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Laci started the Christmas parties.

It was a yearly thing. Like, we looked forward to it.

She went all out.

She always strived to have the fun, happy home.

- Mm-hmm. - She wanted everyone over.

But things weren't the same for her that year.

She wasn't planning her big celebration, and Scott wasn't gonna be there

'cause he was gonna be out of town.

He was gone a lot, and I think that was hard for her.

She was doing a lot on her own.

I ended up having the Christmas party that year.

We'd had the biggest storm.

The streets were all flooded,

and here comes Laci, you know, and she was just...

She looked like she'd been through it.

When I opened the door, I'm like... "Laci!"

And... and she came in, and she's like, "Oh my gosh!"

You could tell she was kind of down about just it not being the normal holiday

'cause it was always so big for her.

She pretty much sat in the corner in a chair most of the night.

It took a lot out of her to come.

Yeah. That was the last time we saw her.

We're at our desks at the police station,

and the phone rings.

And it's this lady who identifies herself as Amber Frey.

She tells me she's been dating Scott Peterson.

I said, "Amber, don't tell him you called me."

"Please. We'll be right there."

And so we jump in my car, and we rocket down to Fresno.

We might've bent the speed limit slightly.

We're wondering, "Can this really be happening?"

I mean, this is crazy.

But she had specifics.

This is real.

It was a revelation in the case

because now we found the other side of Scott Peterson

that nobody knew about.

When I first met Scott Peterson, I was living in Madera, Rolling Hills.

I'd just graduated from massage school,

and my really good friend at the time told me about this guy that she had met.

She said he was funny, easy to talk to,

he was, you know, nice looking,

and that he was looking to meet the one,

and, you know, as a single mom,

that was something I was open to and wanting in my life.

Scott and I started talking on the phone.

He had told me he lived in Sacramento,

and with his work schedule, he traveled to Bakersfield and back,

and so I was on his way.

I thought he was handsome. He had a really nice smile.

He seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders.

He was interested in my life and my daughter,

and he was very sweet with her.

Our time together was...

It just flowed.

Like, we laughed a lot.

We had some good conversations.

I asked if he had ever been married. He said no.

I asked if he had children.

He said no, never wanted to.

I believe he said Ayiana would be enough for him.

There was a holiday party coming up,

and I asked if he would accompany me.

So he showed up with three dozen roses

and said he had thought about me all day.

My feelings for him were growing,

and I could see falling in love and potentially marrying him one day.

Amber had finally met somebody who treated her well.

She was attracted to him,

and she believed, like most of us,

that he was who he presented himself to be.

Scott was a masterful romantic,

and she was his tight-kept secret for a period of time

until a guy who worked for Scott

somehow ran into one of Amber's best friends

who introduced Scott to Amber.

Scott came up in the conversation,

and he mentioned somethin' about Scott being married.

Amber's friend, of course, calls Scott and confronts him with this.

She just said, "You better tell Amber

because if you don't tell her, I'm going to."

December 9th, I got a call from Scott asking if I'd be home

and that he... there was something he needed to tell me.

And so he showed up.

He looked upset, almost scared.

We're holding hands at the table, like, "I'm listening."

You know, "What is it?"

And he said that he had lied about being married.

And at this point, he's crying

and having a hard time talking,

and said he had lost his wife,

and it'd be the first holidays without her.

I remember just comforting him, understanding this must be very hard.

I didn't know. Maybe she died in a car accident.

There was all these thoughts.

I wanted to ask, but at the same time, with his emotions,

I thought, "I don't wanna pry."

"He'll share with what he feels comfortable with."

He was saying, "I could understand

if you don't ever wanna see me or talk to me again,"

but he was sorry that he had lied to me, and...

"I hope that didn't change anything."

And then a couple weeks later, I get a call from my friend,

and he had a printout of a news article.

There wasn't a picture of Scott,

but there was a description of him and his missing pregnant wife.

I was definitely in shock.

Couldn't stop crying, just in disbelief.

Everything was a lie.

And it was... terrifying,

like, to think this man that I was getting to know

could have something to do with his wife's disappearance.

So I called the Modesto Police Department,

eager to tell them everything I knew.

During the interview with her,

she kinda drops a bombshell on Jon Buehler and I.

She says on December 9th, Scott told her he lost his wife.

Same day he bought the boat.

There were several light-bulb moments

when it came to this case.

