Modesto, Calif.
Prosecutors charged a California man, Scott Peterson, with two counts of murder this week after identifying two bodies that washed up in San Francisco Bay as those of his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son. Laci Peterson, 27, had already named the baby Conner. Scott Peterson told police he last saw his wife, who was eight months pregnant, on Christmas Eve, just before he drove to a marina—three miles from where the bodies were found—and went fishing. Peterson, 30, admitted he was having an affair and that his wife knew about it, but he said he didn’t kill her. When police caught him, Peterson was 30 miles from the Mexican border with $10,000 in his car, and he had changed his appearance by bleaching his hair and growing a goatee.
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