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The Pizza Made Him Do It
Halloween night's Larry King Live featured an interview with Ted Rowlands of KTVU and Laura Ingle of KFI radio, who were in the courtroom for day three of alleged wife-and-baby-killer Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. (Nancy Grace was guest host; Mr. King was out scaring trick-or-treators.)
Grace: Well, let me ask Ted Rowlands a question, speaking of his urgency, his concern—yes, it may have wiped out his mind what he was fishing with, but am I correct? Was it in the testimony today, Ted Rowlands, that when he got home, saw his wife's vehicle, the pocketbook, the keys, the wallet, and so forth, he ordered or ate a pizza?and took a shower and changed clothes before he called anyone?
Rowlands: I don't know that that was in the testimony today. I was out of the courtroom for a brief period of time. I didn't hear that in the record today. Maybe I'm wrong. But we've heard that before. What we did find out, what Sharon Rocha talked about, which she thought was glaring, was that when Scott Peterson called over to the Grantski house and asked them if Laci was over there, he right away offered up the fact that she was missing. And she said—and we've heard that before—that that stuck with her as being strange, especially in retrospect. And then she detailed it from there. The other thing that—the first—for the first time, we did see some emotion in the courtroom. At one point, Jackie Peterson broke down. A lot of Laci's friends were crying through it when they talked about Laci herself. And actually, there was some camaraderie between Lee and Scott. When Lee sat down to testify, he gave Scott a wink and told the court that he was proud to be Scott's father.
Grace: You know, let me go back to you, Laura Ingle. Maybe you were in the courtroom when Ted was taking a break. I'm referring specifically to the testimony of Detective John Evers on the shower and the pizza?portion of the testimony. Were you there for that?
Ingle: I was there for that, and he did bring that up. And he said, I asked Scott, you know, what did you do when you got home? And he said, well, he said he was hungry, so he went and got a cold slice of pizza?out of the fridge, and he did take a shower, you know, because he's been fishing. So he took a shower and he washed his clothes and then started making the calls. So that's where that timeline lays down.