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Scott confessed to Amber most of the lies he had told her, he spent a lot of time apologizing and answered a lot of questions about Laci and the effort to bring her home. Scott repeatedly expressed hope in finding Laci and expressed his frustration with the media and police. Following are some excerpts from these phone calls.
• January 6, 2003 - Scott said about Laci, “God, I hope she is found alive”, “I’m going to find her”, “I would hope that you know me well enough, as does, you know, our families who know that there is no possible way I could have had anything to do with this”, “There is a lot of reports of people who are at least thinking they saw her in the park and walking the street. I do not know where she is. I wish I did. I love Laci. I loved Laci, no question.” This day ended with Amber asking Scott not to call her, and he agreed.
• January 7, 2003 – Amber called Scott. She asked him many questions about Laci’s disappearance, what they’re doing to find her and she also questioned Scott about everything he’d told her since they first met in November. I don’t think anyone would argue that Scott had some explaining to do to Amber.
• January 8, 2003 – Scott said to Amber, “ I hope that you are not involved to any degree ” (with Laci’s disappearance.) In this call Amber asked Scott what he would do if she went to the police. Scott responded by telling her, “ If you want to go to the police that’s, you know, fine. You need to do what’s right for you. And I’m not afraid of it. ” Once again, Scott told Amber that he loves Laci.
• January 15, 2003 – The Modesto Police told Laci’s family that Scott had been having an affair. The media became aware of Scott’s infidelity and began to look for the woman as they didn’t have Amber’s name.
• January 24, 2003 – The Modesto Police held a press conference in which Amber announced that she had been in a romantic relationship with Scott.
From this point on, Scott and Amber had a sort of media empathy for each other. They were both being incessantly pursued by the media and had both become regulars on the cover of the National Enquirer. He would apologize for her having to deal with the media and the additional stresses and expenses the whole situation had caused her.
Scott’s entire support system had all but crumbled. Laci’s family and friends believed him to be responsible for Laci’s disappearance once his infidelity was revealed, his home was burglarized, his customers began distancing themselves from him, the media was showing him in slow motion with Jaws music in the background, radio shock jocks had camped out in front of his house with bullhorns, calling him a murderer, he was constantly being followed and called by the media, and there were far less people to help to look for his wife and son. The police had even offered him a deal: “ Tell us where Laci’s body is and we won’t seek the death penalty.”
• January 27, 2003 – Scott taped an interview with Diane Sawyer in an attempt to explain his behavior and revive the public search for his missing wife and unborn son.
Another misconception perpetuated by the prosecution is that Scott told Diane Sawyer in this interview that Laci “was okay with” the idea that he was unfaithful. Scott told Diane Sawyer that he had told Laci about Amber in early December. He went on to say that Laci was not okay with it, but that it was nothing that would break them up. His exact words were, “you know, I can’t say that even, you know, she was OK with the idea, but it wasn’t – it wasn’t anything that would break us apart.”
It’s hard to go back and piece together where misquoting Scott on this topic started, but the prosecution got the quote wrong in a pre-trial motion. Using this misquote to call Scott a liar, because, of course, what wife would be okay with infidelity? This mistruth was then repeated countless times by media sources and pundits, “This guy’s such a liar he expects us all to believe his pregnant wife is okay with him having an affair!”
Here’s a situation where the prosecution and the media had full access to his actual words on video and they take the last half of his sentence, “she was OK with the idea” and use it against him and call him the liar. We aren’t saying Scott never lied about his infidelity; infidelity and lying tend to go hand in hand. Scott told many lies to Amber and Laci. We make no excuses for these lies, but they are adultery lies not murder lies. This is a situation where the prosecution and media are lying and then accusing someone of murder.
• February 4, 2003 – Amber told Scott she’s going to send him a copy of The Purpose Driven Life to read for the next 40 days, she asked him to make notes in it and send it back to her. Through the course of the phone calls, Amber shared elements of her faith with Scott and she suggested this book might be able to help him.
• February 7, 2003 – At this point, Amber was one of the only people still talking to Scott. This was the only day Scott asked to see Amber. She declined.
• February 19, 2003 – Amber called Scott and told him they shouldn’t speak anymore. Scott agreed. This was their last phone call.
