The Megyn Kelly Show - September 01, 2026


The Double Life of Scott Peterson： The Other Woman — Ep. 1 ｜ MK Confidential


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00:01:27.320 New Year's Eve, 2002.
00:01:29.480 In California's Central Valley, a 27-year-old massage therapist named Amber Fry
00:01:34.780 is at a party with her friends when her phone rings.
00:01:38.240 She has been dating the man on the other end of the line.
00:01:40.760 Happy New Year.
00:01:41.780 Happy New Year.
00:01:42.520 I wanted to call you.
00:01:43.780 Thank you.
00:01:46.120 Amber, are you there?
00:01:47.060 I'm here.
00:01:47.680 Amber.
00:01:48.360 I wish you could hear me.
00:01:49.680 I'm near the Eiffel Tower.
00:01:52.240 They met on a blind date six weeks ago at a bar in Fresno.
00:02:01.220 He told her he was single.
00:02:03.520 He told her he lived alone in a big house in Sacramento built in the 1940s.
00:02:08.860 He told her he is a fertilizer salesman and that his job takes him all over the world,
00:02:14.540 from Boston to Cairo to Paris.
00:02:17.520 He said he really wishes he could have pets, but because of his frequent travels,
00:02:21.780 it wouldn't be fair to them.
00:02:24.020 He has met her two-year-old daughter
00:02:25.840 and picked the little girl up from preschool.
00:02:28.300 He has taken the two of them out to choose a Christmas tree.
00:02:32.020 Amber Fry saved the cork from a bottle of wine they drink together.
00:02:35.620 She wrote their names on it and the date.
00:02:38.060 Amber, you're there. I can't hear you right now,
00:02:40.060 but I'll call you on your New Year's.
00:02:41.840 Okay, I'll hear from you then.
00:02:43.620 Amber, Amber, miss you. I'll be fine.
00:02:47.600 He is not near the Eiffel Tower.
00:02:50.060 He is standing in the grass of East La Loma Park in Modesto, California, three blocks from his own front door.
00:02:58.100 More than a thousand people are standing there with him in the dark, holding candles and photographs of a woman who has been missing for a week.
00:03:06.540 They are singing. They are praying. Some of them are crying.
00:03:10.960 The woman is eight months pregnant with his first child, a boy they have already named Connor.
00:03:16.560 Her name is Lacey Peterson, and she is his wife.
00:03:22.060 And as he tells her of the crowd in Paris, Amber Fry already knows he's speaking lies.
00:03:28.380 The day before, she told the Modesto Police Department everything she knows.
00:03:32.800 Right now, in her hand, there is a tape recorder two of their detectives gave her.
00:03:38.460 She is recording every word.
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00:05:02.080 Scott Peterson meets Amber Frye on a blind date.
00:05:04.860 On October 23, 2002, Sean Sibley meets Scott, then 30, at a pest control convention in Anaheim.
00:05:13.380 and thinks he would be just perfect for her best friend.
00:05:16.740 Sean thinks he's funny and good-looking,
00:05:18.440 and Scott tells her he's single and looking for his life partner.
00:05:23.660 The best friend is Amber Fry,
00:05:26.280 a 27-year-old single mother with a 2-year-old daughter named Ayanna.
00:05:31.220 She lives in Madera, California, near Fresno,
00:05:34.060 and is looking and praying for a life partner of her own.
00:05:38.660 Amber asks Sean if he's cute and nice.
00:05:41.080 Her best friend says very to both.
00:05:44.640 On November 20, 2002, Amber arrives early at the Elephant Bar in Fresno
00:05:49.800 for her date with Scott Peterson.
00:05:52.380 A few minutes past seven, he walks into the bar wearing a well-cut suit.
00:05:57.460 He is just over six feet tall, clearly fit, and he lights up when he sees her waiting.
00:06:02.680 She had hoped it was him.
00:06:04.260 He kisses her lightly on the cheek and says,
00:06:06.260 Am I late? I'm sorry I'm late.
00:06:09.180 He's four minutes late.
00:06:11.080 The elephant bar is the meeting spot before they head to dinner.
