Laci’s Picture on Book Cover Stirs the Pot
What? This grieving mother of 2 years is now confronting her lawyer about Laci’s picture in the background of Amber’s book? First of all, why must this go public? Secondly, why must the blame be put on Amber? Does not anyone realize that the decision of what cover goes on a book is that of the publishers, and that the author has no say in it? And last but not least, why didn’t Mrs. Rocha complain when the movie, “The Perfect Husband“ went public? As you can see here, Laci’s picture is right in the background as it is in Amber Frey’s book.
Then we’ve got, “The Murder of Laci Peterson”, a book that was published soon after her disappearance. And shortly after that, a book called, “Laci: INSIDE THE SCOTT PETERSON MURDER” where Laci’s picture is right there as big as life next to Scott’s. Even when the trial hadn’t ended, there were and still are people on the Internet on Ebay selling Laci memorabilia all over the place!
Please don’t get me wrong here. Sharon Rocha has lost her daughter and has every right to grieve, and as she even said publicly there will never be any closure until the day she dies. This is understandable. I cannot
imagine what this woman is going through. It must be awful, and she has my sympathy and my respect in that regard. However, to have her lawyer lash out on Amber publicly because of Laci’s picture being on the cover of her book is absolutely asinine to me. And for that reason, I am really disgusted that she’s making a scene over this. I always had some doubt in my mind about Mrs. Rocha, but this was an eye-opener for me.
Maybe she will come out and clarify things later. Who knows.
In the meantime, according to Newsweek, Amber Frey defends her new book and reacts to Scott Peterson’s death sentence
Newsweek: “Laci Peterson’s family members have said that they are offended that you included a picture of Laci on the cover of your book. How do you justify using their daughter’s picture to help sell your story?”
Gloria Allred: “I’ll answer this one. There are three individuals on the cover of the book: Scott Peterson, the defendant, and Laci,the unfortunate murder victim, may she rest in peace, and Amber. All of these individuals appeared
together or individually in thousands of pictures in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. They were central to the criminal prosecution; that is why these three individuals are pictured.”“But that doesn’t get to the point that the family feels hurt by this.”
Allred: “Amber has the highest regard and respect for [Laci's mother] Sharon Rocha and for members of Laci Peterson’s family.”
“After pleading for your privacy for almost two years, why did you put your story in a book now?”
Amber Frey: “At the time, there was a lot at stake in preserving my testimony and serving justice, and now that there’s a verdict I can set the record straight and tell my story and correct some misconceptions that are out there. This has given me an opportunity to be able to say in my voice and my truth and my life that I have lived. [Begins to weep.] People that don’t understand how incredibly hard this has been, not just for me, but for my family and all the people around me. I know that may sound selfish to some people, because there are so many people hurting. But I want people to know that I am human and that I do feel pain, and
so does my family.”
Finally, after being on the gag order for two years, Amber gets to speak out and defend herself publicly from all the bashing, twisted stories, and lies that had surrounded her. Several critics out there still find it necessary to peg her, so I predict Gloria Allred will have to protect Amber for quite some time. You can see why it’s so necessary for Amber to have a lawyer. I would not only have a lawyer, I think I’d hire a bodyguard as well. There are so many wackos out there that if she were to turn up beaten, raped, or dead, I wouldn’t be surprised. Look at the jury? They’re already getting death threats!
What a nutty world we live in.
I am with the ROCHA family, that “skank” Amber Frey pretented to be a voice for Laci & Connor!
Turns out, Amber is a bitch, tramp, whore & more.. I have a daughter & I cherish her, like Sharon did her’s (LACI). Amber is now milking all she can to get $$$! I hope that skinny cunt who pretends to love the Lord, she will soon meet SATAN… Greedy Bitch!!! BURN IN HELL.
hey jaded, I am not a fan fo amber frey but not to the extreme as the other poster. I never get caught up in blaming the other woman as I do believe in this case SP did in fact lie and fool her. I have little sympathy for her but that is my own intoleration for weak women. Yes, strong women can be manipulated but she reeks of pitiful that I cannot respect as another woman.