• April 18, 2003 – The remains of Laci and Conner were identified and Scott was arrested for the murder of Laci and Conner.
• January 6, 2003 - Scott said about Laci, “God, I hope she is found alive”, “I’m going to find her”, “I would hope that you know me well enough, as does, you know, our families who know that there is no possible way I could have had anything to do with this”, “There is a lot of reports of people who are at least thinking they saw her in the park and walking the street. I do not know where she is. I wish I did. I love Laci. I loved Laci, no question.” This day ended with Amber asking Scott not to call her, and he agreed.
• January 7, 2003 – Amber called Scott. She asked him many questions about Laci’s disappearance, what they’re doing to find her and she also questioned Scott about everything he’d told her since they first met in November. I don’t think anyone would argue that Scott had some explaining to do to Amber.
• January 8, 2003 – Scott said to Amber, “ I hope that you are not involved to any degree ” (with Laci’s disappearance.) In this call Amber asked Scott what he would do if she went to the police. Scott responded by telling her, “ If you want to go to the police that’s, you know, fine. You need to do what’s right for you. And I’m not afraid of it. ” Once again, Scott told Amber that he loves Laci.
• January 15, 2003 – The Modesto Police told Laci’s family that Scott had been having an affair. The media became aware of Scott’s infidelity and began to look for the woman as they didn’t have Amber’s name.
• January 24, 2003 – The Modesto Police held a press conference in which Amber announced that she had been in a romantic relationship with Scott.
From this point on, Scott and Amber had a sort of media empathy for each other. They were both being incessantly pursued by the media and had both become regulars on the cover of the National Enquirer. He would apologize for her having to deal with the media and the additional stresses and expenses the whole situation had caused her.
Scott’s entire support system had all but crumbled. Laci’s family and friends believed him to be responsible for Laci’s disappearance once his infidelity was revealed, his home was burglarized, his customers began distancing themselves from him, the media was showing him in slow motion with Jaws music in the background, radio shock jocks had camped out in front of his house with bullhorns, calling him a murderer, he was constantly being followed and called by the media, and there were far less people to help to look for his wife and son. The police had even offered him a deal: “ Tell us where Laci’s body is and we won’t seek the death penalty.”
• January 27, 2003 – Scott taped an interview with Diane Sawyer in an attempt to explain his behavior and revive the public search for his missing wife and unborn son.
Another misconception perpetuated by the prosecution is that Scott told Diane Sawyer in this interview that Laci “was okay with” the idea that he was unfaithful. Scott told Diane Sawyer that he had told Laci about Amber in early December. He went on to say that Laci was not okay with it, but that it was nothing that would break them up. His exact words were, “you know, I can’t say that even, you know, she was OK with the idea, but it wasn’t – it wasn’t anything that would break us apart.”
It’s hard to go back and piece together where misquoting Scott on this topic started, but the prosecution got the quote wrong in a pre-trial motion. Using this misquote to call Scott a liar, because, of course, what wife would be okay with infidelity? This mistruth was then repeated countless times by media sources and pundits, “This guy’s such a liar he expects us all to believe his pregnant wife is okay with him having an affair!”
Here’s a situation where the prosecution and the media had full access to his actual words on video and they take the last half of his sentence, “she was OK with the idea” and use it against him and call him the liar. We aren’t saying Scott never lied about his infidelity; infidelity and lying tend to go hand in hand. Scott told many lies to Amber and Laci. We make no excuses for these lies, but they are adultery lies not murder lies. This is a situation where the prosecution and media are lying and then accusing someone of murder.
• February 4, 2003 – Amber told Scott she’s going to send him a copy of The Purpose Driven Life to read for the next 40 days, she asked him to make notes in it and send it back to her. Through the course of the phone calls, Amber shared elements of her faith with Scott and she suggested this book might be able to help him.
• February 7, 2003 – At this point, Amber was one of the only people still talking to Scott. This was the only day Scott asked to see Amber. She declined.
• February 19, 2003 – Amber called Scott and told him they shouldn’t speak anymore. Scott agreed. This was their last phone call.
• April 18, 2003 – The remains of Laci and Conner were identified and Scott was arrested for the murder of Laci and Conner.
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