Blood & Seawater

Why Laci Peterson was Murdered

De: Nick van der Leek

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Why was Laci Peterson murdered? When was Laci Peterson murdered? How exactly did Scott Peterson dump her body without anyone seeing him? Even after the landmark court case, the prosecution and the jury couldn’t say exactly what happened, when or how, so what did happen? Scott Peterson was convicted of first-degree, premeditated double murder. Trawling through the extended backstory of this fifteen year old case, the author finds obscure pieces to a familiar puzzle and contextualises all the available information: court records, interviews, media reports, police reports, evidence, court exhibits, weather and ocean patterns. Within this paradigm the author shines the sharpest spotlight yet on the man who sits on San Quentin’s death row, awaiting his fate. Van der Leek recontextualizes the case, repeating two simple questions throughout: How could Laci be taken advantage of? What was there to take? As investigative photojournalist Nick van der Leek builds his case, it leads inexorably to a much darker question: When did Scott Peterson start to plan Laci’s, and her unborn son’s, murder and disposal? Blood & Seawater dredges the grotesque mosaic of forces, circumstances and conveyors that lured Scott Peterson to the Dark Side, and ultimately, to murder Laci Peterson.

So and so

Is this the new way true crime stories are going to be written? Snipe remarks about other cases where those mentioned have been cleared. The writing is so and so with good guesses on scenarios, but continuous writing like usual books is missing It is ok listening to, but at the same time not. The virtual voice reading is overall ok, but numbers are cut down to individual digits. The pronounciation of last names is wildly different, even in the same sentence. It would be better to use a human. It would have been more interresting to write out the fact as they are known and then speculate and guess scenes. It is interesting to listen to and also listening to other books that have been written to get some idea about the case.

Flow

Liked the way the story was told- was able to visualize it while cleaning house. Good flow.

Great Author - Detail-Focused in a well told story we all knew but nothing close to this extent.

This Author has written well-researched material adding more detailed information and well told. This is yet another example of his recent books that have become available in Audible. Glad I read this!