My greatest disgust for her is the self importance she took from Gloria A and the media. I have no doubt SP would have been convicted even without AF tapes all she did was show us a side of him that we starting to see anyway. The fact that she herself seems to believe her word is what has made this case is what sickens me but perhaps this is the brain washing of GA.
I also think it was wrong for her to do a book and if I was the mother in this case I would be livid. It certainly is my right to talk about my own murdered daughter but there is something very ‘uncuth’ about the mistress doing it even if she didnot know she was the mistress. Now I do not like her confession that she had a dream about LP/CP I think that is a lie and I find it very inappropriate for her to have even said she had such a dream. Let us say it IS true…she should have had enough sense to shut her mouth in good taste. Of course one could argue if she shut her legs we would be having a different discussion. I do not like AF just because she reminds me of the weakness of women that I find so pitiful and I do not find her as ‘innocent’ as others would like us to believe of her.
Is she a whore, bitch….no…I just think she is a stupid weak woman who should know better than to write about things she has no bidness talking about. She is a dime a dozen and I have no use fo her..
Very well put. I am sometimes “praying” (if you will) for strength as I sometimes feel very weak. However, to the degree of Amber, I am not and will never be. Next to her, I am strong. Next to most people, I am.
Gayle, I really understand what you’re saying in that post. I’m not going to rebut, but just want to comment that your post really made me think.
LOL…what no rebuttal??? okay I want my money back ! LOL just kidding! I realize my comments were quite straightforward as I didnot want there to be any confusion as to my lack of respect for her but not for anything really to do with SR or LP. I do understand the dynamics of ‘weak ‘ women who cannot live without being needy or men or just go through life’ irresponsible’. I think it brings us all down as women as a group. I have days where I am not as strong as some but I have always been put off with this type of woman and often prefer the company of men anyway! I have never nor will I ever be confused for a amber frey LOL I just do not see anything special about her in that she was the ‘other woman’…is that something to write a book about?
I do hope for her children sakes she is able to find her footing again and get on with her own life and leave the Rochas to do theirs.
I think you knew that when her book came out I would not even post on that fourm…it was just not worth my time reading about this fake hero…I do respect the fact that you have more compassion than I do about her….LOL
Do you think that Amber could be helping people with her book?
jaded, honestly, N-O-P-E-R-O-N-I…she is one of the least of complicated people who has done what millions of women have done since eve was excomunicated from the garden LOL…there is nothing of substance that I can think of. I just think she is immature and made bad decisions about pictures , visits and talking about certain things in her book.
But please note I am biased: I am surrounded by strong women and we all think she has set us back a few years with her foolishness, especially single moms…heaven forbid everyone thinks we are welfare whores as it is..I think she did more harm to women than ever good.
I agree with some parts of your argument, but disagree with others. But that’s totally cool. We can agree to disagree with the later.
I appreciate your honesty.
jaded, what parts do you not agree with..do not worry since it is YOUR blog I wont disagree with your disagreements LOLOL just teasing…I just feel that so many single moms have enough hurdles and mysogynistic bullcrap to deal with on a single day that stories like this arm these ‘haters’ and ‘pontificators’ with the info they think substantiats their postion on the ‘waywardness’ of single moms…it is not right but powerful nonetheless..and AF , I believe, set things back in that way…BIG TIME…I know what I had to contend with being a single mom and I had to fight twice as hard not to be mistaken for the likes of a amber frey…..they make it harder for the rest of us. especially in how we are viewed by other men…you knwo..us women of ‘ill repute’ LOLOLOL
My mother was a single mom, and in my opinion, society respects these people. My mother had 3 kids to raise on one dinky income with no alimony. She worked her butt of to get us food on the table and made sure we had an education. We did alright.
Amber Frey is not ruining the reputation of women or single moms out there. If you or any other women out there choose to believe that Amber is ruining your rep, then that is your choice.
She is one of several women who made a mistake. But you don’t hear of other women making this same mistake because they’re not on the cover of the Enquirer.
