| Scott Peterson’s Sex Life takes Centerstage June 30, 2004 Before there was ever a Scott Peterson and Amber Frey, there was Shawn Sibley, a woman who served as the couple's matchmaker. In a powerful day for the prosecutors in Peterson's double murder trial, Sibley took the witness stand and described how she met the defendant at an agriculture convention at Disneyland. She said she didn't know Scott was married -- he didn't act married. And at a dinner, at The House of Blues, attended by several people, she said he kept turning the conversation to sex. He asked about her favorite sexual positions and what he could put on his convention name tag to attract more women. Sibley suggested he put 'I'm rich.' "It was like a constant thing with him. We'd be talking about something else and he'd bring up sex," Sibley said. But when she mentioned she was already engaged, Scott asked if she had any friends. Under cross-examination by defense attorney Mark Geragos, Sibley admitted that she was an equal participant in the conversation about sex and that the pair continued talking until the early hours of the next morning, eventually winding up sitting in the hallway outside her hotel room. "Everybody's heard that Scott Peterson was a philanderer, the defense has said that doesn't make him a murderer," says Legal Analyst Dean Johnson, "but Shawn Sibley makes him sound a lot sleazier than anybody thought." Scott shook his head 'no' through much of Sibley's testimony, especially when she described a nickname she gave him: HB -- which stood for Horny Bastard -– a moniker Peterson said he wanted to put it on his business card. Sibley then told how she set up Peterson with her best friend, for 8 years, Amber Frey. Sibley said Scott pressed her to set him up with Amber, saying he was looking for a long- term relationship,after having a string of one-night stands. He never mentioned being married to Laci Peterson but did tell Sibley that he had "lost" his soul mate. Scott & Amber seemed to hit it off, spending the night together on their first date,and going to a Christmas party where they posed for photos as a couple. Sibley baby sat Amber's daughter when Frey and Peterson spent the night together on their first date on Nov. 20, 2002. Laci Peterson also attended a Christmas party that same night and posed for a picture -- alone. Sibley said she 'freaked' when she learned on Dec. 6, 2003, from a co-worker that Scott was a married man. She told jurors today that she paid $30 for a Web-based service that allowed her to check city or county marriage records. She confronted him before he called her "sobbing." "Oh, yeah, I freaked," Sibley said, recalling when she got word Peterson had a wife. "Because I figured there's not two Scott Petersons at Tradecorp. The world's too small of a place for that." She confronted Peterson in a Dec. 6 phone call, she said. "I immediately went outside and called Scott and said 'I hear you're married. What's up with that,'" she said, adding that she left that message on Peterson's voicemail. "I was extremely upset." An emotional Peterson returned her call about an hour later, she said. "Scott was just sobbing hysterically," she said. "He said 'I am so sorry. I lied. I had been married. I lost my wife. Please just give me the opportunity to tell Amber in person.' "He's just begging me the whole time." Sibley grilled him over the phone, she said. "'I don't care if you're widowed or divorced,'" she told jurors today, recounting the Dec. 6 call. "'I only care about whether you are married right now.' He said 'No. Absolutely not."' Sibley said she and Frey accepted his explanation until learning that he was married to the then- missing Laci Peterson on Dec. 29, 2002. At that point they called the Modesto Police Department. Sibley said she was "very suspicious" of Peterson even after his tearful declaration. She signed up with a service that granted access to marriage records from around California. She combed through those in Sacramento County first because that is where Scott said he had a home. She found nothing, though, and eventually abandoned the effort, she said. Scott Peterson is accused of killing his wife Laci and their unborn son just weeks after dating Frey, but the prosecution seemed to suggest that Amber wasn't the only motive. "He didn’t want to be married… simple," says legal analyst Chuck Smith, "he wanted to play the field whether he's with Amber or any other woman, or women out there and that's what caused him to decide to eliminate his wife." Sibley's testimony concluded the trial for the week. The case returns to court Tuesday. HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT AMBER TRIAL ALIBI-WITNESS LIST |
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