Scott Peterson Sells Missing Wife's Car

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MODESTO — Scott Peterson, whose pregnant wife, Laci, has been missing since late December, tried to sell the couple's Modesto, Calif., home, sources close to the investigation into her disappearance said. Peterson allegedly looked into selling the home, saying he had issues with it and didn't want Laci coming back to it. The deal to sell the home was scrapped about a week after Scott first began looking into it, according to a Sacramento television station. But Peterson, 30, reportedly is driving around town in a new truck these days. He traded in his missing wife's Range Rover SUV for a Dodge pickup truck, sources close to the investigation said. It's unclear what motivated the transaction and Modesto police have not commented.

‘A Slap in the Face’

But the news is a blow to Laci's friends and relatives.

"Sharon, Laci's mom, turned to all of us and said, 'You know Scott sold Laci's car, don't you?' And we were all just shocked, absolutely shocked. And we didn't know, I didn't know what to say," Luceene Gee, who has been volunteering in the search for the missing woman, told KOVR.

"My first thought was, 'How cold.' I mean, that's a piece of Laci," Gee said.

Another volunteer commented on how the news must be affecting Laci's mother.

"I felt so bad for her, because it's just like another slap in the face for her," said Bruceene Norton. "She's grieving her child, she doesn't know where she is, she doesn't know what happened to her, doesn't know what's happened to the grandchild. And [he's] sold the car, wants to sell the house. It's heartbreaking."

Heather Sutton, a friend of Laci's, also told KOVR she found the news distressing.

"It was hard to hear that, just because I know that, just by looking at the car, it's totally Laci and by hearing that she loved that car, that was difficult for me. And maybe he has his reasons I don't know," Sutton said.

Family members held a candlelight vigil on Jan. 31 for the 27-year-old Laci and her unborn child, who was to have been named Connor.

Scott Peterson says he last saw Laci on the morning of Dec. 24, when he left on a solo fishing trip. She was eight months pregnant at the time.

Police have not named Peterson as a suspect in his wife's disappearance, but attention has focused on him, in part, because he admits he told his wife he was having an affair shortly before she vanished.

In a recent interview with ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer, Peterson said his wife accepted his affair with Amber Frey, a single mother from Fresno, when he told her back in early December. Frey has said she had no idea Peterson was married, and that she contacted Modesto police as soon as she realized the man she was seeing was connected to a missing person's case.

Peterson told Sawyer he and his wife never even had a fight over his extramarital affair, adding that he never laid a hand on Laci and hopes to find her alive.

Last Updated: Feb 4, 2003

[anniegetyourgun]

I had heard he also tried to sell the house 1 week after she went missing. That would suggest (along with sale of her car) that he is absolutely sure she isn't returning home.

[ConservativeMan55]

Chief Charles Moose headed the Sniper Investigation.
He used ebonics to solve the case!

[Dr. Frank fan]

I feel so uncool. I don't even know who the heck "Scott Peterson" is or why he is in the news or being interviewed by Diane Sawyer.

Seriously, why are we paying attention to this guy, is he someone famous?

[JennysCool]

Classics all! Thanks!

[ConservativeMan55]

Scott Peterson killed Laci Peterson....thats why we are talking about him.

[RobRoy]

Oops. Yeah, I remember a guy called the Moose on that one. Sorry.

[RobRoy]

Me neither, until this post.

[Porterville]

Maybe he didn't do it and is sick of everyone in the community talkin' trash. He wants out of the situation that perhaps, he didn't create.

[ConservativeMan55]

Clara Harris husband was but a lonely dentist until she ran over him three times, and now we hear his name every day!
I seriously thought by the way the media talked about Clara Harris that she was already famous before the murder.

[clintonh8r]

A Range Rover for a pickup? Man, that is warped...

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

HA!!! Hadn't seen those. Love the Condit one!

And you know...the first thing I always think of when I see a newborn and a couple beginning to provide for a family, is a pickup truck. Perfect fer starting a family.
</sarc>
(oh, go ahead...)

[Paul Atreides]

Every time I see that guy, he has an expression of bliss on his face, as if the guy to whom he owes money had died.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Peterson lives on the EDGE. He's thumbing his nose at everyone because he's sure they won't find her body.

[Mr. K]

I vote that she took off, because she is PO'd about the affair (I dont blame her)
He may think so to and is PO'd and selling off her stuff now...
I may be wrong... but I am hoping she is alive

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

He sure is.

[Paul Atreides]

He traded in his missing wife's Range Rover SUV for a Dodge pickup truck

Mystery solved: Arianna Huffington has been holding Laci hostage until Scott unloaded the SUV.

[farmguy]

Did anyone look in the trunk?

[little-e]

Wasn't he just whinning on tv he just wanted to keep her picture in the news...and he was organizing a search party...now, a week or two later he sells her car.....that's a sure sign she's not coming back....

[budwiesest]

He's thumbing his nose at everyone because he's sure they won't find her body.

He and Saddam have taken the same course: "Hiding things in an area the size of California while thumbing one's nose at investigators".

[GoMonster]

Hi Scott,

didn't know you were a freeper