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Scott Peterson Breaks His Silence as New Evidence Could Clear His Name
Over 20 years after convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson’s case captivated the nation, a bombshell petition filed by the Los Angeles Innocence Project says he didn’t murder his pregnant bride, Laci, and their unborn son, Connor.
The 400-page legal document claims investigators and San Mateo County prosecutors for failing to properly investigate any evidence that could have cleared Peterson.
His former defense attorney, Matt Dalton, tells The National ENQUIRER that the petition faults officials for refusing to track down witnesses who may have seen eight-months-pregnant Laci just before she vanished on Christmas Eve 2002.
In 2018, The ENQUIRER was one of the first media outlets to reveal that six witnesses claimed to have seen Laci that day and suggested she may have been kidnapped by burglars she’d confronted for breaking into the home of one of her Modesto, Calif., neighbors.
Neighbor Diana Campos told ENQUIRER reporters she saw two men accosting Laci as she walked her golden retriever on that fateful day.
“If just one of those witnesses had come into court to testify and convince the jury that Laci was alive on Dec. 24, then Scott would have been exonerated because it would have established that she was alive after he left the house,” explains Dalton.
Peterson, now 52, claims he returned home from a solo fishing trip to find his 27-year-old wife missing. But less than four months later, her headless, rotting torso and the fetal remains of their son were found on the shores of San Francisco Bay near where Scott said he’d been fishing.
Peterson was convicted in 2004 and sent to death row but was later resentenced to life.
Paula Mitchell, director of the L.A. Innocence Project, says, “In my opinion, once the police locked onto Mr. Peterson as the prime suspect, they had no interest in finding evidence showing that someone other than Scott may have abducted Laci Peterson because that evidence did not fit with their working theory of the case.”
