What Really Happened to Laci Peterson?! 8 Months Pregnant and Missing

or people were like running out of it I don't even know police weren't there yet but people were running clearing the party and there was this girl that was unconscious on the sidewalk of this fraternity house and me and all my friends pull up and I'm like okay I'm the only one who's 21 here everyone else like get out of here hello everyone welcome back to my channel and welcome to another true crime video today we are doing another double feature if you didn't catch my first one on a Jay Simpson it's something new I'm doing where I'm taking really big cases that are just tons of work tons of editing for the weeks that I do that I'm skipping talk Tuesday and I'm doing the videos in two different parts because they're so long in this case is gonna be one that is I know it's gonna be long I have been waiting to do this since beginning like what I first came up with the idea to do these types of videos just so overwhelming and there's so much to go over that I don't know it's nervous but I'm doing it now the Scott Peterson case can be very controversial a little touchy because it's intense it's very intense and very sad but yes this is part one we're gonna go ahead and jump into it and there will be part two linked in the description box so if you haven't heard of this case which I'm sure many of you have this was a very high-profile case this is about a man and a wife Scott and Laci Peterson they were definitely like considered to be the ideal couple people really liked being around them they were very good together Scott Peterson was born on October 24th of 1972 in San Diego California his parents are named Lee and Jackie Lee Arthur Peterson his father was a businessman who owned a crate packaging company and Jackie his mom owned a boutique in La Jolla called the puddin and Lee and Jackie actually had six children between the two of them from previous marriages and Scott was actually their only child that they had together and Scott ended up being a fertilizer salesman in Modesto California Laci was born in Modesto California on May 4th of 1975 and she's actually a Taurus so I definitely connected with her on that he was very headstrong she's born in May she was a Taurus and she fit the description to a tee she's very headstrong and like I said once she made up her mind she was going to do it and that's all there was to it there was no change in her mind god a gorgeous girl I mean her smile just captivated people I mean she was all over the covers of magazines just this gorgeous woman this beautiful smile she just looks like she had the biggest heart and from people around her it sounds like she really did have the biggest heart and she was very well loved her full name is Lacey Denise Rocha her parents are Dennis Robert Rocha and Sharon Ruth Anderson and she was actually raised by her mom Sharon and stepdad Ron and she was a cheerleader in junior high school in high school and she was very well-liked in school had a lot of friends just definitely someone that people remembered as being a really nice person and typical tourists she was a horticulture major who loved to plant things she attended California Polytechnic State University or Cal Poly which if you remember I talked about that school back from the Kristin smart video that was like the first crime video I ever did and while she was at Cal Poly she met Scott Peterson and lacy was actually the one to make the first move she gave him her phone number and immediately after meeting him and spending a little time with him she told her mother that this was the man she was going to marry soon after this he actually called Lacey and asked her to go fishing and that was their first date she actually got really seasick so Scott was actually trying to be a professional golfer but as his relationship with Lacey was growing stronger and becoming more serious he decided to give up his dream of being a professional golfer and be a full-time husband and they dated for two years and then they moved in together it's gotten lazy actually got engaged in December of 1996 and married on August 9th of 1997 this was a few months before Lacey's graduation and the first two years of their marriage they decided to just kind of enjoy their marriage be with each other and weren't trying to have kids but in December of 2000 Lacey became serious about trying for pregnancy she really wanted to have a baby was a dream of hers and she felt like they were in a good time of their life and they tried for a while so long that she ended almost getting fertility treatments but right before that they conceived naturally in May of 2002 and Lacey's mom said that she noticed some red flags the first and the biggest red flag for her was that when Lacey was pregnant Lacey asked her mom to feel her belly we're sitting side-by-side and Scott was sitting in the floor and we were watching TV he hit she said the baby was kicking so I put my hand on her stomach because I'd never felt him okay she leaned over to me and she said mom she said Scott doesn't like to do this she said I asked her to you know feel my stomach when when the baby kicks and he never wants to test my stomach that really really bothered me and that was the last time I saw her so moving forward in time here December 24th 2002 Laci Peterson is eight months pregnant it's Christmas Eve they're preparing for the night ahead it's you know it's a happy time there it's a couple a newlywed couple having their first baby and that morning lacy woke up she ate right away because she was pregnant and if you are pregnant you get nausea it helps to eat she had some cereal right in the morning and Scott actually joined her and then Scott said he was in bed a bit longer than her but he eventually got up and followed her downstairs and from about 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Scott