One of 'em, of course, was the smiling pose

of Scott and Amber, in the tux, in the red dress.

The same night they had a party in... in Modesto that Laci was at,

eight months pregnant,

sitting there, smile beaming,

and here he is a hundred miles away with this other girl.

Now we have some actual solidified proof that there's something going on here.

My stomach was in knots.

I found very little innocence in his behavior.

It was something I didn't want to have to think to be real.

The detectives asked if I would be willing to wear a wire

or a piece that hooks up to my phone.

We asked her just to play along.

So I went in RadioShack, I bought the equipment,

and I said, "When he calls,

all you gotta do is push these two buttons and act normal."

I always knew when Scott was gonna call

because we had talked about it per his schedule and mine.

That way, we didn't miss each other's calls.

Scott had told me he was gonna be spending Thanksgiving

with his family in Alaska.

Christmas, they were going to be in Maine,

and from there, he was going to Paris.

- Amber? Hey. Happy New Year! - Happy New Year.

- I wanted to call you. - Thank you!

- Are you there? - I'm here.

- Amber? - I wish you could hear me.

I'm, uh, near the Eiffel Tower.

The New Year's celebration is unreal.

The... the crowd is huge.

I know inside my mind, I'm like, "You're lying through your teeth."

He was not, in fact, in Paris.

He was at a candlelight vigil for Laci.

Amber, if you're there, I can't hear you,

but I'll call you on your New Year's.

- Okay. I'll hear from you then. - Amber?

- Amber, I miss you. I'll see you soon. - Okay.

I hope...

I can't say my heart ever stopped pounding

or my hands sweating every time I anticipated a call.

That never changed.

I got better at...

Um...

I guess in the sense of calming myself down.

Um, that was something I knew was important, that he didn't know I knew.

My New Year's resolution for you

would be to not travel so much...

Hmm...

...and spend more time with me and Ayiana.

Mm-hmm.

Amber was incredibly gifted when it came to navigating through this

with no training, with no experience.

I didn't tell her what to say.

I wasn't giving her a script on any of this stuff.

And I think, with her, she probably was holding out a little bit of hope

that Laci would be discovered safe

and that we were gonna be able to clear him.

So what do you wanna be together with me?

Well, I mean, obviously, my...

You know my thoughts are that I think that we would be wonderful together.

I could care for you in any and every way.

For the rest of our lives, I think we could care for each other.

After we found out about Amber,

we requested a wiretap on Scott's phone.

That way, we could hear what Scott was saying to anybody.

Our goal was, hopefully, he was gonna confess,

but there were still several leads that we were investigating.

A burglary across the street from Laci's home

remains an intriguing development.

This home was broken into

sometime between Christmas Eve and December 26th.

We still wanna find these burglars.

The Medinas live across the street from the Petersons,

and they left on a few-day vacation the morning of the 24th,

and they came back on the evening of the 26th.

And during that time, their house got burglarized.

The problem with the burglary story is that, even from the beginning,

it seemed to be a moving target,

and there was nothing very concrete about it.

The Medinas were burglarized. Clearly.

When is a big one. Originally, it's the 24th.

That's because a neighbor believes they saw a suspicious van

outside the Medina house on the 24th.

There was people that were talking about maybe she was abducted by the burglars,

and then people were calling in about a van in the neighborhood

that some people had seen, some hadn't.

There was one neighbor that saw it,

originally she said it was white, then it became tan, then brown,

as her statement continued.

Totally ruins her credibility.

In the meantime, the other burglary detectives are working this burglary,

and they're able to develop two suspects.

We received a tip yesterday

that led us to some suspects in the burglary case.

We are confident they are the ones that committed the burglary.

Steven Todd and Donald Pearce were local criminals

doing property crimes to source a narcotics habit,

and when they find out

that not only are they being looked at for the burglary,

but they're also being fingered

as possibly being involved in Laci's disappearance,

their cooperation level changes

to a level that we've seldom ever seen in a burglary investigation.

The burglars are like, "Whoa, whoa."

"We burgled the house. We did not kidnap this lady."

"Uh, we believe we were there the 27th."

The problem with that is they couldn't have done it on the 27th

because the Medinas were home on the 27th.

Could they get the dates wrong? Certainly. These guys don't have jobs.

They're not accountable for anything.

There's no reason to think that the 27th has any more significance

than just an error in date recall by the two suspects that did the burglary.

