You got to hand it to Scott Peterson. That guy knows how to party. Details have come out in his murder trial that Peterson ordered the Playboy Channel weeks after his pregnant wife’s disappearance then went on to te harder stuff
California- Scott Peterson ordered explicit, ’round-the-clock satellite porn three weeks after his pregnant wife disappeared – but abruptly canceled the service as cops raided his house, a witness testified yesterday.
Donald Toy, a Dish Network representative, testified on the 33rd day of Peterson’s double-murder trial that Peterson began subscribing to the Playboy Channel two weeks after wife Laci vanished, and tried it for four days before deciding to move on to the harder stuff: the “TENXtsy” package.
“They’re adult content. Very explicit,” Toy said of the movies. “You can order one movie at a time or unlimited, at your leisure.”
Peterson chose the latter.
According to the company’s Web site, TENXtsy “is a 24-hour, uncensored adult channel delivering the wildest situations the adult world has to offer. TENXtsy showcases movies chosen to entertain and tantalize your senses.”
TENXtsy shows such programs as “The Best Of Barely Legal 8,” “California Sex Patrol: Bad Girls,” “110 percent Natural 5: Real & Raw,” “Dark Desires: Bittersweet Sex” and “Hell House: Devilishly Nasty Sex.”
Some jurors appeared shocked by the testimony. A female juror gasped and looked at Peterson, who kept his head down.
Toy testified that, when operators at the satellite service asked Peterson, 31, why he was canceling the service a month later, Peterson said he “was moving overseas.”
The cancellation coincided with a police raid on Peterson’s house, a cop testified Monday.
“While we were there, the TV signal went out,” Kipp Loving, a police officer on a Sacramento Valley crime task force testified.
Defense attorney Mark Geragos had asked the judge to block the porn testimony, saying it would smear Peterson’s character but not help prove the prosecution’s case that Peterson murdered his wife on Christmas Eve because he was infatuated with lover Amber Frey.
“Absent [evidence] that Laci didn’t want [porn] in the house, there’s no point to bring it in,” Geragos argued.
But San Mateo Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi allowed the testimony and noted that Geragos could cross-examine the witness.
“The jury can draw whatever inferences it wants,” Delucchi said.
After Toy took the stand, Geragos tried to do damage control, suggesting that the porn channels weren’t much different from HBO and that Peterson made up the line about leaving the country to end the sales pitch the satellite company gives customers who try to switch providers.
But prosecutor Rick Distaso said the adult package that Peterson installed in the place of the Playboy Channel was hard core.
“We’re not talking about HBO at night here,” Distaso said, evoking chuckles from the audience.
Toy revealed the following chronology:
* On March 13, 2001, Laci Peterson ordered satellite programming with HBO, but no adult programming;
* On Jan. 8, 2003, two weeks after Laci’s disappearance and more than three months before the discovery of her body, Scott Peterson ordered the Playboy Channel.
* On Jan. 12, Scott scrapped the Playboy channel for TENXtsy.
* On Feb. 18, as Modesto police served a search warrant at the house, the service was discontinued.
In other developments yesterday, a retired Modesto police detective said he pulled records from one of Scott Peterson’s computers showing that on Dec. 8, 2002, he was researching water-current patterns in San Francisco Bay.
Prosecutors say Peterson bought a fishing boat the next day and told Frey he had recently lost his wife and was about to spend his first Christmas without her.
The suspect hubby has said he went fishing the day Laci vanished.
The bodies of his wife and her eight-month fetus were discovered washed up on a shore of the bay in April 2003.
A handful of witnesses yesterday recalled Peterson’s smiling, apparently happy-go-lucky demeanor at a candlelight vigil for his wife shortly after she disappeared.
Lissa McElroy, a family friend, also noted how poor Peterson’s judgment was when she came over to help select photos of Laci to share with searchers and the media.
“Scott pulled out a photo of Laci in a bathing suit on the beach . . . then a photo of Laci and her friends holding up drinks,” McElroy said.
Each time, she said she told Peterson, “I don’t think that’s appropriate in the media.”