amber frey: oh, yeah. absolutely. keith morrison : and thats when amber called the modesto police. amber frey: i reach a dispatcher, and i said, im ive been dating this person. i just want to know if this is the same person. keith morrison: sure. amber frey: and she just kept saying, okay. okay. and like, okay, it is? or okay, what? i gave his birth date. i gave his full name and and then she says, okay. and then i said, okay, yes? she goes, yes. keith morrison : yes, ambers scott peterson and the scott peterson with the missing wife were one and the same. amber frey: and i just remember crying. like, i dont know for how long. i was shaking. like, the adrenaline and just i was in shock. keith morrison : amber frey, who thought maybe shed met the one, was in the middle of something terrible. keith morrison : coming up scott peterson (recording): amber? ron beigler: we wanted to start recording calls. keith morrison : hushed conversations, hidden recordings. amber goes undercover. a
jon buehler: most people if in that situation, theyre going to have a lot of questions for you. keith morrison: sure. jon buehler: well, are you guys doing this? ive heard of this. why dont you do this? keith morrison: mm-hm. jon buehler: oh, we got that from sharon. we got that from ron. we got that from lacis friends. everybody had an interest in in trying to get us to go faster. keith morrison : everybody, that is, but scott. now why, they wondered, would that be? keith morrison : coming up scott peterson (recording): hey, beautiful. i just left a message at home. jon buehler: when i listen to that, i thought that he was leaving this recording for us to hear. keith morrison : scott, under scrutiny. sharon rocha: i was afraid to say it out loud. could he be involved with her disappearance? keith morrison : when dateline continues
we got that from sharon. we got that from ron. we got that from laci s friends. everybody had an interest in in trying to get us to go faster. reporter: everybody, that is, but scott. now why, they wondered, would that be? coming up hey, beautiful, i just left a message at home. when i listened to that i thought he was leaving this recording for us to hear. reporter: scott under scrutiny. i was afraid to say it out loud. but could he be involved with her disappearance? when dateline continues.
her son-in-law scott check with the neighbors, call laci s friends. and he did? you all yeah. we all got a call. and he asked me if i d seen her that day. have you seen laci at all today? i said, no, i haven t. and he s like, well, she s she s missing. did he seem frantic, or worried, or what? a little bit. reporter: worried enough to ask for their help. so, did you all go over to his yeah. yep. to their place? reporter: sharon rocha s long time boyfriend ron grantski called the cops. can i help you? my son-in-law called. he was playing golf. my daughter s been missing since this morning, she s eight months
explain why scott hid from tv cameras. not guilt about laci, guilt about amber. in cole s mind, scott acted like a man who d expected his wife to come home. so that, said cole, is why scott didn t want a ding on the car door when the cops were searching his truck. sold laci s car, though? he did sell the car because, you know, he was not rich. the peterson family isn t rich. reporter: and scott hemmed and hawwed about what he was fishing for, said cole, because the whole point of the trip was not so much to catch something as it was to test the boat, before giving it to laci s stepdad ron grantski as a christmas present. the boat was basically a kind of a gift, and that s why it was kept a secret from the granskis because it was a christmas thing. reporter: all innocent, said cole. but why did scott tell amber, before laci vanished, i lost my wife. amber confronts scott about having a wife and he says, i lost her and this will be my first christmas without her ? yeah.