00:06:14.400 Scott asks her if they can first run to his hotel
00:06:17.360 so he can check in, shower, and change out of the suit he's been wearing all day.
00:06:22.180 Amber agrees and follows him up to his room.
00:06:25.380 Before jumping in the shower, Scott pulls a bottle of champagne out of a duffel bag,
00:06:30.340 opens it, and pours a glass for each of them.
00:06:33.120 He returns, smartly dressed and, as if he had forgotten something,
00:06:37.860 grabs a box of strawberries out of the same duffel bag.
00:06:41.080 He drops one into each glass of champagne.
00:06:44.380 Clearly, Amber thinks, this is a man who plans ahead.
00:06:48.580 They leave the hotel and go to a private room at the Japanese restaurant,
00:06:53.840 Idoya, where Scott tells her all about his life.
00:06:57.520 Amber is taken with him and hopes they will see each other more.
00:07:01.480 And they do.
00:07:02.880 Scott meets Amber's little girl, Ayana, who likes him right away.
00:07:07.840 He and Amber pick her up from school together.
00:07:09.580 He even takes them to pick out a Christmas tree.
00:07:14.100 Amber saves the cork from a bottle of wine they share
00:07:17.000 and wishes she had grabbed it from that first bottle of champagne.
00:07:21.140 She writes their names and the date on the wine cork,
00:07:24.460 December 2nd, 2002, thinking this is the first of many.
00:07:29.600 On December 6th, Sean Sibley finds out that Scott Peterson is married.
00:07:35.560 She calls Scott and confronts him.
00:07:37.420 He denies it, saying it must be a different Scott Peterson.
00:07:41.300 Only when Sean searches county records online and finds Scott is married to Lacey Peterson does his story change.
00:07:49.400 He is quiet for a long moment.
00:07:51.820 Then he starts crying.
00:07:54.140 Scott, she says, are you still there?
00:07:56.120 What's going on?
00:07:57.560 I'm sorry, he says.
00:07:58.840 I'm sorry I lied to you.
00:08:00.520 It's just I lost my wife.
00:08:03.140 It's been very hard for me.
00:08:04.740 I haven't fully dealt with it yet.
00:08:06.160 Oh, my God, Sean says. I'm so sorry, Scott. I had no idea. He begs her not to tell Amber.
00:08:13.320 I really care for Amber, he says, and I don't want to screw this up. Let me tell her myself.
00:08:18.640 I want to tell her in person. Sean agrees. At this point, Lacey Peterson is very much alive
00:08:26.320 and living in Modesto, pregnant with their son. She is nine weeks away from her due date.
00:08:32.060 Two days later, on December 8th, Scott Peterson starts shopping for a boat, something he keeps
00:08:40.560 a secret. He calls about a lightly used fishing boat from an online classified ad in the Modesto
00:08:46.840 B and talks the seller down to $1,400. The next day, he pays cash for the 14-foot aluminum boat
00:08:54.720 and its trailer, hooks it to his pickup, and tows it away. After his boat purchase,
00:09:01.600 he visits a sport fishing website to find out what fish are currently in season.
00:09:06.880 And then Scott drives south to Amber Fry's house near Fresno to keep the promise he made to Sean
00:09:13.000 Sibley and tell Amber his story about losing his wife. Later, with the tape recorder running,
00:09:20.760 Amber Fry tells Modesto detectives about that conversation. Scott arrives at Amber's house in
00:09:27.320 Madeira in a sharp blue suit with a rotary pin on the lapel. He is clearly agitated and says he needs
00:09:34.420 to speak with her. He pulls two chairs around so they face each other and sits. Amber remembers
00:09:40.540 hearing his stomach churn and that Scott was having trouble swallowing. He looked upset,
00:09:45.960 almost scared.
00:09:49.020 We're holding hands at the table, like, I'm listening.
00:09:52.460 You know, what is it?
00:09:53.520 And he said that he had lied about being married.
00:09:58.820 And at this point, he's crying and having a hard time talking
00:10:03.240 and said he had lost his wife
00:10:05.620 and it'd be the first holidays without her.
