The Most Bizarre Things About The Scott Peterson Case

Publish date: 2024-05-05

One piece of evidence that Scott Peterson's defense team attempted to use to exonerate the suspect was Scott and Laci Peterson's dog. At the time of Laci's disappearance, Scott claimed that his pregnant wife had been walking their dog, McKenzie, a golden retriever. McKenzie was discovered by a neighbor, Karen Servas, who testified, via CNN, that she "saw the Petersons' golden retriever standing in the street, its leash attached but its owners nowhere in sight" on Christmas Eve 2002, the day Laci went missing. She returned the dog to the Petersons' backyard and shut the gate.

Laci's friends and family have long disputed the narrative that Laci would have walked the dog as, at around eight months pregnant, she was reportedly experiencing fatigue and exhaustion. In fact, Laci's friend, Stacey Boyer, revealed at the trial, via Los Angeles Times, "Every time she would start to do something, she would have to stop and rest."

Meanwhile, Scott's sister-in-law, Janey Peterson, appeared on "Dr. Phil" in 2018 and claimed that there's proof that Laci took the dog for a walk. Per Janey, "The mailman signed an affidavit that said if McKenzie was in the yard or in the house, he would bark at the mailman. And on December 24, the mailman came by and McKenzie was not on the property." Basically, the dog's whereabouts became an important, yet odd piece of evidence in the timeline of Laci's disappearance.

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