| Peterson, Mistress discussed private eye Court documents: Two spoke weeks after Laci disappeared Monday, May 26, 2003 Nearly a month after Laci Peterson disappeared, her husband, Scott, spoke on the phone with his mistress, according to recently released court documents. Laci disappeared December 24, resulting in a widespread search that included the San Francisco Bay, where her body and that of herchild were found in April. A phone call between Scott Peterson and Amber Frey, a massage therapist from Fresno, was intercepted January 20 by investigators working the case of the missing pregnant woman, court documents said. In the conversation, which occurred about 10:10 p.m., Peterson told Frey that he had hired a private investigator, according to the documents. The documents do not say how long the two talked or whether they discussed anything other than a private investigator. "I reviewed this interception and noted Scott Peterson had told Amber Frey he knew that the National Enquirer had hired a private investigator because his private investigator had told him that the National Enquirer tried to hire him," Stanislaus County investigator Steven Jacobson says in a 13-page affidavit, released Friday. "This was the first time I was made aware of the fact that Scott Peterson had an unidentified private investigator working on this case." Four days later, Frey said at a police news conference that she had been having an affair with Peterson. She said the affair began November 20 and that Peterson had told her at the time that he was single. The search for 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her disappearance, ended in early April when her body, and that of her fetus, washed ashore near the Berkeley Marina, where her husband had told police he launched his boat for a fishing trip Christmas Eve. He reported his wife missing when he returned. Peterson, 30, is awaiting trial on murder charges in the deaths of his wife and unborn child. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Peterson insists he is innocent, and his attorneys have been looking for other witnesses and suspects. Defense attorneys have interviewed a Peterson neighbor who reported seeing a man in the neighborhood that he considered suspicious the morning Laci Peterson disappeared. The neighbor reportedly saw the man in a tan van minutes before he saw a "very pregnant woman" walking her dog a few blocks away. The man, who had previously told his story to CNN, said Friday that attorneys had asked him not to speak further with the news media. Scott Peterson is scheduled to appear in Stanislaus County, California, Superior Court on Tuesday for a pretrial hearing that might decide whether to keep sealed Laci Peterson's autopsy results and the police search warrants for the Peterson home. The judge also might rule on a motion by Peterson's attorneys to change the location of the trial. HOME INDEX ALIBI-WITNESS LIST WIRETAPS AUTOPSY EVIDENCE-NEWS PROSECUTION CULT-INDEX LACI CONNER |
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