I don’t think she purposely made this mistake. She was gullible and too innocent for her own good. It’s a lesson learned, and I’m hoping that others learn from it.
I can say for a fact that I, myself, have learned from the stupid mistakes of others.
Please keep in mind that Laci Peterson, herself, made the same mistake. Didn’t she? She put her full trust in Scott Peterson, and look at the results. So, it’s not just Amber. It’s Laci too. It’s Laci’s family as well who had put their full trust in Scott and then later were shocked that he could do something like this.
I also respect Amber in that she too, like my mother, is a single mom and working to take care of her two children. That is not an easy thing to do. She could easily quit her job and put her hand out for welfare, but she didn’t.
Amber could have also shied away from the case and chose not to have those phone calls between her and SP recorded. She could have opted out of testifying on the stand to avoid the in depth scrutiny of the media. She took a huge risk, and it may just be that she helped get SP in the slammer.
If you read her book, you would know that she saw signs pretty early in her relationshilp with SP that made her suspicious of him. Following that, she took action – just as most women would do.
Thanks to Amber, Law Enforcement was monitoring SP’s every move, and then BAM, we all learned he wasn’t the “innocent” man he portrayed himself to be.
What about Amber’s nude photos? Well, that was her business and only her business. I have her book, and I didn’t see any nude photos in it. People love to sensationalize things.
But she posed nude when she was 19, right? My answer to that is…. so what?
If she slept around a lot…. so what?
All those things are and were unrelated to the SP case. That was HER private life and should have been kept that way. It was one of her “friends” that for money and greed that decided to give Amber’s nude pictures to a tabloid. That was not a request of Amber’s. Amber was shocked and embarrassed and now she’s not talking with that person any longer.
You need to understand that if the media did enough research into the past lives of all of us women, they’d find A LOT to say about us. Enough to embarrass to hell out of us.
It is for these reasons, I think that all the Amber-bashers need to cut this woman a little slack.
Amber has moved on with her life. She’s got two kids at home that she’s raising, plus a job to boot. And if she’s making a lot of money off the TV movie and her book, well then so are many other people, and I often wonder whey they too, aren’t being ridiculed.
Also, she is and wasn’t SP’s mistress as the media keeps saying. She did not know SP was married.
And finally, she (as many people like to believe), she did not work at a “massage parlor”. For pete sakes, she worked in a sports medicine clinic.
I also composed another post about her about a year ago. You can find it here.
wow jaded thanks for sharing all that…but I sew my post has been somewhat misunderstood.I as I have said before and other strong women do are not effected by this directly but I know many women who are effected by the ignorance of society toward single moms and those in poverty or on welfare…It only effects me in that OTHERS once they see that I am a single mom treat me different not all but those with power. As you know I was a victim of rape and had my being a single mom was used against me over and over- we are all looking for a man to wisk us away..that does not mean I believe it but nonetheless I am exposed to it..women like AF DO empower those ignorant people, right or wrong as she DOES fit in that very category that others think single moms are just looking for a man with money or security.
If your mom or you never were exposed to this than that is great but it is a naive position to assume all women are respected as single moms…I also have no doubt AF is not as innocent as she would like the world to believe and in that she also arms those who disrespect single moms….as I said she does not effect me at all she is not important enough to do that but she is a dime a dozen sadly who DO set other women back. If she has moved on all the power to her and I hope she has learned from this ordeal but she obviously had to go through it to do so.I also believe she has no choice as the world eyes are still on her to make sure she is not who they believe she is…she is trying to dismantle that image. a strong negative one of single moms….sadly.
bashing amber? that would mean I found some importance for her and I do not..her role as a’hero’ is nauseating and I think everytime I hear it is disrespecting laci and conner.it is what it is..
