Peterson, Frey had frequent contact

The Modesto Bee ^ | Sept 25, 2003 | John Cote' and Garth Stapely

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Peterson, Frey had frequent contact

Peterson, Frey had frequent contact

By GARTH STAPLEY and JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITERS

Published: September 25, 2003, 08:02:39 AM PDT

Scott Peterson exchanged at least 18 telephone calls with his girlfriend in the nine days before his pregnant wife disappeared, according to partial phone records. He also received at least 47 calls from Amber Frey to his cell phones in the three weeks after authorities believe he killed his wife and their unborn son, the records reveal.

All 65 calls -- totaling more than 3 1/2 hours -- were made at a time when Scott Peterson insisted that he didn't have a girlfriend.

Two of them came on New Year's Eve, the day more than 1,000 people attended a commun-ity candlelight vigil for the missing Laci Peterson.

Frey made more than 50 calls to police starting Dec. 30. Some of those calls were made after police were authorized to tap Peterson's phones, and court documents show the wiretaps picked up a call between Frey and Peterson as late as Jan. 20.

Frey figures to be an important prosecution witness in the high-profile case and has been protected by private guards.

Frey was not the only woman with whom Scott Peterson had an affair with, a source said. He had at least one other girlfriend during his five-year marriage, the source said.

The phone records reflect only a portion of the calls between at least four phones known to be used by Frey and Peterson.

The 30-year-old fertilizer salesman has pleaded innocent to murder charges. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Frey, 28, has said she met and started dating Peterson in November, not knowing he was married.

The phone records from Dec. 14 to Jan. 14 also reveal that:

Frey, a Fresno massage therapist, called Modesto police at 1:43 a.m. Dec. 30. The call lasted 22 minutes. On Jan. 28, when Frey went public about her romantic involvement with Peterson, she cited the pivotal Dec. 30 call.

She made the call immediately after receiving two calls, starting at 1:24 a.m.

In the next three weeks, Frey exchanged at least 48 calls with Modesto police Detective John Buehler. She also called the phones of police Detectives Phil Owen and Al Brocchini twice each.

Frey's attorney said she has cooperated with investigators, who tapped at least two of Peterson's cell phones.

Authorities had an affidavit sealed Jan. 22 for a "search warrant for Scott Peterson's phone records," a Stanislaus County Superior Court order shows. It is unclear whether investigators executed the search warrant for the phone records.

But court documents show that authorities did use a search warrant May 28 in connection with the case for toll and subscriber information from five telecommunications companies: AT&T Wireless, Nextel, Cingular, Sprint and SBC. The companies provided investigators with dozens of pages of information, according to court documents.

Most of Frey's calls to Scott Peterson lasted five minutes or less. Only one, on Jan. 7, was longer; it lasted 100 minutes.

Frey and Peterson called each other an average of two times daily in the week before Laci Peterson was reported missing Christmas Eve. There were at least four calls on Christmas as media descended on Modesto to cover the disappearance. On Dec. 26, while volunteers combed the Petersons' La Loma neighborhood and a park, the number of calls shot up to 14. All calls were made between 3 and 9 p.m.

Frey put in two calls, on Jan. 10 and 14, to a volunteer search center based at Modesto's Red Lion Hotel. It is not known whether she spoke to volunteers or Scott Peterson, who regularly visited the center.

Peterson apparently spoke to Frey on the phone only once on Dec. 23, the day his wife vis- ited her doctor. Laci Peterson accompanied her husband that day to have his hair cut by her sister. Authorities have said they believe Laci Peterson was killed later that day or the next day.

On the day a judge agreed to let police tap Peterson's calls, Frey spoke with him at least twice. She called Buehler's phone number eight times that day. Frey hasn't spoken to the media, aside from the initial news conference revealing the affair and another staged by Gloria Allred, her Los Angeles attorney.

Allred declined Wednesday to comment on specifics surrounding her client's phone conversations with Peterson.

"I can only make a general statement that when .........

