Scott Peterson May Get a New Trial - A Look Back at the Case: A "True Crime Christmas" Special | Ep. 975
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What new information has emerged in the Scott Peterson case?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and the conclusion to our True Crime Christmas series. Today, we're looking at the Scott Peterson case, which we've covered on the show before, but there is new information this year. It's actually kind of unbelievable. And an effort underway to get the man convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Lacey, and their unborn son, Connor, a new trial. Joining me today, our pal, Matt Murphy, former California prosecutor and district attorney. Matt, good to see you again. Thank you for being here. All right. So this is so crazy. The more I hear about this case, the more it feels like Scott Peterson actually has a shot at a retrial, which just seems insane to me. But since you're a prosecutor and you're from California, I'm going to play devil's advocate here and I will try to make the case on his behalf. OK, it's more interesting if we if we have both sides.
So he's just been given wide access to a whole new host of discovery that he says he was entitled to in this case, which my understanding is the judge had earlier said, you're not getting this. Go back to prison. Goodbye. But now he is getting access to a bunch of new evidence that would support allegedly this whole theory that. What happened on the day Lacey Peterson went missing and was murdered was not that Scott Peterson killed her and then disposed of her body and that of their unborn son. It was that she witnessed a burglary across the street from where they lived. She either tried to stop it, which is what Scott Peterson says he believes, or she was just an eyewitness and therefore became a target.
They abducted her. They killed her. They then drove around with her body for some sort of period. And then when the police made clear that Scott Peterson was believed to have been at this harbor, this marina on the day that Lacey went missing, they thought, aha, this is our chance. We're going to dump the body over there so that he will be blamed for this crime. And it does appear like this judge has at least opened up discovery again about for him to start probing that theory more meaningfully. Is that about where things stand?
Yeah, that's about where things stand. I mean, it's utterly absurd. But yeah, it's look, I hate it when women who are seven and a half months pregnant go charging in to stop burglaries and then burglars who are there to steal drive around for days and days with a dead body in their car of somebody that they killed just because apparently and then. They get really smart at that point and decide that they're going to drive to probably a marina that will have more law enforcement witnesses and everybody else because the attention given this case back in the day. And they're going to take the body out and go to pretty much the exact same place that Scott Peterson was fishing, according to him, and dump the body. Yeah, it happens all the time.
You know, I mean, let's give him a new trial.
And not to help you out, because... Yeah, I'm supposed to be taking the other side. But the other piece of that story that's just so nonsensical is if that's what they wanted to frame him, why would they weigh down the body in the ocean with a bunch of anchors? Why wouldn't they just throw the body on the shore or go out in the middle of the night and dump it overboard so it would float back in?
Because burglars go and make fake anchors with cement that they purchase all the time. That's why. I mean, anybody knows that. This is the latest case in a few of these that are going on right now where it's kind of like a couple of decades have gone by. And everybody has forgotten the overwhelming evidence against Scott Peterson. And this guy, look, this is a domestic violence murder. And I don't have to say alleged because the guy is convicted right now of it. So. You know, everybody forgets Amber Frey and all of the stuff regarding the affair and the fact that he dyed his hair and had fifteen thousand dollars and was down in San Diego and looked like he was going to flee to Mexico. It's like we get these cases.
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