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>> i don't care what people think of me, you know, as i've said, questioning my moral character. >> if you want to. but look at your heart. think of laci. her picture, baby, and make the effort to bring her home. >> welcome to how it really happened. i'm hill harper, a charming hometown, a beautiful young couple with a new baby on the way. sounds like the perfect life, but not in this case. not even close. scott and laci peterson were surrounded by family, friends and love. they seemed to have it all until it all came crashing down when laci, who was eight months pregnant, vanished on christmas

eve 2002. this is how it really happened you always look for someone that completes you. >> you know that harmony you've seen her picture on the fliers with the big old smile that tells you everything you need to know about her. >> they seem like the all-american couple happily married and anxiously awaiting the birth of their first child. >> she was the girl next door, and he was the adoring husband. >> people who knew them both said that scott was the perfect husband and seemed to dote on laci and. >> and laci was the bubbly wife. >> scott and laci were both living in san luis obispo. >> she was a student. >> he was working in a restaurant. >> they met here at the pacific cafe in morro bay in 1995, where scott was waiting tables. >> she didn't say she fell in love with him at first sight, but what she did tell me was that she met the man that she's going to marry two years

later. >> they were married. >> it was a gorgeous day in avila beach. outdoor wedding. perfect. everything was just right. and a nice couple. they were like perfect for each other. >> if you knew scott and if you knew laci, they were the couple everybody wanted to be. >> i've never heard either of them say anything against the other married and still in college, laci and scott opened this burger joint, then called the shack. >> they sold the business in 2001. when they moved to modesto, they wanted to buy a home and they wanted to go someplace where their family was there to help support them. >> people here in modesto describe scott peterson as a warm, likable guy. so did his family. >> it's just such a such a wonderful young man. he's uh. he's gentle, he's kind. he's he's the kind of guy that's going to pull over on the freeway. if you have a flat tire. >> she and scott were just thrilled about the coming of their baby boy. this was a big

event for them and everything was going wonderfully. >> scott peterson told investigators on the morning of the 24th christmas eve day that he got up, had breakfast with laci. >> she had cereal, and they together, they watched a martha stewart show on on tv. >> we're going to make a recipe from the book. >> he decided he was going to go take his boat out into the san francisco bay. he said around 930, 9:45, he left. >> laci was going to walk the dog and do some errands and prepare for a christmas eve dinner at her parents house. >> christmas eve, laci took her dog, mckenzie, for a walk. >> that was her exercise routine to just stay in shape and, you know, stay healthy throughout the pregnancy. >> later that morning, mckenzie was found, but laci wasn't. >> a neighbor found the dog at 1030 and put it in the backyard. >> scott and laci's neighbor found their dog, mckenzie, wandering around the neighborhood with its leash

still on. so she took the dog and put it into the peterson backyard. >> i got this really funky feeling when i went in the backyard, and i just kind of left. i left the leash on the dog and abruptly just left. >> as scott was coming back from the marina that day, he tried to call laci, but he couldn't get ahold of her, and scott told police later that that concerned him. he left a message for her. >> hey, beautiful. >> i just left a message at home, he said. >> i called her cell phone, went right to voicemail. >> when scott does get home, he finds laci's car is in the driveway. he finds the dog, mckenzie, in the backyard with his leash still around his neck, and he finds that the house door is unlocked. >> scott called family members, saying he had just come home from a fishing trip and couldn't find laci anywhere. >> when he had called me and told me that laci was missing. and i remember thinking to myself, missing? what do you mean missing

how can i help you? >> yes. um, my son in law called my daughter's been missing since this morning. she's eight months pregnant. she took her dog for a walk in the park the dog came home with just the leash. >> was it her normal m.o. to take the dog for a walk in the mornings? yes. yes. she always took her dog for a walk. >> the initial officers that were called to the scene became very alarmed and felt like they needed to elevate or escalate this call. >> 15 minutes, i think after we had the call, we had eight, eight, i think eight cars down there looking for laci peterson, last seen wearing black pants and a white pullover shirt on my way down, i contacted the sergeant that was in charge of the patrolmen, and i asked him to, um, if he could just keep the house clean. >> don't let anybody else in the house. i could hear, you know, helicopters. i could hear

