Scott broke his silence in Peacock’s 2024 documentary Face to Face With Scott Peterson, his first interview since he was arrested in 2003 with dyed blond hair and $15,000 in cash in his car, which had police convinced he was preparing to flee to Mexico.
“If I have a chance to get the reality out there, I have a chance to show people what the truth is, and if they’re willing to accept it, maybe that takes a little bit of hurt off my family, and that would be the biggest thing that I can accomplish right now,” he said, from California’s Mule Creek State Prison, explaining why he was finally talking.
He also urged viewers: “Don’t trust me – look at the evidence.”
He’s accused investigators of locking onto him from the beginning. “They came into our house not to look for Laci, but to look for evidence against me,” he said.
While admitting he was “a total a**hole” for cheating on Laci with a massage therapist in the weeks before her disappearance – a fact police say proved he had a motive to murder – Scott insisted his infidelity is not evidence he killed his wife.
Even Geragos, who represented him at his trial 22 years ago, remains convinced Scott didn’t do it.
“I lose sleep – and with Scott, probably more than any other case – when I believe [a client] is innocent,” the attorney, who’s represented Sean “Diddy” Combs, Michael Jackson and the Menendez brothers – told the New York Post July 12. “You know when someone is good for a crime or when they’re not.”