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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering
- 0:09Speaker 1: his pregnant wife, Lacey and their unborn child, Connor now
- 0:14Speaker 1: speaks out from behind bars. What happened to testifying at trial?
- 0:18Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can't get cross examined now. And his
- 0:21Speaker 1: big reveal quote, I'm in a hole. That's going to
- 0:26Speaker 1: help him get a new trial. I'm Nancy Grace. This
- 0:29Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Cop
- 0:34Speaker 1: search the home of Scott and Lacy Peterson twice after
- 0:38Speaker 1: Lacy's disappearance. The second search left them in shock. The
- 0:44Speaker 1: second search leaves him in shot in the last days.
- 0:48Speaker 1: A release, A release of Scott Peterson speaking out. I'm sorry,
- 0:54Speaker 1: maybe I've got this best actwords, but to you Cheryl McCollum,
- 0:59Speaker 1: Director the Cold Case Research Institute, forensic expert, host of
- 1:03Speaker 1: a brand new hit series Zone seven podcasts, just now
- 1:08Speaker 1: speaking out? Really Shanny have done that when Lacy went missing?
- 1:14Speaker 1: Remember all the vigils, Or he wouldn't speak because he
- 1:18Speaker 1: didn't want his mistress to see him on TV. Wouldn't
- 1:20Speaker 1: that have been a great time to speak out? Or
- 1:23Speaker 1: how about when he was at trial, wouldn't that have
- 1:27Speaker 1: been a wonderful time to tell what really happened to Lacy.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Nancy while his wife was missing. Would have been a
- 1:34Speaker 2: great time to make an outcry during the trial. He
- 1:38Speaker 2: had all of that time to come forward. He's had
- 1:41Speaker 2: the last twenty years, twenty years to come out and
- 1:45Speaker 2: tell us what happened, who he thinks did it, where
- 1:48Speaker 2: the police aren't looking. He has failed at every turn
- 1:53Speaker 2: to lead law enforcement on the right track.
- 1:55Speaker 1: You know, let me throw a technical legal term at
- 1:59Speaker 1: you share the column. There have been a crap ton
- 2:05Speaker 1: of theories floated out there by the defense, including Mark
- 2:09Speaker 1: Gerrigosligh profile lawyer that represented Peterson at trial, and others
- 2:14Speaker 1: including his family. Do you remember there was the Hawaiian
- 2:18Speaker 1: gang that they said got Lacey. There was the gang
- 2:26Speaker 1: that wanted to get Lacey and cut the baby out
- 2:29Speaker 1: of her stomach. There was that one. Now they're really
- 2:32Speaker 1: honing in on the burglars across the street, and I'm
- 2:35Speaker 1: referring to the burglars that police found behind bars and
- 2:40Speaker 1: questioned and polygraphed those burglars. So he's honing in on
- 2:46Speaker 1: one specific defense now twenty plus years later, but at
- 2:51Speaker 1: the time, all sorts of defenses were floated as a
- 2:56Speaker 1: possibility and then retracted. So it's like they're fishing. They're fishing.
- 3:02Speaker 1: They're always looking for the BBD, the bigger, better deal.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Well, they were going to let the idea that somebody
- 3:08Speaker 2: cut the baby out, they murder her because they wanted
- 3:10Speaker 2: the baby until the baby washed up with her. Well,
- 3:14Speaker 2: then they had to abandon that. Well, now it's going
- 3:16Speaker 2: to be this orange van. And the van was found
- 3:19Speaker 2: a mile from her home. But keep in mind that
- 3:22Speaker 2: means they would have had to have kidnapped Lacy, driven
- 3:26Speaker 2: her to the Bay of San Francisco, dumped her in
- 3:29Speaker 2: the baby, then drove back to the scene of the crime. Basically,
- 3:34Speaker 2: nobody's going to believe that happened.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Hold on, you left out something. All that's correct. Cheryl
- 3:39Speaker 1: McCollum to Troy Slayton, high profile defense attorney joining us
- 3:42Speaker 1: from the California jurisdiction, Troyce Slayton, they would have to
- 3:49Speaker 1: the real killer. Ooh, I feel like I'm talking about
- 3:51Speaker 1: OJ Simpson again. Ah, Troyce Slayton, the real killer that
- 3:56Speaker 1: Schoyel was referring to, would have had to have done
- 4:00Speaker 1: all that with Lacey's body at the San Francisco Bay.
- 4:04Speaker 1: At the same time, Scott Peterson is there fishing. Wow,
- 4:10Speaker 1: what a going.
- 4:11Speaker 3: You think, Well, wouldn't it be nice, Nancy if the
- 4:13Speaker 3: police did a full and complete and accurate investigation in
- 4:18Speaker 3: this case and didn't withhold any evidence from the court
- 4:21Speaker 3: or the defense team. What we know and you've discussed
- 4:24Speaker 3: many times a Brady violation in this case, there was
- 4:27Speaker 3: an eyewitness who saw a pregnant woman being put into
- 4:31Speaker 3: a van, and that wasn't introduced at trial.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Don't you think that's.
- 4:35Speaker 1: An important itsy bitsy.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Fat a pregnant woman being put into a van.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Speaking of let me put you through a lightning round.
- 4:46Speaker 1: That's a quick Q and a where you say yes
- 4:50Speaker 1: or no. Troy Slayton, isn't it true that the defense
- 4:54Speaker 1: under our jurisprudence, has the right to call witnesses, question them,
- 5:00Speaker 1: examined the state's witness and more specifically, bring on their
- 5:05Speaker 1: own scientific evidence if they've got any. Isn't that true
- 5:09Speaker 1: under the sixth Amendment? Yes, nay, that is true.
- 5:12Speaker 3: But wouldn't it be nice And it's the government's responsibility
- 5:15Speaker 3: to test all the evidence?
