still had the legal option of appealing her ruling. Media Documentary media about the case In 2004, E! aired an episode of The E! True Hollywood Story on the case. In 2007, Court TV covered the case with a documentary titled Scott Peterson: A Deadly Game. In 2010, the Peterson case was the topic of the eponymous premiere episode of Investigation Discovery's True Crime with Aphrodite Jones. In 2015, the series Murder Made Me Famous covered the story in its second episode, which premiered August 22. It re-aired in 2017 on the American cable channel Reelz as Scott Peterson: What Happened? In April 2017, Crime Junkie Podcast produced two episodes detailing Peterson's murder. On April 21, 2017, the NBC news magazine Dateline aired the two-hour special, The Laci Peterson Story: A Dateline Investigation. In May 2017, the Peterson case was the main focus of "Notorious: Scott Peterson", the Season 20 premiere of the Oxygen TV series Snapped. In June 2017, ABC aired a two-hour documentary on the case titled Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson. In July 2017, HLN aired a two-hour program on the case titled How It Really Happened. In August 2017, the case was covered in A&E's six part series, The Murder of Laci Peterson. In November 2017, Investigation Discovery aired a two-hour documentary titled Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery. In December 2018, the case was discussed on the talk show Dr. Phil. In May 2021, the case was covered in the 48 Hours episode "Scott Peterson: Case in Question". In May 2021, the case was covered in the 20/20 episode "One Last Chance". Portrayals of Scott Peterson In 2004, Peterson was played by Dean Cain in The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story. In 2005, Peterson was portrayed by Nathan Anderson in the TV movie, Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution. Although the case had been compared to the plot of Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl, Flynn refuted the notion her book was inspired by the Petersons, saying that although she saw parallels between the two, she made a point not to rely on any specific true account for her fiction. Rather, her portrayal of her characters as out-of-work writers was derived from her own experience being laid off from her job as a writer for Entertainment Weekly. Peterson was mentioned in Episode 71 of the crime drama Cold Case, "The War