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I think Scott peterson should rot away in jail


"Well before Amber Frey came along, Scott Peterson had two affairs during his first year of marriage, and his wife was aware of one, his defense attorney said Monday.

In an apparent effort to show that Peterson's dalliance with masseuse Frey wasn't a motive for killing Laci Peterson, attorney Mark Geragos used his cross-examination of the lead Modesto police detective in the case to let the jury know his client had cheated twice shortly after the couple were married Aug. 9, 1997.

Detective Craig Grogan testified that a woman had called police after Laci Peterson disappeared in December 2002 to say she'd had a five-month relationship with Peterson in 1998. At the time, Scott Peterson was still a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Laci Peterson had moved temporarily to Prunedale (Monterey County) to start a job with a winery.

The woman, who wasn't identified in court, told police that Peterson had never told her he was married. She discovered the truth only after walking in on Peterson, who was in bed with Laci Peterson at a house he shared with roommates.

"She said there was no way Laci could not have known, because there was quite a scene,'' Geragos told Grogan, who did not argue the point.

Grogan said he had interviewed another woman who also attended Cal Poly and dated Scott Peterson for two months in 1998. At the time, Peterson told her he was separated from his wife and was getting a divorce, Grogan said. She learned otherwise while sitting next to Peterson during their graduation ceremony when Laci Peterson walked up, put a lei around his neck and kissed him.

Family and friends insist that Laci Peterson knew nothing of her husband's affair with Frey. But even her closest friends and her mother have said Laci Peterson never told them about his affair with the woman who found the couple in bed.