00:10:08.420 She remembers comforting him,
00:10:10.440 understanding how hard it must have been.
00:10:12.560 I didn't know. Maybe she died in a car accident.
00:10:14.700 and, like, there was all these thoughts I wanted to ask,
00:10:17.200 but at the same time, with his emotions,
00:10:18.920 I thought, I don't want to pry.
00:10:20.640 He'll share with what he feels comfortable with.
00:10:23.420 Scott goes on to say,
00:10:25.160 when I meet new people,
00:10:26.520 I act like my marriage never even happened.
00:10:29.960 Amber believes him.
00:10:31.720 As he stammers, she interrupts.
00:10:34.420 Jeez, Scott, for a moment there,
00:10:36.020 I thought you were going to tell me you were married.
00:10:38.380 No, he says, no, no.
00:10:40.540 So she asks, are you ready for a relationship with me?
00:10:43.900 He responds immediately. God, yes. On December 13th, Amber learns from Sean that Scott only told
00:10:52.680 her about his supposed dead wife after Sean discovered he was married. The next evening,
00:10:58.940 December 14th, before they leave for a party, Amber confronts Scott. Can I trust you with my
00:11:05.060 heart? She asks him. You already know the answer to that, Scott says. No, I don't, she says. That's
00:11:11.340 why I'm asking. She asks him again and again. He gives her the same answer. The party is a
00:11:18.640 formal fundraiser at the World Sports Cafe in Fresno. She is in a red strapless gown and looks
00:11:24.760 stunning. He is in a tuxedo he rented that week. Before they go, she asks him how she should
00:11:31.520 introduce him. There's going to be a lot of people I know at this fundraiser, Amber says.
00:11:36.000 Are you seeing anyone else? I'm not seeing anyone else, he tells her. You're the only one I call
00:11:42.560 sweetheart. I'm completely monogamous. So would I be safe to call you my boyfriend, she asks.
00:11:49.300 I think that would be totally appropriate. Don't you? Amber smiles. Yes. Amber says they have a
00:11:57.520 lovely time. All night, she introduces him as her boyfriend, and someone takes their picture.
00:12:03.200 December 24, 2002, Lacey Peterson's stepfather, Ron Gransky, reports her missing to police.
00:12:12.900 It is one of the few days Scott does not call Amber Fry. He's told her that he will be traveling
00:12:18.620 to Maine, then Boston, then to Paris by way of New York until the end of January. He gives her
00:12:25.500 a post office box in Modesto to stay in touch. But Scott is still in Modesto, and Amber has no idea.
00:12:33.200 He calls Amber twice on Christmas Day, and she hears a woman's voice in the background.
00:12:38.820 Scott says it's his mother. Amber wants to believe him, but has her doubts.
00:12:44.260 Scott's behavior was starting to change, little things like giving her a time he would call her, which he'd never done before.
00:12:52.120 On December 28th, Amber's curiosity turns into action.
00:12:57.080 She asks a friend, Denise Lane, to help her look up Scott Peterson on the Internet.
00:13:02.440 This was before the concept of Googling someone was second nature to America.
00:13:07.380 There are several Scott Petersons in Sacramento, as it turns out, but nothing that seems to match.
00:13:13.360 Frustrated, she calls Richard Byrd, a friend and officer with the Fresno police.
00:13:18.500 She leaves a vague voice message asking him to return her call.
00:13:23.160 The next day, Amber writes a prayer on a little slip of paper and drops it into the request box at her church.
00:13:30.460 She asks God to open her eyes and ears
00:13:33.500 so she can see what she needs to see
00:13:36.020 and hear what she needs to hear.
00:13:39.560 After church, she goes to see her police officer friend,
00:13:42.800 Richard Byrd.
00:13:43.960 She trusts him and paints the picture of life with Scott.
00:13:48.720 Whenever he calls me sweetie, she says,
00:13:50.800 I just melt.
00:13:52.860 You know why he calls you sweetie?
00:13:54.680 It's because he doesn't want to get your name wrong.