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Nude photos of Amber Frey posted on for-profit Web site

Nude photos of Amber Frey posted on for-profit Web site

By John Coté
The Modesto Bee
(Published Thursday, September 25, 2003, 5:12 AM)

MODESTO -- A broker of photos for men's magazines has posted nude photos of Amber Frey on his Web site, and the Fresno massage therapist has talked with her attorney about suing him.

The broker, David Hans Schmidt, said he bought the photos and release rights from a Fresno photographer earlier this year. The Web site, where Schmidt charges $19.95 for access, came to light Wednesday.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Frey as she prepares to be a witness in the Scott Peterson double-murder case, said her client has never relinquished rights to the photos.

Allred said her job is to defend Frey from attacks on her credibility that may come from Peterson's defense team and elsewhere.

Allred called the Web site "disgusting and an attempt to exploit Amber simply because she may be an important witness in a high-profile murder case."

"We have advised Amber of all of her legal rights against Mr. Schmidt and anyone who is involved in the sale and distribution of her images, and she will seriously consider her legal options," Allred said in a written statement released Wednesday.

When reached by phone, Allred declined to say what options were discussed or whether Frey would sue Schmidt.

"I hope she sues," Schmidt said Wednesday while traveling in New York. "You can print that. I hope she sues me."..........

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PETERSON PAL EXPOSED

PETERSON PAL EXPOSED

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September 25, 2003 --

The other woman in the Laci Peterson murder investigation was fully exposed yesterday - after a Web site started charging $19.95 for more than two dozen racy pictures of her.

Web site operator David Hans Schmidt posted 27 pictures of Amber Frey, 28, a massage therapist who had a fling with murder suspect Scott Peterson.

The photos were taken in 1999, Schmidt said.

"She responded to a local ad for nude models," said the Internet entrepreneur.

Frey is involved in the mystery surrounding Laci Peterson, a pregnant Modesto, Calif., woman who vanished last Christmas Eve.

Her body and the remains of her unborn child washed ashore near San Francisco in April, leading to Scott Peterson's arrest........

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Frey may sue porn broker over online photos

Frey may sue porn broker over online photos

By JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITER

Published: September 25, 2003, 07:02:55 AM PDT

A pornography broker has posted nude photos of Amber Frey on his Web site, and the Fresno massage therapist and her attorney have discussed suing the man.

The broker, David Hans Schmidt, said he purchased the photos and release rights from a Fresno photographer earlier this year. The Web site, where Schmidt charges $19.95 for use, came to light Wednesday.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Frey as she prepares to be a witness in the Scott Peterson double-murder case, said her client never has relinquished rights to the photos.

Allred said she is representing Frey to defend her from attacks on her credibility from Peterson's defense team and elsewhere.

Allred called the Web site "disgusting and an attempt to exploit Amber simply because she may be an important witness in a high-profile murder case."

Peterson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son.

"We have advised Amber of all of her legal rights against Mr. Schmidt and anyone who is involved in the sale and distribution of her images and she will seriously consider her legal options," Allred said in a written statement released Wednesday.

When reached by phone, Allred declined to say what those options were or whether Frey would sue Schmidt.

"I hope she sues," Schmidt said Wednesday while traveling in New York. "You can print that. I hope she sues me."

Allred contends that Schmidt never has produced an original document signed by Frey releasing her rights to the photos. Schmidt contends that he has a signed, legally binding release.

"Do you think I would enter into a contract.........

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Peterson Informer Convinces Ex-Cop

Peterson Informer Convinces Ex-Cop

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

The inmate who claims he overheard double murder suspect Scott Peterson (search) talking about kidnapping his wife Laci convinced the ex-cop who gave him a polygraph test that he is telling the truth, the officer told Fox News in an exclusive interview.

Lt. Melvin King (search) told Fox News' Geraldo Rivera Wednesday that he was skeptical of inmate Cory Lee Carroll's (search) story at first, but changed his mind after their two-hour session.

"Mr. Carroll was able to convince me that he truly believes what he's saying has some validity to it," King said.

King, who has dealt with numerous inmate witnesses in the past, said they typically ask to cut some sort of deal for a plea bargain. But Carroll was different, he said.

