Amber Frey's Phone Was Also Tapped

The phone of Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's former mistress, was also tapped by investigators while they were trying to tie the Modesto man to the murder of his pregnant wife and unborn son, Fox News reported Wednesday.

Fox News Rita Cosby And Ted Rowlands' Wednesday Comments On The Case According to Fox News reporter Rita Cosby, who was appearing on KTVU's Mornings On 2, investigators monitored calls between the two just as they did the phone conversations between Peterson and several reporters.

"She had her phone also listened to by investigators," said Cosby, quoting her sources in the case. "They recorded conversations with Scott Peterson where he said, 'I love you.' 'I want to spend my life with you.'"

Cosby also said she was told by the Peterson defense team that they were close to having a mysterious woman come forward who could give key testimony in the case. Defense attorney Mark Geragos made a plea to the 'young lady' at a courthouse press conference last week.

"If he can get this woman to come forward, and he says he 's quite close according to the people I'm talking to, if he can actually deliver this person," Cosby said. "And have her say I saw such-and-such…It could cast some doubts in the case."

Cosby said the woman had some connection to either a mysterious van spotted in the Peterson's neighborhood on Dec. 24 -- the day Laci Peterson disappeared from her home -- or the two men arrested for burglarizing a home across the street on Dec. 26.

She added that police had discounted sightings of the van, claiming it was merely a landscaper's vehicle.

Cosby also said she expected that the autopsy report on the bodies of Laci and Connor Peterson would be completed "late today or early tomorrow."

Former FBI Agent Eddie Freyer Talks About Phone Taps On Tuesday, a prosecutor admitted that Scott Peterson's phone was tapped and investigators may have listened to interviews with journalists -- including KTVU's Ted Rowlands.

About a dozen letters were sent by the Stanislaus County prosecutor to notify reporters, a lawyer and a member of the public that calls they made to Peterson had been intercepted by investigators, said John Goold, a chief deputy district attorney. Goold said reporters' calls to Peterson may have been monitored.

"It's an investigative tool," Goold said. "They're seeking anything that might come out of that conversation, up to and including a confession."

Prosecutors had to notify anyone whose conversations were intercepted under a court-ordered wiretap to gather evidence in the December disappearance of Laci Peterson, the substitute schoolteacher who was eight months pregnant.

Scott Peterson, 30, faces the death penalty in the killings of his wife and unborn son. He was arrested last month after the remains of the two were found on the shore of San Francisco Bay near where he said he was fishing Christmas Eve, the day he reported his wife missing. He has pleaded innocent to two counts of murder.

Investigators Tapped Scott Peterson's Phone