Between investigators and the burglars,

the 26th became the time frame

where the state of California believes the Medina house was burgled.

And eventually, investigators sort of zipped up about it.

One day after Steven Todd and Glenn Pearce are arrested,

the police are saying the burglary occurred on December 26th,

and it's unrelated to Laci's disappearance.

And at the time, nobody questioned that.

We all thought the police had done their due diligence.

I believed it at first,

but we kind of later put two and two together that, on the 26th,

that would be the last place

that you would want to break and enter someone's home

when there's a police presence and media presence.

Todd and Pearce told us that when they got there,

they noticed there was media activity down the street and thought it was interesting.

Apparently, they didn't know about the Peterson case yet at that time.

But they were able to successfully complete the burglary,

then they split, and that was it.

Yeah, I didn't have nothing to do with, uh, that lady's disappearance.

They knew they were going to jail for the burglary,

and there's a code amongst inmates

that you don't hurt children, and you don't hurt vulnerable women.

So not only did they take a polygraph, they were almost begging for a polygraph

so they could have the results

to show the other inmates that they had no part of this.

They did clear the polygraph,

and in all the property that was recovered on this burglary,

there was not one piece of evidence, not one piece of property, jewelry,

or anything else that was ever found to be related to Laci.

After confessing, turning over all the stolen property,

giving polygraphs,

their alibi for the 24th,

the day Laci disappeared,

they checked out.

They were with family. They were checked out and cleared.

We're confident that we have the people in custody for the burglary,

and they are not connected with the missing of Laci Peterson.

I'd always questioned how they came to that possibility.

I believe that it didn't happen on the 26th.

The burglars knew it happened on the 24th, and they couldn't let the police know

that they were in front of that house on the 24th

because I believe that they were responsible

for an incident involving Laci at that house.

They had nothing to do with the... Laci's disappearance.

There's nobody else I know,

other than a few media people that just like to stir the pot

and the Petersons

that put any stock into the burglars.

In order to maintain Scott's innocence,

his family has had to endorse improbable theories

about the incompetence of the investigators

and their belief that these burglars are responsible for Laci's disappearance.

And in all sincerity, I can only say that it's not true,

it doesn't make sense,

and that... he is the source of his own undoing.

Scott Peterson started out the new year

taking a walk with his dad and his dog,

the dog that Scott told police his wife, Laci, was going to walk

the morning of Christmas Eve

when he left on a fishing trip and she disappeared.

Every day we sit down, all the detectives.

You know, "What did we learn today?"

And one of the things I learned during those sit-downs

was that Laci had been having some fainting spells,

and her feet were bothering her, and she was not supposed to be walking.

She said she'd thrown up a couple times walking in the park.

After she'd gone to the doctor, she did... she did stop walking,

or at least not as often.

There were several people

that said they saw a pregnant lady walking a dog on that morning.

We've interviewed every one of them,

and none of 'em could say positively, "Oh, I've known her all my life."

"That was Laci Peterson."

The story Scott was telling us, none of these things were making sense.

They were raising a lot of red flags.

He refused to take a polygraph examination.

He resisted questions, access to the home.

Scott essentially made it impossible

for the investigators not to include him as a viable suspect.

We continue, as a department,

uh, the desire to eliminate Scott Peterson from this investigation,

so if there's someone out there that's seen him

or seen the boat or seen him in the boat,

we need them to contact us so we can corroborate his statement.

Has Mr. Peterson continued cooperating?

Um, he's continued to cooperate to some degree, yes.

What does that mean?

- Uh... - Detective?

The cloud of suspicion over Scott was growing every day,

and the more the police released,

the more suspicious he looked.

And so that's what they did. That was their strategy.

And they knew that they had the media at their beck and call.

The mystery here in Modesto,

fueled in large part by Scott Peterson's alibi,

which remains flimsy at best...

Unlike the folks on TV

who are dancing around the obvious, what we're all thinking,

listeners to talk shows are calling in and saying they think he did it.

People couldn't get enough of this story,

and Scott's family was shielding Scott from the media.

They were offended that we were asking questions

about the husband, the husband that didn't wanna be on camera.

While a number of loved ones have given interviews,

Scott has, for the most part, steered clear of the news media.

His sister says he's been advised, for now, to avoid public comment,

though she declined to say who gave that advice.

We know Scott. We just kind of shake our head.

