LACI ACTUALLY CONFRONTED THE 651 00:32:12,964 --> 00:32:15,931 BURGLARS, AND SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED. 652 00:32:15,964 --> 00:32:19,240 AND TO PROVE IT, THEY POINT TO WHAT THEY CALL THE "APONTE TIP." 653 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:20,895 >> THIS IS THE APONTE TIP. 654 00:32:20,931 --> 00:32:22,034 THAT WAS THE CALL THAT WAS OVERHEARD BY LIEUTENANT APONTE 655 00:32:22,067 --> 00:32:24,964 AT NORCO PRISON. 656 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,895 >> Reporter: LIEUTENANT XAVIER APONTE WAS A CORRECTIONS 657 00:32:27,931 --> 00:32:29,172 OFFICER. 658 00:32:29,205 --> 00:32:32,964 HE CALLED IN A TIP ABOUT A PHONE RECORDING HE HAD HEARD ABOUT A 659 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,240 MONTH AFTER LACI DISAPPEARED. 660 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:38,136 >> AND HE SAID HE HAD AN INMATE WHO WAS ON THE PHONE WITH HIS 661 00:32:38,172 --> 00:32:40,931 BROTHER IN MODESTO DISCUSSING THE FACT THAT LACI HAD 662 00:32:40,964 --> 00:32:44,205 ENCOUNTERED THE BURGLARS ACROSS THE STREET FROM HER HOUSE. 663 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,964 WHEN WE HEARD THIS, WE ALL THOUGHT, "WOW, MAYBE, MAYBE 664 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,309 THIS'LL GIVE US SOME ANSWERS AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO LACI." 665 00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:53,000 >> Reporter: BUT REMEMBER, POLICE DISMISSED THE BURGLARY 666 00:32:53,034 --> 00:32:54,723 EARLY ON. 667 00:32:54,758 --> 00:32:56,792 >> WE DO NOT BELIEVE AT THIS TIME THAT THERE'S ANY CONNECTION 668 00:32:56,826 --> 00:32:57,448 WITH THE MISSING OF LACI. 669 00:32:57,481 --> 00:32:58,309 >> Reporter: AND HERE'S WHY. 670 00:32:58,344 --> 00:33:00,550 >> THE POLICE FIGURED OUT WHO DID IT. 671 00:33:00,586 --> 00:33:03,931 THEY ASKED THE CULPRITS, "WELL, WHEN DID YOU DO THIS?" 672 00:33:03,964 --> 00:33:06,448 AND THE TWO GENTLEMEN THAT WERE ARRESTED SAID, "OH, IT WAS 673 00:33:06,481 --> 00:33:13,000 DECEMBER 26, THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS." 674 00:33:13,034 --> 00:33:15,931 >> Reporter: NOTON DECEMBER 24, WHEN LACI WENT MISSING, BUT TWO 675 00:33:15,964 --> 00:33:16,758 DAYS LATER. 676 00:33:16,792 --> 00:33:18,481 PETERSON'S DEFENSE ISN'T BUYING IT. 677 00:33:18,517 --> 00:33:23,000 >> ON DECEMBER 26, THERE WAS A LINE OF MEDIA REPORTERS STANDING 678 00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:25,309 OUTSIDE THE PETERSON HOME, UP AND DOWN THAT STREET. 679 00:33:25,344 --> 00:33:30,000 THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL YOU COULD BURGLARIZE A HOUSE WITH 680 00:33:30,034 --> 00:33:34,000 ALL THOSE PEOPLE STANDING OUT THERE. 681 00:33:34,034 --> 00:33:36,000 >> Reporter: BUT POLICE SAY THE BURGLARS BROKE IN THROUGH A BACK 682 00:33:36,034 --> 00:33:41,000 DOOR ON THE 26th, OUT OF SIGHT OF THE STREET AND ANY REPORTERS 683 00:33:41,034 --> 00:33:42,136 WHO MAY HAVE BEEN THERE. 684 00:33:42,172 --> 00:33:46,103 AS FOR THE TIP ABOUT AN INMATE PHONE CALL FROM PRISON, 685 00:33:46,136 --> 00:33:50,103 PROSECUTORS SAY THE PHONE CALL IS JUST HEARSAY. 686 00:33:50,136 --> 00:33:53,034 STILL, PETERSON'S ATTORNEY SAYS IF SCOTT GETS A CHANCE AT A NEW 687 00:33:53,067 --> 00:33:57,000 TRIAL, THAT BURGLARY WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER. 688 00:33:57,034 --> 00:34:01,000 AND SO WILL THEIR THEORY OF THE CRIME, THAT SCOTT PETERSON WAS 689 00:34:01,034 --> 00:34:04,000 ACTUALLY FRAMEDFOR HIS WIFE'S MURDER. 