Zoey, let's pre-empt this one!

[guyanesereunions]

........and see what was wrong with this picture that shold have been the red herrings. It may be too late for Stacy and his Ex's but maybe we could at least save one or a few with this thread.


Missing-wife case called possible homicide, husband is a suspect


BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (CNN) -- The disappearance of a suburban Chicago police sergeant's wife is now being treated as a potential homicide, and her husband is a suspect, authorities said Friday.
Stacy Peterson, 23, has been missing from her suburban Chicago home since October 28.


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In another development, a judge signed an order to exhume the body of Drew Peterson's third wife, who was found drowned in a bathtub in 2004, said Will County State Attorney James Glasgow.
Peterson, 53, said he last spoke to 23-year-old Stacy Peterson -- his fourth wife -- the night of October 28.
Drew Peterson initially told the media he believed his wife ran off with another man, but he hasn't repeated that accusation. CNN has been unable to contact Drew Peterson for comment.
The couple have been married four years and have two children, who have been interviewed for the investigation, Glasgow said. Drew Peterson also has older children from a previous marriage.
Investigators have twice searched the couple's home and vehicles, and removed several items, including computers, said Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich.

Drew Peterson allowed a limited search on the night his wife was reported missing, but investigators were not allowed to look throughout the entire house and were given access to only one of the vehicles at that time, Dobrich said.
"Early on, we looked at this as a missing persons case, but also believed strongly ... it was strongly starting to look at Drew Peterson as being a person of interest," Dobrich said.
"I would say that right now, Drew Peterson has gone from being a person of interest to being a suspect."
New information turned up during the investigation also raised questions about the death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, which was ruled an accident by a coroner's jury, Glasgow said.
"There are strong indications that it was a homicide," he said. "That's why we are doing the exhumation, because there are tests that need to be done that weren't done during the first autopsy." Watch why authorities want to exhume the body »

Glasgow cited abrasions on Savio's body and a gash on her head that could not be readily explained.
"Our main thrust is to determine whether or not it was a homicide, and as we do that, we will see if there is any evidence that implicates anyone," he said.
Glasgow, who was not state attorney at the time of Savio's death, said he reviewed the case file before deciding to reopen the case.

"With 29 years of experience, there was no doubt in my mind it wasn't an accident," he said. "That was clear."
In 2002, Savio was charged once with battery and once with domestic battery against her husband, but was found not guilty at trial, Glasgow said.
Another time, she tried to bring domestic battery charges against Peterson, but no charges were ever filed.
Savio's sister, Sue Doman, said Savio expressed fear of Drew Peterson.

"She told me all the time, 'He's gonna kill me. It's gonna look like an accident,' " Doman said.
Doman said she didn't believe her sister could have died in the way the investigation concluded.
"I don't understand accidental drowning. You just don't drown in the bathtub, especially a small whirlpool. You just don't do that," she said.

Meanwhile, friends and family of Stacy Peterson said she expressed concerns about her husband.
A friend, Steve Cesare, has told CNN he received e-mail from her describing her relationship as abusive.
The woman's aunt, Candace Aikin, of El Monte, California, said Stacy Peterson confided in her that there were problems during a visit to the Peterson home in suburban Chicago last month.





"She said that she was afraid because he was following her around 24/7, even inside the house," Aikin said.
"He was very obsessed and stalking her, even inside her house. She was very, very full of stress and just not happy in her marriage at all," Aikin said.

[Zoey]

The signs were everywhere. She was 20 years his junior. He kept marrying younger because he felt that there was a greater chance of control over his spouse, the younger she was, more dependency on him, more he felt that she can be manipulated.

Most men who marry younger women do so for control. They are usually narcissistic and are very charming at the onset of the relationship and this is what leads many unsuspecting younger women to get close to them, most times, unfortunately, as spouses.

