Scott Lee Peterson is a prisoner in California. He is currently on death row convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son. He was convicted of double murder, first-degree and second-degree, in 2004 and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Peterson remains on death row in San Quentin State Prison while his case is on appeal to the Supreme Court of California.
On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, was reported missing from her Modesto, California home. Her partial body and the remains of a fetus were found on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay in April 2003. The exact date and cause of her death were never determined. Modesto police grew more suspicious of Scott Peterson as the suspect due to inconsistencies in his story. …show more content…
At the time of his arrest, he possessed non-golf related items such as $15,000 cash, four cell phones, multiple credit cards belonging to various family members, camping equipment, several pairs of footwear and clothing, a dagger, a shovel, two ropes, sleeping pills, etc. He had altered the color of his hair and goatee claiming the lightness was due to the chlorine from a friend’s pool. However, its’ owner later testified that Peterson had never made use of his pool or hot tub (Ryan, 2004).
In the trial of the People of the State of California v. Scott Peterson of 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Laci and second-degree murder for killing the fetus she carried. It was circumstantial evidence that led jurors to decide that Scott Peterson murdered his wife. They agreed it was premeditated even though prosecutors did
On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, was reported missing from her Modesto, California home. Her partial body and the remains of a fetus were found on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay in April 2003. The exact date and cause of her death were never determined. Modesto police grew more suspicious of Scott Peterson as the suspect due to inconsistencies in his story. …show more content…
At the time of his arrest, he possessed non-golf related items such as $15,000 cash, four cell phones, multiple credit cards belonging to various family members, camping equipment, several pairs of footwear and clothing, a dagger, a shovel, two ropes, sleeping pills, etc. He had altered the color of his hair and goatee claiming the lightness was due to the chlorine from a friend’s pool. However, its’ owner later testified that Peterson had never made use of his pool or hot tub (Ryan, 2004).
In the trial of the People of the State of California v. Scott Peterson of 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Laci and second-degree murder for killing the fetus she carried. It was circumstantial evidence that led jurors to decide that Scott Peterson murdered his wife. They agreed it was premeditated even though prosecutors did