About 15 years ago, Scott Peterson was found guilty of killing his pregnant wife and unborn child, but he only chose to break his silence recently.
As previously reported, Peterson spoke out about the moment he was convicted. “I was staggered by it. I had no idea it was coming,” he said, as part of a new A&E documentary series, “The Murder of Laci Peterson,” which premieres Tuesday.
“It was crazy, just this amazing, horrible, physical reaction I had,” Peterson said, while adding that he “couldn’t feel my feet on the floor. I couldn’t feel the chair I was sitting in. My vision got a little blurry.”
It’s unclear why he chose to speak out now, but the A&E producer of the series, John Marks, told ABC News that he’s in the process of appealing his sentence.
“There’s an appeals process that’s ongoing, so his case is under appeal,” Marks told ABC News. “So it felt like a moment, I think, for him, and for his lawyer to step up and ... say something about the case.”
The documentary also uses a new audio recording from 2004 in which Peterson talks about his mistress, Amber Frey, and why he spoke to her after his wife went missing in 2002.
“The overriding reason throughout it all was she starts giving media interviews, there is no more search for Laci and Conner,” he said of the unborn child whom he named.
“I'd seen what had happened to the search for Chandra Levy with Gary Condit as soon as it was revealed that he had sex with her, there was no more search for her,” Peterson said.
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