On American Murder: Laci Peterson

 

This man told his wife he didn't want kids. Yet, he was doting on his girlfriend's kid from a different man. He strangled his 8 month pregnant wife and dumped her in the sea.

Before the murder, he didn't agree to the party his heavily pregnant wife is supposed to host to go to a holiday party with this new girlfriend. This is an annual party their family used to organise yearly. He told this mistress he was single initially. Eventually, he told her his wife is dead. His very 8 month pregnant alive wife. And the day he said he lost his wife, that was the same day he bought the boat he eventually disposed his wife and unborn son with.

Note, he'd been married to his wife for 5 years at this point and again, everyone thought he was a wonderful man - the wife included.

The girlfriend was eventually the one that even exposed his other life to the public. Cos prior to her calling the police, he was perceived as a responsible man.

So no, these conversations of men absconding their wives for another outsider during labour is not just a Twitter conversation. It's happening every other day. In the case of this documentary, this woman ended up dead. This man killed his wife and kid instead of asking for a divorce.

Homicide remains the number 1 cause of death in pregnant women and these homicides are always caused by their partners (read men). Coward ass men that can't shoulder new responsibilities/are not ready and instead of admitting they're weaklings, they're turning on women at the time they're at their weakest.

Again, women are more likely to be killed by men they know than men they don't.