REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — After hours of wiretapped calls between Scott Peterson and his mistress, the former fertilizer salesman appears to become aware he is being taped, according to recordings played for jurors Tuesday at his murder trial.
The jury spent a fifth day listening to calls between Peterson and Amber Frey that were made after Peterson's wife, Laci, disappeared in December 2002.
In the recordings, Peterson often sounded apologetic for lying to Frey about being married, but he also was evasive. Frey made the tapes at the request of police.
In a call Feb. 7, 2003, Peterson tells Frey he will be spending the night in Sacramento and says he will call her the next day from a pay phone. Frey then asks Peterson why he is going to Sacramento.
"I can tell you but not on these phones," he says, in an apparent reference to his calls being monitored. It was unclear whether Peterson knew Frey was taping him.
Authorities hope to show jurors the affair was Peterson's motive for killing his wife and his unborn child.