patrolmen in the park. i knew there was a big search going on when i came back. >> i mean, the whole street was basically filled with people, her friends, acquaintances. i was shocked when i came around the corner. >> police and volunteers are scouring the area around modesto, california. >> the object of their search, a 27 year old woman, eight months pregnant. >> when i first got there, i met with the patrolman and the supervisor. they briefed me and they pointed out some things that they felt were suspicious. >> there is not any obvious evidence of foul play, but they noticed a pail and a mop, and they said the cement all around the mop bucket was wet and their mind looked like somebody had mopped before they arrived. >> i noted it in my report and then they introduced me to scott peterson, and he started calling me al right away. he wasn't distraught at all. >> scott consented to a search of the home. he consented to a search of his vehicles. >> i asked him if i could search lacey's range rover that was outside, and his truck

inside scott's truck, there was a big five bag in the back seat. it had some fishing lures that were unopened. he had a camo jacket inside the truck that was dry to the touch. i also found what looked like a boat covered me. it was all scrunched up on christmas eve. >> detectives take scott to his warehouse. >> he tells them there's no electricity at the warehouse, so they shine their headlights on the car inside so they can have some illumination, and they observe the boat. >> when i'm in there taking pictures of his boat, he's got one homemade anchor in the boat. >> so i see an anchor in the boat with a rebar, but no rope attached. >> that was strange to me i am noticing things that aren't sitting well with me and making me do just out of instinct. the next thing like interview him on videotape. he had already told me the story, but i asked scott if he would come to the department and just go through it again and, you know, get it on tape. and he agreed pretty

much got all i wanted to let's just go over what we already talked about so i can make some notes so what you're telling me, scott, there's no you have no idea where this is. >> it's not. >> i asked him questions like, scott, how's your relationship with laci? you guys, you guys haven't had any problems. >> uh, marriage problems everything's good. >> um, then at the last thing i asked him to do, would you agree to take a polygraph? >> the only just to eliminate you as a suspect, would you be willing to take a polygraph test they're accurate. right yeah, i mean, i it's not nothing that can be used against you, but, yeah, i believe they're accurate. no certainly not we have received credible witnesses stating they saw her in la loma park. >> the employee claims he saw her on christmas eve between

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the couple's home and husband scott's boat. laci peterson's family stands behind her husband, who has kept a very low profile. >> if anybody knows anything, please let us know. >> please bring our daughter home. >> the local media in the area picked the story up right away, looking for this young woman. within a week it went from a local story to a national story, and the entire country was now looking for laci peterson. we're continuing with all of the sex offenders, the people on parole and probation, and looking at the family members i asked scott, would you agree to take a polygraph? >> and he said he would. and so i arranged for a polygraph for christmas day, a half hour before the polygraph was scheduled. scott peterson called us and said that he, on the advice of his dad, had decided he would not take the polygraph. i realized this case was bigger than me, and my focus was scott, and so i knew

i needed help. the first detective i called in was john bueller, and then later that day we called in craig grogan. >> detective craig grogan was actually the lead detective in our efforts to exclude scott and eliminate him from suspicion. in this case, we felt like we wanted to go back in the house and search for, you know, evidence now of if she was abducted or if somebody came in and we drove back over to scott's house, al introduced me and i shook his hand. >> i looked at him. and what's not to like? >> good looking guy, pleasant. >> he was subdued. >> he was controlled. >> he didn't show any emotion. the one thing that i did notice is he didn't really ask me anything, which was strange to me. >> whether it's stated publicly or not. suspect number one tends to be the spouse, right? >> typically, in a case like this, after a few days, it becomes clear what happened. but in this case, because it went on for multiple days, many people started to shift their attention towards scott because

he is the husband. and frankly, he wasn't acting the way a normal husband in that situation would act. >> why did he leave his wife alone eight months pregnant on christmas eve to go fishing by himself? >> why the roca family adamantly supported scott. >> he was married to their daughter, and the idea that he could be a suspect was just unfathomable. >> scott is just as worried as we are. >> he is sick at heart about what has happened to laci. >> we're all looking for laci. we all want her back. >> today marks one week since a central california woman, eight months pregnant, vanished without a trace. >> as time went on, when there was absolutely no sign of laci peterson. that's when the search area expanded. and that's when the questions really started. >> what could have happened to laci peterson? >> how could laci peterson vanish in thin air? >> where is this beautiful, pregnant woman?

