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http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/10/lkl.00.html

CNN, LKL
11/10/03

...KING: We never like to prejudge cases. Do you have some thoughts on the Laci Peterson matter?

WALSH: You know, Larry, this is John Walsh speaking, not "The John Walsh Show," not "America's Most Wanted," not Larry King, OK? When I talked to Scott Peterson for 45 minutes on the phone -- you know about this -- and I went up to do him, I said, I will help you. I will help you find -- I find the unfindable. I get back people that people have given up on.

I said, Let me ask you two questions. When Adam was kidnapped, my beautiful wife, Reve, and I were brought into the police station, separated and grilled for 17 hours. We did it because we wanted to get Adam back. We took the lie-detector test, and I would have stood in Times Square naked, whatever, took a bullet to trade for my Adam. Your beautiful wife is going to have your son, eight-and-a-half months pregnant. You didn't cooperate with police. You didn't go in and take the lie-detector test. You haven't been at the Laci Peterson search center except one day in all these weeks. I never left the police station for two weeks.

KING: What'd he say?

WALSH: He said to me, I can't handle the stress. I said, You're out playing golf? That's the way you're finding -- going to find your -- you know, your beautiful wife? So I went up there. You know that. He wouldn't talk to me. The cops said, You know what? It's really strange, John. You're the one guy that could help him. And he wouldn't sit down with me. He sat down with one of my producers. I waited in front of his house for six hours.

Now, this is just my personal opinion. A guy that's eight miles from the Mexican border and knows that we don't have an extradition treaty with Mexico, buys a car on an alias, his mother's name, has $3,000 cash in his pocket, dyes his hair blond, and he's got a fake ID. I -- and you know, this is not a forthcoming guy, in my opinion.

KING: Why didn't he drive into Mexico?

WALSH: He didn't make it.

KING: Oh.

WALSH: Thank God for the U.S. marshals. The Modesto police called the marshals up and said, He's on the lam. He got nailed. That's why he didn't make it to Mexico.

KING: He may be stupid, he may be a cad, but none of this means that he killed her, right?

WALSH: No. Absolutely not. He's "alleged," and all this type of stuff. But you know, when you're saying, I'm going fishing, but your sister-in-law is there that night and you tell her you're going to play golf and she's a witness to that, and then when the cops ask you, What kind of fish you going after -- I mean, if you're a fisherman, you know what you -- there's so many things that don't add up to this case. And my opinion is, he's dirty. He's more than dirty. You'd do anything to get your wife back, wouldn't you?

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