If you're reading this, you're bored, and that means you need to check out these phone transcripts between Scott Peterson and Amber Frey. It's a lot of reading -- I've been working on it for a couple of weeks -- but it's well worth it.
If you don't already know, Scott Peterson is the guy whose 8-month pregnant wife, Laci, went missing over a year and a half ago. There were candlelight vigils and the like, until her body washed up on the shore.
Well, as it turns out, on the side Scott was pretending to be a romantic bachelor, wooing single mom Amber Frey. He went all out: roses, expensive dinners, caramel apples. Very smooth. (Check out this detailed timeline for a fuller picture of the story.)
What I love about these transcripts is that they remind me of every conversation I've ever had in a relationship. Peterson and Frey talk about their feelings for each other, about how they feel about relationships in general, about where they think this one is going; they talk about their favorite movies and what they did the previous day. It's all extremely banal, except that underneath it all he's murdered his wife and she's pretending not to know while she tapes his calls. In a favorite key moment, Scott calls Amber on New Years Eve, pretending to be in Paris -- when he's actually at his wife's own candlelight vigil. Ha! Now that's good evil!
If you're still not convinced that you need to waste hours of your life reading these transcripts, allow me to present an excerpt. Um, I believe this will be Exhibit 'Q'. In this excerpt from a January 4, 2003 conversation, Scott and Amber are discussing their role models.
SCOTT
It's like, five years later, and I'm still making changes in myself to be more like Hugh.AMBER
To be more like who?SCOTT
Hugh.AMBER
Hugh?SCOTT
Hugh, yeah, that was his name.AMBER
Okay.SCOTT
That's a tough one to say on a mobile phone, isn't it?AMBER
I know. It sounds like you're saying 'you,' and I'm like, 'What?'SCOTT
Hugh.AMBER
Me?
I love vaudeville! I hope Peterson gets aquitted just so we can get more great routines like this one.