John Marks, the producer of A&E’s The Homicide of Laci Peterson, which was made with the cooperation of members of Scott’s household, insisted the collection wasn’t an try to argue the potential for Scott’s innocence.
“I simply need individuals to say, ‘What truly occurred right here?” he says. Amy Savitsky, A&E Senior Vice President of Improvement and Programming, informed Folks the present “actually does give this sort of fascinating full image, not simply of the case itself however set towards the backdrop of what was taking place in our tradition on the time.” And no, she reiterated, they weren’t making an attempt to exonerate Peterson.
Detectives informed NBC Information for The Laci Peterson Story: A Dateline Investigation, which aired in April 2017, that, regardless of there not being DNA or different forensics to explicitly tie Scott to the homicide, circumstantial proof plainly pointed to his guilt.
“He was simply calm, like he at all times was, after they put {the handcuffs} on him,” Detective Buehler informed Folks about Peterson’s arrest. “Once we obtained him again to the workplaces, and he had his pool-dyed hair or no matter he stated it was, we sat him down. He was not indignant. He did not ask an entire bunch of questions. The one factor he stated was, ‘Is that my spouse and son?’ At that time it was kind of like, ‘Come on, Scott.’ So I stated, ‘You recognize the reply to that query.’ Then he did pretend sniffles.”