Posted on 08/19/2004 5:13:15 AM PDT by runningbear
August 19, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Laci Peterson's furious mother called her son-in-law a "f---ing liar" and begged him to tell her where he ditched the body, it was revealed yesterday — as Scott Peterson's murder trial screeched to a halt due to a mysterious "potential development Sharon Rocha became convinced of Peterson's guilt in January 2003, not long after his affair with Amber Frey became public.
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From Purgatory, a recent NE article:
From: RickAMorti1 Aug-19 11:11 pm
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SCOTT'S LOVE LETTER TO AMBER FROM PRISON
BY DON GENTILE
SYNOPSIS
Just days after he was charged with double murder, Scott Peterson sent his mistress Amber Frey a shocking letter from prison, The NE, has learned exclusively.
And incredibly, in the letter, Scott-who's accused of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn child-tells Amber how much he treasures children!
Scott refers to Amber's young daughter and writes: "My prayers are always that you and the little one are happy..you deserve the best in the world."
He tells Amber that he hopes she is still able to "laugh" with her child and then bizarrely adds: "Children are miracles... a gift."
The NE is the only news organization to obtain a copy of the letter. In it, Scott apologizes for the mess he'd gotten Amber in and says, "You don't deserve this burden."
He hopes she isn't "being hounded by the press" and promises to do everything he can to keep her out of the public 'circus," as he calls it, which erupted after the bodies of Laci and son Conner washed up on a SF Bay shoreline.
The love letter, to put it simply, is "just plain weird," Dr. Suzanne Lopez, an LA psychotherapist specializing in relationships, told The NE. "Certainly his own wife and child are not going through his mind. It's his lover that is still in his head," said Lopez, author of "Get Smart with Your Heart."
"A love letter is totally inappropriate. What would be appropriate just after his arrest is a letter that shows how distraught he is that his wife and child were found dead. He gives Amber no sense of any terrible grief he's going through. "The letter shows his arrogance, his feeling that if he still loves Amber, she must still love him."
Scott, who was arrested on April 18, 2003, wrote the letter to Amber from his Modesto, Calif., jail cell just two weeks later a source told NE.
"He stuffed it into an envelope with several other letters he wrote to friends and forwarded it to his half-sister Anne Bird. There was postage due."
Instructions to Anne, which were included in Scott's packet, asked that she forward his Amber letter to her at American Body Works in Fresno, where Amber was working at the time.
"Anne followed Scott's instructions but was mystified that he was writing his girlfriend," said the source. "She realized Scott was still in love with Amber."
Curiously, Scott asked Anne to photocopy Amber's letter and the others contained in his mailing and save them for him.
"Anne found out later that Scott thinks he's going to go free and wants the letters he wrote to use in a book he may write about his experience," said the source.
When contacted by the NE, Anne refused to comment about any letters Scott wrote from jail.
NE has learned that Scott has sent dozens of letters to friends, some supporters who have written to him. Scott penned his letters on a yellow legal pad, usually complaining to the people he sent them to about the tiny stub of a pencil he was allowed to use in jail, and how he had to sharpen it on the cement floor.
In one letter, he tells longtime friend Aaron Fritz and his wife Heidi that he hoped to be exonerated but says, "I fear that could be some time." He adds that he wished he could be spening time with Aaron and his wife.
Scott was unaware that Fritz, who had known him since high school, had been speaking to police about suspicions and unanswered questions he had about his long time pal. Scott was unaware that Det.Al Brocchini wrote in a report, that NE obtained, that he'd told Aaron he thought Scott was dangerous.
"I told Aaron that I would not allow my wife to be alone with Scott because of these unanswered questions," Brocchini wrote.
In a letter from jail to his friend Guy Miligi, Scott thanks him and his wife Jodi for their "help when Laci was missing." By this time, however, Miligi- who'd golfed with Scott during the weeks before his arrest-may have had his own suspicions. Brocchini noted in a report that whenever Miligi asked Scott about Laci's disappearance, Scott seemed to 'beat around the bush" and 'would look down or away."
In letters to supporters who wrote him in jail, Scott seemed to beg for sympathy. "I find it so hard in this place to mourn them," he wrote to a Mark in one letter. And to a woman in Massachusetts, Scott wrote; "Your son is lucky to have you and I can only imagine the joy a child brings to a parent."
OK TO COPY TO OTHER FORUMS!
"Curiously, Scott asked Anne to photocopy Amber's letter and the others contained in his mailing and save them for him.
"Anne found out later that Scott thinks he's going to go free and wants the letters he wrote to use in a book he may write about his experience," said the source."
(Source: National Enquirer and Rickamorti1 at Purgatory.)