If you knew him, you wouldn't be thinking that way.

I wanted to scream it at the top of my lungs

that my brother could not have been at the hands of Laci's disappearance.

We feel Scott has nothing to do with it, with the disappearance of Laci.

When I said I didn't think he had anything to do with it,

I meant that at that moment.

But then,

by the end of that first week, I was already having my doubts.

I was thinking things, but I did not want to say it out loud

because I was thinking if she came home and knew that I'd had these thoughts,

what would that do to our relationship?

But one evening, my friend and I sat down,

and I made a list of "did he do it" or "didn't he do it."

And the "did he do it" was a much longer list, and that just...

It was that gut feeling... that something wasn't quite right.

We had circumstantial evidence that shows that Scott was misleading us,

but that was all we had.

So, on January 3rd,

uh, Craig Grogan contacted Scott just to try to stir something out of him.

We invited Scott to the office.

We didn't ask him a lotta questions, but we showed him the picture.

It was a picture of him and Amber at the Christmas party,

but we ran it through the fax machine, so it was black and white,

and so we just said, "Hey, we got a tip."

You know, "What do you say about this?"

And he picks it up, and he goes, "You... you don't think that's me, do you?"

Scott's reaction was typical Scott. Very cool, noncommittal, no anger.

He... he just... You... you... you couldn't shake his demeanor.

It was remarkable to see. It was just a great act.

And then a few days later, he calls Amber.

I don't wanna do this over the phone.

I wanna tell you this. I wanna be there in person to tell you this.

- What are you talking about? - It is the worst thing.

Sorry, Amber, um...

- Well, I'll just... I'll just tell you. - Okay.

You haven't been watching the news, obviously.

No.

Um, I have not been traveling during the last couple weeks.

I have... I've lied to you

that I've been traveling.

Okay.

The girl I... I'm married to, her name is Laci.

Mm-hmm.

She disappeared just before Christmas.

Mm-hmm.

For the past two weeks, I've been in Modesto with her family and mine,

searching for her.

January 6, I was sitting in the Modesto Police Department

at a table with, you know, a few detectives.

Scott confessed that he had been lying to me,

that he was married, and his wife was missing.

You told me you'd lost your wife,

and this was the first holidays you'd spend without her?

That was December 9th you told me this,

and now, all of a sudden, your wife's missing?

Are you kidding me?

She's on the phone with him, and I'm thinking, hopefully,

he was gonna confess.

And she's hammerin' him pretty hard.

I said that I lost my wife.

- Yes, you did. - I did, and yes...

How did you lose her then before she was lost?

Explain that.

There are different kinds of loss.

Then explain your loss.

I... I can't to you now.

What I remember hearing then was him trying to sound very innocent,

even though he'd just lied to me for months.

It almost... Like, listening to this, almost sounds like he was the victim.

Sweetie, you think I had something to do with her disappearance?

Amber, do you believe that?

Well, let's see. How can I believe that?

How can I believe that? How could I believe anything for...

I am not... evil like that.

I got a sense of relief being able to confront him

without having to carry on the whole facade of our relationship.

But at the same time, there was a lot,

I was hoping, in continuing those conversations,

that I might get out of him in regards to what happened to Laci.

I am just such at a loss right now.

- I know. - You wanna tell me in person.

At what point are you gonna tell me in person, Scott?

Once we find her.

- What was that? - Once we find her.

Once we find her, what?

Then that will be a resolution, and I will be...

I will be able to explain everything to you.

Hundreds of volunteers and police investigators

have scoured the woods, rivers, and reservoirs in five counties.

But now the focus has narrowed to San Francisco Bay

near the Berkeley Marina.

We're in a place in the investigation where us detectives are believing

that Laci is not coming home.

She's gone.

And we know Scott bought a boat on 12/9.

Scott told Amber he lost his wife on 12/9.

Scott told me he went to Brooks Island,

fishing, Christmas Eve, when Laci went missing,

and so that's why we think she's in the bay.

We had a boat from every agency around the bay,

San Francisco, Oakland, Marin County, Berkeley.

And we had a detective on every boat.

And while we're doing this, we're watching Scott.

We had a tracker on his little truck, and he drives to the bay.

And he just looks, like, for two minutes or three minutes,

and then he drives away.

And he came back four more times.

He wouldn't contact anybody.

He wouldn't get ahold of any of our cops or any of the people that were onshore.