claims that they watched Martha Stewart kind of you know prepping for Christmas Eve coming that night and lacy was a really big fan of Martha Stewart so this kind of made sense then according to Scott lacy was gonna be doing some cleaning and then planned to take her dog on a walk and Scott decided to go play golf on that day and I just think this is so weird because at least in my house Christmas Eve is spent together I just I thought it was really odd that he would go off and like have his own little day when his wife's not home 8 months pregnant it's like Christmas Eve I just think it's kind of weird it doesn't it doesn't prove anything but it's weird but anyway he changed his plans because it was cold outside he thought it was too cold to go play golf so he decided to go fishing in the sandwich they instead my day was open to play golf or go fishing I chose fishing that day which is you no choice I made and I obviously didn't right now it's sometime between 9:20 and 9:40 a.m. a neighbor saw Scott loading umbrellas into the back of his car and both of them said hi to each other but Scott told the neighbor that he was going golfing line number one of many so it's got left his house and he went to his warehouse which is actually where he works and this is about three miles from his house and around 10:18 a.m. a woman named Karen's service who was a neighbor to the Petersons saw their golden retriever dog McKenzie walking around the house and the dog had a collar on and a leash attached to it but no one was on the other end of the leash so Karen figured the dog probably got out and she knew them so she brought the dog back to their yard put it in the yard and shut the gate between 10:30 and 1056 Scott was on his computer at his warehouse doing a bit of work before he got his boat hitched up to his truck and headed out to the bay and Scott says the drive took at least one and a half hours from his warehouse to the marina and Scott has a receipt from when he parked his truck at the marina at 12:54 p.m. and he says he was out on the water from about 1 to 2 and then around 4:30 he decides to take the boat back to his warehouse he's done fishing Scott's telling me when I interview I went fishing I tried to call my wife three times I called her cellphone I called her house and I'm driving home from Berkley and she ain't answering so I'm thinking something's up getting beautiful but I won't be able to get into developed bars to get that basket for Papa I was hoping you would get this message and Dawn out there I've seen a bit sweetie love in fact meet Scott says that when he got home he looked in the backyard saw his dog you know just with the leash on figured Lacey just left him out there and went to her mom's house cuz it's Christmas Eve maybe she's getting stuff set up so then Scott decides to take a shower which is normal you know showering before Christmas Eve after you've been fishing but what's weird is like his wife's eight months pregnant yeah she could be at her mom's house but what if she's not like you'd think you don't Lea call and check and he did but after he got out of the shower at about 5:15 who called Sharon asked her if Lacey was there and one thing that just really struck sharing the wrong way is he immediately said Lacey is missing now you don't know that someone's missing just because you can't get ahold of them right away like that is jumping to conclusions so he told her that Lacey's car was home but she wasn't and he had no idea where his 8th month pregnant wife is still around 547 Lacey stepdad called police he was playing golf morning 9:30 my daughter's innocence and this morning she eight months pregnant she never gone for a while apart because God came always his beliefs are I came back about your daughter right okay what did you have a center well I'm gonna cook like a Bible right doc came home on the leash without her husband dream on God you don't need wings no he did call me from the had no idea he's walking okay last seen wearing black pants and a white shirt at 6:00 p.m. the Modesto police arrived and they met with Scott and Sharon at the Isla Loma park and the detectives wanted to look at his boat but Scott said that they couldn't because the power was out in that area of the warehouse and they wouldn't be able to see it there's no power do you mind opening the door I'll put my headlights in I want to look at the boat so I put my headlights in and I take four or five pictures you know of the boat and then later I called em ID and I and I talked to the supervisor to find out when the power was out for that area he's the powers never half of that area so back at the house there was zero evidence of a break-in there was no blood there nothing that makes something a crime scene nothing that you wouldn't expect to see and they continued searching but they did collect 100 bags of possible evidence from their house but out of all of that they didn't find anything that could prove Scott was involved in this they said at first she was very cooperative with police he tried to assure police that he had nothing to do with Lacey's disappearance and they weren't having any marital issues before this happened they asked God if he'd be willing to take a polygraph test just to rule him out and at first God said that he would take the test but later on he changed his mind and the reason that he changed his mind was because he actually called his father Lee and Lee was concerned that they would somehow trick him into saying something wrong get a false confession out of him something like that and he told him it's not a good idea to do it so Scot ended up refusing to take the polygraph test which just looks horrible you know that just raises red flags for not only the police but also society and the family [Music] they dug for a walk and then she went to the store to buy for Christmas