the media has checked into me for 9 years and I am in at least 10 articles and still NOTHING..so no amber frey is NOT me and many other single moms who do work without issue or shedding our clothes, or sleeping around because some of would never be so negligent to expose our children to men we hardly know…so cut slack?….I have..I choose not to talk about her…until now…I never posted about her at all on CTv but since it came up here on your blog..as for other points you bring up such as the massage parlour etc..they were never issues for me again as I never posted or read about her..she is a peripheral character to me but I agree others should be exposed to the same criticism for writing and gaining from the misery of others I agree 100%…except for educational or therapeutic purpose and I find neither from AF…but if you do..enjoy!
ps…correct me please I thought before SP she was with a married man???
as I have said she was immature, naive and careless, if she has learned great but lets not make her larger than what she is…to redeem herself as she had no choice but to help the police as not to be the ‘expected mistress’ suspect with SP.I could be more honest but out of respect for your blog I will refrain…and I do agree SP was great at fooling and lying to many people- that never changes
Yes, I always say that best lessons in life are learned the hard way!
Oh and to answer your other question, before she met SP, she was not married. She was legally separated from her X.
I don’t know if “hero” is the correct term in describing her, but I do cherish the fact that she contributed to the SP case in a legal manner. I also felt that she was risking her life. It has been said that SP was trying to get her all alone in some resort spot. Perhaps to kill her? Then when SP was on his way to Mexico, he had Amber’s work address printed out on a piece of paper with some other suspicious things in his car that could have been used to kill her. I really think that if SP got a hold of her, Amber wouldn’t be alive today. In that sense, I think she was a tough cookie in doing her deed to try to get justice served – whether she had anything to do with the verdict or not.
And I must say, I so do not blame her for trying to dismantle her poor image in the media. I think that she needed to set the record straight for all those who didn’t follow the case or had access to the transcripts. Most people just listened to the over-sensationalized media and fed off of their stories.
However, I do think she’s a very poor speaker. She’s not a very well-spoken person, verbally and often paused when asked questions. She came off very weak when I really wanted her to fight back hard. I would have. But she had her say; some listened; some didn’t.
I do remember you on CTV discussing her. You weren’t the only one. But I had always thought that you discussed her in a civil manner (like you’re doing here) unlike the others who were bashing her in a disgustful manner. I don’t know if you remember those days.
Anyway, I am glad you feel comfortable in voicing your voice here.
sorry jaded realize I am not the most clear..I knew about AF but did she not date a married man before SP?…I thought that was where alot of the bashing came from in her pattern to ‘take other men’..???
when she broke out into the world with GA, with her book I refrained from CTV…as it was a pitiful site indeed, you would have witnessed more than I would have..when I said I posted nothing on her/..I meant of… only in passive commentary that she was only a peripheral character and not of any interest for me..I didnot bash or speak ill of her at all or in the length I have done here..sorry for that confusion..I was attacked for saying I thought she prostituted her story, ironically that same evil poster turned face and hated AF more than most which confused me big time..there would be only one other post where I said SP had deliberately picked AF to offset the strong and perhaps overbearing personality of LC..and I do believe all those dynamics to be real..my position on her during her role/part while the trial was in motion was all I could comment on..it would be unfair of me to say anything during the launch of her book as I never read it and do not intend to…I do remember alot of name calling even to those, like me who do not see AF as a ‘hero’ which is why I stopped posting during that time on that forum as I to even respond back was giving this issue time and energy it didnot deserves…
as a citizen I acknowledge her coming forward as you said she could have remained silent, the easy way…I do apprecaite as a community responsible person she did what she is obligatd to do as a human being and I guess that is where I diverge..to hold her in special light for doing what she should do is not special it is expected as a humanist…when I started reading on CTV about her being a hero and a strong image for women it made me sick…the only source I got that from was CTV but as I have said I also know she was a victim of GA.. and it was through AF that I lost any respect for GA as a victim advocate, she is a pimp like the rest of them …I do NOT believe she risked her life at all, if anything she brought in a strange man around her child and if anyone was at risk was her child..I know she will not do that again and it does not take away from the fact that woman can know a man for years and he still be an offender….AF was not a threat to SP. LP,was and that is why I believe he would never have physically harmed AF..she was just fluff to him…excuse the term…LP was his nemesis while working out his passive hate for his mom…he was accountable to LP and JP not AF therefore not a dynamic that would render him less of a man quite the opposite..to AF he was all man… she was not threat to him…