Older women tend to see through this veneer very easily and rightfully try to break off the relationship before it gets out of control. Younger women, of course are more vulnerable and tend not to be mature enough to either spot the warning signs, or misinterpret them for passion and ardency.

I am guessing that it is because he was in law enforcement that a second look was not taken when his third wife drowned in the bath tub. That case stunk to high heavens a mile up the road.

Sadly so, I think this wife has met a similar faith.

You see what happens very often in cases like these with these narcissist to cause them to take that second leap into being a psychopath, is that the younger spouse overtime undergoes natural maturity and he begins to encounter resistance from her. What a narcissist with a non violent tendency tends to do is to get a divorce and again go in search of a younger women and this has the tendency to keep repeating itself as his new spouse begins to get mature.

But there is usually a little catch. Divorce takes its toll upon one's finance. But more important to that, these men view their spouses as property, possessions, as belonging to them, and this is why they would rather kill than to give up what they feel rightfully "belong" to them.

It is most unfortunate case but here is a very strong case for bringing boyfriends home and for younger women to be talked to about this possibility so in the event the parents spot it, she would be cooperative and would allow the parents' help. Here is also a very strong case for parents knowing enough about these narcissists to be able to spot the warning signs a mile up the road.

Most parents unfortunately do not equipped themselves with the knowledge to be able to protect their offsprings at this level and equally unfortunately, they keep losing their daughters to violent crimes.

Gap1 notes: Sorry Zee-Zee, everyone I accessed this post in error. Not edited. See below instead:

[gap1]

Lawyer for Peterson Expects No Charges

CHICAGO (AP) — A lawyer representing a former police officer suspected in the disappearance of his wife said Monday he does not believe his client will face charges stemming from the investigation.

Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, lawyer Joel Brodsky also criticized the media for their coverage of Drew Peterson, who resigned as a Bolingbrook police sergeant after his 23-year-old fourth wife, Stacy, vanished three weeks ago.

Police have named the 53-year-old Peterson as a suspect in her disappearance, and authorities have called the case a possible homicide. He has denied any involvement in her disappearance.

"We do not expect to be charged in these cases," Brodsky said. "This is out of control. It's a rush to judgment fueled by people, by entertainment and people seem to want to be entertained by what's going on."

Brodsky, who began representing Peterson on Friday, declined to let his client respond to most questions during Monday's short interview.

Peterson, whose children with Stacy Peterson are 2 and 4, answered "yes" when asked if he was worried she may never return home. "Kids need a mom," he said.

Asked if he was worried about his wife, he said: "Of course. Your wife leaves you and I have kids at home, you're very much worried about her."

Peterson reiterated that he thinks his wife left him for another man. "I'd like to have her publicly show herself so we can clear all this up," said Peterson, who has older children from an earlier marriage.

Stacy Peterson, who was studying nursing at a junior college, disappeared from the couple's suburban Chicago home Oct. 28. Volunteers have been canvassing fields, lakes and construction sites near the family's Bolingbrook house, but have found no traces of the woman.

Still, the investigation into her disappearance caused prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose body was found in a bathtub in 2004.

At the time, authorities ruled her death an accidental drowning, but investigators exhumed her body last week at the request of a prosecutor, who has said after examining evidence he believes her death was a homicide staged to look like an accident.

A pathologist who conducted another autopsy on Savio's body for her family said last week he believes the woman was murdered.

Peterson has also denied any role in Savio's death. He was asked Monday for his reaction to speculation that Savio was murdered. "Yes, I'm upset to hear something like that said. Very much so," he said.

[storyteller]

Peterson case: Did cops protect one of their own?



But Peterson's wife could never get authorities to arrest him. In fact, she was the only one ever charged.

Now residents of this Chicago suburb are wondering whether police were protecting one of their own -- and whether they bear some responsibility for what happened next.

Peterson's wife at the time of the domestic disturbance calls, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in 2004 under mysterious circumstances. And now his current wife, Stacy, is missing and feared slain.

