Posted on 12/30/2004 11:30:36 AM PST by Tarpaulin
The death penalty is too easy for Scott Peterson, who should be forced to rot in prison for years reliving his crime, his former mistress believes.
Amber Frey, the willowy blond masseuse whose steely testimony about his web of deceptions sealed his fate, told NBC's Matt Lauer she would have preferred for Peterson to be sentenced to life in prison instead.
"I felt life [in prison] gives him every day to live with what has happened," she said in her first interview since her ex-lover's conviction. The interview also came just days before her memoir "Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson" is to be released.
"It's almost to me death is so much simpler ... You know that he doesn't have to live with that every day," Frey told Lauer in an interview scheduled to air on Monday and Tuesday on "Today" and "Dateline."
She became romantically involved with Peterson just weeks before he killed his eight-months pregnant wife Laci and dumped her body into San Francisco Bay.
Frey stayed out of the spotlight since her stunning admission at a 2003 press conference that she had been dating Peterson at the time of his wife's disappearance - and that he had lied to her about not being married.
Court testimony later revealed that when she realized her new boyfriend was the husband of the famously missing Modesto, Calif., woman, Frey agreed to help police by secretly taping phone conversations with Peterson. Those tapes annihilated Peterson's credibility during his trial, as he told her whopper after whopper while police searched for his missing wife.
Frey told NBC her "stomach was turning" as she waited for Peterson to call her. "I was shaking," she said. "My hands were just sweaty."
She also described watching Peterson doing TV interviews shortly after she went public with their affair.
She thought to herself "that he was just a piece of work ... There isn't any truth that comes out of this man's mouth. And I just saw him, you know, as this compulsive liar, I mean, pathological liar."
I agree with that. Which is why none of my comments were directed at Amber.
HI ya CO...I dont get on here as much as before now that Amber fried Scott who's fish story couldn't hold water because his lawyer couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat ! Well my friend keep pinging me wherever you go and I will try to keep up !
Why on earth are you writing to me, when I was simply defending the posters' rights to free speech??
Good for you for speaking your mind.l too believe she was a victim and it's not right to call her such ugly names.No matter what she testified against him and l'm sure it wasn't easy for her.l think it was a brave thing she did by testifying and showing what a creep Scott really was. and l thank her for that.Now maybe baby Connor and mom can rest in peace.
Yep, if it weren't for her and her testimony, Scott would be a free man. I'd bet on that because what they lacked in physical evidence, they made up for in the recorded conversations with her.
http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/images1/amberfrey/5.htm
I just ran across this old thread and thought you'd like this pic, since you think Amber is such an honorable licensed therapist.
I sure wish these numerous pics would have been available when I was being flamed so badly.
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