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Episode 279 - Scott Peterson: Trial by Media? - Part 2

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In the concluding part of our deep dive into this murky case, Suruthi and Hannah explore the high drama of the trial that everyone was talking about.

And examine the evidence for and against Scott Peterson, including a dissection of those infamous tapes…

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0:00.0

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0:15.2

I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Redhanded. The finale. It is. This is the last episode of

0:23.6

2022 in St. Helena. Yeah, yeah. It's been a hell of a year. So thank you all for everything you did for us this year.

0:30.0

Thank you for being here right up until the end. And hopefully we're going to go out at the bank today.

0:35.4

One would hope. Yeah, so we are going to pick up exactly where we left off last week.

0:40.1

Goes without saying if you are looking at this in your podcast player and it says part two and you

0:44.0

haven't listened to part one, I really don't know what to tell you. Go listen to part one first.

0:48.0

So yes, we are now on the shores of San Francisco Bay, where over the course of about 18 hours

0:54.4

on the 14th of April 2003, along the point is about regional shoreline, the body of a late term male

1:00.2

fetus and a decomposed female torso were found washed up. The police couldn't wait for the post-mortem

1:07.4

to confirm their identities. They just knew we had to be Lacey and Connor and it was time to arrest

1:12.6

Scott. After all, they had found the bodies of who they thought were Lacey and Connor 90 miles

1:18.1

from the Peterson's home in the exact place Scott had gone fishing the day that Lacey vanished.

1:23.6

That's pretty bloody good probable cause. The other reason for the rush was that the police had

1:29.0

been keeping close tabs on Scott and given his movements since the bodies had been found,

1:34.5

they were nervous. Scott's mobile phone GPS, which they had tracked remember,

1:38.4

showed him driving farther and farther south and police were worried that he was heading for Mexico

1:43.6

and once he got there, that wasn't much they could do about it. They had followed him for hours,

1:49.1

but Scott knew that they were following him and eventually detectives pulled Scott over and

1:55.3

arrested him near the Torre Pines golf course in La Jolla San Diego. Scott claimed that he was there

2:01.4

to play golf with his dad and brother that day, just a casual 420 miles away from Modesto.

2:07.7

That's a seven hour drive and even for Americans, seven hours to play golf for a day. He's not even

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