Scott Peterson should "pay for killing" unborn son, former juror testifies

The former juror at the center of Scott Peterson's bid for a new trial in the murder of his pregnant wife walked into the jury room during deliberations in 2004 and blurted out "that he should basically pay for killing 'little man,' " a former fellow juror testified Tuesday.

That conflicts with juror Richelle Nice's sworn declaration in 2020, but not with the amended testimony she gave Friday and Monday during a hearing into whether she was biased during Peterson's trial in the slayings of his wife, Laci, 27, and the unborn child they planned to name Conner.

Nice testified she held no ill will toward Peterson until after she heard the evidence against him, that he dumped his wife's body into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. She said she didn't recall making the statement recounted Tuesday by fellow former juror Gregory Beratlis.