there was a big wedding in the certainly of 97. scott was a fertilizer salesman in modesto and laci a substitute teacher. his job took him on the road a lot. but they were happy. did the three of you get to know the two of them together much? i thought he was a great guy. she was always happy. it was a joke of, gosh does he have a brother? though laci struggled to get pregnant after nearly five years of marriage, that came too. the day after my baby shower that she threw for me. she took a pregnancy test and she called everybody very early. very early the next morning. soon enough, the petersons learned they were having a boy and readied the nursery and decided to name him conor. laci was eight months pregnant by christmas. the last christmas before conor
friends and family desperate to get the story out talked to anyone, everyone. they noticed one person seemed to stay in the background, scott, grieving in private his parents told us back in 2003. he is brave but devastated. he would not be a good spokesman. there was one camera scott couldn t shy away from. at the police station, in this rarely seen video, you can watch scott, hear his words. does he seem like a worried, frantic husband? you will see. tell me about the morning. okay. i don t know what time we got up. probably laci got up and went and i assume she had breakfast.
we wanted to talk to attorney mark geragos about the trial. he didn t respond to our request. we wanted to talk to scott peterson, but he wasn t interested. turned us down, said his family, because he didn t like my coverage of the case back in 2003. scott s frantic story, simple, yet utterly baffling was this. his family still insists he s an innocent man, and we wanted to hear that from them. they turned us down, too, and suggested we talk to a retired journalist named richard cole, who shares their point of view and said the prosecution theory of the case makes no sense. because it was so ridiculous. scott peterson kills his 160-pound wife, puts her body in the back of his truck. he then drives it to his office to pick up the boat. and then, what does he do with the dead body of his wife in a
ack to dateline! a week after laci peterson disappeared they had a vigil. everyone coming together and praying makes you feel candles and prayers and tears. though much of modesto was here, not a single person understood, not yet and not for a while why the gathering would become a defining moment. especially perhaps scott peterson. it looked like he might have shed a tear or two, he seemed to be avoiding laci s family and friends. what about the vigil? he wasnt on the stage, he was on the phone. sharon would not know for a long time the truth about scott s phone call that night. it was that night sharon first
had to be evidence of premeditation. the very existence of amber frye changed everything, and revealed that many little beasts of doubt had been turning about in the minds of even scott s die hard supporters. after amber came forward, that is when they started to open up about the things they had been kind of hiding and holding back. people remembered things, like how scott once told someone he was hoping for infertility, that he seemed uncomfortable holding babies, that he didn t want to touch laci s pregnant stomach, he complained he was having a midlife crisis at age 30. now, when people thought about his story that laci walked or doc, they remember it, she d been too tired to do that, and they remembered the peculiar way he acted the night laci disappeared. we were standing in the driveway, i asked if he d called his parents, he said no, i was trying to have a conversation with him, and he continued to just turn away for me. he would never look me in the eye.