| In taped call, Scott tearfully begged Amber for secret meeting Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Ostracized by his missing wife's family and dogged by suspicious police, Scott Peterson tearfully begged his mistress for a secret rendezvous at a lakeside resort. AMBER: ...Strongly about uh,...seeing me? SCOTT: Just because I feel sorry for all the things you're having to go through...... AMBER: ..I just don't see how that would be possible.. SCOTT: I just think it would help us both so much... ....I just never felt a strong desire as I do I'm such a terrible communicator over the phone.... I desire so much to comfort you "We just need to see each other, Amber, at least for a couple hours," Peterson told his erstwhile paramour, Amber Frey, in a Feb. 7, 2003, phone call played Tuesday at his capital murder trial. SCOTT: I'm asking to see you....my idea was like tonight AMBER: I can't have you come to my house SCOTT: I know (crying)....the other possibility is that house at Lake Arrowhead AMBER: Where? At times sobbing, Scott told the massage therapist there were things he could not tell her over the phone, and he urged her to meet him at a family friend's cabin in Lake Arrowhead, a five-hour drive from her Fresno home and more than 400 miles from Modesto, the epicenter of the search for Laci Peterson. Frey, who secretly taped the call at the behest of police, brushed off the request, saying they would be followed by the media. But Peterson continued pressing for a meeting. He told her he desperately needed to look into her eyes. "What would my eyes do for you?" a skeptical Frey asked. "I think they'd do so much ... I guess they'd either hurt really bad or they'd do so much," he said. Frey still refused to meet Peterson. "At this point all I could see is this damaging me more," she told him. The call was one of 16 phone conversations from January and February 2003 screened for jurors Monday. The recordings included the Feb. 19 call in which Frey broke off contact with Peterson. "I think it would be best if you and I didn't talk anymore until there's resolution in this whole ..." Frey told him, her voice trailing off. "Yeah, I agree with that," Peterson said. A moment later, his words choked with emotion, he said, "I hope to talk to you in the future ... Goodbye for now." The pair never spoke again. As Peterson's words echoed throughout the courtroom, he stared into space at the defense table. Across the courtroom, Frey sat next to her lawyer, Gloria Allred, reading along with the transcript. Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, is expected to begin cross-examining Frey Monday morning. After meeting privately with lawyers Tuesday morning, Judge Delucchi said he barred the defense from questioning Frey about relationships she had before or after Scott unless they were specifically discussed in the 42 phone conversations and voice mail messages played since Frey took the stand last Tuesday. Prosecutors contend Peterson killed his 27-year-old wife, who was eight months pregnant with their first child, because he wanted to pursue a relationship with Frey and dreaded the demands of fatherhood. In the calls played Tuesday, Peterson continued professing devotion to Frey even after she held a press conference at the Modesto Police Department Jan. 24 to acknowledge their affair. "I just need to tell you how much I care about you," he told the single mother Feb. 8. "And I desire so much to be, you know, for the rest of our lives, your best friend, your biggest comfort and the second most joy in your life. I wanna be those things so bad for you." HOME INDEX LACI TRIAL SCOTT ALIBI-WITNESS LIST WIRETAPS |
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