>> a week later that we're here in this investigation, more concerned than we were 5 or 6 days ago. >> there will be a candlelight vigil in about two hours there in modesto. and a lot of folks from the community are expected to turn out. >> just pray that you will continue to to protect laci, guide as we continue to profile laci. background. circumstances of her disappearance and in view of the timing of the holiday season, it becomes more apparent that her disappearance is a result of foul play we see grace. >> how sweet. i remember having the vigil at la loma park and that there was a really big turnout. >> laci was always a very upbeat and positive and outgoing person and a very tough young lady. and that's why we're not giving up hope at lacey's vigil on december

31st. >> we know scott's at the vigil. he won't get on stage with the rest of the family at the vigil, it became apparent that there was a stark contrast between sharon rocha, who was a grieving, worried mother, and scott peterson. >> scott peterson raised eyebrows and got stares of disbelief as he laughed and joked with friends, and even took a cell phone call while the rest of the family was in tears. >> it did not seem appropriate eight months pregnant laci peterson disappeared christmas eve without a trace. >> so far, a massive search has come up empty. >> it's very frustrating. um, i guess the frustration is that we don't have anything, anything new. >> the last information we had is that she was at home, possibly in the park, had a couple possible sightings that

day. >> that morning after scott left, there were witnesses who claimed to have seen laci walking her golden retriever, mckenzie. >> we have received credible witnesses stating they saw her in la loma park about 930, 10:00. >> there was one woman in particular that i remember. >> i saw a lady walking her dog. >> her name was vivian mitchell. she lived directly behind the peterson's on an adjacent street. she was short, had on a white top and dark colored. >> trousers, slacks, and, uh, her hair was dark. >> she was convinced that she saw laci peterson walking her dog with her black pants. the morning of december 24th. >> later, when i saw the pictures of laci peterson, i thought that was her for sure. >> she was one of several people that came forward and said they were convinced that they saw this pregnant woman with a golden retriever. the morning of the 24th.

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>> there was a burglary at a house at 516 covina avenue, which is right across the street from where laci and scott lived. they lived at 523. >> the neighbors were gone for a few days. and when they came home, they found out they had a safe and some jewelry and some things were missing. >> initially the thought was, is that laci may have interrupted that burglary. >> the close proximity of their house to the peterson house told us what? we can't ignore this because it could be related. and maybe we're barking up the wrong tree here by looking at scott. >> since the investigation started, we've had two detectives working that constantly. >> they went out and they started hitting up all of their sources, and it was an all out find out who did this burglary we had called in some outside help to bring in a bloodhound team that can search and track people from the trail. >> that led investigators to this park, where she supposedly walked her dog that morning seemed uncertain. a bloodhound did not lead his handler here,

but instead indicated she got into a car. >> we're in lacey's front yard. the dog immediately puts his nose to the ground. his tail went straight up in the air and the dog takes off, but the dog runs right to the middle of the street. the handler says, well, you know what the dog is telling me is lacey left in a car? >> if she left in a vehicle, then whose was it? >> but does not a van that was seen and a suspicious van with a man and a woman at the park. >> their information on that. >> one of the reports that came out was that someone had seen a brown van in the neighborhood. that caused a lot of suspicion. >> cnn chris has spoken to a neighbor of the petersons, who says he saw a suspicious tan van with a suspicious acting man in the neighborhood the morning of christmas eve. >> there's even these reports that someone may have seen laci being forced into the van.