The way police dealt with Peterson "makes it kind of hard to trust cops," said Pablo Delira, a 59-year-old construction worker. He said he has no doubt he would have been led away in handcuffs if police had been called to his house 18 times.

Kim Camplin, who works in the clothing business, said Bolingbrook police should have taken the domestic disturbance calls more seriously.

"It doesn't matter if it's a fireman, a policeman or a clergyman -- all it should take is one call and it should be taken seriously," she said. "What faith can we have in the system?"

Peterson, 53, was a police sergeant and 29-year veteran of the force, resigning earlier this month after he came under suspicion in his current wife's disappearance in October. Watch what Stacy Peterson reportedly told a priest »

In a roughly two-year period beginning in 2002, police responded to 18 domestic disturbance calls at Peterson's house. Savio accused Peterson of beating her and threatening to kill her, but no charges were ever brought against him.

Instead, Peterson twice persuaded prosecutors to charge Savio with domestic battery. She was acquitted both times.

Police Lt. Ken Teppel said that in all 18 instances, police conducted a thorough investigation. He said a department inquiry found no indication officers did anything wrong or violated procedure.

"There is a distrust ... that this is going to be covered up," he said. "It's so hard to get over that."

Savio was found dead in her bathtub in 2004, and a coroner's jury ruled it an accidental drowning. But since Stacy Peterson's disappearance, investigators have re-examined Savio's death and exhumed her body, and said they now believe it was a homicide made to look like an accident.

Peterson has not been named a suspect in Savio's death. But authorities said he is suspected in Stacy Peterson's disappearance. Peterson has denied any wrongdoing in either case and said he believes his current wife left him for another man and is still alive.

The Bolingbrook department has handed the investigation over to the Illinois State Police -- standard practice in criminal cases involving a member of the force.

Not everyone in the community of about 70,000 blames the department.

"I haven't lost one iota of trust in the police department," said Stephen DeFreeuw, a 16-year resident. "One rogue cop."

Teppel said street cops in the 122-member department are being reminded about the proper way to handle domestic calls and are being told they are expected to adhere to the rules, no matter who answers when they knock on the door.

Teppel said Police Chief Ray McGrury has made it clear: "There are no favorites."

Savio and Stacy Peterson were Peterson's third and fourth wives. He and wives No. 1 and 2 divorced.

Vicki Connolly, Peterson's second wife, has said that during their marriage, an increasingly controlling Peterson hit her and told her he could kill her and make it look like an accident.

Connolly said police sometimes came to the house when the couple were having problems, but she said the officers were friends of theirs and no reports ever were filed

[Maya]

Come on Zoey, we're feeding you the data!

Peterson denies asking truckers to take package

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Drew Peterson is denying that he approached two truck drivers and asked them to transport a package hours after his wife disappeared in October.
Former police Sgt. Drew Peterson, seen talking to reporters last week, has denied the truck drivers' story.




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According to a statement released by Illinois police, two truck drivers reported that a man resembling Peterson and another white man asked the truck drivers "to transport a package to an undisclosed location." The other man was described by the truck drivers as stocky with salt-and-pepper hair, and in his early 50s.
The men approached the truck drivers at a Bolingbrook truck stop October 29 at 3:30 p.m., according to the report.
"Upon reaching the location, the men would regain possession of the package and continue transporting it to a location not accessible by semi-trailers," the report stated.
The report did not say if the truck drivers agreed to transport the package.
"There is absolutely, positively, 100 percent no validity to this," Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, said. Watch how Peterson denies another claim reportedly made by a relative »
The truck drivers "may have some motivation, trying to insert themselves into a high-profile case," Brodsky said. "They may be concocting some sort of scheme to sell their story to a tabloid."
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Illinois State Police released the statement Saturday, asking anyone who may have had a similar encounter to contact them.
Brodsky said in a statement that the Illinois police released the statement because they have no evidence against Peterson so they "are relegated to following every lead, no matter how remote or ridiculous it may seem."
Peterson, 53, has said he last spoke to 23-year-old Stacy Peterson -- the sergeant's fourth wife -- the night of October 28. She has been missing ever since. Timeline: Learn more about the events of the case »
Authorities are now re-examining the death of Peterson's previous wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in a bathtub in 2004.




