No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of
the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense
attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight months after
Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time
investigative attorney on the case. During that time, he
lived in Modesto and investigated every element of the
case, interviewing scores of witnesses, reviewing more than
35,000 pages of police documents, and meeting almost daily
with Scott Peterson in jail.
What he has uncovered will astound even the most informed
observers of the Laci Peterson murder case and challenge
the most deeply held beliefs about what really happened to
Laci Peterson on Christmas Eve, 2002.
This is the first book to go inside the Peterson defense
team, and the only book to detail all the evidence that the
jury did not hear -- evidence that might have led to Scott
Peterson's acquittal, and that will surely play a crucial
part in his pending appeals.
Among the revelations in Presumed Guilty:
* Reports from numerous witnesses who saw Laci Peterson
alive and well the morning of December 24, after the police
claim Scott Peterson had already killed her; none of them
testified at trial
* The story of another woman, eight months pregnant, who
was harassed by two men the morning of December 24 only
five blocks from the Peterson home
* The burglary that reportedly occurred directly across the
street from the Peterson home on the morning of December
24, and the confessed burglars' questionable claims that
the burglary happened days later
* Previously unreported details of the autopsy reports on
Laci Peterson and her son, which cast strong doubts on
keyelements of the prosecution's case
* The disappearances of six pregnant women, in addition to
Laci, reported missing and presumed dead within eighty
miles of Modesto between 1999 and 2002
Compelling, provocative, disturbing, Presumed Guilty is the
fascinating story of one lawyer's relentless efforts to
find the truth behind one of the most complex and notorious
murder cases in American history.
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