The Megyn Kelly Show - September 02, 2026


The Double Life of Scott Peterson： Two Christmas Eves — Ep. 2 ｜ MK Confidential


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00:01:00.540 At 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve 2002, four Modesto police officers pull up outside a single-story ranch house at 523 Covina Avenue.
00:01:10.860 The front windows face the street, but heavy drapes cover them, blocking the view in or out.
00:01:17.420 A 27-year-old woman has been missing from this house since that morning.
00:01:21.800 She is eight months pregnant.
00:01:23.900 Her husband says he went fishing 90 miles away and that he came home in the afternoon to find her gone.
00:01:31.640 Officer Matt Spurlock leads the way up the brick walkway.
00:01:35.280 Behind him, Sergeant Byron Duerfeldt is on the phone to the supervisor,
00:01:39.840 who runs a detective unit called Crimes Against Persons.
00:01:43.960 I'm requesting the assistance of a CAP detective, sir, Duerfeldt says.
00:01:49.160 Spurlock tries the front door. It opens.
00:01:52.480 Most of the lights inside are on.
00:01:55.180 There's a Christmas tree in the corner of the dining area.
00:01:58.420 The officers inventory the presents underneath it.
00:02:02.220 In the nursery, new baby clothes are stacked in a white crib.
00:02:06.300 Miniature sailboats hang from the ceiling.
00:02:09.380 One of the officers stops in front of a life preserver on the wall.
00:02:12.480 It reads, Welcome aboard.
00:02:16.160 In the living room, a tan and white throw rug is bunched up on the floor against the patio door.
00:02:21.720 Officer John Evers steps around it and leaves it where it lies.
00:02:27.100 They work through the rest of the house room by room.
00:02:29.920 Closet doors open.
00:02:31.640 A shower curtain slides back.
00:02:34.080 On the kitchen wall, there's a chalkboard where Lacey has written Merry Christmas in a youthful script.
00:02:40.980 On the counter, leftover pizza sits in an open box with a container of ranch dressing next to it.
00:02:47.160 And beside that, a telephone book.
00:02:50.120 Open.
00:02:50.420 The police see a full-page ad with a photograph of a young man being handcuffed by a uniformed
00:02:57.600 officer and underneath it the words, criminal defense, former deputy district attorney.
00:03:04.280 The lawyer lists his specialties. One of them is murder. Scott Peterson will later give an
00:03:10.820 explanation for that. Sitting in an interview room at the Modesto Police Department,
00:03:15.100 he says he had the phone book out to call hospitals. There are two accounts of that day,
00:03:21.700 the day Lacey Peterson disappeared. First, the way Scott Peterson tells it that night to a
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00:04:56.280 Lacey Peterson has been missing for a few hours.
00:04:59.140 There is no body, nor even police must consider, necessarily, any crime.
00:05:05.660 Still, the officers don't leave that house before securing it.
00:05:09.140 And out at the curb, Sergeant Duerfeld calls his supervisor back with a list of six things that do not sit right.
00:05:16.900 It has been less than an hour since police were called, and the supervisor wants a murder investigator at that house immediately.
00:05:24.680 The detective who catches the case is Al Brocchini, 17 years on the job.
00:05:30.220 He'd planned a quiet Christmas with his family up in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
00:05:35.200 After getting the call, he drives back down Route 108 toward Modesto
00:05:38.760 and the house on Covina Avenue with the police scanner going on his dashboard.
00:05:44.580 Brocchini opens an investigation that night.
00:05:47.520 He'll be with Scott Peterson on and off until 1.30 in the morning.
00:05:50.980 Their taped interview begins at midnight.
00:05:54.580 Let's just go over what we already talked about so I can make some notes.
00:05:59.600 Just tell me about the morning.
00:06:01.340 Here's how Scott describes that morning.
00:06:04.720 Lacey is up first, and she has cereal. 0.76
00:06:08.280 If she doesn't eat as soon as she's out of bed, she gets sick because of the pregnancy.
00:06:12.720 Scott stays in bed a while longer, gets up around 8 and showers.
00:06:17.400 They watch television in the converted garage.
00:06:20.440 Her favorite show is on, Martha Stewart.
