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Great investigative reporting I couldn't put this book down. What I found most intriguing was the way Scott and Jackie and Lee Peterson responded to the growing evidence against him. Instead of being concerned, or scared, all three of them developed this bizarre rage, arrogance and cattiness toward the police and, most distastefully, toward the Rocha family. Though I don't blame Jackie or Lee Peterson for the crimes of their son, this book does shed an interesting light on their own very dysfunctional personalities and how a sociopath could blossom in such an environment. Lee Peterson is a man who muttered "F*#K you" to Ron Grantski after Scott was sentenced to death. Jackie Peterson referred to Sharon Rocha, in the midst of all this tragedy, as a "bi#@h". When Scott told his dad he was wrong to have had the affair with Amber while Laci was pregnant, his dad's response was "two-thirds of people have affairs,it's no big deal." Really, this is a family primed for a study in total psychological dysfunction. The book offers firm evidence of Scott's guilt (for anyone out there with any lingering doubt) and shows the hard work that went into this investigation. The police were on top of this from the moment Laci went missing and this is refreshing for us, the public,to know. The book was highly readable except for the plethora of typing errors (a rush to print, perhaps?).The one thing I came away not really understanding is Scott's sociopathy. Crier offers some convincing evidence that this mental illness was at work in Scott for many, many years but does not help us to understand how he was able to hide it for so long. How did Laci, who spent so much time with him, not see this? Was Laci not a perceptive person? We just don't know. What we do know is that no one seems to have known Scott Peterson, including his parents who don't seem to know much of anything it turns out.