He wouldn't ask 'em what was going on on the boats out there

or anything like that.

It was more like he was going there to check to see where we were searching

to reassure himself that maybe we weren't gonna find her.

In the search for that missing Modesto, California woman,

searchers have discovered a, quote, "object"

in the Berkeley, California Marina.

They found an object in the marina by sonar.

They don't know what the object is, but it may be a human body.

One of the sonars spots something in the bay that looks like this,

like arms out, like a body.

As Laci's loved ones and supporters waited for word

about the search at the Berkeley Marina,

there was added sadness.

Today was supposed to be Laci's baby shower,

her baby boy due February 10th.

We all had a slumber party for what would've been her baby shower,

and there was something in the water that they were honing in on in the news.

So we were hearing that perspective that it could be Scott,

and that was the night that I said,

"I hope we're here with Laci and Conner next year."

And I just got a look from... from the girls.

That's when it kinda... kicked in.

We've concluded our search today of the Berkeley Marina.

The dive teams located, uh, in the area where we were searching,

and the object that we were concerned about

ended up being an anchor that had sunk down into the, uh, bottom part of the bay,

and there are no other objects located in the area.

It turns out just to be an anchor, just a big old anchor.

So Sharon calls Scott, and he doesn't answer the phone,

but he listened to his voicemail,

and we can hear that too on the wiretap.

You have one unheard message.

First message.

Hi, Scott. This is Mom. It's about quarter to one.

Just wanted you to know I just got a call from Ron Cloward.

He's at the marina, and it was a boat anchor.

Of course, we knew it wasn't Laci, but I just wanted you to know.

- Um... - Whew!

I'm going to call your house in case you don't get this message first.

Bye.

Message erased.

I'm listening to him.

He hears the message, and then he goes, "Whew!"

Whistles. Just like that. Like, whoa, what a relief. I mean, you know?

Scott has not been cleared as a suspect,

and the nagging question of his possible involvement is yet another burden.

The fact that Sharon and the rest of the family

all supported Scott in the media,

it was hard to watch that

because we knew things they didn't know that we weren't telling yet.

But we knew there was gonna be a day when we were gonna have to tell 'em.

Somehow those photos of Scott and Amber in the red dress got leaked,

and the Enquirer got a hold of them.

We got word that they were gonna publish the story

about Scott Peterson and Amber Frey in their next edition,

and so we had until that magazine came out

to let the Petersons and the... and the Rochas know

what was gonna be comin'.

We contacted Ron and Sharon and asked 'em to come down.

They were apprehensive. We didn't ask 'em to come down for much.

At that point, I didn't want to believe

that he'd had anything to do with it, but... when they told me about Amber,

it just confirmed what I'd been suspecting.

I just got sick to my stomach.

And they didn't say it, but I said, "Why did he have to kill her?"

"He didn't have to kill her." I...

You know, not that they said that. They didn't.

But, so obviously, it confirmed to me that he did.

- Hello? - Hey, Brent. It's Scott.

Hey, Scott.

Hey, I was trying to find, uh, the Enquirer but couldn't,

so I don't know exactly what this article says, but...

Well, apparently, there's pictures of you and the girl...

- Yeah. - ...together.

- Mm-hmm. - So we know that's true, right?

- Yeah, there was an encounter. - Okay.

So, since... I mean, knowing that...

I mean, what can you tell me about my sister

to make me understand that you're telling the truth

and that I... I can still support you?

Yeah.

I mean, I... I know that... you know how happy we were together,

and that, you know, never changed or wavers.

- Right. - And, you know, I...

I don't know if you could believe me, um...

I certainly hope you can. I hope you know me well enough.

I... I want...

We are looking for her, and we need to find her and...

Yeah.

You know, I'm obviously devastated, you know?

I had nothing to do with her disappearance.

- It's hard... - Yeah. Do you think...

I can handle the media, but I can't lose,

you know, the rest of my family.

It looks like they're out to nail you right now.

- Of course they are. - We've been standing up for you.

- I know it. - And now I feel like we're kinda...

I don't know what to believe. You know what I'm saying?

For the first time, the parents of a missing California woman

are voicing suspicions about their son-in-law.

They say Laci Peterson's husband lied to them

about an affair with another woman.

They believe he has lied to them about this

and possibly other things as well.

The family is asking Scott to tell everything he knows

and to fully cooperate with the Modesto Police Department.

