Secrets, Lies & Sadness: Laci Peterson's Murder Is Long Solved, but Here's Why the Case Won't Rest

And that's his right to do as a death row inmate in California, but for Laci Peterson 's family, justice was served when Scott was convicted of her murder - a brutal, thoroughly chilling crime that has stuck in people's minds for the past 15 years. Laci Peterson disappeared on Dec. 24, 2002, with Scott saying he last saw her at their Modesto, Calif., home when she was about to go walk their dog in a nearby park.