Laci--Couple of Amber Stories
Maggie
Post (reader beware). One warning about the Post story--in the second
paragraph the story refers to Amber "meeting" Detective Richard Byrd on
12/24/02. The writer does not mean that this was the first time the two had
met:
From lover to crucial witness for prosecution
By Julia Prodis Sulek
FRESNO - The seduction of Amber Frey began at the Elephant Bar, where jungle
coladas are served under zebra-striped ceilings. It ended the next morning in a
room at the downtown Radisson Hotel.
He gave her a keepsake of their night together -- a champagne cork. On it,
Scott Peterson had carved their initials.
He had spent the evening telling the Fresno massage therapist and single mother
with a history of bad relationships everything she wanted to hear: He was an
international businessman. He owned homes in San Diego and San Francisco. He
was single and looking for a soul mate.
``He went through all the right steps and moves. He poured it on, poured it
on,'' Amber Frey's father, Ron Frey, said. ``He didn't seduce her. He conquered
her.''
Now Peterson -- 20 months after that first date -- is on trial for murdering
the pregnant wife he swore he didn't have. And Amber Frey is in line to take
the stand to support the prosecution theory that Peterson was either so in love
with her, or so intent upon an unfettered philandering lifestyle, that he
killed his wife, Laci Peterson. Over the course of her testimony, prosecutors
are counting on Frey's intimate account to portray Peterson as a callous,
manipulative liar.
Defending daughter
Ron Frey fears that Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will try to undermine his
daughter's credibility by saying she's a woman of loose morals and even suggest
she played a role in the crime. So over the past few weeks, he has stood before
TV cameras at the Redwood City courthouse and written letters to newspaper
editors defending her. Amber Frey is under a court-imposed gag order until the
end of the trial. She may testify within the next two weeks.
Last week in Fresno, Ron Frey took the Mercury News on a tour of where she told
her father they went on their first date, from cocktails to dinner and dancing.
Ron Frey believes that the details of that date -- culled from published
reports, witness testimony and interviews -- go a long way in explaining how
his vulnerable daughter fell under Peterson's spell.
``You see if you're not impressed,'' Frey said.
From all appearances, Peterson was quite a catch.
``Who wouldn't look at him? He's still a darn handsome guy, has a way with
words and romance,'' Frey said. ``I told my daughter, `You would be a fool not
to go with that guy. How often does Mr. Right walk along?' ''
Peterson even came pre-approved.
Amber Frey's best friend, Shawn Sibley, had met Peterson at a pesticide
convention in Anaheim in October 2002. He told her he had launched his own
company, was tired of one-night-stands with ``bimbos with no brains,'' and was
looking for an intelligent woman to share his life. Did Sibley, who was
engaged, have any friends? She suggested Frey, but warned that she was fragile:
The father of her toddler daughter was no longer in the picture and she had had
a disastrous affair with a married man.
She was ready for the real thing.
On the town
On their first date -- Nov. 20, 2002 -- Peterson and Frey made a handsome
couple, she thin and blond, he tall and dark.
After cocktails at the Elephant Bar -- at the new Villagio Mall in North Fresno
-- they drove on to Edo-Ya Japanese restaurant. They requested one of the
private tatami rooms, where the kimonoed waitress knocks on the shoji screen
before entering. Patrons take off their shoes and sit at sunken tables where
the waitress offers warm wet hand towels.
They moved on to BB's nightclub next door, Ron Frey said, where the erotic
``freaking'' dance is still the rage. They stayed well past midnight, then
retired to Peterson's room at the Radisson, where all the bedspreads are golden
yellow. (Sibley, who was babysitting Frey's daughter, testified recently that
the next morning she called Frey, who was at the hotel.)
``She fell in love with him,'' Ron Frey said, ``and what he did over the next
few weeks was cruel.''
Ron Frey never met Scott Peterson, but his daughter showed him pictures,
gushing that the handsome 30-year-old with the charming smile was her new
boyfriend and was everything she wanted.
Picnic, party
Peterson told her they had a future together, that although he didn't want
children of his own, he could be a father to her 1 1/2-year-old daughter. They
went on a picnic and hiked in the foothills outside town. He escorted her to a
Christmas party, where he wore a rented tux and she donned a red strapless
gown. Pictures of the nuzzling couple were taken. She was smitten and sent the
photos to friends in her Christmas cards. It all happened over the course of a
month.
