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Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery

  • TV Movie
  • 2017
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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CrimeDocumentary

Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery looks backs at the case 15 years ago that sent Scott Peterson to prison for the death of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Conner. Scott ... Read allScott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery looks backs at the case 15 years ago that sent Scott Peterson to prison for the death of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Conner. Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery reexamines the murder and sheds new light on the case... Read allScott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery looks backs at the case 15 years ago that sent Scott Peterson to prison for the death of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Conner. Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery reexamines the murder and sheds new light on the case, key players, and gets to the bottom of what happened.

  • Director
    • Rex Short
  • Stars
    • Justin Aldridge
    • Adrian Bond
    • Stacy Boyers
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    260
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    • Director
      • Rex Short
    • Stars
      • Justin Aldridge
      • Adrian Bond
      • Stacy Boyers
    • 2User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Justin Aldridge
    Justin Aldridge
    • Scott Peterson
    Adrian Bond
    • Richard Byrd
    Stacy Boyers
    Stacy Boyers
    • Self - Laci's Friend
    • (as Stacey Boyers-Birdsong)
    Allen Brocchini
    Allen Brocchini
    • Self - Modesto Police Department
    Jon Buehler
    Jon Buehler
    • Self - Modesto Police Department
    Walter Robert Duckworth
    Walter Robert Duckworth
    • Dr. Charles March
    Lori Ellsworth
    • Self - Laci's Friend
    • (as Lori Ellsworth-Haints)
    Amber Frey
    Amber Frey
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Cliff Gardner
    Cliff Gardner
    • Self - Scott's Appellate Attorney
    Ron Grantski
    Ron Grantski
    • Self - Laci's Step-Father
    Shannon Hood
    • Witness
    Beth Karas
    Beth Karas
    • Self - Legal Analyst
    Jeff Klinger
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    McKenzie
    McKenzie
    • Self - Scott and Laci's dog
    • (archive footage)
    Randall Moser
    • Dr. Peterson
    Meghan Perry
    Meghan Perry
    • Amber Frey
    Laci Peterson
    Laci Peterson
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Scott Peterson
    Scott Peterson
    • Self
    • Director
      • Rex Short
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    Netflix Paints Killer as Victim, Again

    After watching the Netflix Unabomber documentary, I tread lightly onto any crime biopic by the streamer as they seem to not only sympathize with but end up defending really horrible people: the first being an environmentalist; and here because supposedly Scott Peterson was victim of a rabid media...

    Perhaps the latter is partially truthful, but there's cause and effect because very, very few killers have been as obviously guilty as Peterson...

    He tells police he went fishing in a specific location and the bodies of Laci Peterson and unborn child Conner just happen to turn up there a few months later...

    There's no doubt to Scott's guilt, none at all, for anybody... and it's understandable that Scott's family will back him: but too much time's spent on their side of things, and they make zero sense, and Peterson was NOT a victim.: The only victims turned up where he supposedly went fishing...

    Good parts of this doc are footage of Laci we've never seen, other than her dancing to New Kids on the Block, which was shown over and over when she was missing while the negative aspects have already been mentioned: we don't need sympathy for this devil... it'd be far more interesting to show just what an insane sociopath he was...

    As for Scott's bigwig defense attorney Mark Geragos... on the one hand, yes, Mark was just doing his job... But he's become a mad scientist in the lawyer field in STILL thinking that Scott is innocent and not shutting up about it...

    Mark played the game and lost in this particular case, so get over it... Your client admitted to fishing in the same location the bodies washed up...

    The thing is... reasonable doubt goes TWO ways... If you have doubt about the fact that maybe Laci was kidnapped by those burglars (who, unlike Scott, begged for and took lie detector tests)... and that her body was dropped exactly where Scott fished just to frame Scott... in order for there to be reasonable doubt about that, you need to prove, on the other side, that those guys actually could have REASONABLY done that in the first place...

    It's like OJ... They basically showed that a racist cop was the one working on the evidence but WITHOUT showing EXACTLY HOW Mark Furhman could have possibly spread OJ's blood and DNA throughout the crime scene...

    Thankfully, the Peterson jury understood that to have this kind of reasonable doubt, you have to look at it both ways instead of putting out a farfetched conspiracy and see where it lands. Believing in crazy things does not create reasonable doubt...

    Anyhow, there are better docs on Scott on YouTube.

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    • Release date
      • November 29, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El crimen de Scott Peterson
    • Production company
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