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National Enquirer June 24, 2003

Amber visits Rocha Family

Scott Killed for Laci by David Wright

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synopsis (mostly rehash)

Amber is the motive for killing Laci, LE believes. Scott did want his wife and child because he wished to be with Amber, he was sick and tired of being with Laci, fed up with her weight gain and was tired of her complaining. "He wanted to trade-up."

Scott thought he was going to get away with the murder of Laci, but Amber worked with the police for almost three months to nail him. Often fearing for her saftey. She lost weight, was up all night and was haunted by nightmares of Laci. She also hyperventilated the night Scott told her he knew who did this to Laci.

Amber got up the nerve to overrule the FBI profilers who had written a script for her to follow when talking to Scott on the phone. "She often took the script to her LE handlers and said, "If I say that to him, he'll know I am working with you."

Amber had counseling help from her church pastor and found the strength to continue talking to Scott on her tapped phone. "One life was reality as she worked and kept house, taking care of her daughter, the other was pretend." She tried to keep Scott interested in her romantically.

Amber began working with the cops on Dec.30th, six days after Laci disappeared, it was not until January 5, that Scott even admitted to her that he was the husband of the woman missing.

Scott told her in the beginning that he was calling from Paris. He would say how the weather was over there and even recount something that was in the news over there. Amber wanted to scream at him that she knew where he really was.

On January 5, Amber kept telling Scott her friends were trying to reach her with some very important news. She kept saying to Scott that her friends had been unable to reach her with the news. Scott changed the subject and Amber would work to get him back to the news story. Finally Scott says "I think I know what it is and admitted for the first time he was Laci's husband."

"At that point Amber abandoned the script and yelled at Scott, "I can't believe you lied to me like this, I thought you were in Paris." He kept saying I'm sorry.

For a month Amber was able to carry on her double agent role, then on Jan24th a reporter confronted her with the news that he knew she was Scott's lover. In a panic she called her LE handlers and told them the news was out. Within an hour police sent a car to pick her up.

They brought her to Modesto. She had just finished a hard days work, and had no time to do her hair or fix herself up. Police handed her a script and Amber found herself facing the cameras.

Ironically, Amber's TV appearerance brought her close to Laci's family. A meeting was arranged at the family home. Laci's family let her know that they did not blame her for Laci's death. They accepted her for the victim she is.

Amber's friends disclosed that Rochas were curious to meet her and wanted to know what she was like. "In fact when she was first introduced to them, a family member said" Oh, you are better looking in person that on TV." The family members were trying to let her know that they watched her news conference and at first couldn't understand why Scott would cheat on Laci for her.

When they meet her it was like "Well, you ARE good-looking. It was an amazing and unlikely meeting and strangely there was no tension between Amber and the family.

Amber stayed the weekeend in Modesto and went out with some of Laci's freinds."They spent time telling her what Laci was like."

Back in Fresno, on a day in February, Amber got a frantic phone call from police. They told her Scott whereabout's using a tracking device. He was near her home. She was talking to Scott on the cell phone, drving down Highway 41. Police warned her Scott was getting close to her house. They missed each other by minutes on the expressway.

Ambers role came to an end two weeks before the bodies were found. Scott stopped calling. Police believe Scott realized he was being followed.

Amber is now ready to tell her story in court but realizes it will be another nightmare for her.

Credit to Rickamorti at Purgatory