April 21, 2003 FULL STORY His cell phone rings incessantly. TV camera crews capture his every move. Curious people drive, slowly, by his home every few minutes. For Scott Peterson, privacy is a thing of the past. He has become perhaps the most recognizable man in Modesto. "I feel badly for him," said Brian Argain, a friend of Scott and Laci Peterson's. "I can't even imagine being in Scott's shoes. Everybody has a theory on what happened to Laci, but nobody really knows. It's all very sad." Initially, Scott refused nearly every media request for interviews, saying that he preferred to keep the focus on his wife and not himself. He broke his silence roughly at about the same time that reports surfaced about the affair. Since he began talking with the media last week, Scott mostly has given one- and two-sentence comments, mostly about his plans to keep searching for his wife and child. He has ended most interviews quickly and abruptly. He has not issued a direct denial of allegations of the affair. During a brief interview Friday with a Bay Area TV station, Scott called The Bee's report "a bunch of lies." That same day, the Rocha family issued a statement asking Scott to tell police everything he knows, imploring him to prove that he has nothing to hide. That weekend, as national media trucks inundated the area around the Modesto Police Department, Scott headed to Southern California to help with a one-day event to raise awareness of his wife's disappearance. He spent Saturday night with Mike and Heather Richardson, both of whom were in Laci and Scott's wedding party. "It was uncomfortable at first," Heather said. "And I figured it would be. There's so much going on. "We pretty much asked him if he wanted to talk about anything. He said, 'No.' And we pretty much let it go at that." The Richardsons ate dinner that night with Scott. Afterward, he spent time playing with their children and seemed relaxed and happy to be there, Heather said. "There are a lot of questions, but until anything is proven otherwise, he will still be our friend," she said. "I've talked with a lot of her friends up where they live. Their loyalty lies with her. They just have a lot of questions, and they've said he's not the person they thought he was." HOME INDEX LACI LACI'S FRIENDS SCOTT TRIAL ALIBI-WITNESS LIST EVIDENCE-NEWS AMBER WIRETAPS SCOTT'S AFFAIRS |
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