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The Most Tragic Missing Persons Case · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: On Christmas Eve of two thousand and two, a woman
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Speaker 1: would go missing, a woman who was eight months pregnant,
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Speaker 1: and the case would draw immediate national interest and intrigue.
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Speaker 1: The case would later become infamous and to this day
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Speaker 1: it still fascinates and haunts people around the world. This
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Speaker 1: is a story of Lacy Peterson and her unborn son.
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Speaker 1: KRN crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all things
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Speaker 1: I just want to put out a big, big, giant
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Speaker 1: trigger warning. As I said already, we are going to
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Speaker 1: be talking about a pregnant woman going missing, and as
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Speaker 1: So I just want to make sure that you know that,
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Speaker 1: and you can feel free to skip this video if
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Speaker 1: you would like to, so, without further ado, let's dive
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Speaker 1: back to it. Lacey Denise Roacha was born in Modesto, California,
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Speaker 1: on May fourth, nineteen seventy five, and she was the
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Speaker 1: younger of two kids born to Sharon and Dennis Roacha,
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Speaker 1: who owned a dairy farm together in Escalon, California, but
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Speaker 1: they would divorce in nineteen seventy seven, around when Lacey
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Speaker 1: was just two years old, at which point she and
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Speaker 1: her brother Brent moved out with Sharon to Modesto while
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Speaker 1: Dennis stayed at the dairy farm, and Lacey would stay
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Speaker 1: with her mother in the city during the week and
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Speaker 1: visit her father on the farm on the weekends. And
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Speaker 1: she especially loved swimming and riding horses, and from a
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Speaker 1: young age, Lacey just loved cooking too, and gardening, the
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Speaker 1: latter of which would influence her future schooling and career.
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Speaker 1: And Brent was four years older than Late, and they
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Speaker 1: would eventually have a stepsister named Amy Rocha welcomed through
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Speaker 1: Dennis and a new relationship, and Sharon met her long
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Speaker 1: term partner, Ron Grantski around this time and he would
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Speaker 1: become a father to Lacey, helping raise her throughout her life,
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Speaker 1: and he would even stand by Sharon when things were
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Speaker 1: at their worst. And Lacey was known by loved ones
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Speaker 1: as just being full of life. She was incredibly sociable,
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Speaker 1: warm and charming, though her lack of filter could keep
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Speaker 1: you on your toes in public settings, but regardless, she
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Speaker 1: was unapologetically herself quote happy to be where she is
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Speaker 1: and who she is, and that's her friend Ether Richardson
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Speaker 1: describing her. So it didn't matter where or what the
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Speaker 1: setting was. Lacey was the life of the party, and
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Speaker 1: it was certainly not a stretch to say that she
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Speaker 1: loved being the center of attention. And her great social
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Speaker 1: skills translated into her schooling as well, and she shone
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Speaker 1: above her classmates, not because of her grades, though she
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Speaker 1: did very well, but because her personality elevated her in
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Speaker 1: the eyes of everyone around her, saying quote, Lacey was
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Speaker 1: one you'd never forget from her former teacher Bob Starling
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Speaker 1: quote she was always energetic, always bubbly, and always.
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Speaker 2: In a good mood unquote.
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Speaker 1: And that bubbly personality made her a great cheerleader, which
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Speaker 1: she did throughout junior high and high school, and by
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Speaker 1: the time she was in high school, she spent a
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Speaker 1: lot less time on the farm that she once did,
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Speaker 1: and she would still come by and bring friends along
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Speaker 1: from time to time, including her first major boyfriend, Kent Gain,
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Speaker 1: who would later be incarcerated for shooting his girlfriend, which
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Speaker 1: is absolutely horrible.
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Speaker 2: But still.
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Speaker 1: She remained very close to her family, and Ron even
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Speaker 1: lovingly recalled calling her Jabberjaws when she was younger for
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Speaker 1: how much she loved to talk. So overall, her friends
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Speaker 1: and family just had nothing but good things to say.
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Speaker 2: About her.
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Speaker 1: So after graduating from Thomas Stoney High School in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety three, Lacey began studying ornamental horticulture at California Polytech
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Speaker 1: State University, or just further developing her childhood love of gardening,
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Speaker 1: and she excelled in college to the point that she
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Speaker 1: was considered the breakout student by all of her professors.
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Speaker 1: And one day mid nineteen ninety four, Lacey went to
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Speaker 1: a restaurant called the Pacific Cafe to visit a friend
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Speaker 1: who worked there, and it was at this cafe that
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Speaker 1: she met Scott Peterson, who was also working there while
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Speaker 1: attending cal Polly and the two hit it off, and
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Speaker 1: Lacey gave Scott her number, and before long they were dating,
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Speaker 1: and the relationship grew rather quickly. In fact, Scott was
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Speaker 1: so into Lacey that he introduced her to his family
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Speaker 1: within the first few months, stating his hope that she
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Speaker 1: would be the future missus. Peterson and his mom even
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Speaker 1: noted quote the moment he was with Lacey, they just
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Speaker 1: beamed at each other. No one else made my son
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Speaker 1: smile like that. They did everything right unquote, and Lacey
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Speaker 1: also reportedly told her mom that she found the man
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Speaker 1: she was going to marry, so the intention from both
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Speaker 1: sides was very clear and they would get engaged just
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Speaker 1: two years after meeting, and in nineteen ninety seven, Lacey
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Speaker 1: graduated with a bachelor's degree and she married Scott shortly afterwards,
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Speaker 1: on August ninth at the Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort, with
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Speaker 1: around one hundred and fifty friends and family there to
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Speaker 1: celebrate the day with them. So let's talk about Scott
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Speaker 1: Lee Peterson her husband. Scott Lee Peterson was born in
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Speaker 1: San Diego on October twenty fourth, nineteen seventy two, to
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Speaker 1: parents Lee and Jackie Peterson, and Scott was their only
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Speaker 1: child together, though they both had kids from previous relationships.
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Speaker 1: But Scott loved golf and was quite good at it,
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Speaker 1: and his skill allegedly earned him a scholarship to attend
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Speaker 1: Arizona State University in nineteen ninety though at least one
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Speaker 1: source says this is unconfirmed. But after a semester at ASU,
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Speaker 1: he transferred to questa College back near his home, and
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Speaker 1: he finally ended up at cal Poly in nineteen ninety four,
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Speaker 1: majoring in agriculture business, where he was described as the
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Speaker 1: ideal student and one of his professors recalled quote. He
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Speaker 1: seemed more mature than most. He was pleasant to deal with.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind having a class full of Scott Peterson's Now,
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Speaker 1: Scott still dreamed of going pro at golf. That dream
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Speaker 1: just never died. He couldn't take the fact that he
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Speaker 1: didn't go any further than the alleged collegiate level. But
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Speaker 1: as things with Lacy continued to get more and more serious,
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Speaker 1: he switched his focus to the business path. So after
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Speaker 1: Scott graduated in nineteen ninety eight, the newly married couple
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Speaker 1: began a business venture together in San Louis Obispo, and
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Speaker 1: they decided to open a sports bar called The Shack,
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Speaker 1: where Lacy could utilize her passion for plants and arrangement
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Speaker 1: to decorate the restaurant, and Scott was able to run
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Speaker 1: a business related to athletic passions, and he also ran
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and flipped burgers, as one article would put it,
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Speaker 1: and the business did very well for a few years,
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Speaker 1: quickly becoming a popular hangout spot, but the couple felt
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Speaker 1: that they wanted more because they were ready to start
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Speaker 1: a family, so they bought a three bedroom house for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars in two thousand
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Speaker 1: different times what and they would buy that house in
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Speaker 1: Modesto and put the shack up for sale, which would
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Speaker 1: sell in April of two thousand and one. So in Modesto,
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Speaker 1: Scott ran a startup fertilizer company called Trade Corp Usa,
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Speaker 1: which he allegedly earned a salary of sixty thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: a year before taxes, and Lacey occasionally worked as a
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Speaker 1: substitute teacher, but happily spent most of her time as
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Speaker 1: a homemaker. She was cooking, gardening and entertaining loved ones
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Speaker 1: and making plans for children, and she allegedly couldn't get
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Speaker 1: enough of Martha Stewart during this time. So Scott and
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Speaker 1: Lacey were seen essentially as the perfect couple, and her
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Speaker 1: friend Katrina Pike described them as quote, they were like
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Speaker 1: a perpetually newlywed couple. We all thought, she's going to
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Speaker 1: go off and live the perfect life that we all
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Speaker 1: thought we wanted. Unquote, she being the perfect loving housewife
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Speaker 1: and he being the perfect devoted husband, willing to give
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Speaker 1: up his dreams to support her and their upcome family.
