It is sad. They probably believed him ... in the beginning. The story now is that even his own half brother and sister wouldn't testify for him. It seems that while they were searching for Laci, he was coming on to his half-sister's babysitter! The guy is a sociopath monster.
I'm very curious as to what he was like growing up and in the usual course of a day. His best man was on the Today show this a.m. talking about how he was always "slightly distant and off to himself". I guess I'm interested because this makes you wonder how many other "functioning sociopaths" we come across--and are even charmed by--every day in our lives.
I wonder what else he's been guilty of before.....wasn't he from the same town as Chandra Levy?
I'm a big reader, and I read many many books of all kinds--so many that they have to be really good to stand out in my memory--but, every time I look at Scott Peterson, I'm reminded of the Junior Cain character in Dean Koontz's "From the Corner of His Eye." In that book, Junior's "cryptonite weakness" is a digestive type of symptom that occurs after he commits murder. I couldn't help but remember that when I heard that Viagra had been removed from the Peterson house. I highly recommend the read for anyone interested in this case.