>> detectives tracked the van to a campground, and a man named donny. >> donny and a brown van was seen on christmas eve in the neighborhood. and so i did become part of that investigation. craig grogan and i found donny and the brown van and his family living in it in a campground in merced. >> those were checked out. nothing. again, that led us to believe that they were connected. but all those leads are being pulled through. >> we had their van towed to the department of justice. i mean, the van was filthy, but there was no evidence that laci was ever in that van. >> police were able to solve the burglary across the street pretty quickly. >> we found out who did the burglary. we interviewed him. >> the burglars were two men named steven todd and donald pierce. they confessed to the burglary and cooperated almost immediately with modesto p.d. they wanted and did take a polygraph. there's a kind of an honor code with some criminals where a crime like

this pregnant gal gets abducted. the guys in jail don't like that very much. it was bad timing. i was at. i was at the wrong place at the wrong time. they took polygraphs. >> they passed with flying colors. and those guys had nothing to do with what happened at lacey's house. >> we were hoping that would be connected, but at this point, we're being told that it's not. >> there were nagging doubts about scott peterson. >> police briefing reporters tonight about their search for a missing pregnant woman. >> talked at length about her husband. >> everyone you are seeing photos of scott peterson's boat, his 2002 brown colored pickup truck. >> if anybody has seen this truck, this truck pulling the boat trailer, we really would like to talk to them, especially in the time frame of sunday through christmas eve afternoon, where they saw that and what they saw. >> i found out nobody, i mean nobody, not his best friend, not his parents. nobody knows

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and all of the media time should be spent towards finding her. >> and all of our energy should be spent towards finding her. i asked people to if they have any information, call the tip lines. please do what you can to bring her home after laci peterson's disappearance, modesto police did reach out to the public. >> they wanted any help they could possibly get while they were keeping it under wraps. >> police knew that scott had a secret. >> we had a 24 hour a day tip line manned by two clerks, and they were just they were taking hundreds of tips all day long. >> i called the modesto police department and i said, i'm calling about the article i had seen about scott. i want a confirmation that it was the same scott peterson. >> on this day, i just happened to be standing behind one of the clerks and i could see her type. scott peterson is my boyfriend detective brocchini took the phone. she told me her name was amber frey and that she'd been dating scott. and

they're exclusive, and they talk every day. i said, okay, don't tell anybody. you talk to me. don't tell scott you talked to me, and i'll be right there. john buehler and i drove straight to madera and we met amber. >> i invited them in and it was very i mean, just very emotional. >> and she told us about their their first night. >> scott and i had made the arrangements to meet. it was truly a blind date. >> scott had represented that he was single and that he was looking for a relationship. >> i thought he was attractive, good looking, nice smile. >> you know, a lot of potential. >> scott was staying at a hotel in fresno and being the smooth operator he is. he told amber, i need to take a shower, you know, go upstairs, change my clothes, and then we'll go to dinner. so she agreed and they went upstairs. >> fry said peterson surprised her with champagne and strawberries and that they were

intimate that night. >> she was able to chronologically detail a storybook romance of this knight in shining armor that was good looking and dressed right, said all the right things. well, we finished up the interview with amber. >> the detectives asked if how i would feel about tape recording our conversations, so amber agreed to, you know, work with us secretly record scott's phone calls. >> i bought amber a tape recorder and a wire for her cell phone, and i plugged it in while i was with amber, showing her how to work this device so she can one hand it. >> her phone lights up, amber's phone rings, and it's scott. >> amber are you there? >> and i remember they were both surprised. like what? like they couldn't believe that they were saying he was calling me, and we pushed the button and she spoke to him.

>> scott michael cloud. i hope you hear me. i'm here. you can hear me. i i'm shaking. >> i'm nervous. my hands are sweating. >> detectives are stunned that less than a week after this guy's wife is missing, he is calling his girlfriend. >> police didn't know it then, but amber fry was the turning point in their case how long have you been seeing scott? on january 24th, amber called me freaking out that the media was at her place of employment. apparently, somebody had figured out who she was. >> earlier this week, the modesto police department was made aware of an article that was to appear in the national enquirer revealing new information regarding lacey's case. >> detectives were concerned that certain photos of scott and amber were going to be made public. >> when john and i were interviewing amber, she says, i have pictures of scott and i. i

