Netflix’s Laci Peterson Murder Docu-Series Will Feature Interview With Scott’s Mistress

Rivaling docu-series about the 2002 murder of Laci Peterson hopes to tell the complete story of the much-discussed case. Just a week after Peacock announced it will interview Scott Peterson for Face to Face, Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a docu-series of its own, American Murder: Laci Peterson, out Aug. 14.

The Netflix doc, directed by Skye Borgman, seems to focus on Laci’s family and friends’ side of the story. Detectives and reporters discuss the pair’s relationship in depth and the media circus that ensued when Scott was arrested.

The trailer opens with an interview with an eye-grabbing declaration from Laci’s mother, Sharon Rocha: “I remember, before I met Scott, Laci telling me all things about him. I remember saying, as a mother, ‘I hope he’s not filling her with crap.’ I’ve learned to go for my gut feeling.”

The series even includes an interview with Scott’s mistress, Amber Frey, and features voice recordings from the time of their affair.

“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,” read a synopsis of the Netflix doc.

Pregnant Laci Peterson, 27, vanished on Christmas Eve 2002. Scott claimed that she was killed sometime after he left their Modesto home to go fishing in the San Francisco Bay. He soon became a prime suspect following growing police and public suspicion. He was convicted of murder in 2004 and received a death sentence the following year, though it was later reduced to life in prison without parole.

The trailer for American Murder comes about a week after Peacock shared a teaser for Face to Face With Scott Peterson, a documentary series slated for Aug. 20 that reexamines Peterson’s case and features an interview with Scott.

Face to Face includes interviews with his sister-in-law Janey Peterson, detectives from the Modesto Police Department, and his former defense attorney Lara Yeretsian. Both docu-series come several months after the Los Angeles Innocence Project took on the case in January, telling NBC LA that it was “investigating his claim of actual innocence.”