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Scott Peterson Case Essay

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Evidence is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. Motive is the reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious. So in theory, evidence would have been items found at the crime scene or even items not found at the crime scene, but nonetheless items found that could potentially help get a criminal convicted. Motive would be more like the reason why Scott would have killed his wife Laci, and unborn son, Connor. Evidence and motive both relate to crime scene investigations but both are entirely different in meaning when learning about the crime scene and people involved. Scott and Laci Peterson lived in Modesto, California. Laci, who was eight months pregnant, went missing on December 24,2002 and no one knew where she could possibly be. Scott however was having an affair with a massage therapist named Amber Frey. Amber would soon come forward to the world about the affair. “He told me he was single when we started dating several months earlier”, stated by Amber Frey herself. Scott was arrested in April, 2003. Scott Peterson was sentenced to death row in 2004. He was also suppose die the following year but he appealed his case before that time. So as of …show more content…

In this case it would be the means of killing someone. In other words, why did Scott Peterson do what he did and Kill his wife and unborn son, Connor? Scott’s motives were to get away from the married life and prevent himself from becoming a father. He was after all having an affair, so evidently his wife didn’t mean very much to him. “He looked at me and said, I was kinda hoping for infertility”, stated Rosemarie Rocha, Laci’s sister. And there were several other comments from family members, stating things that Scott had just looked like he did not want to have a child. This would have been a great way for him to rid himself of his wife and son, by just Murdering his wife,

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