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Speaker 1: And shortly after this, Lacey would discover the exciting news
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Speaker 1: that she was pregnant with her first child in the
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Speaker 1: summer of two thousand and two, and her mother reports
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Speaker 1: that she shared the news with friends and family on
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Speaker 1: June ninth, and Lacey was beyond ready to become a
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Speaker 1: mother and she was glowing with toy and their baby
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Speaker 1: boy was to be born on February tenth, two thousand
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Speaker 1: and three, and Lacey and Scott chose the name Connor
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Speaker 1: in preparation for their new son. So come December two
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Speaker 1: thousand and two, Lacey was about eight months pregnant, just
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Speaker 1: radiant with her baby bump and patiently waiting for life
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Speaker 1: as a new mom, and both sides of the family
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Speaker 1: were absolutely thrilled. And after a nice visit with Lacey
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Speaker 1: and Scott, Jackie and Lee Peterson attended a Christmas Eve
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Speaker 1: service and on the way home they say, quote said
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Speaker 1: a little prayer and thanks unquote, and Jackie claimed quote
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Speaker 1: were not even heavy prayer people, unquote. And of course
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Speaker 1: the holidays were especially meaningful knowing that little Connor was
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Speaker 1: on the way. So just a couple days before for Christmas,
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Speaker 1: on December twenty third, Lacey and Scott went to visit
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Speaker 1: Lacey's half sister Amy at Salon Salon, Amy gave Scott
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Speaker 1: his monthly haircut while she and Lacey discussed plans for
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Speaker 1: the holidays, and she also mentioned that she had ordered
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Speaker 1: a fruit basket for pickup on Christmas Eve by three pm,
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Speaker 1: which Scott offered to pick up for her the next
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Speaker 1: day as he said he would be in the area
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Speaker 1: to play golf, and he also invited Amy to dinner,
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Speaker 1: but she said no due to other plans, and later
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Speaker 1: that evening, Lacey talked with her mother at around eight
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Speaker 1: thirty pm on the phone, confirming that she was looking
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Speaker 1: forward to coming over for dinner with Sharon and Ron
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Speaker 1: for Christmas Eve the following night. But unfortunately, this would
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Speaker 1: be the last known conversation that anyone in Lacey's immediate
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Speaker 1: family ever had with her, as she would disappear Christmas
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Speaker 1: Eve Day and the last time she would be seen
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Speaker 1: was at nine thirty am on December twenty fourth on
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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, and Scott would recollect that they were having
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Speaker 1: a relaxing morning watching t together because before he left,
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Speaker 1: Lacey was watching Martha Stewart and had plans to take
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Speaker 1: the dog for a walk, moped the kitchen, and shop
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Speaker 1: for groceries, and Scott would go out for the day
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Speaker 1: as he planned to earlier, and instead of golfing, he
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Speaker 1: would actually go on a fishing trip to Berkeley Marina,
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Speaker 1: which was about ninety miles away from their home on
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco Bay, but he would first stop by
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Speaker 1: his company warehouse to pick up his boat and then
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Speaker 1: drive to the marina and fish for about two hours,
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Speaker 1: and then he would stop due to the cold and rain.
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Speaker 1: So both Scott and Lacey were doing their own things
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Speaker 1: that they had planned to do on Christmas Eve. But
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Speaker 1: clearly something happened in between that time where Lacey disappeared
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Speaker 1: and Karen Servis, one of their neighbors, saw something that
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Speaker 1: struck her as odd. At ten eighteen am, Mackenzie, the
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Speaker 1: Peterson's dog, was out wandering the streets of the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: alone but with the leash still attached, and Servis knew
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Speaker 1: who Mackenzie was and brought the friendly dog back to
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Speaker 1: the Peterson's yard and shut the gate behind her, and
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Speaker 1: we saw that Lacey's land rover was in the driveway,
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Speaker 1: but there seemed to be no sight of Lacey anywhere,
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Speaker 1: and the front door was closed and there was another
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Speaker 1: neighbor who allegedly saw Mackenzie loose as well a bit
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Speaker 1: later in the morning, around ten forty five ish am,
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Speaker 1: which suggests there may have been a window of time in.
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Speaker 2: Which the dog was out and put back in the.
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Speaker 1: Yard, but either way, neighbors saw the dog with leash
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Speaker 1: attached out walking in the neighborhood, which was not a
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Speaker 1: regular occurrence, and they would see that Scott's truck wasn't
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Speaker 1: at the house by the time this all occurred, and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the day was just full of confusion
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Speaker 1: and just ever increasing concern. And Ron called the Peterson
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Speaker 1: home at some point during the afternoon but was not
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Speaker 1: able to reach anyone, and Amy was notified at around
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Speaker 1: three forty five PM that the gift basket was never
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Speaker 1: picked up, meaning Scott didn't end up actually picking it up,
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Speaker 1: and the neighbors would claim that no change to the
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Speaker 1: house has happened as of four pm that day and
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Speaker 1: everything was just still quiet. And then at some point
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Speaker 1: point around five PM, Scott returned home from his fishing
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Speaker 1: day and he said that he found the house empty
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Speaker 1: when he arrived, and Lacey's vehicle was still in the
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Speaker 1: driveway and their dog in the backyard with the leash
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Speaker 1: still on, so seeing that Lacey wasn't there, he didn't
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Speaker 1: automatically assume she was missing. He just assumed she might
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Speaker 1: be out for a walk, maybe without the dog potentially,
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Speaker 1: so he would shower and start to settle in, But
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Speaker 1: at around five point fifteen, Scott started to get really
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Speaker 1: concerned and he would call Sharon, which would be the
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Speaker 1: spark to ignite the investigation because he would ask her
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Speaker 1: if Lacey was with her, because maybe Lacey got picked
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Speaker 1: up and she was with Sharon, but Sharon would say no,
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Speaker 1: which immediately triggered in her mind that something was very wrong.
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Speaker 1: So he would then describe Lacey as missing because he
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Speaker 1: had no idea where she was, and Sharon told him
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Speaker 1: to check with the neighbors and friends to make sure,
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Speaker 1: but he quickly called her back saying no one had
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Speaker 1: seen her around and now very very alarmed, Sharon told
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Speaker 1: Ron to report Lacey missing to the police, and Scott
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Speaker 1: also reported her missing as well to the Modesto Police department.
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Speaker 1: So detectives promptly responded to the call that came in
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Speaker 1: around six pm, and they met Scott, Sharon, Ron, and
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Speaker 1: a few other worried family members at a neighborhood park
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Speaker 1: close to the Peterson home to gather initial statements. So
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Speaker 1: Lacey's loved ones and the authorities got right to work
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Speaker 1: and organized a huge community search effort the starting Christmas
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Speaker 1: Day and for several weeks after. Hundreds of volunteers showed
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Speaker 1: up to participate, and there were over nine hundred people
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Speaker 1: at one point checking every single nook and cranny of parks,
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Speaker 1: creek beds, and the neighborhood just hoping for any sign
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Speaker 1: that the missing pregnant woman was still alive. And thousands
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Speaker 1: of flyers featuring Lacey's photo and a yellow ribbon were
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Speaker 1: posted on mailboxes, trees, lampposts, and anywhere they could be hung.
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Speaker 2: And one of.
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Speaker 1: Lacey's friend's husbands launched the original Lacy Peterson dot com
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Speaker 1: website and an initial reward for twenty five thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: was offered for information that would lead to the actual
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Speaker 1: finding of Lacey, and it quickly blew up to two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars and then five hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars has donations poured in and word of the case
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Speaker 1: spread like wildfire, and the case would reach national news
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Speaker 1: and Lacey's disappearance was the topic reported on network news
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Speaker 1: and talk shows within days, and family members and police
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Speaker 1: held press conferences asking for help in any leads, and
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Speaker 1: the story would continue to dominate headlines well into the
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Speaker 1: new year. And during these searches and putting up posters
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Speaker 1: and the visuals, I mean, the entire family was extremely upset,
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Speaker 1: but Scott especially was just almost blank faced, like he
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe what was going on. And everybody grieves differently,
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Speaker 1: but to some people, it threw them off a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the public, but it was also
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Speaker 1: authorities because in these cases they often look at the
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Speaker 1: spouse as the person that committed the crime. But although
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Speaker 1: Scott was facing a little bit of criticism from the
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Speaker 1: public and investigators, so the Roacha family.
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Speaker 2: Stood by Scott's side.