Authorities exhumed Savio's body after information turned up that raised questions about her death, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said.
Drew and Stacy Peterson have been married four years and have two children. Drew has other children from a previous marriage.

[Alana]

Woman's whereabouts a mystery

BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (AP) -- Nearly two months after Stacy Peterson was last seen, the investigation into her disappearance and suspicions surrounding her husband have produced many intriguing questions. But few answers.
Stacy Peterson of Bolingbrook, Illinois, hasn't been seen in public since October 28.









A mysterious blue barrel. Divers searching the murky, frigid waters of an industrial canal. A woman's body exhumed for clues three years after her death.
All the story lines, though, have led back to one house on a quiet street, and to Sunday, October 28, the day the 23-year-old mother of two small children vanished.
The last time anyone outside the Peterson home talked to her was around 10:15 a.m., when she spoke briefly with a friend, Bruce Ziderich, about helping to paint an apartment he owned in nearby Yorkville.
Ziderich told her to wait until she heard from her sister, Cassandra Cales, before going to the apartment, said Pamela Bosco, a longtime family friend.
After that, the trail goes cold.


Peterson's husband, Drew Peterson, 53, who resigned from the Bolingbrook Police Department after being named a suspect in his wife's disappearance, has told reporters that when he awoke around 11 a.m., his wife already had left.
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About noon, Sharon Bychowski, a neighbor and friend of Stacy's, phoned Drew and told him she'd been to the market and had some candy for the kids.
Drew Peterson stopped by about 1:15 p.m., saying he had to run a brief errand, and returned about 15 minutes later, Bychowski said.
By midafternoon, around 2:30 or 3 p.m., Bosco said, Cales tried to call her sister.
Cales said Stacy had told her two days earlier that she feared Peterson might harm her and that she planned to talk to a divorce attorney the following Monday.
Stacy Peterson had told family and friends that her husband -- whom she'd met six years earlier, when she was 17 and he was married to his third wife -- had become increasingly controlling, following her, tracking her with GPS and calling her incessantly on her cell phone.
Two weeks before she disappeared, she had gotten a new cell number after she found her phone bill in her husband's briefcase, with some of the numbers highlighted, Bosco said.
But one thing didn't change: her insistence on always keeping her phone turned on, Bosco said.
So when Cales couldn't get through that afternoon, she began to worry.
At 2:30 p.m. that day, Drew Peterson -- a 29-year Bolingbrook police veteran -- called work, saying he could not work his 5 p.m.-to-5 a.m. shift because his wife was gone and he needed to stay home with his children, Lt. Ken Teppel said.
But other stories have emerged to contradict Peterson's account.
Around 10 that night, a friend of Drew Peterson's stepbrother Thomas Morphey said he was home watching the World Series when Morphey called in a panic, saying he needed to talk.
Walter Martineck said Morphey told him that just hours earlier he'd helped Peterson move a large blue container from an upstairs bedroom into Peterson's SUV. Morphey said he never looked inside the container, but it was warm to the touch and he had a terrible feeling, Martineck said.
"He took me by my shoulders, told me I can't say anything, and he just told me that he thinks he helped dispose of Stacy's body," Martineck said on NBC's "Today" program.
Peterson has denied that Morphey helped him move anything.
He has told reporters that his wife called him around 9 that night, telling him that she was leaving him. Later, in one of several television interviews, Peterson said his wife told him, "She found somebody else."
Investigators have never confirmed reports of a container, but volunteers from the Texas-based group EquuSearch who helped look for her have said police asked them to watch for a large blue plastic barrel.
For weeks, police divers searched a canal south of Chicago looking for evidence.
Cales went to Peterson's house around 11 p.m. on October 28 looking for her sister, Bosco said. Drew was not home, but his kids were.
"They said their parents had a fight and that Stacy had gone to Grandpa's house," Bosco said.
At 11:26, Cales said she reached Peterson on his cell phone.
"He said, 'Your sister left me,"' Cales recounted on the Web site findstacypeterson.com. She recounted what he told her next: "She called me at 9 p.m. and said she was leaving me and going on a li'l vacation ... and she left the car somewhere in Bolingbrook."
Bosco said Peterson told Cales even more.
"He said, 'She took $25,000 from the safe, her bikini is missing and her passport is missing, she's disappeared just like your mom,"' said Bosco, the last comment referring to Cales' and Stacy Peterson's mother, who vanished when Stacy was a teenager.
Cales said she didn't believe any of it -- starting with Peterson's contention that he was home. She knew that wasn't true, she wrote, because she had just been there and was sitting around the corner.
At 1:36 a.m. on October 29, Cales went to the Bolingbrook Police Department to report her sister missing, then filed another missing-person report with the Illinois State Police, Teppel said.
By November 9, police were calling Drew Peterson a suspect in his wife's disappearance and said it was a possible homicide. They also said that they would exhume the body of Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, saying a 2004 death that was originally ruled an accidental bathtub drowning likely was a homicide. They have not called Peterson a suspect in that case and have not released results of a new autopsy.
But for all the searches by police and volunteers, all the tidbits of information and speculation, there still have been no charges -- and no indication that they're imminent.
Drew Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, even raised the possibility that Stacy Peterson's disappearance might never be solved.
"Not every mystery gets solved," Brodsky said. "This is not TV, it's real life.

