Gloria Gomez was a local reporter for KOVR TV
in Sacramento.
She says she spent two and a half years on
this story, and she was one of the first reporters
to interview Scott in his home.
Here's an excerpt of her interview with Scott in 2003.
Are you in any way
connected to Laci's disappearance?
I had nothing to do with Laci's disappearance.
And again, even if people out there question that,
if they would just look at their hearts
and make the effort to bring her home to her family.
I don't care what you think of me,
I don't care what people think of me.
As I've said, question of my moral character
if you want too, but, look at your heart,
think of Laci, her picture, baby, and make
the effort to bring her home.
And that's a simple reality, that's a simple
thing we need to do.
Think whatever you want of me,
as long as you're out there and you're comfortable
with yourself that you're doing what you need
to be doing to find Laci and bring her home.
Well Gloria is joining us on satellite
from Fox WTVT in Tampa, so as one of the first
reporters on the scene, what was your first
impression of Scott and why?
My first impression of Scott was that he was very
disconnected I know that at one point he
did approach me and I asked him for an interview.
He seemed very disconnected, didn't want to really
talk to the media, you could tell he was very distant.
Well anything stand out about your interview?
Once you did sit down with Scott and talk to him
in his home?
I know that he was very particular about me
taking off my shoes when I first approached the house.
So that was odd, that I had to take off my shoes,
and that would be my first interview really without
shoes on, but the whole time when I did interview
him I felt like he was very scripted.
There was no emotion.
Having spent two and a half years on this case,
do you believe that Scott murdered Laci?
I think the jury got it right.
Did you make up your mind because he behaved
like a guilty person rather than a piece of evidence
or a cluster of evidence that proved that he was guilty?
No, even when I approached him and said hey
it's really important for you to reach out
to the public, let them know the anguish,
the pain you're feeling.
He just didn't seem to see that,
that that was important for the public to see that.
And then as the days went on, and we started
revealing more and more facts about the case,
the fact that he had a boat that he didn't tell Laci about.
The fact there, Laci's hair was found on the pliers
in his boat, the fact that he had gone fishing
on Christmas Eve, all of those things were sketchy
from the beginning.
And of course, it's not my opinion on whether
or not he's guilty or not, it's the juries opinion.
But the whole point is, we as journalists
have to pursue the truth and that's exactly what
we were doing and the fact that he was looking
more and more guilty was just the evidence
that was coming out, we had nothing to do with it
other than showing the public exactly what was
going on in this case.
There were some things there that were said
that you say just not true.
Like for example, that she didn't know about the boat.
You say that's not true, she did know about the boat.
She did know about the boat.
And you say that she knows about the boat because
you say that she had been seen at the warehouse
where the boat was.
Correct. Sharon Roja
would disagree with that, that's Laci's mother.
As a matter of fact, I spoke to Sharon Roja
I had a one on one interview with her.
And she said no, Laci did not know about the boat
because she would've told her about that boat.
Well then there would've been no reason
for detective Brokeemi to withhold that from his report
when he found it out.
Ya know, those are eye witnesses that say Laci
knew about the boat, that's cooperating that Scott
said she knew about the boat.
Scott is on death row with nobody explaining
when or how he carried out this crime.
But here's what-- And he's on death row
because he asked Gloria Gomez to take
her shoes off.
But at the end of the day, that body was discovered
where Scott Peterson went fishing.
That you cannot deny.