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The Cover Story

Amber's Story
Amber Frey has had her troubles with men. Now, as the Other Woman in the Laci Peterson case, she may prove Scott's toughest foe.

In the mountains near her Fresno, Calif., home last month, Amber Frey joined some of her church girlfriends for a weekend retreat. The women played bingo, attended Bible study, prayed and spent a lot of time just talking. To the other participants, Frey seemed surprisingly relaxed. Perhaps it was because there, in the cocoon of her church group, she knew nobody would mention the names that have come to haunt her over the past 10 months: Laci and Scott Peterson. "What happened to (Frey) could have happened to anyone," says close friend Angela Caglia, who was at the retreat. "She started to date someone she thought was special, and then this whole tragedy turned her life upside down."

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...Her taste in men has hardly been unerring. Five years ago she met Josh Hart, a male stripper in Fresno. Recently married, Hart and his new wife had a child on the way but weren't living together full-time. Though Frey knew about Hart's complicated domestic arrangement, she decided to date him anyway. Soon they began living together. Hart, 28, now a motorcycle salesman in Southern California, remembers Frey as being very sweet — she threw him a surprise baby shower around the time his son was born — but also as someone who suffered from low self-esteem. "What kind of woman who was secure about herself would let some male stripper move in with her after a couple of weeks?" he asks. The relationship came to an ugly end in 1998, Hart says, after Frey accused him of physically abusing her and stealing money. Hart denies the charges and contends he later pled no contest to misdemeanor battery only to avoid the possibility of a long sentence.