Scott Peterson breaks silence in first jailhouse interview in 20 years — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00It's the chilling case that's still a
2. 0:02national obsession.
3. 0:03He didn't want to be a father and this
4. 0:05is a way he thought about getting out of
5. 0:06it.
6. 0:07Now, for the first time since going to
7. 0:09prison, convicted murderer Scott
8. 0:11Peterson is speaking out.
9. 0:13Why should anyone want to hear your side
10. 0:15of the story?
11. 0:17Cuz I didn't kill my family.
12. 0:19In Face to Face with Scott Peterson by
13. 0:21Peacock, a division of our parent
14. 0:22company Comcast, the 51-year-old gives
15. 0:25his own version of events from behind
16. 0:27prison walls. In interviews done over an
17. 0:30entire year, Peterson, appearing in good
18. 0:32health with longer hair, continues to
19. 0:34maintain his innocence and is confident
20. 0:37in ongoing efforts to free him.
21. 0:39There's no forensic evidence. There's
22. 0:40nothing to tie him
23. 0:42to the murder.
24. 0:44Peterson was sentenced to death in 2004
25. 0:47for the 2002 murders of his wife Laci
26. 0:49and their unborn son Connor after their
27. 0:51bodies washed up in San Francisco Bay
28. 0:54near where Peterson said he'd gone
29. 0:56fishing months earlier.
30. 0:58She trusted her husband
31. 0:59and he betrayed her.
32. 1:01In the Netflix docuseries American
33. 1:03Murder Lacy Peterson, Lacy's at the
34. 1:05center of the story. Her mother, Sharon
35. 1:08Rocha, speaking out for the first time
36. 1:10in years about Peterson's conviction.
37. 1:12I can't say we're all excited and happy
38. 1:14about it. That's not the feeling that I
39. 1:17had at all.
40. 1:18Um
41. 1:20just a relief.
42. 1:22Also speaking out, Peterson's former
43. 1:23girlfriend Amber Frey, whose decision to
44. 1:26come forward about their relationship
45. 1:28helped prosecutors establish a motive.
46. 1:31On the stand,
47. 1:33I wasn't just sitting there alone,
48. 1:38but I was sitting there for Lacy and her
49. 1:41unborn child.
50. 1:42In Face to Face, Peterson admits his
51. 1:44affair with Frey was a terrible mistake,
52. 1:47saying he withheld that information from
53. 1:49police to focus on finding Lacy.
54. 1:52In 2020, California Supreme Court
55. 1:54overturns Peterson's death sentence
56. 1:56citing jury selection errors by the
57. 1:58trial judge, and resentenced him to life
58. 2:01without parole. He was denied a new
59. 2:03trial in 2022. Now backed by the LA
60. 2:06Innocence Project, Peterson is trying
61. 2:09again.
62. 2:10So, let's let's pick it up there. What
63. 2:12are the next steps as as Peterson tries
64. 2:14to get this new trial?
65. 2:15So, his team is trying to win a new
66. 2:16trial by finding new evidence,
67. 2:18especially DNA evidence with advancing
68. 2:21technology. So far, the court has only
69. 2:23agreed to allow new DNA testing of a
70. 2:25single piece of duct tape that was found
71. 2:28on Lacey Peterson's pants. Prosecutors,
72. 2:30in the meantime, are calling this a
73. 2:32fishing expedition, and Scott Peterson's
74. 2:34family continues to maintain his
75. 2:36innocence, and they believe that the new
76. 2:37evidence will show that he's innocent.
77. 2:40All right, Emily, thank you. We should
78. 2:41mention that the docu-series Face to
79. 2:43Face with Scott Peterson will be
80. 2:44streaming on Peacock August 20th.
81. 2:47Hey, thanks for watching. Don't miss the
82. 2:49Today show every weekday at 11:00 a.m.
83. 2:51Eastern, 8:00 Pacific on our streaming
84. 2:54channel, Today All Day. To watch, head
85. 2:56to today.com/allday,
86. 2:59or click the link right here.