morning breakfast world she's gonna make gingerbread cookies you guys in any problems whoever has there please please please let her go bring her back over so much and Modesto definitely came together for Laci Peterson I mean the responsibility was just huge people strangers seemed more concerned about Laci than Scott did it was all over the news people were handing out flyers putting up signs police and volunteers are scouring the area around Modesto California the object of their search a 27 year old woman 8 months pregnant police and FBI are combing the city and surrounding farm lands they also searched the couple's home and husband scott's boat places missing and all the media time should be spent towards finding her and all energy should be spent towards finding her as people too they have any information call the tip lines please do what you can to bring her home at first there was a $25,000 reward for her safe return it then jumped to 250,000 and then jumped to half a million and a lot of people were thinking maybe she was walking the dog somewhere and fell and was injured in some way since she was pregnant so people at this point thought she was missing and they made a volunteer center it was set up at the Red Lion Hotel and was up and running 24/7 in order to find any sort of lead and one of the things that Scott was really adamant about was the fact that he didn't want his picture to be taken or posted anywhere anytime the center put up a picture of Lacey with Scott he immediately had them to take it down he would believe the volunteer center walk out the exit door before the media would come in and then we could let the media name he didn't want as their picture at all everything of her and him had to come down off the wall it only could be pictures of her so weird and this call center received over 850 tips and most of these tips were just people reporting seeing Lacey walking the dog that morning and Modesto actually did such a great job of coming together as a community for this case they're actually awarded the all-american City award people in Modesto are known to be very very generous very caring very genuine kind of like everyone knows everyone's small town type of feel so Scott had voluntarily led the police into his house on the 24th however they wanted to do another search on the 26th and he told his family about this and they kind of freaked him out before they were able to search his house they had to get a signature from him and he was told not to sign anything without a lawyer there and Scott said some really weird things to the Scot didn't hear back from his lawyer in time so the police decided to go ahead and execute the search anyway and the fact that he was like trying to get them not to search his house was a huge red flag for police obviously now there's a lot of rumors that his house smelled of bleach it was like reported in some places but the police actually said that his house did not smell like anything so we don't know that he had bleach in his house I just wanted to clear that up because it's a big rumor the only thing that they were able to find was a piece of Lacey's hair on some pliers now we're not sure if that was a weapon or any if it was even anything to do with this crime he could have just been her hair on their stuff in their house so yeah that's pretty much all they found and on December 31st they held a candlelight vigil for Lacey on New Year's Eve thank everybody for coming out here tonight Lacey would be so happy to say she had so many friends and supporters I just keep looking for Lacey like some pupae yeah it was crazy over a thousand people attended this vigil it was absolutely beautiful the community support was just incredible so we a very upbeat and positive and outgoing person and the very tough young lady that's why we're not giving up hope her family was there her family spoke her family was out in the community talking to people you know the only person that was nowhere to be found was Scott now we actually do know that Scott was there somewhere he wasn't on the stage he wasn't with her family he wasn't speaking barely anyone the community even knew he was there though this case really blew up media-wise a half million dollar reward and still nothing where is Lacey why did he leave his wife alone eight months pregnant on Christmas Eve to go fishing by himself why it happened to Laci Peterson how could Laci Peterson vanish in thin air they said at first he was very cooperative with police discuss just as worried as we are he is sick at heart about what has happened to Laci we're all looking for Laci we all want her back today marks one week since a central California woman eight months pregnant vanished without a trace if you knew Scott you wouldn't have any doubt I've never even known that children have an argument or harsh words with each other they just always been a team we love Scott he loves Lacey they love each other there's no evidence whatsoever that would point to him they are never way off base anyone assuming that there were media trucks literally parked outside of their house at all times and they would try to interview Scott and he normally had nothing to say to them he didn't seem concerned like normally people when someone goes missing they're trying every opportunity they can to get in front of a camera and you know beg for help and her family was so much more concerned about her than Scott was they acted very much how you would expect a family to act when someone goes missing and now they're definitely in this case was a lot of media bias against Scott they really seemed convinced that you are withholding something and they do you've convinced of that by what you see in the media certainly and again there you know that we're all in a terrible situation here people go missing and it's up to the family to keep the story out there and