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Goodbye. Goodbye. One, two, three. That felt real nice. That was nice. That felt good. Good start.
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My favorite murder Hello! And welcome to My Favorite Murder. That's Georgia Hartzell.
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Thank you, that's Karen Kilgariff. Thank you. And here we are. What? Here we are!
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All the way to the cat! Let's sing the whole thing. and sing the whole time. You don't really want that from me.
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I have a terrible voice. But if we do it like the Music Man where you just kind of talk
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and do it like this and it's more rhythmic than anything else, you don't have to worry about.
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I was doing the march. Got it. I know what marching is. What's going on? I don't know. We're still
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here. We're doing it. We're getting through. Everyone knows what's happening. This is a podcast. How about you? Goodbye.
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Well, it is. I think what you might be referring to is the fact that California is slowly
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reopening. It is. And people are slowly still wearing masks, but going outside, going to
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things and and public things are happening and yeah lots of um comedy shows are starting
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concerts yes yeah i don't know if i'm ready for that i don't know if i'm ready to laugh
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that's what i mean yeah it's an adjustment for sure i'm visiting my family at the moment
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and it was only when i was around a large group of people at a large dinner at my dad's house
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that I was like, holy shit, a year and a half alone. That's intense. Is it hard to be around
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people for like a lot of people for you now? Like, not that I am either, but no, I love it.
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I've wanted it the whole time. And, uh, and just did my really, um, at for the first time in my
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life, my compartmentalizing, uh, really served me well. And, um, yeah. And it was only basically
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when I was like at dinner at my dad's where I was looking, looking at all the people that I
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spend almost every holiday with every major, anything, the, the solid group. And I was just
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like, Oh, like they're the most beautiful people I've ever seen in my life. And it was just a
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really lovely thing, but like, man, that's a huge side effect and a, and a huge, you know,
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Everybody had a thing to deal with. But I think the people that lived alone, I think we all just kind of had to cope and make shit up.
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Yeah. And now that it's slowly perhaps sliding into an ending, it just is nice. I feel like you had a lot of pressure.
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People living alone had a lot of pressure to have a metamorphosis and to like it you time And so there was no like that sucks That got to be hard In the beginning you definitely
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had that. Had what? The pressure to metamorphosize. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not bragging. It's been hard
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to like be with one other person the entire time. Sure. And I'm sure for a lot of people.
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The whole fucking thing was not ideal for any. You could live with 18 people you could I mean you could you could love there was of course I and many people
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were just like this is what I like and it's like yeah you like it for three months totally then
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it's over then you stop liking it for several months then you then you have no choice then you
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go into the dark night of the soul there's just so many things but it's you know it was just so
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long and I hope it I hope it stays like this for a little while. What about the people and myself
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included who got a puppy or a baby who procured a baby? I feel like it was like a panic of like,
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I need a daily change, please now, you know? Yeah. Yep. I actually spent some time with a baby.
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I know a baby, a one-year-old baby who was born in right after quarantine started.
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And her mom, Jen, it's her first baby. And she was at Mother's Day on Sunday at Adrian's.
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And Jen was like, she's a little, because this baby's so cute and she's walking.
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And we're all like, she's so big and no one's seen her. And Jen's like, yeah, she's because she would walk up to you and then walk away or she'd
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walk up and kind of not be into it. And Jen's like, yes, she's she's a covid baby.
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She's not used to being around anybody else. Wow. But her parents and her grandparents, basically.
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Wow. I never even thought of that. And yeah. Oh, you know what? I did read a cool thing that was like, I can't remember where I saw it, but it was like I
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have babies who are born. It's probably right. Babies who are born in quarantine and small children are going to be really good at reading
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eyes and like expressions through eyes because everyone's face was covered up. Yeah.
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Crazy. Yes. It's going to breed a whole different kind of human. Psychic babies.
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They coming to you. That baby knows my thoughts. I don't have much this week. What do you have?
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In the realm of Rex or don't do this, do this. You know how we tell everyone what to do.
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No? I have very little because we had basically roughly two blessed weeks off, which were so, oh my God, so nice.
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Look, this past week, last week was an actual vacation week for me. And it was so needed and wanted and revered.
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That wasn't the word I was looking for. Relished. It was relished. But the funny thing is I didn't watch that much TV. My sister, you know, my sister and I, this was kind of funny. My sister and I just started rewatching Arrested Development because it's just such a winner. Like it just gets the job done.
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It does. It's still it holds up. I mean, there's definitely problematic stuff in a 2021 sense, but the jokes are amazing. It's just so funny. Jason Bateman is. It makes me happy that he's doing other stuff, drama, whatever, but he's one of the funniest people ever. I just have so good.
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been his fans since silver spoons i'm sure we've talked about him before well the straight man
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character is and for everyone else to be funny off of you is like i feel like such an unsung
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because everyone wants to be like the funny one and the quirky one and the over the top one when
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you have to play the normal person it's like you're you're giving everyone else something like
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a huge well you would i mean as a comic i'm sure you've witnessed that many right right so then when
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you watch people who are the straight man who are also hilarious like he's jason bateman's doing a
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master class of how you do that and like how underplaying is hilarious and how really you
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can say it all with one look of the eye with one fur over the brow yeah but the funniest thing the
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reason i bring this up is because um we got we got to see my aunt mary my aunt mary who's the nun
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and she goes, Karen, you know what show I was watching is Arrested Behavior. And it is so funny.
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I swear to God. And she said it. I corrected her and she said it that way. Don't correct her ever.
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I was like Arrested Velvet every time I was like, you mean Arrested Velvet. But she because it's on Netflix now or like she's just discovered discovered it on Netflix.
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I just love it. I love the members of my family who are of of older generations and they still are completely interested and engaged in what like what's going on with the people like what's going on with the kids.
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The amount of times I'll tell my parents to watch something and they fucking don't do it.
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Even my dad is into RVing and like traveling in an RV. He won't watch Nomadland.
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I'm like, Dad, it was made for you. won't watch it. Do you think, is it because he's a rebel of the 60s who's like,
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I decide when I watch a movie and which one it's going to be? I think they're all
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a little overwhelmed by having to go to different platforms to watch things. It is a pain. It is, even
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for us. And I think they're just like, even if they have Netflix, it's just like, not
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on their radar. They refuse. It's a pain. And also, I bet you I paid for like Paramount plus three times because every time I go I like I don know what password I use Oh it all events is shit I don fucking you know what I am watching on Netflix for you
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younger kids who are okay with the apps. It's my new, we've talked about this and you laughed at
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me. It's my new lunchtime show. You know what I mean? Where I need a quick bite and I don't want
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to just sit there and I don't want to scroll. So it's called Ginny and Georgia. And I'm sure you've
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seen the photo is your niece watching it it's a little risque for her this it's it's with um the
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this sister from uh annie annie what's her name from schitt's creek oh that makes so much sense
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okay i mean beyond gorgeous i can't stop watching her on tv she's like so beautiful i can't even
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handle it and then the other actress who plays her daughter who i'm like shocked hasn't been
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on a lot of shit and a child actress since she was little because she's so talented.
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Her name's Antonia Gentry. I think she's in her early 20s, but she plays a 16-year-old.
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I had no clothes. This must be a Disney girl. It's not. She's incredible. And they're so...
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It's like Desperate Housewives meets Gilmore Girls. Oh, shit. It's super risque, but it's very much like this is how teenagers are these days.
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and then the mom's flashbacks into like her life and how she became a little fucked up
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it's like i don't know it's it's a really great show wait now am i right it's uh annie murphy
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is she the one that plays the mom no brian brian howie brian howie who's been in a lot of stuff but
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like you is just like so beautiful you can't stand it let's see she's known for the passage
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the exorcist batwoman doll face she's been on plus one that's a great movie so just some stuff
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okay but uh so talented i mean not just gorgeous she's also talented yes all important so it's my
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lunchtime show like my lunchtime vince doesn't need to be here i get a little embarrassed when
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he's home and I'm watching it. There's teenagers tap dancing. It's like a little glee too.
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Oh, okay. So yeah, it's a little glee too. Yeah, it's good. I wonder if that's, I'll have my
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sister do a pass by and see if it's appropriate for a preteen. And it's like mother-teen daughter
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interactions and how fucked up they get when you get a little older and your mom lies to you
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about her entire life. Shit, okay. Yeah, it's good. I think your niece is mature enough to watch it.
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I bet she is. But she is also, what I think is fascinating, is she's in the mode of,
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everything is on YouTube or FaceTime. She doesn't really consume television the way we did at that age at all.
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It's a whole different thing. That was our babysitter. There was no scrolling. There was no snippets of shit.
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So like you watched an hour long episode of Golden Girls and you had already seen it 15 times.
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Yes. I bragged to you about this already, but that's I invented TiVo in 19. I would say 1980.
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Wow. When we were my dad was like, you have to go to the hardware store with me.
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And I'm like, but this is the one of the better Gilligan's Island. And I remember going up to push the button to turn the TV off and going,
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I wish I could turn this off and when I came back on it was just frozen right in this spot and I could
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keep watching it. Bill Gates turns out you lived in Northern California was listening in
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to your brain through the wall Did Bill Gates invent Tevo? Probably not. I think it was
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no I think it was Elon Musk Yes. Okay here's an anecdote. I do have something to tell you that has nothing to do with watching
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anything or listening to anything but But we went to a softball game of Nora's. And when it was over, it was like nine o'clock at night.
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Turn around to get in the car. And I look up and there's just this row of tiny lights going through the sky.
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And they're as small as stars. They're all in a row. They're following each other exactly in the same space away from each other.
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Oh, my God. And almost like a train of stars rolling through the sky. And I'm just standing there.
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I go, Laura, look, look at this. And then she comes and she goes, what is that? I'm like, I don't know.
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I start taking video of it. I have the video. You have to pause. A guy walks over.
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A guy walks over and goes, excuse me, because he's trying to get into his car and I'm just
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standing next to his car. And I go, did you see this? And then he goes, what's this?
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And then he watches for a while. He takes some video of it. I'm like flipping out.
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I'm like, that was the edge of an invisible spaceship. Like I had all these ideas in my head.
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Or was that the actual spaceship? Maybe they're lights. just yeah we can't even comprehend what it is my sister gets on um the website i love petaluma
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it's a spacex satellite thing they need banners that are like this is not a ufo although that's
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aliens would do too this is not a ufo hey look over there don't look up here talk to your niece
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it just says nothing it's nothing it was crazy it was like it was really i was like well i'm
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staying really calm while I witnessed this unidentified blah, blah, blah. But I got it on
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video. It was really funny. Yeah, I think we should put a video up for sure. Oh, yeah. No,
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no. You know what? As I say that, I'm like, no. I mean, you can it's trees on the bottom and then
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a black sky. And then every once in a while I go, oh, my God, or something like that. I can
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visualize that for like three minutes. So there's the video. There's the video. That's as good as it gets.