00:13:56.560 He doesn't want to confuse you with all of his other sweeties. Bird promises to look into Scott
00:14:03.020 and soon. He says he'll make some calls and nose around. That night, Bird calls. He has found a
00:14:10.940 story about a Scott Peterson in Modesto whose wife is missing. I'm not sure it's your Scott
00:14:18.320 Peterson, he says. Keep looking, Amber tells him. If you find out anything for sure, call me. I don't
00:14:24.440 care how late it is. Later that night at 140 in the morning, Bird calls again. This time his voice
00:14:32.120 has changed. Amber, he says, you're not going to like this. It sounds like the same Scott Peterson
00:14:38.720 from Modesto. His wife is pregnant. She's missing. And there has been a huge search underway for her
00:14:46.460 since the week before. At 1.43 a.m., Amber calls the Modesto Police Department.
00:14:53.720 She tells police she may have information about Scott Peterson, but she first wants to make sure
00:14:59.120 it's the right man. She asks them to confirm Scott's date of birth, and they do. Amber can
00:15:05.480 hardly breathe. She tells the dispatcher everything. She has been dating this man.
00:15:11.220 He is supposed to be on his way to Europe.
00:15:13.560 Instead, she found out he is in Modesto and that his pregnant wife is missing.
00:15:19.220 She gives the dispatcher her name and number, hangs up, and walks back out to her friends, sobbing.
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00:17:29.120 The next morning, December 30th, Amber sees footage of Lacey's family on TV.
00:17:35.580 One of her friends shows her the website about Lacey's disappearance.
00:17:39.860 At 11 a.m. that morning, six days after Lacey Peterson was reported missing,
00:17:45.640 detectives Al Brocchini and John Bueller arrive at Amber's home.
00:17:50.580 Amber and her friend, Sean Sibley, who started it all,
00:17:54.200 are waiting out front.
00:17:56.240 Inside, Amber tells the detectives that 24 hours ago,
00:17:59.700 she had asked God to open her eyes and ears.
00:18:03.360 We get down to Amber's house,
00:18:05.420 and her interview lasted more than an hour.
00:18:07.880 It verified my suspicions earlier
00:18:10.300 that he wasn't the person that he purported to be,
00:18:13.820 especially on that Christmas Eve interview.
00:18:15.880 You guys haven't had any problems,
00:18:20.520 various problems.
00:18:23.020 Al mentioned to her,
00:18:24.680 you were somebody that we were praying for.
00:18:26.320 We were hoping to God that somebody like you
00:18:28.000 would come forward so it would help us with this case.
00:18:32.340 Bueller starts a tape recorder,
00:18:34.500 and Amber walks them through her relationship with Scott.
00:18:38.020 She has brought photographs, gifts,
00:18:40.220 and things he left behind.
00:18:42.040 Her interview lasts more than an hour.
00:18:45.100 Over lunch, Amber asks what she can do to help find Lacey.
00:18:49.020 You're doing it, says Bueller.
00:18:51.600 Amber presses.
00:18:53.040 She later writes that she felt Lacey Peterson was counting on her to bring her and her baby home.
00:18:59.300 The detective gives Amber a long look.
00:19:02.180 How would you feel about taping your calls, Bueller asks her.
00:19:07.060 Amber agrees to play along with Scott as if she knows nothing about Lacey
00:19:11.340 and to record every conversation for the police.
00:19:15.140 Buehler described the next steps for him and Brokini
00:19:17.740 when he spoke to me in 2021.
00:19:20.620 And so we retrieved a recorder out of my trunk
00:19:23.760 along with like 10 tapes and some batteries.
00:19:26.240 And then we went to Radio Shack, which was nearby,
00:19:28.540 and Brock bought the connecting unit that would go to her phone.
00:19:31.940 And the recorder itself showed her how to use it.
00:19:34.420 And as he's showing her how to use it, the phone rings.
00:19:36.040 And Brock, he goes, gosh, that's Scott's number right there.
00:19:38.880 Amber puts in the earpiece from Radio Shack.
00:19:42.420 Her hands shake so badly that she misses the first call from Scott.
00:19:46.800 Bueller tells her, relax, and that while she knows the call is being recorded, Scott has no idea.
