Scott Peterson Addresses His Affair With Amber Frey
Even the detectives who had no love lost for Scott from the beginning admitted in the Peacock series they were stunned when they found out that Laci’s husband was having an affair.
“That really surprised me,” former Modesto Police Det. Jon Buehler, who worked the case with Brocchini, said in the show. He recalled thinking, “Now things are starting to take shape.”
Scott has no great explanation for why he was cheating on his pregnant wife (“Childish, lack of self-esteem, selfish,” he said in suggesting a few reasons driving his decision), but he said he “certainly” regretted it.
He called the accusation that he killed Laci because he simply didn’t want to be a husband or a father “so offensive and so disgusting.”
Asked why he kept talking to Amber in a romantic-sounding fashion after Laci went missing, Scott said in the series that he was trying to keep police focused on finding his wife.
“Stay in contact with Amber, I thought,” he told Shareen, “and she wouldn’t get into the picture, complicate it, ruin the search.”
He called the prospect of police finding out about his affair “a time bomb.”
And when the world found out, Scott said, he became “the total a-hole to be having sex outside our marriage.”