keep it alive to bring home if you could send a message Wow I saw what she said and she what else is there [Applause] Elise briefing reporters tonight about their search for a missing pregnant woman talked at length about her husband everyone you are seeing photos of Scott Peterson's boat anybody has seen this truck this truck pulling the boat trailer just got Peterson no more that he's saying about his wife's disappearance and no one can judge our son by his behavior because they've not been there and because he's acting so sketchy and I think most people at this plane we're starting to be like this is so weird I think a lot of people were holding out just thinking they're in this adorable couple he seems like a nice guy he looks like a nice guy but then he was just acting so weird to people that you know the red flag started to go off but then something big came out on December 30th of 2002 that changed things for a lot of people it was announced that there was a burglary across the street and this burglary took place on the same day that lacy went missing the people that live in that house left for family vacation on the 24th around 10:30 a.m. and when word got out about this a lot of people started thinking maybe that is connected to lacy I mean the same day same place thinking that maybe the burglars also tried to get into Lacey's house and she tried to stop them and they did something to her or a lot of people had the idea that maybe she was walking the dog she saw the neighbor's house getting broken into and maybe he said something or maybe just looked at them and they saw her looking and took care of her to like have no witnesses On January 3rd 2003 they actually arrested the two six in the burglary case their names were Steve Todd and Glen Pierce however they quickly decided that this had nothing to do with the Laci Peterson case authorities started changing what they were saying saying that the burglary happened on the 26th not the 24th but people were like that doesn't really make sense because on the 26 there were media trucks outside of the Petersons house all day why would someone choose to burglarize a house when there's literally like mass amounts of people in the street so a lot of people think that the police kind of changed their story to keep the fingers pointed at Scott now most people at this point we're starting to look at Scott definitely starting to think he was acting weird and everything but nothing would sink his ship faster than amber Frey turns out that Scott was having an affair with a woman named amber Frey and this poor girl had no idea that Scott was married she was under the impression that he was just some single dude and it was a little segment about a missing pregnant woman and that sounded like her husband might be Scott Peterson but it seems Scott Peterson I was seeing and talking to I remember just sitting there just sobbing and this is when they found out that five weeks before lacy went missing scott told amber that there was something he had been keeping from her he said that he had been previously married but he had lost his wife and this would be the first holiday without her now keep in mind this is five weeks before she even went missing so was he planning this was he planning to have her gone and on December 30th the police went to interview her and the interview went on for over an hour amber granted cooperate with the authorities and try to get more information on Scott and amber and the police ended up setting a device on her phone to record Scott I mean she felt so terrible that would happen too lazy for being involved in this not knowing that she was involved in an affair and so she agreed to cooperate with police and this is before she really came forward publicly and one of the most interesting calls that they recorded was one of Scott on New Year's Eve now if you remember on New Year's Eve that was Lacey's vigil you know tons of people there Scott doesn't speak where was Scott he was on the phone with amber so now we're seeing that Scott is a huge flier and by the end of these recordings there was 29 hours of recording phone calls between Hamburg and Scott on January 14th amber was still recording the phone calls with Scott and the tabloid the National Enquirer said that they got a copy of a picture of Scott amber together at a Christmas party and at this point no one knew about amber like her parents didn't even know it was hidden the police are trying to use it to their advantage so it was decided that they would show this picture to Sheridan Ron and when Lacey's mom Sharon saw this picture she immediately said why did he have to kill her how long have you been seeing Scott on January 24th amber called me freaking out that the media was at her place of employment apparently somebody had figured out who she was on January 24th one month after Lacey went missing were made a public statement about the affair that she was having with Scott okay first of all I met Scott Peterson November 20th 2002 Scott told me he was not married we did have a romantic relationship when I discovered he was involved in the despair the Lucy Peterson disappearance of case I immediately contacted the Modesto Police Department I am very sorry her Maci's family anakata pain this has cost them and I pray for her safe return to school I want to thank her for coming forward and doing that I could tell she was scared to death as you can probably imagine Lacey's family completely turned on Scott I made a promise to her that she's been harmed we will seek justice for her and Conner and make sure that that person responsible for their dissing the deaths will be punished I would like Scott to know that I trusted him and stood by him in the initial phases of my sister's disappearance however Scott has not been forthcoming with information regarding my sister's disappearance and I'm only left to