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48 Hours: Scott Peterson Revisited

CBS 48 Hours revisited the Scott Peterson case this past weekend. Did you catch it? In 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his wife and unborn child in a largely circumstantial case. He was given the death penalty for the crime.

Peterson’s death penalty sentence was overturned in August 2020 by the California Supreme Court. The reason is Peterson’s trial judge dismissed jurors who opposed capital punishment without asking if they could put their views aside which shouldn’t have been done. Peterson, however, did not have his conviction overturned. His new sentencing is supposed to take place this summer.

Janey Peterson, Scott Peterson’s sister-in-law claims that Scott Peterson is innocent and explained how the family has created a war room to fight on his behalf to get his conviction overturned. Janey believes the burglars across the street from the Peterson home are involved in Laci’s death.

Unfortunately, nothing that Janey presented offered me something concrete to bite into. You could easily argue away her theories presented.

Janey really loses her credibility when she suggests that someone tried to frame Scott Peterson.

Janey Peterson: Her body wasn’t taken to the bay December 24th. The bay wasn’t sealed off as a crime scene. …There are multiple points of access directly to the water, 24 hours a day. I think they took Laci, had Laci, realized the national attention that this case was getting, realized they were in trouble. What better way to get outta trouble than go put the body where the husband was?

So if you believe Janey, you believe someone took, harmed and killed Laci, but oh decided to sit on the corpse not knowing what to do with it. You know, no worries. Then when the story broke and it was a big story, oh wow! They found their way to get out of the crime. They will “frame” Scott by placing the body in the bay.

I don’t think you can come up with something more outlandish than that. Add to the this that when authorities went to arrest Scott Peterson, he wasn’t at home or trying to solve her murder. No, he was down in San Diego golfing, with DYED blond hair with 15K in cash in his pocket. It seemed this grieving husband was about to possibly leave the country. Yeah, that’s what innocent victims do.

I don’t think so!

I can tell you nearly ever clip of Scott Peterson I see, he is leaking clues like a sieve. And he leaks them every time. If you attended my class, I showed you some of them! They are really hard to argue when you see them pointed out.

The reporter in the 48 Hours show picked up on one clue herself. Scott Peterson’s wife is missing during their interview. When his cell phone rings, he doesn’t even think to answer it? If your spouse was missing, would you ignore phone calls? A man who knew his wife was dead certainly would. And he’d also would not want anything to interrupt his “show time” on TV.

Men like Peterson lie so much they think they can fool anyone, until their arrogance and ignorance trips them up. He wanted TV time to convince people he was innocent. I think that backfired on him big time. People instinctively knew his behavior didn’t add up.

Even more so, when you watch that interview, listen to his demeanor. He play this low-key, monotone character. It’s his attempt to act concerned and sad, but he doesn’t show an ounce of sadness. True sadness activates muscles in the face that for Peterson are not moving!

And yes, Scott Peterson’s smiles during the trial did not bode well for him. He wasn’t a grieving victim in this case. Not at all. I believe all the circumstantial evidence built a strong rope as the prosecutor said that told the real story. I believe Scott Peterson is exactly where he should be.

Anne Bird, a Very Calculating Sister

Anne Bird, Scott Peterson’s half-sister, is on the circuit, making the rounds, selling her story that she believes Scott Peterson is guilty. I tuned into Dateline NBC last night to watch her and sadly, I was disturbed by what I saw.

She doesn’t act normal. You can’t distinguish normal emotional responses from her. You can’t easily discern when she is supposedly hurt or upset versus when she is happy. She is like a doll without emotions, babbling and saying what she thinks she is supposed to say—only adding appropriate smiles or a twinge when she thinks she should—not because she is actually feeling that way. It is clear that her emotional responses aren’t genuine.

Her behavior is oddly similar to that of her half-brother Scott, although Scott Peterson mastered putting on the emotions more, so as to fool the average person. Scott said and acted the part he believed society expected of him, and he did his true dirty deeds behind the scenes. It really makes you wonder…

We all know that Scott was raised by Anne’s biological mother and was supposedly taught to shun real emotions, according to Jackie herselfbut Anne Bird was raised by an entirely different family. Why is she shunning normal emotions? It’s rather scary.

Anne tries to convince you, the audience, that she is writing this book because she wasn’t asked to testify at her brother’s trialand so now she believes the burden is too heavy on her conscience to keep it all inside. I believe she even says she feels she had no other choice but to tell her story.

During the trial, Anne stood steadfast by her half-brother. She says she thought he was innocent. But now she thinks he is guilty, as is obvious by her book title: 33 Reasons Why My Brother is Guilty.

