Every mother's worst fear became Sharon Rocha's reality. On
Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her
son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In
the hours, days, and eventually months that followed, Sharon
struggled to avoid accepting what no parent should ever have
to face: the certain knowledge that her child is never
coming home. In For Laci, for the first time, Sharon
tells us what it was like to live through the long nightmare
and opens our hearts to the Laci she loved: the kindergarten
artist, the tenth grader who cried on her mother's lap after
her first breakup, the young woman who planned her wedding
with joyful enthusiasm.
At the time of her
disappearance, Laci was twenty-seven years old, seven and a
half months pregnant, and a vibrant presence in the lives of
everyone who knew her. How, Sharon wondered, could Laci so
suddenly become a missing person? That very word missing
seemed premature, somehow suspect. From that first moment,
Sharon knew with a mother's instinct that something--beyond
the alarming news itself--was terribly wrong. As the world
now knows, she was right. Nearly two years after that night,
a jury in the State of California found Scott Peterson
guilty of the murder of his wife and their unborn son,
Conner.
Until now, the world has not had an answer to
a question that held countless millions in its grip. Through
all the relentless media coverage of this unspeakable crime
and subsequent trial, we all wondered: What would it be like
to experience such a horror involving your own child and
grandchild? What, indeed, was Sharon Rocha
feeling?
In For Laci, Sharon tells us. In so
doing, she goes far beyond previous accounts to tell this
story with unprecedented immediacy and intimacy. Here are
her private conversations with the murderer, his mistress,
Amber Frey, and the lead police investigators as they
meticulously build their case, as well as surprising and
heartbreaking revelations about the trial and its aftermath.
Perhaps what is most affecting is the sense we get of the
person Laci Peterson was, and what it feels like to lose--as
Sharon put it in her Victim's Impact Statement--"her
beautiful smile, her contagious giggle, her happy heart, her
love of life, her great expectations of becoming a mother,
her generous soul, her knowing how much I love her, and my
knowing how much she loves me."
Inspired by a desire
to help others who find themselves similarly afflicted, to
detail how the love of family, friends, and community helped
her survive her ordeal, and to convey how much the world
lost when her wonderful daughter was taken, Sharon Rocha has
written a powerful and deeply moving memoir of loss and the
love that always endures.
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