let me talk to her. before too long, the two detectives were in fresno, listening in person, to amber s story of scott s amherst courtship. it was like a script writer was writing this, and talented with the romance he was. i basically told them our hold relationship that we had been having and our conversationalist currently at the moment. he was over in europe somewhere? right. you know, i think they, too, we re a little in disbelief, shaking their head. no, he is definitely in modesto. scott had been lying the whole time, elaborately. even called amber from a pay pony at the airport to say goodbye when he is supposedly left for europe so she would see the caller i. d.. if ember hadn t known where scott really was, she sure knew a lot. she had a mental recall that was punctuated with wine corks and all sorts of memorabilia. that she saved? that she saved from the romance. the detectives asked, could she help them in their investigation? at that point, i, said wh
but the big change, the c change, was the day she walked in. walking in the courtroom, you could hear body shifting towards the door. a lot of pressure. as scott watched, amber frey told the jury everything from strawberries and champagne on their first date to his tearful confession of losing his wife weeks before she went missing. how did you lose her then, before she was lost? explain that. there are different kinds of loss, amber. and all those phone calls were played for the jury. the jury could hear his words of course, not his words under oath, but his words on the phone call to amber and how he lied and lied and lied, and even lied about lying. mark geragos did what he could. he went after amber repeatedly,
and this was completely off the charts. nobody has ever acted this way, in my presence, when it came to something like that. when they got back to modesto, scott was booked into jail. it seemed like the end of the road for scott peterson, but the circus wasn t leaving. it was just moving up the road a bit. coming up prosecutors speak out in an in-depth television interview. he can be very smooth. prosecutor speak out in an in-depth television interview. he wanted a different life. years later they share their story. when dateline continues. e continues. ymptoms from over 200 allergens. without knocking you out. feel the clarity and make today the most wonderful time of the year. live claritin clear.
picture and to plan in the media. before our very eyes, he would morph from a faithful husband who loved his wife to an object of suspicion and outrage. such a circus the whole thing seemed to be. scott, hey, why don t you come and talk to us and tell us the truth. but for all of the noise, all of the breathless coverage, the hours of tv and the acres of tabloids, there was and is a story never completely told. a story the prosecutors told dateline. what do you think of scott peterson? his personality? he is a very unusual person. he is clearly very i think he is very smart. i think he thinks he is very smart. the story that the detectives saw firsthand. when someone is in a position like him and they didn t do it, usually they will say take blood. take a polygraph. scott would not do that. he would only go to a point. he was steve mcqueen cool. the story of what happened to her too, the other woman
no connection to laci. they would have kept digging. we are looking at the sex registees and parolees. people with history of abductions, kidnappings. we had some. we were clearing those guys. we were interviewing them and verifying the alibis. they were not saying that homicide detectives had other suspicions. we are certainly looking at scott first, scott is the closest to laci. that is behind the scenes. in front of the camera the official police statements were more circumspect. we have to understand what the other possibilities are. the possibilities are that she