- 5:16Speaker 1: And there's a.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Big issue now, Nancy, as you know that there's some
- 5:21Speaker 3: DNA evidence that wasn't even tested in this case.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Guess what I saw yesterday. I saw a van on
- 5:31Speaker 1: the side of I eighty five. It was abandoned. You
- 5:36Speaker 1: know what, you can go get that van to test
- 5:38Speaker 1: hit too. There's all sorts of vehicles out there that
- 5:41Speaker 1: could be connected to Lacy Peterson's death, but they're not.
- 5:47Speaker 1: I can't believe you're pinning false hopes on a van
- 5:51Speaker 1: that was concocted in the area around the time Lacey
- 5:55Speaker 1: went missing. You know what, go ahead, do the DNA testing.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I'd be mad if you didn't, because, you know what,
- 6:03Speaker 1: it's not going to have Lacy Peterson or Scott Peterson's
- 6:06Speaker 1: DNA on it. Why because it's not related Back to
- 6:10Speaker 1: the special that is special that has just dropped. Take
- 6:16Speaker 1: a listen, guys to our friends at Peacock. Why did
- 6:20Speaker 1: you keep talking to Amber Frye after Lacy disappeared. I
- 6:25Speaker 1: was searching for my family.
- 6:27Speaker 5: I wanted to search tea continue stay in contact with
- 6:30Speaker 5: Amber fiden and she would get into the picture of
- 6:35Speaker 5: complicated really to search.
- 6:37Speaker 1: For Joining me is investigative reporter and journalist Susan Hendrix,
- 6:45Speaker 1: who covered Scott Peterson's trial every single day, author of
- 6:49Speaker 1: a brand new book, Down the Hill, My descend into
- 6:52Speaker 1: the double murder in Delphi regarding the murder of the
- 6:55Speaker 1: two little girls, Abby and Libby and Delphi were waiting
- 6:58Speaker 1: for that trial to start. Susan, hen, did you hear
- 7:02Speaker 1: what Scott Peterson said in the special for those of
- 7:06Speaker 1: you that can't see him? Definitely using air quotes on Peacock.
- 7:10Speaker 1: He says, question, why did you keep talking to Amber
- 7:14Speaker 1: five after Lacey disappeared? Answer? I was searching for my family. No,
- 7:18Speaker 1: he wasn't. I don't recall him ever searching, going out
- 7:22Speaker 1: on any search for Lacey. Next, I wanted the search
- 7:25Speaker 1: to continue, stay in contact with Amber, I thought, and
- 7:30Speaker 1: she wouldn't get into the picture, complicate it and ruin
- 7:34Speaker 1: the search for Lacy and Connor. So by telling the truth,
- 7:39Speaker 1: what did he think that Lacey's family would stop searching
- 7:43Speaker 1: for her? This doesn't even make any sense. Even now,
- 7:46Speaker 1: under no threat of cross examination, Peterson is still lying.
- 7:51Speaker 1: You know what, Just tell the truth. I was having
- 7:53Speaker 1: a sex affair. I didn't want anybody to know because
- 7:56Speaker 1: then they think I did it. That's the answer.
- 8:00Speaker 6: He doesn't stop lying it would stood out to me
- 8:02Speaker 6: because I believe that Amberfry really was the key to
- 8:05Speaker 6: this case, and those phone calls that the jurors were able.
- 8:08Speaker 7: To hear, he's still lying.
- 8:11Speaker 6: Throughout the documentary, I found that he had an answer
- 8:15Speaker 6: for everything with a smile on his face. By the way,
- 8:17Speaker 6: and that first slide that we just showed Nancy with
- 8:20Speaker 6: Lacey in the chair with the red outfit on.
- 8:23Speaker 7: I watched both documentaries.
- 8:25Speaker 6: There's also another one out that really focuses on Lacey.
- 8:28Speaker 7: This picture here.
- 8:28Speaker 6: What we realize is that she was at a Christmas
- 8:31Speaker 6: party with her friends this same night that Scott Peterson
- 8:35Speaker 6: took that infamous photo, now with Amber Fry, and a
- 8:39Speaker 6: jerk came out and said, look, as soon as I
- 8:40Speaker 6: saw Scott, I.
- 8:41Speaker 7: Thought, there's no way this guy's guilty. There's no way
- 8:43Speaker 7: he's capable of this.
- 8:45Speaker 6: But then he said, a story was built and it
- 8:48Speaker 6: was circumstantial, but wow, he said that Amberfry and those
- 8:51Speaker 6: phone calls really showed what a liar he was and
- 8:54Speaker 6: continues to be.
- 8:55Speaker 1: What did you observe in the Epeacock special? What did
- 8:59Speaker 1: you serve about his demeanor? Susan Hendrix, It.
- 9:02Speaker 7: Was the same tone to me. I always remember his
- 9:05Speaker 7: voice with Diane Sawyer.
- 9:07Speaker 6: Of oh yeah, just low tone, like he's sad, but
- 9:10Speaker 6: he's not really sad.
- 9:11Speaker 7: There are no tears now.
- 9:13Speaker 6: It was like a joker smirk and had an answer
- 9:17Speaker 6: for everything and pinning it on the cops as they do.
- 9:19Speaker 6: And the investigators seemed formulated to me, just with a
- 9:23Speaker 6: joker smile, this time with the backdrop of prison.
- 9:26Speaker 1: You know. Cheryl McCollum joining me, and I want Karen starting
- 9:28Speaker 1: to jump in on this. Don't worry about Rason. I'm
- 9:30Speaker 1: circling back to you, Cheryl. Just yesterday, you and I
- 9:38Speaker 1: and others were with the mother of Melissa Wolfenbarker. Melissa
- 9:45Speaker 1: Wolfen Barker was murdered many many years ago. It's a
- 9:50Speaker 1: cold case, just got cracked. Her mother and I were
- 9:56Speaker 1: sitting there and we both broke into tears. I gathered
- 10:04Speaker 1: myself because I don't want to cry in front of her,
- 10:08Speaker 1: but I was crying because she was crying. I felt
- 10:10Speaker 1: so bad for her. And Melissa's sister was there, just stonefaced.
