Scott Peterson’s former lover Amber Frey has broken her silence for the first time more than two decades after he murdered his pregnant wife Laci Peterson.
Frey was having an affair with Peterson in the six weeks leading up to the Christmas 2002 murder.
Laci disappeared from the couple’s home in Modesto, California, on December 24 2002 when she eight pregnant with the couple’s first child, a boy they planned to name Connor.
Her husband, who reported her missing to police, claimed that he returned from a Christmas Day fishing trip to an empty house, save for their dog running around the backyard with its leash still attached.
Four months later, Laci’s body washed up on the shore of Brooks Island. Her unborn son was found a mile away one day earlier.
Days later, Peterson was arrested for murder near San Diego. He had dyed his dark hair blonde and was carrying survival gear, viagra tablets and $15,000 in cash, according to authorities.
He was convicted in 2004 and initially sentenced to death but was later resentenced to life in prison without parole.