He found the discovery unusual, but decided to grab some pizza from the refrigerator and take a shower before searching for his wife. and noticed the couple’s dog in the backyard with its leash still on and no sign of Laci. Scott said he returned home around 4:30 p.m. “I mean, a lot of - lot of the reason I went was just to get that boat in the water,” he told detectives in an interrogation room just hours after his wife disappeared. Scott said he drove to his warehouse office a few miles away from the couple’s home, assembled a mortiser - which he described as a “woodworking tool to make tables” - checked his email, and then took off with his new boat to the Berkeley Marina, about 90 miles away. Scott told authorities he had planned to go golfing that day but changed his mind at the last moment and decided to go fishing instead when he realized it was too cold for a game of golf. They had a small house together in Modesto, California, a dog, and by the winter of 2002, the couple was expecting their first child together, a son that they planned to name Conner.īut the couple’s story turned tragic on Christmas Eve of 2002, when Laci - who was eight months pregnant at the time - disappeared. Scott worked as a fertilizer salesman, while Laci stayed busy working as a substitute teacher. The young couple got married and started a life together. She called Scott “very charming, very polite” and the “perfect gentleman.” Rocha admits she too had been impressed by Scott, who once brought two bouquets of flowers to the house, one for Laci and another for her. “She wasn’t bashful,” her mother Sharon Rocha recalled on “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered,” airing Wednesdays at 8/7c on Oxygen. Outgoing Laci - who friends say made “everybody laugh” - boldly asked a waiter at the café to pass her number to the object of her affection: her future husband, Scott Peterson. The story began with a young Laci Peterson becoming enamored with a man she spotted at a café in the 1990s. Watch Dateline: Secrets Uncovered Peacock and the Oxygen App.

Dateline secrets uncovered double lives