690 00:34:04,034 --> 00:34:07,000 >> WHAT BETTER WAY TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE THAN GO PUT THE BODY 691 00:34:07,034 --> 00:34:07,448 WHERE THE HUSBAND WAS? 692 00:34:33,034 --> 00:34:37,516 >> Reporter: IN A 2017 A&E DOCUMENTARY, SCOTT PETERSON 693 00:34:37,550 --> 00:34:46,068 SPOKE ABOUT THE MOMENT HE HEARD THE WORD "GUILTY." 694 00:34:46,103 --> 00:34:50,516 >> Reporter: THOSE THOUGHTS SEEM STARKLY DIFFERENT FROM COURTROOM 695 00:34:50,550 --> 00:34:54,068 REPORTS THAT DESCRIBE PETERSON AS "EMOTIONLESS." 696 00:34:54,103 --> 00:34:56,481 >> SCOTT LOOKED PRETTY CALM AND EVERYTHING. 697 00:34:56,516 --> 00:34:59,068 >> MAYBE HE DIDN'T DO IT, BUT WHY IS HE SMILING? 698 00:34:59,103 --> 00:35:02,137 >> I DON'T FEEL HE HAD ANY REMORSE WHATSOEVER, AND THAT'S 699 00:35:02,172 --> 00:35:04,068 WHAT PROVES HIS GUILT MORE THAN ANYTHING. 700 00:35:04,103 --> 00:35:05,068 >> SCOTT HAD NO EMOTION ON HIS FACE. 701 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:08,103 SCOTT WAS BEING SCOTT. 702 00:35:08,137 --> 00:35:10,481 >> Reporter: AND, ACCORDING TO HIS LAWYER, THAT LACK OF OUTWARD 703 00:35:10,516 --> 00:35:14,103 EMOTION HURT SCOTT FROM DAY ONE. 704 00:35:14,137 --> 00:35:17,344 >> I THINK THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I HAVE IS WHAT I CALL THE "HE 705 00:35:17,378 --> 00:35:20,206 DIDN'T ACT RIGHT" EVIDENCE. 706 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,137 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HOW TO ACT. 707 00:35:22,172 --> 00:35:25,655 THERE'S NO PLAYBOOK ON HOW TO ACT WHEN YOUR WIFE HAS BEEN 708 00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:26,862 MURDERED. 709 00:35:26,896 --> 00:35:29,034 NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, WHEN YOU'VE BUILT THE NARRATIVE IN 710 00:35:29,068 --> 00:35:32,137 YOUR MIND THAT HE'S GUILTY, WHATEVER SCOTT DID WAS GOING TO 711 00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:36,827 BE INTERPRETED THROUGH THE LENS OF "HE'S GUILTY." 712 00:35:36,862 --> 00:35:40,103 IT WAS A TERRIBLE INVESTIGATION FROM THE FIRST MINUTE. 713 00:35:40,137 --> 00:35:42,103 >> Reporter: HARRIS SAYS AUTHORITIES HAD TUNNEL VISION. 714 00:35:42,137 --> 00:35:46,068 HE CLAIMS THEY NEVER LOOKED AT OTHER POSSIBILITIES OR EVEN THE 715 00:35:46,103 --> 00:35:50,068 LOGIC OF THEIR OWN THEORIES. 716 00:35:50,103 --> 00:35:51,068 TAKE THIS VIDEO, FOR EXAMPLE. 717 00:35:51,103 --> 00:35:53,000 >> WE DID AN EXPERIMENT WHICH WE FILMED. 718 00:35:53,034 --> 00:35:57,447 >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE TEAM LOADED WEIGHTS INTO A BOAT. 719 00:35:57,481 --> 00:35:58,137 >> WE TOOK THE EXACT WEIGHT. 720 00:35:58,172 --> 00:35:59,068 WE HAD THE BOAT, SIMILAR. 721 00:35:59,103 --> 00:36:02,137 WE RECREATED IT, DID A VIDEO. 722 00:36:02,172 --> 00:36:05,068 AND SURE ENOUGH, WHEN THE BODY WAS DUMPED OVER, THE BOAT 723 00:36:05,103 --> 00:36:06,137 FLIPPED. 724 00:36:10,034 --> 00:36:12,068 THE JUDGE REFUSED TO LET IT IN. 725 00:36:12,103 --> 00:36:13,965 >> Reporter: BUT THE SUPREME COURT SAID THAT THE JUDGE WAS 726 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,655 CORRECT NOT TO LET IT IN. 727 00:36:15,688 --> 00:36:18,034 THEY SAID THE DEFENSE HAD USED A DIFFERENT BOAT, A DIFFERENT 728 00:36:18,068 --> 00:36:20,447 MOTOR, IN DIFFERENT WEATHER, AND ONE OF THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES 729 00:36:20,481 --> 00:36:23,240 WHO STEPPED ON THE SIDE OF THE BOAT TO LET IN WATER 730 00:36:23,275 --> 00:36:24,655 AND ALLOW THE BOAT TO SWAMP. 