00:06:22.980 Scott doesn't watch the whole thing.
00:06:25.140 He remembers cookies of some sort.
00:06:27.300 He remembers they talked about what to do with meringue.
00:06:30.920 She tells him her plan for the day, finish cleaning the house, mop the kitchen floor,
00:06:35.060 take the dog for a walk, then the store for Christmas morning breakfast supplies,
00:06:39.300 and for the gingerbread cookies she's making for the Christmas Eve dinner at her parents' place that night.
00:06:45.540 He was going to go play golf at the club, but it seems pretty cold outside,
00:06:49.780 so he decides to go fishing instead.
00:06:53.700 That was a morning decision.
00:06:55.320 It's either go play golf at the club or go fishing.
00:07:00.080 It seemed too cold to go play golf at the club,
00:07:04.340 so I just decided to, you know, 9.30 or whatever.
00:07:11.200 Before he leaves, Lacey asks him for help with the mop bucket.
00:07:15.400 He tells Burkini what she's wearing when he leaves.
00:07:29.140 Black pants, a white long-sleeved top, plain, nothing written on it.
00:07:33.840 No shoes.
00:07:35.340 Her white tennis shoes, the ones she wears to walk the dog,
00:07:38.680 are not in their usual place by the wet bar.
00:07:41.320 He says he looked.
00:07:42.120 Scott leaves around 9.30 in his pickup and drives to the warehouse he rents on Emerald Avenue.
00:08:12.120 and then he took the boat up and went.
00:08:17.800 The email goes to his boss.
00:08:20.680 Then he hooks up the 14-foot aluminum boat he bought two weeks earlier,
00:08:24.780 which is stored at the warehouse,
00:08:26.520 and tows it 90 miles to the Berkeley Marina.
00:08:29.940 He feeds $5 into the automated parking machine
00:08:33.040 and takes the timed receipt.
00:08:35.160 It reads 1254 in the afternoon.
00:08:38.820 Scott's in the water by about 1 o'clock.
00:08:41.560 He goes north a couple of miles to a small island with a no-landing sign on it.
00:08:46.220 It's called Brooks Island.
00:08:48.300 He fishes for about 90 minutes, catches nothing.
00:08:52.240 He tells Burkini that a lot of the reason he went was just to get the boat in the water and see how it ran.
00:08:57.720 Back in the truck, he calls Lacey as he's leaving the marina and leaves a message on her voicemail.
00:09:03.640 Hey, beautiful. I just left a message at home.
00:09:07.120 215, I live in Berkeley. I'll see you in a bit. We love you. Bye.
00:09:10.860 He stops for gas in Livermore on the freeway back toward Modesto.
00:09:16.360 He hits traffic and calls the house again to say he will not be home by 4.
00:09:21.600 He stops at the warehouse to drop off the boat and gets home at 4.45.
00:09:27.080 Scott comes around back.
00:09:29.060 Their dog Mackenzie is in the yard, and Scott is surprised to see he still has his leash on.
00:09:34.760 Scott takes it off of him and puts the leash on the picnic table, then goes in through the French doors.
00:09:40.480 The dog and their gray and white Siamese cat follow him inside.
00:09:44.760 The cat goes over to the mop bucket, still sitting there full, and looks like it's going to drink from it.
00:09:51.180 So Scott carries the bucket out the side door, dumps it, and leaves it outside.
00:09:55.860 He puts his clothes in the washing machine, his jeans, his blue t-shirt, a green polo.
00:10:02.400 To make room, he pulls out a stack of stained white towels their housekeeper had left in there and piles them on top of the machine.
00:10:09.620 He eats one piece of the cold pizza, then showers, dresses, and checks the answering machine.
00:10:17.140 There are three messages.
00:10:19.160 Two of them are his own from the road.
00:10:21.780 The third is from Lacey's stepfather, Ron Gransky, asking them to bring over whipped cream.
00:10:28.460 This is supposed to be a celebratory evening.
00:10:31.960 They're due at Lacey's mom's house for dinner at 6 o'clock.
00:10:34.940 At 5.15, by his own account, Scott Peterson looks at his watch.
00:10:40.620 Sharon Rocha is looking at a clock, too.
