ADRIAN MENDOZA/THE BEE
Posted on 01/30/2003 5:55:11 AM PST by runningbear
Peterson tackles rumors, reports
ADRIAN MENDOZA/THE BEE
At center, Los Angeles radio station KFI radio personality Ken Chiampou broadcasts live as he and other members of the media go to Scott Peterson's side gate after he arrives home Wednesday afternoon. Peterson later ordered the media off his property.
Scott Peterson talks with Modesto police officers Billy Hamilton, left, and G.E. Paglione as they arrive at his house to answer a complaint.
Peterson tackles rumors, reports
By TY PHILLIPS
BEE STAFF WRITER
Scott Peterson conducted several televised interviews at his home on Wednesday, address-ing numerous allegations and rumors surrounding the investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Laci.
By 5 p.m., more than a dozen TV trucks had set up camp near the Petersons' house on Covena Avenue in Modesto's La Loma neighborhood.
Wednesday night, Peterson called police when other reporters -- hopeful for an interview -- followed him to his back gate and remained on his property after he told them to leave. Officers arrived, stayed 10 minutes and left, making no arrests.
Peterson declined to be interviewed by The Bee, saying that he was upset with two articles the newspaper had published.
One of the articles described Peterson at a New Year's Eve vigil for his wife, saying he was laughing and smiling a good deal of the time. He did not say what the other story was.
"With the feelings I have about the newspaper right now, I am not interested in talking," Peterson said by phone. "The articles need to have more with Laci in them and not be focused on me."
Laci Peterson's family reported her missing Christmas Eve. The 27-year-old is more than eight months pregnant with her first child.
Scott Peterson, 30, said he last saw his wife at 9:30 a.m. the day before Christmas when he left for a fishing trip and she prepared to go for a walk with their dog.
Police say they have not named Scott Peterson as a suspect, nor have they ruled him out of the investigation.
Wednesday began with the second part of Peterson's videotaped interview on ABC Television's "Good Morning America," with co-host
Diane Sawyer talking not only with Peterson but with his family.
In the interview, Peterson said:
Both he and Laci have $250,000 life insurance policies, taken out two years ago. He called untrue a report that he took out such a policy on his wife only last summer.
His wife may not have opened the drapes Christmas Eve morning because it was probably 40 degrees outside, and keeping the drapes closed helps keep the house warm. Family members and neighbors have said that Laci Peterson opened the drapes every day.
He routinely cuts his hands in his work on farms. Peterson, a fertilizer salesman, made the comment and showed his hands in response to reports that police had found blood in one of his and Laci's vehicles.
He loaded large umbrellas to take to his warehouse on Christmas Eve. A neighbor reportedly saw Peterson putting something into a vehicle that day.
During the interview, Peterson described his marriage as "glorious" even though he admitted to cheating on his pregnant wife. "We took care of each other very well," he said. "She was amazing. She is amazing."
Asked about the baby boy due within weeks, he responded: "That was, it's so hard."
At his home, Peterson sat down with several news outlets. He went through the interviews alone, without an attorney.
Speaking with Gloria Gomez of Sacramento TV station KOVR, Peterson explained why he said he told his wife about his affair with Amber Frey: "It was the right thing to do. And, as you know, when you're not doing the right thing, it eats you up. You know you feel sick to your stomach and you can't function. And you have a hard time, you know, looking at someone."
Throughout Wednesday, people drove and walked by the Peterson house, apparently to get a closer look.
"It's innocent until proven guilty in a court of law," said Elvira Varse, who lives a few streets away. "But he's guilty until he's proven innocent in this neighborhood."
Among the media throng was a pair of shock jocks from a Los Angeles radio station. When Peterson came home, one of them yelled into a megaphone: "Nobody believes your story."
Lyanne Melendez, a reporter with San Francisco radio station KGO, walked up to the shock jocks' radio van and told the DJs: "That's just bad journalism."
One of them responded: "We're not journalists. We're entertainers."
Bee staff photographer Adrian Mendoza contributed to this report.
Bee staff writer Ty Phillips can be reached at 578-2331 or tphillips@modbee.com.
Posted: January 30, 2003 @ 05:30:15 AM PST
You'd better hope he didn't.
Thanks for the explanation.
From a chicken ?
I don't know how we can believe a word of what Scott says. He has no witnesses to any of his fabrications, except the person who saw him leave the house with the possible "evidence". No one saw him at the Marina, no one saw Laci walking the dog, no one saw him at a store, NO one saw either Laci or Scott where he says they both were going.
AND, from the time he left the house, till the time he came home, he had no actual communication with her. He messed up. He should have added he tried to call her to let her know he was leaving the office to go on his impulsive fishing trip. But he couldn't say this, because by doing so, he would have had to suspect something might be wrong, and try to track her down.
He just said he tried to call her AFTER the fishing trip.
But he was probably busy disposing of the body, when he says he was at the office, so naturally, he couldn't even "pretend" to have called her.
Better late than never, huh Scott? NOT!
LOL, when they were yelling through the fence at him, telling him that no one believed any of his lies, he was probably looking around for that old murder weapon... Whoops, that's right, had to get rid of it...
My money's on John Kobylt anyway; he's pretty feisty! Those bodyguards have to work double to get between him and the public figures that seem to all want to attack him!
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If she was dead by say midnight of the 23rd it seems only logical that he would use the cover of darkness to assist him in disposing of the body. The difficulty of waiting until the morning and transporting her body to his "work space" and then to the Marina is that any friend or relative of Lac's might have called early on the 24th looking for her. As long as he could establish an alibi that he had already left he probably felt he was in the clear.
However, if she died somewhat later that night say 4 or 5am of the 24th, he had to work quickly to prepare her body and come up with his plan and alibi. Darkness would not have helped him since it would have been light before he could have gotten everything in place.
The initial report on the bloodhound was that they followed her scent to to the driveway and lost it which led them to believe that she had departed by car.
If she didn't die until early that morning then I think it is possible he was forced into a plan which entailed wrapping her body in a tarp (blue?), weighting it down with the umbrella standards because of their weight, and driving her corpose all the way to the Marina.
Experts here have already said how difficult it would have been to boost her body up over the side of such a small boat in the chop of the Bay without tipping over, but perhaps he was able to accomplish it. Maybe the tarp got away from him and resurfaced later on shore.
So I think it depends a lot on when she actually died. Is possible she was killed in her sleep and never knew what hit her?
I just thought that the evening of the 23rd was the most probable for an intercepted phone call, motel receipt, discovery of a gift for Amber etc., since they would both be up and about and people could contact them. But she may have died in her sleep in a plan he plotted hours later after a violent confrontation in which she stated her plans to divorce him.
Remember what I said about Hwy 5 and the closeness of the river to the road there. Pulling over to take a wi## would be exactly what anyone who MIGHT have seen him thought he was doing.
In reality he could have carried her body about 10-15 feet, dropped it over a low fence checked for oncoming cars and then hopped the fence and drug the body under some nearby bushes. This is not you average 3-4 lane Hwy. It is two lanes only.
Yeah, I caught that too. It just doesn't get that cold here, esp. during the day. Daytime was about 55, night was lower 40's. Her info is just worng on that point.
Don't know anything about bait.
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