Scott Peterson Revealed Who He Really Thinks Killed His Wife Laci…

Eyewitness accounts

According to eyewitness accounts, neighbors may have seen Laci walking the family dog the morning she disappeared. This would potentially establish a new timeline where Scott had already left for his fishing trip and could not have been responsible for Laci’s murder.

“One female hospital employee described two men yelling at a pregnant woman who was walking a dog. This hospital employee only received a return phone call,” per scottpetersonappeal.org. “Another tip from a retired reserve officer described a pregnant woman being shoved back into a van less than half a mile from Scott and Laci’s house. He made repeated attempts to contact MPD and was never called back,” claims another.

The burglary next door

The LA Innocence Project is looking into a potential burglary that happened across the street from the Peterson’s home in December in Stanislaus County. This is known as the Medina Burglary Theory and suggests Laci encountered burglars and they killed her for fear of being identified.

“The burglary could have occurred about the same time Laci went for a walk,” investigative journalist Mike Gudgell explained in Peacock’s Face to Face with Scott Peterson. “It’s possible that Laci confronted the burglars, or saw the burglars, or the burglars saw her and were worried about whether she would call the police. So either one of those scenarios could have triggered a panic that led to her abduction.” 

Investigators, however, placed the timing of the burglary on December 26, which is two days after Laci went missing. Two people were even arrested, Steven Todd and Donald Pearce.

“There were a lot of people in that burglary,” Scott said in Face to Face, in a video call from Mule Creek State Prison in California, where he’s serving life without parole. “And I believe that Laci went over there to see what was going on. And that’s when she was taken.”

A neighbor named Tom Harshman recounted seeing a young pregnant woman being forced into a car on December 24 (when he called the police on the 28th, he claimed the incident took place four days prior). “I remember all that,” Harshman recalled in the Peacock series. “We’d saw a girl, and she was pregnant, and she was in a van, and we were worried about her. She had to pee, so they took her over to a fence and forced her back in the van, and they were kind of manhandling her, and she was kind of frightened.”

The burned van

A burnt-out van was discovered on Christmas Day—the morning after Laci disappeared. Scott’s defense argued that the vehicle was not properly investigated and claimed Laci had been killed in the van by two men she witnessed robbing a house on her street on the morning she disappeared.

The bloody mattress

Inside the burnt van was a supposedly bloody mattress. The mattress in the van was partially tested in 2019 and showed no blood, so a judge ruled not to allow DNA testing of the item. The LAIP argues that advancements in DNA technology merit a request to have the whole mattress tested.

In a renewed appeal in May 2024, a judge ruled that one item from a list of evidence collected should undergo new testing: a piece of duct tape found on Laci Peterson’s pants.