Chip Chick
Laci’s husband Scott Peterson became an immediate subject. Laci’s friends and family insisted he had nothing to do with her disappearance. They all maintained he was innocent. He would never do this to his own wife.
A successful fertilizer salesman, Scott brought home $5,000 a month back in the early 2000s. He was very well off, and Laci worked part-time as a teacher.
Laci’s Mom and baby sister said that she tried so hard to be the absolutely perfect housewife for Scott. She loved entertaining. She loved cooking.
She loved her husband. She loved that they were starting a family together and she was just overjoyed to be pregnant when she found out in 2002.
She had tried for over a year to have a baby, so this was big news to her. She had even already set up a nursery for her soon to arrive son.
Scott’s behavior in the days leading up to and days after Laci’s disappearance was strange, to say the least.
Scott left a bizarre voicemail telling his mistress, Amber Frey, his wife had died weeks before she actually had.
Scott met Amber through a friend of his while Laci was 7 months pregnant with Conner. 27-year-old Amber was a massage therapist who later told authorities that Scott said to her that he was a single widower, so she started up a romantic relationship with him.
She never imagined he had a wife, let alone a pregnant one back home. Amber really had no idea Scott had made her a mistress.
Upon learning about Laci’s disappearance through a news article, Amber immediately contacted authorities.
She had only been seeing Scott for a month at that point, but Amber became a key piece in solving the mystery. She allowed for 30 hours of phone conversations with Scott to be recorded by police.
