The Murder Business by Mark Fuhrman

Author:Mark Fuhrman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brisance Books Group LLC
Published: 2010-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Like Drew Peterson, another psycho narcissist, Scott Peterson basked in the media spotlight and tried to play them for his own purposes. And the media played along. They made his relationship with Amber Frey the centerpiece of the story, rather than the overwhelming evidence against him, mounting each day. They made the story cloudy, emotional, and for Peterson, easy to handle. He could just talk about his regret over cheating on his wife.

The pinnacle moment came when Peterson was interviewed by Diane Sawyer in January 2003.

Why did he do it? Why did he agree to be interviewed by Diane Sawyer? Actually, it was a mutually beneficial deal. Both of them are deeply invested in ratings.

TV hosts are controllable, and murder suspects know it. Their goal is to use the big TV hosts to sell their case to the jury pool. They know everyone watching them is a potential juror. That’s why they do it.

Meanwhile, for the host, there’s always tomorrow. Another show, another murder. While they care about the outcome, their lives are not invested in it. They’re not responsible for solving the crime. They’re trying to get ratings. Scott Peterson, Drew Peterson, and O. J. Simpson all believed that they could charm and convince their way out of trouble. Specifically, they all thought that they could charm any woman.

This was as tough as the Diane Sawyer interview got for Scott Peterson. Tilting her head and wincing slightly, in that way she does when troubled, she said, “I think everybody at home wants the answer to the same question: Did you murder your wife?”

He’s on national television, watched by millions. Did she think he was going to say yes?

Peterson, playing his role just as expertly as Sawyer played hers, replied:

No. No, I did not. And I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance. And you use the word murder and right now every one is looking for a body. And that is the hardest thing because that is not a possible resolution for us. To use the word murder and—yes, and that is a possibility. It’s not one we’re ready to accept and it creeps in my mind late at night and early in the morning and during the day all we can think about is the right resolution to find her.

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