- 10:18Speaker 1: I've never seen even a tangential victim of murder joke
- 10:25Speaker 1: about it or smirk about it. Now that's anecdotal. In
- 10:29Speaker 1: other words, I don't have statistics on this, but I
- 10:31Speaker 1: know what I've seen. After prosecuting literally thousands of violent felonies,
- 10:37Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone joke or smirk about it. Ever.
- 10:41Speaker 2: You know, I go back to the first thing that
- 10:44Speaker 2: I ever heard him kind of list out for everybody.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And that's what he did the day she was missing.
- 10:51Speaker 2: He gets home from fishing, or car is there, the
- 10:55Speaker 2: dog is out in the yard on the leash. He
- 10:57Speaker 2: goes in the house, or purse is there, her phone
- 11:00Speaker 2: is there, her car keys are there. And what does
- 11:03Speaker 2: he do, Nancy, Does he panic immediately? Does he start
- 11:07Speaker 2: calling friends and family? No, He takes a shower, He
- 11:12Speaker 2: makes pizza and eats it. He walks around and starts
- 11:15Speaker 2: a load of laundry, only his clothes, incidentally, And then
- 11:20Speaker 2: he calls her mom and almost casually says Lacey's missing,
- 11:25Speaker 2: not is Lacy there?
- 11:28Speaker 7: But he doesn't call the police. He's not in a panic.
- 11:32Speaker 2: He's not out in the street calling her name, running
- 11:35Speaker 2: up and down the street with neighbors. He's letting other
- 11:38Speaker 2: people go look for her. From the minute this happened,
- 11:42Speaker 2: he never freaked out, never showed concern.
- 11:45Speaker 1: I mean, you know, here's the thing to you, Troy Slayton.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Does he think we're all idiots? Maybe he does, because
- 11:53Speaker 1: I've only got so far. I've played what three sentences
- 11:57Speaker 1: that he said, and already I can cut him shreds
- 12:01Speaker 1: with a butter knife. It's not even hard. You know,
- 12:04Speaker 1: in kindergarten they give the children the glue and a
- 12:08Speaker 1: pair of those little bitty scissors and they're rounded on
- 12:11Speaker 1: the edge. I can shred them to pieces with a
- 12:14Speaker 1: set of those already, after three sentences, he's lying. He
- 12:19Speaker 1: didn't go search for her. He's lying about why he
- 12:22Speaker 1: didn't reveal about amber Fry. He made a big lie
- 12:26Speaker 1: about why he stayed in contact with Amberfry after Lacey
- 12:31Speaker 1: went missing. He's already told three lies in three sentences.
- 12:36Speaker 3: So he's admittedly an a hole, Nancy, and that's why
- 12:40Speaker 3: he wouldn't want a prosecutor with your skills.
- 12:43Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a red rashy ahle. I
- 12:46Speaker 1: care if he's lying, but if if he's lying, he's
- 12:50Speaker 1: covering something up.
- 12:51Speaker 3: If he testifies and you bring these things out, then
- 12:56Speaker 3: it's all about what a horrible man he is, because
- 12:58Speaker 3: he's an adulterer.
- 13:00Speaker 4: It ceases to.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Be about the dead woman and the dead baby. So
- 13:05Speaker 3: this is why he didn't use his constitutional right to.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Testify a trial.
- 13:11Speaker 3: But he says he regrets it. He gives him his interview.
- 13:14Speaker 3: He says he wishes, he wishes that he could, and
- 13:16Speaker 3: if he gets a new trial, I bet you will
- 13:18Speaker 3: see him testify.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Oh I bet he. No, he will never testify because
- 13:23Speaker 1: in three sentences, I've got him in three lies. And
- 13:26Speaker 1: again you're hiding the truth. Why because you don't want
- 13:33Speaker 1: the truth. Truth is, who cares if he is cheating?
- 13:38Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Ahole, I can't name him. Twenty
- 13:43Speaker 1: a holes on the top of my head right now.
- 13:47Speaker 4: Is that he is person ing.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, it's just Karen Stark lying. You
- 13:57Speaker 1: can do a poll right now and I would just yes,
- 14:01Speaker 1: thirty five forty percent of husbands have cheated. Do I
- 14:03Speaker 1: like it?
- 14:04Speaker 4: No?
- 14:04Speaker 1: Are they killers?
- 14:05Speaker 8: No?
- 14:06Speaker 1: But when your wife is missing and now all these
- 14:09Speaker 1: years later, you're still lying, why because you're covering something up.
- 14:17Speaker 4: I don't know what.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Because he makes that logical liar, Nancy.
- 14:21Speaker 7: That's who he is.
- 14:22Speaker 1: He's a narcissist.
- 14:23Speaker 9: A pathological liar, and do we really want to believe
- 14:26Speaker 9: when he keeps talking about his family, my family, I
- 14:31Speaker 9: wanted to be with my family.
- 14:33Speaker 1: What family?
- 14:34Speaker 9: He was telling am Befry as he kept lying to
- 14:37Speaker 9: her that they were going to have a relationship forever.
- 14:40Speaker 9: And then in this when we're listening to him, he says,
- 14:43Speaker 9: I don't know why she thought we were having a relationship.
- 14:46Speaker 9: You know, I was just sleeping with her. He was
- 14:49Speaker 9: lying over and over again.
- 14:52Speaker 1: That is just who he is.
- 14:53Speaker 9: It's his nature. He can't help himself.
- 15:03Speaker 10: Investigators were alarmed by the state of the Peterson home.