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Speaker 1: So despite any sort of suspicion that they believed within
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Speaker 1: their hearts, Scott was innocent. He loved their daughter, he
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Speaker 1: treated her so well, they had the perfect light, they
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Speaker 1: had a baby on the way. They knew it was
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Speaker 1: not him, so who could it be. So though Scott
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Speaker 1: was a person of interest, investigators did look into numerous
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Speaker 1: leads and tips beyond him. As the investigation went on,
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Speaker 1: and a pregnant woman walking a Golden Retriever was reportedly
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Speaker 1: seen by neighbors on Christmas Eve, fueling abduction theories that
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Speaker 1: she was taken during her usual walk, and multiple witnesses
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Speaker 1: who thought they saw her that morning were interviewed, though
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Speaker 1: the accounts were varied and they ended up proving unfortunately
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Speaker 1: inconclusive and Lacey was not actually seen walking her dog
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Speaker 1: by anyone. And another theory that arose during this time
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Speaker 1: came from a burglary that happened right near the Peterson's home,
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Speaker 1: because at some point around the same time as Lacey's disappearance,
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Speaker 1: the Medina's home was broken into, and with initial speculation
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Speaker 1: that the breaking happened on December twenty fourth, and the
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Speaker 1: fact that the home was directly across the street from
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Speaker 1: the Peterson home, it was thought possible that Lacey could
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Speaker 1: have been taken by the burglars, so police investigated the
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Speaker 1: lead and two men, Stephen Todd and Glenn Pearce, were
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Speaker 1: arrested for the burglary, and after further investigation, police determined
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Speaker 1: that the incident actually took place on December twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: rather than the twenty fourth, so they were back at
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Speaker 1: square one, and they would also find no evidence linking
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Speaker 1: the burglars to the disappearance of Lacey, and the burglars
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Speaker 1: were cleared of any involvement in the case altogether. But
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Speaker 1: there were also reports of a mysterious dark colored van
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Speaker 1: near the neighborhood around when Lacy vanished, leading to speculation
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Speaker 1: about an abduction vehicle, and a burned out orange van
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Speaker 1: was discovered by investigators less than a mile away from
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Speaker 1: the Peterson home, and this too was investigated to see
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Speaker 1: if there was any connection, but nothing could tie the
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Speaker 1: van to Lacey because no forensic evidence was found confirmed
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Speaker 1: the connection, and defenders, drifters, and any other people that
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Speaker 1: may have been capable of doing something to Lacey were
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Speaker 1: methodically checked out by police and just about every registered
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Speaker 1: defender in the area was interviewed, but again, nothing of
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Speaker 1: note was found to connect to the Lacy case, and
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Speaker 1: as January two thousand and three neared its end, authorities
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Speaker 1: publicly stated that no evidence was found for alternate subjects
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Speaker 1: to have interfered with Lacey, so as time went on,
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Speaker 1: suspicions continually pointed to the last person who saw her
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Speaker 1: alive and that was her husband, Scott, but Lacey's family
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Speaker 1: backed him up no matter what, and there was zero
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Speaker 1: evidence that Scott was involved in this disappearance. But just
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Speaker 1: a few weeks into the search, police conveyed crushing news
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Speaker 1: to Lacey's family on January fifteenth, because Scott had been
19:53
Speaker 1: having an affair and it had continued into the time
19:56
Speaker 1: she was missing, and the day the detectives met with
19:59
Speaker 1: Shapear informing her of another woman was the day that
20:03
Speaker 1: destroyed her faith in her son in law, and she
20:06
Speaker 1: now angrily told police that she now believed Scott harmed Lacey,
20:11
Speaker 1: and this would mark the major turning point because the
20:14
Speaker 1: roach of family fully withdrew the support of Scott, which
20:18
Speaker 1: was the number one thing making him look innocent in
20:21
Speaker 1: all of this. Not to mention, the affair didn't look
20:24
Speaker 1: so good either, and publicly the family remained quiet for
20:27
Speaker 1: a few days, but the rift was quite clear, and
20:30
Speaker 1: in a dramatic moment, on January twenty third, Sharon, Brent
20:35
Speaker 1: and Ron held a press conference to address the rumors
20:38
Speaker 1: at hand, and Brent confirmed that day after the family
20:41
Speaker 1: had heard of Scott's affair, that Scott himself admitted it
20:45
Speaker 1: to him on a phone call that he had been
20:47
Speaker 1: cheating on Lacey, and they announced that the family as
20:50
Speaker 1: a whole felt utterly betrayed and they would no longer
20:53
Speaker 1: be supporting Scott throughout this issue, and Sharon and Brent
20:56
Speaker 1: stated that they now questioned everything Scott had ever told
20:59
Speaker 1: them and the nature of their whole relationship, and they
21:03
Speaker 1: would never again speak on his behalf, and Scott swiftly
21:06
Speaker 1: lost his most powerful backup in the court of public opinion,
21:09
Speaker 1: and only a few short hours after the roach of
21:12
Speaker 1: press conference, the other woman stepped into the spotlight, and
21:16
Speaker 1: Amber Fray, a twenty seven year old massage therapist from Fresno, California,
21:21
Speaker 1: held her own press conference to address the situation, and
21:25
Speaker 1: filled with nerves but determined to get the truth out there,
21:28
Speaker 1: Amber confirmed her relationship with Scott Peterson publicly and she
21:32
Speaker 1: had been his girlfriend in the weeks prior to Lacy's disappearance,
21:37
Speaker 1: and she explained that she was completely unaware of his
21:40
Speaker 1: marriage as he said he was single. What a piece
21:43
Speaker 1: of shit, and that the moment she learned the truth,
21:47
Speaker 1: she agreed to help police with the investigation. So, by
21:50
Speaker 1: all accounts, shit started to hit the fan for Scott.
21:54
Speaker 2: Now.
21:54
Speaker 1: Amber and Scott first met on November twentieth, two thousand
21:58
Speaker 1: and two, when a friend introduced them, and Amber was
22:01
Speaker 1: a single mother to a little girl, and she thought
22:03
Speaker 1: Scott was charming and attentive, and they allegedly slept together
22:07
Speaker 1: that night, and he misled Amber into believing he was
22:10
Speaker 1: an unmarried man, like the piece of shit wasted oxygen
22:13
Speaker 1: that he is, and even when she later pointedly asked
22:16
Speaker 1: him if he ever had been married or had kids,
22:20
Speaker 1: he replied with a resounding and pathetic no.
22:23
Speaker 2: So the two saw each.
22:24
Speaker 1: Other regularly throughout November and December, and throughout which time
22:28
Speaker 1: Scott continuously lied to Amber and to Lacey. And after
22:33
Speaker 1: a friend discovered that Scott was actually married and told Amber,
22:36
Speaker 1: she confronted him, and Scott then lied to Amber again,
22:39
Speaker 1: saying this time claiming he was a widower what and
22:44
Speaker 1: that he had lost his wife and this would be
22:47
Speaker 1: the first Christmas he would have to spend without her
22:50
Speaker 1: and stay with me. This conversation happened two weeks before
22:55
Speaker 1: Lacey was last heard from. So the puzzle pieces are
23:00
Speaker 1: coming together and things are getting extremely grim, but he
23:04
Speaker 1: did his best to paint himself as a lonely man
23:07
Speaker 1: filled with grief, but this lie in particular suggested Scott
23:11
Speaker 1: may have already been removing Lacey from his mind before
23:15
Speaker 1: she was actually gone, So with no sign of Lacy
23:19
Speaker 1: or what really happened to her, the status of the
23:22
Speaker 1: case shifted by early February of two thousand and three,
23:26
Speaker 1: and come March fifth, Lacey's case was officially reclassified from
23:29
Speaker 1: a missing person's investigation to a homicide investigation, which acknowledged
23:35
Speaker 1: what many had feared wasn't so that Lacey and her
23:39
Speaker 1: unborn son, Connor were no longer expected to be found alive,
23:43
Speaker 1: So the reclassification was announced without having yet found any bodies,
23:48
Speaker 1: but significant new information was cited as reason to believe
23:52
Speaker 1: she had been murdered, most likely talking about the Scott
23:55
Speaker 1: amber situation, and Scott was officially viewed as a prime
24:00
Speaker 1: suspect from this point onward, though it already appeared to.
24:03
Speaker 2: Many that way.
24:04
Speaker 1: As we heard before, many people thought he was acting
24:08
Speaker 1: pretty weird during the searches and during the visuals, like
24:13
Speaker 1: he was kind of this stone cold guy but a
24:16
Speaker 1: little too much so, and authorities had even offered a
24:19
Speaker 1: deal to Scott in private in February if he confessed
24:23
Speaker 1: further demonstrating their belief in him as guilty. So when
24:27
Speaker 1: Amber got in touch with Modesto police on the thirtieth
24:29
Speaker 1: of December two thousand and two to tell them of
24:32
Speaker 1: her relationship with Scott, they immediately asked her for her help,
24:35
Speaker 1: and she agreed to let police wiretap and recorder conversations
24:39
Speaker 1: with Scott over the phone. We love Amber, okay, we
24:43
Speaker 1: love Amber here. So police would give her a recording
24:46
Speaker 1: device and told her to continue on talking with Scott
24:49
Speaker 1: as if she was none the wiser, in hopes that
24:52
Speaker 1: they could incriminate him, and she played her part. Okay,
24:57
Speaker 1: the award goes too, and she would re regularly speak
25:01
Speaker 1: to Scott by phone throughout January two thousand and three,
25:04
Speaker 1: just recording every conversation, and investigators would end up collecting
25:08
Speaker 1: over twenty nine hours worth of phone call recordings between
25:12
Speaker 1: the two of them, and these calls would eventually become
25:15
Speaker 1: key evidence in the trial against Scott. But Scott would
25:19
Speaker 1: keep on profusely lying to Amber even while everyone was
25:23
Speaker 1: desperately searching for Lacey, his wife, and in one instance,
25:28
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, Scott called Amber and pretended he
25:31
Speaker 1: was celebrating in Paris, saying, quote a near the Eiffel
25:34
Speaker 1: Tower and the New Year's celebration is unreal. The crowd
25:37
Speaker 1: is huge unquote, And he told her this while in actuality,
25:41
Speaker 1: he was in the middle of one of the candlelight
25:44
Speaker 1: visuals that were held for Lacey and Connor in modesto.