Peterson didn't tell her he had a dark-haired wife at home in Modesto, a
substitute teacher who was eight months pregnant and had just decorated the
nursery with a sailboat mobile over the crib and a life preserver on the wall
that read ``Welcome Aboard.''
He only told her -- after the truth about his marriage was nearly exposed --
that he had ``lost'' his wife and would be spending his first Christmas without
her. He sat on Frey's sofa, held her hand and cried when he told her. He was
flying to Kennebunkport, Maine, for the holidays with his parents, then on to
Europe on business.
In fact, Laci Peterson would not be ``lost'' for several weeks, when Peterson
called his mother-in-law on Christmas Eve 2002 and told her his wife was
``missing.''
Peterson spent Christmas Eve on the front lawn of his house while friends and
relatives searched for his wife. At midnight, he was interrogated by police.
But by 8 a.m. Christmas morning, he called Amber Frey. Ron Frey recalls being
at his daughter's house when she got the call.
He said he was in Kennebunkport.
In the days following, when Laci Peterson's disappearance was all over the TV
news, Amber Frey learned the truth that he was married, and to the missing
Modesto woman.
Taped conversations
She called Modesto police. On Dec. 30, she began recording phone calls with
him. During one of those calls, on Jan. 6, he told her about his wife, but
denied having anything to do with her disappearance.
``What stopped you from telling me this?'' she asked.
``It was probably just weakness and hoping that I could hold on to you,'' he
said.
Over the next six weeks, until mid-February, they spoke as many as 16 times a
day with the tape recorder running. It remains to be seen whether those
conversations will reveal Peterson as anything more than a lying cheat. But the
contents of those phone calls are among the most anticipated pieces of evidence
in the double-murder trial.
Frey has moved on with her life since Peterson was jailed in April 2003 after
the bodies of Laci Peterson and their unborn son washed up along the edge of
San Francisco Bay.
She lives with her boyfriend, a Fresno chiropractor, and delivered his baby
three months ago. And she waits for something she must dread: Coming face to
face with the man she once thought was the real thing.
``They say it's going to be hell for Amber on that witness stand,'' Frey said.
``Imagine the man you're in love with one week, you're helping police set up
the next week. Now that's hell.''
Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at jsu...@mercurynews.com or (408) 278-3409.
AMBER ASKED COP TO PROBE PETERSON
By HOWARD BREUER
August 1, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's mistress, Amber
Frey, began confiding in a Fresno detective because she was growing suspicious
of her two-timing lover — even before his wife went missing, The Post has
learned.
Frey, expected to take the stand in the next two weeks to give critical
evidence against Peterson, met Detective Richard Byrd on Christmas Eve 2002 —
the evening Laci was reported missing, sources said.
The prosecution also is expected to call Byrd as a witness to recall for the
jury how Frey phoned him days earlier, soliciting his help in learning more
about her mysterious beau.
Peterson lawyer Mark Geragos asked about Frey's relationship with Byrd during
the testimony of Frey's friend, Shawn Sibley, who claimed not to know anything.
In the weeks before Laci's disappearance, Amber knew only what Peterson told
her: that he was a wealthy widower with homes in San Francisco and San Diego
and an expensive car that always happened to be left at the airport in San
Francisco.
In reality, Peterson was a fertilizer salesman from Modesto with a pickup
truck and an adoring wife who was eight months pregnant.
Peterson gave Frey reasons to be suspicious. In December, after Sibley learned
Peterson had a wife, Peterson showed up at Frey's home in tears and said he'd
recently lost his wife and was about to spend his first Christmas without her.
Frey's suspicions were further aroused when Peterson gave an elaborate
explanation of why he couldn't spend Christmas with her.
Frey, who had had a string of bad relationships, turned to Byrd, a friend with
whom she occasionally had lunch, according to sources.
Sources close to Frey told The Post she placed an almost hourlong call to
Byrd's home the night of Dec. 21, 2002 — three days before Laci was reported
missing.
Maggie
"Nancy, if you were 8 1/2 months pregnant and I was married to you, I'd be
going fishing Christmas Eve." -- Mark Geragos, to Nancy Grace on LKL
Kris Baker
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in
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>
> AMBER ASKED COP TO PROBE PETERSON
> By HOWARD BREUER
>
>
> Sources close to Frey told The Post she placed an almost
> three days before Laci was reported missing.
