laci peterson, the beaming young mom to be. please, please, let her come home to us. keith morrison: prosecutors speak out in an in-depth television interview. you put so much of your life into it. it stays with you. keith morrison: laci s husband. finally hear the story he told. his rarely seen police interrogation. we couldn t find anything wrong with this guy. he was that charming. keith morrison: and surprising details from the other woman who helped uncover the truth. it s still affects me emotionally. keith morrison: did scott peterson kill his wife? i do not believe he did. i mean, really? who else could have done it? i m glad you asked that question. keith morrison: once upon a time, in a small california city lived a sweet pregnant woman with a radiant smile. and outside of friends and family hardly anyone knew her name. she would never know, of course, how famous that name of hers was about to become. we have no indication, no significant leads at this point. keith
After following Laci Peterson s case for more than 15 years, the show delivers a comprehensive report with rarely-seen interrogation video, new insight from.
keith morrison : then, said scott, he drove to the berkeley marina about ninety miles away. parked his car, and put his boat in the water. al brocchini (interrogation video): when you got in your boat and you took off, did you go very far, or scott peterson (interrogation video): well, i mean, probably a couple miles. i went north, found a like, a little island kind of deal there. al brocchini (interrogation video): mm-hm. scott peterson (interrogation video): island had a bunch of trash on it. i remember a big sign that said, no landing. it looked like some broken piers around it. and i just assumed it would be a decent, you know, shallow area. al brocchini (interrogation video): did you troll? scott peterson (interrogation video): little bit. i mean, a lot of lot of the reason i went was just to get that boat in the water. keith morrison : details that sounded plausible enough, except to detective brocchini. keith morrison : he drew a short straw when he got a fisherman to talk
keith morrison : didnt take long for the laci peterson story to go wide, that face with smiling out of magazines and television screens nationwide. dennis rocha: the more leads we get, the more shes out there somewhere. keith morrison : friends and family desperate to get the story out talked to anyone, everyone. but they noticed one person seemed to stay in the background. scott. grieving in private, his parents told us back in 2003. lee peterson: hes brave but hes just devastated. jacki peterson: he just would not be a good spokesperson. keith morrison : but there was one camera scott couldnt shy away from at the police station. here is scott with detective brocchini
in all fairness to the modesto police department, scrambling to manage that flood of tips about laci peterson, amber s phone call was a barely discernible ripple. did they call you back right away? no. reporter: so the next day she called again and, looking over the dispatcher s shoulder at just the right moment, was detective brocchini. i just happened to be standing behind one of them. and bev was typing. and i could see the name amber frey. and then she s and scott peterson s my boyfriend. so you re seeing all this. i m seeing this, so i said, bev, are you talking to her? and yeah. i said, okay, let me talk to her. reporter: and before long, the two detectives were in fresno listening, in person, to amber s story of scott s amorous courtship. it was almost like a