Editing Scott Peterson (section)

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'''Scott Lee Peterson''' (born October 24, 1972) is an American man who is on death row for murdering his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son after he had an affair with another woman. 
Peterson's arrest and subsequent trial received significant American news media coverage until 2005, when he was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment sentenced to death] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection lethal injection]. He remains on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row death row] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison San Quentin State Prison] while his case is on appeal to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_California Supreme Court of California]. He maintains his innocence.

On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_person reported missing] from their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesto,_California Modesto, California], home. She was eight months pregnant<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-2 [2]]</sup> with a due date of February 10, 2003, and the couple had planned to name the baby boy Conner. The exact date and cause of Laci's death was never determined. Peterson initially reported his wife missing on Christmas Eve, and the story quickly attracted nationwide media interest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-3 [3]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-4 [4]]</sup>

Modesto police did not immediately identify Peterson as a suspect, largely because Laci's family and friends maintained their faith in his innocence during the month following Laci's disappearance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-5 [5]]</sup> Eventually, police grew more suspicious due to inconsistencies in his story. On January 17, it became known that Peterson had had numerous extramarital affairs,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-6 [6]]</sup> most recently with a massage therapist named Amber Frey. Frey approached police about Peterson, whom she had just begun to date, after discovering he was actually married to a missing woman. At this point, Laci's family announced that they had withdrawn their support of Peterson. They later said that they were angered not by the affair, but that Peterson had told Frey that he'd "lost" his wife and that he would be spending his first Christmas without his wife — 14 days before Laci disappeared. To the Rochas, this meant that Peterson had already planned to kill Laci long before her disappearance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-7 [7]]</sup>

Frey became a key witness in the case against Peterson when she agreed to let the police tape their subsequent phone conversations in hopes of getting him to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_%28law%29 confess].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-8 [8]]</sup> Despite this, Peterson was not recorded making any confession to Frey.

Frey told the police that two weeks before Laci's disappearance, Peterson had implied to her that he was a widower by saying that he had "lost his wife."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-9 [9]]</sup> During the trial, the audio recordings of Peterson and Frey's telephone conversations were played, and the transcripts were publicized. Their contents proved to be both revealing and, ultimately, damning to Peterson's character. For example, they revealed that in the days after Laci went missing, Peterson claimed to Amber that he had traveled to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] to celebrate the holidays, in part with his new companions Pasqual and François. In reality, Peterson made one of these phone calls while attending the New Year's Eve candlelight vigil in Modesto for his missing wife.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson#cite_note-10 [10]]</sup>