The Double Life of Scott Peterson: Justice For Laci and Conner — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential

September 5, 2026

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On the fifth day of deliberations, the jury in Scott Peterson’s murder trial asked to see the boat. On November 8, 2004, a bailiff led twelve jurors into an underground garage beneath the Redwood City courthouse, where Scott’s 14-foot aluminum fishing boat had been stored as evidence. Juror number one, Greg Baratlas, a meticulous man who cared about his equipment, climbed aboard with the foreman. They shifted their weight, testing how easily the boat would tip. Baratlas noticed rusty pliers and standing water inside. It struck him as odd—as if the boat had never been intended as a long-term hobby, but bought for one purpose. Four days later, those twelve jurors convicted Scott Peterson of two murders. But they were not the same twelve people who had stood around that boat. Two jurors had been replaced along the way, including the foreman. The alternates who replaced them never saw the boat. Their arrival forced the jury to wipe away its work and start deliberations over, twice in two days. Within hours of the second restart, they took their first vote. It was unanimous. Guilty.

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1 MK Confidential: The Double Life of Scott Peterson — Ep. 5
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3 (00:00) **Lead-in and Jury Boat Inspection** - The episode opens with jurors deliberating and requesting to see Scott Peterson's fishing boat in the courthouse garage
4 (02:43) **The Conviction and Juror Shake-Up** - Twelve jurors convict Scott Peterson, but two are replaced mid-deliberations, including the foreman
5 (04:28) **Prosecutor's Closing: The Geographic Connection** - Rick Distaso opens closing arguments by linking Scott's claimed fishing location to where the bodies washed ashore
6 (05:53) **Motive: The Unborn Son** - Distaso tells the jury the motive is not the affair with Amber Frey, but what was about to change Scott's life — his son
7 (07:02) **Defense Closing: Hate vs. Evidence** - Mark Geragos asks jurors if they hate his client, then argues being a terrible husband is not proof of murder

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Guests on this episode

Rick Distaso Mark Geragos Sharon Rocha

Show Notes

“MK Confidential” closes the Scott Peterson case — and then reopens it. In the courthouse garage, jurors climb aboard Peterson's boat, testing what it would take to tip it over. Two of them won't be there for the verdict. The jury loses its foreman and another member mid-deliberation, gets rebuilt twice, and convicts within eight hours of starting fresh for the last time.

Megyn walks through the verdict and eventual death sentence, including Sharon Rocha's raw, unscripted testimony at the penalty phase. Then, she follows the appeals, centered on a flawed jury screening process, juror letters to Scott Peterson post-conviction, and alleged new evidence.

Two appeals are still pending. Twenty-three years later, Scott Peterson follows them from prison, and his wife’s exact cause of death remains a mystery. This is the finale of the Laci Peterson story.

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