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2/3 National Enquirer - courtesy of Rickamorti at Purgatory

SECRET WITNESS; SCOTT TOLD ME HE WANTED TO KILL LACI!

'MY INFORMATION IS THE SMOKING GUN'

BY DON GENTILE

NEW PICTURE; DUMPY LOOKING, 45 YEAR OLD, PEGGY GAGNON, IN FIJI T-SHIRT
WITH GREASY HAIR

SYNOPSIS

2 Months before Laci vanished, her husband hit on a housewife in a Death Valley bar- and she says he told her he wanted to kill his wife.

They even discussed weighing down a dead body with anchors and dropping it in the ocean, housewife Peggy Gagnon told the NE.

Weeks before the body washed ashore, Penny went to police and told them about the shocking conversation she had with Scott.

"I think my information is the smoking gun," said Penny. The NE confirmed that Penny has been interviewed several times by Detective Al Brocchini, one of the investigators on the case.

Penny told the NE that her 'scary encounter" with Scott occurred in October 2002.

"I was a member of a Jeep club," she said. "We'd been on one of those camping trips to Panamint in Death Valley and I was coming home. I lived in Long Beach at the time."

Penny stopped at a small bar and restaurant in Death Valley around noon, she ordered food and a drink. Scott was already at the bar. He came and stood next to her and she noticed he was handsome. He told me his name. He said it was Scott Peterson. "I told him it was a neat sounding name." "My grandma likes the name Scott. She always wanted me to name my kids Scott. So whenever meet a Scott I always remember his name."

Penny introduced herself and wasn't ready for what Scott said next. Scott came right out and asked Penny, "You want to have an affair?" She told him
she was a good Christian woman and that wasn't her thing.

Then she said, Scott told her in a calm, matter of fact voice: "I'm married. "She's six months pregnant and I want to kill her." Said Penny: "It sounded so off the wall to me, it didn't really sink in right away what he was saying."

"I said, "Why do you want to kill her? There's always divorce." Penny says Scott's answer surely interested investigators. "Scott said, "She's going to have this kid and if I divorce her, I'll have to pay for it for the rest of my life," Penny disclosed.

"Then he asked me, "IF you were going to kill somebody, how would you do it?" It seemed like just a stupid conversation. I mean, you don't talk about stuff like that if your really serious."

" So I told Scott, I've wanted to kill my ex-husband a few times, not that I was serious." I told him if I would kill him, I'd get a boat and drop him into the ocean with weights or anchors around his knees or something." "That's how."

Penny said the man left the bar after the talk of murder.

She sat there a few minutes, then thought it might be good to get his license plate number.

"But when I went outside he was gone".

Peggy soon forgot the strange encounter. But as the news of Laci's disappearance burst onto the nightly news, she spotted a familiar face on TV. "It was this guy Scott!"

Her husband Donald remembers it was a few days after Christmas, as he and his wife watched the news, when a report about Laci came on.

He told Detective Brocchini that when his wife saw Scott, she immediately recounted the story of the man she met in the bar. But three months passed before Penny got up the courage to call the police.

"I was scared. I thought Laci would turn up or Scott would confess," she said. "And for some reason I thought I could be charged as an accessory for suggesting a way to kill someone."

"On March 6, 2003, five weeks before the bodies of Laci and her unborn son washed up in the Bay, Penny finally called police in Modesto.

Brocchini called her back that day for the first of her several interviews, assuring her that her fears about an accessory charge were unfounded.

Penny added: "I told police I'd take a lie detector test- and testify at Scott's trial!"

Thanks for the article. I'm always glad when you post the latest Rickamorti scoop! They are always interesting.

This one seems, um, a little farfetched.

But... if she really spoke to Brocchini in MARCH, the question is, did she THEN mention the bit about sinking someone in the bay with weights? IF she did, then her story may be a lot more worthwhile than it sounds right now.

P.S. I can just imagine chatting with one's husband over dinner one evening: "Well, dear, how was your day? I stopped in a bar at lunch and a man came up and asked me if I wanted to have an affair. How was YOUR day?"

SECRET WITNESS; SCOTT TOLD ME HE WANTED TO KILL LACI!

If this Peggy Gagnon is for real, it certainly would be a smoking gun.

I can only say, Scott had to either be high on something, drunk out of his gourd, or an absolute idiot to discuss killing your wife with someone.

Well, now that Scaught is gonna be movin' on down the road to San Mateo, makes me wonder if the "500 lynch-mob folks" will be there to watch the cop car leave the jail like they did when Scaught arrived.

Better yet, maybe they'll form a caravan to the Bay Area. The media will likely try to follow with their camera crews.

Since Scaughty's social life has been altered, thanks to law enforcement, maybe the authorities will offer a gesture of kindness to him - like taking the loooong way to Redwood City. Rather than crossing over the Bay on the San Mateo Bridge, they could circle up past Berkeley, check out a few fishing spots, then back to Oakland and cross via the Bay Bridge.

A nice drive through the Embarcadero, Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, and then the short jaunt down 101 to his new digs. Yeah, I think that'll work out just fine. :)