| Pictures: Laci on Pier, caption: Her former boyfriend tells of their last heartbreaking phone call and reveals what she was really lies. Prom Picture, caption: Lovebirds Laci and William Kent Gain at their high school prom. Man who wanted to marry Laci sits in jail cell and says: I still love her and always will. synopsis The man who still loves Laci Peterson sits in a prison cell, sometimes gazing longingly at a photo of himself embracing a smiling Laci. Inmate #802862 is haunted by the sweet brown eyed girl and by memories of what they shared and dreams of what may have been. But the tall dark haired prisoner in the concrete cell is not Scott Peterson, it's her high school sweetheart William Kent Gain, 30, who is doing 15 years in a Washington State Prison for shooting a later girlfriend in the back during an argument. "I still love Laci and always will. I wanted to marry her but she didn't think the time was right," said Kent. Speaking out for the first time since Laci was killed, he divuluged the details of his last phone call with Laci. We were together 3 years, 4 months, and 17 days said Kent, who was her boyfriend from 1991 to 1994. He insists the shooting of another girlfriend, Grace Ho, was an accident and says he is nothing like Laci's coldhearted husband Scott. "He never deserved to be with Laci." Although Mark Geragos has repeatedly accused Modesto police of unfairly targeting Scott without exploring other suspects, Kent revealed to the NE that the cops tracked him down in Washington to make sure he did not have anything to do with Laci's murder. Kent has been in prison since Jan.17, 1999 the day of the shooting, so he was eliminated as a suspect. Laci began dating Scott shortly after she and Kent broke up, in early July of 1994, just after she finished her first year of college at Calif. Polytechnic State U., in San Luis Obispo. From the beginning Kent had grave misgivings about her new boyfriend, "I had the feeling Scott was no good." "I didn't know him personally, but I'd seen him in the diner where he worked." "It was just a gut feeling that I had,the way he carried himself. He seemed like a (bleep)." Kent received a haunting phone call from Laci in August 1994, nearly two months after he'd moved out of their cottage in Morro Bay. She was calling to talk about her new romance with Scott. She said she was doing well and was happy." She said "I think I found the man I am going to marry." Then she asked me "Are you crying? I said, "No, should I be?" "Are you trying to hurt my feelings?" "It did hurt, but I didn't want to show my true colors." That was the last time I spoke to her," said Gain. On a phone call eight years later, Kent's mother broke the news to him that Laci was missing. "I had a gut feeling Scott had something to do with it," says Kent. Kent meet Laci in 1990, when both were students at Downey High School, and was the only serious boyfriend she ever had before falling in love with Peterson. "Laci was a sophomore and I was a senior when we met," says Kent. "We dated exclusively." Kent and Laci attend prom at the Century Methodist Church Hall. "We had a great time and Laci looked so beautiful," said Kent wistfully. When Laci went off to college, love-struck Kent followed and moved in with her. During freshman year, Kent worked at a warehouse and surfed local beaches. "It was the first time she was away from home, and it was stressful for her," says Kent. By the school year's end, tensions between Gain and Laci mounted to the point of frequent arguments and they broke up in July 1994. Kent headed back home to his mom in Modesto. In November of 1994, he moved to Santa Cruz, where he worked in a coffee shop. In early 1997, Kent met Grace Ho, and they moved to Washington State.But the couple's life unraveled with tragic consequences on January 17, 1999, when Kent shot Grace, then 24, in the back with a .44-caliber handgun. Grace survived, but in November 1999, a jury found Kent, guilty, of first-degree assault with a gun and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Kent says he was drunk and arguing with Grace, when the gun went off by accident. But prosecutor Andy Anderson insists, "It was not an accidental shooting." And Anderson revealed that approximately an hour before the shooting, Kent had phoned a female friend and told her he was going to hurt Grace. Now just like the jailed Scott Peterson, Kent has lots of time to reflect. "I see Laci in my mind, he confides. "I think of her all the time." RELATED STORY-Laci's Family and Friends Shocked RELATED STORY-William Gain--Laci's First Love HOME LACI CONNER SCOTT AMBER EVIDENCE-NEWS INDEX ALIBI-WITNESS LIST AUTOPSY INDEX WIRETAPS MAGAZINE'S- JAN-JUNE MAGAZINES-JULY-PRESENT |
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| July 8, 2003 National Enquirer RICKAMORTI1 LACI'S EX-BEAU INMATE #802862 Shot his GirlFriend BY: Michelle Caruso |
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