was thinking about going public as well, and he discussed it with, who else? amber. i am going to speak to the press. when? this coming week. you have a date? well, i m debating on when it should be. okay. because tuesday is the state of the union address. okay. that will take up, you know, a lot of time. i m sure it will. i want maximum coverage. he got it, all right. a sudden whirl of interviews. a few days after his affair with amber was revealed, scott talked about it on nbc s bay area station. obviously, yes, i had a romantic relationship that was an and unfair to a lot of people. many of the people who knew scott and love scott no longer believed a word he said. for the police, who had never believed him, amber frye was just one part of an intricate and entirely
i reach a dispatcher, and i said, i have been dating this person. i am just i want to know if this is the same person. sure. she said, okay, okay. like, okay, it is, or, what? i gave his birth date, i gave his full name, and then, she says, okay. i said, okay, yes? she goes, yes. yes, amber scott peterson, and scott peterson with the missing wife, where one in the same. i remember crying. i don t know for how, along i was shaking, like, be adrenaline, and just the i was in shock. amber frye, who thought, maybe, she met the one, was in the middle of something terrible. coming up amber? we wanted to start recording calls. hushed conversations, hidden recordings, amber goes undercover. as soon as i plug in her little recorder, and i am showing her, pushing the red button, the black but, in the phone rings. he called. hey, i ll be in paris tomorrow. i m flying to normandy right now. hopefully the phone works better. i was shaking uncontrollably, there was
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but what were you hoping for from those recorded conversations that you didn t get? well, of course, ideally i was hoping that he would say, no, i murdered my wife. i dumped her in the bay, and let s run off to europe. but that wasn t going to happen. keith morrison (voiceover): so detectives went right at him. they asked scott to come down to the police department again. and without telling him where they got it, they showed him a fax of a photo of himself with amber frye at the christmas party. and of course, he lies when he s confronted. keith morrison (voiceover): prosecutor birgit fladager. birgit fladager: he sees the picture of himself with amber. and he says, that s not me. was it clearly him? it was. keith morrison (voiceover): if scott suspected the detectives had somehow found out about amber, he didn t let on. and he kept calling her, and she kept recording. but he started testing her with questions. amber frey: and i was like, what bombing?
like exploding your own bomb. keith morrison (voiceover): buehler sent two colleagues to fetch her with a statement all prepared. we were speeding back, in a sense, getting there. and you know, having this statement written out, you know, trying to read a few times so it s not too foreign. keith morrison (voiceover): as they drove to modesto, headquarters gathered the media, big news a comin . again, we are waiting for modesto police to come out any moment and speak on developments in the laci peterson investigation. keith morrison (voiceover): and this is the moment when amber frye burst like a deer in headlights onto the public stage. [sigh] ok. first of all, i met scott peterson november 20, 2002. i was introduced to him. i was told he was unmarried. scott told me he was not married. we did have a romantic relationship. i had a panic attack. i couldn t breathe. i literally could not catch my breath. when i discovered he was involved