25:49
Speaker 1: He's this guy and it would take a while, but
25:51
Speaker 1: eventually the calls began to force some truthful info out
25:55
Speaker 1: of Scott, and in a pivotal conversation that happened on
25:58
Speaker 1: January sixth, Amber backed him into a corner by confronting
26:02
Speaker 1: him about Lacey, specifically as the news about her was everywhere,
26:06
Speaker 1: and Scott finally confessed that he had lied to her.
26:10
Speaker 2: I have not been traveling.
26:14
Speaker 1: Have I lied to you when I've been traveling?
26:23
Speaker 2: She disappeared, and.
26:26
Speaker 1: At one point during their conversation, Amber responded with shock
26:29
Speaker 1: and anger rightfully so, saying, quote, you came and told
26:33
Speaker 1: me this elaborate lie about her missing and this tragedy,
26:37
Speaker 1: and that this will be the first holiday without her.
26:40
Speaker 1: How did you lose her?
26:41
Speaker 3: Then?
26:42
Speaker 1: Before she was lost? Explained that unquote, to which Scott
26:45
Speaker 1: will reply quote there are different kinds of lost Amber unquote.
26:51
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
26:53
Speaker 1: I don't like that. But he still denied ever forming Lacey,
26:57
Speaker 1: saying quote unquote, I'm not an evil guy. Not gonna lie, Scott.
27:01
Speaker 1: That makes me feel like you're a really evil guy.
27:04
Speaker 1: Yet these admissions of his lies were damning enough, and
27:08
Speaker 1: they were captured on tape to be used against him.
27:11
Speaker 1: And Scott also demonstrated his consistent romancing of Amber in
27:15
Speaker 1: these phone calls, and he would often read her poetry
27:18
Speaker 1: and speak affectionately, which is a pretty bad look for
27:22
Speaker 1: someone whose pregnant wife was currently missing. And he told
27:27
Speaker 1: Amber in an infamous quote that he quote didn't want
27:31
Speaker 1: children unquote and was thinking about getting a vasectomy, going
27:36
Speaker 1: against the image of a man who was looking forward
27:39
Speaker 1: to becoming a father. So they had great audio quality,
27:43
Speaker 1: and they helped investigators catch Scott in several different lies,
27:47
Speaker 1: and the case was slowly coming together, but it still
27:50
Speaker 1: lacked physical evidence as to what became of Lacy. At
27:54
Speaker 1: this point, it's all just circumstantial. But unfortunately that grim
28:00
Speaker 1: answer would be found in April of two thousand and three,
28:04
Speaker 1: almost four months after the day Lacey disappeared, because a
28:08
Speaker 1: couple out walking their dog on April thirteenth at Point
28:12
Speaker 1: Isabel Regional Shoreline in the San Francisco Bay found the
28:16
Speaker 1: remains of a decomposing male and the small body had
28:21
Speaker 1: washed up with its umbilical cord still attached. And then
28:25
Speaker 1: the next day a mile away, someone found the partial
28:28
Speaker 1: remains of a pregnant woman tangled amongst the rocks, and
28:32
Speaker 1: the body was also missing hands and feet, and it
28:36
Speaker 1: was very badly decomposed and water worn. And these locations
28:40
Speaker 1: are notably only a few miles from Berkeley Marina, where
28:45
Speaker 1: Scott had said he went fishing the day Lacey vanished,
28:49
Speaker 1: and testing began immediately once the authorities recovered the remains,
28:53
Speaker 1: and on April eighteenth, they confirmed the gut wrenching truth
28:57
Speaker 1: of it all, and the decomposed bodies were in fact
29:01
Speaker 1: Lacy Peterson and her unborn son Connor. It just makes
29:05
Speaker 1: me sick to my stomach. It's so incredibly heartbreaking.
29:12
Speaker 2: It is beyond evil.
29:16
Speaker 1: So the matches were made using comparative DNA from Lacey's
29:20
Speaker 1: family and prenatal samples of Honor, and Lacey's condition was
29:25
Speaker 1: so gruesome from her time in the water that it
29:28
Speaker 1: was impossible to identify her visually, but the DNA confirmation
29:33
Speaker 1: was conclusive, and autopsies were performed on both bodies by
29:37
Speaker 1: forensic pathologist doctor Bryan Peterson, no relation to Scott Peterson,
29:42
Speaker 1: by the way, and the results were initially sealed but
29:45
Speaker 1: later leaked. And as mentioned before, when Lacy's body was found,
29:48
Speaker 1: it was without a head and limbs, but also most
29:53
Speaker 1: of her organs were missing as well from decomposition, and
29:56
Speaker 1: she also had two cracked ribs and broken neck bones,
30:01
Speaker 1: but it could not be determined if these injuries happened
30:03
Speaker 1: before or after death, so her cause of death was
30:07
Speaker 1: ruled as undetermined as the extensive decomposition prevented examiners from
30:11
Speaker 1: pinpointing exactly how it happened, and the autopsies also found
30:16
Speaker 1: no evidence that Connor was ever born alive, and it
30:19
Speaker 1: was concluded that Connor passed away in Lacy's uterus, but
30:22
Speaker 1: was expelled from her body as it decomposed. And though
30:26
Speaker 1: many questions remained unanswered, the answers that did arise were
30:30
Speaker 1: generally consistent with the eventual prosecution's argument.
30:34
Speaker 2: So as evidence continued to.
30:36
Speaker 1: Pile against Scott after the discovery of the bodies. Authorities
30:39
Speaker 1: began to have concerns he was a flight risk, and
30:43
Speaker 1: so they moved in quickly for his arrest. In the
30:46
Speaker 1: day that the DNA test results came back, which was
30:48
Speaker 1: April eighteenth, Scott was tracked to San Diego County, which
30:52
Speaker 1: is about thirty miles from the Mexican border. Guy was
30:56
Speaker 1: trying to escape what have just an evil human being,
31:01
Speaker 1: and Scott had been staying in the San Diego area
31:04
Speaker 1: near his parents while police were keeping a watchful eye,
31:07
Speaker 1: and Scott had headed to the Tory Pines golf Course
31:10
Speaker 1: in La Joya to play around with his father and brother.
31:14
Speaker 1: How are you playing golfer?
31:15
Speaker 3: Oh? Right?
31:16
Speaker 1: Because you did it right, right, right, And as he
31:19
Speaker 1: pulled into the parking lot, officers arrested him at gunpoint.
31:22
Speaker 1: And Scott's appearance that day was quite different than most
31:26
Speaker 1: were accustomed to from the news, and the once clean cut,
31:29
Speaker 1: brown haired man was now sporting a scruffy goatee and
31:33
Speaker 1: light blonde hair, and it looked as if he was
31:36
Speaker 1: trying to disguise himself almost and officers would find multiple
31:40
Speaker 1: suspicious items in his vehicle, including about fifteen thousand dollars
31:44
Speaker 1: in cash and his brother's ID had four cell phones
31:48
Speaker 1: and also camping equipment and several changes of clothes, along
31:53
Speaker 1: with fishing gear and even a bottle of viagra. This
31:57
Speaker 1: guy is a stomped piece jesive sidewalk shit. I swear
32:02
Speaker 1: to God, he was booting up to leave.
32:05
Speaker 2: To escape. And what makes you look guilty trying to escape?
32:09
Speaker 1: Because if he didn't know any better, you might say
32:12
Speaker 1: that he had himself a good old fashioned getaway kit.
32:16
Speaker 2: He might as well tattooed on his forehead.
32:18
Speaker 1: I did it, And investigators indeed believed that both his
32:22
Speaker 1: altered appearance and his possessions of these supplies meant that
32:25
Speaker 1: he intended to head to Mexico soon to avoid arrest.