When I found out, I think I was at a conference or something,

and I kinda stepped out in the hallway to take a call.

And I just... I just kinda doubled over.

And a friend of mine was out in the hallway.

She's like, "What's the matter?"

I was like, "I guess my brother-in-law's having an affair."

She's like, "That doesn't mean he did it,"

and I go, "Well, I know that."

You know? But I just knew that it...

you know, things weren't going to get any easier.

- Do you have anything to say? - No.

It was very disappointing.

I told him, "The next time I see you, I'm gonna slug you,

but then I'm gonna hug you because, you know, we're gonna get through this."

The volunteer center

at the Red Lion here in Modesto has closed indefinitely,

some of the volunteers saying they feel betrayed by Scott's actions.

When that story broke, I remember how crazy that night was.

At that point now,

not only do we have a mystery of what happened to Laci,

now we have a mistress.

I asked him point blank if he wanted to confirm he had a girlfriend.

He said no. I said, "Do you want to deny you have a girlfriend?" He said no.

He said, "Bottom line, all I wanna do is find my wife."

Make me the biggest villain in the world,

as long as it keeps her photograph in the press.

You had nothing to do with this? People are having questions now.

The focus is on her. Let's keep her picture out there.

Let's keep the tip line out there. Let's keep the description out there.

He wasn't intending on leaving Laci. It was not that at all.

My brother had...

I don't even like to use the word "affair."

I think he wanted...

...a sexual relationship with someone who was willing,

and...

...I never felt that it ever had anything to do with Laci's disappearance.

But we had to still push forward.

We still had to find out what happened to Laci

amongst trying to not make such a media circus out of Amber's discovery.

But it was exactly what it was. It was a media circus.

Scott, why don't you answer some questions?

- Scott, just... - Gonna answer some questions?

Our family is committed and will remain focused on our search.

We are opening a one-day volunteer center here in Los Angeles

and ask Southern Californians for their help.

I would appreciate it. I know there's some volunteers behind all of you.

Media, if you could spread to the side, so volunteers could get through,

we'd really appreciate it.

I have to ask you people to back up and let volunteers get in to sign in.

I got a call saying there was talk about me

and about Scott on the radio.

So I went into work,

and shortly after, there was press there.

Amber, did you know that Scott was a married man?

Do you know anything about the disappearance?

How long have you been seeing Scott?

She called me in a panic,

and I mean, she's just frazzled.

Now we're sitting there.

We didn't expect this thing to happen,

so we're trying to figure out what we're going to do.

The only thing we could come up with

is we gotta pitch her up in front of the media,

let her give a statement, diffuse this thing,

and have her plead to be,

you know, at least treated with dignity and left alone.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

Okay, first of all, I met Scott Peterson November 20th, 2002.

I was introduced to him. I was told he was unmarried.

Scott told me he was not married.

She walks up in front of all the cameras,

everybody taking this live, making national news.

I remember her holding a paper,

and she was shaking like a leaf.

I am very sorry for Laci's family.

And the cau... the pain that this has caused them.

And I pray for her safe return as well.

It was brief.

And then it was over.

And then I walked out with them, and Detective Buehler said

there was some of Laci's friends that wanted to meet me

and say thank you for everything you've done.

We went to the press conference.

We started to leave.

And we all stopped.

I think we all looked at each other.

- We need to thank her. - Yeah.

- We needed to meet her. - She was really brave.

It wasn't her choice to be thrown into that position,

and so we just wanted to thank her for coming forward.

At that point, it solidified everything in our mind that...

Scott was responsible for what happened to Laci.

After the press conference, Scott continued to call Amber,

which seems unusual.

To us, it... it shows really the true nature of the guy.

I was so proud of you when you did that.

It was, uh, amazing. Just... I mean, you have an amazing character.

Um, I pulled over and... and threw up when you cried.

I was listening to the radio.

- It was so hard to hear. - Threw up?

But it was just so amazing, um...

your strength.

Amber, are you there?

At that point, we weren't getting any information from her

that was any value when it came to the case,

and so she decided just to, you know,

with our recommendation, to stop the calls.

I think right now, for me, Scott,

um, I think it'd be best if you and I didn't talk anymore

until there's a resolution in this.

Yeah, I agree with that.

- Good. - You're right.

Good.

I hope to talk to you in the future.

Okay, Scott.

