Detective Describes Interview With Peterson

Scott Peterson offered his own theory for what happened to his pregnant wife within 24 hours of her disappearance, the lead detective testified Monday at the former fertilizer salesman’s double-murder trial.

Modesto Police Det. Craig Grogan said Peterson theorized “that she had been wearing jewelry that she inherited from her grandmother and that he’d seen her wearing it on that morning, and when she went into the park a transient had robbed her for her jewelry.”

The theory came out during Grogan’s three-hour interview of Peterson on Dec. 25, 2002, a day after Laci Peterson was reported missing.

Prosecutors allege Peterson killed his pregnant wife around Dec. 24, 2002, in their Modesto home, then dumped her body into San Francisco Bay.