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Thanks runningbear. There was the Feb 25th NE article that said there was no salt water in Scott's boat but that the truck (acording to preliminary DNA reports) had tested positive for Laci's blood. Then there was the KTVU report which denyed the information from the NE article,titled,"Modesto Police Deny Enquirer Report.Link follows.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/1978651/detail.html

I think it was all the controversy about the salt water and the boat which instigated all the discussion of wheither or not Scott had washed the boat. Does this sound right or was there a news article which claimed he had. On a side note, evidently the type of boat Scott owned,has a plug in the bottom,so if washed all the fluids from the boat would wash right out.

Thanks! I hadn't remembered LACI'S blood being found in the truck. All I remembered was that Scott's blood was on the driver's door, which he explained by suddenly remembering he'd cut his hand on his toolbox. (Oh, yeah, I cut my knuckle---just like OJ.)

Thanks Maggie.
I found the latest NE article. I guess Rickamorti wasn't around this week. Credit to: crimenews2000 by poster ibnora

National Enquirer Cover date: October 28, 2003

COVER: NEW LACI MURDER BREAKTHROUGH: THE 300 CALLS THAT WILL NAIL SCOTT!

Cover Photo: Scott on one of his cellphones by the front gate

Story: Amber Tapes will Nail Laci's Husband

by David Wright

Synopsis:

Scott Peterson's lover Amber Frey went to amazing lengths to help police nab (Scott) for the murder of his pregant wife Laci - secretly setting a trap to lure
him into taking a lie detector test that he had been dodging!

The Enquirer has learned the content of almost 300 calls between Scott and Amber.

Amber sought to "trap (Scott) into taking the poly test to 'prove' to her his innocence".

Amber is called the "most important civilian witness in this case" as Craig Silverman, former chief deputy district attorney for Denver, told the NE.

"When the jury hears her and the tapes and realizes how obsessed Scott was with Amber even when he was pretending to lead the search for his missing wife, they'll hate his guts."

Silverman says Amber and the tapes provide a motive for the murder. They show that Scott lies whenever it suits his purpose.

A polygraph sting was set-up in "a flurry of phone calls" between Amber, her police handlers and a leading poly examiner over a 17 hour period ending on February 1st. By that time Laci had been missing nearly six weeks.

Scott didn't know Amber was working with the Modesto police. NE says Amber was constantly "quizzing" Scott during the calls and was "loosely following an FBI script and asking him more and more pointedly whether he had anything to do with Laci's disappearance."

On January 31st, detectives decided to "move things along a little faster". LE asked Amber to try to get Scott to take a lie detector test the next time he called her.

On January 31st at 7:06pm Scott called Amber and they talked for 25 minutes. Six minutes after the call ended, Scott called her again. At this point, Amber told Scott "You keep telling me how much you love me and want to be with me. But I have to know that you had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance." She took a deep breath and then went on: "Will you take a lie detector test and put my mind at rest once and for all?"

NE says Scott hesitated and the call ended at 7:49pm. Within seconds, the logs show that Amber called Det. Jon Buehler and that they spoke for 12 minutes. "Amber and Buehler talked again at 11:40 that night. He passed along instructions and the moment their talk ended she called Scott."

During this call to Scott, which ended at 11:59 pm, she "played her trump card". She told Scott, "If you'll take the poly, I'll come with you and take one to prove that I knew nothing about what has happened", according to NE's source.

Amber knew she had nothing to fear from taking a polygraph, she had already voluntarily taken and passed a police polygraph on December 30th.

After the 11:59 pm call to Scott, she called Detective Buehler at 12:06 am (now Saturday, February 1st) and they talked for 14 minutes. Amber and the detective talked again at 9:01 am on Saturday morning. They both felt confident enough to call a polygraph examiner and set up the test.

After her talk with Buehler, Amber called Melvin King, a leading polygraph expert and former Fresno Police lieutenant, at 9:19 am. Then, she called Buehler again and then Scott at 9:36 am when they talked for 13 minutes. She called Buehler again within minutes of hanging up with Scott. Just before 10 am she called Melvin King again to set up an appointment.

NE's source said the detectives were elated. "Two undercover cops were already in Fresno, ready to bust Scott if he revealed what they hoped for during the polygraph."

Before the test could be set up, Scott got cold feet. "Amber tried to make the polygraph approach to Scott very casually," another insider revealed. "She already knew that when police had asked him directly to take a polygraph, he'd said no."

NE's source said at first he went along with Amber's suggestion about taking the test (hence, the call to Melvin King), then when she called Scott to say she was on the way to take the test, he told her "I would do it but my lawyers say I can't. The police are trying to frame me."

Contacted by NE, Melvin King told them he couldn't comment, that he had been notified he was now under a gag order in the case.

65 of Scott's calls, totaling more than 3 1/2 hours, were made during the period when "the supposedly grieving husband was denying to police that he had ever been unfaithful to Laci."

NE said Scott shared 2 romantic calls with Amber just before he joined the Rochas and Grantskis at the candelight vigil for Laci and her unborn son. The calls were at 11:42 am and 2:59 pm on New Year's Eve. They say that on this date he was still pretending to be a widower and telling Amber he loved her. Amber "had to bite her lip to stop herself from screaming "you liar!'".

December 20th was the last time Amber saw Scott and he told her he was going to Maine to spend Christmas with his family there. "So assuming he was there, (Maine), she called him at 8:23 am on Christmas Day to wish him a Merry Christmas." "He romanced Amber during the call as if he hadn't a care in the world."

NE said that "on December 30th, Amber finally found out from a friend that Scott had a pregnant wife who was missing. That's when she went to the police, told them she had been Scott's love since November and agreed to cooperate with them." "The next day she faced her first test as a double agent, making the two calls to Scott before he attended the vigil."

"Amber was under instructions from the police not to let Scott know she knew he had a missing wife - and in both calls he acted lovey-dovey, as if nothing had happened."

Soon after the vigil, Scott "made it clear that he was planning to flee the country". He asked Amber to think about moving to Europe with him and live with him there.

On January 5th, Amber got Scott to admit he was the husband of Laci. Amber blew up at him for lying and letting her think they had a future. Her burst of anger at Scott "dismayed her police handlers, who worried that Scott's phone calls would end and they would loose their best link to the chief suspect."

According to NE, the phone logs show that Amber and Scott didn't talk again until two days later. Then, she called him and it lasted an hour and 20 minutes. "Amber had to talk her head off - but she got Scott 'back on the hook'".

NE says, as they have reported exclusively, Amber and Scott's "frequent phone conversations continued almost until April 18, when Scott was arrested."

It concludes by saying that "Amber had delighted her police handlers by extracting this taped confession from Scott: "I didn't do anything to Laci, but I know who did." And, briefly brings up the irony of Melvin King meeting with Cory Carroll, and talking with Amber.

There was the Feb 25th NE article that said there was no salt water in Scott's boat but that the truck (acording to preliminary DNA reports) had tested positive for Laci's blood.

Thanks so much, Mags, for all your hard work in helping us to get our facts on this case. But I'm confused again, and maybe you can straighten me out. You mention a Feb. 25th NE article; yet, the KTVU report denying the article was dated Feb. 14th. Does this mean MPD denied the article before it was even published?