Plot Synopsis

From director Skye Borgman, AMERICAN MURDER: LACI PETERSON is a three-part documentary that explores the disturbing disappearance and murder of Laci Peterson on Christmas Eve in 2002. The disturbing case captured the nation's attention, dominating news media night after night as facts slowly but surely led law enforcement to prosecute her husband, Scott, for her brutal murder -- although he pleaded not guilty, and maintains his innocence to this day. 20 years after Scott's conviction, this three-part documentary series uses news clips, interrogation footage, and courtroom cameras to bring the dramatic disappearance, investigation, and trial into focus. Alongside interviews with detectives, reporters, lawyers, and jurors recounting their experiences in real time, it also features a conversation with Amber Frey, the woman with whom Scott was living a double life at the time of Laci's disappearance -- and whose willingness to participate with law enforcement led to major breakthroughs in the case. And for the very first time since Laci's heartbreaking death, her mother, Sharon Rocha, and a trio of her childhood friends speak candidly about their memories of Laci, the impact this shocking crime had on their lives, and their hopes that, in coming forward to tell Laci's story for a new generation, they might empower other women experiencing intimate partner violence to escape a similarly tragic fate. All three installments of AMERICAN MURDER: LACI PETERSON dropped on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 on Netflix.