The Gruesome Details of How Laci Peterson’s Body Was Found 4 Months After Her Disappearance

The story of Laci Peterson is a tragic one—the pregnant mother disappeared from her home in California on Christmas Day, 2002. How her body was found four months later is particularly gruesome and might be distressing to some readers.

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Laci’s husband, Scott, reported her missing but was ultimately charged with and convicted of her murder in 2004. He became a suspect when his affair with Amber Frey was uncovered, and investigators established a possible motive that he wanted to escape his marriage and a child that he reportedly didn’t want.

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“It’s horrible,” he told People in an interview published in 2024. “I was a total a-hole to be having sex outside our marriage… I regret not testifying [at my trial], but if I have a chance to show people
what the truth is, and if they are willing to accept it, it would be the biggest thing that I can accomplish right now—because I didn’t kill my family.”

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How was Laci Peterson’s body found?