Scott Peterson deserves another trial after new evidence in murder investigation, retired detective says
Nearly 22 years after Scott Peterson was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife, his legal team says “new evidence” could help overturn his conviction.The 53-year-old’s attorneys with the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) say they’ve uncovered what they argue is new evidence that could undermine one of America’s most infamous murder convictions.They detail their findings in A&E’s new two-part docuseries, “Scott Peterson: The New Evidence.”“When you initially have a missing person’s case, there are certain protocols, certain things that must be done, and that is to follow up on every possible lead to determine when and where the missing person was last seen,” Ninette Toosbuy, a retired LAPD detective who appears in the documentary, told Fox News Digital.“That wasn’t done in this case,” she said.
“That alone, just that alone, got me very interested in looking deeper into the matter.I think that Scott Peterson does deserve a new trial.
I think any individual who’s not given a fair trial to begin with deserves that.That is our system in the United States.
A new trial would be the right course of action.”But Laci Peterson’s mother, Sharon Rocha, isn’t buying it.Rocha, who has long rejected claims that Peterson was wrongly convicted, dismissed the documentary’s claims outright.
“There is no new evidence,” People magazine reported.Fox News Digital also reached out to the Modesto Police Department for comment.Prosecutors said Peterson murdered Laci, who was eight months pregnant, on Christmas Eve 2002 before dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.
The remains of the 27-year-old and their unborn son, Conner, washed ashore months later.A jury convicted Peterson and sentenced him to death, though that sentence was later overturned.
He is now serving life without the possibility of parole.The docuseries identifies 15 people who claimed they saw Laci walking her dog, McKenzie, on the morning of Dec.24 — after the...