Six months ago, Amber Frey stepped before a phalanx of reporters at the Modesto Police Department and made this plea: "I would appreciate my friends and acquaintances to refrain from talking about me to the media for profit or recognition," the 28-year-old Fresno woman said at the news conference where she announced that she had been Scott Peterson's mystery girlfriend. Despite her plea for privacy, Frey's father would soon be dallying with reporters and making himself available for interviews. A girlfriend would sell People magazine photos of Frey and Peterson together. And an angry woman who did not buy Frey as a victim would tell the National Enquirer that Frey had an affair with her husband while the woman was pregnant. Today, Frey's voice remains a distant echo from January's news conference. She has stayed mostly silent since then, providing few clues or comments about herself, even as the tabloids have poked into her private life and one published nude and seminude photos that she posed for as an aspiring model. Frey declined to be interviewed for this article. She shook her head and delivered a firm "no" during an encounter two weeks ago at the Fresno business where she works as a certified massage therapist. Friends and former friends have chosen to fill in the details of her life. The Amber Frey of their stories is a complex woman. One of her confidantes today is a 77-year-old pillar of her church whose husband and son are pastors in a conservative, evangelical denomination. The same Amber Frey once lived with a boyfriend who worked as a stripper. Despite her tight-lipped reticence, Frey may be drawn back into the spotlight of the Peterson case soon. A Stanislaus County Superior Court judge has scheduled a preliminary hearing for Sept. 9 to determine if there is enough evidence to put Peterson on trial for murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner. The charges could land him on death row. Peterson has pleaded innocent. AMBER INDEX SCOTT EVIDENCE-NEWS MAGAZINE INDEX HOME INDEX ALIBI-WITNESS LIST TRIAL NEWS |
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