00:10:43.820 She is Lacey's mother.
00:10:45.780 She has a ham in the oven,
00:10:47.380 and she has just put a casserole dish of scalloped potatoes on the top rack.
00:10:51.660 She's told everyone to come at 6.
00:10:53.960 The clock by her stove reads 5.15.
00:10:57.240 She finishes up in the kitchen and goes into the bedroom to change.
00:11:01.140 Two minutes later, her phone rings.
00:11:04.380 Hi, Mom, Scott says.
00:11:06.660 Is Lacey there?
00:11:08.580 No, she says.
00:11:10.040 She wonders why he's asking.
00:11:12.240 In Sharon's account of it, Scott pauses.
00:11:15.640 He says, hmm.
00:11:17.760 Then he says the sentence that will change her life.
00:11:21.500 When I got home, Lacey's car was in the driveway, 0.59
00:11:24.180 and Mackenzie was in the backyard with his leash on,
00:11:26.900 and Lacey's missing.
00:11:29.660 22 years later, Sharon Rocha describes that call to Netflix producers.
00:11:35.040 Scott called me to find out if Lacey was at my house. 0.94
00:11:37.720 And I said, no.
00:11:39.140 And he said, well, then she's missing.
00:11:42.400 Missing? What do you mean missing?
00:11:45.500 I mean, people don't use that term lightly.
00:11:49.740 So I told him to call our friends and find out if anybody has seen her.
00:11:57.020 It's the word that stops her.
00:11:59.640 Missing.
00:12:01.460 Sharon says later that it was a strange choice of words.
00:12:04.740 Lacey's not the kind of person who goes missing.
00:12:07.200 She's practical and organized and nearly eight months pregnant,
00:12:10.600 and they're coming for dinner in 45 minutes.
00:12:14.020 Sharon asks Scott what time he got home.
00:12:16.620 4.45, he says.
00:12:18.480 It's now 5.17.
00:12:20.620 Scott's been home for more than 30 minutes before calling his mother-in-law
00:12:23.920 to ask if she has heard from his wife.
00:12:27.540 Within the hour, Lacey's stepdad, Ron Gransky,
00:12:30.560 is on the phone with the Modesto Police Department.
00:12:33.480 Can I help you?
00:12:34.340 Two weeks later, Sharon Rocha opens that oven.
00:12:57.320 The casserole dish of scalloped potatoes is still sitting on the top rack.
00:13:02.820 She looks at them for a long time.
00:13:06.160 Something else happens that evening before any detective arrives.
00:13:09.860 At 5.30, Scott Peterson knocks on the door of a neighbor across the street,
00:13:14.780 Amy Krigbaum, to ask whether she has seen Lacey.
00:13:18.620 Krigbaum asks him where he's been all day.
00:13:21.380 Scott tells her he was golfing.
00:13:24.520 Down at East La Loma Park, at the end of their street,
00:13:27.980 Ron Gransky is helping search for Lacey.
00:13:30.720 Officer Spurlock finds him standing at the footbridge and asks whether he knows where
00:13:35.020 Scott has been.
00:13:36.360 I believe he went golfing this morning, Gransky says.
00:13:39.180 Are you sure?
00:13:40.520 Yes, he answers.
00:13:42.840 Later that night, on Scott's front lawn with two officers standing there, Gransky asks
00:13:48.820 his son-in-law directly, were you able to get in a game of golf this morning?
00:13:53.800 Scott hesitates.
00:13:55.340 Then he says he did not play golf.
