Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson in Obsessed with True Crime

Mar 13, 2012 DAISY READS HORROR rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir-biography, true-crime

A few things were frustrating about this book. One of the things that I think I was the most frustrating with was Amber’s strong need to feel loved that it blinded her completely. I understand love blinds some people, but I am not so sure if love is what blinded her (If she even loved Scott), or if she just made dumb decisions. There were many signs that she clearly states in the book that were red flags about him being a cheating man. (I am not saying she should have seen he was a killer, but a A few things were frustrating about this book. One of the things that I think I was the most frustrating with was Amber’s strong need to feel loved that it blinded her completely. I understand love blinds some people, but I am not so sure if love is what blinded her (If she even loved Scott), or if she just made dumb decisions. There were many signs that she clearly states in the book that were red flags about him being a cheating man. (I am not saying she should have seen he was a killer, but a cheating man YES!) One of the things that stood out was how he would talk to Amber on the phone and she would always hear water in the background, he was talking to her in the bathroom so Laci wouldn’t hear. Secondly, he said he had to travel a lot and when he did he gave her a PO Box in Modesto so that she could still write to him. When she asked how it was possible for him to be far away in another state or country and still get mail from that PO Box, he said he had the mail from the PO Box forwarded to wherever he was! I remember reading this part and thinking “OH COME ON REALLY!!?” and her believing that one was just frustrating to me! Another thing that I found annoying about Amber that showed a lack of maturity was her constant allowing of friends meddling into her love life. Mind you, I am aware that friends are supposed to be protective of you and be curious about what’s going on in your love life, but still to have friends call Scott with immature messages like “Scott, when you say you are going to call a lady back, you have to call her back.” That seemed so high-school like.

With all of that being sad, I did feel sorry for Amber as well. She was a victim of Scott’s lies and deceitful ways. After reading the phone transcripts in this book regarding the phone conversations between him and Amber, I came to the conclusion like so many other people, that he is a pathological liar. He kept throwing lie after lie to Amber. Amazingly he still kept up with his “traveling stories” and lies even after he had already reported Laci missing and the Police was already searching for her. It was very heartbreaking to see how this man could just go about his day and life as if nothing was happening and everything was ok, when the fact of the matter was that he had an 8month pregnant wife missing. I think these actions were tall- tale signs that he was involved in her disappearance. He had told Amber a month before Laci actually went missing, that he had lost his wife that she had died. REALLY?! Maybe that was a clue that he was starting to plot a way to get rid of Laci around that time.

Overall I do feel bad for Amber, even though some of her relationship decisions I think were naïve, I can’t help but feel bad for her. It must be very difficult to be dragged into something so traumatizing such as this case was. The book was well written as far as an autobiography goes. Hopefully whatever money she made off the book went to good use either to help other missing person cases or in a fund for Amber’s children.
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