Unseen Laci Peterson Autopsy Pictures Surface: What Do They Show?

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Jurors in Scott Peterson ’s murder trial winced and glanced away Wednesday as they looked at photos of Laci Peterson ’s badly decomposed body cast in. However, in April 2003, police discovered Laci ’s body on the shoreline of Point Isabel. Correspondingly, they sent the body for an autopsy and found startling details. Per the autopsy. May 30 – Laci Peterson ’s head and parts of her limbs were missing and plastic tape was wrapped around the neck of her child, according to the full autopsy and coroner’s photographs exclusively seen by ABCNEWS. EERIE images of the chilly beach where the bodies of Laci Peterson and her fetus washed ashore over 20 years ago have ignited old questions about the grisly murder. Laci Peterson was reported as missing from the home she shared with her husband, Scott Peterson, on Christmas Eve in 2002. Photos taken at the crime scene, where her body was found and corresponding evidence, depict a desperate search for the mother - to - be — Laci was eight months pregnant when she disappeared. During the trial, images taken during Laci and Conner’s autopsies were displayed to the jurors and on Nov. 12, 2004, the jury found Scott guilty of first-degree murder for Laci ’s death and. Some jurors in the Scott Peterson capital-murder trial quietly wiped away tears as prosecutors showed them gruesome photos Wednesday of the carcass- like remains of Peterson’s wife, Laci, a. — Scott Peterson wept Thursday while jurors in his double-murder trial looked at autopsy photographs of his dead wife’s fetus displayed on a large screen. Laci Peterson ’s autopsy photographs were displayed to jurors Wednesday, while photos of her fetus were shown Thursday. Her family has not been in court all week. Her corpse was missing the head, neck, forearms and part of her left leg, and her rib cage and other bones speckled with barnacles were exposed. Brian Peterson (search), the forensic.