clearly. when you arrested him, did he expressed anything, that would suggest he understood that was it, he was going away? i want to search his car, he said, john, could you tell me if those bodies were my wife and son? i just told him, scott, you know the answer to that. as they drove north of modesto with their prisoner in the backseat, wheeler got confirmation that the dna was in. the bodies were connor and laci. they told scott. he s wearing sunglasses, i m looking, it doesn t make a reaction whatsoever. just a few minutes later, they stopped by a roadside burger plays to get something the eat, given the news he d just received. wheeler seemed scott wouldn t have much of an appetite. it was wrong. he goes, i ll have a double double with cheese, a small fry, and a vanilla shake. like, we are coming back from fishing. cold? that s what wheeler thought. i ve run into people who had grief before, many, many times,
down laci s body? those got said going fishing was a last-minute decision, there were seat charts and maps of the berkley marina on his computer from early december, and scott told police he spent time at his warehouse office on the day laci disappeared. they couldn t help but notice how secluded the place was. this is very isolated back here, especially on a christmas eve. if you wanted to get away with something, this is the place you could do it. yep. window in the fornt into a boat thought detective. we have a window here in the front that goes with the screen ajar. police gathered the strands, swung the rope, and everything that happened, happened with a lot of people watching.
he just wants the trial to take place so that people will be able to see what really took place. scott s mom assured reporters her son was innocent, but she couldn t have been very happy when everyone came to the courthouse and saw a local billboard a local radio station bought right across the street. man or monster? what d you think when you saw that? well, that s when we were about to start jury selection. first day of jury selection. so, i think we were worried we were going to have another change of venue. but here it stayed. june 1st, 2004, a year and a half after laci peterson vanished, her husband, scott, went on trial for her murder. and right off the bat, the prosecution told the jury about scott and amber. he winced as they showed these photos of the two of them from the night of the party, the same photos that helped him get caught. and then they showed the jury
traveling in europe. amber fryee pretending she was still his girlfriend. the cops? they kept looking, bringing set dogs to berkeley, divers to the bay. laci s friends held that vigil, prayed. all the while, amber secretly recorded her conversations with scott, inwardly trembling. i was shaking, and trying to catch my breath, and calm down. there was too many nerves there, and i would pace back and forth. one of those calls, of course, she didn t know it at the time, was going to be notorious. new year s eve. the big one? yeah. coming up first of all, i met scott peterson november 20th, 2002. revealing the truth to the world. amber fryee s firestorm. we thought it was best to get her up there, almost like
yet somehow, sharon felt more bad news was coming. early that morning, when the tides were low, the body of a baby had been found on the shoreline north of berkeley. the next day, another body, a torso, badly decomposed found nearby. the county coroner arrived at the scene and has recovered the remains of the victim. we are, at this time, letting people know we believe the agenda of the victim s female. even without positive identification, everyone knew, even sharon, who, despite everything, kept trying to hold on to a shot of hope that she d wake from the nightmare, from scott, it was not a peep. the fact he didn t pick up the phone and call anybody to find out if that was his wife and his baby, left no doubt in my mind. her daughter was dead.