So, Scott's looking for a book deal? Methinks Anne Bird has much to tell if subpoenaed. Hoping, of course, that she is made of different stuff than is her biological mother.
Now, I would like to ask Sour Pickle Face Weintraub about this, considering that she has her boxers in a wad regarding whether Amber might get "a book deal."
In a variation on OJ's book, "I Want To Tell You", Scott's book will be entitled, "I Can't Tell You Right Now".
Scott did not give Amber Laci's jewelry. However, there is speculation that scott was making spending money via supplying fertilizer to meth labs. it has been said that when the murder trial is over, there is a federal grand jury investigation going on about his possible involvement in Mexican narcotics gangs. their finances didn't add up.
Something else that hasn't been discussed is that scott had purchased on ebay a Mortiser, which is a woodworking instruemnt for drilling holes, etc. He assembled on christmas eve day while at the warehouse. IMHO he used it to put the holes in the anchors, so he could attach them to lacy.
That one cracked me up. Amber makes Scott sound like a genius!!!
I have thought right from the beginning that Scott was involved in some drug running. Otherwise why would the FBI have become involved in this case?
From Old Article:Scott Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, also renewed his request Wednesday to subpoena FBI surveillance tapes taken outside the Peterson household after Laci Peterson was reported missing.
He said his efforts have been met with resistance from the FBI.
"The FBI is basically telling me to go pound sand," Geragos told the judge.
Frightening, isn't it?
It would not surprise me in the least if Scott had engaged in illegal activities such as selling fertilizer components to meth labs, etc. He clearly has less sense of what is right/wrong, legal/illegal, than does a paramecium.
However, I really think that the FBI's involvement here was sort of abortive, in that at first it was thought that kidnapping was involved... and the surveillance equipment outside Scott's house was surely loaned by the FBI through one of the many programs of cooperation that exist between police agencies. Other than that, I don't think there is any FBI involvement with Scott in this murder case--just my opinion.
That ketchup-spitting deal was hilarious...and it certainly didn't make sense to me that all that spattered blood was caused by such an event. Things that make you go HUH?!?!?
"I Can't Tell You Right Now"
bawaawaaaa......perfect.
Red
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/kpittman_20040818.html
This has it all in a nutshell..
Scott's book will be entitled, "I Can't Tell You Right Now".
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ROTFL or
Snott's book title: "You Don't Deserve This".
or "The Pedagogy of Pretense"
#314..Great read..It has the case as I see it, wrapped up!
Something else that hasn't been discussed is that scott had purchased on ebay a Mortiser, which is a woodworking instruemnt for drilling holes, etc. He assembled on christmas eve day while at the warehouse. IMHO he used it to put the holes in the anchors, so he could attach them to lacy.
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Yes, I can't see where he would be interested in wood working tools with all the running around he was doing. I think he used the rebar in wet cement and let it set. The Maul pictured in LE photos I think he used to bend the rebar. I think the mortiser assembly was just something he used and partially put together for appearances sake.
Dev, In my understanding, if the survelance equipment was loaned to the police department then it would be part of the prosecutions evidence and according to the law all evidence has to be turned over to the defense. (Isn't that correct?)
Neither do I think there was, is, any involvement by the FBI in the murder case of Laci, but I do think they may have had Scott under servelance for drug involvement and therefore they have no obligation to turn over any video tapes. I think the reason it got into the 27,000 pages of documents is because while the police were talking to neighbors they mentioned the equipment on the telephone polls.
To my knowledge the FBI have never denied these camera's or video's existed, so like I said above if they were loaned to the police then I would think they would have to have been turned over. Of course I am just doing a lot of speculation here.
From Another Article:But the question of surveillance tapes, if they exist, could play a role in the case, legal observers said.
Those tapes are "enormously significant," defense attorney Mark Geragos said Thursday during Peterson's preliminary hearing in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Geragos indicated that the tapes could shed light on a burglary across the street from the Peterson home that police said took place Dec. 26......................................................................................................................................................The surveillance camera came to light when Geragos suggested in court that he would seek to have the charges against his client dismissed if the information is not turned over to the defense.
An internal FBI memo contained in about 27,000 pages of documents already provided to the defense referred to a closed-circuit television camera placed "across the street," Geragos said. The memo did not say when the camera was installed or how long it was in operation.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Rick Distaso said prosecutors did not have such surveillance videos, but would provide them to the defense if they are received from the FBI.
Fellow prosecutor Dave Harris said the defense has yet to show how such videos might exonerate Peterson.
Did FBI film Peterson home?
I would have been extremely p.o.'d if that Michael Peterson murderous GIGOLO had been allowed to get off. Remember the commentators? THAT prosecution was a "bunch of inept screw-ups", too. THAT defense attorney was a so-called courtroom genius, according to the commentators. Ha!
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