32:28
Speaker 1: And Scott was arraigned in the Stanislaus County Superior Court
32:31
Speaker 1: three days after his arrest on April twenty first, and
32:34
Speaker 1: he was charged with two felony counts of murder, murder
32:38
Speaker 1: in the first degree with special circumstance for Lacey and
32:41
Speaker 1: murder in the second degree for baby Connor, and Scott
32:44
Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty for both charges, and with that, Scott
32:49
Speaker 1: was finally faced with the official accusation of murder and
32:52
Speaker 1: a possible death sentence, So the prevailing theory as to
32:56
Speaker 1: what really happened to Lacey's seemed to match that which
32:59
Speaker 1: the pro secution put forward, and Scott's primary motive for
33:03
Speaker 1: killing Lacey was selfish and cold blooded because he wanted
33:07
Speaker 1: his single life freedom back to avoid the responsibilities of
33:11
Speaker 1: his marriage and becoming a father, and he resented his
33:14
Speaker 1: unborn son and the constraints that family life would bring.
33:17
Speaker 1: You know, you can't just divorce your wife and just
33:21
Speaker 1: be an absent father. You had to take the lives
33:25
Speaker 1: of two innocent people. You disgusting human being. But murder
33:30
Speaker 1: was the way that Scott believed would finally release him
33:33
Speaker 1: from a marriage he could no longer care about, and
33:36
Speaker 1: prosecutors would later tell the jury that he was so
33:39
Speaker 1: desperate for freedom from domestic drudgery that he chose to
33:43
Speaker 1: fully get rid of his wife rather than just divorce
33:47
Speaker 1: her like what I said, and his affair with Amber
33:49
Speaker 1: solidified this claim, as she was symbolic to that single
33:53
Speaker 1: and free life that Scott's so desired quote he wants
33:56
Speaker 1: to live the rich, successful, free wheeling bachelor life. And
34:01
Speaker 1: Stanislaus County District Attorney and lead prosecutor Rick Destasso said
34:05
Speaker 1: in closing arguments, quote, he can't do that when he's
34:09
Speaker 1: paying child support, alimony and everything else unquote. And prosecutors
34:15
Speaker 1: believe that Lacey was burnered either on the night of
34:17
Speaker 1: December twenty third or the early morning of December twenty fourth,
34:21
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. And they theorized that Scott, in
34:24
Speaker 1: an effort to leave as little a mess and as
34:27
Speaker 1: few ast injuries as possible, either strangled or smothered her.
34:32
Speaker 1: And it was noted that there was no signs of
34:34
Speaker 1: break in or struggle at the house either. And on
34:37
Speaker 1: the morning of December twenty fourth, Scott carried out his plan,
34:40
Speaker 1: and he would wrap Lacey's deceased body in a tarp
34:43
Speaker 1: and put it in his truck, and he would drive
34:46
Speaker 1: to his warehouse to get his small fishing boat, and there,
34:50
Speaker 1: as evidence showed, he made multiple concrete anchors, and it's
34:54
Speaker 1: believed four of these were used as weights for each
34:58
Speaker 1: of Lacey's limbs, and he to his boat to Berkeley Marina,
35:01
Speaker 1: where he claimed he went fishing, but actually sent Lacey's
35:05
Speaker 1: anchored body overboard into the bottom of the water, and
35:09
Speaker 1: the depths of the bay concealed the crime were months,
35:13
Speaker 1: but now it was openly noted and accepted that the
35:15
Speaker 1: entirety of the case against Scott was circumstantial, as there
35:19
Speaker 1: was actually no eyewitnesses, no footage, and no murder weapon
35:24
Speaker 1: and no actual physical evidence that directly linked Scott to
35:28
Speaker 1: Lacey's death, and there was also no physical crime scene
35:32
Speaker 1: because nothing was found at the house, or the boat
35:35
Speaker 1: or the warehouse. But the compilation of indirect evidence, they
35:39
Speaker 1: believed was more than enough to convict Scott of the crime.
35:43
Speaker 1: So due to the immense publicity before the trial and
35:46
Speaker 1: the heated emotions of the community in Modesto, the judge
35:49
Speaker 1: granted a venue change and the trial was moved around
35:51
Speaker 1: one hundred miles away to San Mateo County to draw
35:54
Speaker 1: from a potential jury pool of less influenced people, and
35:58
Speaker 1: the proceedings took place in Redwood's city at the San
36:01
Speaker 1: Mateo County Courthouse. So, in order to reduce the circus
36:04
Speaker 1: like atmosphere that was sure to happen, Judge Lucci banned
36:08
Speaker 1: cameras from the courtroom, preventing the trial from being televised live,
36:12
Speaker 1: and though this didn't prevent coverage from the outside and
36:15
Speaker 1: of course journalists were allowed into the courtroom to witness
36:18
Speaker 1: and write about it. Defense attorney Mark Garagos, a Los
36:21
Speaker 1: Angeles lawyer well known for his infamous clients, represented Scott
36:25
Speaker 1: and he publicly proclaimed that Scott was fully innocent and
36:28
Speaker 1: vowed that he would.
36:30
Speaker 2: Find the real killers. Shut the fuck up, shut up.
36:34
Speaker 1: And as mentioned earlier, District Attorney Rick Destasso led the
36:37
Speaker 1: prosecution and jury selection was very scrutinized, as it should
36:41
Speaker 1: be with such a widely known case, and over a
36:44
Speaker 1: thousand potential jurors answered questionnaires revealing that many already believed
36:49
Speaker 1: that Scott was guilty, as you and I do at
36:52
Speaker 1: this point, I hope. So finding impartial jurors proved quite
36:55
Speaker 1: a challenge, but eventually a jury of six men and
36:58
Speaker 1: six women, plus alternates were selected come June two thousand
37:01
Speaker 1: and four. So June first, two thousand and four saw
37:04
Speaker 1: opening statements and the official start of the trial, and
37:07
Speaker 1: it unfolded over twenty three weeks, almost six months of testimony,
37:12
Speaker 1: ending in November. And the case was very complex, as
37:16
Speaker 1: we know, so the length of the trial just felt
37:19
Speaker 1: like a marathon, reflecting the complexity. With one hundred and
37:22
Speaker 1: eighty four witnesses in total, called to testify throughout the case,
37:26
Speaker 1: people from neighbors to detectives, to specialists to Amber Fray herself,
37:31
Speaker 1: and the jurors were overwhelmed with information, and the trial
37:34
Speaker 1: itself was compared to a real life soap opera, and
37:38
Speaker 1: the prosecution's case took a methodical approach to connect all
37:42
Speaker 1: of the dots of Scott's guilt, and the key arguments
37:45
Speaker 1: were because there was a lot going on in this case,
37:47
Speaker 1: so I'll crunch it down for you, but they were
37:50
Speaker 1: inconsistent alibi because they highlighted the fact that Scott's story
37:55
Speaker 1: seemed to keep changing, because initially he told certain people
37:58
Speaker 1: that he was going to go golfing on Christmasy, but
38:00
Speaker 1: then he actually went fishing. And some of these people
38:03
Speaker 1: included neighbors that he told after arriving home, because he
38:06
Speaker 1: would tell some of the neighbors that he went golfing
38:08
Speaker 1: when he actually went fishing, which just makes no sense.
38:11
Speaker 1: But then for others and the police, he would say that,
38:13
Speaker 1: oh no, I was going fishing the whole time. It
38:16
Speaker 1: just nothing added up. And conventionally, he went fishing not
38:19
Speaker 1: far from where the bodies ultimately were found, and they
38:23
Speaker 1: made sure to point out that Scott purchased the fishing
38:26
Speaker 1: boat only weeks before the murder on December ninth, and
38:29
Speaker 1: almost in secret and fishing gear on December twentieth, and
38:33
Speaker 1: obtained a two day fishing license before the twenty fourth.
38:37
Speaker 1: It's it's just the red carpet of I did it.
38:40
Speaker 1: It just the trial seems so null and void. I mean,
38:44
Speaker 1: I know we need trials, but he did it. Come on,
38:46
Speaker 1: he did it. It just all looked like a really shitty,
38:49
Speaker 1: hasty alibi, and Prosecutor Destasso drilled the point home with quote,
38:55
Speaker 1: I don't care how upset you are, Nobody forgets that
38:58
Speaker 1: you just got home from fishing.
39:00
Speaker 2: This man is guilty of murder unquote.
39:03
Speaker 1: And then there's demeanor, because multiple people, including friends and
39:07
Speaker 1: detectives and even Lacy's family, testified about Scott's weirdly detached
39:12
Speaker 1: demeanor throughout the entire crisis, and Detective Bueller even mentioned
39:16
Speaker 1: he just didn't fit the typical profile of a frantic
39:19
Speaker 1: husband and instead maintained an eerie.
39:21
Speaker 2: Calm about him.
