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"Did you murder your wife?" That's the first question Diane Sawyer asks Scott Peterson, and he doesn't even blink. He just looks at her and says no, as calmly as if she'd asked about the weather. And then he added something strange: "Murder is a possibility that creeps into my mind late at night and early in the morning." It's January 2003, and his pregnant wife Laci has been missing for a month. She disappeared from their home in Modesto, California on Christmas Eve. She was eight and a half months pregnant with a boy they had already named Conner. Scott told police he'd gone fishing that morning, alone, and that when he came home she was gone. The whole country searched for her. Her face was on every channel. Then a massage therapist named Amber Frey went to the police and said she had been dating Scott for weeks. He had told her he wasn't married. In the video below, Scott sits across from Sawyer on national television while his wife is still missing, and he tries to explain all of it. He says he had nothing to do with her disappearance. He says violence against women is the most disgusting thing he can imagine. Then Sawyer asks about the affair. He says he told Laci about it before she disappeared, and that it didn't cause a big problem between them. Sawyer asks if he really expects people to believe a woman eight and a half months pregnant just made peace with it. "No one knows our relationship but us," he says. He also says he told the police about Amber right away. After the interview, he called the network back to correct himself. He never told them. Sawyer keeps going. A neighbor says Laci opened the curtains every single morning, and that morning they stayed shut. The kitchen floor had just been mopped. Why go fishing alone on Christmas Eve, with your wife about to give birth? Then Sawyer points out something nobody else had noticed. In the whole interview, he hasn't once mentioned his son. Watch his face when she asks about the baby. At the very end she asks if he's afraid the police will arrest him. He says there's no basis. Three months later, the bodies of Laci and Conner washed up on the shore of San Francisco Bay, close to where Scott said he had been fishing. Days after that, police arrested him near San Diego. His hair was dyed blond and he had $15,000 in cash. At his trial, prosecutors played this interview for the jury. It was entered as evidence. He was sentenced to death. In 2021 the sentence was changed to life without parole. He still says he's innocent, and in 2024 an innocence project took up his case. Watch the full interview and tell me. Is this a grieving husband, or a man who already knows where his wife is?