731 00:36:24,688 --> 00:36:30,931 THEY EVEN POINTED OUT THAT THE ORIGINAL JUDGE OFFERED THE 732 00:36:30,965 --> 00:36:33,896 DEFENSE A CHANCE TO REDOTHE EXPERIMENT WITH THE ORIGINAL 733 00:36:33,931 --> 00:36:36,896 BOAT AND SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT A DEFENSE EMPLOYEE, BUT THE 734 00:36:36,931 --> 00:36:38,172 DEFENSE DECLINED. 735 00:36:38,206 --> 00:36:41,103 STILL, JANEY SAYS, IF GIVEN A CHANCE, THE DEFENSE WILL PRESENT 736 00:36:41,137 --> 00:36:42,172 OTHER EXONERATING EVIDENCE. 737 00:36:42,206 --> 00:36:45,793 >> WE HAVE AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION THAT WE DON'T 738 00:36:45,827 --> 00:36:48,378 DISCUSS PUBLICLY, BUT I GUARANTEE YOU THAT SCOTT WILL 739 00:36:48,413 --> 00:36:51,655 NEVER BE CONVICTED OF CAPITAL MURDER AGAIN IN A COURT OF LAW. 740 00:36:51,688 --> 00:36:54,965 >> Reporter: SOME OF THE MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE IS WHERE LACI 741 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 AND HER UNBORN CHILD WERE FOUND. 742 00:36:58,034 --> 00:37:01,309 THEY WASHED UP VERY CLOSE TO AN AREA WHERE SCOTT PETERSON WAS 743 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,172 FISHING. 744 00:37:02,206 --> 00:37:05,068 ARE YOU SAYING THAT'S JUST COINCIDENCE? 745 00:37:05,103 --> 00:37:06,965 >> I'M NOT SAYING IT'S A COINCIDENCE. 746 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,688 I'M-- I-- I WOULD ARGUE IT WAS ON PURPOSE. 747 00:37:08,724 --> 00:37:10,000 >> Reporter: ON PURPOSE? 748 00:37:10,034 --> 00:37:17,000 >> ON PURPOSE. 749 00:37:17,034 --> 00:37:20,000 >> Reporter: THEY CLAIM THAT PETERSON WAS ACTUALLY FRAMED FOR 750 00:37:20,034 --> 00:37:22,206 THE MURDER, AND THE REAL KILLER OR KILLERS HELD ON TO LACI'S 751 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:28,103 BODY, EVENTUALLY DUMPING IT INTO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY. 752 00:37:28,137 --> 00:37:30,068 >> HER BODY WASN'T TAKEN TO THE BAY DECEMBER 24. 753 00:37:30,103 --> 00:37:32,206 THE BAY WASN'T SEALED OFF AS A CRIME SCENE. 754 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:36,206 THERE ARE MULTIPLE POINTS OF ACCESS DIRECTLY TO THE WATER, 755 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,585 24 HOURS A DAY. 756 00:37:37,619 --> 00:37:40,206 I THINK THEY TOOK LACI, HAD LACI, REALIZED THE NATIONAL 757 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:45,137 ATTENTION THAT THIS CASE WAS GETTING, REALIZED THEY WERE IN 758 00:37:45,172 --> 00:37:47,309 TROUBLE. 759 00:37:47,344 --> 00:37:49,378 WHAT BETTER WAY TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE THAN GO PUT THE BODY 760 00:37:49,413 --> 00:37:50,550 WHERE THE HUSBAND WAS? 761 00:37:50,585 --> 00:37:52,172 >> Reporter: WHO IS "THEY" IN THIS SCENARIO? 762 00:37:52,206 --> 00:37:56,240 >> WELL, I-- I CAN'T GET PAST THE BURGLARY. 763 00:37:56,275 --> 00:37:59,068 >> THE TWO BURGLARS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THAT BOTH TOLD 764 00:37:59,103 --> 00:38:02,275 CONSISTENT STORIES THAT WERE BACKED UP BY OTHER INDEPENDENT 765 00:38:02,309 --> 00:38:03,413 WITNESSES. 766 00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:06,793 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE JON BUEHLER, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 767 00:38:06,827 --> 00:38:09,206 INVESTIGATORS, SAYS BURGLARS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LACI'S 768 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,068 MURDER. 