Jury in Peterson trial hears final Frey tapes
Jury hears final Frey
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson showered gifts on Amber Frey for her birthday and offered to pay her rent and send her on a luxury vacation as scores of volunteers and police officers continued their search for his missing pregnant wife, according to the final group of secretly taped phone calls played Tues- day in Peterson's double-murder trial.
Prosecutors ended their direct examination of the Fresno woman after six full days of testimony, including the hours of recorded calls. Prosecutors played only a small portion of the more than 200 recorded phone calls she taped starting Dec. 30, 2002.
Peterson left a bag of gifts including a necklace in a silver jewelry box, a Norah Jones CD and a carton of Hummingbird Butterfly wildflower seeds in the parking lot of a children's hospital in Fresno on Frey's birthday, Feb. 10, 2003.
Then he called Frey and told her where to find the gifts.
"And also I don't know how financially it is for you, and do you need help with, you know, paying for the office or rent or anything like that?" Peterson asked. Frey refused his offer and said she could never ask anyone to help her financially.
Peterson's defense begins its cross-examination of the Fresno massage therapist today. If convicted of murdering Laci Peterson and his unborn child, Peterson could receive the death penalty........
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Tapes Show Peterson Suspicious of Calls
SNIP IT:
"In a call Feb. 7, 2003, played in court Tuesday, Peterson tells Frey he is spending the night in Sacramento and will call her the next day from a pay phone.
Frey asks Peterson why he is going to Sacramento.
"I can tell you but not on these phones," Peterson replies, in an apparent reference to his calls being listened to. It was unclear whether Peterson knew Frey was taping him.
In a later call, Peterson expresses frustration that Laci's family "is ".........
In taped call, Scott Peterson tearfully begged mistress for secret meeting
By Harriet Ryan
Court TV
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Ostracized by his missing wife's family and dogged by suspicious police, Scott Peterson tearfully begged his mistress for a secret rendezvous at a lakeside resort.
"We just need to see each other, Amber, at least for a couple hours," Peterson told his erstwhile paramour, Amber Frey, in a Feb. 7, 2003, phone call played Tuesday at his capital murder trial.
At times sobbing, Peterson told the massage therapist there were things he could not tell her over the phone, and he urged her to meet him at a family friend's cabin in Lake Arrowhead, a five-hour drive from her Fresno home and more than 400 miles from Modesto, the epicenter of the search for Laci Peterson.
"I just think it would help tremendously in the stuff we're going through," Peterson told her. "I've never felt such a strong desire as I do.".......
Scott offered to pay for Amber to get away on "vacation".
That reminds me. Amber reportedly went to Florida during Feb. 2003.
I hope he wasn't trying to pay her off... UGGGH...