Was Peterson Getting Ready To Run? [Scott used name "Jacqueline" to buy used car with cash]

NBC4.tv ^ | April 24, 2003 | NBC4.tv

[LurkedLongEnough]

Sources: Suspect Bought Used Car With False ID Just Before Arrest

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Accused double murderer Scott Peterson used an alias to purchase a used car in San Diego shortly before he was arrested, raising the possibility that he may have been trying to cover his tracks before fleeing, KNSD, the NBC affiliate in San Diego, learned.

Three independent sources confirmed that Scott Peterson bought a car under suspicious circumstances less than two weeks ago, NBC's Steve Walker reported. None of the sources would appear on camera, but all of them agreed that the revelation is more evidence that Peterson may have been getting ready to run.

According to the sources, Peterson found the car by thumbing through the pages of the San Diego Auto Trader. The burgundy 1984 Mercedes-Benz was advertised with an asking price of $5,000.

The car's seller confirmed that Peterson eventually bought the car, but a source familiar with the transaction told NBC that it was anything but ordinary. Peterson reportedly went to the owner's apartment in Ocean Beach and negotiated the sale price down to $3,600.

Sources said that Peterson left after reaching a deal and used the Internet to download the necessary paperwork for the sale from the Department of Motor Vehicles. He returned with 36 $100 bills and drove away with the car, they said.

Sources said that one aspect of the transaction drew their attention. Peterson gave a Florida driver's license number and didn't use his real name, instead claiming his first name was Jacqueline. When questioned about it, Peterson said it was a family name.

Jacqueline is the name of Scott Peterson's mother.

About a week after the car purchase, Peterson was arrested at Torrey Pines Golf Course. He was driving the burgundy Mercedes-Benz.

The sources said that Modesto police are investigating the details surrounding purchase of the car, as well as other leads that continue to come in.

One legal observer told NBC that the car transaction adds to the suspicion that Peterson was getting ready to flee. At the time of his arrest, Peterson was reportedly carrying $10,000 in cash and had changed his appearance by growing a goatee and bleaching his hair.

"I was surprised at that, particularly since he was under the advice of counsel," San Diego attorney David Bartick told NBC. "I'm sure counsel advised him not to change his appearance."

The Modesto district attorney in charge of prosecuting the case had no comment about the report of the car transaction, but when Modesto police interviewed the sources familiar with the sale of the car, a detective reportedly said,"[Peterson] lied to you just like he did to everybody else."

[Great Dane]

But his parents can explain all that, it was to avoid being stalked by the media....... sure.

[Okies love Dubya 2]

'I don't think so. I remember that they said the body was wearing a maternity bra. Unless, of course, she wore it to bed.'

When I went through both my pregnancies, I wore a maternity bra to bed the last month or two because a)it was more comfortable and b)leaking was a problem the last several weeks of pregnancy (sorry to be graphic, but it is a reality of pregnancy). So it would not be improbable that Laci would have also done so.

[tiamat]

Regarding procedure during late-stage preganancy involving "support"

I did the exact same thing for the exact same reasons when I was pregnant.....

Tia

[martin_fierro]

I think I read that he DID apply for a passport in his bro's name, and I think I read it here somewhere on FR.

So it MUST be true. <|:)~

[OldFriend]

Heard a relative of Amber Fry say that Scott told her he was a widower.........BEFORE LACI DISAPPEARED.

[Maximum Leader]

Well any attorney who aided or even advised a client to flee faces disbarment and possible criminal charges.

Unless it's a family member, no lawyer is going to go even an inch down that road.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, any attorney who aided or even advised a client to flee faces disbarment and possible criminal charges.

There's that, too.