Experts: Peterson prosecutors face story holes

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The prosecution’s disjointed story probably has jurors in the Scott Peterson trial questioning what really happened to his pregnant wife, legal experts say.

But with the trial into its second month, there may be a good reason for their failure to weave a cohesive tale: They do not have enough hard evidence to forcefully claim Peterson committed the crime. Defense lawyers, who say Peterson was framed, are confident they can pick apart the alleged motive – an affair with a woman Peterson had only known a short while.

But they are not without their own challenge: how to convincingly explain why the bodies of Laci Peterson and the couple’s fetus surfaced just two miles from where Scott Peterson claims he was fishing alone the day his wife vanished.

Prosecutors claim Peterson’s affair with massage therapist Amber Frey drove him to devise a plan in which he purchased his used boat weeks earlier for the sole purpose of disposing of his wife’s body.

Defense lawyers do not deny the affair or even that Peterson was a “cad.” But they say just because Peterson cheated on his wife that did not make him a murderer.