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Laci Peterson Case: Witness Claims Scott Asked About Kidnapping

The Fresno Bee reports that an inmate doing time on a parole violation claims Scott Peterson asked about having Laci kidnapped a month before her disappearance. The inmate's lawyer says he passed a polygraph. Despite the gag order, somehow the Fresno Bee has a copy of the polygrapher's report.

Peterson's attorney Mark Geragos says he'd love to comment about the report, but can't, due to the gag order.

The inmate, Corey Lee Carroll, says he met Peterson at a strip club and Peterson, after learning Carroll had been in jail, asked him if he knew anyone who could steal his wife's car for insurance money. Carroll says Peterson paid him $300.00 to introduce Peterson to two neo-nazis and the four went to a motel to discuss the car theft. Carroll says he left when the subject of a kidnapping came up.

Carroll's lawyer says his client has nothing to gain by coming forward. Carroll is being held without bail on a parole violation. Last year he was jailed on another parole violation following a theft by receiving conviction. We're not buying it.

Update: We're watching Rivera Live now. Carroll's attorney Frank Muna is on. We just did a doubletake. Last week we were in Sonoma to speak at a public defender's conference (attended by private lawyers as well as public defenders.) After our talk, as we were eating lunch in the hotel's outdoor restaurant, Muna and a woman began talking to us. Muna told us there would be big news in the Scott Peterson case and it would be very bad for Peterson, but he wouldn't tell us the details. He said he was under the cover of the gag order. He repeated this at least three times. He was a very nice guy, and we're not dissing him, but hey, how come he can tell the story on tv?

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