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American Murder: Laci Peterson

American Murder: Laci Peterson

7.0

At minimum, this docuseries on the Laci Peterson case is one of Netflix’s more informative true crime efforts

TV Show

United States of America
English, Spanish
Crime, Documentary
2024

TLDR

Scott is a puzzle.

What it's about

This docuseries covers the disappearance of Laci Peterson, then 8-months-pregnant wife of Scott Peterson, on Christmas Eve 2002.

The take

The docuseries simultaneously revolves around the precedent that spouses are suspect #1 when their partners go missing/are victimized, as well as the angle of Scott Peterson maintaining his innocence. It’s a heartbreaking, dark Christmas Eve case with a dash of classic Netflix sensationalism with the editing being a smidge extra at times. Still, some elements help, like the splendid visuals for the timeline that help the viewer take note of inconsistencies and red flags throughout the story, of which there can be a lot. But like most middle-of-the-road true crime, it drags. And you stay because the story itself is interesting, in spite of everything.

What stands out

If dogs could just talk, man.

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