00:19:54.320 Amber then packs a bag and leaves her house to stay with friends.
00:19:58.060 She does not want to be there alone with her daughter.
00:20:00.940 Hours later, her cell phone rings again.
00:20:03.440 It's Scott.
00:20:05.020 Amber clears the room and tries not to panic.
00:20:07.280 She reminds herself that Scott is in Europe, and she has to sound like she believes it.
00:20:13.020 She starts the tape. Her palms are damp with sweat.
00:20:17.140 Hello? Amber, hey, are you there? I can barely hear you.
00:20:22.580 The line is full of static, but she hears him say he's catching a plane out of Normandy
00:20:27.140 and will be in Paris for New Year's. She knows this isn't true.
00:20:32.160 I miss you, he says. If you can hear me, bye.
00:20:36.020 Scott is not in Europe.
00:20:38.000 He makes that call from his own Modesto neighborhood.
00:20:41.680 The moment Amber hangs up, she calls Bueller.
00:20:44.060 Her hands are shaking so badly, she drops the phone.
00:20:47.260 I spoke to him, she says, and I got it on tape.
00:20:50.540 The next night is New Year's Eve.
00:20:53.100 At East La Loma Park, Lacey's family is holding a candlelight vigil.
00:20:57.880 They call Scott up to speak from the stage, and he declines,
00:21:01.960 saying he'll watch from the crowd with his friends.
00:21:05.100 As the candles burn around him, with people praying for his wife, Scott steps away and calls Amber.
00:21:13.900 Over the next seven weeks, Amber secretly records more than 140 calls with Scott.
00:21:20.800 She does her best to keep him talking.
00:21:23.540 So what do you want to be together with me?
00:21:28.360 Well, I mean, obviously, my, you know, my thoughts, but I think, you know, it would be a wonderful feeling.
00:21:35.100 Ben Scott returns home from Europe.
00:21:47.600 On January 6th, Bueller brings Amber to Modesto and puts her in a motel under an alias.
00:21:54.340 At the station, she joins Bueller, a criminal profiler on loan from the Department of Justice
00:21:58.880 named Sharon Hagen, and Detective Craig Grogan.
00:22:03.600 Lacey Peterson has been missing for two weeks.
00:22:06.460 On the next call, they want Amber to coax some information out of Scott
00:22:10.420 to push him to talk about his wife.
00:22:13.520 Instead, he's got a bombshell for her.
00:22:16.240 I don't want to do this out of the phone.
00:22:19.360 I want to tell you this.
00:22:20.940 I want to tell you this.
00:22:23.220 What are you talking about?
00:22:25.020 It's the worst thing.
00:22:26.720 Sorry, Amber.
00:22:28.560 I'll just tell you.
00:22:31.660 Okay.
00:22:31.920 Um, you haven't been watching the news, obviously.
00:22:34.740 No.
00:22:37.120 I have not been traveling during the last couple weeks.
00:22:42.920 I've lied to you that I've been traveling.
00:22:47.340 Okay.
00:22:51.300 The girl I got married to her name is Lacey.
00:22:55.660 Mm-hmm.
00:22:56.580 She disappeared just before Christmas.
00:23:00.540 Mm-hmm.
00:23:00.940 For the past two weeks, I've been in Modesto with her family in mind, searching for her.
00:23:10.900 The conversation goes on for a while.
00:23:13.680 Bueller, Hagen, and Grogan write questions for Amber to ask Scott,
00:23:18.640 did you have a gun? Did you shoot her? Where's her body?
00:23:22.700 And they listen and silently cheer her on.
00:23:25.620 I said that I lost my wife.
00:23:27.280 Yes, you did.
00:23:28.280 I did, and yes.
00:23:29.660 How did you lose her then, before she was lost?
00:23:33.440 Explain that.
00:23:35.140 There are different kinds of loss, Amber.
00:23:36.820 Then explain your loss.
00:23:38.440 I can't hear now.
00:23:41.080 Eventually, the conversation fizzles and drops out.
00:23:44.280 While they wait, Hagen, the profiler, tells Amber what she's hearing.