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And I think maybe you hear the guy walk up and be like excuse me Oh my God Yeah You tell him to fuck off That what I was like that the real conspiracy is you don want to post don you understand start screaming in some stranger face do it do it
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yeah oh well you know what if we're talking they don't need a plug but um jason bateman
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will arnett and shawn haise have a podcast called smart list yeah that i listened to on my drive up
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That's just I mean, it's just delightful. They're all so funny and they get unbelievable guests.
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I mean, they get like the coolest people on that show. Kind of unfair. It's well, I think they earned it.
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I think it's fair. You're right. Yeah. I think they all have at least an Emmy between them.
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That's what it takes. Or two. And that's, you know what, in booking, in the booking world.
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It's all about those awards. But the conversation is they're they're great. they're really fun to listen to.
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I think that's like one of the things I love so much about podcasting is like when people
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like that do it, then it really is like, oh, this is your hang. Yeah, you get to.
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You're enjoying this and we get it like be a little moth on the wall and laugh along.
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Yeah. We're the real guests and we're honored to be invited. What's happening? I don't know.
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Oh, I just thought of a book as well. Okay. My sister got this book delivered to the house, opened the box and goes, here, you can read it first.
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I was like, that was beautiful. That was beautiful. Yeah. No one knows you like your sister and your weird reading habits and stuff.
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Yeah. And she was basically like, I know this is going to be good so you can start it first.
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But it's Oprah's new book. Okay. So Oprah has this new book she wrote with a research neurologist.
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He does a bunch of stuff and his name is Bruce D. Perry. and it's called What Happened to You?
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Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing. And this is the guy, Bruce Perry was the guy
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who started the trauma conversation back when no one knew what that was. And it's basically his studies talking about
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when stuff happens to kids, everyone loves to talk about kids being so resilient,
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blah, blah, blah. But actually, if you're traumatized in specific ways and in certain ways,
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it actually affects your brain chemistry It affects your brain makeup. And it it's just a fast and it's written like a conversation.
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Yeah, you'd love you would love it. I know you'd love it immediately buying this.
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And oh, I bet she does the audio. Obviously, the two of them. I'm sure she does.
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Yeah, because it is like a conversation. Yeah, it's it's good. We're all going to do it.
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It's our new book club. That reminds me. Let's have we'll call this Oprah's book club book club,
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where we just talk to each other about books Oprah recommends to her book club. I love it.
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We're like the weirdos outside the window. We get sued immediately for calling it that we don't care.
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We take that publicity. We spin it into a brand new book club. And then we get canceled.
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Here's where, here's what had space I'm in right now. I started listening to the audiobook of Tara Brock's Radical Acceptance.
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Yeah. amazing. So good. Oh, my God, that's me. Oh, my God, that's me. And then I was like,
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I need a break from this right now. And so I started the book that you recommended Say Nothing
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by Patrick Radden Keefe. Oh, yeah. Troubles in Ireland. The fucking civil war that's been raging
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or had raged for a century. I was like, yeah, this I don't have enough acceptance right now
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in my life to deal with this. I need a minute. I got a chapter in. Let's get onto the troubles.
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yeah again you know what the troubles will set your perspective they will they will give you a
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little sense of uh yeah of what else is going on in the world i mean and i had no idea and i'm
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fascinated by war and wars and conflicts and the reasons but like before and after them and like
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i mean talk about trauma though the the like normalcy of growing up in that in a place where
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you didn't know who the enemy was it's all around you you never knew when something's gonna get
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blown the fuck up yep and you know flanagan who owns largo yeah grew up in belfast and he's told
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me god in belfast in the you know 70s 80s yeah and he said he's told stories of walking down the
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sidewalk and then the car bomb went off behind him so he was just he was like two blocks away so he
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He heard it. He felt it. But he was not impacted. But like saw people get blown up as in childhood.
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Like that was the standard photos from that from the whole era of the 70s and 80s.
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And then into the 90s, it's like the photos of the children walking by armed men is like and women because like the women were in it, too.
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It's just it's just mind boggling. And I just don't ever think I really understood what was going on because, you know, I'm a kid.
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But right. Shit, dude. I know. Well, and also, I think for stuff like that, there's this.
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Yeah, it's the kind of thing you don't. Strangely enough, it's not it doesn't have the same.
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It's almost like the opposite of, quote unquote, true crime. Yeah, because to me before, of course, this podcast, true crime was just like the 12 weird serial killers we've all heard of our whole life.
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And that was just kind of like you that was the entry level, you know, version of it.
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Yeah. But that was because there was part of it that was like, this is this rare monster that lives.
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You know, yeah, yeah. There's a dragon in that cave. And that's the only one. Don't go in that cave.
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Whereas, yeah, I'm, you know, that is basically. what's wrong with humanity that we're still doing this to each other.
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Yes. So many years later in this kind of organized, governmental, global way. I'm like bumming and boring myself out.
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Well, then I suggest Radical Acceptance by Tara Brock. It really is great. It really is an incredible book, I will say.
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But, you know, it's hard to work on yourself. A lot of shit gets brought up and then you need time to like process it.
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So I'm doing the thing I always do, which is listening to true. I agree with you with this true crime because it's like escapism.
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It's escapism and it's like safe because I'm watching it through. I'm watching it as a rerun.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. So, well, don't you love Tara Brock's voice to her speaking?
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Does she do the audio book? I just find her and her podcast if I know I've plugged it before, but if you want to listen to it, you just look up Tara Brock and she has an amazing podcast that pretty much anyone you listen to is just a nice way to like spend a morning.
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That's kind of what got me through the pandemic. Yeah. Her, some old Ram Dass podcasts and then doing some browsing here and there.
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But yeah, it's good. It's you know what I mean? It's actually useful. It's not woo woo like you think it's going to be.
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No. At all. She's so smart. It's very useful. Yeah. Yeah. It's brain food. Does she talk in Radical Acceptance about rain?
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The rain system of dealing with hard moments? No, I haven't gotten that far yet.
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It's good. Okay. She knows her shit. She does know her shit. I started Sons of Sam on Netflix.
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Oh. Good stuff? never watched it so far I think I'm about 15 minutes in great so far
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I mean I had to pause it because I have things to do here I was thinking Sons of Anarchy
00:26:06
and I was really surprised and then I was like well we're almost done with The Sopranos
00:26:12
so maybe we're done with The Sopranos we'll get into that no no no no this is yet another true crime
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documentary on Netflix and And friend of the family, Paul Giamatti, does some of the voiceover in it, which I didn't recognize right away.
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And it's just it's it starts out with all this footage of New York City in the 70s, which is unbelievable.
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It's so heavy. So like just that thing where it'd be like a building and then just an empty lot of rubble and just someone walking their baby out in the mattresses and kids playing on.
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I don't know why kids playing on rubble with mattresses, old mattresses on top, jumping into the rubble like it's a ball pit.
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Hell yeah. That's totally what I think of the like mid 70s. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating.
00:27:04
It's kind of like what they tried to what they made the Joker look like. It's that.
00:27:08
Yeah. That look. Yeah. And then so like Sinister is meanwhile uptown, the fucking Richie Riches of the stock market are snorting coke and they're rich shit.
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And like the disparity, you know what I mean? Like the blackout documentary or in New York and the 80s, 70s.
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And it's like the disparity of like what people went through in the high rise buildings.
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And then, you know, whatever town, whatever part of towns that weren't like that.
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It's pretty. I don't know New York. Even more than a million times to New York. I don't know what's uptown.
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I don't know what's down. Uptown sounds fancy. Downtown sounds. I don't know where that is.
00:27:49
I think you're right. In general, Uptown is fancy and downtown is less fancy. Is it solely because of the song Uptown Girl?
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We base our life on Billy Joel and his lyrics. And why wouldn't you? He's the chair of rock music.
00:28:07
He knows this stuff. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, Cookie. But they do talk about that blackout in this thing.
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I shouldn't be talking about it because I haven't finished it, but I like it so far.
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Let me tell you what happens. Spoiler. No. Great. Oh, and our friend Kyle Russell has been doing more lip syncs.
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My sister loves them so much that she made me come in and lay down next to her and watch
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them for a while. Whereas like I really it's harder for me to enjoy it because I'm the one.
00:28:38
No, it's not. And then but it's he's so funny. Yeah. And delightful. And in the most recent one, he does fucking what's his name?
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Bradley Cooper from the lady from Star is Born rolling up and going, hey. And then he's.
00:29:00
Yeah. Is that the character? Yeah. Really? And it's really funny. He basically is like now he's doing offshoots.
00:29:10
He's doing he's lip syncing things that don't exist. It's really delightful. Did you see the one where you're in front of the shining hallway and I'm in front of a ball pit?
00:29:23
Yes. That's the first one Laura made me watch. Steven, what's his handle? It's Kiki with Kiki.
00:29:31
OK, so check check those out. I've been posting some of them are are my favorite murder Instagram feed.
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I mean, it's a light. light. May I point out about the Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered sweepstakes announcement
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Or you can go to at Forge Reads and at My Favorite Murder on social media for all those entry details.
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Okay. And we'll announce the winners on the podcast in June. But I said, guys, a contest.
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That's fun. Tomorrow's your birthday. So Tuesday. So two days ago, once this goes up.
00:31:27
Happy birthday. Thank you kindly. Yeah. Good job. Great year. Hope. I forgot how to celebrate birthdays.
00:31:41
For real. my 50th birthday I spent on zoom with Lauren Adrian playing some weird game.
00:31:50
Uh, I can't remember what we played. I think we all separately played, uh, at home.
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And then we're like, was it Yahtzee? I can't remember, but it was very put together and sad.
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And I remember my sister being like, it was sad. It genuinely was for such a kind of like,
00:32:10
you know, that's a big, that's a quote unquote, big birthday. But, and my sister was like,
00:32:15
I will drive down there. And I was like, Laura, we're a hotspot. Like you're not going to come
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00:32:27
next year. So I'm glad to say that, that it's basically been a year and things have changed
00:32:35
because for a little while there, it, it didn't seem like it really didn't, but yeah,
00:32:40
Everyone wanted to celebrate your birthday. So we all got our shit together. Such a passion for my birthday across this nation.
00:32:47
Truly a great nation. Thanks, everybody, for bringing it together and everybody wearing your masks and everybody being so cool.
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Yeah. And getting vaccinated. Getting vaccinated. That's the key. It's the key. It really is.
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Way to go. What other news do we have? Oh, should we talk about some exactly right news?
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Goodbye. So today I'm going to do the Lacey Peterson. Wow. Story. OK, let's see.
00:37:38
Sources for this research include multiple appeal documents. A study conducted by Dr. Isabel Horan and Diane Chang, an Associated Press article by
00:37:50
Kim Curtis, a News Channel 8 staff article, the New York Post. I listened to an episode of the
00:37:56
podcast True Crime Obsessed, which was very funny and very cool. And they did a lot of I'm not going
00:38:03
to do a lot of speculation in this. I'm just going to give the facts. But it's also me. So of course,
00:38:08
I'm going to speculate a bit. But it's hard not to speculate when we talk about this stuff.