Regardless of what she thought during and after the trial, it isn’t like the jury freed Scott Peterson, so why does she have to tell the world why she believes he is guilty?? They convicted him. So where does her guilt come in? She only had supporting evidence to the story. Her reasoning is flawed. Very flawed.

The real reason I believe Anne is writing this book? (A) She wants to get back at her mother. She has deep anger that she was given up for adoption, that her mom called Scott the “Golden Child”. This is her form of revenge: a very hurtful book for her biological mother. (B) She wants notoriety. (C) She wants the money from the book. (D) This is all about Anne, and Anne alone.

Anne is very calculating.

Anne also tries to convince you that she never doubted Scott’s innocence during the trialthat she completely trusted him regardless of incredible mounting evidenceand she saw way more than you and I did behind the scenes, which is supposedly written in her book. If you ask me, Anne knew damn well her half-brother was guilty long before she admits it.

Jackie Peterson, who gave Anne up at birth, has led a very tragic life. As told by NBC’s Dateline, Jackie “…had suffered a terrible childhood. Her father was murdered when she was just two years old—murdered just before Christmas. Then Jackie’s mother suffered a breakdown. Jackie grew up in an orphanage.”

Now add to that, Jackie gave up two children for adoption. And worse, as we all know, her flesh and blood killed someone. How much can one person handle? Wouldn’t a normal person have some form of compassion for her??

When you watch Anne talk, and you hear her divulge things about her mother that are painful, her face remains strangely emotionless, despite the fact she is saying very hurtful things. This is just another big red flag that things aren’t as they seem.

As a lie-detector, Anne’s behavior scares me. She is too emotionless to get a good read from her expressions. She is too calculated. I can only tell you that her behaviors don’t add up, that her expressions aren’t genuineand realand with that, I know enough to be very concerned with anything she says.

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Did you know according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, who was featured on Oprah, that 1 in 25 people show sociopathic (non-empathic) tendencies?? I believe this is absolutely true.

However, Dr. Ablow went on to say that he thinks people are born good, and through deep struggle, stop empathizing. Then he says in time, they look at people suffering with bewilderment and curiosity.

I couldn’t disagree more. You can’t teach ityou just can’t. The normal person can’t turn it off. It’s not possible, no matter how hard you tryhence the reason why a lot of people pull the plug on life. You either have empathy or you don’t but if psychiatry admitted it, they’d loose a lot of business, wouldn’t they????

Amber Frey: Oddities

Over the last few days, Amber Frey has been making the circles in the media, pushing her new book, Witness.

I’ve listened to her story, and while I feel she is simple girl who acts on emotions instead of logic, she isn’t coming clean about everything.

She talks to Matt Lauer on NBC.com in a video entitled “I was just so scared”. In the video (time marker 4:38), she says she was afraid to go home. That was December 29, 2002. She says she was so afraid that she didn’t go home for a week.

Now, in Oprah’s interview which airs today, and I believe in her book (though that is a guess) she says that Scott told her in one of their taped conversations later in February 2003 (more than five weeks later) that he left her a gift for her birthday in a nearby hotel. Amber Frey tells Oprah that she went and retrieved that gift out of curiosity. She doesn’t say a word about being afraid this time.

Isn’t that odd???

Clearly, something is amiss. If you are that afraid early on, you don’t become less afraid as the story thickens with insane lies, a full-blown police and FBI investigation. Something has to give here. What is the real truth, Amber?

Amber also gets very defensive with Oprah Winfrey when Oprah asks Amber if she had seen the breaking news. The whole country had seen the news. Amber flat out denies ever seeing the news or hearing about Scott Peterson’s story prior to being told by friends on December 29 that her Scott may indeed be “this” Scott.

It doesn’t sit well with me. Why did she ramble on about all the reasons why she didn’t watch TV for five days?? It was Christmas, she has a young child, she didn’t have time, etc. She didn’t read the paper, either? Not only did she get really defensive, but she stumbles for words. She wants to seem mad, but doesn’t quite pull it off.

I believe that Amber truly hoped and wished that Scott would be cleared and that he would come back to her. I believe she was in denial at times and could not accept the truth. Accepting the truth isn’t easy in the face of such a tragedy. Anyone would have a difficult time with this one, no doubt. It is understandable.

But on their first date when Scott Peterson first tells Amber that he is single, living alone, has never been married and doesn’t even own a dog (time marker 2:21), and then within three weeks on December 9, 2002, changes his story and says he had a wife but lost her, Amber should have gotten mad at him. He admits to his lie, plain and simple.

He lied, but instead Amber felt sorry for him and wanted to believe him. She didn’t question him. This is where she violated herself. She should have realized that a lie of this magnitude would never bode well for anyoneever.