as for dismantling her image to set it straight,….she had to do that if she was to get focus but I do not think the public is all wrong, she had to do it for herself if she was to gain any credibility at all… what she did for the trial I expect from anybody…maybe because I have spent so much time in trials I do not see her as a call above the duty and I lost count on how many times my life has been threatened and that was before and after I was swarmed and beaten with bats… so we observe and evaluate things on our own standards set by our own experience…I have also seen and know women who haev endured much more and do more with no fanfair and they have no issue either…after all what SP did was no different than what men have done to women over years-lied about themselves and marriage…so it is relative for sure on who is strong, credible, brave etc.. and who is not…
I never watched any of her interviews so I do not know about the criticms but being a poor speaker is no way to judge someone, many people are uncomfortable being in the public light and I hope it was not used to judge her morality or worth as a human, that would be equivalent to picking on some with a speech impairment…one does not need to be ’stupid’or undereducated to be abused by a man in any way..and anyone judging her for such on that would be ignornat themselves. I have never heard her speak other than the transcripts for court, my only interest.I think too that mouth GA intimidated her into feeling less confident on speaking as GA assigned herelf that role, too much so I think…
jaded , the issue of single moms has always bothered me as a feminist from a socio-political role…women have been single parenst since the beginning of time, who the heck do people think raised children when the men were off conquering the world playing cops and robbers….of course who would society blame for all societal ills but for the category of single moms and theor children? Single moms for the most part are as old as civilization and should be respected for their ability to survive in conditons that set up hurdles with poverty being the greatest demon..but why do peole bash single moms and not the policies and dead beat dads that keep them in poverty? anyway…..a woman does not need to be poor or single mom to be manipulated by a socipath, that we all know I hope… by now…. and always jaded, I would not post if I didnot feel safe to do so…thank-you ..and thanks for your patience sometimes I cannot say it the way I want to takes me a few rounds LOL…not of beer either LOL
I do apprecaite that you see AF as more as a victim where I do not..she represents so many women who were lied to by narcisstic men who can cause much damage-OVERTIME..since the ‘relationship’ was so short I have no investment in her role and its importance, only that she provdided a side of SP that does not convict him but lets us know what he is capable of saying and doing….we cannot convict men for acting like ‘karat gold a@@holes’ LOL…but it did let us know he is cold and callous again not a crime..but peripheral information…before I knew of Af I knew he was guilty and I think many are like that which is why there is such a response to her exaggerated importance as well… had there actually been a relationship of substance and this all happened I may have viewed it differently…she her playing a more important role….
having said all that, he is where he should be and I hope much health on all touched by this horrendous act of inhumanity…
but saying all that I will NEVER accept that it was okay for her to write a book…never….not because she was the mistress, she cannot be a mistress if she didnot know he was married..but becaus it IS in bad taste having founf out she WAS the mistress and that she had such a little role in this story..to have include photos and anything on LP still turns my stomach..that was NOT her place to talk of such things when she didnot know her…if she wanted to talk about her and SP then that was her business but it should have just been exclusive to that and nothing more…I also believe jaded that had she found out he was married whiel with him and there was no crime she would still be with him..I HAVE NO DOUBT!
okay no more LOL….let me go bash KH, she deserves it….
Nope. That’s the media. And possibly CTV members you may have heard that from. Not too reliable a source, if you ask me. It’s even very clear in her testimony. I know I can be like this too, but when you hate another person, you believe the bad – no matter the source.
I call her out on that one too.
She was not a threat until SP found out that AF was turning against him – thereby weakening his imagine as “the good guy”. Finally, in the beginning of Feburary, AF told SP, she no longer wanted to communicate with him anymore.
It is not true that AF thought he was “all man”. AF changed her patterns after she started getting suspicious. This happened on Dec 9th – the day SP came to her home to tell her that his wife died. SP wasn’t under much media and LE scrutiny then, but after that moment, things started to ‘kick in’, so to speak.
