Fox Information contributor and former Washington, D.C., murder detective Ted Williams doesn’t imagine that convicted assassin Scott Peterson’s latest win to re-examine discovery in his case will result in his launch from jail.
On Monday, a California choose granted Peterson — who was convicted and sentenced to life in 2004 for killing Laci Peterson, his 27-year-old pregnant spouse, and their unborn son in 2002 — the best to a post-conviction discovery interval, which is required beneath state legislation for defendants convicted of significant felonies who’ve obtained sentences of 15 years or extra.
“They’ve acquired the best man,” Williams stated merely when requested about his ideas on the choice. “Scott Peterson murdered his spouse Lacy and his son Conner.”
Williams additional added his perception, after masking Peterson’s trial 20 years in the past, that Peterson “wished to free himself of each in order that he might stick with it a relationship with Amber Frey.”
The LA Innocence Undertaking has taken up the case of Scott Peterson, in response to stories.Â
Fry was the girl Peterson was secretly seeing behind Laci’s again whereas they had been married. After her disappearance, he tried to proceed their relationship.
“He did all kinds of issues that will make an individual imagine that no one apart from Scott Peterson murdered Laci Peterson.”
Laci was seven-and-a-half months pregnant on the time she disappeared from her and Peterson’s Modesto residence Christmas Eve in late 2002. 4 months later, in April 2003, a pedestrian discovered her unborn son’s decomposed physique within the San Francisco Bay.Â
Authorities seek for the our bodies of Laci Peterson and her unborn son’s physique within the San Francisco Bay in January 2003. (Justin Sullivan)
Authorities later positioned Laci’s decomposed physique within the Bay, coincidentally a couple of miles from the place Peterson stated he had gone on a solo fishing journey on Dec. 24, 2002.
Peterson stated he had come residence to an empty home and reported Laci lacking the following day.
Amber Frey exits the courthouse along with her legal professional, Gloria Allred, after a day of testifying throughout the Scott Peterson double homicide trial on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004, on the San Mateo County Superior Courthouse in Redwood Metropolis. (San Mateo County Occasions picture/Ron Lewis)
Following Laci’s disappearance and previous to his arrest, Peterson bleached his hair and was caught carrying his brother’s passport in San Diego, the place police believed he might have been attempting to flee to Mexico.
“It is simply so vicious.”
The Los Angeles Harmless Undertaking, which seeks to defend the wrongly accused and wrongly imprisoned, took up the Peterson case in January. The LA Innocence Undertaking seems to be hinging its case on proof that it desires examined for DNA, police stories, audio recordings, video recordings and different supplies that Peterson’s attorneys imagine will exonerate him.
Scott Peterson is led into Stanislaus County Superior Courtroom for arraignment within the deaths of his spouse, Laci Peterson, and unborn son, Conner, on April 21, 2003, in Modesto, California. (REUTERS/POOL/Ted Benson)
“Mr. Peterson’s been ready for 20 years for police stories and audio recordings and video recordings that ought to have been supplied,” Paula Mitchell, govt director of The Innocence Undertaking, stated throughout a March courtroom listening to, in response to the Los Angeles Occasions. “We’re desperate to get our investigation underway.”
Peterson’s attorneys have linked a housebreaking involving two suspects that occurred someday between Dec. 24, 2002 — the day Laci vanished — and Dec. 26, 2002, at a home close to the Peterson residence to Laci’s disappearance. Investigators, nonetheless, say one of many burglars admitted the housebreaking occurred on Dec. 26.Â
About 3,000 individuals gathered at a church to recollect Laci Peterson on what would have been her twenty eighth birthday, practically three weeks after her physique washed ashore together with the stays of her unborn son. (Justin Sullivan)
“There was a housebreaking throughout the road from our residence,” Peterson instructed filmmakers for a Peacock sequence known as “Face-to-Face with Scott Peterson,” through video name from Mule Creek State Jail. “And I imagine that Laci went over there to see what was occurring, and that is when she was taken.”
The housebreaking was not talked about at Peterson’s trial in 2004.
Scott Peterson, of Modesto, Calif, was discovered responsible of 1 depend of first diploma and one depend of second diploma homicide of his spouse, Laci Peterson, 27, and the couple’s unborn son, Connor. (David Paul Morris)
The LA Innocence Undertaking can be pointing to a van that was set on fireplace on Dec. 25, 2002, in Modesto, a day earlier than the housebreaking might have taken place.
Nonetheless, Williams doesn’t imagine that this data “will permit Peterson to get out of jail,” he stated.
“You discover the issues that Peterson himself did actually leads one to imagine that no two burglars would have killed Lacy and her son in Modesto . . . after which took her to San Francisco Bay, the place Scott Peterson was fishing, after which dumped her within the Bay,” Williams stated. “It defies logic. I don’t suppose they’ll ever show that occurred.”
Scott Peterson and Laci Peterson in a nonetheless picture showing within the forthcoming docuseries “American Homicide: Laci Peterson.” (Courtesy of Netflix)
Peterson, now 51, was initially sentenced to dying practically 17 years in the past and was ordered Wednesday to serve the rest of his life in jail after the Supreme Courtroom overruled his dying sentence in August 2020 amid allegations of juror misconduct. Laci’s relations had been allowed to present statements on her behalf.
Prosecutors have stated Peterson murdered Laci and dumped her physique within the San Francisco Bay from his fishing boat on Christmas Eve. Her physique and the fetus of her unborn son washed ashore in April 2003. In his 2004 trial, prosecutors additionally pointed to Scott Peterson’s affair with therapeutic massage therapist Amber Frey, who testified that she had not identified that he was married.
Fox Information’ Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
