Peterson: 'It's Been Incredibly Brutal'Missing Woman's Husband Speaks With Local Reporters

KCRA 3 Sacramento ^ | January 29, 2003

[Diver Dave]

Peterson: 'It's Been Incredibly Brutal'
Missing Woman's Husband Speaks With Local Reporters

POSTED: 5:28 p.m. PST January 29, 2003 UPDATED: 6:28 p.m. PST January 29, 2003

MODESTO, Calif. -- Under suspicion by the public and under scrutiny by the police, Scott Peterson spoke out again Wednesday about his missing pregnant wife, Laci, and again said he had nothing to do with her disappearance on Christmas Eve.

It was in a national interview Tuesday with ABC's Dianne Sawyer that Peterson first spoke at length about the case and his affair with a Fresno woman, On Wednesday he spoke again, this time with Bay Area television station NBC11.

"Obviously, yes I had a romantic relationship that was inappropriate and unfair to a lot of people, and I apologized to everyone involved with that. It had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance. I had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance, and we need to start looking for her again," Peterson told NBC11.

He also talked about how he's been dealing with his wife's disappearance.

"It's been incredibly brutal. During the day I know what to do. With the volunteer center, the core group of volunteers we continue to have to work to keep her picture out there through the groups and corporations and organizations. In the evenings I don't know what to do. Those are the dark hours when I lose it and I can't sleep, I go to exhaustion occasionally and get a couple of hours. But it's the dark, silent hours when I don't know what to do that are the hardest part," Peterson said.

Peterson also responded to a question about his previous silence.

"My silence previously was intended to keep the media involved in this case. It's a rationale that we developed after perhaps the third day she was missing. We know from experience of others ... that it's up to the family to keep the media. That's our biggest tool is the media. At this point, unfortunately, it has reached a point where suspicion of me is keeping people from searching for Laci," he said.

The case continues to draw interest from around the state and around the country.

Los Angeles radio station KFI-AM took its show live to the Peterson home Wednesday.

"We've been following this story from L.A. since it began like everyone else. As things begin to heat up, we want to come here, see what we can do," KFI-AM anchor Laura Ingle said.

During a national interview Wednesday, Peterson responded to questions about the $250,000 life insurance police he took out on his wife.

He said he and Laci both took out life insurance policies when they bought their home two years ago.

[homeschool mama]

**he sounded SO MUCH like Bill Clinton with the EXCUSES, the phony tears and the ME, ME, ME attitude. **

BUMP

[homeschool mama]

We take our shoes off in the house...light beige new carpet...but have never asked a guest to do so.

[Lanza]

ping

[uncitizen]

this is a sign of showing who is in control. this man has gone over the edge.

[uncitizen]

yeah, forced eloquence. You've nailed it. All this "certainly". Who says "certainly" in real life?

[Howlin]

What is with this habit of Scott's of saying "we"?

Perhaps he's trying to make us all think that he has supporters who are working with him?

[Howlin]

First of all, it's my opinion that SP has a sort of 'forced eloquence' in his manner of speech.

I have been thinking the exact same thing. He's being so careful, it's like he is using a grammar book to torture the English language; not anything "casual" comes into play.

It comes off as condescending to me.

[Howlin]

If they used luminol, it would be on the reporters socks.

[uncitizen]

Another thing his family says that is total BS is that he lost 20 pounds. If someone would compare pictures of him from December and now, i'd swear he gained 20 lbs. Then he told a reporter yesterday that he needs no tranquilizers or anything to stay this calm. Well Mark Klaas says that is impossible. He never would've made it through without tranquilizers.

I just hope if they can't find Laci's body that they can find the cement weights he used to sink her to the bottom.

[homeschool mama]

yeppers.

[bonfire]

or "glorious"?

[homeschool mama]

**Another thing his family says that is total BS is that he lost 20 pounds. If someone would compare pictures of him from December and now, i'd swear he gained 20 lbs. Then he told a reporter yesterday that he needs no tranquilizers or anything to stay this calm. Well Mark Klaas says that is impossible. He never would've made it through without tranquilizers. **

20 pounds? No way.

No tranquilizers, huh? Wow...a supposedly grieving husband can do *just fine*. Wow.

[uncitizen]

It's the aristocratic "we".

[uncitizen]

LOL. And wasn't it heart warming when he talked about Connor's "itty bitty little clothes"..

[Marysecretary]

Hubby wants me to take my shoes off, put on my slippers, before walking on the kitchen floor and getting it all wet. But nobody else has to do it! Ticks me off sometimes but since he does the housework, I'm a no gonna complain. M

[uncitizen]

A local interviewer asked him yesterday how Laci took the news that he was having an affair, and Scott said "i already answered that question in another interview". He obviously doesn't want to get caught making any inconsistent statements.

[Claire Voyant]

The same kind of guy who thinks it's fine if a woman wants to kill their baby if it's inconvenient. Laci WAS inconvenient...OR he suffers from Munchhausen disease....my bet is on the inconvenience thingy.

[Doc Savage]

Didn't you know?? According to Freeper Thomas Jefferson, the Ramsey have been proven absolutely positively innocent in Jon Benet's death. Wow, did I feel stupid for ever having suspected these two miscreants!!! LOLROTF in my own Snot!!

[homeschool mama]

Before I married I had a habit (obsession more like it) of vacuming right when I'd come home from work. I'd tip-toe near the walls so I wouldn't upset the vacume patterns on the plush carpet. Sick! LOL...My husband and I have a patterned berber carpet. No vacume lines...no obsession...no problem. :o)

[homeschool mama]

I must have missed that part...what did he say about Connor's clothing? Is there a link to watch the interview in its entirety?