- 15:07Speaker 10: They noted the disorder did not reflect a husband or
- 15:11Speaker 10: father who was ready for his family to return home.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Yes, the home was completely shambolic, and I can tell
- 15:21Speaker 1: you I have looked inside the home at the time
- 15:25Speaker 1: and it looked like a little dollhouse, not big, but
- 15:31Speaker 1: it was perfectly appointed. On the inside. I could tell
- 15:35Speaker 1: Lacey had gone to great ooh, great links to make
- 15:40Speaker 1: it beautiful, beautifully decorated. Everything was in place. But when
- 15:46Speaker 1: cops get their all hills broken loose. Now in the
- 15:50Speaker 1: last days, Peacock, in their wisdom, has released a so
- 15:55Speaker 1: called special and Scott Peterson speaks out. You know, at first,
- 16:02Speaker 1: I was totally irritated by this. Why speak now when
- 16:05Speaker 1: you could have spoken at the time she went missing.
- 16:08Speaker 1: Didn't didn't want Amber Fry, his mistress and maybe others
- 16:11Speaker 1: to see he was married on local TV. But now
- 16:15Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad he did, because if there ever
- 16:17Speaker 1: is God forbid a new trial, everything he says can
- 16:22Speaker 1: be used in evidence. Now we just heard him in
- 16:26Speaker 1: three sentences. I got him in three lines, and he
- 16:29Speaker 1: was trying to explain on the Peacock Special why he
- 16:34Speaker 1: wanted to keep Amber Fry a secret. Well, okay, this
- 16:39Speaker 1: is what happened at trial. Sit down, listen.
- 16:44Speaker 11: Ever ever.
- 16:51Speaker 4: Ever?
- 16:52Speaker 11: Mary here? Ever? Hey, happy here?
- 17:03Speaker 1: I want to call you.
- 17:05Speaker 10: Thank you?
- 17:07Speaker 1: Ay?
- 17:08Speaker 11: Right there? Yeah, I wish you could gain I'm on
- 17:12Speaker 11: the eye and that you're there. I'm my year. The
- 17:16Speaker 11: book hour new Dolls, unreal, God, it's you, that's Amber.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here.
- 17:26Speaker 11: Ever you're there, I can't hear right now. I'll call
- 17:29Speaker 11: you on your knee ever ever?
- 17:36Speaker 10: Okay, I hope.
- 17:39Speaker 1: So let me understand something. Cheryl McCollum constantly calling Amber Fry.
- 17:44Speaker 1: But by the way, that phone call was during the
- 17:49Speaker 1: vigil for his wife and unborn son. They were holding
- 17:53Speaker 1: a candlelight vigil for Lacey, and he's, I guess backstage,
- 18:00Speaker 1: and he said her name like fifty times. Why, I
- 18:02Speaker 1: don't know. But wait a minute, he's saying here that
- 18:06Speaker 1: he is in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, Paris. I thought
- 18:12Speaker 1: he was in Brussels, Belgium and Maine. So what was
- 18:17Speaker 1: he taking a whirl wind world tour? Is that what
- 18:21Speaker 1: he told? Amber Fry?
- 18:23Speaker 7: You know, it sticks out for me, Nancy.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Of all the things he could have done, he picked
- 18:28Speaker 2: a New Year's celebration that is a celebration of new beginnings.
- 18:33Speaker 2: And he didn't mention I'm sad that I'm here by myself.
- 18:37Speaker 2: He didn't say I'm missing my family, I'm missing my
- 18:40Speaker 2: home country. He says, Amber, I'm missing you. But yet
- 18:44Speaker 2: he's celebrating. He's out near the Eiffel Tower, just having
- 18:49Speaker 2: a good old time ringing in the new year, and
- 18:51Speaker 2: then says, I'll call you when you lost your mind?
- 18:54Speaker 1: Is that a vigil for his wife? Listen to more?
- 18:56Speaker 1: For me this elaborate light about her missing and that
- 19:01Speaker 1: and that that this will be the first holidays without her.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Amber God, I don't want to play with you, but
- 19:10Speaker 3: you know that tragedy.
- 19:12Speaker 7: Or oh, yes, you said you've lost your wife.
- 19:15Speaker 6: Obviously without me staying much, but we.
- 19:19Speaker 1: Were yes you did, I did, and that it would
- 19:23Speaker 1: be the first Christmas without her, and then suddenly that
- 19:26Speaker 1: came true. Who is Amber Fry? I will tell you
- 19:32Speaker 1: I've spent time with Amber. She's a perfectly nice person,
- 19:36Speaker 1: very nice, who had no idea what she was getting
- 19:39Speaker 1: involved with. And remember she recorded these calls she was
- 19:44Speaker 1: working with police while Scott Peterson was walking free. Remember
- 19:51Speaker 1: he wanted her to meet him at a remote cabin.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Why why did he want to get her away from home,
- 19:59Speaker 1: away from her child during this time? Did he want
- 20:04Speaker 1: to silence her? Also? Listen.
- 20:06Speaker 12: I met Scott Peterson November twentieth, two thousand and two.
- 20:11Speaker 12: I was introduced to him. I was told he was unmarried.
- 20:15Speaker 12: Scott told me he was not married. We did have
- 20:19Speaker 12: a romantic relationship. When I discovered he was involved in
- 20:24Speaker 12: the Lacy Peterson disappearance case, I immediately contacted the Modesto
- 20:30Speaker 12: Police department. Although I could have sold or sold the
- 20:37Speaker 12: photos of Scott and I to tabloids, I knew this
- 20:41Speaker 12: was not the right thing to do, for fear of
- 20:44Speaker 12: jeopardizing the case or the police investigation. I will not
- 20:48Speaker 12: comment further.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Set out of three lines, straight out of the chute.
- 20:54Speaker 1: He's caught in multiple lies. Actually, am glad Peacock created
- 21:00Speaker 1: this special because Scott Peterson now talking, he was afraid
- 21:06Speaker 1: to do that at the time of his trial. Wouldn't
- 21:08Speaker 1: do it, would not put one toe on the stand.