question what else he may be hiding and not only her family the media turned on him at the public turned on him everyone was starting to point the finger at Scott Peterson I have bad thoughts about the girlfriend and the husband with her coming out I think he's even more guilty I really had a lot of compassion for him at first but now I just kind of leaves you thinking you know is there more to it the volunteers that are immediately closed down and people felt extremely betrayed you think you'd be pissed off that this guy sitting here trying to fool the world with all these phony stories and lies and Scott was being in a pressure to do a lot of interviews he was definitely someone people wanted to talk to in the media so he eventually decided to do an interview to raise awareness for his wife and he decided to be interviewed by Diane Sawyer that's pretty big deal Scott Peterson breaking his silence in the case of his missing pregnant wife at one point Scott said that Laci was amazing not is amazing and that made people really weirded out did you murder your wife no no I said I and I absolutely nothing to do with our disappearance you use the word murder and right now everyone's looking for a body but I know that the suspicion has turned me because of the inappropriate romantic that I had with Amber Friday did your wife find out about it I told my wife and um early December a lot of argument you know would break us up you really expect people to believe that an eight and a half but the pregnant woman learns her husband has had an affair and distinctly and casual about it so hopping backward a little bit on January 5th five divers conducted a search of the Berkeley marina looking for clues to Lacey's disappearance and there were a total of 20 just done in the Bay Area and during the search Scott was renting cars thinking he was being very sneaky and hiding from the police but they knew he was there but he would rent different cars and like park in various locations to watch the search efforts it's like okay if you wanted to watch like if you are a concerned husband like just go as you don't try to like be all stealthy and weird about it and since Scott had been at this marina and he had proceeded from being there people started to think that maybe this is where Lacey was and at this point police were really looking for Lacey's body not really Lacey anymore and they started to really suspect that she was in the San Francisco Bay so they used a sonar device to search for her body and authorities did end up finding something but it turned out to just be an anchor so at this point it had been 12 days since Lacey was missing remember at this point the affair hadn't come out yet we're kind of in a weird timeline here and 12 days in there's no sign of her there's no body there's no evidence there's no good leads and this is really interesting but while they were looking for Lacey it came out that authorities were actually looking at Scott as a possible suspect in the Kristin smart investigation from Cal Poly obviously that happened at San Luis Obispo and that is when Scott was going to school there they started comparing their schedules and everything but they never found anything to link Scott to Kristin anyway I don't even want to get into that pisses me off I'm pretty sure we know exactly who killed Chris and smart and there's just all these dumb things happening that are preventing them from getting justice but that's a whole nother story there'll be a link below for that video but after this point when they you know start talking about this on the media even though they like ruled him out as a suspect for that it still made people start thinking of him as a possible serial killer so one thing that's really important to note in this case is Scott actually wrote an email to his boss wishing him a Merry Christmas from his warehouse that day and people thought it was a little weird to think that he would think to write someone a Christmas card and he had Lacy's dead body in his car or had just thrown her into the bay on January 6 amber and Scott were having a conversation he admitted to her that he had been lying about traveling that he wasn't traveling that instead his wife was missing and remember she's helping police so she knew obviously without me saying much my wife how did you lose her that before she was lost different kind of the biggest winces I've ever heard of I mean are you psychic I mean you predicted your wife would be more seen on August 10 when Amber Frey got ended up hiring Kirk McAllister as his attorney and they actually hired their own private investigator to try to see what happened to Lacey and this is when they spoke to a lot of witnesses who actually saw Lacey walking the dog that day there's a lot to be said about the timeline of this and no one for sure knows what happened other than the people that were there and Lacey can't tell us so one neighbor said that they saw her sometime between 950 and 10:00 a.m. when they were out driving to deliver Christmas presents another witness said that he also saw a pregnant woman on La Loma AB another witness said that she saw a woman who matched Lacey's description when she was out for a smoke break at work and she says that she actually saw two men following Lacey she claims that the dog was barking at the men and that she heard the man say shut that [ __ ] dog up so when police started kind of mapping out where these witnesses said to have seen her it basically puts Lacey in a 45-minute loop and this is actually the usual time that Lacey would walk her dog so it seemed to check out that is it for part one part two is linked in the description box so definitely go check it out because it only gets crazier from here

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Length: 29min 16sec (1756 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 23 2018