00:13:57.340 it was too cold that he went fishing instead. Gransky is a fisherman himself. 9.30 or 10 o'clock
00:14:05.820 in the morning is way too late for fishing, he says. You should have gone earlier. What were
00:14:09.980 you fishing for? Scott doesn't reply. Burkini asks Scott why the truck is backed in. Scott answers
00:14:18.280 immediately. He always does that, he says, because the toolbox in the bed has been broken into a
00:14:23.840 couple of times. That morning he had loaded a set of patio umbrellas wrapped in a blue tarp into the
00:14:30.720 back of the truck to store at the warehouse. He forgot and drove to Berkeley and back with them
00:14:37.100 still in there. Burkini asks whether Scott owns any handguns. Scott says yes. A llama 22 in the
00:14:45.420 glove box of his truck where it's been since a pheasant hunt about a month ago. Burkini pops
00:14:50.840 open the glove box. The gun is there and he takes it. Burkini asks whether there was anything
00:14:56.840 unusual in the house. Two things, Scott says, the leash and the back door unlocked. Near the end of
00:15:04.760 the interview, Burkini asks to test Scott Peterson's hands for gunshot residue. Scott hesitates. Then
00:15:11.660 he asks, will boat motor exhaust register positive? Burkini doesn't answer that question, but asks one
00:15:18.980 of his own. Would you be willing to take a polygraph? Sure, Scott says. The detective
00:15:25.420 asks a second time. Scott says he's certainly willing. And then Burkini tells Scott what's
00:15:31.860 bothering him an hour into the tape. What concerns me the most is the fact that your
00:15:37.480 dog came home with a leash on. That bothers me. I mean, no question. Yeah.
00:15:45.120 And what concerns me most is doing anything I can to further progress.
00:15:51.700 I appreciate that.
00:15:52.980 Burkini asks him where he wants to go.
00:15:56.220 Physically, Scott says, back to my home.
00:15:59.760 The polygraph is scheduled for the next afternoon, Christmas Day,
00:16:04.160 with an agent from the California Department of Justice coming by to assist.
00:16:08.400 At 1 o'clock, as detectives are waiting for him, they get a phone call.
00:16:13.900 Scott has changed his mind.
00:16:16.500 He says his father, Lee, told him taking a polygraph was not a good idea.
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00:18:43.700 Now the same day again.
00:18:46.180 Not the day Scott Peterson describes.
00:18:48.620 This time, the way police and prosecutors come to believe it really happened.
00:18:54.020 Let's start with what was on TV.
00:18:56.980 Martha Stewart is on that morning, Lacey's favorite show,
00:19:00.400 and Scott remembers Martha talking about what to do with meringue.
00:19:03.800 Detectives will pull that broadcast later.
00:19:05.880 The segment about meringue aired at 9.48 that morning.
00:19:10.920 Scott tells Burkini he left the house around 9.30.
00:19:14.960 But the meringue is Scott's own detail.
00:19:18.080 Nobody put it to him. He offers it.
00:19:20.660 And it airs 18 minutes after the time he says he was already gone,
00:19:24.760 which puts him still in that house until at least 9.50.
00:19:29.700 Next door, neighbor Karen's service backs out of her driveway
00:19:33.120 and finds their dog Mackenzie loose in the street.
00:19:35.880 Dragging a leash so dirty, Karen goes back inside her house to wash her hands after she's handled it.
00:19:42.180 I left the leash on the dog and abruptly just left and shut the gate and, you know, went on with my day.
00:19:48.200 And I really didn't think much more of that until that evening.
00:19:52.100 The next day, when police take Karen's service's statement, they ask her to pin down a time when she found the dog.
00:19:58.940 Using a receipt from an errand she ran just afterward, she works it back to no later than 10.18.
00:20:05.880 That leaves 28 minutes from the time Scott would have heard meringue before leaving the house
00:20:12.320 and the time Mackenzie was found outside barking and alone with no Lacey. 1.00
00:20:17.560 28 minutes for Lacey to finish mopping, load the dishwasher, make the bed, curl her hair, 1.00
00:20:23.080 lace up her sneakers, clip a leash on Mackenzie, and head to the park and become a victim. 0.58
00:20:29.140 Police come to believe that Lacey Peterson never left her house alive.
00:20:34.320 They cannot say exactly when she is killed.
00:20:36.900 They cannot say exactly how.
00:20:39.320 Neither can the prosecutor who takes the case to trial.
00:20:42.320 Here is Rick DeStasso two years later in his closing argument.
00:20:46.560 Quote, the defendant strangled Lacey Peterson on the night of December 23rd or the morning of December 24th.
00:20:53.080 I don't know.
00:20:54.520 I don't have to prove that to you.
00:20:56.580 Strangling and smothering is not going to leave a lot of evidence.
00:21:00.160 Unquote.
00:21:01.280 There is almost no physical evidence in that house.