00:23:48.660 He lies even when he doesn't have to lie.
00:23:51.460 He's lying about little things.
00:23:53.660 Every time he says the phrase, my God, he's lying.
00:23:56.560 He's even lying about lying.
00:23:59.240 Scott calls back, and the conversation goes in circles.
00:24:02.740 When it finally ends, the officers commend Amber for her performance, but they are no closer to finding Lacey.
00:24:09.660 Amber Fry starts reading everything.
00:24:12.600 She pages through old issues of the Modesto Bee, the local newspaper.
00:24:16.560 She visits the website set up for Lacey Peterson every day, sometimes multiple times a day,
00:24:21.320 and reads the outpouring of support from around the country for Lacey and her family.
00:24:26.020 And through that reading, she finds Lacey Peterson's due date.
00:24:31.660 It's February 10th, Amber's birthday.
00:24:36.100 At this point, Bueller is telling her she has done enough.
00:24:39.720 Every time Scott calls, Amber feels herself coming unglued.
00:24:43.480 Bueller talks her down, but he's becoming worried about her.
00:24:46.400 He suggests stopping the recordings and the ruse.
00:24:50.000 But we haven't found Lacey, she says.
00:24:51.800 I want to keep trying.
00:24:52.780 On January 16th, Amber Frye's private life evaporates.
00:24:58.540 The National Enquirer publishes photos of her and Scott Peterson together.
00:25:03.200 Having gotten word of the story about to break the day before, Modesto police break the news
00:25:08.460 to Lacey's family, who had been supporting Scott up until this point.
00:25:13.860 Eight days later, exactly one month after Lacey Peterson went missing, Amber's name
00:25:19.200 is broadcast out on the radio and reporters are at her door within the hour. Police decide her
00:25:25.320 best move is to make a statement and ask the world to leave her alone. As Amber heads to the
00:25:31.060 press conference, Scott calls again. She does not answer. She enters a room packed with reporters
00:25:38.360 standing shoulder to shoulder and speaks into a bank of microphones. I met Scott Peterson November
00:25:45.200 20th, 2002. I was introduced to him. I was told he was unmarried. Scott told me he was not married.
00:25:55.300 We did have a romantic relationship. When I discovered he was involved in the Lacey
00:26:02.440 Peterson disappearance case, I immediately contacted the Modesto Police Department.
00:26:07.380 I am very sorry for Lacey's family and the pain that this has caused them.
00:26:19.860 And I pray for her safe return as well. Thank you.
00:26:25.260 Lacey's family also addresses the press on January 24th.
00:26:29.660 Lacey's brother, Brent Rocha, says Scott has admitted to the affair
00:26:33.520 exposed by the National Enquirer
00:26:35.460 and that the family is no longer supporting him.
00:26:39.140 While Amber's statement is being broadcast,
00:26:41.940 Lacey's mom, Sharon Rocha, calls the precinct,
00:26:44.920 hoping to catch her.
00:26:46.480 She thanks Amber for stepping forward
00:26:48.520 and says she would like to meet her.
00:26:51.480 The next day, a friend of Lacey's
00:26:53.240 drives Amber Fry to Sharon's home.
00:26:56.420 Sharon says she's hoping to fill in some gaps
00:26:58.520 as far as what happened between Amber and Scott.
00:27:01.180 But she asks a few questions about dates and timing
00:27:05.020 and occasionally glances at a calendar on her desk.
00:27:08.680 Meanwhile, Scott Peterson continues calling Amber.
00:27:13.360 The day after her press conference,
00:27:15.300 he calls to tell her how proud of her he is.
00:27:31.180 to hear. But it was just so amazing. Your strength. February 10th, Amber Frye's birthday.
00:27:43.240 Amber receives several calls from Scott this day. That afternoon, he tells her to drive to Valley
00:27:48.920 Children's Hospital in Fresno and look at a lavender bush beneath a particular street lamp.