"He was just the opposite," King told Fox.

Peterson, 30, is accused of killing his wife Laci Peterson, 27, and unborn son, Conner.

Carroll, a self-described petty property criminal, told investigators he first met Peterson last November at the City Lights strip club in Fresno, Calif...........

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[STOCKHRSE]

"I mean, the route that comes up when you consider the "sightings" is a route which makes little or no sense."

He, he he...She walks a triangle, if she is like me she called it her triangle. Dev, its not supposed to make sense,Luv its supposed to ward off boredom,keep your mind on a different look all the time and keep your mind off of how far you have gone.It is psychological and you never run out of new routes.

Also if you have a difficult animal that likes to go his/her own way you can thoroughly confuse him/her until they act like you want without having to get rough.

I used to walk in Waveland(this was 1990+/-) The railroad and the beach and Sears Ave. Form a triangle 10 miles +/- around the perimeter. I set a goal of 20 miles a week. In 6 mts. I was doing almost double that. I never could have done it w/o my triangle. The advantage was that I could walk almost anytime by takin advantage of the trees in the heat and the many angles of the streets in the windy cold.

Another thing about them is you can walk long distances and not ever be too far from home, if the weather is changing or maybe I wasn't feeling too good and wanted access to the house in a hurry. IOW,I never had an excuse not to walk.

I have mapped out Laci's triangle several times and I will again later today. She had a good tringle with access to two parks along, is it Rocky creek. One by her house, and Mrs Mitchell says she walked a park by her house weather permitting. She said Laci would walk in both directions-on different days. Sometimes she passed her house before she went to the park and other times vice versa.

If memory serves, the last day she was coming from the park.Let me check first and see. I remember, I thought the area she was walking through after she passed the mitchells looked, on the map anyway, to be a spot ideal to be Grabbed, In fact I think that was about when she had to go. the dog took the creek bed home I think; Thus all the mud on the leach and that would put him paassing the teacher who was in the park by her house.

I need a nap; I went walking this morning.

[Sandylapper]

LOL, we really do need a cast of characters index!

[Canadian Outrage]

That's really interesting Maggie. I don't get Catherine Crier et al but you can keep me posted. Whichever way this thing happened, Snott IS the author of it. Also, I find it very very telling that her torso was found with the remnants of light colored slacks. The same as what she was wearing at the hairdressing shop when LAST seen. NO way was she wearing black slacks as Scott described. The so-called witnesses are out to lunch!! They all have her walking on different streets in different directions all at the same time.

[Devil_Anse]

Perhaps, Ray. But it's already certain that there was more than one smiling, pregnant brunette living in that neighborhood.

I know scent dogs are not perfect, but I just think those dogs they brought in would have found a little something along the street, if she'd been gallivanting all over the place on foot.

She being middle-class female, would be more cautious, especially while pregnant for her first time. I don't think she'd want to get too unpredictable with her route while near the end of pregnancy. Plus, it's uncomfortable to walk at that time.

I mean, if she was walking all over the streets, where did Scott get the idea that she was going to the park? He says she told him that. (We have to believe him! It's not his fault if he's being framed. He has no criminal record.) Once she told him that, I think she'd have stuck more or less to that. Or at LEAST she'd have taken her cellphone--but she took ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with her, not even a few quarters for a panhandler, b/c all her money, I.D., etc., was found in the house.

Do they still have Trapani's in Waveland? LOL, my husband used to drive that long, lonely road between I-10 and Waveland, not far from that NASA place. He claims a small yellow-lighted object followed his car one night, then zoomed out of sight, then appeared in front of his car!

[Devil_Anse]

CO brings up a point I forgot. When we map where Laci was "seen" that morning, we have to include the stated times. When earlier they put together the times of those witnesses' sightings, the times were impossible to all be true.

[Devil_Anse]

Oh, no. He's a handyman? Wouldn't you know, lol! Richard Ricci was a handyman, William Rothstein (in the bombed pizza man case) is a handyman... eeek!! The guy in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" was a handyman! Then there was that handyman that the little girl burned to death in "The Bad Seed"!