- Goodbye for now. - Goodbye, Scott.

The same day Amber came out,

all Laci's family stood behind Sharon Rocha,

and they announced it to the world.

They were no longer supporting Scott Peterson.

Since Scott is no longer communicating with anyone in Laci's family

and because we have so many questions that he has not answered,

I am not... no longer supporting him.

I would also like to ask Scott

to fully cooperate with the Modesto Police Department. Thank you.

Sharon asked if I would be open to meeting with her,

and I said I would.

And she had a calendar, and...

she... wanted to fill in that calendar.

I think she needed that validation

of, "Was he really working or was he with you?"

Scott wasn't who he even led them to believe he was.

It was now, "Okay, lines have been drawn."

All of a sudden, all the spotlight went on Scott Peterson.

- That's him smiling? - Yeah, with the white T-shirt.

Okay, go.

Scott, how do you feel about Amber saying she didn't know that you were married?

Can you answer that?

I'm afraid all you're gonna get from me is silence.

Do you still have a relationship with Amber?

How do you feel about, um, Laci's family turning against you?

Once Amber comes into the picture, it's a game changer.

Now Mr. Perfect is a liar and a cheat.

Why would you go to the Berkeley Marina

when your wife was pregnant?

It puts him in a different category. It just does.

And for so many people,

this was the moment that they turned on Scott Peterson.

He was getting hammered, but the families needed answers,

and he needed to stop running away from answering questions.

You wanna find your wife?

You gotta speak out. We gotta hear from you.

And I think he was starting to realize that.

I think everybody sitting at home wants the answer to the same question.

Did you murder your wife?

No, no, I did not,

and I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance.

He finally decides to go on a little media tour,

and he told Diane Sawyer that he told me on Christmas Eve about Amber.

Well, that was a lie.

I told the police immediately.

When?

That was, uh, the first night we were together.

The... the police... I spent, um, with the police...

- You told them about her? - Yeah, from December 24th on.

Did your wife find out about it?

I told my wife.

There wasn't a lot of anger?

No.

Do you really expect people to believe

that an eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant woman

learns her husband has had an affair

and is saintly and casual about it?

Accommodating? Makes a peace with it?

Well, I...

Yeah. You don't know...

No one knows our relationship but us.

The Diane Sawyer... uh, Good Morning America interview

went horribly for him.

So Scott decides he needs to do some damage control.

For the first time, Scott Peterson invites reporters

into his home to answer questions

about the disappearance of his pregnant wife, Laci.

I was among a few other journalists who were able to interview him,

but he had it very well orchestrated.

You had a certain time you were to be there, one camera only.

When we got there, you had to take your shoes off in his house.

He was policing us through the entire process.

I did what he told me. I took off my boots.

So there I am in just my tights, you know,

and I sat down across from him, and I'm looking around the house.

And I'm literally trying to just get a sense.

Okay.

I felt like I was going into a crime scene

because if Laci passed away in there,

I wanted to see everything about that house.

Okay...

I was like, "Okay, just keep it cool."

I don't know what he's gonna say.

I just have to hope that he's ready to talk.

Why... why didn't you just come forward at the time

when I asked you if you had a girlfriend?

- Why didn't you just come clean then? - Right, right, um...

At that time, it wasn't appropriate to comment about

because it's not relevant.

Taken a lie-detector test?

The polygraph is another one of those things...

I'm not saying I have. I'm not saying I haven't.

...that's within the scope the investigators asked me not to speak about.

I told Laci about the... the relationship.

In my truck, I put some of these umbrellas that we have, these big umbrellas.

Um, it started to rain, and I was taking them to storage.

I want people looking for Laci 'cause they're not doing that right now.

That's why I'm sitting down with you.

What's your level of cooperation?

Uh, it's complete.

Um, I know that Laci's family doesn't feel that, and that's unfortunate.

Nothing he said, as predicted, was worth anything, really.

It was just him regurgitating in that voice of his

his version of events and denial of killing Laci.

I had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance.

The interview itself,

the only thing that I took away that was... surprising was his behavior.

The husband whose wife is missing is usually an emotional wreck,

and from the first moment I met Scott, he was always...

um, very aware of his surroundings.

Yeah, this is a short newscast.

I don't know how much of these words you're going to use or not.

But I'm not going to waste that by defending myself

or talking about irrelevant things.

Uh, it's better served if we talk about what happened and where's Laci.

