if she knew about laci. then, on january 6th, 13 days after laci disappeared, scott told amber himself. you haven t been watching the news, obviously. no. i have not been traveling during the last couple of weeks. my i ve lied to you, that i ve been traveling. okay. the girl i m married to, her name is laci. then she disappeared just before christmas. for the past two, weeks i ve been in modesto with her family, and mine, searching for her. okay. she just disappeared, and no one knows. scott had no idea, of course, that amber happened to be in
went on tv and pleaded with a kidnapper. i would like to send a message out there that whoever has her please, please, please let her go. bring her back. early on there were clues the cops uncovered that made kidnapping seemed plausible. remember the couple s dog with the leash attached. scott found it in the backyard a neighbor said she saw the peterson s dog wandering the streets earlier that day. maybe laci was kidnapped walking the dog. just about the time laci disappeared there was a burglary across the street. did she witness a crime? did burglars take her? the police wanted to know. a reward for information for the identity of the person responsible for the burglary. didn t take long. soon enough one of them showed up in a tv interview. police agreed.
or she should write to him at a post office box in modesto, but he had told her he lived in sacramento. why in modesto? why these odd questions she couldn t answer? she had a cop friend she called him, good he checkup on scott peterson from sacramento? a few days later, her friend called back. he d said he found an article, and he was going to print it and bring it to me. i said, okay. that was december 29th, scott had left for your two days earlier, or so he said. amber read the article. i was in disbelief of what i am writing, because it sounds like him, fertilizer salesman, modesto. i don t think there was a full picture of him, but there was his truck that was in this article. so were these words, pregnant and missing. i need this confirmed. i don t want to believe but i just read. turning your world upside down? absolutely. that is when amber called the modesto police.
her grandson would never be born. detective john buhler had known that for a while, and now, it was nearly ready to arrest scott, just not quite. we are going to weigh to serve the warrant until after the dna results were released to confirm the bodies were laci and connor. that april, scott peterson was living in san diego near his parents. so, tick, tick, tick. detectives waited for lab results. police kept an eye on scott. they had the surveillance going on him for quite some time before that. then, april 18th, 2003, 7 am, the lab results were still pending when scott peterson decided to play cat-and-mouse with who amara was after him. he s a good driver, at least he was. he knew we were behind him. scott started driving a radically, very fast. we were trying to keep this rolling surveillance on him.
could be, you know, a victim of foul play. those closest to laci were having trouble grappling with the whole idea of foul play. back then in 2003, even sharon told us impossible. they have no doubt he has nothing to do with her disappearance. it is a powerful thing, true belief. when it comes crashing down, my, my, my. coming up, scott peterson down at the station, a rare look at his interrogation. was he okay with that? was there any hesitation? he agreed. didn t ask for an attorney? no. didn t ask for an attorney. well, like that s a morning