Scott Peterson, the man convicted of killing his eight-month-pregnant wife in 2002, is speaking out for the first time in nearly two decades. On Monday, Peacock released a trailer for the film Face to Face with Scott Petersona documentary series set to air on August 20 that revisits Peterson's case.
face to face The court will reveal new details about the criminal case, including the involvement of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, an organization that focuses on overturning the convictions of wrongfully convicted individuals, investigating his plea of not guilty to the Christmas Eve 2002 murder of his wife, Laci Peterson.
“I believe my brother Scott was wrongfully convicted of this crime,” Scott’s sister-in-law, Janie Peterson, says in the film’s trailer, later adding, “Scott never spoke on camera about the case for those 21 years.”
Laci Peterson, 27, disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002. Scott claimed she was killed shortly after he left their Modesto home that morning to go fishing in San Francisco Bay. He quickly became the prime suspect as police and public suspicions mounted.
“While many still believe the jury was right, the Scott family and experts close to the case have spent more than 20 years dedicated to exposing inconsistencies in the evidence as well as finding new information about alternative theories surrounding Laci’s murder,” the producers of the Peacock documentary series said in a statement.
In the trailer, director Sharyn Anderson joins Peterson on a video call from behind bars. “Why should anyone care what you have to say in 20 years?” she asks.
face to face The book includes interviews with his sister-in-law, Janey Peterson, Modesto Police Department detectives, and his former attorney, Lara Yeritsian. Peterson was convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to death the following year, though the sentence was later commuted to life in prison without parole.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office took over the case in January, telling NBC Los Angeles that it was “examining his claim of factual innocence.” In an attempt to get him a new trial, his legal team alleged that one of the jurors in his 2004 murder trial, Rachel Nice, had engaged in misconduct. However, in December 2022, he was denied a new trial and remained in prison, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