00:21:03.900 Investigators have a phrase for a killing like that.
00:21:07.640 I believe that this was what I call a soft kill,
00:21:12.000 that he either suffocated her or he strangled her,
00:21:16.880 and there would be two reasons that he would choose to do that.
00:21:21.560 One is that it's very quiet.
00:21:25.320 Secondly, it doesn't make a mess.
00:21:28.180 Investigators focus on the bedroom.
00:21:30.520 The night Brickini walked through the house, he saw a white comforter in Lacey and Scott's bedroom
00:21:35.600 pulled up over the pillows as though someone had tidied the bed in a hurry.
00:21:40.760 At the foot of the bed, there was an indentation running across as though a body had been laid out there.
00:21:48.240 Brickini does not write it down, but he clocks it.
00:21:51.160 Two days later, on December 26th, detectives come back with a warrant.
00:21:55.820 A crime scene officer photographs the bed.
00:21:58.440 Then they strip the bed and take the comforter cover with them.
00:22:02.580 Beside the indentation on that cover are two small spots.
00:22:07.200 The spots are blood.
00:22:08.980 Forensics will later confirm the blood is Scott Peterson's.
00:22:12.900 Detectives come to believe Lacey Peterson was killed on that bed.
00:22:17.200 One theory they take seriously is that she reached up and scratched him as he was strangling her to death.
00:22:24.380 Then Scott has to move her.
00:22:26.140 investigators believe he wrapped her in a tarp inside the house and dragged her out through
00:22:32.240 the back door wadding up the throw rug as he went police also suspect scott mopped the floor
00:22:38.320 and deliberately let mackenzie loose with his leash still attached setting up the possibility
00:22:43.820 that someone took lacy here is the prosecutor distasso again quote he wrapped her in a blue
00:22:51.240 tarp and backed his truck up to the gate. He carries Lacey out, puts her in the back of the
00:22:56.340 truck. Who's going to suspect him? Everyone thinks he's the perfect husband, unquote.
00:23:02.860 And that is what the umbrellas are for. Detective Craig Grogan, the lead investigator, will testify
00:23:08.260 that the patio umbrellas Scott loaded that morning were approximately the same height as Lacey
00:23:14.080 Peterson. And that wrapped in a tarp in the bed of a truck, they would not only hide Lacey's body,
00:23:21.240 but would explain what anyone saw him loading.
00:23:25.500 Scott drives to the warehouse on Emerald Avenue.
00:23:28.520 In his version, he spends one hour assembling a woodworking tool and sending one email.
00:23:35.000 In the police version, this is the hour Lacey Peterson's body goes from the truck
00:23:39.520 into the boat that no one knows Scott had.
00:23:43.840 Brickini is inside the warehouse the same night,
00:23:47.120 working by flashlight and the high beams of his own car.
00:23:50.960 On the floor of the boat is a chunk of concrete with a steel loop set into one end.
00:23:56.380 Scott tells him it's a homemade anchor and that the loop is there to tie the rope to.
00:24:01.180 But there is no rope attached to it.
00:24:04.180 There is also concrete dust inside the boat, not on the rim, but down on the ridges,
00:24:09.760 that run up the sides and across the bottom of the boat.
00:24:12.880 The detective can think of no reason for that to be there.
00:24:15.300 Two days later, on December 26th, detectives come back with a search warrant covering Scott's house, his warehouse, his vehicles, and his boat.
00:24:26.360 Burkini looks at the flatbed trailer more closely.
00:24:30.280 On the trailer is a plastic water pitcher, the kind you might keep in a refrigerator.
00:24:35.280 It's about a third full of murky water with gray residue wringing the inside.
00:24:40.760 Burkini stands close and studies it.
00:24:42.740 There's a mallet lying next to the pitcher.
00:24:45.300 And in the dried concrete on the trailer are four circular impressions, each one the size of the bottom of that water pitcher.
00:24:55.740 Burkini works out what he's looking at.
00:24:58.140 Ready-mix concrete and water, pour it into the pitcher, let it set, knock it out with the mallet, stand it on the trailer to cure.
00:25:06.840 Four rings, at least four anchors.
00:25:10.340 They have found one on the floor of the boat.
