"Sounds to me like he's a little possessive of Amber."
Really obsessed. I did my homework and read many of the phone transcripts! What jumps out at me is his willingness/desire to keep talking to her in light of the "grilling". If Amber was just a fling he would have handled her differently. I'm still sticking with what I said earlier. He made a decision long before Amber to "get rid" of his wife and child in some manner. He wanted a "new wife" or partner and Amber was it. I don't think he would have necessarily been faithful to her - I think he just likes to have someone to take care of domestic needs while he has fun "on the side". Laci was probably making demands that would have precluded the aforementioned lifestyle. As always, JMO.
Of all people, YOU have just got to read the part where Scott tells Amber he "saw her in the mirror". I think it's in the 2nd Jan. 12 tape, about pg. 30.
And also, do you notice how he keeps asking Amber to talk about her "suffering"? He also asks her, "This is affecting Ayianna, isn't it?" He wants her to describe how Ayianna is also "suffering" from this. She obliges, saying Ayianna is having trouble sleeping, etc.
I had a transitory thought when I kept reading his pleas to her to describe her and Ayianna's "suffering". I briefly thought that he enjoyed hearing about their suffering.
I dismissed it, but I see that someone on WS-- a poster named sirensong--had the same thought. So maybe I wasn't imagining things. Sirensong suggested that Scott gets off on other people's suffering and pain!
Regarding the mirror incident, he tells Amber what she was wearing, and she says, "As a matter of fact, I did stand in front of the mirror with those clothes that day." (Paraphrasing.) I think MizSterious called that one: he was trying to let Amber know that he was watching her, trying to freak her out to keep her under control.
I saw a TV show about a female profiler one time. Or maybe she was a true crime author. She talked to some serial killer at the prison where he was housed. That night, she was at her hotel room. She had let him have the phone number there. He called. He told her, "I'm looking at your window right now." She asked him how that could be. He said, "You know that phone booth off the parking lot?" He described the phone booth to a T. He said, "I'm right in it now, looking up at your window. I can see your shadow on the drapes."
She couldn't resist looking out the window. There was the phone booth--empty, of course. She told him, "You actually had me looking out the window." He laughed and enjoyed the moment--how he could get that deeply into her mind that he almost had her believing the impossible. Almost had her believing that he was so powerful, that he could be in prison for life, but then somehow be in a phone booth outside the hotel.
Your post #61 is absolutely right!! Remember How he BEGGED Shawn Sibley to set him up with a girl "FOR A SERIOUS, LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP"??? This is what Peterson was looking for and frankly, it looks to me like Amber swept him off his feet. Whether he would have stayed with her is another matter. I doubt a man like that could ever be faithful forever to ANY woman.
I'm really starting to think Amber's gullibility is part of Scott's overall plan. Any other man would have told her where to shove that phone in a NY minute, but he whines and begs for more, just to say "You don't know all the facts" "I can't go in to that now" and so on.
His plan was to use her to go on the record, just in case. I swear, he was that cunning. This SOB believes he has planned the perfect murder, and I'm absolutely convinced this is a graduate course, he's done this before. Mom and Pa know this too, no doubt about it.
I also know that if he get's off, he's a walking dead man. I'd be surprised if he made it 48 hours.Besides the obvious Rocha family, can you imagine Amber, if he walks?