took him to the christmas party. >> they looked like a couple in love. scott was beaming. amber was beaming, smiling, having the time of their life. >> so we don't want the roaches or the petersons to be blindsided by this photo coming out in the enquirer. >> the decision was made that we had to tell both the peterson family and the roach family about these photos coming out. >> at that time, the family members were shown very recent pictures of scott and a girlfriend. >> i just remember sharon looked at it, you know, just instantly recognizable that it was scott and this other girl. she just started sobbing and put her head in her hands and just said, why did he have to kill her today, because of extensive efforts by some members of the media, amber frey was identified and contacted by reporters. >> we wanted and decided to bring amber forward. >> we knew that we were going to have to explode this bomb, if you will. we were going to have her in front of the tv

cameras. >> as you know, across the country, we are waiting for a press conference scheduled for this hour. ted, what do you expect? >> we were told that there was going to be a press conference, and we figured, all right, they're going to talk about this girlfriend, but we weren't expecting too much. we go, here we go, here we go. and then all of a sudden, there she is. >> okay, first of all, i met scott peterson. november 20th, 2002. i was introduced to him. i was told he was unmarried. scott told me he was not married. we did have a romantic relationship. >> amber frey walks out in this press conference and takes the podium and starts talking about her relationship with scott peterson. >> i am very sorry for lacey's family and the pain that this has caused them and i pray for

her safe return as well after i gave my statement, there were a few of lacey's friends were there. they each thanked me for coming forward and everything that i was doing. i was also asked if i would meet with sharon at her home. >> i wanted to thank her for coming forward and doing that. i could tell she was scared to death laci peterson's family instantly turned on scott. >> they had been behind him 100% when everybody else was saying, oh, what about scott? they were defending him to the nth degree. >> lacey's brother brant, picked up the phone and called scott to confront him about the affair. >> i mean, what can you tell me about my sister to make me understand that you're telling the truth and that i can still support you? >> yeah. >> i mean, i know that you know

how happy we were together and that you know, never changed or wavers. today was a very emotional day. the rocha family spoke for the first time since they found out that scott peterson had been having an affair. they said in that press conference that they've lost contact with him. >> you would think that would end the scott and amber relationship. now that it's out in the open. but scott was eager to keep amber online even after amber frey went public with their relationship. >> scott peterson continued to call her and attempt to woo her, but what he didn't know was all of his phone calls were being recorded and police had all of them on tape. >> scott peterson instantly became public enemy number one. >> i really had a lot of compassion for him at first, but now i just kind of leaves you thinking, you know, is there more to it? >> so he decided to sit down and do an interview with abc's diane sawyer.

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been searching the berkeley marina that's in the san francisco bay area, where scott peterson says that he went fishing the day his wife, laci disappeared. >> during this investigation, there was a total of 50 searches in san francisco bay. >> a team of search dogs is also scouring the berkeley marina, some 85 miles away. >> we did a search at berkeley marina last saturday, and there was a blue tarp that was recovered during that search. >> we believed she was going to be in the bay. scott said he went to the bay. there was salt water in the boat. >> they had divers out there on a daily basis. >> even as the search to find laci intensified, the media seemed to shift its focus to scott peterson and his relationship with amber frey after amber frey, everything changed in terms of the way the public perceived the case. >> i have bad thoughts about the girlfriend and the husband with her coming out. >> i think he's even more guilty. >> i really had a lot of compassion for him at first, but now i just kind of leaves you thinking, you know, is

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makes a peace with it? >> well, i yeah, you don't know. >> no one knows our relationship but us. big mistake. whatever credibility he had was completely wiped out after that interview scott peterson granted a few more interviews and i was able to sit down with him in his house, and he limited the time we could talk to him. he limited the equipment we could bring in to his house. he was in total control. well, i mean, in modesto, it's i have to preface what we talk about in the interview with i knew within five minutes of this ten minute interview he wasn't going to be telling us anything. so there are some things in that falls into them that simply have been asked not to talk about. he had all of his answers ready to go, and he was just reciting them. you've taken a lie detector test. well, the polygraph is another one of those things. i'm not saying i have. i'm not saying