>
> Maggie
Good ones, Maggie. Thanks.
I'm still having problems believing that Amber never called
the Peterson home. By the evening of the 23rd, she should
have had the goods on Scott.
Kris
Volfie
> I'm still having problems believing that Amber never called
> the Peterson home. By the evening of the 23rd, she should
> have had the goods on Scott.
>
> Kris
Maybe she didn't want to hurt the wife? I mean not every "other woman" is
~EVIL~ and wanting to hurt the innocents.
Giselle (maybe she really is a decent person)
Kris Baker
"Volfie" <vol...@ccrtc.com> wrote in message
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I don't think she wanted to hurt Laci, but she may have
found something out, and tried to contact Scott about it.
Since she'd just broke up with another married man, she'd
be royally pissed about this one.
Kris
tinydancer
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in message
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the NY
> Post (reader beware). One warning about the Post story--in the second
> paragraph the story refers to Amber "meeting" Detective Richard Byrd on
> 12/24/02. The writer does not mean that this was the first time the two
had
> met:
>
> From lover to crucial witness for prosecution
> By Julia Prodis Sulek
>
> FRESNO - The seduction of Amber Frey began at the Elephant Bar, where
jungle
> coladas are served under zebra-striped ceilings. It ended the next morning
in a
> room at the downtown Radisson Hotel.
>
> He gave her a keepsake of their night together -- a champagne cork. On it,
> Scott Peterson had carved their initials.
Crier was right about the champagne cork/s, I'm betting there are a few more
of 'em floating around out there.
td
Michael Snyder
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in message
news:20040801203827...@mb-m25.aol.com...
Ummm... he seduced her. On the first date, it sounds like.
BTW, where was Laci while he was spending the night at a hotel?
Frosty
>
>The first story is from the San Jose Mercury News and the second is from the NY
>Post (reader beware). One warning about the Post story--in the second
>paragraph the story refers to Amber "meeting" Detective Richard Byrd on
>12/24/02. The writer does not mean that this was the first time the two had
>met:
>
>From lover to crucial witness for prosecution
>By Julia Prodis Sulek
>
>FRESNO - The seduction of Amber Frey began at the Elephant Bar, where jungle
>coladas are served under zebra-striped ceilings. It ended the next morning in a
>room at the downtown Radisson Hotel.
>
>He gave her a keepsake of their night together -- a champagne cork. On it,
>Scott Peterson had carved their initials.
What about the herpes? (No, I don't have any info. of STDs, but it just seems so
sleazy)
How does a gal get one of those corks and not throw up? What a douchebag move.
>He had spent the evening telling the Fresno massage therapist and single mother
>with a history of bad relationships
Oh, man, that looks bad. "Hooker with a heart of gold" would be 10 times better
than "massage therapist and single mother with a history of bad relationships".
>Ron Frey fears that Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will try to undermine his
>daughter's credibility by saying she's a woman of loose morals and even suggest
>she played a role in the crime.
That's a slippery slope. If Geragos can successfully plant that seed, then he
really is a good lawyer.
>After cocktails at the Elephant Bar -- at the new Villagio Mall in North Fresno
>-- they drove on to Edo-Ya Japanese restaurant. They requested one of the
>private tatami rooms, where the kimonoed waitress knocks on the shoji screen
>before entering. Patrons take off their shoes and sit at sunken tables where
>the waitress offers warm wet hand towels.
>
>They moved on to BB's nightclub next door, Ron Frey said, where the erotic
>``freaking'' dance is still the rage. They stayed well past midnight, then
>retired to Peterson's room at the Radisson, where all the bedspreads are golden
>yellow. (Sibley, who was babysitting Frey's daughter, testified recently that
>the next morning she called Frey, who was at the hotel.)
That's probably around $200-$300 for that date.
>She lives with her boyfriend, a Fresno chiropractor, and delivered his baby
>three months ago. And she waits for something she must dread: Coming face to
>face with the man she once thought was the real thing.
So the guy is still involved with Amber and the kid. That's a vast improvement.
>``They say it's going to be hell for Amber on that witness stand,'' Frey said.