00:38:13
But everybody is well aware that on this podcast, no one's claiming to know anything.
00:38:21
So we're friends talking to each other about something that we're interested in.
00:38:27
That's totally right. So is True Crime Obsessed. But they also have like news clips and stuff from like documentaries.
00:38:33
And they just Nancy Grace is a fun topic that they talk about, which I'm not going to get into.
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which I use a lot for information from the Evelyn Hernandez case, which I'll get into later in the show.
00:38:57
So here we go. On May 4th, 1975, in Modesto, California, Lacey Denise Peterson is born to Sharon and Dennis.
00:39:09
They divorce a year later. Sharon starts dating a man named Ron and they stay together forever.
00:39:16
And Ron becomes a big part of Lacey's life as her stepdad. Lacey is described as kind and good hearted.
00:39:23
She's a cheerleader in junior high and high school. And after graduating from Thomas Downey High School, she attends the California Polytechnic State University, which is a really good school, right?
00:39:34
Cal Poly? Uh-huh. Yeah. In San Luis Obispo? Mm-hmm. Which is actually where the Kristen Smart case happens, too.
00:39:42
Correct. Yep. So there she majors in ornamental horticulture. She loves plants. I know.
00:39:48
So interesting. You have to learn that. What is that? The first thing I think is Christmas trees.
00:39:53
I don't think that's a thing. Just horticulture. So she loves growing plants. She loves learning about them.
00:39:58
That's what my mom did. And you have to learn the Latin name for every single plant.
00:40:03
It's very complicated. Yes. I swear. So while a student at Cal Poly, Lacey would visit a friend who worked at a restaurant in Morro Bay, where you used to go to and barf your brains out, right?
00:40:16
No. Who are you talking about? Are you talking to me? Yeah. Sorry. Don't cut that out.
00:40:25
Don't cut that out. I'm sorry. I was so confused because Steven was telling me how he's going to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
00:40:35
So I was just like, are you confusing me with Stephen? But you weren't even here for that conversation.
00:40:40
I wasn't because I was late. But where do you think I barf my brains out? You can't eat seafood because you guys would drive down that long curvy road to get to the seafood place.
00:40:50
That's Bodega Bay. Got it. Leave that in anyways. Just a tidbit from Karen's childhood.
00:40:59
And there she met her friend's co-worker, Scott Peterson. And they met in mid-1994.
00:41:04
immediately after meeting him she tells her mom that she had met the man she's going to marry
00:41:09
Lacey made the first move she sent Scott over her phone number like through a friend
00:41:15
and Scott called her, they began dating their first date is deep sea fishing and Lacey gets
00:41:22
seasick because that's not a great first date it isn't unless you are a deep sea fisherman
00:41:30
you're used to doing it constantly and that's a bit difficult It's akin to like hiking on a first date.
00:41:36
Don't do that. So when Lacey's mom, Sharon, arrives for a visit the next week, Scott is like super charming, which is fine.
00:41:44
You know, when you meet someone's mom, but he brings a dozen white roses for her, calls her ma'am, you know, all that stuff.
00:41:51
As Lacey relationship with him gets more serious he decides to stop following his dream of being a professional golfer in order to focus on the business So they date for two years
00:42:05
And in 2000, they move to Modesto and they buy a house there. And Lacey starts working as a substitute teacher while Scott runs a startup fertilizer company.
00:42:15
But he also begins the first of his multiple affairs. How long have they been married?
00:42:22
Not long. Not long at all. The first woman that is known about discovered that Scott was married when she walked in on Scott and Lacey in bed together.
00:42:33
What? I know. So like not even the normal. I walked in on the affair happening, which has just got to be a shock to everyone involved.
00:42:42
She walked in on someone's life. Yeah. Actually, their regular life happening. His secret real life happening.
00:42:49
Jesus. So Scott then later tells a second woman that he was trapped in a miserable marriage and that he was getting divorced.
00:42:57
And then she learns the truth because he graduates from college and Lacey is there, as is the other woman.
00:43:05
And she sees Lacey give Scott like a passionate kiss when he graduates. So soon after graduation, Scott tells his wife he wants to try his hand at opening a restaurant.
00:43:16
And so they decide to open like a chill hamburger place near the campus, Modesto campus.
00:43:23
So in mid-2002, after three years of trying, Lacey finds out she's pregnant. Her due date is February 2003.
00:43:32
She's super happy. She's always wanted to be a mom. In fact, she's so excited that even during her first trimester, before she's even showing, she starts wearing maternity clothes.
00:43:43
So she enrolls in prenatal yoga classes. She brings Scott to all her Lamaze classes.
00:43:48
And they even choose a name for the baby boy, Connor. Lacey's family thinks Scott seems happy about the pregnancy.
00:43:55
And he even goes to a lot of her doctor's appointments. But then one of Lacey's relatives asks Scott if he's ready to have a child.
00:44:02
And he says, quote, I was kind of hoping for infertility. Oh, I know. Which is just such a.
00:44:09
I know people say different things and joke differently. But like to say that to someone who knows Lacey, not like your bro, it's just like such a weird thing.
00:44:21
Like, yeah, you do not compute how awful that sounds. You know what I mean? Right.
00:44:25
Yes. So the relative isn't sure if Scott's joking because he isn't laughing or smiling when he says that.
00:44:31
And despite that comment, Lacey's family thinks the couple has a very positive relationship.
00:44:36
Lacey's stepdad, Ron, says he never sees them fight, which, of course, you kind of wouldn't.
00:44:40
Right. And says that Scott's always calm with Lacey, even when, quote, she might give him a reason to be upset.
00:44:49
Lacey, I know. Lacey doesn't complain to her friends about the marriage and her friends see Scott help around the house and do nice things for her.
00:44:56
So everything everyone thinks everything is fine, which, of course, doesn't mean anything ever.
00:45:00
on December 23rd, 2002, Lacey, who's 27 years old and around 32 weeks pregnant at this point,
00:45:07
that night she calls and talks to her mom on the phone. Her mom confirms with Lacey that the two of them will be coming over at 6 p.m. the next night for Christmas Eve dinner.
00:45:19
The next morning, it's damp, it's gray, it's cold. There's some wind going on in that area, which is normal.
00:45:26
And that morning, according to Scott, they watch Martha Stewart and then Scott leaves to go golfing.
00:45:34
At 10, 18 a.m., the Peterson's next door neighbor, Karen, sees that their beloved dog, Mackenzie, is wandering around with his leash still on.
00:45:44
Karen notices that Scott's truck is gone, but Lacey's car is still in the driveway.
00:45:48
However, she can't get a hold of anyone in the house. There's no signs of activity in there.
00:45:52
So Karen just puts Mackenzie in the Peterson's backyard and closes the gate. She tries to call Lacey, can't get a hold of her at all.
00:46:01
At around 3.45 p.m., Lacey's sister Amy realizes by getting a call that the gift basket that Scott said he'd pick up that day hasn't been picked up.
00:46:12
So Amy calls Scott to see why he hadn't get the basket. He doesn't pick up or return the call.
00:46:16
at around 5 15 p.m scott calls lacy's mom sharon and asked if lacy's been at her uh her place or is
00:46:23
there by 5 30 neighbors have noticed that scott has backed his truck into the driveway
00:46:28
and scott tells lacy's mom that lacy's car is in the driveway and their dog is in the backyard
00:46:34
with a leash on but that lacy is missing quote missing sharon tells scott to call lacy's friends
00:46:40
and neighbors. Scott calls Sharon back, says no one's seen or heard from Lacey. And then Sharon
00:46:46
tells her husband, Ron, to call the police. So at around 6 p.m., police meet Scott and Sharon and
00:46:54
Ron at a nearby park, thinking that maybe that's where Lacey had gone to walk Mackenzie. And Scott
00:46:59
tells police that he and Lacey had watched television that morning. Then they discussed
00:47:03
their plans for the day, which was that Lacey had planned to walk Mackenzie and then go grocery
00:47:07
shopping. And Scott had planned to go golfing, but said that it was too cold and the weather
00:47:12
is too bad for golfing. So instead he went fishing, which is just not the, you just don't
00:47:20
do either of those things on a cold, windy day, right? Yeah, yeah. If it's too cold to golf, then heading to the harbor where the cold, that
00:47:31
doesn't make sense at all. None. No. Scott tells police that he left the house. He went to get his boat from his the warehouse where he kept it.
00:47:40
He said he drove to the Berkeley Marina and started fishing and that after a few hours, he stopped fishing because it was too cold and rainy on his way home.
00:47:49
He tries to call Lacey, he says on her home phone and cell phone, but didn't get an answer.
00:47:54
He left her a message, two messages. He says he got home around 430. Washed his clothes, ate pizza, and then called Sharon to see if she knew where Lacey was.
00:48:06
An officer asked Scott what time he went fishing and what he was fishing for. And Scott, like, doesn't really have a response to give the officer.
00:48:14
He pauses, he gives them a blank look, and he mumbles, quote, mumbles some stuff without giving a real answer.
00:48:20
And when the officer asks what kind of lure Scott used, he gives the police what's described as a blank look.
00:48:28
and after a pause is able to tell them the size and color of the lure, which doesn't seem that weird that you're like,
00:48:35
also the color of saying the color of the lure. I guess maybe for certain fish you have certain.
00:48:40
I don't I don't fish. Yeah, I was just thinking of that, too, where it's like the second you went on
00:48:48
and then I was like, well, maybe he golfed with people and everybody else was too cold,
00:48:52
but he was fine. And so then everyone bailed on golfing. He didn't want to do it himself.
00:48:57
Like, it's easy to sit there and be like, that's weird. That's weird. Yeah. Because we're all have we all have the benefit of of hindsight.
00:49:06
Yeah. And everything seems weird when you think when the guy did it. It does. And I think I'm surprised to find out how many people don't think he's guilty because maybe it's because I know he got convicted that I'm like, he's guilty.
00:49:21
And it's been so many years and nothing new has come out. But, you know, it's all speculation, I guess.
00:49:30
So when Ron, the stepdad, mentions to Scott that it wasn't the best weather for fishing, Scott just walks off without responding.
00:49:38
Lacey's cousin later says, I saw more reaction out of Scott when he burned the God darn chicken.
00:49:44
And again, we always talk about you just never know how someone's going to react in it.
00:49:48
But I think to this point, it's like. With because he did it, you know, I'm just it's speculation.
00:49:56
Right. But it doesn't mean it doesn't. I want to say it means something, but it doesn't mean something.
00:50:01
But it's just suspicious. There is a suspicious way to act. And I'm, you know, it's.
00:50:08
Yeah. Well, and it's always in the context of a person that has potentially lost the person that they're supposed to love the most in the world.
00:50:16
Which I think we would like to think there would just be a kind of a standard of behavior, reaction, information, people being able to remember details.
00:50:29
But yeah, but but we've also heard plenty of these stories to now know there is no standard and it doesn't mean anything.