00:27:55.240 Hidden in the bush is a paper bag from Trader Joe's. Inside is a small silver box
00:28:00.960 decorated with the moon and sun, a silver and amber necklace, a Nora Jones CD called
00:28:08.100 Come Away With Me, and a packet of wildflower seeds. There is a note in his handwriting, quote,
00:28:15.980 these seeds as your life are soon to bloom. In the parking lot, Amber Fry sits with all of it in her
00:28:23.460 lap and cries. There is another candlelight vigil that night in East La Loma Park, 96 miles north.
00:28:32.480 It is for Connor Peterson, Scott and Lacey's son, who was due to be born this very day.
00:28:40.120 A little more than a week later, on February 18th, police return to the Peterson house
00:28:45.660 with a warrant. They pack up several bags of evidence and they impound Scott's pickup truck.
00:28:52.740 Amber Frye is ready to be done with Scott Peterson.
00:28:56.500 Detective Buehler agrees.
00:28:58.440 She resolves to tell Scott the next time he calls.
00:29:01.640 It doesn't take long.
00:29:03.640 I think right now, for me, Scott,
00:29:06.460 I think it'd be best if you and I didn't talk anymore
00:29:10.780 until there's resolution in this.
00:29:13.060 Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
00:29:15.440 Good.
00:29:16.660 Good.
00:29:18.680 I hope to talk to you in future.
00:29:20.860 Okay, Scott.
00:29:21.740 Goodbye, Scott.
00:29:26.100 Amber sets down the phone and waits to feel relieved, but she doesn't.
00:29:31.880 Amber later writes that she felt talking to him was keeping the line open to finding Lacey.
00:29:36.840 Now, to protect herself and her daughter, that connection needs to be severed.
00:29:42.740 She returns the recorder and the tapes to Bueller.
00:29:45.900 Scott keeps calling and emailing Amber,
00:29:48.480 but the messages become less frequent and eventually stop altogether.
00:29:53.920 Two months later, on April 13, 2003,
00:29:57.380 a couple discovers the body of a baby
00:29:59.680 along the north shore of the San Francisco Bay near Richmond.
00:30:03.960 It's tiny, but it is unmistakably the full-term body of a very small baby boy.
00:30:10.200 The next day, a woman out on a walk reports finding a female body to police.
00:30:15.800 It's a gruesome and bizarre discovery.
00:30:18.480 The body is missing its head, its hands, and its legs below the knees.
00:30:24.340 It is badly decomposed, clothed only in a bra and motherhood-brand maternity pants,
00:30:30.660 but little of them remains.
00:30:32.920 The press beat the police to the scene.
00:30:35.940 Here's one Sacramento television station breaking the news.
00:30:39.100 Just this afternoon, a badly decomposed body was found near Point Isabel in Richmond,
00:30:43.480 and last night, the body of a male fetus was found just a few miles away.
00:30:48.480 Gloria Gomez joins us live from the scene
00:30:50.220 with more on this developing story.
00:30:51.780 Gloria?
00:30:52.220 Paul, this could be a major break in the Lacey Peterson case.
00:30:55.180 The woman washes up on the rocks directly east of Brooks Island,
00:30:59.620 a nature preserve on the east side of the bay.
00:31:02.660 That is near the area where Scott Peterson told police
00:31:05.700 he had taken his fishing boat on Christmas Eve.
00:31:09.480 The baby had come ashore about a mile away the day before.
00:31:14.460 With no head to compare dental records,
00:31:17.000 no hands to compare fingerprints, and no feet to check for an ankle tattoo.
00:31:22.760 It is suspected, but not certain, that this is Lacey Peterson and her baby, Connor.
00:31:28.680 Authorities must wait for DNA to confirm their identities.
00:31:32.900 Amber Fry hears about the washed-up bodies in the bay and sobs.
00:31:38.140 Then she writes a one-line email to Scott.
00:31:41.560 Were those the bodies of Lacey and Connor?
00:31:44.520 He does not reply.
00:31:47.000 I'm Megan Kelly.
00:31:48.700 Next time on MK Confidential.
00:31:51.240 Christmas Eve, 2002, through two sets of eyes.
00:31:55.560 First, the husband whose wife vanishes without a trace.
00:31:59.740 Then, the police who search for her and soon question his every word.
00:32:17.000 We'll be right back.
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