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since laci peterson vanished. still no suspect's name, no polygraph test for her husband, scott. will investigators ever find laci and the baby she was carrying there were still searches, and police were out in the san francisco bay. >> there were active searches, but there was no body. >> meantime, scott peterson has not been ruled in nor ruled out as a suspect because of the media attention was so great on this case, it pretty much essentially drove him out of his house, and that's why he was finding various places to live around san diego on a temporary basis. >> he went down to san diego and was hanging out with his sister and friends. >> his hair had gone from dark brown to bleached, almost an orangey blond, and he had grown a goatee. >> laci peterson's case went off the radar for a few months, from about mid-february to mid-april 2003, and then it all changed. >> the grisly discovery at a california marina. is it a key

to the mysterious disappearance of laci peterson? >> on sunday, a couple walking their dog found a full term baby. >> that infant washed up on shore about a half mile from here. >> i was in the office when we got a call that a baby had come up on the beach in richmond, right near brooks island. >> could you describe what you did see? >> i just saw what appeared to be a badly decomposed human human remains. >> the next day, a female body came up. >> woman walking. her dog did find a body along this beach. a female body very badly decomposed. there is a press conference scheduled to get underway within the hour, but from what we understand, it will not be the definitive answer on whether this body is laci peterson and also that the infant was that of her unborn son. >> that was just a traumatic time. sharon and ron and all of their family, um, it was

heartbreaking these past three and a half months have been a constant nightmare for us. >> if this turns out to be laci, we want the animal responsible for this heinous act to pay. >> as soon as the bodies came up, i called the department of justice, and i asked him to find scott and just keep an eye on him. you know, keep him under surveillance until we figure out whose bodies these are. >> once the bodies were discovered, modesto police detectives got a warrant. and they headed down to san diego, where scott was under 24 hour surveillance. >> i was able to track him by the wiretap, and i knew where his phone was. so we sent the surveillance unit there. they found him. >> he was driving a new mercedes. >> it took a few days for the bodies to be positively identified. >> it was decided that we were going to put together a pre complaint arrest warrant. >> the judge signed the $1 million warrant, but he asked us kind of a gentleman's agreement. would we not serve that warrant until the dna was

confirmed so they followed him in and around the san diego area, and at some point he noticed that they were tailing him. >> it appeared to them as that he was trying to evade them. >> he is driving super erratic. i mean, he would be going 70, 80, 90 miles an hour on the highway and just put the brakes on and pull right over to the fast lane shoulder. he would do u-turns. what do we do if somebody gets hurt or killed while we're following him? when we have a signed warrant? >> the decision was then made to make the stop on him because it was just getting too risky. >> doge followed him into the torrey pines golf course, lit him up and arrested him without incident. really? >> police arrested scott peterson at torrey pines golf course, where his father and his brother had actually had plans to play that day. >> good evening. welcome to a special edition of larry king live. we have an arrest in the

laci peterson case. >> cnn has confirmed that scott peterson, husband of missing laci peterson, is under arrest tonight. arrested in san diego by modesto police. >> authorities said dna tests confirmed that the remains discovered earlier this week near san francisco are indeed those of laci and her unborn child. >> it's been truly a difficult four months. scott peterson is being transferred here to stanislaus county. >> by the time it was announced that scott had been taken into custody in san diego, a crowd started to gather outside the jail in modesto. >> there were signs. there were, i mean, happy they were applauding and people were screaming and yelling, murderer! >> and, you know, shaking their fists, basically a pitchfork crowd demanding his immediate death. >> it reminded me of kind of the jim crow south. >> i can only hope that the sound of lacy's voice begging for her life and begging for the life of her unborn child is heard over and over and over

again in the mind of that person, every day for the rest of his life. >> the coroner could not tell you when this happened, where it happened, how it happened. he could be stone cold, innocent. >> if there's other evidence, and it proves that it's not him. bring the evidence forward. >> scott peterson was held without bail at the stanislaus county jail in modesto, where he would remain until trial. in the court of public opinion, peterson, easily the most hated man in america, was already guilty as charged. he did have a few supporters, and to them, his arrest was nothing more than a rush to judgment. fueled by the media and carried out by the police. but there was very little physical evidence to prove scott murdered his wife. so did he really do it? there were so many twists and turns to this story, including the testimony of the star witness at his trial. next time on part two. thanks for

watching.