- 21:11Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. Listen to this here my trial,
- 21:13Speaker 1: I was dignant.
- 21:15Speaker 7: So I was so angry at the media because.
- 21:17Speaker 1: The reports just weren't factual.
- 21:19Speaker 5: I strived not to showed emotion the core because I
- 21:22Speaker 5: didn't want to see them break vitia.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Okay, straight out to Susan Hendricks, joining US investigative reporter
- 21:28Speaker 1: and author who covered the trial from the beginning, what
- 21:33Speaker 1: do you make of him stating that he was angry
- 21:36Speaker 1: at the media. I mean, I've never ever heard him
- 21:41Speaker 1: say I'm angry at the person that took my wife.
- 21:45Speaker 1: I'm angry at the person that killed my wife and son.
- 21:50Speaker 1: All I wanted was to hold Connor in my arms
- 21:55Speaker 1: and be a family. Never once now he's angry at
- 21:58Speaker 1: the media.
- 22:00Speaker 13: Obviously using that as his excuse to not feel any emotion,
- 22:05Speaker 13: and what stood out to me and I thought Peacock
- 22:07Speaker 13: did a great job of laying out the timeline and
- 22:09Speaker 13: talking about what he did after throwing his pregnant wife away,
- 22:14Speaker 13: and what was going on inside of that house and
- 22:17Speaker 13: how he was able to once he was arrested with.
- 22:20Speaker 7: The goatee, the orange coatee and the orange hair.
- 22:22Speaker 6: They went in and out and he ordered a double hamburger,
- 22:26Speaker 6: a vanilla Shaik French fries. It took me back to
- 22:28Speaker 6: Jurin Vanderslope with Stephanie Flores and the Danish, and you
- 22:32Speaker 6: just spoke about what was he capable of doing?
- 22:35Speaker 11: Right?
- 22:36Speaker 7: Was Amber Fry at risk? I think so when you
- 22:39Speaker 7: mentioned that, and also in the.
- 22:40Speaker 6: Other documentary I watched what was so shocking Connor's room
- 22:44Speaker 6: when they did that second search filled used as storage.
- 22:48Speaker 6: He was not waiting for his pregnant wife to come home,
- 22:52Speaker 6: his wife and son. Clearly he wanted to erase that
- 22:54Speaker 6: part of his life.
- 22:55Speaker 1: To doctor Eric Ason, joining us startified forensic pethol just
- 23:00Speaker 1: and consultant, doctor Ason, thank you so much for being
- 23:04Speaker 1: with us. Many many weeks had passed before Lacey's body
- 23:12Speaker 1: washed ashore about twenty four hours between the two bodies,
- 23:18Speaker 1: the baby's body, baby Connor washed ashore. Lacey's body was
- 23:24Speaker 1: largely decomposed, not so for Connor.
- 23:30Speaker 4: Why that's because the body was protected.
- 23:34Speaker 14: The baby was protected within the uterus are in the
- 23:37Speaker 14: womb while Lacey was decomposing. And so what happened was,
- 23:41Speaker 14: while the body was being protected, Lacey started to decompose,
- 23:45Speaker 14: the skin of the abdomen started to disintegrate, and then
- 23:50Speaker 14: the baby was then later expelled from her torso into
- 23:55Speaker 14: the water.
- 23:56Speaker 4: But she had to decompose first for that to happen,
- 23:58Speaker 4: you know, Cheryl McCollum.
- 24:01Speaker 1: Day after day after day, Scott Peterson was traced going
- 24:06Speaker 1: and looking out over the San Francisco Bay. Little did
- 24:11Speaker 1: he know that at some point Lacey and Carr's bodies respectively,
- 24:16Speaker 1: would wash ashore. I guess that's what he was looking for.
- 24:20Speaker 2: I think absolutely he was waiting to see if law
- 24:22Speaker 2: enforcement had discovered anything. And it's just crazy to me that,
- 24:27Speaker 2: you know, first he tells everybody he's going to go
- 24:29Speaker 2: golfing when he's looking for Lacey. That first day, he
- 24:32Speaker 2: tells a neighbor he went golfing, but he put himself there.
- 24:36Speaker 2: He's the one that gave law enforcement that ticket that
- 24:39Speaker 2: showed he put his boat in the water. So the
- 24:41Speaker 2: very place where he put himself is where they washed up.
- 24:46Speaker 2: And I believe December ninth shows his premeditation. December night
- 24:52Speaker 2: is when he bought the boat. December ninth is when
- 24:55Speaker 2: he told Amber Fry his wife is missing. That's when
- 24:59Speaker 2: he says, you know, by Christmas, wee can maybe be together.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Whatever he says to her December ninth, to me, I don't.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Think he told her his wife was missing. At first,
- 25:09Speaker 1: he said he lost his wife and this would be
- 25:12Speaker 1: her the first Christmas without her. And then it was
- 25:15Speaker 1: only after the vigil around New Year's Eve that he
- 25:20Speaker 1: actually came clean. Of course, she already knew Lacey was missing.
- 25:23Speaker 1: But I've got another question based on what we just
- 25:26Speaker 1: heard to not only Cheryl McCollum, but Susan Hendrix, and
- 25:30Speaker 1: then I want to go to Karen Stark about his
- 25:32Speaker 1: demeanor in the Peacock Special Special. Susan Hendricks recall the
- 25:39Speaker 1: hair of Lacey's absolutely Lacey's hair that was proven. It
- 25:44Speaker 1: wasn't just a transfer on to those needle nose pliers.
- 25:48Speaker 1: The hair wasn't just on the needle nose pliers. It
- 25:53Speaker 1: was intertwined, tangled up in the pliers. And then there
- 25:58Speaker 1: was the issue of the homemade cement blocks. Do you
- 26:03Speaker 1: recall that testimony, Susan.
- 26:05Speaker 7: Absolutely, and I remember.