00:50:38
Yeah. Like you have to get what what means something is the actual evidence. Yeah. Context clues can help. But, you know. All right. So Scott also tells a cousin of Sharon's and two neighbors that he had been golfing all day, which is not what he told the police. So these are the context clues that we're looking for. Is your story not straight?
00:51:01
Scott randomly tells a friend of Sharon's that he, quote, would not be surprised if the police found blood in his truck because he cut his hands all the time.
00:51:11
So just like offer that information up. At around 630 p.m., police search the Peterson home.
00:51:18
Scott was reported to be completely calm during the search. And there are no signs of forced entry and no signs of a robbery.
00:51:24
And even Lacey's purse is still in the house. This reminds me of the documentary about Chris Watts and they have footage of him in the house looking for the and find the cell phone and find all these things.
00:51:35
And Chris Watts is just completely blank. He's a blank slate. And it's so crazy.
00:51:39
Right. Right. Right. So in the house, police find wet towels on top of the washing machine.
00:51:47
Scott says he took them out of the wash so he could put his clothes that he wore that day that he was fishing inside the washing machine.
00:51:54
And there police find the jean, shirt and green pullover pullover jacket that Scott had been wearing while fishing.
00:52:02
In the spare bedroom closet, police find multiple duffel bags that, quote, appear to have been pulled off the shelf.
00:52:09
One is lying upside down, even just like randomly. And police ask Scott why the duffel bags are on the floor.
00:52:16
And he says, because I'm a slob. one detective also notices that the phone book had been left open on the kitchen counter
00:52:24
and it's open to a full page ad for a defense lawyer oh no yeah not good so police look through scott's truck bed and they find large patio umbrellas and a tarp
00:52:39
and when they ask scott about it he says that the umbrellas were going to be taken to the
00:52:43
to store them at the warehouse but he forgot to unload them apparently In the cab of the truck, police find the camo jacket that Scott was wearing while fishing.
00:52:54
And the jacket is dry, even though it was raining. They also find a fishing rod, a two-day fishing license, and a bag.
00:53:03
Inside the bag is a package of unused fishing lures and a receipt indicating all the fishing items had been purchased back on December 20th, a couple days earlier.
00:53:12
And Scott also gives police a Berkeley Marina parking receipt. And it states that Scott entered the marina at 1245.
00:53:19
I'm sorry, 1254 that day. Meanwhile, around 70 or 80 neighbors and relatives meet at the park to help search for Lacey.
00:53:28
They search until around 11 p.m. that night and then continue to search the next few days.
00:53:33
After they search the Peterson home, the police ask Scott to go to the station for more questioning.
00:53:38
and Modesto police detectives John Buehler and Alan Braccini. Yeah, they're the lead investigators on the case.
00:53:46
They question Scott Peterson all that evening. Scott repeats a story about fishing, but adds more detail this time.
00:53:53
He says that he never fished in the San Francisco Bay before but he wanted to take his boat for a test run And he says he drove an hour and a half from Modesto and made it to the Berkeley Marina by 1 p
00:54:06
He says he fished for 90 minutes near an area called Brooks Island and then decided to call it a day because of the weather.
00:54:14
But on his way back, he called Lacey on their home phone and didn't get an answer.
00:54:18
And then he called her cell phone and left two messages. But then they tell Scott there was only one voicemail on Lacey's phone and he doesn't have an explanation.
00:54:29
During this interview, police also ask Scott if there's any problems in their marriage or if he's ever cheated.
00:54:34
And he says no. Bueller told ABC News in 2017, quote, I suspected Scott when I first met him.
00:54:42
I was a little bit thrown off by his calm, cool demeanor and his lack of questioning.
00:54:47
He wasn't like, will you call me back? Can I have one of your cards? What are you guys doing now?
00:54:53
You know, he wasn't insistent upon the fact that he had a missing pregnant wife and there
00:54:58
needed to be something done right now. You know what I mean? Which does seem like the reaction I think most people would have.
00:55:04
Entirely. Yes. And it's like, it's always the thing of why are you talking to me when you should be out
00:55:09
there looking for my wife? Totally. I mean, that's. Yeah. But in the other counterpoint or the counterpoint is that he did agree to take a lie detector
00:55:19
test. so but then again like cocky people who could or couldn't be sociopaths think they're smarter than
00:55:27
everyone and everything right now wait did you say you were or weren't going to be doing speculation
00:55:33
i said i wasn't with the caveat that i am georgia hard start and this is my favorite murder
00:55:38
so what the fuck i mean yeah you should have come into this knowing that's impossible for me
00:55:45
It's been possible in general, because this is what's fascinating about these cases.
00:55:50
The idea, the very the very unlikely and outlying idea, but the true consideration that he could be innocent after all of this is really something to like.
00:56:05
It's that thing to now always consider where it's like, but if but if there is no standard way of acting, but if there is, you know,
00:56:13
But if sometimes people are just what what would you be kind of like a cold narcissist?
00:56:19
It doesn't automatically mean that you're guilty. Right. So all those things have to be kind of like pulled together.
00:56:26
I mean, even the fact that like what used to be evidence like blood spatter and all these things and hair evidence isn't totally correct anymore.
00:56:35
Or even DNA like that proves everything doesn't always prove everything. And DNA that proves everything sometimes doesn't get, you know, a conviction.
00:56:44
It's just it's so there's a human element and we want there not to be. We want it to be by the book, just black and white.
00:56:53
And if only it could be. But it's like that's what makes these cases and conversations fascinating and needed to be very amateurishly speculated on.
00:57:04
because it is like that jacket is dry. If you know that it's like a gray day in San Francisco,
00:57:10
it's going to be wet simply from even if it's not raining, because that's how you are on the bay.
00:57:16
You are right there next to the ocean. All there is is moisture in the air. So there's no way that jacket would be not at least slightly damp.
00:57:26
And why are you telling a bunch of people, everyone, different stories? Like you're trying to find one that sounds right.
00:57:32
That's believable. So you're trying a bunch out on a bunch of different people to see which one sticks.
00:57:37
Also, Modesto, I'd never really thought about this part before, how far away Modesto is from the Berkeley Marina.
00:57:44
Yeah. Because the Berkeley Marina is basically, it's right across from San Francisco.
00:57:50
Modesto is central, you know, it's northern Central Valley. So like there are tons of other places he could have gone fishing besides the Berkeley Marina.
00:57:59
Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know the topography. geography very oh i know it by heart i know every small small and large body body of water
00:58:09
in central california no but i'm just saying like there are especially if you have dinner plans for
00:58:14
6 p.m and that also means your pregnant wife is like prepping things for christmas eve wrapping
00:58:20
last minute gifts whatever they're doing yeah you know it doesn't make sense even golf like even
00:58:27
golfing that morning like when i have no plans vince is like is it okay if i go golf and i'm
00:58:32
like, yes or no. Well, yes, always. But it's, you know, it's not thoughtful. It's not thoughtful.
00:58:38
It's not thoughtful. It's the holiday season. And also the thing that always gets me
00:58:44
is when there's a lot of extra. So it's like, I'm golfed and then I fished. Well, now I know
00:58:51
you're lying because that's when you know people are lying is when there's a bunch of extra frosting
00:58:56
where you're just like, you don't need to, you don't need that many items. Just say like, well,
00:59:01
So, yeah, I mean, to me, that's I think that's also what that Tim Roth lying show that I love so much where they're like micro expressions and all that kind of stuff where it's down to a science.
00:59:13
But that really is one you can tell people are lying when they have a bunch of detail that you're like, I don't I don't care.
00:59:21
Yeah, this isn't part of it. It's just like you're over explaining something that if you didn't even if it wasn't even that big of a deal, it wouldn't even be part of it.
00:59:29
Right. yes and and you you have this story but you didn't work the details out so you you went fishing but
00:59:38
you don't know what for and you know the color of the lure but you don't yeah but you don't know
00:59:45
what you were fishing for yeah you think you're i think that's just that so let's go i look i know
00:59:49
that we diagnose people on here and it not correct most of the time but there what is on here What is So I going to say sociopathic tendencies or narcissistic tendencies which are a thing and that diagnosing someone to think that no one going to question you
01:00:08
because you have an authority and you've never you don't usually get questioned anyways. And
01:00:12
when you do you act you gaslight and you act weird and you throw it back at the person. And
01:00:18
why? How dare you question me? Which just like, which doesn't work on detectives,
01:00:23
you gotta hope right so just side note i am going to diagnose people and i'm going to get them 51 50
01:00:31
on this show so stand warned me and stand warned criminals of the past who've already been convicted
01:00:39
yeah okay uh we got this well the hard line whoops yeah i'm gonna stop commenting modesto police and firefighters they do an extensive
01:00:52
search along dry creek the day after lacy's disappearance and this search includes helicopters
01:00:58
equipped with searchlights mounted police on horseback and bicycles canine units and water
01:01:04
rescue units on rafts which we'll get into later about what a huge search this was as opposed to a
01:01:11
pregnant woman who also goes missing around the same time and how it doesn't add up so i'll get
01:01:15
into that later but a total of 30 officers are involved in the search as well as lacy's
01:01:20
loved ones, volunteers, and they post flyers to raise awareness of her disappearance.
01:01:26
At this point, the media is getting involved because it's Christmas time. So there's not a
01:01:31
ton of news to catch up on. But also it's a pretty white woman who's very pregnant.
01:01:37
And her husband looks guilty, you know? Yes. Yeah. So police go to Scott's warehouse to search. And
01:01:44
In Scott's boat, they find an 8.6 pound, quote, homemade anchor that's made out of concrete.
01:01:51
It's reinforced with rebar at the top, and there isn't a rope attached to the top like there would be with a normal anchor.
01:01:59
And they also find multiple items with cement residue, a dustpan and pitcher, and two large buckets.
01:02:06
I don't know what any of that means. Even the boat trailer has some residue on it.
01:02:10
And one detective says that, quote, it seems like a tremendous mess for making one eight pound anchor.
01:02:16
Hey, do you know if making anchors yourself is a normal thing for boaters? Here's what I'm going to say.
01:02:21
Speculate. And I'm going to speculate because I'm not a boat expert. Oh, I thought you were not a boat.
01:02:28
I'm not a boat. No, you don't. If you have if you've spent the money to have a boat, a fishing boat that could that could actually that you could put into the the Berkeley, you know, the bay, basically.
01:02:45
I bet you went ahead and splurged for an anchor that came with the boat. I don't understand.
01:02:52
Yeah, I would assume or it's a thing that you like. It's an add on. You know what I mean?
01:02:58
Totally. Then don't you need one of these? Yeah. Homemaking an anchor. then there would need to be an explanation of did your anchor snap off?
01:03:07
What's the story behind that? Because that definitely gets into body dumping and body hiding.
01:03:16
Immediately. Immediately. And now the basic version of the LaceyPeterson.com website
01:03:22
is launched by the husband of one of her friends. And friends, family, and volunteers set up a command center
01:03:29
and they record developments. They circulate information. Over 1,500 volunteers signed up to distribute information and help search.
01:03:38
In fact, they run out of maps of the area because there's so many volunteers. Can I just say really quick that this reminds me of, I think Modesto might be a little bit bigger than Petaluma.
