Scott Peterson
Legal wrangling and surprising developments have renewed the spotlight on the cases of Peterson, Bryan Kohberger, Adnan Syed, Alex Murdaugh and Richard Allen.
For 20 years, Peterson’s supporters — now including the Los Angeles Innocence Project — have relied on baseless claims and shaky witness accounts to try to prove he didn’t kill his wife and unborn son.
A nonprofit legal team is reexamining Peterson's 2004 conviction for killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner.
In October, a jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 case that was revived after a 2019 podcast.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Ten years after being sentenced to death for the murder of his 8-month pregnant wife, Laci, Scott Peterson is 'comfortably' living on death row on taxpayer money.
Peterson was sentenced to death in 2005 for killing Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant with a boy.
A court overturned his death sentence last year due to revelations about a faulty jury selection process.
Claims were filed in the names of well-known murderers like Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner. At least 158 claims were filed for 133 death-row inmates.
Scot Peterson, 55, spoke out for the first time since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting.
Scot Peterson resigned after the shooting but is eligible for pension payments for the rest of his life.