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In the wake of Serial and Making a Murderer, cable and broadcast networks are scrambling to revisit some of recent history’s most heinous crimes. Since they’ve covered pretty much every angle of the murder of JonBenét Ramsey and a TV movie taking another look at the 1989 murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez by their sons Lyle and Erik is on the way (after an ABC News documentary on the case), Oxygen is now turning its attention to the case of Scott Peterson. Peterson was convicted of killing his wife Laci and unborn son Connor after their disappearance on Christmas Eve of 2002.
The cable network’s long-running series, Snapped, is kicking off its 20th (!) season with a two-part special on the murder and subsequent trial, Snapped: Notorious Scott Peterson. The network promises the show will “analyze critical evidence” that “was never presented to the jury” and “bring forth a different perspective that could lead to a new trial and review Peterson’s twisted web of lies which led to the ultimate demise of his family.” People posted the trailer on Wednesday.
The Snapped premiere includes interviews with a former police detective, two jurors from the trial and Scott’s ex-girlfriend Amber Frey. The relationship between Amber and Scott was instrumental in swaying the jury in the case to find Scott guilty of murder in 2004. Laci’s family did not participate in the episodes, but Laci’s mother, Sharon Rocha, told the Modesto Bee earlier this month that “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that justice was served. Scott Peterson is guilty.”
This isn’t the first time this case has been retold for a television audience; it got the Lifetime Movie treatment in 2004’s The Perfect Husband</em, starring Dean Cain as Scott. Last month, an unfinished documentary, called Trial by Fury: The People v. Scott Peterson, debuted at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs. Attorney Mark Geragos, who defended Scott during the trial, participated in a Q&A session after the screening, where he told the audience that “There wasn’t any evidence in this case,” and felt that the trial was a “complete media lynching.” Geragos went on to add,
This was far and away (my) worst defeat. Scott is clearly not just not guilty. … Scott is innocent. I will believe that till the day I die. What happened in this case was one of the worst abominations of the criminal justice system I ever experienced.
[From the Modesto Bee]
After his 2004 murder conviction, Scott, now 44, was sentenced to die but remains on death row in California. He appealed his case in 2012, still claiming his innocence. His defense team claimed that the evidence in the case “was anything but overwhelming” and charged that the judge who presided over the case, the late Judge Alfred Delucci, made a number of errors when hearing the case, which they felt warranted a new trial.
Prosecutors insist that the right man is behind bars, calling Scott “truly among the worst of the worst.” In their formal reply to the appeal in 2015, they asserted that “(Peterson) did not care one whit for the wife who vowed to love him for a lifetime or his child waiting to be born.”
Whether the information Snapped uncovered is enough to get Scott a new trial is yet to be seen, but I do agree with prosecutors who feel that Scott is guilty of this unforgivable crime. Snapped: Notorious Scott Peterson debuts on Oxygen at 6 p.m. ET on Oxygen. Will you tune in, or are you suffering from true crime overload? I’m not going to lie, I watched an ABC documentary about Charles Manson last night and I can’t pass up a good true crime story, so I’ll be watching.
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