A&E Limited Docuseries Revisits Laci Peterson Murder

A&E Network has lined up a six-episode documentary series about the murder of Laci Peterson as the 15th anniversary of her disappearance approaches.

Set to premiere on Tuesday, August 15, at 10 p.m., The Murder of Laci Peterson examines the Scott Peterson trial and offers a fresh look at the case, re-examining the circumstantial evidence and assessing the media’s influence on its outcome. Laci Peterson was reported missing on December 24, 2002, when she was eight months pregnant. This documentary series will provide unprecedented access to Scott Peterson, who was convicted of the murder, and his family. In addition, the series will feature interviews with key witnesses, experts, lawyers, cops, journalists and detectives, including Nancy Grace, Gloria Allred, Amber Frey, Detectives Jon Buehler and Ed Steele, journalists Ken Auletta and Maureen Orth, reporters Gloria Gomez and Garth Stapley, Scott Peterson’s trial co-counsel Pat Harris, his appellate attorney Cliff Gardner, attorney and CNN and ABC contributor Chris Pixley, and local reporter turned CNN correspondent Ted Rowlands, among others.

The Murder of Laci Peterson was produced for A&E Network by Left/Right and BQE Films. A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights.

“A&E is in the business of finding and uncovering the real stories behind some of the most impactful cultural moments that our audience hasn’t heard and The Murder of Laci Peterson does exactly that,” said Elaine Frontain Bryant, the executive VP and head of programming at A&E Network. “The media’s obsession with the Scott Peterson trial was unlike anything seen before. This new series will cut through the mass hysteria that has plagued and distorted the reporting of this story to deliver, for the first time, a definitive factual account by those who lived and breathed it every day.”