John Marchithe producer of A&E The Murder of Laci Petersonmade with the cooperation of members of the Scott family, insisted that the series was not an attempt to question the possibility of Scott’s innocence.
Amy Savitskysaid A&E’s senior vice president of development and programming People The show “really provides this kind of fascinating, comprehensive picture, not just of the case itself, but also against the backdrop of what was going on in our culture at the time.” And no, he reiterated, they weren’t trying to exonerate him.
Detectives told NBC News that The Laci Peterson Story: A Dateline Investigationbroadcast in April 2017, which found that while there was no DNA or other forensic evidence explicitly linking Scott to the murder, circumstantial evidence clearly pointed to his guilt.
“He was just calm, as he always was, after they put the handcuffs on him,” Detective Buehler said. People on Scott’s arrest. “He wasn’t mad. He didn’t ask a lot of questions. The only thing he said was, ‘Are those my wife and son?’ Then he was like, ‘Come on, Scott.’ So I said, ‘You know the answer to that question.’ Then he gave fake colds.”