“The Rocha family and their friends set up a command center at the local Red Lion Hotel and put together a $100,000 reward for information leading to Laci’s safe return. Peterson accompanied Detective Brocchini and Officer Evers to police headquarters to provide a tape-recorded statement.Īfter Peterson left, members of Laci’s family congregated at his and Laci’s home. a crime scene photographer later captured the suspicious impression on film.” There were other oddities: Detective Al Brocchini recalled in an interview published in People that “when we questioned him a couple of hours after he got home, he didn’t know what he was fishing for or what bait he was using.”Ĭrier reports that Brocchini walked into the bedroom where he “noticed an indentation that spanned the width of the bed, as though a body had been laid out there. The officers, like Sharon Rocha before them, thought Peterson’s cool demeanor strange under the circumstances. Miniature sailboats dangled from the ceiling, and a decorative life preserver hung on the wall bearing the greeting ‘Welcome Aboard!’” A small white crib was set up against one wall, its mattress covered with new baby clothes. He speculated that their cat and McKenzie had scrunched up the rug.Ĭatherine Crier, in A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation, writes, “The officers also walked through the nursery, with its deep blue walls and nautical theme. Peterson said Laci had been cleaning just before he left for his fishing trip. A crumpled throw rug lay near the back door. Two mops leaned against a wall outside the back of the house and a bucket was close to them. There were things that aroused the officers’ curiosity.
Leftover pizza was sitting in an open box on the kitchen counter: There was no evidence of a struggle.” The living room was nice and neat, furnished with overstuffed furniture. “The place was decked out for Christmas, with a glittering tree in one corner of the dining room, and presents piled high. “When Modesto police officers John Evers, Matt Spurlock, and Sergeant Byron Duerfield visited the Peterson home on Covena Avenue the next day, they found no hard evidence of foul play,” Ablow reported. Rocha thought her son-in-law sounded strangely calm for a man whose wife’s whereabouts were unknown. “Scott Peterson asserted that he had returned home to find Laci’s Land Rover in the driveway of their Modesto, California, home, and the couple’s golden retriever, McKenzie, in the backyard, alone, with his leash on,” according to forensic psychiatristKeith Ablow in his book, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson.īefore calling police, Peterson called his mother-in-law, Sharon Rocha, and said Laci was “missing.” Mrs. He said his wife told him she intended to walk their golden retriever in a nearby park and then shop. When the police arrived, Peterson told them he left home alone that morning for a fishing trip to the Berkeley Marina in the San Francisco Bay, 85 miles to the west. A sonogram had shown the fetus to be a boy the parents planned to name him Conner. Doctors had given her a due date of February 10, 2003. Laci was seven and a half months pregnant.
On Christmas Eve, 2002, Scott Peterson called police to report that his 27-year-old wife, Laci Peterson, was missing from their one-story, ranch-style Modesto, California home. For murdering his pregnant wife and unborn son, Scott Peterson became one of the most reviled husbands in the annals of crime.
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