01:03:48
But my lifelong friend, Dave Messmer, grew up there. And so I know about it just through him.
01:03:58
Oh, yeah. And it is the kind of thing, too. I bet you another reason, aside from pregnant woman, white woman, you know, upper middle class or whatever, is that same thing that happened in Petaluma when Polyclos disappeared, where the entire town kind of mobilizes because those things don't happen.
01:04:17
it's country-ish. It's, you know, it's small town-ish. It's like the kind of place where
01:04:23
people live all their lives. They know everybody. There's lots of people connected. And it's that
01:04:29
kind of thing of we have to do something. Like community. Yeah. There's real, a very strong
01:04:34
community and that kind of thing. Just those details you just gave kind of made me think of
01:04:40
that. Definitely. But again, that's Modesto speculation. Well, the poly class connection,
01:04:46
I think makes total sense, too. It's the same way this town reacted, where it's just like, you've got to be kidding me.
01:04:53
No one has experience with this before. And then maybe we can find her. It doesn't make sense that someone's missing.
01:05:03
I bet we can find her if we look hard. Yeah, we have to do something. And we all want to, and so we're going to.
01:05:10
So police speak with Lacey's obstetrician and her friends and family. And they found out in early November, Lacey told her doctor that she had started feeling dizzy and lightheaded while she walked.
01:05:21
And she said her feet were swelling, her back hurt. She was tired a lot, which just sounds like pregnancy stuff.
01:05:27
But Lacey's doctor tells her to refrain from exercising that if she has to exercise, do it later in the day.
01:05:34
So she allegedly walked the dog that morning. No one saw her doing so. They just found the dog on a leash, you know, making people think she'd walk the dog.
01:05:43
And following that appointment, Lacey had told her friends and family that she had to stop walking and continued saying that through December.
01:05:52
So huge red flag. Police speak with the Peterson neighbors and find that on December 24th multiple people were out and about at the time Lacey supposedly was walking her dog
01:06:06
Nobody saw her. However, it is weird. A lot of people said they saw her sightings of her walking the dog later,
01:06:15
but it was after the neighbor had put the dog in the yard. So that's just a simple, you know, no, you didn't kind of a thing.
01:06:23
They're not lying, but you're incorrect. Police speak with the Peterson's housekeeper, Margarita, and she says that on December 23rd, Lacey was home when she arrived to work.
01:06:36
Margarita says Lacey left around 11 a.m. and came back with groceries. And here's something really telling.
01:06:42
She says Margarita says she mopped the floors before she left for the day at 2.30.
01:06:47
one of Scott's descriptions of what they did that morning and what Lacey was going to do was watch
01:06:52
Martha Stewart bake some cookies take the dog for a walk and mop the floor so here's Margarita being
01:07:00
like I fucking did it already yeah also you're pregnant you're very very pregnant you're not
01:07:06
pregnant you're dizzy yeah yeah you're if you exert yourself you're feeling all these like
01:07:11
negative you're getting that's mopping the floor sucks and that you wouldn't be exerting yourself
01:07:18
to that level especially if you know i would imagine if margarita is their housekeeper she
01:07:25
comes once a week which means she would know that the floor would be mopped totally herself
01:07:30
and then the other thing too is like scott peterson she's just going to be like cool with
01:07:34
him going golfing while the floor needs to be mopped like you know that's not a thing so
01:07:40
the next day Scott has another interview with the police and police again ask Scott if there's any
01:07:46
problems in the marriage like are you having an affair Scott says no he suggests that Lacey might
01:07:51
have been robbed for her jewelry by a transient and then kidnapped and she did inherit some jewelry
01:07:58
from her grandma recently so maybe that's why he brought that up later that day Scott calls the
01:08:03
police and asks if they're going to use cadaver dogs to search for Lacey the day after she went
01:08:09
missing. Oh, no. And the police say no, because Lacey's actually not assumed dead, Scott.
01:08:15
After Christmas passes, police search the Peterson's home again and Scott's warehouse
01:08:20
again. In the house, police find that none of Lacey's jewelry is missing except for a
01:08:25
pair of diamond earrings that Lacey could have been wearing when she disappeared. Police
01:08:29
also find traces of Scott's blood on a comforter in the master bedroom. I don't know how much
01:08:34
blood that was. So that's just kind of traces. Sounds like not much. Right. In the backyard shed,
01:08:42
police find a blue tarp and a cover for Scott's boat and the cover has chunks of concrete on it
01:08:48
and a leaf blower is sitting on top of it and the cover smells of gasoline, possibly from the leaf
01:08:55
blower leaking. So police believe that the gasoline could have been used to deter those
01:09:01
potential cadaver and search dogs from smelling anything on the cover. In Scott's truck, police find spots of his blood.
01:09:11
Scott explains it away by saying he had cut his hand on the truck door. In the truck bed, police find small clumps of cement and a claw hammer with cement powder on it.
01:09:22
But I want to say that they didn't find any of Lacey's blood. At the warehouse, which there might not have been any, I don't know.
01:09:28
At the warehouse in Scott's boat, police find a pair of pliers under the middle seat and the pliers have a hair of Lacey's clamped in the teeth.
01:09:39
But only one hair but clamped in the teeth is not a good thing. On December 28th, dogs are used to search for Lacey's presence at the Berkeley Marina and they alert to Lacey's scent along the path that leads out onto the dock and ends at the water.
01:09:57
Police also search the Bay Area for evidence but are unsuccessful. And then two days later, everything fucking cracks wide open when this woman named Amber Frey, she's a massage therapist from the nearby city of Fresno, contacts the police.
01:10:14
She says that she is in a relationship with Scott. She thought he was unmarried with no children.
01:10:20
She says their first date was on November 20th after they met through a mutual friend.
01:10:24
So a fucking month before. This is when in L.A. I started paying attention to this case because it was so like, you know, I don't think I just seen anything about it.
01:10:33
And then it was like, oh, fuck. Here we go. Yes. You know. Just that. Yeah. Do it.
01:10:42
Your hand. I want everyone to know your hand is in your your head is in your hand.
01:10:47
It's the same. I've said this 20 times on this show. I just don't understand. No.
01:10:53
this idea that this thing this cheating thing you are starting a life with a person you are going to
01:11:02
have a child with a person like what it doesn't i i just don't understand that i don't i don't
01:11:10
break up say say you can't do it do something like i understand it's uh easier said than done
01:11:18
No, it's not. And Karen, you don't have you don't have sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies.
01:11:24
Thank you. You're welcome. I know you always think you do, but you don't. Which I think is a factor. I mean, there's a million factors in cheating. But what's it called?
01:11:35
Chronic cheaters. Just it feels like you just, you know, you don't think you're going to get caught.
01:11:42
You don't think the rules apply to you. You don't understand that your friends and family's emotions are involved.
01:11:48
You don't understand how detrimental to someone's life this could be to your own child, to your fucking pregnant wife.
01:11:55
Yes. And even when you get caught and in trouble for it. You do it. Serial cheaters.
01:12:01
That's what it is. You just keep doing it. I don't get it. It's almost like this is the beginning of this life where it's like it's only going to get harder.
01:12:11
The child's like the mentality of that is what it's just like. This is a project.
01:12:19
It's a concept of starting a family that you're only in step one and you're already going backwards.
01:12:26
that's what I don't get where it's like if you didn't want to do it or you weren't ready
01:12:30
or whatever it just doesn't make sense to me but you're right there are people who are just like oh I'm just going to do this
01:12:36
the whole time so whichever way this happens this is fine. I'm going to look for opportunities
01:12:42
and if they happen then I'm going to take them. It's gross. It's super gross and this is where there should
01:12:48
absolutely be some sort of litmus test where it's like okay you're going to marry this person but real quick
01:12:54
we're going to put this strip under your tongue oh sorry you didn't pass so you just go fuck a bunch of random people for the rest of your life
01:13:02
and don't bring innocent people and leave her alone absolutely um and i will there's this whole
01:13:09
like other fucking thing we could talk about about amber fray and how she was portrayed in the media
01:13:14
you know it's 2002 so this is like you know way prior to understanding that even if she knew he
01:13:22
was married. It's not on her. No. His decisions are not on her. However, she didn't know.
01:13:30
She says that on their first date, Scott told her that he had an upcoming trip to Maine
01:13:34
and Europe and that he'd be gone for some of December and most of January, which wasn't true.
01:13:40
See, my point, Maine and Europe. Pick one. It's always double facts in the lies. Keep your eyes peeled.
01:13:50
That's the extra frosting. If you're going to go to Maine, why are we talking about Europe or Maine?
01:13:57
Wouldn't Europe kind of overshadow a Maine trip? And I'm saying that as a huge fan of Maine.
01:14:02
Totally. That these are the things we have to keep our eyes peeled for. That's a great point.
01:14:08
Amber says that their relationship became serious enough for Scott to go to parties with her as her date.
01:14:14
And she trusted him enough to pick up her 21-month-old daughter from daycare. which after a month of dating I you know she seems like she really wanted to trust someone
01:14:25
she and well it also felt like she felt like she really knew someone you're right that's the
01:14:31
difference I will also say this Modesto and Fresno aren't that close together yeah so the so she was
01:14:38
if she if he was going to parties with her in her hometown okay then he probably felt free and easy
01:14:44
to do that because it's at least I would get this is purely guessing. I think it's like two hours
01:14:49
away from. Wow. Okay. The other thing is that that just is like typical love bombing, which is what
01:14:55
sociopaths do when they snare a woman or a man or vice versa, whatever. When they snare someone
01:15:04
is love bombing. Yep. Where they're like, it's me, the man of your dream. I love you. I'm going
01:15:10
to make plans with you. It's been a month. You know, we've all seen it. Yeah. So Amber tells police that on
01:15:16
December 6th, her friend found out that Scott was married and the friend told Scott that he has to tell Amber
01:15:22
he was married by the 9th or she would tell Amber herself, which is a good way to do it, I feel like.
01:15:28
Yes. You know, because she needs to hear it from him. So on December 9th, Scott told Amber
01:15:34
while he was, quote, sobbing hysterically, convenient, that he was married. Anyone can cry. Anyone can cry.
01:15:42
A hundred percent. He tells her sobbing hysterically that he was married, but he had lost his wife.
01:15:49
Lost. And said this would be his first Christmas without her. So he piles on the lies.
01:15:55
You know what? That is a, is that a narcissist or narcissist trait? Where they take the, when they're found guilty, they turn it around and become the victim.
01:16:07
that's a it's a way of deflecting of like you know you are uh you're confronting me about this
01:16:14
right now but now i'm going to make you feel bad yeah you're going to be the one apologizing by the
01:16:18
end of this call um so he quote lost his wife and he said that this would be his first christmas
01:16:24
without her which is fucking foreshadowing and then he has to like live up to what he said
01:16:28
probably you know and he said it was really painful for him to talk about and that's why
01:16:34
he hadn't told her he was married. Wow. I know. I mean, two days later. Okay, go ahead.