>``Imagine the man you're in love with one week, you're helping police set up
>the next week. Now that's hell.''
>Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at jsu...@mercurynews.com or (408) 278-3409.
>
>
>
>
> AMBER ASKED COP TO PROBE PETERSON
> By HOWARD BREUER
>
>August 1, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's mistress, Amber
>Frey, began confiding in a Fresno detective because she was growing suspicious
>of her two-timing lover — even before his wife went missing, The Post has
>learned.
>
> Frey, expected to take the stand in the next two weeks to give critical
>evidence against Peterson, met Detective Richard Byrd on Christmas Eve 2002 —
>the evening Laci was reported missing, sources said.
>
> The prosecution also is expected to call Byrd as a witness to recall for the
>jury how Frey phoned him days earlier, soliciting his help in learning more
>about her mysterious beau.
>
> Peterson lawyer Mark Geragos asked about Frey's relationship with Byrd during
>the testimony of Frey's friend, Shawn Sibley, who claimed not to know anything.
>
> In the weeks before Laci's disappearance, Amber knew only what Peterson told
>her: that he was a wealthy widower with homes in San Francisco and San Diego
>and an expensive car that always happened to be left at the airport in San
>Francisco.
So she meets this guy, dates him for a few weeks, and doesn't get to see either
house, or the expensive car. Can anybody blame her for checking him out?
Frosty
Cliff and Linda Griffith
news:cekji...@drn.newsguy.com...
> >Ron Frey fears that Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will try to
undermine his
> >daughter's credibility by saying she's a woman of loose morals and even
suggest
> >she played a role in the crime.
>
> That's a slippery slope. If Geragos can successfully plant that seed,
then he
> really is a good lawyer.
I don't think he'll have trouble with the "woman of loose morals" part, but
convincing the jury that she played a role in the crime is altogether
different.
Linda
I know it's not PC these days to say a woman has loose morals; but does that
mean the word "promiscuous" is outdated and should be removed from all
dictionaries?
Robert St. James (el corazon del demonio)
"Frosty" <...>
> >Ron Frey fears that Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will try to undermine his
> >daughter's credibility by saying she's a woman of loose morals and even suggest
> >she played a role in the crime.
>
> That's a slippery slope. If Geragos can successfully plant that seed, then he
> really is a good lawyer.
Anybody could plant that seed. But the G is going to have to plant it in such
a way that Amber doesn't end up looking like a co-conspirator who rolled. That's
going to take some real art.
>
> >After cocktails at the Elephant Bar -- at the new Villagio Mall in North Fresno
> >-- they drove on to Edo-Ya Japanese restaurant. They requested one of the
> >private tatami rooms, where the kimonoed waitress knocks on the shoji screen
> >before entering. Patrons take off their shoes and sit at sunken tables where
> >the waitress offers warm wet hand towels.
> >
> >They moved on to BB's nightclub next door, Ron Frey said, where the erotic
> >``freaking'' dance is still the rage. They stayed well past midnight, then
> >retired to Peterson's room at the Radisson, where all the bedspreads are golden
> >yellow. (Sibley, who was babysitting Frey's daughter, testified recently that
> >the next morning she called Frey, who was at the hotel.)
>
> That's probably around $200-$300 for that date.
Written off as "entertainment" on his business expenses, no doubt.
<...>
> > AMBER ASKED COP TO PROBE PETERSON
> > By HOWARD BREUER
> >
> >August 1, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. b Scott Peterson's mistress, Amber
> >Frey, began confiding in a Fresno detective because she was growing suspicious
> >of her two-timing lover b even before his wife went missing, The Post has
> >learned.
> >
> > Frey, expected to take the stand in the next two weeks to give critical
> >evidence against Peterson, met Detective Richard Byrd on Christmas Eve 2002 b
> >the evening Laci was reported missing, sources said.
Yeah, that's what the phone call was about. Amber wanted a date for Xmas Eve.
> >
> > The prosecution also is expected to call Byrd as a witness to recall for the
> >jury how Frey phoned him days earlier, soliciting his help in learning more
> >about her mysterious beau.
I doubt that very much. Most likely she was looking to move on to the next sugar
daddy since the last one (Peterson) turned out to be a flake.