He thought that this would go great for him, that he would look good,

and that he would be able to tell the public that, you know,

he's just this grieving husband missing his wife.

Tell me what you love about Laci.

God, what... you know...

I think you could sum it up pretty easily with looking at her photograph.

The photograph of her big smile in the press.

It just seemed

so disconnected.

Like, you can't tell me what you love about Laci?

I don't know. Just, um, being able to complete each other.

That's it.

You could tell he just didn't have the words,

and I thought, "Wow, that's telling."

You're not feeling anything towards him because you're like,

"This is what you should've done from the beginning."

Yeah.

- What are you doing? - It... it just seems very, um...

- I don't know. - Fake. Fake.

- Fake. - Very fake.

Yeah.

You haven't mentioned your son.

Hmm.

That was... It's so hard.

Tell me about the nursery.

Can't go in there.

That door is...

It's closed until there's someone to put in there.

- How long will it remain closed? - Until there's a little guy in there.

Thank you.

After my Scott Peterson interview,

there was no doubt in my mind Scott had killed Laci.

No doubt.

I just knew that it would take time to build a case.

Hey, Scott!

Scott!

Hey, why don't you come and talk to us and tell us the truth?

You're not fooling anybody with your phony story.

Why don't you do the decent thing and tell the truth?

Do you know where she is? Why don't you just tell us where she is?

I... I'm watching some of this stuff that's going on in the... in the press.

It looks like most of that stuff is kinda turning the wrong direction on you.

I know. God, you know, I did the press,

and every question I answered today, I gave the website, the phone number.

I didn't see any of it, but I guess they didn't put a damn thing in there.

It's just unbelievable. They're not helping me find my wife.

I need her back.

Tell me there's some leads.

Tell me there's something to... to look for.

Well, I... I am not... I'm not telling you

that there's... there's anything that's pointing in any direction right now

that is somewhere other than you, Scott.

One evening, Ron and I sat down for dinner.

I took a bite and couldn't even swallow it.

And I just stood up, and I remember saying that,

you know, the least he could do is tell us where she is.

That's the very least he could do, is tell us where she is.

But he wouldn't do that because he's not gonna admit

that he had anything to do with her disappearance, so...

Breaking news this hour.

We have learned that Modesto Police have now served a second search warrant

on this man, Scott Peterson.

Discoveries during the investigation have necessitated the revisiting

of the Peterson residence with a second search warrant.

The search warrant that was done on the 18th

was done more to get a layout of the house and additional information that would help

and see how he had changed the interior of the house

from what we originally saw when the case started

to what it was at this point.

The house was cluttered. Um, he had moved things around.

There was just really no respect for Laci's things.

Scott had already sold her vehicle.

He'd made inquiries about selling the house.

I mean, I'd like to put it on the market right now.

Okay, um...

There's no way, if Laci comes back, that we're gonna stay there.

The nursery had been changed drastically.

At that time, he was using it more as a storage facility than anything else.

This was not a man who had an emotional attachment

to the crib or the rocking chair.

He was not preserving that.

I mean, it was just really...

This was not somebody who was waiting for his wife to come back.

Contacted by telephone, Scott Peterson said, quote,

"I hope their efforts help find my wife and kid."

Her father told NBC News, quote,

"I'm glad they are looking in the right direction. I know he did it."

At this point in the investigation, we think we know what's goin' on,

but we can't prove it yet.

He's predicting his wife is missing two weeks before she's missing.

Maybe he made five anchors, and we can only find one.

Her hair is wrapped up in a pair of needle-nose pliers

in his boat that nobody knows about.

We are feeling we have enough.

Let's take him down.

But we couldn't find a body.

We had a list of circumstantial evidence pointing at Scott,

but the DA in Stanislaus County, he told us privately,

he said, you know, "Bring me a body, or you don't have a filing."

Scott,

I mean, let's be serious with one another.

Craig, tell me what... Do you know what happened to her?

Do you... do you know where she is?

- Well, I know where we're looking for her. - Where?

And I think we're probably gonna find her over there in the bay.

- Oh... - It's a matter of time.

We can't let him get away with this. We need to arrest him.

We're following him. We've got DOJ agents in cars.

We've got an aircraft up.

I think they've got this guy dead to rights.

Investigators on the case are currently looking for him.

He had a great deal of cash, clothing, and equipment.

He was getting ready to run.