Speculation aside, it's my observation that Peterson very plainly stated the motive in a telephone conversation with Amber Frey on January 6 -- mere hours after confessing to her that he was married to Laci Peterson, the missing pregnant woman from Modesto.
[Excerpt of 1/6/2003 11:30 p.m. phone conversation]
FREY: (sigh) But your whole point of this Eurpoean trip was so that you could have a life and not travel and not have to work so hard and you could have a life. But apparently not with...
PETERSON: The whole point of the business negotiations...
FREY: Yes.
PETERSON: Amber, you don't understand at all.
FREY: The whole point of what business negotiations, Scott?
PETERSON: Are to simplify my life.
FREY: To simplify your life?
PETERSON: That was...is what was supposed to take...going right...being done right now. This situation changed all that.FREY: Really?
PETERSON: And obviously I'm not working.
FREY: Your life would be simplified. If you have a present wife, a baby around the corner, and a girlfriend...how does that...?
PETERSON: You don't understand.
FREY: What?
PETERSON: You don't...you don't know everything.
Amber asked a very good question when she said, "The whole point of what business negotiations, Scott?" Scott had already confessed that there was no trip to Europe -- the purpose of which was supposedly to work things out with his employer so that he could travel less and have more free time to spend with Amber. Scott conveniently disregarded her question and continued to try to explain the unexplainable. But Amber got to the crux of the matter. The complications in his life had nothing to do with his career. The business negotiations meant to simplify his life were, in reality, the engineered disappearance of his wife and unborn son -- more to the point, murder. The situation that "changed all that" was the intense investigation, public reaction and media furor that ensued, for all of which Scott Peterson had no foresight or provision.
You might consider my interpretation of Peterson's words to be speculation. That's okay. You're probably right. I still say that the murderer himself confirmed the motive put forth by the prosecutor. There are other interesting admissions in the Peterson/Frey transcripts. You're welcome to post your own observations in the comment section. It might save me writing (and you being subjected to) another entry on the subject.
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I agree, freedom was paramount. I think he would have killed Laci even if she had been carrying a girl. He still would have had to pay child support. He would have wanted an annulment, if he could have obtained one. He wanted to start from scratch.
Laci and Conner had no value to him. Had Laci been carrying a girl, I think it would have been the same. An adoring daughter would have been many months or several years away. That would be a lifetime to him.
There is something else I want to add. He thought that he was smarter than everybody else, smarter than the police, smarter than Amber, smarter than Laci's family. He chose that day because the birth was getting imminent and he thought it would all just go away.
I'm sorry for posting as anonymous. I'll have to find a nic.
That's okay. You're welcome to post wherever, whenever, and as whomever. I'm just glad you're interested enough to comment.
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