Scott Peterson has a new shot at freedom. Twenty-two years after the bodies of his 27-year-old wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, washed up in the San Francisco Bay months after she disappeared from their Modesto, California, home, the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) has presented bombshell new information its lawyers believe undermine the prosecution’s entire case.
According to the LAIP, which took over as lead counsel for the 52-year-old in late 2023, new scientific evidence and witness statements detailed in a writ of habeas corpus petition filed with the California Court of Appeals on April 18 “eviscerates” the original arguments that led to Scott’s 2004 murder convictions. “Had the jury heard this” information, the LAIP explained in a statement released on April 21, “it is highly likely they would not have reached a guilty verdict.”
Now Scott, who’s been imprisoned for more than two decades, is seeking to overturn those convictions .
Scott Peterson’s Team Cites New Scientific Evidence
Scott was arrested in April 2003 after Laci’s and Conner’s decomposing bodies washed up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay not far from where Scott had made a solo fishing trip the morning his wife went missing. In the nearly 400-page filing, Scott’s team cites scientific evidence they say invalidates the authorities’ arguments . While the prosecution’s expert based a death timeline assessment on information from a study published in 1984, fresh medical research about fetal growth from 2022, the LAIP alleges, proves Conner died “well after the prosecution claimed” at trial, lending credence to the theory Laci was abducted and held for a time…