> >
> > Peterson lawyer Mark Geragos asked about Frey's relationship with Byrd during
> >the testimony of Frey's friend, Shawn Sibley, who claimed not to know anything.
> >
> > In the weeks before Laci's disappearance, Amber knew only what Peterson told
> >her: that he was a wealthy widower with homes in San Francisco and San Diego
> >and an expensive car that always happened to be left at the airport in San
> >Francisco.
Ok, no freaking way. Amber had it from Sibley that Scott was married and
living in Modesto. He weased on the married part, but how did he get out
of the Modesto part?
>
> So she meets this guy, dates him for a few weeks, and doesn't get to see either
> house, or the expensive car. Can anybody blame her for checking him out?
>
> Frosty
Not at all. But we certainly *can* blame her if she found out the truth and
kept dating him anyway.
RstJ
Wee Bit Strange
> > > the Peterson home. By the evening of the 23rd, she should
> > > have had the goods on Scott.
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> > Maybe she didn't want to hurt the wife? I mean not every
> > "other woman" is ~EVIL~ and wanting to hurt the innocents.
> >
> > Giselle (maybe she really is a decent person)
>
> I don't think she wanted to hurt Laci, but she may have
> found something out, and tried to contact Scott about it.
> Since she'd just broke up with another married man, she'd
> be royally pissed about this one.
>
> Kris
At the time of his and Amber's courtship, Scott Peterson was listed in
the Modesto phone book and internet *with his address*, his home
number and his name only.
Ain't no way, now how, Amber--a savvy girl who'd been burned in the
past--and was, by all accounts, planning a future with this
established, supposedly-monied new guy wouldn't do a "drive-by" to
check out the goods! See what kind of house she might be moving into,
if'n she played her cards right.
I sure as hell would, but then I'm a nosy, investigative, skeptical
person by nature.
--Amy
Maggie
>> > > the Peterson home. By the evening of the 23rd, she should
>> > > have had the goods on Scott.
>> > >
>> > > Kris
>> >
>> > Maybe she didn't want to hurt the wife? I mean not every
>> > "other woman" is ~EVIL~ and wanting to hurt the innocents.
>> >
>> > Giselle (maybe she really is a decent person)
>>
>> I don't think she wanted to hurt Laci, but she may have
>> found something out, and tried to contact Scott about it.
>> Since she'd just broke up with another married man, she'd
>> be royally pissed about this one.
>>
>> Kris
>
>At the time of his and Amber's courtship, Scott Peterson was listed in
>the Modesto phone book and internet *with his address*, his home
>number and his name only.
>
>Ain't no way, now how, Amber--a savvy girl who'd been burned in the
>past--and was, by all accounts, planning a future with this
>established, supposedly-monied new guy wouldn't do a "drive-by" to
>check out the goods! See what kind of house she might be moving into,
>if'n she played her cards right.
>
>I sure as hell would, but then I'm a nosy, investigative, skeptical
>person by nature.
***According to most news stories, Amber didn't know that Scott lived in
Modesto. He apparently told her he had homes in San Diego and San Francisco.
(OTOH, did Shawn Sibley not know where he was from? I sort of doubt she
believed he lived in SD after spending all that time talking to him and Eric
Olsen that night.) But, anyway, with a name like "Scott Peterson" it would be
pretty easy to hide in a big state like California if she really didn't know
where he lived. There is even at least one other Scott Peterson in Modesto.
Kris Baker
"Wee Bit Strange" <wee_bit...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:29db2d75.0408...@posting.google.com...
> > > > I'm still having problems believing that Amber never called
> > > > the Peterson home. By the evening of the 23rd, she should
> > > > have had the goods on Scott.
> > > >
> > > > Kris
> > >
> > > Maybe she didn't want to hurt the wife? I mean not every
> > > "other woman" is ~EVIL~ and wanting to hurt the innocents.
> > >
> > > Giselle (maybe she really is a decent person)
> >
> > I don't think she wanted to hurt Laci, but she may have
> > found something out, and tried to contact Scott about it.
> > Since she'd just broke up with another married man, she'd
> > be royally pissed about this one.
> >
> > Kris
>
> At the time of his and Amber's courtship, Scott Peterson was listed in
> the Modesto phone book and internet *with his address*, his home
> number and his name only.
In fact, there were two Scott Petersons in Modesto.
