Viewers are appalled by spotting disturbing body language detail from Scott Peterson in Netflix true crime docuseries about murder of his wife Laci

The murder of a 27-year-old pregnant mother is the subject of the Netflix true crime series American Murder: Laci Peterson.

Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto, California, home on Christmas Eve 2002.

Tragically, four months later, the bodies of Laci and her unborn son were found washed up on the shore.

Her husband, Scott, now 51, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife and first-degree murder in the death of their unborn son. Scott, who is serving a life sentence for murder, has always maintained his innocence.

Now viewers have noticed a disturbing detail in Scott’s body language in the Netflix series about his trial.

One viewer on Reddit said he was “shocked” by Scott’s facial expressions during the investigation and trial. He appeared to be “smiling” the entire time, one viewer said.

The post read: ‘I’m surprised there wasn’t enough talk about Scott’s facial expressions during the entire incident shown in the documentary.

“He’s constantly smiling and holding his head up high. I can’t even imagine how or why someone in his position wouldn’t bother to ‘fake it’.

“He seems completely indifferent and unaware of his reality. I’m just so shocked and disgusted, I wanted to get this off my chest.”

Many people responded en masse to the comments, saying they found it “creepy” that he showed so little emotion for his missing wife.

Someone said: ‘I’m so scared of the lack of emotion in his face and body language. I think his brain needs to be scientifically tested, he’s a strong case of psychopathy. I think he’s pretended to be a normal human being his whole life.’

Another agreed, saying, “I hated hearing him talk. No emotion at all.”

Someone else added: ‘In the Peacock documentary that came out today he has the weirdest smiles. He’s so psychotic he doesn’t know how to have normal facial expressions.

“It’s almost like someone told him to smile more, because he looks guilty when he doesn’t smile. It really scares me. A very strange and unnatural expression.”

A fourth added: ‘It’s like he’s been trying to teach himself emotions for 20 years.’

Scott had been married to Laci for five years when she disappeared on December 24, 2002, after walking their dog.

Laci, 27, was eight months pregnant with their first child when she disappeared. Her remains and the fetus of her unborn son — whom the couple had named Conner — were found more than three months later in separate locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Laci’s disappearance was first reported by her husband, who initially claimed he was out golfing. When he returned to their Modesto, California home, he found it empty and their dog running around the backyard on a leash.

Scott, however, told his neighbor a different story, claiming he was fishing 90 miles away on his recently purchased boat out of Berkeley Marina.

He reported Laci missing to the police and called his mother-in-law to tell her that his pregnant wife was nowhere to be found.

The remains of the mother and her son were discovered just one day apart in March 2003, more than three months after Laci’s disappearance, not far from where Scott said he was fishing.

According to reports, her head, neck, forearms and part of a leg were missing.

A pathologist testified at a preliminary hearing that the body’s exposure to salt water and marine life prevented investigators from determining the cause of death.

Scott initially led the search for his wife, but was arrested months later when her body washed up on the shoreline.

He has always maintained that she was killed by a panicked burglar who was ransacking the couple’s home.

However, a jury found him guilty of the murder, finding that he was driven by an affair he was having with Amber Frey, a 20-year-old massage therapist who was unaware he was married.

Scott was sentenced to death, but the decision was overturned by the California Supreme Court in 2020, and he was instead sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Scott’s request for a new trial was denied in 2022.

Prosecutors told the court that Scott wanted to escape married life and did not want the responsibility that comes with fatherhood.

He claimed he killed her in their Modesto home, then dumped her body — and that of the baby she was carrying — from his boat.

He was found guilty of the premeditated murder of his wife and the premeditated murder of their unborn child.

Some of Scott’s family members have echoed his claims of innocence. His own sister, however, called him a “sociopath.”

“I don’t know why he did this,” she said in a previous interview with Dr. Oz. “Laci was the sweetest, kindest person, so I just don’t understand it.”

‘We miss her all the time. We are deprived of her presence.

“His upbringing… I don’t know if it had anything to do with it. I’m not a doctor, but I believe in sociopathy and I believe he’s a sociopath.”

In the Peacock documentary Face to Face with Scott Peterson, the now 51-year-old man speaks publicly for the first time since his arrest in 2003. He maintains that he is convinced that a group of burglars were responsible for his wife’s death.

He told interviewer Shareen Anderson via video call from jail: “There was a burglary across the street from our house. There were a lot of people involved. And I believe Laci went over there to see what was going on, and that’s when she was taken.”

Two men were arrested and pleaded guilty to the crime, but detectives investigating the case ruled out a link to Laci. They suspect the duo broke into the house two days after her disappearance, on December 26.

Peterson, his family and some of his supporters have long argued that police were too quick to rule out the burglars’ involvement in Laci’s disappearance.

One witness, who police say is not credible because of her inconsistent recollections, said she saw three men at the home where the burglary occurred who did not physically resemble the two men later convicted of the crime, Steven Todd and Donald Pearce.

She also said she saw a van parked in front of the door. Police said she initially thought the van was white, but later said it might be brown or tan.

Peterson and his supporters claim that Van could be the key to Laci’s death.

He said: ‘Todd and Pearce, the two we know, broke into the house across the street. We don’t know who else was involved in that break-in. We know there were others.

“There was no need to examine the evidence that was in front of them. It was evidence that they simply chose to ignore.”

Peterson’s theory is based on a number of key testimonies that his team believes should have been further investigated during the investigation.

For example, one witness claims to have seen a pregnant woman being put “in a van” on the day of Laci’s disappearance, and a prison guard who heard rumors in prison that she had found burglars in her neighbor’s house.

However, the detectives responded immediately and said they could not remember the first report. According to them, the prison guard had retracted his statement at the time.

The final piece of evidence, Peterson said, was a burned-out van found a mile from their home the day after Laci disappeared. Detectives at the time ruled out any connection to the case.

“We want some DNA testing done, so we’ll be filing a request for that. We want more information, so we’ll be asking for that as well,” he said.