- 26:07Speaker 6: The hair, of course, could be explained away with a
- 26:10Speaker 6: defense attorney if it's just sitting in the boat, right,
- 26:13Speaker 6: it's intertwined in that plier.
- 26:14Speaker 7: So the theory is.
- 26:15Speaker 6: From the prosecution that he was adhering those anchors, putting
- 26:21Speaker 6: them onto pregnant Lacy eight months pregnant his wife, and
- 26:24Speaker 6: throwing her into the San Francisco Bay. And they were
- 26:27Speaker 6: able to show based on that storage facility, they believed
- 26:31Speaker 6: that there were five anchors that were made. They only
- 26:34Speaker 6: found one in the boat, and that boat didn't have
- 26:37Speaker 6: a rope.
- 26:38Speaker 7: So you have an anchor with no rope.
- 26:39Speaker 6: Where are the other anchors which he said weren't made,
- 26:42Speaker 6: and where's the rope? Nothing made sense, but they couldn't
- 26:46Speaker 6: prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. But again you said,
- 26:49Speaker 6: and that is very important with the hair being intertwined
- 26:52Speaker 6: in the pliers, not just on the boat.
- 26:54Speaker 7: Somewhere.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Chroice Layton, high profile defense attorney joining us out of
- 26:58Speaker 1: the Scott Peterson Jurisdics in California. Troy Slayton, what would
- 27:02Speaker 1: be your response to a question relating to Lacy's hair? Absolutely,
- 27:09Speaker 1: her hair, not just a transfer of her hair onto
- 27:13Speaker 1: needlenosed pliers on his boat that she did not know about,
- 27:19Speaker 1: but intertwined, tangled up in the pliers. What did he
- 27:26Speaker 1: give her a trim?
- 27:27Speaker 3: I would say, Oh, my goodness, a wife's hair is
- 27:32Speaker 3: on her husband's tool.
- 27:34Speaker 1: I mean, her hair is probably all over his shirt.
- 27:37Speaker 1: Her hair is all over him. I mean, isn't that
- 27:40Speaker 1: ignoring my question? Isn't that question?
- 27:44Speaker 4: Was not her hair, the hair on clothing.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Just cut his might. I'm gonna try again their response.
- 27:54Speaker 1: It's a subtle but important distinction, Troy Slayton. Her hair
- 27:58Speaker 1: was not on the needle nose pliers. Her hair. It's
- 28:03Speaker 1: her hair. This is a nucleus attached. Her hair was
- 28:07Speaker 1: tangled up in the needle nose pliers twined into it.
- 28:13Speaker 1: It was not a transfer. That is my question. I'm
- 28:18Speaker 1: not asking about a transferral of hair.
- 28:22Speaker 8: I would say that in and of itself doesn't prove anything.
- 28:26Speaker 8: Where's the rest of the crime scene, where's her blood?
- 28:29Speaker 8: Where's the evidence of a struggle. Were's all the other
- 28:33Speaker 8: things that would be necessary for a murder and.
- 28:37Speaker 3: Disposal of a body to take place. But a single
- 28:40Speaker 3: hair caught up in applier's That hair could have gotten
- 28:43Speaker 3: there by any number of reasons. There are infinite possibilities.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Nancy, Can I jump in place?
- 28:50Speaker 7: Nancy?
- 28:51Speaker 2: Those plowers were also found in the boat. The reason
- 28:55Speaker 2: there wasn't other evidence is because those anchors weighed down
- 28:59Speaker 2: her all and her legs. That is the reason her
- 29:03Speaker 2: arms and legs were no longer attached to the torso.
- 29:06Speaker 2: Because she was being held down, there wouldn't be a
- 29:08Speaker 2: chance for any other evidence to come about.
- 29:18Speaker 10: Peterson leaves Lacy a gushy voicemail on the day she disappeared,
- 29:23Speaker 10: saying he would see her soon on his way home
- 29:26Speaker 10: from the marina. Scott insists that was normal for them,
- 29:31Speaker 10: but detectives think it was staged to make things seem normal.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Efci, I thought I was playing golf. Okay, let's hear
- 29:42Speaker 1: it from the horse's mouth. Take a listen to Scott
- 29:46Speaker 1: Peterson quote speaking out as if he didn't have that
- 29:49Speaker 1: chance a trial, or that chance when Lacey was missing
- 29:54Speaker 1: and all the vigils and all the press requests for
- 29:57Speaker 1: him to make a statement to help aid the search
- 30:00Speaker 1: for Lacy and Connor. That didn't happen. But now twenty
- 30:04Speaker 1: plus years later, he is quote speaking out of course,
- 30:09Speaker 1: not subject to cross examination. Take a listen to Peacock's
- 30:12Speaker 1: face to face with Scott Peterson.
- 30:14Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a virguts people home, a lot of people,
- 30:21Speaker 5: and I believe that Lacy whenever there's.
- 30:24Speaker 4: To see what was going on.
- 30:26Speaker 1: That's many viewers have been, according to reports, appalled there
- 30:31Speaker 1: where it's not mine. Appalled at Scott Peterson's demeanor throughout
- 30:36Speaker 1: the state, throughout the Peacock Special, because he was constantly smiling.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I guess that's rule number one, Troy Slayton. You tell
- 30:45Speaker 1: your client charge with murdering his wife, don't smile and
- 30:48Speaker 1: giggle in front of anybody else. Okay, So okay, if
- 30:52Speaker 1: you do it with me alone in my office, my
- 30:56Speaker 1: luxurious office built on the money of dope dealers, child molesters, killers, okay,
- 31:06Speaker 1: that's a whole other can of worms. But don't giggle
- 31:08Speaker 1: and smile in front of the jury. I guess because
- 31:12Speaker 1: nobody apparently told him that.