> Ain't no way, now how, Amber--a savvy girl who'd been burned in the
> past--and was, by all accounts, planning a future with this
> established, supposedly-monied new guy wouldn't do a "drive-by" to
> check out the goods! See what kind of house she might be moving into,
> if'n she played her cards right.
>
> I sure as hell would, but then I'm a nosy, investigative, skeptical
> person by nature.
>
> --Amy
Me too.
But he told her he lived in Sacramento (how glam!) and
San Diego, so that's where she'd have started. I'm won-
dering if she'd called all the SPs in those areas, before she
called in her detective friend Byrd.
Kris
proudmari
tinyd...@nowhere.com (tinydancer)
>Crier was right about the champagne
> cork/s, I'm betting there are a few more
> of 'em floating around out there.
>td
umm....you mean 'bobbing' around out there?
(-:
proudmari
tinydancer
"proudmari" <mar...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Yup! ;)
td
>
yaffaDina
>
> In article <20040801203827...@mb-m25.aol.com>, Maggie says...
> >
> >The first story is from the San Jose Mercury News and the second is from the NY
> >Post (reader beware). One warning about the Post story--in the second
> >paragraph the story refers to Amber "meeting" Detective Richard Byrd on
> >12/24/02. The writer does not mean that this was the first time the two had
> >met:
> >
> >From lover to crucial witness for prosecution
> >By Julia Prodis Sulek
> >
> >FRESNO - The seduction of Amber Frey began at the Elephant Bar, where jungle
> >coladas are served under zebra-striped ceilings. It ended the next morning in a
> >room at the downtown Radisson Hotel.
> >
> >He gave her a keepsake of their night together -- a champagne cork. On it,
> >Scott Peterson had carved their initials.
>
> What about the herpes? (No, I don't have any info. of STDs, but it just seems so
> sleazy)
>
> How does a gal get one of those corks and not throw up? What a douchebag move.
>
> >He had spent the evening telling the Fresno massage therapist and single mother
> >with a history of bad relationships
>
> Oh, man, that looks bad. "Hooker with a heart of gold" would be 10 times better
> than "massage therapist and single mother with a history of bad relationships".
>
> >Ron Frey fears that Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will try to undermine his
> >daughter's credibility by saying she's a woman of loose morals
I don't think G will try to do this -- would Scott allow it? It brings
his own mother's morals into question.
> and even suggest
> >she played a role in the crime.
That would be very dodgy imo -- haven't the police tested her
(polygraph), it would be too easy for the prosecution to cast doubt on.
Would Scott sit and let G do that?
> That's a slippery slope. If Geragos can successfully plant that seed, then he
> really is a good lawyer.
But it would be very easy for the prosecution to counter.
>
> >... snip...
>
> >She lives with her boyfriend, a Fresno chiropractor, and delivered his baby
> >three months ago.
I'm always tempted to ask: if she delivered his baby, who delivered
hers?
And she waits for something she must dread: Coming face to
> >face with the man she once thought was the real thing.
>
> So the guy is still involved with Amber and the kid. That's a vast improvement.
>
> >``They say it's going to be hell for Amber on that witness stand,'' Frey said.
> >``Imagine the man you're in love with one week, you're helping police set up
> >the next week. Now that's hell.''
Well, it's sure embarrassing, don't know about hell. Unless, of course,
Scott's lawyer makes it so.
yD
> >Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at jsu...@mercurynews.com or (408) 278-3409.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > AMBER ASKED COP TO PROBE PETERSON
> > By HOWARD BREUER
> >
> >August 1, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's mistress, Amber
> >Frey, began confiding in a Fresno detective because she was growing suspicious
> >of her two-timing lover — even before his wife went missing, The Post has
> >learned.
> >
> > Frey, expected to take the stand in the next two weeks to give critical
> >evidence against Peterson, met Detective Richard Byrd on Christmas Eve 2002 —
Karen O'Mara
> I don't think he'll have trouble with the "woman of loose morals" part, but
> convincing the jury that she played a role in the crime is altogether
> different.
As far as the woman of loose morals thing, if Amber were a bonafide
hooker entirely, would the motive be any less, I wonder?
If G plants the seed that Amber played a role in the crime, I guess
there is a need for Allred.
Karen <howdy and back from vacation and trying to catch up!>