769 00:38:11,103 --> 00:38:14,172 AND THE IDEA THAT LACI WAS KIDNAPPED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN 770 00:38:14,206 --> 00:38:19,000 THAT NEIGHBORHOOD JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 771 00:38:19,034 --> 00:38:22,000 >> WELL, HOW COME NOBODY SAW LACI GET ABDUCTED? 772 00:38:22,034 --> 00:38:25,103 NOBODY SAW AN ABDUCTION IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WHERE A GIRL HAD A DOG, 773 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:27,585 AND THE DOG WOULD BE BARKING, AND A GIRL WOULD BE SCREAMING. 774 00:38:27,619 --> 00:38:29,931 TELL ME HOW THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, BECAUSE I DON'T SEE IT. 775 00:38:29,965 --> 00:38:33,344 >> Reporter: AS FOR THE IDEA THAT SCOTT WAS FRAMED... 776 00:38:33,378 --> 00:38:36,862 >> WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT SOMEBODY IS GOING TO ABDUCT LACI 777 00:38:36,896 --> 00:38:40,896 AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE MEDIA HAS INTENSE SCRUTINY AND 778 00:38:40,931 --> 00:38:45,344 ATTENTION TO IT, AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE HER 779 00:38:45,378 --> 00:38:46,896 90 MILES TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY, AND THEY'RE GOING TO PUT HER IN 780 00:38:46,931 --> 00:38:50,309 THE EXACT SAME AREA THAT SCOTT SAID HE WAS FISHING IN? 781 00:38:50,344 --> 00:38:52,896 ALL THE WHILE WE'RE DOING SEARCHES UP THERE, ALL THE WHILE 782 00:38:52,931 --> 00:38:56,619 THAT THE MEDIA IS CAMPED OUT OVER THERE, THAT YOU'VE GOT COPS 783 00:38:56,655 --> 00:38:58,931 AND DEPUTIES AND OTHER AGENCIES OVER THERE LOOKING INTO THIS. 784 00:38:58,965 --> 00:39:01,965 YOU WANT TO TRY AND MAKE THAT STRETCH WITH ME, THAT SOMEBODY 785 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,931 IS GOING TO DRIVE FROM MODESTO TO BERKELEY TO TAKE A BODY OUT 786 00:39:04,965 --> 00:39:06,240 THERE IN THE MIDST OF THAT? 787 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:09,965 WELL, I GUESS POSSIBLE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S STILL PEOPLE THAT 788 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,137 BELIEVE THE EARTH IS FLAT, TOO. 789 00:39:11,172 --> 00:39:13,965 >> Reporter: THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS NOT COMMENTING ON 790 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000 THE DEFENSE'S THEORIES, BUT, AT PETERSON'S TRIAL, CONTRARY TO 791 00:39:17,034 --> 00:39:21,724 WHAT THE DEFENSE ARGUED, PROSECUTORS LAID OUT THEIR 792 00:39:21,757 --> 00:39:25,655 RELATIVELY CLEAR THEORY OF THE CRIME-- THAT LACI HAD BEEN 793 00:39:25,688 --> 00:39:29,965 MURDERED IN THE HOME EITHER THE NIGHT BEFORE OR THE MORNING SHE 794 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,724 DISAPPEARED. 795 00:39:31,757 --> 00:39:33,619 AND THEY FOCUSED ON ALL THE FALSEHOODS PETERSON HAD TOLD. 796 00:39:33,655 --> 00:39:34,896 >> WE KNEW THAT HE WAS ABLE TO LIE FAIRLY EASILY. 797 00:39:34,931 --> 00:39:37,619 >> Reporter: EVERYTHING, FROM THE BIG LIES HE TOLD TO AMBER 798 00:39:37,655 --> 00:39:37,931 FREY... 799 00:39:45,965 --> 00:39:49,240 >> Reporter: ...TO THE LITTLE LIES PROSECUTORS SAY HE TOLD 800 00:39:49,275 --> 00:39:50,172 ABOUT THE MORNING LACI VANISHED. 801 00:39:50,206 --> 00:39:52,896 REMEMBER, HE SAID HE LEFT HOME AROUND 9:30. 