- 31:14Speaker 3: At Peacock, every single thing that you say, every single
- 31:17Speaker 3: thing that you do can be used against you. I mean,
- 31:21Speaker 3: that's why everyone is given the famous Miranda warning you
- 31:24Speaker 3: have the right to remain silent. But oftentimes I've had
- 31:28Speaker 3: many clients who get diarrhea of the mouth and suddenly
- 31:32Speaker 3: say all sorts of things that might be helpful or
- 31:34Speaker 3: might be harmful. But in this case, he's asking for
- 31:38Speaker 3: a new trial, and the famed Los Angeles Innocence Project,
- 31:42Speaker 3: based in Los Angeles, they do cases nationwide, has taken
- 31:46Speaker 3: him as a client and are trying to get him
- 31:49Speaker 3: a new trial.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Many viewers also stated that there's no emotion in his
- 31:55Speaker 1: face or body language. In fact, one viewer states, I
- 31:59Speaker 1: think his brain should be scientifically looked into. He's a
- 32:02Speaker 1: strong case of psychopathy. I think he's pretended his whole
- 32:07Speaker 1: life like he's a normal human being. And Troy Slayne,
- 32:11Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you tell your clients no smiling
- 32:14Speaker 1: or giggling when you're charged with murder. Let's address the
- 32:17Speaker 1: heart of what Peterson was saying. He says, well, he's
- 32:22Speaker 1: asked if you didn't do it, who did That? Burden
- 32:25Speaker 1: is not on a defendant. They don't have to prove
- 32:26Speaker 1: who did it? But he goes so far as to
- 32:29Speaker 1: say there was a burglary across the street from our house. Okay,
- 32:34Speaker 1: Susan Hendrix and Cheryl McCollum, both of you have carefully
- 32:38Speaker 1: researched that evidence and how it was brought forward at trial.
- 32:43Speaker 1: What can you tell me, Susan Hendrix about the burglary?
- 32:47Speaker 1: Is he talking about those three guys that were tracked
- 32:49Speaker 1: down behind bars and questioned and polygraphed those guys exactly?
- 32:54Speaker 6: There is some discrepancy in the investigation where I see
- 32:58Speaker 6: where the defense would of course pick up on that.
- 33:02Speaker 6: But side note, it was never It was not in trial,
- 33:05Speaker 6: so Garaghos decided to leave it out for some reason.
- 33:07Speaker 6: But the day that this occurred on there was some
- 33:11Speaker 6: sort of discrepancy there. And I think what you were
- 33:13Speaker 6: just speaking of was Scott Peterson. The reason why he's
- 33:15Speaker 6: smiling and acting weird. He doesn't know how to connect
- 33:19Speaker 6: the right feelings, I believe, because he has none, but
- 33:22Speaker 6: he is able to pull the wool over people's eyes,
- 33:25Speaker 6: including his sister in law, who has dedicated her life
- 33:29Speaker 6: to setting him free, even got her.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Law degree to Troy's Layton high profile defense attorney in
- 33:35Speaker 1: this jurisdiction, Troy, I'm sure that you, like I am
- 33:39Speaker 1: familiar with Mark Garghos. Would you state that he's an
- 33:44Speaker 1: excellent lawyer?
- 33:45Speaker 5: Absolutely?
- 33:46Speaker 1: Yes, what a lot of cases? Right? Absolutely, yes he
- 33:49Speaker 1: has And don't you believe, since you believe Mark Garrigos
- 33:53Speaker 1: is an excellent trial lawyer, that if he had evidence
- 33:57Speaker 1: that Scott Peterson was innocent, he would have put it
- 34:03Speaker 1: up in front of the jury. Specifically, he knew about
- 34:06Speaker 1: the burglars, he knew their names. We know that, but
- 34:10Speaker 1: he Mark Gergos chose not to bring it into evidence.
- 34:18Speaker 11: Why.
- 34:18Speaker 3: There are many reasons why you wouldn't want a person
- 34:22Speaker 3: to testify, or you wouldn't want to bring up something
- 34:25Speaker 3: that the jury might think is a distraction. Here, there
- 34:28Speaker 3: was an admitted burglary across the street, and it may
- 34:32Speaker 3: have appeared to the jury if Mark Gerghos is bringing
- 34:36Speaker 3: that in, if the defense team is bringing that in,
- 34:38Speaker 3: that it wouldn't seem as credible as if the government
- 34:42Speaker 3: brought in that evidence. So there's a lot of reasons.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Thank you, I think you've got another career. I think
- 34:50Speaker 1: you've got a secret career. As a taped answer, because
- 34:54Speaker 1: you actually came up with an answer about how if
- 34:59Speaker 1: Gargoes had a witness that could show that this burglary
- 35:05Speaker 1: was related to Lycey's disappearance. You're saying he would not
- 35:09Speaker 1: have put that up because he didn't want to distract
- 35:12Speaker 1: the jury. Okay, noted.
- 35:16Speaker 3: I'm saying that he doesn't have enough evidence to know
- 35:19Speaker 3: that that was exactly what happened. But it's Scott Peterson's
- 35:23Speaker 3: theory that his wife went over there not to interrupt
- 35:26Speaker 3: a burglary, but saw a disturbance across the street, checked
- 35:29Speaker 3: to see what was going on, and was suddenly kidnapped.
- 35:32Speaker 10: Peterson claims investigators did not turn over key evidence to
- 35:37Speaker 10: his defense that could have cleared him of his pregnant
- 35:41Speaker 10: wife's murder during the trial.
- 35:44Speaker 1: In the last weeks, a judge has allowed more DNA
- 35:46Speaker 1: testing for Scott Peterson. In the meantime, our friends at
- 35:52Speaker 1: Peacock have released face to face with Scott Peterson. But
- 35:57Speaker 1: here's what Scott Peterson said to our friend back at
- 36:02Speaker 1: the time when Lacy was missing. This is Gloria Gomez
- 36:04Speaker 1: speaking to him kov RCBS thirteen in the morning.
- 36:09Speaker 5: Twin down there alone, I feel closer to her, maybe
- 36:14Speaker 5: that's attempt.
