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Thanks RG for that post and runningbear for the ping.

Article,titled,"Transcript of the phone call between Scott Peterson and his Girlfriend".
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031118/APN/311181124

Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing concluded Tuesday with testimony from Detective Jon Buehler about a Jan. 6 phone call secretly recorded by Peterson's girlfriend, Amber Frey. During the call, Peterson attempts to explain his whereabouts for the past two weeks and discuss that his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, is missing. On Dec. 9 - two weeks before she disappeared - he told Frey that he was widower and he was planing to spend the holidays without her for the first time. The call was made as the story of Laci Peterson's disappearance became a national news story and her photo was splashed across newspapers and television sets as police, family members and volunteers searched for her.

The following are excerpts from a transcript of the 23 minute call:

Scott Peterson: I am so sorry I hurt you in this way. ... It's the worst thing. I'm sorry, Amber. I'll just tell you.

Amber Frey: OK.

Peterson: Uh, you haven't been watching the news, obviously?

Frey: No.

Peterson: I have lied to you. ... I haven't been traveling.

(He tells her he's been in Modesto looking for his wife, Laci).

Frey: You told me that you had lost your wife. What was that about?

Peterson: She ... she's alive.

Frey: Where? She's alive? Where?

Peterson: In Modesto. ... The media has been telling everyone that I had something to do with her disappearance. So the past two weeks I've been hunted by the media. ...

You deserve so much better.

Frey: I deserve to understand an explanation of why you told me you lost your wife and this was the first holidays you'd spend without her. That was Dec. 9 you told me this and now all of a sudden your wife's missing. Are you kidding me?

(Peterson stammers and says he can't explain it now. He repeatedly says he needs to protect "all of us.")

Frey: So where is she?

Peterson: That's what we are trying to find out. ... I'm so sorry. You should be so angry at me and, God, I hope you are.

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Frey: You sat here (Dec. 9) in front of me and cried and broke down. I sat here and held your hand, Scott, and comforted you and you were lying to me.

Peterson: Yeah.

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Peterson: If you think I had something to do with her disappearance ... er, it, that is so wrong.

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Frey: And you still have the audacity to call me "sweetie" right now?

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Peterson: I know you can't trust me.

Frey: Didn't you say: "Amber, I will do anything for you. To trust me, uh baby, we have ... I feel we have a future together." What was that about?

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Peterson: I never cheated on you.

Frey: Ha, ha, ha.

Peterson: I never did.

Frey: You're married. How do you figure you never cheated on me? Explain that one to me?

(Peterson says he can't explain it to her at this time, a refrain throughout the conversation).

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Frey: How did you lose her then before she was lost? Explain that.

Peterson: There's different kinds of loss.

Frey: Then explain your loss.

Peterson: I can't.

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Frey: How would you explain your baby to me?

Peterson: Sweetie, you don't know everything.

(He will not tell her if he's the father of the child Laci was carrying).

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Peterson: I want to tell you everything but I can't.

Frey: Why should I not go to the police with this?

Peterson: It's your decision.

Frey: Really?

Peterson: Of course.

Frey: What stopped you from telling me this?

Peterson: It was probably just weakness and hoping that I could hold onto you.

Frey: Just a weakness and ... holding onto me?

Peterson: Longing to hold on to you.

Source: Transcript admitted into evidence in the case of People v. Scott Lee Peterson in Stanislaus County Superior Court.