01:16:42
No, I was going to say like, everybody lies. We all do it. That's a big one. I mean, and she can find out easy.
01:16:54
It's the internet. Facebook exists. I don't know if she can find out. Yes. And you're doubling down about like whether or not your actual living wife at the time is is is alive.
01:17:10
So it makes me assume that he's been fantasizing about this, that this idea of getting rid of people or that it's just that it underlines that thing of it's all about him and everybody else.
01:17:24
I was just thinking about the fact that his his the woman he cheated on with came
01:17:30
into their bedroom and that's how she found out is that he's not good at cheating because
01:17:34
he doesn't think he needs to hide his tracks you know what I mean because he's smarter than everybody he's smarter than everyone
01:17:40
else and it doesn't seem like he's learned much from that you know because he doesn't think it'll happen
01:17:48
again so two days later Scott began So two days after he told Amber this huge lie he starts searching the web for information on tidal movements in the San Francisco Bay The next day Scott bought a fishing boat for cash and then tearfully tried to convince Amber that he was a recent widower
01:18:11
Like those all happen at the same time. Amber continues telling police that on December 14th, Scott told her that he didn't need a biological child of his own and that Amber's daughter was enough for him.
01:18:23
and he'd help raise her as his own and would get a vasectomy if need be. So clearly not someone who wants to be or is ready to be a father.
01:18:33
Yeah. Amber says that on December 15th, Scott told her that he had, quote, some business to take care of before his trip to Europe.
01:18:42
And he said that they could stay in contact by phone. And on December 23rd, the day before Lacey goes missing,
01:18:48
Scott tells Amber he was in Maine already, duck hunting with his dad before he went to Europe.
01:18:55
Information, information. Amber tells police that although Scott didn't call her on Christmas Eve,
01:19:00
he did call her on Christmas Day, the day after she went missing, and said he was still in Maine.
01:19:07
Like how chilling when Amber finds all this shit out. It really is. It's super fucking scary.
01:19:15
Yeah, it really is scary. And especially because he's not in jail yet. he's out and about. She has all this information that I mean, who knows if it would have come to
01:19:25
light if she hadn't come forward. You know what I mean? Yeah, right. Imagine that you're kind of
01:19:30
slowly putting these things together. That's awful. Amber. Yeah, she really felt safe because
01:19:37
she was going to the police and was like, I need this. Okay. Yeah. Amber tells police that after a
01:19:43
December 27th phone call from Scott. So after Lacey goes missing, she starts she starts questioning
01:19:48
Scott's whereabouts because she was like, things are not adding up. She spoke with a police officer
01:19:53
friend before she knew Lacey went missing and told him about her suspicions. And on December 30th,
01:19:59
the officer told Amber that Scott was connected to a missing woman in Modesto named Lacey Peterson.
01:20:06
The officer suggested Amber call the tip line. And so that's what she did. Her friends seem like level headed people, which is a great thing to surround yourself with.
01:20:15
in life. High five to the friend that was just like, tell her you have five days or whatever.
01:20:23
It's not on me, bro. You fucking tell her. I'm not gossiping. We're actually taking care of business right now.
01:20:29
That's pretty cool. That is. So after telling police her story, Amber's like, look, I will tape all future phone
01:20:38
calls with Scott and I'll just I'm going to be a great actress and pretend that I don't know anything about Lacey at all.
01:20:44
which is awesome. On New Year's Eve, the vigil is held for Lacey. Family and friends of the whole community are there.
01:20:52
I know this is a side, but while there, Scott seems to be, quote, very relaxed and in a very good mood.
01:20:59
Pills. Huh? Pills. Pills. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, you don't even need them, though.
01:21:05
True. So, okay. At the vigil, Scott uses the background noise as his cover to call
01:21:14
Amber and tell her he is in Paris by the Eiffel Tower. Steven is covering his entire face. I remember hearing
01:21:22
this. Yeah, you can hear about this after the fact and that that one. And it's also
01:21:28
chilling. And she's on the phone being like, okay, she knows. And she's on the phone
01:21:34
with him and she's like, I gotta play this off. It's incredible. And what a fucking piece of shit.
01:21:40
he says he's watching fireworks over the Eiffel Tower. Then on New Year's Day, he calls Amber and says he's still in Europe.
01:21:47
These calls are all being recorded by police. I know. Okay, can it wait now? Go.
01:21:53
I think we were being very self-consciously fair at the beginning of this and about our speculation.
01:21:59
And we were pulling in all of our lessons. And we were discussing it in the new way that we've learned to discuss things.
01:22:07
Here's the thing for Karen Kilgara. Okay. Once we learn the information that at his own missing wife's vigil, he's calling the girlfriend a goodbye.
01:22:18
I'm done. Yeah. And he's using the hubbub of his his own family and Lacey's family and the whole community's sorrow to pretend that he's celebrating.
01:22:32
And he's like, you can listen to it. He's like, oh, it's amazing. Like he is creeping it all out.
01:22:39
it's it's so gross chilling it's so gross it made me refer to myself in the third person
01:22:45
i'm horrified i'm horrified i mean it really is we took you there this is also i mean there's
01:22:51
plenty of similar stories but this is also one it's one of those ones where it always makes i
01:22:57
think because like i know people from modesto because i know the area it it just is like it
01:23:04
works you up so awful it gets you so worked up the details are just disgusting yeah okay
01:23:12
sorry i had to look at my phone because i became so obsessed with how far away modesto is from i looked it up too you were right karen i mean because there's no traffic right now
01:23:23
so obviously it's an hour and a half but you know in daytime of course it'd be like two hours or
01:23:27
Good job, guys. Because I was also like, that is so insane to go to go out with someone in that situation.
01:23:36
Yeah. But it's like, OK, leave that in, though, you guys. OK, so the next day after the vigil, Scott suggests to police that Lacey had been kidnapped for her baby, which does happen.
01:23:49
You've covered a case like that before. And authorities have considered the possibility and they send information to hospitals nationwide to keep a lookout for anything suspicious suspicious So on January 3rd 2003 police show Scott a picture of him and Amber together which is clearly from a Christmas party that so recent
01:24:10
And Scott says it's not him in the photo and that maintains he's not having an affair.
01:24:15
Wow. Uh-huh. Like the mind meld that you have to do to think you're convincing people of what you're saying.
01:24:25
police detectives. Yeah. Yeah. It's a very special personality type that's like doesn't
01:24:32
immediately get the weird stomach feeling. And then it's like, oh, no, a bad thing is happening.
01:24:37
He's just like, don't know. Reality is not real. Yeah. Meanwhile, police find that back on December 7th, just a couple of weeks before Lacey goes
01:24:47
missing and the day after Amber's friend threatens to tell on him, Scott started searching the
01:24:53
classifieds for a boat and searched boat ramps on the Pacific Ocean. He also looked over nautical charts, currents and maps for the Berkeley Marina and the San Francisco Bay, including the area around Brooks Island.
01:25:09
On December 9th, Scott buys a 14 foot aluminum boat. He doesn't register the boat or tell anyone about the boat.
01:25:18
And police also find that there weren't many people even fishing on December 24th.
01:25:22
So in my mind, I was like, is rainy and windy and gray seems like a cool time to vote.
01:25:29
But but actually, if you're especially if you're going to do it in the San Francisco Bay.
01:25:34
Yeah. Oh, which is choppy and crazy. I mean, freezing cold, choppy, dangerous. Yeah.
01:25:43
There's no pluses here unless there's somebody unless you had like, you know, like a lobster
01:25:48
trawler or something that was like big and sturdy. I don't yeah well it doesn't make any
01:25:54
sense. That's a bold one. Yeah and only three boat launch fees were collected from December 23rd
01:26:01
through the 27th meaning like fucking everyone was like this is not a time that you boat
01:26:06
or fish. Yeah there's just no way. No. And also you know the thing I was saying before is there's other places
01:26:12
he could have gone fishing but the San Francisco Bay is where the tide is so strong and it would all take it out to sea. Yeah. Right. So that's just popped
01:26:24
into my head of maybe could have been the logic of it, which is you're not going to go to a lake.
01:26:29
Yeah. You're not going to go to a nearby whatever. You're not going to go to Stockton where it's
01:26:34
kind of, you know, like I don't even think easy breezy. Yeah. It's not though. It's not the same.
01:26:40
It's like he wants it to get swept out to sea. That's really good. And if that's insider
01:26:45
information, you know, that like not everyone knows that the undertow in San Francisco is
01:26:50
really, really dangerous or that everything gets swept out. I mean, ask me about low tide and high
01:26:56
tide because I know it all. I'm just waiting to ask someone. This is just a person. This is just
01:27:04
information from a person who drives along. Like I drive along the Berkeley Marina as yeah,
01:27:12
That's kind of my drive home when I go to Petaluma. And it's all it all makes me not an expert in any way.
01:27:19
But I do have my theories. It's your podcast. Yeah. So guess what? It's our podcast.
01:27:23
This is my literal Bay Area podcast. OK. Police start to suspect that Scott put Lacey's body in the boat and then slipped her into the water.
01:27:36
And to test this theory, this is bonkers to me. They ask a district attorney's office employee who is approximately the same stage of pregnancy and weight as Lacey was to see if she can fit in the bottom of Scott's boat.
01:27:52
She says yes. I guess doesn't ask for any cold, hard cash for the fucking pleasure.
01:27:58
And she can fit. on December 6th police ask Amber to call Scott and quote drop hints
01:28:05
that a friend has learned the truth about something Amber needed to know about and would tell her in a few hours
01:28:12
which I think he's betting on her being an hour and a half or two hours away that she's not going to find out but
01:28:19
now the news story is blowing up and he has to know right so then when Amber asked Scott if he
01:28:25
knew where Lacey was now he replies quote she's alive in Modesto. Scott finally admits to Amber that he
01:28:35
hasn't been in Maine or Europe and also admits to her that he is married and says his wife Lacey
01:28:41
knows about the affair and is quote fine with it. I mean just he's a disgrace. It's disgusting. And even if he
01:28:49
even if let's say that's true and she does know he's still a fucking liar because he you know. Yes.
01:28:58
So later I mean yeah but But just the other side of it, which is the thing that eventually is proven to be true, which is his wife is dead.
01:29:08
Yes. By his hand. Yeah. And he's lying on her name, using her name to try to justify shit with his his mistress.
01:29:20
This woman who's who he's tricking. Yeah. Like the levels, like the depths he's going to is just really, it's like inhuman.
01:29:32
And the fact that he doesn't even consider that maybe she's already gone to police, maybe she's recording these calls.
01:29:39
He thinks he has her under his thumb. Because he's the smartest. Yeah, that's right.
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01:31:55
And Lacey's family, they had been supporting Scott and even like ended a news conference early because they started asking questions about his involvement.