[gap1]

Peterson jokes, chews gum at court appearance

(CNN) -- Drew Peterson, who was arrested this week in the death of his third wife, joked with the media about his jail jumpsuit and chewed gum throughout his first court appearance Friday.
A judge delayed Drew Peterson's arraignment until May 18 because his lawyers couldn't attend Friday's hearing.




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The 55-year-old former police officer flashed a broad smile and engaged in banter during the 10-yard walk to the courthouse.
Wearing an inmate uniform -- a bright-red short-sleeved shirt and pants, white socks and sandals -- Peterson had his hands and feet shackled as he arrived at the courtroom.
Asked how he was, he responded, "three squares a day and a spiffy outfit." He then held up the chains and said, "and I got the bling. Can't complain."
Peterson, who authorities call the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, was indicted on murder charges related to the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, the Illinois state attorney's office said. Watch a shackled Peterson go to jail »
Peterson appeared in court Friday, but a judge delayed his arraignment until May 18.
Judge Richard Schoenstedt ordered the delay after Will County State's Attorney Jim Glasgow told him that Peterson's primary lawyer, Joel Brodsky, had asked for it because neither he nor Peterson's other attorney could attend Friday's hearing.
Peterson, chewing gum throughout the proceedings and speaking in a clear voice, told Schoenstedt that he knew both of his lawyers were out of town and that he had no objection to the delay.
Glasgow, who has said he will prosecute the case personally, said Brodsky told him that he expects to ask the judge for a reduction in Peterson's $20 million bail during the May 18 arraignment.
Illinois State Police said Peterson was taken into custody about 5:30 p.m. Thursday after a traffic stop near his home.