39:22
Speaker 1: And the way that this unnerving display continued even as
39:25
Speaker 1: weeks and months went by, seemed much more consistent with
39:28
Speaker 1: a man that already knew the outcome and really just
39:31
Speaker 1: didn't care about the marriage anymore. And then there's the
39:35
Speaker 1: blatant affair in blatant lies, because Scott's affair and lies
39:39
Speaker 1: were arguably the strongest evidence against him, and the jury
39:43
Speaker 1: got to hear testimony from Amber directly, which we'll examine
39:46
Speaker 1: in a second, and many of the recorded calls, and
39:49
Speaker 1: the calls gave them insight into Scott's deceit by allowing
39:52
Speaker 1: them to experience it through his own voice, and the
39:55
Speaker 1: prosecution argued the recordings showed not just motive, but consciousness
39:59
Speaker 1: of his guilt, and he was making up cover stories
40:02
Speaker 1: on the fly and kept lies going well after Lacey
40:05
Speaker 1: was gone, which suggested he knew she wouldn't return. And
40:09
Speaker 1: Amber's appearance at the trial put a human face on
40:12
Speaker 1: Scott's betrayal in the absence of being able to see Lacey,
40:16
Speaker 1: and her presence likely destroyed any remaining sympathy that jury
40:20
Speaker 1: might have had for him. And then there's locations of
40:23
Speaker 1: the bodies, because where he went fishing is very close
40:26
Speaker 1: to where the bodies were discovered, and Prosecutor Destasso commented, quote,
40:30
Speaker 1: the only person in the exact location where Lacy and
40:33
Speaker 1: Connor Peterson's body washed ashore is sitting right there unquote,
40:38
Speaker 1: pointing rate at Scott end quote, and you can take
40:42
Speaker 1: that to the bank and convict this man of murder
40:45
Speaker 1: unquote drop Mike, okay, And they brought in an expert
40:49
Speaker 1: in hydrology as well, who testified that based on where
40:53
Speaker 1: the remains washed ashore and the way the bay currents moved,
40:56
Speaker 1: it was very likely that someone would have dropped the
40:59
Speaker 1: bodies off near Berkeley Marina, exactly where Scott claimed he went.
41:03
Speaker 1: And this particular argument really boiled down to this, It
41:07
Speaker 1: would be insanely coincidental for some random killer to have
41:12
Speaker 1: abducted Lacey in Modesto and then taken her almost one
41:16
Speaker 1: hundred miles away to dump her in the exact same
41:20
Speaker 1: spot that Scott admitted he went fishing. One plus two
41:24
Speaker 1: done equal four.
41:25
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
41:26
Speaker 1: And then there was the pre planning. I mean, this
41:29
Speaker 1: was clearly a first degree murder. He planned this out.
41:32
Speaker 1: Because prosecutor suggested premeditation of the murders by bringing up
41:36
Speaker 1: a number of Scott's actions leading up to December twenty fourth,
41:39
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, some of which we've talked about before.
41:42
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll rementioned briefly because he bought a
41:45
Speaker 1: boat on December ninth, and when he made the purchase,
41:48
Speaker 1: he declined the standard anchors that came with it, possibly
41:51
Speaker 1: because he had plans to make his own to weigh
41:53
Speaker 1: the body down.
41:54
Speaker 2: And at Scott's.
41:55
Speaker 1: Warehouse police found cement powder and five circular marks that
41:59
Speaker 1: match the size in shape of the bucket used to
42:01
Speaker 1: make the one anchor they recovered, So that's basically the
42:05
Speaker 1: only evidence they were able to gather, and the supposed
42:08
Speaker 1: other four were never found, but the support of the
42:11
Speaker 1: theory regardless, and Prosecutor Destosto argued that Scott's purchase of
42:15
Speaker 1: his first ever fishing pole just days before Lacey's disappearance
42:19
Speaker 1: made a prop of going fishing rather than acquiring these
42:23
Speaker 1: items for actually fishing smells fishy and comments revealed and
42:29
Speaker 1: the recorded calls with Amber like saying his wife was
42:32
Speaker 1: lost before the incident even happened, just further demonstrating that
42:36
Speaker 1: the murder was planned way ahead of time, not to
42:38
Speaker 1: mention his just behavior throughout the entire case, and then
42:42
Speaker 1: being found with a runaway kit like be so for
42:46
Speaker 1: real right now, Like it just it's very obviously him right,
42:49
Speaker 1: and the prosecution noted that innocent people tend to not
42:52
Speaker 1: carry fifteen thousand dollars in cash in their brother's id
42:55
Speaker 1: if they're a person in the midst of an investigation.
42:58
Speaker 1: So all the pieces combine begin to show the portrait
43:02
Speaker 1: of a very guilty, disgusting man. And when Amber took
43:06
Speaker 1: the stand, her testimony quickly became one of the most
43:08
Speaker 1: compelling parts of the trial, and she calmly told of
43:12
Speaker 1: her experience and her relationship with the accused for the jury,
43:15
Speaker 1: and she testified that Scott claimed he was a single
43:18
Speaker 1: man and care freeman, how he won her over with
43:21
Speaker 1: romance and charm, and how sweet he was to her daughter,
43:24
Speaker 1: and how he lied and he lied, and he lied
43:28
Speaker 1: and he lied right from the start, and most crucially
43:32
Speaker 1: about Lacey. Amber confirmed that she worked with police to
43:35
Speaker 1: record calls with Scott because she believed that he had
43:38
Speaker 1: to have been involved, and many of these calls were
43:41
Speaker 1: played for the jury while she was on the stand,
43:45
Speaker 1: including the confrontation mentioned before where she backed him into
43:48
Speaker 1: a corner and got him.
43:49
Speaker 2: To admit his deceit. Okay, and those.
44:01
Speaker 1: Watching the case unfold noted that Amber's testimony was devastating
44:05
Speaker 1: to Scott's defense, and she was very composed throughout despite
44:09
Speaker 1: the tremendous pressure, and her genuine anger and pain from
44:12
Speaker 1: being on the receiving end of Scott's lies really resonated
44:15
Speaker 1: with the jury.
44:16
Speaker 2: Again, God bless Amber.
44:18
Speaker 1: She's alive.
44:19
Speaker 2: Where now I know? I want to tell you.
44:28
Speaker 3: He need to protect.
44:29
Speaker 2: Yourself from media.
44:31
Speaker 1: So her time on the stand was an undisputed turning point,
44:34
Speaker 1: tilting the favor of the trial even further over to
44:37
Speaker 1: the prosecution side. And she made the stakes real and
44:40
Speaker 1: showed Scott not just as a defendant but a liar
44:44
Speaker 1: who saw his pregnant wife as nothing but an inconvenience.
44:48
Speaker 1: So garrigo'sy, in typical high profile fashion, led an aggressive defense,
44:53
Speaker 1: though with seemingly not as much to go on, and
44:56
Speaker 1: he argued that Scott may have been dishonorable, but he
45:00
Speaker 1: was no killer.
45:01
Speaker 3: Sure, he cheated and he lied a lot, and you know,
45:05
Speaker 3: there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that really wouldn't make
45:09
Speaker 3: sense if it was anybody else, But come on, he's
45:12
Speaker 3: just kind of a jerk and a liar.
45:13
Speaker 1: Hits quote unquote a jerk and a liar. But adultery
45:17
Speaker 1: does not equal murder, he says, and he claimed that
45:20
Speaker 1: the prosecution were using the emotions of the jury and
45:23
Speaker 1: general hatred of Scott to cover up for their lack
45:26
Speaker 1: of evidence.
45:27
Speaker 2: In fact, this lack of direct evidence was.
45:30
Speaker 1: Essential to their argument because there was no eyewitnesses, no fingerprints,
45:34
Speaker 1: no murder weapon, no blood, et cetera, absolutely nothing that
45:38
Speaker 1: forensically tied Scott to the murders. Quote zero zip, not
45:43
Speaker 1: a nothing unquote. As George Caragos said, and he reminded
45:47
Speaker 1: jurors that it is actually possible to be a horrible
45:51
Speaker 1: husband and human being but still be innocent of killing his.
45:55
Speaker 2: Wife an unborn child. Where does this guy sleep at night?
45:58
Speaker 1: I know people have to have these, but how do
46:01
Speaker 1: they sleep? I don't. But he called the entirety of
46:04
Speaker 1: the prosecution's case a quote make the jurors hate him
46:08
Speaker 1: unquote strategy in hopes that they would convict Scott from
46:11
Speaker 1: their emotion rather than the proof presented. And Garago's defense
46:15
Speaker 1: of Scott was presented through the following arguments. First of all,
46:18
Speaker 1: the timeline, because the defense did their best to create
46:20
Speaker 1: reasonable doubt by attacking the timeline of Lacey's death and
46:24
Speaker 1: They did this by calling doctor Charles March, a fertility specialist,
46:29
Speaker 1: to stand and March controversially testified that, based on growth
46:33
Speaker 1: measurements of the fetus, or Connor may have died several
46:38
Speaker 1: days after the alleged murder date, which was possibly December
46:41
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, and if this testimony was true, it implies
46:45
Speaker 1: that Lacey was alive and potentially a captive after Christmas
46:49
Speaker 1: has passed, and thereby proving Scott didn't do it. However,
46:53
Speaker 1: the controversial nature of March's testimony was that his analysis
46:56
Speaker 1: was based on a friend's report of Lacey learning she
47:00
Speaker 1: was pregnant on June ninth, two thousand and two, and
47:03
Speaker 1: determined Connor's age from that, which how is this guy professional?