802 00:39:52,931 --> 00:39:56,447 >> OKAY, SO, THEN, ABOUT 9:30, YOU LEFT? 803 00:39:56,481 --> 00:39:57,688 >> MM-HMM. 804 00:39:57,724 --> 00:39:58,931 >> Reporter: BUT THAT MARTHA STEWART SEGMENT ON MERINGUES HE 805 00:39:58,965 --> 00:40:00,688 TALKED ABOUT WATCHING WITH LACI? 806 00:40:00,724 --> 00:40:02,000 >> WE WERE WATCHING HER FAVORITE SHOW, MARTHA STEWART. 807 00:40:02,034 --> 00:40:04,931 >> Reporter: THAT DIDN'T COME ON UNTIL 9:48. 808 00:40:04,965 --> 00:40:06,896 >> OH, WANT TO MAKE LITTLE MERINGUES? 809 00:40:06,931 --> 00:40:08,965 >> OH, THAT WOULD BE NICE. 810 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,240 >> RIGHT? 811 00:40:10,275 --> 00:40:12,275 >> YOU HAVE TO DISMISS SO MUCH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IN THIS 812 00:40:12,309 --> 00:40:13,965 CASE TO BELIEVE THAT SCOTT DIDN'T DO THIS. 813 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,965 AND A CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE CASE BECOMES LIKE A BIG ROPE. 814 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,757 IT'S GOT STRAND AFTER STRAND AFTER STRAND. 815 00:40:21,793 --> 00:40:25,206 AND WHEN YOU GET SO MANY STRANDS WEAVED TOGETHER ON THIS BIG 816 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:27,688 ROPE, THIS ROPE IS VERY, VERY STRONG. 817 00:40:27,724 --> 00:40:31,896 >> Reporter: BUEHLER REMAINS AS CONFIDENT AS HE EVER WAS IN 818 00:40:31,931 --> 00:40:33,965 SCOTT'S GUILT, BUT SCOTT'S DEFENDERS ARE JUST AS CONFIDENT. 819 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,447 SO, ARE YOU SAYING HE'S INNOCENT? 820 00:40:36,481 --> 00:40:37,172 >> YES. 821 00:40:37,206 --> 00:40:37,896 >> Reporter: OR... 822 00:40:37,931 --> 00:40:38,757 YOU ARE. 823 00:40:38,793 --> 00:40:39,688 >> YES. 824 00:40:39,724 --> 00:40:40,896 >> Reporter: YOU'RE SAYING HE'S INNOCENT. 825 00:40:40,931 --> 00:40:41,931 >> OH, HE'S INNOCENT. 826 00:40:41,965 --> 00:40:45,931 I WOULD BET MY LIFE ON IT. 827 00:40:46,931 --> 00:40:49,931 >> Reporter: BOTH SIDES WAIT TO SEE IF THE COURT WILL ALLOW 828 00:40:49,965 --> 00:40:52,896 PETERSON'S TEAM A CHANCE NOT JUST TO FIGHT THE DEATH PENALTY 829 00:40:52,931 --> 00:40:58,000 BUT FOR HIS INNOCENCE, AS WELL. 830 00:40:58,034 --> 00:41:01,413 UNTIL THEN, WE'RE LEFT WITH AN ALMOST UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY-- THE 831 00:41:01,447 --> 00:41:04,931 MURDER OF 27-YEAR-OLD LACI AND HER UNBORN BABY, CONNER. 832 00:41:04,965 --> 00:41:10,378 AND YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT'S GOING THROUGH SCOTT PETERSON'S 833 00:41:10,413 --> 00:41:14,413 MIND AS HE SITS IN PRISON JUST A FEW SHORT MILES ACROSS THE BAY 834 00:41:14,447 --> 00:41:17,447 FROM WHERE THEIR BODIES WASHED ASHORE. 835 00:41:25,965 --> 00:41:26,688 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 836 00:41:28,413 --> 00:41:29,965 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 837 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,137 >> A MOTHER DISAPPEARS, TEXTING FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT SHE HAS 838 00:41:32,172 --> 00:41:33,516 COVID. 839 00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:34,931 >> THEY'VE ONLY TALKED TO HER VIA TEXT, AND SHE NEVER ANSWERED 840 00:41:34,965 --> 00:41:37,000 HER PHONE. 841 00:41:37,034 --> 00:41:39,378 >> WAS SOMEONE USING THE PANDEMIC TO COVER UP A KILLING? 842 00:41:39,413 --> 00:41:41,965 >> SHE HEARD A BLOODCURDLING SCREAM. 843 00:41:42,000 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