Peter Maldonado

Peter Maldonado, along with Sam Ecklund, is one of the main characters of American Vandal's first and second season. He is an American teenager who is a sophomore student at Hanover High school where he is the Co-anchor of Hanover High's Morning Show.

The First season follows Peter and Sam as they investigate the the phallic incident, trying to prove that Dylan Maxwell is innocent, producing the documentary as they follow down leads. After the success of the first season's documentary, Peter and Sam are called upon to investigate The Turd Burglar incident in Season 2.

Season 1
Peter and Sam Ecklund are two students who are creating a documentary "American Vandal", an investigation into whether fellow student, Dylan Maxwell, is guilty of vandalizing the cars of their high school's teachers, which he is being accused of and has been expelled for. The pair investigate the incident the event, trying to figure out who else in the student body could have had the means, motive and opportunity to vandalise the cars.

One of the first things that they investigate is whether or not the witness testimony of Alex Trimboli, who claims that he saw Dylan spray painting the cars, can be trusted. As they investigate Alex they become aware that Alex is known to lie or exaggerate about things in order to make himself sound better such as claiming to have gotten a handjob from Sara Pearson, or claiming to have drunken more beer than he had at a party.

They also realise that the CCTV coverage of the parking lot was switched off during the time when the crime was committed which would require the perp to have access to the CCTV computer system which makes it likely that the perp was part of the school's Morning Show.