01:32:04
They just immediately stopped supporting him, which is great. Right. so then on january 28th scott sits down for an interview with diane sawyer and he tells her that
01:32:16
lacy is fine with the was fine with the affair and then he immediately told the police about the
01:32:20
affair that lacy was fine with he also refers to her as was instead of is a couple times and then
01:32:29
fixes his mistake and it's just i think the interview made everyone go oh fuck you know like
01:32:35
immediately, including Diane Zor. He tearfully in the interview refers to his marriage as, quote,
01:32:41
glorious. And then when she asked if Lacey knew about the affair, Scott said yes
01:32:48
and that added that while, quote, I can't say that she was okay with the idea, it wasn't
01:32:54
enough to tear them apart. Goddamn. Around this time, police set up a surveillance
01:33:00
camera to watch the Peterson home. They also put GPS tracking devices on all of his personal and rented vehicles.
01:33:07
And then between January 5th and January 27th, Scott drives around 90 miles from his house
01:33:12
to the Berkeley Marina five times, each time driving a different vehicle. While at the marina, Scott would drive around,
01:33:20
sometimes only staying for a few minutes. Suspicious, dude. So theoretically, the assumption could be
01:33:29
that he's going to make sure her body isn't showing up. Of course. Of course. So by mid-January, Scott's making some odd decisions.
01:33:40
He gives 30 days notice that he's terminating his boat warehouse lease, which isn't supposed to be up until October.
01:33:46
He also speaks to multiple realtors about selling his and Lacey's home. He trades Lacey's car in for a truck.
01:33:55
He turns the baby Connor's already decorated, fully decorated nursery with nautical theme, everything.
01:34:04
into a storage space. I know. The room had an elegant, tiny, white crib, a mobile of sailboats,
01:34:14
and a buoy that was tacked to the wall that read, welcome aboard. Like, this was ready for the baby,
01:34:20
and he just starts using the storage. Police find out that Scott's business hadn't been doing well
01:34:26
leading up to Lacey's disappearance. It hadn't been making a profit. In fact, the business has a net operating loss
01:34:32
of $136,000 and they owe their parent company $190,000. Police also find out that in November 2002
01:34:42
Lacey had inherited more than $100,000 worth of jewelry from her grandmother and Scott had
01:34:48
encouraged Lacey to have some of the jewelry appraised and on December 10th Lacey and Scott
01:34:54
went to sell some of that jewelry at a pawn shop and police speak with the pawn store employees and find out that Lacey
01:35:00
quote seemed agitated and hesitant there and she pushed scott's hand away when he rubbed her belly
01:35:07
oh uh-huh like tried to soothe her and she was like don't fucking touch me um amber continues
01:35:16
helping police by taping her calls with scott acting like she has no idea that scott was a
01:35:21
suspect in his wife's disappearance and in on february 19th at the advice of the police amber
01:35:27
tells Scott that they should stop talking and he agrees. I don't really know why because it seemed
01:35:32
like they were getting some good info. A $500,000 reward is announced for information leading to Lacey
01:35:39
and Connor's return. And then no one comes forward with information. And given the larger reward,
01:35:46
it seems unlikely then that there are multiple people involved in Lacey's disappearance because
01:35:51
you know, the more sizable the reward, the more likely some guy got paid 30 grand.
01:35:56
It's going to be like, fuck this shit, you know? Right. Yep. For the next few months, police continue to follow up on leads and sightings.
01:36:04
Scott doesn't seem to take an active interest in the investigation. He takes days to get back to police when they reach out.
01:36:11
But he tells family and friends that he's in constant contact with the police. On April 13th, less than four months since Lacey's disappearance,
01:36:19
just over a mile from the southern tip of Brooks Island, a couple walking their dog find the decomposing...
01:36:26
Okay, this is really rough. I'm just going to go. I'm just not give details, but they find the well-preserved body of the late term male fetus in a marshy area of the San Francisco Bay.
01:36:39
How horrible. That's horrible. Horrifying. It's the baby's umbilical cord is still attached.
01:36:45
due to a recent storm. The body had washed ashore with other debris and an autopsy shows that Connor
01:36:52
had been in Lacey's uterus for, quote, some time after Lacey's death. And the medical examiner believes Connor
01:37:00
hadn't been out of Lacey's body for long when he was found. Just worst case scenario.
01:37:07
I never heard that detail. It's that awful. That's awful. The next morning, Lacey's body is discovered
01:37:14
by a woman walking her dog on the shoreline at Point Isabel, which is south of where Connor's body had been found,
01:37:21
and also around a mile from Brooks Island. More horrible details. Lacey's body has barnacles and duct tape on it,
01:37:31
as well as residual clumps of fabric proved to be from light-colored pants, which matched the description of the pants Lacey's sister had seen her wearing
01:37:39
the day before Lacey disappeared. Although Scott had told police that when he last saw her, she was wearing black pants,
01:37:48
which I just realized means he could have killed her the night before and then disposed of her body that day.
01:37:55
Didn't even occur to me. An autopsy shows that Lacey died while pregnant and she'd been in the water for three to six months.
01:38:03
The autopsy shows that the tidal action and marine animals are to blame for Lacey's missing body parts.
01:38:11
Due to the condition of the body, no cause of death can be determined. Lacey's mother, Sharon, calls Scott to tell him about the discovery of the bodies.
01:38:20
Scott doesn't return her call. Oh, my God. I mean, this poor family. Yeah. When police call Scott to tell him about the discovery, Scott does not go back to the Bay Area.
01:38:34
He's now in San Diego with his family, and he doesn't return, which we're not on the side, but that could be because of the media coverage.
01:38:41
It could be because he wants to be with his family. Could be other reasons. At this point, police think Scott is going to flee.
01:38:49
So he had purchased a car with cash using his mother's name and a fake driver's license.
01:38:55
He had also altered his appearance by growing a gross goatee and mustache and dyeing his hair an orange blonde color.
01:39:03
Yeah, I remember that. So creepy. police arrest Scott on April 18th. And with him, Scott has almost $15,000 in cash and foreign currency.
01:39:15
He's got two driver's licenses, his own and his brother's, a family member's credit card, camping and survival gear,
01:39:22
a lot of extra clothes, multiple cell phones, and more, including 12 Viagra tablets.
01:39:30
Ew. So he was absolutely fleeing to Mexico. A hundred percent. Yeah. to live off the grid.
01:39:39
At trial, the prosecutors say Scott wanted to be free of Lacey and Connor, so he killed Lacey sometime on the night of December 23rd
01:39:46
or the morning of December 24th. In order to cover up the murder on the morning of the 24th,
01:39:52
he lets the dog out on the leash to make it look like something happened while Lacey was walking and then wrapped Lacey's body in a tarp
01:39:59
and put it in the bed of his truck, covered her with patio umbrellas, drove it to the warehouse and put her body in his boat.
01:40:07
Scott then drove to the Berkeley Marina, went out to an area near Brooks Island,
01:40:13
attached Lacey's body to a homemade, to homemade concrete weights and quote slipped again.
01:40:19
I don't know why that word keeps coming up her body into the bay. Then Scott dropped the boat off at the warehouse,
01:40:24
went home and put the boat cover in the shed under a leaky gas blower. So any scent would be obscured and then washed his clothes and acted like Lacey was missing.
01:40:33
the defense says that police focused their investigation on scott from the beginning
01:40:39
and then refused to look into other leads or suspects and to prove their point the defense
01:40:44
tells the jury that there have been a burglary on the peterson street the week of her disappearance
01:40:50
which is very odd they say that um also is it i mean i guess christmas time is probably a really
01:40:58
normal time for break-ins we've all seen home alone the documentary that i mean like
01:41:03
to canvas the area and like steal shit. Yeah. Everyone's out of town, right? I think,
01:41:11
I think the difference between a B and E, that's a technical term, and a kidnap murderer,
01:41:20
which is what they're trying to say. Those two things are connected. I, I don't think so,
01:41:26
or at least that doesn't seem common. Not to say things can't get cased or pre-broken into or anything like that.
01:41:34
But like, that's basically trying to clump all of the crimes that happen in a city into one.
01:41:42
Here's the counterpoint to that is to people who think you didn't do it, is that she was home.
01:41:48
They tried to B&E. She caught them. They killed her. But her car was in the driveway.
01:41:53
I don think you break into people homes when their car is in the driveway and there a dog home Like those are two deterrents And I don think that after you kill them you drive them two hours away A hundred percent
01:42:06
Get rid of the body. Right. Yes. Forget. Yes. It's so much. God, I hate this story so much.
01:42:13
That's why we haven't done it in so long. And I'm doing it. Yeah. Sorry. They also say that on December 23rd, a stranger was walking around the neighborhood asking for money and possibly casing houses for future.
01:42:25
burglaries that sounds like a next door app. Yes. And post where then everyone yells at that person,
01:42:31
rightly so, for being an asshole. Yeah. The defense says the police didn't follow up to
01:42:38
see if there was a connection between Lacey's murder and the burglary or the stranger.
01:42:42
But they did catch the burglars. And I'm assuming they must have been like, this is not legit or they're not suspects somehow, which I think is another argument
01:42:52
is that the police didn't do a great job with an immediately saw Scott as a suspect.
01:42:59
But it's also like, well, Scott was the main suspect and never helped to clear himself of being such.
01:43:06
You know, this this is a thing that I think happens in discussions like this sometimes where they I feel like the defense of people who are guilty,
01:43:16
like to pull in arguments from cases where people have been wrongfully convicted.
01:43:21
Totally. And then start going, you did this thing where it's like, but actually the all of the footsteps lead right up to this man's door.
01:43:31
And this isn't. Yeah. Also, he's on the top of the list. He never gets off of that top of the list because over and over things are pointing to him.
01:43:44
So you look into numbers two, three, four, five. There's nothing that would kick him out of first place.
01:43:52
Correct. You know, so that seems like how investigations work. Yeah. So the jury does find Scott guilty of one count of first degree murder for killing Lacey and one count of second degree murder for killing their unborn son.
01:44:07
Judge Alfred A. DeLucci sentences Scott to death. He calls the murder of Lacey, quote, cruel, uncaring, heartless and callous.
01:44:17
On Scott Peterson's first day on death row, Karen, two women called California San Quentin State Prison to say they were interested in marrying him.
01:44:28
Yeah, that's the that's the darkest side of this kind of stuff where it's like that the interest that's this isn't.
01:44:37
It's dark. It's a dark place. It's not good. And it is a very odd outcropping of these cases. It's very bizarre.
01:44:51
It is. So in 2004, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act or Lacey and Connors Law is passed.
01:44:59
The act states that anyone who causes bodily injury or death to a child who is in utero is guilty of a separate offense.
01:45:07
The punishment for the separate offense is the same as the punishment for injuring or killing the unborn child's mother.
01:45:16
In October 2005, Stanislaus County, California Superior Court Judge Roger Buccesny ruled that Scott was not entitled to collect on Lacey's $250,000 life insurance policy.
01:45:32
Good, good call. So he probably thought that that was going to come to because he was going to trick everyone and all the shit.
01:45:39
And I bet if he knew about the burglary the day before, right, he probably was like going to blame it from the beginning on them.