Very interesting, that Muna now claims they have a witness!

[Canadian Outrage]

'zactly, my dear.

[Velveeta]

Could The Bones Be Additional Peterson Remains?
http://www.ktvu.com/news/2524468/detail.html

RICHMOND Calif. -- Authorities on Wednesday were trying to determine if bones -- believed to be human neck bones -- discovered by a dog walker at a Richmond bay-side park were additional remains of murdered Modesto schoolteacher Laci Peterson.


The bones were discovered by Lori Krestian as she walked her dog 'Bubba' at the park several hundred yards from where Peterson's partial remains and those of her unborn son were discovered in April. Peterson's husband, Scott, has told investigators he was fishing in the nearby waters off the Berkeley Marina on Christmas Eve day when Laci allegedly disappeared from the couple's Modesto home without a trace.

Scott Peterson has been charged with two counts of capital homicide and is currently being held in the Stanislaus County jail without bail. There is an Oct. 20 preliminary hearing scheduled in the case.

Krestian said she was walking her dog along the beach when she made the grisly discovery.

"They looked like human bones to me," Krestian told KTVU. "I thought 'What am I going to do?' If I left them there they would have washed out. I put them in a bag"

Authorities said there would be a two-step identification process. Step one would be to determine whether or not the bones were human remains. If so, they will be forwarded to the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office to determine if they are those of Peterson.

Searchers returned to the local waters in late September hoping to find further evidence in the case. Because of a gag order imposed by Stanislaus Superior Court Judge Al Girolami, authorities could not say what, if anything, they found in that search.

[Velveeta]

I watched the video blurb on KTVU that corresponds with the article above. Ted Rowlands reporting says they are possibly "neck bones".

[Canadian Outrage]

Great find Vel. May The Bay give it ALL up!!

[Devil_Anse]

That's really something! You're on the ball!!

(If a week or so they come back and say, "Oh, those turned out to be just animal bones" and then you hear loud cussing, pay no mind, it's just me at my monitor... I want to know for SURE who killed Laci!!)

[Devil_Anse]

I hope that when the 4+ dogwalker witnesses in this case finally come to court to testify, that they get to bring their dogs.

[runningbear]

you know that is what I thought they stated those bones were... from a animal? Were they wrong, or premature?

[Devil_Anse]

OH NO!!! Say it ain't so!!

[Sandylapper]

I want to know for SURE who killed Laci!!

Me too, Anse! I don't want to have a reasonable doubt. And whoever did it, I want him/them to pay most dearly, to the full extent of the law.

[Rusty Roberts]

He said that Carroll told him the two names were Tony and Anthony (given that "Tony" is the nickname...)

I just have a nagging feeling that Carroll is something from the defense team and am waiting to see where all the chips fall.

[Sandylapper]

He said that Carroll told him the two names were Tony and Anthony (given that "Tony" is the nickname...)

That was the other question King said he would have liked to follow up on, but didn't! I'm just glad someone else saw the program! LOL!

What do you think of King vs. Muna? As a former LEO, I rather think he sounds more credible than Muna. Would much rather hear him answer questions. He actually answers the questions, and I believe truthfully. I think if I were in trouble or had a story to tell, I'd pick someone else if I were Carroll.

One more thing, Rusty, if you recall, did King say there were 2 girls in the club, one had a camera, another sat on a "lap" or "laps", while the other girl "snapped" a picture? Anyway, I was somewhat under the impression that the girl (or girls) worked at the club. Is that what you heard?

You may be right--this could be coming from the defense, but don't think King is. Maybe Muna, but nevertheless, it's time for MPD to make a statement about what has been reported to them regarding this in lieu of taking us back to the bay for what appears to be neckbones. JMO

[MaggieMay]

Cory Carroll is certainly only telling edited parts, of the story.If he is telling the truth at all.

I am anxious to see more corroboration of his story.

Where is Jackie-O? Our very own Fox news reporter.

[Canadian Outrage]

Law Enforcement are Not allowed to comment right now Sandy. They will get their hands slapped or the "evidence" will not be admitted if they break the gag rule.