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Police had staked out his home all day, police Capt. Carl Dobrich said, but waited for Peterson to leave before arresting him out of concern for his three young children, who were in the house.
Peterson, through his attorney, denied any wrongdoing in either case.
Glasgow said he believes that the case is strong.
"This is an extremely grave and serious matter, and it is reflected in the bond," Glasgow said.
Brodsky told CNN's Larry King that he thought the bail was excessive and would seek a more "reasonable" amount, noting that it was the most expensive bail he'd seen in 10 years. Watch Peterson's attorney address his client's arrest »
Charles B. Pelkie, a spokesman for Glasgow, said a grand jury indicted Peterson in the murder of Savio, whose death had once been ruled an accidental drowning.
But Brodsky said in a statement that prosecutors won't be able to prove their case, because "he didn't do it."
"There is no evidence that links Drew Peterson to the death of Kathleen Savio or anyone else for that matter," Brodsky said. "Drew did not harm Kathleen; he has said so from Day One. We're obviously disappointed a grand jury indicted him. But an indictment does not mean guilt."
Pelkie said the grand jury continues to meet and is studying the possibility of charges in Stacy Peterson's disappearance. Watch family members react to the arrest »
After Stacy Peterson went missing in October 2007, media and police scrutiny of Peterson revealed that Savio had died mysteriously during a nasty divorce a few years earlier.
Savio died just before the division of marital assets was finalized, making Drew Peterson the sole beneficiary.
Savio was found in the dry bathtub of her home. At the time, the death was ruled an accidental drowning. But her family continued to insist that Savio died as a result of foul play.
The investigation into Stacy Peterson's disappearance brought renewed interest in Savio's death. Authorities exhumed Savio's body, further tests were conducted, and her death was been ruled a "homicide staged to look like an accident."
Brodsky told King that he thinks the case has always been about circumstantial evidence and that he will bring a pathologist to trial who will say Savio died in an accidental drowning.
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"I think the jury's going to see that, in fact, this always has been an accidental death and still is an accidental death," Brodsky told King.
Kathleen Savio's brother, Nick, told CNN affiliate WLS that he received a call saying Peterson had been arrested. Watch police arrest Peterson »
"The state police had been telling us the day was coming," he told WLS. "We kept hearing it for about eight months. I'm almost in tears here. It's been so hard for our family.
"Hopefully, we'll get the justice we've always been waiting for."
Martin Glink, attorney for the Savio family, said they had been hopeful the grand jury felt that there was enough evidence to charge Peterson.
"We're very happy that the wheels of justice have continued to move and they are pointing in his direction," Glink told WLS.
The news was bittersweet for Stacy Peterson's family, who continue to wait for news about her disappearance.
"We have anticipated this coming. We have dreamed about it. We have been patient over it," family spokeswoman Pam Bosco told WLS. "Now that it's here, it's almost a little bit calm. We're waiting for the storm to calm now. The calm before the storm."
Bosco said she was hopeful there would be charges in Stacy Peterson's case.
"We always said from the very beginning that Kathleen and Stacy had one thing in common, and that was Drew Peterson," she said. "So, hopefully, we'll have news soon about Stacy, too."
Ernie Raines is also relieved about the arrest. His daughter, Christina Raines, is dating Peterson and was living with him before his arrest.
Raines told CNN's Anderson Cooper that he was with his daughter and Peterson as recently as last week, when they talked about going to Las Vegas, Nevada, and getting married.
Thursday night, he spoke with his daughter after the arrest.
"My daughter was terrified, very emotional, upset," Raines said. "And I tried to tell her from the beginning that this was going to happen, be prepared."
Raines said that when he heard about the arrest, he was more relieved than anything.
"I'm glad justice finally came before he hurt my daughter," he said.





Police put Peterson's three young children in the custody of the state's children and family service department. His adult son was contacted, at Peterson's request, to take them, according to Dobrich.

[Zoey]

So they got him at last! Very good! I hope they have the evidence to put him away.

[JJ]

Just to keep you up to date from this neck of the woods, his children put on a statement having full confidence in his innocence.

[Warrior]

This man reminds me so much of Scott Peterson and the other Peterson who killed his wife in similar fashion. The state took a long time in building this case. Let's hope they have enough evidence to put him away.