Yeah, but you have to admit, a lot of the fanfair came from the media. Real victims don’t usually get fanfair. It’s usually reserved for curious criminals and witnesses that the media has a lot of information on that they believe will entertain the public. This is not to say I agree or disagree with the media. But they put out there what they believe will entertain the people at large. And it works even though it causes outrage!
We cannot blame this on AF. AF didn’t ask to be a “star” in the media. She didn’t ask to have every detail of her past thrown out there for all of us to nibble on.
And you’re right. She did what was expected of her at a citizen. Something that I’d expect anyone to do. But you have to remember from the beginning…. all AF did was record conversations and and testify against SP. Following that THE MEDIA made a circus out of her. THAT was unnecessary. If the media hadn’t done that, AF would not have to be on TV everywhere defending herself and writing a book to show that she isn’t the person that the media made her out to be.
“No good deed go unpunished” as they say. This is not to say, though, that AF had a puritan past. She made stupid mistakes.
I only see her as a victim of hearbreak from someone she was head over heals for and a victim of harsh media scrutiny. It starts and ends right there.
Now, you have to admit that many women fall for someone they believe “is all man” just to later find out that there in a hole. We can’t blame her for that because what she did is more common than not.
I believe everyone’s a victim of something, and then we become a survivor after we’ve moved on with our lives. It only appears that AF is wallowing in “victimville” because of the cooky media. Everything’s exaggerated unnecessarily.
I think it was heading in the direction of substance. Definately. But it could never get to that point because of SP and his lies that AF picked up on right away.
I totally disagree. By the actions that she took when she found out that he “was married”, it didn’t look like she was having much fun. She was VERY clear about wanting to get married and starting a family. Very clear. Clear in her book, her testimony, and clear that she was hurt when she found out about “the marriage”.
But that’s cool, Gayle. I also respect that you have different feelings about this issue. I love to debate just as you do. I wish everyone was able to debate with such civility.
I didn’t answer to everything that you posted here because I didn’t want to write too much, and that I understand you.
no problem jaded and I respect that you have a different take too..and not an issue for me…and you are right…she is not ‘guilty’ of anything thousands of woman have not done or been exposed to by way of a narcissistic and sneaky man..I guess it that commonality that lets me see her as a regular person and not anymore than that..I did hear about her defending herself about SP and the marriage..I think she spoke more bravely in retrospect and in hindsight….I really do believe she was just too head over heels and if SP was not a double murderer they would be together right now…I do believe that and now she is in a position to redeem herself and that is one way she has chosen to do it: by stating that she was not intending to get away from him….but we will never know and sadly it WAS a double murder…but jaded AF was only able to detect lies because of the the LP disappearance ..if there was no disappearnce and this was a case of infidelity she would not be detecting anything and no doubt his secret life would have continued..I truly believe that..and in honestly I truly would not believe much of what she has to say about her part as the other woman..I do believe she did NOT know about LP..but as for wanting to not have anything to do with him..I do not believe that…she had to say that as the world was listening and judging her already..and again she staying with married man is not unique to her either… okay back to bashing KH…
No, AF didn’t know about LP’s disappearance when she got suspicious about Scott. Scott didn’t even kill her till the end of December and AF got her friend running a background check on him after Dec. 9th. If AF didn’t care whether SP was married or not, why the need for a background check on him?
Where is there documentation on this? This is a false statement.
Like I mentioned in my above reply, the relationship that she had with her former partner – that guy was legally separated from his wife.
amber is a disgusting homewrecker. she is all about herself. how dare she profit off laci and connors tragedy. she is nothing but a high priced call girl who lied about who her daughters father was. she clearly only cares about herself. she put her her trashy photos from her fake modeling job in her book for what reason? i guess to show the world what a trashy skank she really is. laci was beautiful and amber knows that she could not compare to laci so she had her taken care of. she should rot in hell. her babies deserve a mother who isn’t a money grubbing whore. keep your legs closed amber. quit having children when you can’t really be truthful about who the father is you sleazy tramp