By Jonathan Vigliotti,  Chuck Stevenson

Updated on: December 22, 2024 / 1:53 AM EST / CBS 🗞️

LIncoln Journal Star – Peterson now has Innocence Project defending him – LA Times

You can read the full articles yourself by clicking the links above.

Our jury system in America is broken. It officially broke when the OJ jury returned a not guilty verdict in 1995 despite very strong evidence, a damning Ford Bronco chase down the interstate, and a near confession letter from OJ. I won’t rehash that trial here. Anyone who listened to the evidence knows he killed his wife and her boyfriend by slashing their throats. That murder and subsequent trial were also the beginning of the exposure of the severe racial divide in America which was not necessarily black vs white but democrat race baiters vs Republican normies.

We have seen the juries in democrat strongholds like New York city and LA county refuse to uphold the law encouraged by crooked prosecutors and wicked judges. The impeachments of President Trump and the vicious lawfare against him are other recent examples. Democrats will indict a ham sandwich and convict an innocent man.

But now – back to Scott Peterson.

Around this time Robert Blake murdered his wife. He was acquitted in the criminal trial but found guilty later in the civil trial – just like OJ. And just as with OJ who vowed to find the “real” killer no other killer was ever found. And both OJ and Blake were accomplished actors and presented very favorably on the jury stand.

Key details about the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley:

• Blake’s location: When the shooting happened, Blake said he was not in the car with his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, but was instead walking back to a restaurant to retrieve a forgotten gun.
• The murder weapon: The gun used to kill Bakley was found the next day in a dumpster near the crime scene. Its serial number had been scratched off, and no fingerprints were recovered.
• Blake’s gun: The .38 revolver Blake said he had left at the restaurant was later recovered by police and confirmed not to be the murder weapon.
• Blake on the curb: After finding his wife shot, Blake ran to a nearby home for help. When paramedics arrived, witnesses and first responders recalled that Blake was sitting on the curb, visibly distraught, crying, and at one point vomiting. He was not holding the murder weapon. 

Scott Peterson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn child. Yet there was absolutely NO physical evidence linking him to the crime. BUT there was a ton of circumstantial evidence that ultimately swung the jury to convict him.

Scott Peterson was the victim of his extramarital affair with his massage therapist and his lying to both her and the police about the situation. The other problem was that Scott, knowing his innocence and then his utter amazement that someone killed his wife and child so he could freely marry another woman, could not act like he deeply missed his wife and child because he wasn’t an acommplished actor and he simpy didn’t.

So basically Scott was convicted of being a coldhearted SOB and a completely unsympathetic witness and a cad. Many people have noticed the strong similarity of the Laci Peterson disappearance and the book and movie “Gone Girl”. Scott even looks like Ben Affleck.

But (if you read the articles in the links above) you will see that they have found the two thieves who broke into the Peterson house after Scott left, were surprised by his wife, kidnapped her, murdered her and dumped her body in the very lake Scott was accused of doing.

For detectives, when a wife disappears or is murdered, the husband almost always did it. In the cases of Scott Peterson and Ben Affleck they looked guilty as hell but surprisingly they were innocent.

Peterson deserved exactly zero jail time. In this country we may love to hate cheating spouses but we do not jail them and typically forgive them and still adore them and (I guess) wish we were either the dashingly good looking and wealthy husband or the beautiful, new young wife he marries. Beautiful people especially deserve a second (or third or fourth) chance.