What A News Reporter Says About Her First Meeting With Scott Peterson — Transcript

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1. 0:00Gloria Gomez was a local reporter for
2. 0:02KOVR TV in Sacramento
3. 0:04she says she spent two-and-a-half years
4. 0:07on this story and she was one of the
5. 0:10first reporters to interview Scott in
6. 0:12his home here's an excerpt of her
7. 0:15interview with Scott in 2003 are you in
8. 0:19any way connected to Lacey's
9. 0:21disappearance nothing to do with Lacey's
10. 0:23disappearance and again even if people
11. 0:28out there question that if they would
12. 0:31just look at their hearts and make the
13. 0:35effort to bring her home to her family I
14. 0:37don't care what you think of me I don't
15. 0:39care what people think of me you know as
16. 0:42I've said question of my moral character
17. 0:44if you want to but look at your heart
18. 0:47think of Lacey her picture baby and make
19. 0:52the effort to bring her home and that's
20. 0:53that's a simple reality that's a simple
21. 0:57thing we need to do just you know think
22. 0:59whatever you want to me as long as
23. 1:01you're out there and you're comfortable
24. 1:03yourself that you're doing what you need
25. 1:05to be doing to finally humor your own
26. 1:09well Gloria is joining us on satellite
27. 1:12from Fox WTVT
28. 1:14in Tampa so since one of the first
29. 1:16reporters on the scene what was your
30. 1:19first impression of Scott and why my
31. 1:21first impression of Scott was that he
32. 1:23was very disconnected I know that at one
33. 1:26point he he did approach me and I asked
34. 1:30him for an interview he seemed very
35. 1:33disconnected didn't want to really talk
36. 1:35to the media you could tell he was very
37. 1:37distant well anything stand out about
38. 1:40your interview once you did sit down
39. 1:42with Scott and talk to him in his home I
40. 1:44know that he was very particular about
41. 1:47me taking off my shoes when I first
42. 1:49approached the house so that was odd
43. 1:51that I had to take off my shoes and and
44. 1:53that would be my first interview really
45. 1:55without shoes on so that the whole time
46. 1:57when I did interview him I felt like he
47. 1:59was very scripted there was no emotion
48. 2:01well having spent two-and-a-half years
49. 2:04on this case do you believe that Scott
50. 2:06murdered Lacey I think the jury got it
51. 2:09right did you make up your mind because
52. 2:12he behaved like a guilty per
53. 2:14rather than a piece of evidence or a
54. 2:17cluster of evidence that proved that he
55. 2:20was guilty now even when I approached
56. 2:23him and said hey it's really important
57. 2:25for you to reach out to the public let
58. 2:28them know the anguish the pain you're
59. 2:30feeling he just didn't seem to see that
60. 2:33that that was important for the public
61. 2:35to see that and then as you know the
62. 2:38days went on and we started you know
63. 2:40revealing more and more facts about the
64. 2:42case you know the fact that he had a
65. 2:44boat that he didn't tell Lacey about the
66. 2:46fact that you know there were Lacey's
67. 2:49hair was found on the pliers in his boat
68. 2:51the fact that he had gone fishing on
69. 2:53Christmas Eve all of those things were
70. 2:55sketchy from the beginning and of course
71. 2:57it's not my opinion on whether or not
72. 3:00he's guilty or not it's the jury's
73. 3:01opinion but the whole point is we as
74. 3:04journalists have to pursue the truth and
75. 3:06that's exactly what we were doing to the
76. 3:07fact that he was looking more and more
77. 3:09guilty was just the evidence that was
78. 3:11coming out we had nothing to do with it
79. 3:13other than showing the public exactly
80. 3:15what was going on in this case there
81. 3:17were some things there that were said
82. 3:19that you say it's not true like for
83. 3:21example that she didn't know about the
84. 3:23boat you say that's not true she did
85. 3:25know about the boat and you say that she
86. 3:27knows about the boat because you say
87. 3:29that she had been seen at the warehouse
88. 3:30where the boat was correct
89. 3:32Sharon Rocha would disagree with that
90. 3:34that's Lacey's mother as a matter of
91. 3:35fact I spoke to Sharon Rocha I had a
92. 3:37one-on-one interview with her and she
93. 3:39said no Lacey did not know about the
94. 3:41boat because she would have told her
95. 3:43about that boat well then there would
96. 3:44have been no reason for detective bro
97. 3:46Keaney to withhold that from his report
98. 3:48when he found it out you know but those
99. 3:51are eyewitnesses that say Lacey knew
100. 3:53about the boat that's cooperating that
101. 3:55Scott said she knew about the boat Scott
102. 3:57is on death row with nobody explaining
103. 3:59when or how he carried out this crime
104. 4:01here and he's on death row because he
105. 4:04asked Gloria Gomez to take her shoes off
106. 4:06but at the end of the day that body was
107. 4:10discovered where Scott Peterson went
108. 4:13fishing that you cannot deny