00:25:13.020 that leaves at least three unaccounted for. In the bed of Scott's pickup, Rokini finds a small tool
00:25:19.540 coated in dry cement. He assumes this was used to mix the concrete. Detective Grogan asks Scott
00:25:27.120 how many anchors he made. Did you make just one? Yeah. Scott says he made it days earlier,
00:25:34.760 mixed in a small white painter's bucket, not in the picture. Detectives see the picture, but
00:25:39.600 never locate the bucket. The police theory is that concrete weights took Lacey Peterson's body
00:25:46.540 down and that the cement on those ridges inside the boat crumbled off of the weights as she went
00:25:53.080 over the side. Beneath the boat's bench seat, detectives find a pair of yellow needle-nosed
00:25:59.960 pliers. There is a single strand of black human hair clamped in the pliers. Lacey Peterson has
00:26:07.680 black hair. A Modesto detective bags the hair, seals it, and marks it to be sent for DNA testing. 0.94
00:26:14.580 There is no root attached to the hair, though, so the analysis does not give a conclusive match.
00:26:20.740 However, it says the DNA is consistent with a hair from Lacey's hairbrush and a sample from
00:26:26.940 Lacey's mother, Sharon. The hair does not belong to Scott Peterson. At 10.06 that morning, the
00:26:33.180 morning Lacey disappeared, Scott Peterson makes a phone call. It is the last call he makes for
00:26:39.700 about four hours. No calls on the drive, not at the marina, not on the water. Police note this
00:26:47.420 as a change from his normal behavior. He tows the boat from his warehouse about 90 miles to
00:26:54.140 the Berkeley Marina. Detectives believe Lacey Peterson is in that boat. At 1254 in the afternoon,
00:27:01.680 he arrives at the marina, feeds $5 into the automated parking machine, and takes the timed
00:27:07.380 receipt and keeps it. That night, standing in his own driveway, he hands it to a police officer
00:27:13.600 who has not asked him for it. At the marina, Scott puts the boat in the water and goes a couple of
00:27:20.640 miles north toward Brooks Island. That is where police believe Lacey Peterson's body is discarded
00:27:27.340 into San Francisco Bay.
00:27:29.920 He went out to Brooks Island
00:27:31.600 and he dumped her weighted body
00:27:33.760 into the water,
00:27:34.800 hoping that it would never, ever come up.
00:27:37.600 Four months later,
00:27:39.220 on April 13th and then the 14th,
00:27:42.300 the decomposing bodies
00:27:43.660 of a full-term baby boy
00:27:45.400 and a woman wash ashore
00:27:47.220 directly east of that island.
00:27:49.640 The rest of the day
00:27:50.840 is the day you already know.
00:27:53.100 Scott calls Lacey twice from the road
00:27:54.940 and leaves excessively loving messages
00:27:57.320 she will never pick up. He drops the boat at the warehouse, and he is home at 4.45. The dog is in
00:28:04.940 the yard with the leash on, and he takes it off. He dumps the mop bucket out the side door. He puts
00:28:10.300 his clothes in the washing machine, eats a piece of cold pizza, showers, dresses, and plays back
00:28:16.660 the messages on the answering machine. Then he waits. At 5.15, he looks at his watch and picks
00:28:23.580 up the phone. Hi, Mom, Scott says. Is Lacey there? In the first version, that is a husband finding
00:28:32.100 out his wife is missing. In the police version, he knows very well what has happened to her.
00:28:40.140 In the weeks following Christmas, police keep a close eye on Scott Peterson. They impound his
00:28:46.220 truck and get a court order to put a tracking device on Lacey's Land Rover. When he rents
00:28:51.780 another pickup, they track that too. Scott goes back to the Berkeley Marina three times
00:28:57.560 after December 24th, and he does not take the boat with him. Surveillance units watch him sit
00:29:04.100 in his vehicle near the boat ramp, just looking out at the water. When he learns police are
00:29:10.460 bringing in dogs, Scott brings the boat's cover home from the warehouse and puts it in a shed
00:29:16.560 behind the house. Then he sets a gasoline-powered leaf blower down on top of the cover. The leaf
00:29:24.420 blower leaks. Police note that Scott Peterson is not otherwise careless with his equipment.