- 36:15Speaker 1: To communicate or something. You know, it can make you
- 36:17Speaker 1: feel really close to your wife, not cheating, that can help,
- 36:21Speaker 1: you know. Here's more of Scott Paterson speaking with Gloria
- 36:25Speaker 1: Gomez ko v R.
- 36:26Speaker 5: To keep the media here, to keep them hungry for
- 36:30Speaker 5: you know, an interview with me or a picture, so
- 36:32Speaker 5: that they would keep coming.
- 36:34Speaker 4: Back, so this story won't fall through the crack.
- 36:37Speaker 1: And isn't that exactly what he's doing right now, Susan
- 36:41Speaker 1: Hendricks right now, keeping his words to keep the media hungry,
- 36:47Speaker 1: to keep them coming back.
- 36:50Speaker 6: Why his voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me, Nancy,
- 36:53Speaker 6: it's hard for me to listen to that sound. You
- 36:55Speaker 6: would think after twenty plus years, right, he's trying. He
- 36:58Speaker 6: has a new strategy. He even said about the robbery
- 37:01Speaker 6: across the street that maybe they should have brought it in.
- 37:04Speaker 7: He's second guessing certain things. But I will say he seems.
- 37:07Speaker 6: Almost chip or joking for a moment in the Peacock's
- 37:10Speaker 6: special with the journalists like Ooh, I don't want to
- 37:13Speaker 6: cry here because you know I'm in prison. I don't
- 37:15Speaker 6: know what's going to happen, alluding to the fact that
- 37:17Speaker 6: I'm not going to be seen.
- 37:18Speaker 7: It's tough by crying.
- 37:20Speaker 6: There's an excuse for all of his lack of emotion,
- 37:23Speaker 6: but the bottom line, he doesn't have it.
- 37:24Speaker 7: It doesn't exist. He's not sorry.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Doctor eric Ason is joining me renown forensic pathologist. Doctor Ason,
- 37:32Speaker 1: you have performed autopsies on many pregnant women, and when
- 37:40Speaker 1: you see a guy is being convicted of the murder
- 37:45Speaker 1: of a mom and her baby, does that have any
- 37:50Speaker 1: effect on you at all? Or do you just try
- 37:53Speaker 1: to put that out of your mind while you perform
- 37:55Speaker 1: the autoposy.
- 37:56Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to put it out of my mind.
- 37:57Speaker 4: You have to separate the emotion from what you're seeing.
- 38:02Speaker 14: You know, my job is to determine the cause of death,
- 38:03Speaker 14: and I entirely focus on that whenever I handle an
- 38:07Speaker 14: autopsy case.
- 38:08Speaker 4: I got to keep the emotions out of it. Somebody's
- 38:11Speaker 4: got to do it, and it's me. So that's just
- 38:13Speaker 4: kind of how I approach it.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Well, I don't have to see on McCallum, and neither
- 38:16Speaker 1: do you, not at all.
- 38:18Speaker 2: And you know, Nancy, there's been many times we haven't
- 38:21Speaker 2: been able to separate, and you know, this is one
- 38:23Speaker 2: of those things where when you watch him and you
- 38:26Speaker 2: remind yourself that in the last twenty years, all these
- 38:30Speaker 2: appeals have failed. No new witnesses come forward, no new
- 38:34Speaker 2: substantial evidence has come about. He is sitting there for
- 38:38Speaker 2: twenty years and the best he can come up with
- 38:42Speaker 2: is my petite, pregnant wife who Caine hardly walked, went
- 38:47Speaker 2: across the street to confront three criminals. Asinine, not even close.
- 38:53Speaker 1: Well, I mean everybody on the panel, if you know differently,
- 38:57Speaker 1: tell me. I've never once heard him say you know what,
- 39:02Speaker 1: forget about me. I'll stay right here behind Mars. Just
- 39:06Speaker 1: help me find who murdered Lacey? Who did this? Never once,
- 39:14Speaker 1: even in this so called special by our friends at Peacock,
- 39:18Speaker 1: does he say I want the guy that murdered my wife.
- 39:24Speaker 11: Never.
- 39:24Speaker 1: He's never looking for the quote real killer Susan Hendricks.
- 39:28Speaker 1: Has he ever asked about Lacey?
- 39:30Speaker 7: Never?
- 39:31Speaker 6: It's all about me, me, me and me and what
- 39:34Speaker 6: stood out to me the second search warrant of the house.
- 39:37Speaker 7: They knew what they had.
- 39:39Speaker 6: They were looking around to see what was going on
- 39:41Speaker 6: in the house, how he was living, Not one indication
- 39:44Speaker 6: that he even missed them. He sold her car, he
- 39:47Speaker 6: wanted to sell the house right away. He wanted that
- 39:50Speaker 6: chunk of his life to go away, and so we
- 39:53Speaker 6: killed his pregnant wife through her in the San Francisco
- 39:56Speaker 6: Bay and thought that everyone would just move on with
- 39:58Speaker 6: their lives, and they didn't. Sociopath and a psychopath, and
- 40:01Speaker 6: I feel like he has zero feeling. The reason why
- 40:03Speaker 6: he didn't mention them, and the reason why Lacy's family
- 40:06Speaker 6: finally decided Okay, they didn't originally think it was him,
- 40:09Speaker 6: thought okay, the way he's acting now we know it's him.
- 40:13Speaker 6: Devastatingly so they loved him, but he has no emotion
- 40:16Speaker 6: because it doesn't exist.
- 40:17Speaker 1: You go on, Peterson, keep giving those interviews, keep showing
- 40:22Speaker 1: up on streaming agents like Peacock, because if you ever
- 40:28Speaker 1: do get a new trial, which I doubt, everything you
- 40:33Speaker 1: say is going to turn into States evidence because you
- 40:37Speaker 1: are a liar and you murdered Lacy. Fancy Grace signing off,
- 40:44Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,