To: maggiefluffs
Thanks Maggie, but that link just leads you to the current discussion. Is there any chance that you could cut and paste the article?
To: Velveeta; Devil_Anse
I found this at WS, though it's only a summary:
Title: New Laci Murder Breakthrough: The 300 Calls that Will Nail Scott!
Subtitle: Amber Tapes will Nail Laci's Husband
Summary:
Amber went to "amazing lengths to help police nab (Scott) for the murder of his pregant wife Laci...secretly setting a trap to lure
him into taking a lie detector test he'd been dodging!"
Enquirer's learned the content of the 300 calls.
Amber sought to "trap (Scott) into taking the poly test to 'prove' to her his innocence".
Amber is called the "most important civilian witness in this case" per Craig Silverman, legal expert from Denver (take that J. Weintraub!!) Says jury will "hate his guts" when they hear how obsessed he was with Amber will pretending to look for Laci.
Says Amber and the tapes provide a motive. Show that Scott lies when it suits his purpose.
Poly sting was set-up in "a flurry of phone calls between Amber, her LE handlers and a leading poly examiner" over a 17 hour period ending 02/01 (didn't he leave for Mexico the next day??) Laci had been missing for 6 weeks at this point.
Scott didn't know Amber was working with LE. Says Amber was constantly "quizzing" Scott during the calls and was "loosely following an FBI script and asking him more and more pointedly whether he had anything to do with Laci's disappearance."
01/31/03 is when detectives decided to "move things along a little faster". At 7:06pm Scott called Amber and they talked for 25 minutes. 6 minutes after that call ended, he called her again. At this point, Amber told Scott "you keep telling me how much you love me and want to be with me. But I have to know that you had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance." She took a deep breath and then went on: "Will you take a lie detector test and put my mind at rest once and for all?"
Says Scott hesitated and the call ended at 7:49pm. Within seconds, Amber called Det. Buehler. She called the Det. a 2nd time and then after that call, she called Scott. During this call, which ended at 11:59pm, she "played her trump card". She told Scott, "If you'll take the poly, I'll come with you and take one to prove that I knew nothing about what has happened". Amber knew she had nothing to fear from the poly, she already passed one on 12/30. After this call to Scott, she called the Det. back. Her and the detective talked again the next a.m. Both were confident enough to call a poly examiner and set up the test.
After her talk with Det. Buehler, she called Melvin King at 9:19 a.m. She called the Det. again and then Scott at 9:36a.m and the Det. again within minutes of hanging up with Scott.
Says the detectives were "elated". Two undercover cops were already in Fresno, ready to bust Scott if he revealed what they hoped.........
Says Scott got "cold feet". Even though Amber approached taking the test casually with him, she knew he had already declined police previous requests. Says at first he went along with Amber's suggestion about taking the test (that's when they called Melvin King), then when she called Scott to say she was on the way to take the test, he told her he was gonna do it but his " lawyers say I can't. The police are trying to frame me."
Melvin King is under the gag order. (meaning he will be/may be called as a witness).
65 of Scott's calls, totaling more than 3.5 hours, were made during the period when "the supposedly grieving husband was denying to LE that he had ever been unfaithful."
Says he shared 2 romantic calls with amber just before he joined the Rochas/Grantskis at the candelight vigial. The calls were at 11:42 a.m and 2:59pm on New Year's Eve. Says on this date he was still pretending to be a widower!!!!!!! and telling Amber he loved her. Says Amber "had to bite her lip to stop herself from screaming "you liar!'".
12/20 was last time Amber saw Scott and he told her he was going to Maine to spend Xmas with his family there. So, assuming he was in Maine, she called him at 8:23 a.m. Xmas day wish him a Merry Xmas. NE says no family in Maine, editorialize that he "invented a family there".
Says on 12/30, Amber finally "found out from a friend" that Scott had a pregnant wife who was missing. That's the day she went to LE.
Amber was under instructions from day 1 to "not let Scott know she knew he had a missing wife--and in both calls he acted lovey-dovey, as if nothing had happened."
Right after vigil, Scott "made it clear that he was planning to flee the country". He asked Amber to think about moving to Europe with him and live with him there!!!!!!!
01/05 Amber got Scott to admit he was the husband of Laci. Says Amber blew up at him for lying and letting her think they had a future. Says her burst of anger "dismayed her police handlers, who worried that Scott's phone calls would end and they would loose their best link to the chief suspect."
Phone logs show Amber and Scott didn't talk for 2 days after. Then, she called him and it lasted 1 hr. and 20 min. She got Scott "back on the hook".
367 posted on
12/16/2003 6:17:21 AM PST by
maggief
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