Laci & Conner Peterson

On Christmas Eve 2002, 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant with her unborn son Conner, disappeared from her Modesto home. The case quickly became one of the most widely followed murder investigations in American history. Months later, the bodies of Laci and Conner were recovered along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay.

Following a lengthy trial, a jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering both Laci and Conner and sentenced him to death. Years later, the California Supreme Court overturned Peterson's death sentence, while leaving his murder convictions intact. Peterson was subsequently resentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole.

More than two decades later, the murders of Laci and Conner Peterson remain one of California's most notorious homicide cases, resulting in a death sentence that was later reduced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole.