15 People Saw Laci Peterson Alive!! NONE Were Heard in Court!
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Now imagine every single one of them ignored.
That’s the picture painted by the LA Innocence Project in its new 600-page petition for a new trial.
The filing lists more than a dozen witnesses who saw a pregnant woman matching Laci’s description between 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. on Dec 24 2002, right in the Petersons’ Modesto neighborhood.
Detective Grogan told jurors no “verifiable” sightings existed. Yet other officers called those witnesses “credible.” Several now swear they were told by police, “We already got our guy.”
This episode examines the testimonies that never reached a courtroom—and why suppressing them matters. If Laci was seen alive after Scott left, the state’s entire timeline collapses.
Fifteen people say they saw the truth. The question is — why didn’t anyone want the jury to?
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.5 | 20 years after Scott Peterson was branded one of the most hated men in America, |
| 0:13.7 | the cheating husband who dumped his pregnant wife in the San Francisco Bay. |
| 0:18.2 | The LA Innocence Project has thrown a legal grenade into that story. And we've |
| 0:23.7 | talked about this last year when this started. It continues on this year. They filed a 600-page |
| 0:30.2 | post-conviction petition that doesn't just question us guilt. It accuses police and prosecutors |
| 0:35.2 | of destroying evidence, hiding witnesses, and building a case |
| 0:39.5 | on bad science. The petition claims the state's own expert has recanted. Key evidence was |
| 0:46.4 | torched after a secret meeting and 15 witnesses who saw Lacey alive were ignored. If even half |
| 0:53.7 | of what in this filing actually holds up, |
| 0:57.3 | California may have to ask itself a very uncomfortable question. |
| 1:01.6 | Did they go after the wrong guy? |
| 1:04.5 | Did they execute a character instead of proving a murderer? |
| 1:09.9 | Bob Mata, defense attorney, host of the podcast, Defense Diaries, joins us to discuss these new |
| 1:16.0 | filings with the LA Innocence Project. |
| 1:19.1 | All of the new data that has come to light the new accusations that are being made |
| 1:25.0 | against the principle of the story itself, Bob, there is, |
| 1:31.1 | there's a lot here. |
| 1:33.4 | And I want to work our way through it. |
| 1:35.7 | But I want to get your take on this. |
| 1:39.0 | What was the, what, what drew you into this? |
| 1:41.2 | What made you go, oh, maybe there is something here initially as a defense attorney? |
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