00:29:31.140 Burkini interviews neighbor Karen Servas again. Afterward, he writes up a list and he gives it
00:29:37.340 a heading, Scott Peterson false statements. One, that police took his handgun from inside his house.
00:29:46.280 Two, that he volunteered for a polygraph and officers told him not to take it.
00:29:52.420 He told his parents and service this at least four times.
00:29:56.860 Scott tells Lacey's mom, Sharon, that he's deliberately avoiding the press so the coverage stays on Lacey
00:30:02.040 and that if he senses interest starting to fade, he'll give an interview himself just to bring it back.
00:30:08.120 He calls a realtor about their house on Covina Avenue and talks about selling it or renting it out.
00:30:14.780 There's no way if Lacey comes back that we're going to stay there, he says.
00:30:19.560 On January 11th, 2003, Sharon leaves Scott a voicemail meant to bring him relief.
00:30:27.420 A sonar scan of San Francisco Bay has turned up something on the bottom.
00:30:32.340 It's been identified and it's a boat anchor.
00:30:35.440 It is not her daughter.
00:30:37.640 The wiretap on Scott's phone is running while he listens to the message.
00:30:42.480 As his mother-in-law's message plays, Scott Peterson lets out a low, quick whistle.
00:30:49.860 Hi, Scott. This is Mom. It's about quarter to one.
00:30:53.560 Just wanted to know, I just got a call from Ron Cloward.
00:30:56.420 He's at Marina, and it was a boat anchor.
00:30:58.820 Of course, we knew it wasn't Lacey, but I just wanted to know.
00:31:02.440 I'm going to call your house in case you don't get this message first. Bye.
00:31:07.160 Scott Peterson has a cut on his knuckle.
00:31:10.040 The cut is not the problem.
00:31:11.160 the problem is Scott's explanations for it keep changing. When Detective Grogan asks him what
00:31:17.020 caught him, Scott says he doesn't know. Probably the door, he offers, or something. Grogan asks
00:31:24.040 whether it was just a scuff on the knuckle, and Scott says, yeah, left hand, index finger.
00:31:30.360 Five weeks later, Scott's on television, holding up his hand for a Sacramento reporter named Gloria
00:31:36.500 Gomez. She has just asked him whether it would surprise him if police found blood in his vehicles.
00:31:43.500 Take a look at my hand. You can see, you know, cuts here on my knuckles, numerous scars. I work
00:31:52.080 on farms. I work with machinery. I know I cut my knuckle that day, reaching in the toolbox of my
00:31:58.980 truck and then into the pocket on the door. I cut out my knuckle and there's a blood stain on the
00:32:05.920 door. What happened to he doesn't know? Sometime after Christmas, Scott complains to Lacey's mom,
00:32:13.200 Sharon, about brockini, including that the detective had checked his hands for cuts a few
00:32:18.000 times. Then he makes a point of showing Sharon his hands. Sharon glances at them quickly and
00:32:24.040 writes down later what she saw. Not one finger, but a line running across the knuckles of all
00:32:30.200 four fingers, a cut or a slice that has almost healed. She says nothing. One Christmas Eve,
00:32:39.400 two different versions. In Scott Peterson's accounting, a man goes fishing, comes home to a
00:32:44.680 quiet and empty house, tosses in a load of laundry, cleans up, eats a slice of leftover pizza,
00:32:50.800 then calls his mother-in-law. To the police, that man has killed his wife and unborn child,
00:32:56.420 dumped their bodies in the cold sea and is trying to cover up his crime.
00:33:01.980 The Modesto Police Department will spend the next two years trying to prove it.
00:33:07.060 But there's a problem.
00:33:08.920 There are witnesses whose accounts do not fit the police timeline.
00:33:13.500 A van that doesn't belong on that street.
00:33:16.300 Three men in a yard.
00:33:18.580 And people who say they saw a pregnant woman walking a golden retriever that morning
00:33:22.640 after the point Scott Peterson had left.
00:33:25.480 After the time police had concluded, Lacey Peterson was already dead.
00:33:31.460 I'm Megan Kelly.
00:33:33.340 That's next time on MK Confidential.
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