Amber Frey Secures Gloria Allred as Legal Representative
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: And we begin it with the Laci Peterson case. Investigators hope the waters off of San Francisco Bay will hold the answers to her murder, and that of her unborn son. Divers are searching for clues there again today. CNN's Mike Brooks is live from Richmond, California, with details for us -- hello, Mike.</s>MIKE BROOKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello again, Miles. For the fourth day, divers are back in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, and as we speak, there are five divers in about three boats just behind us off of Point Isabel. They are being backed up by two teams of technicians using side-scan sonar technology. Now, just a short time ago, Miles, one of the boats -- we saw a diver come up, hand something -- we don't know exactly what it is. They hooked it, took it around to the back of the boat, opened up a plastic bag and put it in. There was a lot of interest with the divers and officers on the boat of exactly what it is. Whether it is a piece of evidence or not, we hope to find out in the very near future. Now, there is another twist to the Laci Peterson case today, Miles, and that was the hiring of Gloria Allred to represent Amber Frey. If you recall, Amber Frey was the woman we last saw January 24 at a press conference in Modesto, California, where she said that she had a relationship with Scott Peterson. Now, she said that relationship started early in December of 2002. So why would she need representation? Well, just last week, CNN spoke with Gloria Allred and she tried to explain why a witness in a high profile case like this would need legal representation.</s>GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY: I think that key witnesses in high profile criminal cases would benefit from having private attorneys advise them, to know their own rights and to help them interact with the public dialogue that is occurring about them.</s>BROOKS: Ms. Allred will hold a press conference in Los Angeles today at 1:00 p.m. local time, and hopefully will shed some more light on exactly what role she's going to play with Amber Frey. But in the meantime, Miles, the divers continue to search the waters of the San Francisco Bay for any potential evidence in the murder of Laci Peterson -- Miles.</s>O'BRIEN: Well, Mike, Ms. Allred was saying, essentially, that the role she'd like to play -- at least what she said in front of our camera, was as a spokesperson. Is there perhaps some other reason that Ms. Frey might need an attorney, you think?</s>BROOKS: Well, that's a great question, and that's one we're trying to figure out right now, and hopefully at 1:00 she'll be able to shed some more light on it. But they have not given any indication. It's another high-profile attorney. We know that Scott Peterson now has Mark Geragos, so this is another high-profile attorney added to the mix, and we're just in the early stages of this Laci Peterson murder mystery -- Miles.</s>O'BRIEN: All right. CNN's Mike Brooks in Richmond, California. Thank you very much.