47:07
Speaker 1: I have no idea, And under cross examination this theory
47:10
Speaker 1: was shredded to pieces when March conceded that he assumed,
47:15
Speaker 1: You know what, assuming does March? It makes an asset
47:17
Speaker 1: of you and me. No, doesn't it all right? He
47:18
Speaker 1: assumed that June ninth was the date Lacey learned of
47:22
Speaker 1: the pregnancy, though he had no actual medical record to
47:26
Speaker 1: support that the pregnancy test was taken that day, and
47:29
Speaker 1: June ninth was likely just the day she told people
47:32
Speaker 1: about it. So the guy is incompetent and stupid to
47:37
Speaker 1: be honest, and March's credibility was completely tainted and his
47:41
Speaker 1: theory never stuck with the jury. And then there's the
47:44
Speaker 1: defense of alternate culprits, and Garago's tried to completely shift
47:48
Speaker 1: suspicion away from Scott by focusing on various leads that
47:51
Speaker 1: the prosecution allegedly ignored, namely the Medina burglary that happened
47:56
Speaker 1: across the street. But we already know that happened two
47:59
Speaker 1: days after after Lacey disappeared, So again it's a wash.
48:03
Speaker 2: It's just a wash. But Garagos would also suggest that.
48:06
Speaker 1: Some unknown people could have taken and killed Lacey, like
48:10
Speaker 1: a transient person or a satanic cult.
48:13
Speaker 2: This isn't the sixties.
48:15
Speaker 1: Would go away with the satanic panic bullshit. You know,
48:19
Speaker 1: it's a bad defense when they're bringing up satanic panic,
48:22
Speaker 1: which was proven to all be bullshit.
48:24
Speaker 2: By the way, I should do a deep dive on that.
48:26
Speaker 2: This guy makes me mad, though, I tell you what.
48:27
Speaker 1: But in the end, these claims were all speculative and
48:30
Speaker 1: no support was found for them. But during closing arguments,
48:33
Speaker 1: Garagos echoed his earlier assertions that the prosecution had not
48:38
Speaker 1: proven where, when, or how Lacey was actually killed, and
48:41
Speaker 1: all they succeeded in doing was proving Scott was a
48:44
Speaker 1: liar and a cheater. And he further emphasized that hating
48:47
Speaker 1: Scott has no legal basis for conviction if the evidence
48:51
Speaker 1: isn't enough, because technically you have to be guilty beyond
48:54
Speaker 1: a reasonable doubt.
48:55
Speaker 2: That's fair, that is the law.
48:56
Speaker 1: But this come on regardless of this poor defense, most
49:02
Speaker 1: people remained convinced that the evidence, although circumstantial, was undeniable
49:07
Speaker 1: when looked at as a whole. So the jury was
49:10
Speaker 1: rightfully so unconvinced of the narrative that was put forward
49:13
Speaker 1: by the defense and could not find an alternative to
49:16
Speaker 1: Scott that they found reasonable. And in addition to the
49:20
Speaker 1: drama of the overall trial, the jury managed to experience
49:23
Speaker 1: a little bit of their own drama within and a
49:26
Speaker 1: juror was removed during the trial on June twenty third
49:29
Speaker 1: due to misconduct, and Judge Delucci had questioned each juror
49:33
Speaker 1: individually in chambers when it came out that this juror
49:36
Speaker 1: had allegedly talked about the case with outside parties and
49:39
Speaker 1: another incident where concerns were raised after the same juror
49:42
Speaker 1: was seen speaking to Brent Rocha. So the Honorable Judge
49:46
Speaker 1: decided to dismiss the juror to maintain the integrity of
49:49
Speaker 1: the trial, and they were replaced by an alternate. And
49:52
Speaker 1: a more shocking juror change took place during deliberations, as
49:55
Speaker 1: two jurors were dismissed, either for misconduct or other issues.
50:00
Speaker 1: The first of the two jurors were dismissed for reaching
50:02
Speaker 1: the case independently even after they were instructed not to
50:06
Speaker 1: do so, and the second was the original jury foreman
50:09
Speaker 1: named Gregory Jackson, and Jackson was an attorney himself and
50:13
Speaker 1: asked to be removed from the jury amidst attention in
50:16
Speaker 1: the jury room, and the initial request was denied, and
50:19
Speaker 1: throughout the case he had reportedly taken extensive notes and
50:22
Speaker 1: reviewed them methodically during deliberations, which slowed them down considerably
50:27
Speaker 1: and frustrated other jurors. So Judge Delucci spoke with Jackson again,
50:31
Speaker 1: and though the details weren't public, it became clear that
50:34
Speaker 1: the foreman believed the process wasn't working, and Jackson attempted
50:38
Speaker 1: to excuse himself once more, and this time his request
50:41
Speaker 1: was granted and another alternate was placed in his stead.
50:44
Speaker 1: And these jury incidents would later become relevant during the
50:47
Speaker 1: appeal process, but at the time they were instructed to
50:50
Speaker 1: begin deliberations anew, so they did so and quickly came
50:53
Speaker 1: to the verdict by that after noon. So after deliberations,
50:57
Speaker 1: the jury returned to the packed courtroom on November twelve,
51:00
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, to announce their verdict, and they
51:03
Speaker 1: had found Scott Peterson guilty on both counts of murder,
51:07
Speaker 1: first degree murder carrying a special circumstance for killing Lacey,
51:11
Speaker 1: and second degree murder for killing baby Connor. And there
51:14
Speaker 1: were audible expressions as the court clerk read the verdict aloud,
51:19
Speaker 1: and Sharon reportedly burst into tears. Yet Scott remained cool
51:23
Speaker 1: as ever, like the piece of shit he is, showing
51:27
Speaker 1: essentially no emotion and staring straight ahead, hopefully thinking about
51:32
Speaker 1: just his his entire life rotting away and being just
51:36
Speaker 1: treated like a subhuman in a cell and just decomposing
51:43
Speaker 1: over years and years, and having to having you to
51:46
Speaker 1: relive what he did to his beautiful wife and child.
51:51
Speaker 2: But what do I know, hopefully hopefully.
51:53
Speaker 1: That's hopefully, that's what he was thinking about. But the
51:55
Speaker 1: conviction would just serve as confirmation to what Lacy's family
51:58
Speaker 1: already believed. The man they once loved and welcomed into
52:02
Speaker 1: their family had betrayed and murdered their beloved Lacy and
52:06
Speaker 1: her unborn child, Connor, And with special circumstance, Scott's trial
52:10
Speaker 1: would move into the penalty phase as he was now
52:13
Speaker 1: eligible for the death penalty. Uh oh, consequences for your actions,
52:19
Speaker 1: and the penalty phase shouted on November three, two thousand
52:22
Speaker 1: and four, where jurors heard additional testimony, including victim impact
52:26
Speaker 1: statements and our December thirteenth, two thousand and four, the
52:29
Speaker 1: recommendation was delivered by the jury and Scott was to
52:32
Speaker 1: be put to death for what he had done, and
52:35
Speaker 1: jurors later mentioned their unanimous decision was mainly motivated by
52:39
Speaker 1: Scott's lack of remorse and the clearly immense loss that
52:43
Speaker 1: Lacey's loved ones endured and will continue to endure, and
52:47
Speaker 1: Judge Delucci formally sentence Scott to death by lethal injection
52:51
Speaker 1: on March sixteenth, two thousand and five, following the jury's recommendation,
52:55
Speaker 1: and he also ordered Scott to pay ten thousand dollars
52:58
Speaker 1: toward Lacey's funeral cost and awarded two hundred and fifty
53:02
Speaker 1: thousand dollars life insurance policy that Scott claimed in Lacey's
53:05
Speaker 1: name to her mother, Sharon, and he further condemned the
53:08
Speaker 1: murders as cruel and uncaring, heartless, and callous, stating that
53:13
Speaker 1: the murder of Connor made the crime especially more horrific.
53:17
Speaker 1: And at the sentencing, Sharon addressed Scott directly and told
53:20
Speaker 1: him just how badly he had betrayed and destroyed their family,
53:24
Speaker 1: and Scott chose not to speak on his own behalf,
53:27
Speaker 1: maintaining his innocence, and he was sent to San Quentin
53:30
Speaker 1: State Prison after sentencing to await his death, and there
53:34
Speaker 1: he would spend the next fifteen plus years of his
53:36
Speaker 1: life appealing his conviction and sentence, because that's a loophole
53:41
Speaker 1: in the system. He was literally sentenced to die the
53:45
Speaker 1: next year, but he just kept appealing, so they kept
53:47
Speaker 1: having to push it back, and Lazy and Connor were
53:50
Speaker 1: buried together and the Peterson murder case was officially closed,
53:55
Speaker 1: but its aftermath was far from over. So on August
53:58
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty, the California Supreme Court overturned Scott's
54:03
Speaker 1: death sentence in a unanimous showing and as Justice LEONDR.
