Scott Peterson Sells Missing Wife's Car

KABC-TV news Los Angeles ^

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

MODESTO — Scott Peterson, whose pregnant wife, Laci, has been missing since late December, tried to sell the couple's Modesto, Calif., home, sources close to the investigation into her disappearance said. Peterson allegedly looked into selling the home, saying he had issues with it and didn't want Laci coming back to it. The deal to sell the home was scrapped about a week after Scott first began looking into it, according to a Sacramento television station. But Peterson, 30, reportedly is driving around town in a new truck these days. He traded in his missing wife's Range Rover SUV for a Dodge pickup truck, sources close to the investigation said. It's unclear what motivated the transaction and Modesto police have not commented.

‘A Slap in the Face’

But the news is a blow to Laci's friends and relatives.

"Sharon, Laci's mom, turned to all of us and said, 'You know Scott sold Laci's car, don't you?' And we were all just shocked, absolutely shocked. And we didn't know, I didn't know what to say," Luceene Gee, who has been volunteering in the search for the missing woman, told KOVR.

"My first thought was, 'How cold.' I mean, that's a piece of Laci," Gee said.

Another volunteer commented on how the news must be affecting Laci's mother.

"I felt so bad for her, because it's just like another slap in the face for her," said Bruceene Norton. "She's grieving her child, she doesn't know where she is, she doesn't know what happened to her, doesn't know what's happened to the grandchild. And [he's] sold the car, wants to sell the house. It's heartbreaking."

Heather Sutton, a friend of Laci's, also told KOVR she found the news distressing.

"It was hard to hear that, just because I know that, just by looking at the car, it's totally Laci and by hearing that she loved that car, that was difficult for me. And maybe he has his reasons I don't know," Sutton said.

Family members held a candlelight vigil on Jan. 31 for the 27-year-old Laci and her unborn child, who was to have been named Connor.

Scott Peterson says he last saw Laci on the morning of Dec. 24, when he left on a solo fishing trip. She was eight months pregnant at the time.

Police have not named Peterson as a suspect in his wife's disappearance, but attention has focused on him, in part, because he admits he told his wife he was having an affair shortly before she vanished.

In a recent interview with ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer, Peterson said his wife accepted his affair with Amber Frey, a single mother from Fresno, when he told her back in early December. Frey has said she had no idea Peterson was married, and that she contacted Modesto police as soon as she realized the man she was seeing was connected to a missing person's case.

Peterson told Sawyer he and his wife never even had a fight over his extramarital affair, adding that he never laid a hand on Laci and hopes to find her alive.

Last Updated: Feb 4, 2003

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

His behavior is more disgusting than O.J.'s.

[TomServo]

He has to have something tide him over 'til the insurance kicks in.

[AntiGuv]

He appears remarkably convinced he won't get caught, in my view. Perhaps he's really pulled off the 'perfect' murder (well, except for all the suspicions). I'm quite curious now how he did it..

[APBaer]

Check the trunk!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

What did he *think*? That the nation is so heartbroken and focused on the space shuttle right now, that if he were to sell Laci's SUV, no one would notice?

Please pick up the pace, Modesto P.D.!!! We need you!

[Bella]

I'm quite curious now how he did it..

Why's that? LOL

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Good God in Heaven, how brazen and in-your-face can a person get? And I thought O.J. was bad...

[RobRoy]

>>"My first thought was, 'How cold.' I mean, that's a piece of Laci," Gee said. <<

No, it's a car. It is said that men don't understand women. It is pretty danged clear to me that outside of what goes on in bed, women don't understand men.

This guy was having an affair, which implies a certain quality of relationship with his wife - and then she disapears for AT LEAST a month. There are two possibilities: 1) He's ticked and all this activity is an "in your face" to his wife that took off or 2) He killed her.

Both are plausible.

[ConservativeMan55]

This calls for Chief Moose!

[Bullish]

This guy's a real POS!

[Bella]

This calls for Chief Moose!

Oh ya, for certain, so he can write another book.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

My jaw is still on the floor!!

[RobRoy]

Who's Chief Moose?

[ConservativeMan55]

You know! Chief Charles Moose! Everybody knows Chief Moose!!!

[Bobby777]

Scott Peterson Sells Missing Wife's Car

often, in cases like these, I prefer to wait until all the facts are in (wishing Laci would be found alive and well, of course) BUT this "selling of Laci's car" is so inappropriate (traded it in on a new one, yes?) that's I'm just flabbergasted ...

what a shame ...

[Registered]

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[RobRoy]

No, I haven't a clue. I admit I've been off TV for six years so I'm betting it's from TV. But I usually am aware of anything real popular like that "everybody likes what's his name" show and "Friends."

[justshe]

What a sick S.O.B!

[IncPen]

...Note to Modesto Police...

_{GET THE WARRANT}