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Court Case Of Dr. Scott Peterson: Serial Killer

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Scott Peterson Scott Peterson was destined to kill, but no one who knew him as a child would ever have predicted that a murderer was hidden behind that innocent smile. He was a really smart kid, when he was in high school, Scott grew up in a San Diego suburb and was a model student and avid golfer. He graduated from the University of San Diego High School and spent a semester at Arizona State University before returning home to attend Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. In 1994, he transferred to nearby California Polytechnic State University, where he majored in agricultural business. (The Biography.com website) Peterson, however, was a fooler. By the age of 30, he had killed his wife and his unborn child. Although people said he …show more content…

Sometimes the cases involved killing. Well, this one is killing. Scott Peterson was thirty two when he committed the crime. Scott was a very quiet person. He wasn’t always like this though. This happened when his wife was going on a fishing trip. What the FBI thinks; he pushed her off the boat, because she is pregnant, she could not swim that well she was eight months pregnant. He also “killed” the baby. There were a lot of arguments about this did he kill two or one. The argument was the kid was not born yet, so was he technically a person in this world. I think in my head, yes you killed two people. His childhood was not good either, when he was in his teens, his grandfather was killed with a rusty pipe? When the wife was found she was chopped up, in a plastic bag, on the shoreline near his …show more content…

Did he kill two or because the kid was not born yet and there is an number of reasons why this is considered not a murder. Some people say that the kid has to be born to be a “person” which I think is not right. Its still a person, no matter what it's like killing somebody who is muted. If you were muted or not born would you want to die. The answer is usually no because you are human and we are sometimes scared of death. Death happens when it's your time to go. Was it time to go when he killed his wife and his unborn child, no I don’t believe that it was their time to go. I believe that he killed two people because it had a gender and a

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