01:45:47
Get that life insurance policy. Guess what, buddy? You still can't get it in prison because you've been convicted of a murder, which just takes you off the list.
01:45:55
It's the thing, too. This happens a lot in these stories where that you see the murderer or the perpetrator of the crime doing this very odd math of like, I have to clear my debt. So how can I get that done? Oh, your insurance, your insurance. Like, how many times have we told these stories where people it's it's just kind of like, oh, I have to pay this money off. Yeah. So I'm going to kill my wife or I'm going to kill my husband.
01:46:23
Yeah. Yeah. Like it's this it's this insane illogical problem solving where it's like, yeah, this isn't going to solve it.
01:46:34
Like, you know, it's A to B in their mind and they don't understand how complicated they're actually and horrible.
01:46:40
Their act is. Yeah. Disgusting. It's crazy. In 2005, Scott's sister and bird releases a book titled Blood Brother.
01:46:49
33 reasons my brother Scott Peterson is guilty. Oh, shit. While living with the birds, her family, Anne claimed that Scott Peterson flirted with her babysitter
01:47:01
and made passing remarks about how the police were looking for Lacey in the wrong place.
01:47:08
Oh, no. I know. In 2006, Lacey's mother, Sharon Rocha, releases a book titled For Lacey,
01:47:15
a mother's story of love, loss, and justice, and all proceeds are used to fund the Lacey
01:47:20
and Connor Search and Rescue Fund, which she had founded. Oh, I know. Sharon also discusses victims' rights, which she campaigns regularly for.
01:47:30
Lacey's stepfather, Ron Gransky, dies in his sleep at his Modesto home in April of 2018
01:47:36
at age 71 after a lengthy period of failing health. He's buried next to Lacey and Connor.
01:47:43
I know. And Lacey's father, Dennis Rocha, dies December 2018 at the age of 72. Amber Frey testified against Peterson.
01:47:53
And today she a practicing massage therapist And she said to have opened her own day spa in Central California She is a traveler outdoor enthusiast successful author and a mother of two
01:48:07
And her book Witness for the prosecution of Scott Peterson was released in January of 2005.
01:48:15
Because Scott was sentenced to death, his sentence is automatically appealed. His appeal goes all the way to the Supreme Court of California. And in August 2020,
01:48:24
they affirmed Scott conviction, but order a new sentencing hearing due to mistakes made during jury selection.
01:48:32
While Scott's jury was being selected, the judge excluded 13 potential jurors who were opposed to the death penalty.
01:48:39
And the judge didn't ask the jurors if they would put their beliefs aside and follow the law, which there is an error.
01:48:47
Oh, as of this month, May 2021, Scott has not been resentenced. resentenced and there are people fighting to prove his innocence.
01:48:56
The website Scott Peterson appeal.org states that other suspects and evidence proving Scott's
01:49:02
innocence exists, but police didn't look into any of it. And people who believe his innocence said the prosecution spent two years investigating
01:49:10
Lacey's death, but couldn't say when or how she was killed. And they say that the.
01:49:16
Sorry, that's because her body was in the bay for three months. Her head was never found. So they can't tell, you know, strangulation seems like the obvious choice. A gunshot wound to the head. I feel like they would have found traces of that. But strangulation alone is just like impossible to tell because of that reason.
01:49:39
Right. And yeah, she was in a bay. They also said the media provided false information about Scott because they wanted ratings, which.
01:49:47
Sure. Yeah. So now let's talk about Evelyn Hernandez, a woman often referred to as the other Lacey Peterson.
01:49:57
So both Evelyn and Lacey were from the San Francisco Bay Area. They were both far along in their pregnancies when they were murdered and were found washed up on the shores of the Bay.
01:50:06
But unlike Lacey, Evelyn's story barely received any media attention. I didn't find out about this one until years after Lacey Peterson's case.
01:50:16
When Evelyn Hernandez was 14 years old, she legally emigrates from El Salvador to the United States.
01:50:22
While attending high school and working multiple jobs in San Francisco, Evelyn becomes pregnant with a son who she names Alexis.
01:50:31
When her son is five years old, Evelyn starts dating a man named Herman Aguilera and becomes pregnant with his baby and is really excited.
01:50:41
She plans to name her son Fernando and his due date is May 7th, 2002. Herman, on the other hand, is not excited about the baby.
01:50:51
So Evelyn calls Herman's mother to see why he isn't happy. And Herman's mother tells Evelyn that Herman is married and Evelyn had not known that at all.
01:51:01
I know. On May 1st, 2002, Evelyn is seen with Alexis at his school. But this is the last time Evelyn or Alexis are seen alive.
01:51:11
When Evelyn's due date, May 7th, arrives and there's no sign of Evelyn or Alexis, then Herman reports them missing.
01:51:19
At first, police think Evelyn and Alexis had gone back to El Salvador to be with Evelyn's family.
01:51:25
But when a few days pass and Evelyn's wallet is found a few blocks from Herman's place of work, police start to suspect foul play.
01:51:32
In July of 2002, Evelyn's body, still wearing maternity clothes, is found washed up along the Embarcadero, San Francisco Bay's eastern waterfront, which is along where Fisherman's Wharf is.
01:51:49
Evelyn's body is so decomposed that there are only partial remains left and there's no trace of little Alexis.
01:51:56
It's never been no trace has ever been found. And police speak with Herman's wife, who provides him an alibi, although no details of that alibi are ever released.
01:52:06
Most likely means that she said Herman was with her the day Evelyn and Alexis were thought to have gone missing.
01:52:14
A few months later, Herman stops cooperating with the police. And to this day, Evelyn's murder and Alexis's disappearance are completely unsolved, but also so much less known than Lacey Peterson.
01:52:28
Beth Spotswood for Alta Online wrote, quote, facts surrounding Herman's alibi aren't clear.
01:52:37
In contrast, the most minuscule details surrounding the disappearance of Lacey Peterson have been established right down to her last Trader Joe's receipt.
01:52:45
Beth wrote that no one assumed that Lacey just left town, even though the father of her child was having an affair, just like Evelyn's.
01:52:55
There was no, quote, media frenzy, hotlines, vigils or national news coverage for Evelyn.
01:53:01
In fact, she barely made the local news. The San Francisco Chronicle published 32 stories about Lacey between her disappearance and Scott's arrest.
01:53:10
And there were only with four of those being on the front page. The same paper had four stories about Evelyn with none on the front page.
01:53:18
So let's talk about statistics. In 2015, the CDC reported that homicide is the fifth leading cause of death for women.
01:53:27
Nearly half of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former male partner.
01:53:33
Around 15 percent of those women were pregnant. And while the CDC doesn't list homicide as a leading cause of death for pregnant women, the risk of homicide is twice as high for women who are pregnant, which is mind boggling and awful.
01:53:47
Yeah, it's scary. Other studies that use more data than the CDC have in fact proven that homicide is one of the leading causes of death for pregnant women According to the CDC there are quote considerable racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy mortality Black women are the most affected
01:54:07
with 41.7 out of 100,000 pregnancy-related deaths. Native American or Alaska Native women are next,
01:54:14
with 28.3. Asian or Pacific Islander women follow with 13.8. White women have a rate of 13.4,
01:54:23
and Hispanic or Latino women have a rate of 11.6. The reason for the disparities may be due to the access and quality of care,
01:54:31
structural racism, and more. Due to the increase in murdered pregnant women, obstetricians are encouraged to talk with their patients about domestic violence,
01:54:41
offer education and many resources as possible, and that's critical in helping women.
01:54:48
I just want to say to end it, if you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence,
01:54:53
call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. And we'll post this on all the
01:55:01
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01:55:09
proceeds from our black and white MFM logo pin to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. So
01:55:17
please check that out and support and call if you need help. And that is the story of Lacey Peterson.
01:55:26
Wow. Amazing job. Thank you. That was great. That was really good. And really, really fucking awful.
01:55:37
And yeah, I want to thank my new researcher, Haley Gray, because when I told her we were doing this
01:55:45
case, which I've, you know, hesitated on doing, we both have, I think, for a long time. She was
01:55:50
like that. I am obsessed with that case. And it kind of and so she did so much research. And so
01:55:56
she did a really incredible job of researching. Yeah, she did. Yeah, that was long, but completely
01:56:03
worth it. And worth it, you know, worth the time, because those stories, look, the reason there's
01:56:08
lots of people interested, and the reason that there's websites and da da da da is because,
01:56:13
you know because that story did occupy the media and the nation um for so long and it was this kind
01:56:24
of thing of where is this woman but what a great point to make of like it doesn't happen every
01:56:30
single time and that's the kind of thing that like it's the it's obvious and yet none of us
01:56:39
We have been consuming media for a long time, but this is the beginning of really analyzing and hopefully re-approaching it in that way where the priorities, these priorities are kind of longstanding.
01:56:54
where the way newspapers, the way the media decides what story is valid. Yeah. You know, it's we've been watching it for a long time and we have talked about it before of like,
01:57:06
you know, you watch those old cold case files. It's blonde girls. It's young. And they always talk about how beautiful they are.
01:57:13
And they're always, you know, it's always white. Yeah. White, white women. So they didn't deserve that.
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Essentially, like these people didn't. Other people deserve it more than these people deserve it.
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Even like sex workers are, quote, at risk lifestyles. So they're deserving of it in the mind of, you know, the media.
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Yeah. Or just in the subtext of what's being served up. So that changing or people making an effort toward shining a light on that is good and important.
01:57:49
And yeah. And it... Yeah, great job. Thank you. Well, you'll go next week. Thank you so much for listening and speculating with me.
01:58:01
Yes, absolutely. Well, it is. That case is fascinating. I mean, it's just it really is monsters right there in the suburbs with you. It's it's horrifying.
01:58:12
definitely yeah uh we're back we're we're back we're doing shows we're in it um we're doing it
01:58:21
and uh so thanks for listening of course you guys thanks for thanks for being in this with us
01:58:29
there's lots lots of you who who some of you have even been in it from the very beginning
01:58:35
But it's really nice. It's and it really is a joy like being up here, but then being like going in and being like, OK, I'm going to go record my podcast now.
01:58:47
Yeah, it's really fun. And it's it's fun to have this creepy interest and know that we're not alone.
01:58:56
I was telling my new orthopedic surgeon about it because he was like, I have a 26 year old daughter.
01:59:02
And I was like, ask her if she listens to my podcast. tell her I say hi she doesn't tell her I say hi anyway
01:59:08
are you our street team? I am and uh it was like he was like okay you weirdo sounds good
01:59:18
oh um thank you to Stephen Ray Morris for being our our intrepid uh what's it called
01:59:24
yet engineer engineer and yeti um we appreciate you what do you mean Sherpa? Sherpa
01:59:31
I could also be the yeti too Steven you're our Bigfoot and you always have been Sherpa
01:59:39
not Yeti stay sexy don't get murdered goodbye Elvis do you want a cookie? you know he's online
01:59:57
he's trolling sex workers the question is done it. So is he in a crazy cooling off period? As we know, it's not this crazy barking dog
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