Although he was convicted for the murder of his wife, Laci, Scott Peterson is now spouting his own theory for what happened on Christmas Eve 2002. Thanks to Face to Face , Peacock’s new true crime docuseries , audiences are dipping their toes back into the case of Scott and Laci Peterson . The three-part interview-style series has emerged as Peterson gears up to fight for a retrial to overturn his sentence of life in prison without parole for the murder of Laci.
One of the biggest focal points of both the doc and Peterson’s strategy is his theory that his wife was abducted and killed by strangers who were burglarizing a neighboring home. On the morning Laci disappeared, the house across the street from the Petersons in their neighborhood of Modesto, California, was broken into. Peterson claims the cops didn’t look into this incident when investigating Laci’s whereabouts.
“There were a lot of people in that burglary,” Scott said, “And I believe that Laci went over there to see what was going on. And that’s when she was taken. “It was the evidence they decided to ignore and to go with the theory.
I wasn’t the last one to see Laci that day. There’s so many credible witnesses who saw her walking.” One of these witnesses is a man named Tom Harshman, who is featured in Face to Face as someone who saw Laci get into the burglars’ van.
“I remember all that,” Harshman recalled to interviewer Shareen Anderson. “We’d saw a girl, and she was pregnant, and.