54:06
Speaker 1: Krueger wrote in their decision, the court held that significant
54:10
Speaker 1: errors had been made in the jury selection process by
54:13
Speaker 1: Judge Delucci that adversely affected Scott during the penalty phase,
54:18
Speaker 1: and specifically, Judge Delucci had improperly dismissed potential jurors when
54:22
Speaker 1: they had expressed general objections to the death penalty, even
54:26
Speaker 1: if those people said they were capable of following the
54:28
Speaker 1: law and considering it should the time come, and under
54:31
Speaker 1: precedent set by the U. S. Supreme Court, a potential
54:34
Speaker 1: juror cannot be dismissed unless their opposition to capital punishment
54:39
Speaker 1: actually would prevent them from deliberating on a death sentence fairly, So,
54:43
Speaker 1: the simple opposition to the death penalty is not grounds
54:47
Speaker 1: for dismissal. So the California Supreme Court found dozens of
54:50
Speaker 1: jurors were improperly dismissed, violating the standard in Scott's case
54:55
Speaker 1: and undermined his right to impartial jury. And it's important
54:58
Speaker 1: to note that this reversal didn't not overturned Scott's guilty
55:01
Speaker 1: verdict at all, but instead prevented him from receiving the
55:05
Speaker 1: death penalty, so he's still rotting, thank god. And the
55:08
Speaker 1: prosecution was given the option to accept a life without
55:11
Speaker 1: parole sentence or to retry the penalty phase, and they
55:14
Speaker 1: chose the former, and on December eighth, twenty twenty one,
55:18
Speaker 1: Scott was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility
55:21
Speaker 1: of parole, plus a concurrent life sentence for the murder
55:25
Speaker 1: in the second degree, and Sharon once again spoke to
55:28
Speaker 1: Scott at resentencing, calling him a coward and declaring, quote,
55:32
Speaker 1: you betrayed her, your son, and everyone else. You ended
55:36
Speaker 1: two beautiful souls unquote. And with that, Scott was moved
55:40
Speaker 1: off death row and put into general population at California's
55:43
Speaker 1: Mule Creek State Prison to serve the remainder of his
55:46
Speaker 1: new life sentence. And to this day, Scott maintains his
55:50
Speaker 1: innocence despite all the affirmations of his guilt, and that
55:54
Speaker 1: specifically garnered the attention of the La Innocence Project, which
55:59
Speaker 1: is a nonprofit legal organization that dedicates pro bono work
56:03
Speaker 1: to proving the wrongly convicted as innocent, which, in hindsight,
56:07
Speaker 1: that's great. There's a lot of people that get wrongly convicted,
56:09
Speaker 1: so I think that's a great program to have, But.
56:11
Speaker 2: For this guy. This guy.
56:14
Speaker 1: So on January twenty twenty four, they formally announced that
56:17
Speaker 1: they had taken on Scott's case and are working on
56:20
Speaker 1: a detailed appeal. And back in May of twenty twenty two,
56:23
Speaker 1: Scott's defense attorney had filed new briefs claiming that a
56:27
Speaker 1: juror had actually hit a conflict of interest during jury selection,
56:31
Speaker 1: which prompted the California Supreme Court to flag it.
56:34
Speaker 2: For a hearing.
56:35
Speaker 1: And the lawyers at the Innocence Project also say that
56:37
Speaker 1: they have new evidence in demonstrating Scott's innocence and are
56:41
Speaker 1: requesting more information in regards to eyewitness accounts and duct
56:45
Speaker 1: tape found on Lacey and the Medina burglary and the
56:49
Speaker 1: bodies after discovery, and a black tarp found washed ashore,
56:54
Speaker 1: and other untested evidence. So they are petitioning for a
56:58
Speaker 1: new trial using these grounds as a basis, and as
57:01
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, the Innocence Project is still at
57:03
Speaker 1: work on the case and they say that they will
57:06
Speaker 1: not stop advocating for Scott until all evidence has been
57:09
Speaker 1: fully re examined, and most legal experts are still skeptical
57:13
Speaker 1: that Scott will ever be exonerated. Yet the saga is
57:16
Speaker 1: still unfolding over twenty years later. But among the many
57:20
Speaker 1: lives affected through this tragedy, the case also led to
57:24
Speaker 1: a rather significant legacy in the realm of federal law,
57:27
Speaker 1: and largely due to public outcry over pregnant Lacy and
57:31
Speaker 1: her unborn son, Connor in Congress passed the Unborn Victims
57:35
Speaker 1: of Violence Act in two thousand and four, and this
57:38
Speaker 1: is often referred to as Lacy and Connor's Law, as
57:41
Speaker 1: it states that an unborn child is recognized as a
57:45
Speaker 1: separate legal victim if they are injured or killed when
57:49
Speaker 1: certain federal violent crimes are committed. So essentially, if a
57:53
Speaker 1: woman is assaulted or murdered while she is pregnant, prosecutors
57:57
Speaker 1: can charge a second offense on behalf of the which
58:01
Speaker 1: I say, of course absolutely thank Gosh for this law.
58:07
Speaker 1: And knowledge of the pregnancy is also not required for
58:10
Speaker 1: this to take effect, and President George W. Bush officially
58:14
Speaker 1: signed the bill into law on April first, two thousand
58:17
Speaker 1: and four, and Sharon and Ron were in attendance and
58:20
Speaker 1: they stood behind the President as he mentioned Lacy and
58:22
Speaker 1: Connor by name, and President Bush said, quote, as of today,
58:27
Speaker 1: the law of our nation will acknowledge the plain fact
58:29
Speaker 1: that crimes of violence against pregnant women often have two victims, unquote.
58:35
Speaker 1: And the legislation had been in circulation and debated for years,
58:39
Speaker 1: but the Peterson case was just the push it needed
58:42
Speaker 1: to pass through. So it was an extremely bittersweet moment
58:45
Speaker 1: for Lacy's family, as nothing would ever bring Lacy and
58:49
Speaker 1: Connor back, but at least now Connor's loss would be
58:53
Speaker 1: formally recognized by the law, and the act made it
58:56
Speaker 1: possible to prosecute and convict Scott for two homicides. The
59:00
Speaker 1: case and critics of the law were concerned as to
59:03
Speaker 1: the effect that it would have on abortion politics by
59:06
Speaker 1: defining the fetus as a defensible victim, but the wording
59:10
Speaker 1: in the law specifically exempts abortion and actions taken by
59:13
Speaker 1: the mother from being prosecuted, and as of twenty twenty five,
59:17
Speaker 1: at least thirty eight states also have fetal homicide laws
59:21
Speaker 1: as well. And ever determined to keep the memory of
59:24
Speaker 1: Lacey alive and to advocate for all victims, Sharon wrote
59:28
Speaker 1: a memoir entitled For Lacey, A Mother's Story of love, loss.
59:32
Speaker 2: And justice.
59:33
Speaker 1: In the three hundred and sixty eight page book was
59:35
Speaker 1: published in December of two thousand and six, and in it,
59:38
Speaker 1: Sharon movingly tells of Lacey's life, remembering deeply personal and
59:43
Speaker 1: uplifting stories from her childhood through her marriage, offering insight
59:48
Speaker 1: into her personality, her passion for gardening, and her overwhelming
59:52
Speaker 1: laughter and kindness. And Sharon then documents the horror of
59:56
Speaker 1: Lacey's disappearance and the seemingly unnerving so search and the
1:00:00
Speaker 1: outpour of support from their community, and the moment she
1:00:05
Speaker 1: discovered Scott's betrayal. But she became a powerhouse for victim's
1:00:09
Speaker 1: rights advocacy and regularly traveling to support laws like the
1:00:13
Speaker 1: Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and in the process has
1:00:16
Speaker 1: done all she can to comfort the families of other
1:00:18
Speaker 1: missing persons, and quote unquote, for Lacey became a New
1:00:22
Speaker 1: York Times bestseller and gave insight into a mother's perspective
1:00:26
Speaker 1: on a case that captured America's attention, and Sharon's strength
1:00:30
Speaker 1: and dedication to Lacy's legacy has had a profound impact
1:00:34
Speaker 1: on the lives of many, and assuredly continued to do
1:00:37
Speaker 1: so today. So my heart goes out to Sharon and
1:00:42
Speaker 1: all of Lacey and Connor's family, and to Lacey and
1:00:45
Speaker 1: Connor especially. But that brings us to the end of
1:00:49
Speaker 1: the video. Let me know what other cases you want
1:00:52
Speaker 1: me to deep dive into down below. I always read
1:00:55
Speaker 1: the comments and until I see you next time, please
1:00:58
Speaker 1: stay safe and today beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Okay bye,