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woebedamned
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:20 am |
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‘I believe she is with someone else right now’
Ex-cop says wife No. 4 likely took off with a man, denies killing wife No. 3
As police re-examine the suspicious death of his third wife, retired Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson tells TODAY his missing fourth wife told him she met someone and probably ran away with him.
Peterson, 53, appeared calm and determined Wednesday as he discussed reports that he is a suspect in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose body was exhumed Tuesday. He told host Matt Lauer that he is not concerned about the police investigation into both cases, but is angry that the media is camped out in front of his house and has all but convicted him.
“I can look you right in the eye and tell you I had nothing to do with either of those instances,” he said, adding, “I’m not afraid of law enforcement. I’m afraid of the media.”
Peterson was still married to Kathleen Savio when he began dating Stacy, when she was 17 and much younger than him. After Savio told him she wanted a divorce and complained to relatives of alleged abuse, she was found dead in a bathtub of the couple’s Bolingbrook, Ill., home. Her death, now being re-examined, was listed as accidental drowning, even though the tub was bone-dry.
Peterson married Stacy, and the couple have two young children. Peterson said his missing wife, now 23, told him she had met another man before she disappeared on Sunday, Oct. 28. She was supposed to help family members paint a home, but never showed up.
Peterson told Lauer he understands why Illinois State Police have reopened the investigation into the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, because police often suspect spouses in untimely deaths.
“It’s a shame that her rest-in-peace has to be disturbed for something like this,” Peterson said.
Impeccably groomed and completely calm, Peterson said that he has not told his two young children by Stacy Peterson, Anthony, 4, and Lacy, 2, that their mother is missing and may be dead. When news reports about her come on the television, he said, “We usher them to another room.” Asked what he has told them, he replied, “Basically, ‘Mom’s gone on vacation.’ ”
He said the scrutiny he’s been under has been much harder on his two teenage sons by Savio.
Lauer asked Peterson whether Stacy told him she was seeing another man before she disappeared.
“She never told me she was seeing another man,” he said, but then changed that to: “Maybe she did. ‘She found somebody else,’ ” he added. “Those were her exact words.”
He said that his relationships with both Stacy Peterson and Savio were roller-coaster rides and characterized both women as emotionally unstable.
Stacy Peterson, he said, was on drugs for mood swings and had been unpredictable since the death of her sister by cancer. Other than playfully trying to throw her in the swimming pool at a gathering, he said he never hit her or abused her, contrary to claims by her family and friends.
“One time she hit me in the head with a frozen steak. I never hit her, never raised a hand to her,” he told Lauer.
When confronted with an e-mail to a family member in which she said she was in an abusive relationship, Peterson said, “I don’t think those are her words. I think that’s a made-up e-mail.”
As a policeman, he understands why he is being investigated.
“I think they’ve always considered me a suspect,” he said. “The husband always is.”
Peterson’s statements contradicted almost everything Stacy Peterson’s family told TODAY one week ago. On Nov. 7, her half sister said that the 23-year-old housewife and mother wanted out of her marriage and said she would not have left her suburban Chicago home without her kids.
“I don’t believe she would ever leave her children,” Kerry Simmons told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira. “She loved those kids to death.”
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Peterson and his third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose death is being re-investigated.
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Stacy Peterson’s family say she took up with Peterson when she was just 17. She got pregnant by him when she was 19, which is when Kathleen Savio found out about the affair and left Peterson. Shortly thereafter, she was found dead in her bathtub. Originally ruled an accidental drowning, police now think the death may have been a homicide that had been staged to look accidental. Her body has been exhumed by police for a second autopsy.
Stacy Peterson disappeared just days after asking her husband for a divorce. Police initially treated it as a missing person’s case, not searching the couple’s home until last Thursday. Her family and friends, though, are convinced that the young woman is dead and that her husband is responsible.
“She told many [people] that if anything happened to her, it was not an accident,” one relative told NBC News.
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Cop Denies Involvement in Wife's Death
By DON BABWIN – 17 hours ago
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Nobody listened when Kathleen Savio said she was afraid of her husband. But now, three years after she was found dead in a bathtub in what was ruled an accidental drowning, authorities are paying close attention.
They suspect she was killed. But that theory did not dawn on them until her husband came under suspicion in the recent disappearance and possible murder of his new wife.
Drew Peterson, a former police office in suburban Bolingbrook, denies any role in his wife's disappearance, saying she told him she was leaving him for another man.
Stacy Peterson, 23, was reported missing Oct. 29, the day after failing to show up to help her sister paint a house. She was 17 when she began dating Peterson. He was 47 and still married to Savio.
Peterson believes his wife has left him for another man, and said he has no plans to look for her because he thinks she left willfully.
"Why would I look for somebody who I don't believe is missing? She's just gone. She's where she wants to be," Peterson told NBC's "Today" show.
Peterson's troubles began during his marriage to Savio, who died in 2004.
She left behind a trail of clues about the couple's stormy marriage, including an order of protection she filed in 2002 after Peterson allegedly knocked her down, ripped a necklace off her and left marks on her body. Savio wrote in the order that she feared Peterson could kill her.
"He wants me dead, and if he has to, he will burn the house down just to shut me up," she wrote.
A coroner's report includes testimony from Savio's sister, who said Savio warned relatives that if she died, it may look like an accident, but it would not be.
Authorities have not said Peterson, now 53, is a suspect in Savio's death. But they have reviewed autopsy photos, police reports, court documents and even exhumed her body as they point the finger at Peterson in Stacy Peterson's disappearance.
"I would say that right now Drew Peterson has gone from being a person of interest to clearly being a suspect," in his fourth wife's disappearance, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said last week.
Peterson downplayed any similarities between the two cases, but said his relationships with both women were troubled. Both suffered from emotional problems, he said. He denied having anything to do with the two cases.
"I can look right in your eye and say I had nothing to do with either of those incidents," he told NBC.
Authorities have been tightlipped about the specifics of their investigation, including what they hope to learn from examining Savio's body. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said some tests that should have been conducted on Savio's remains never were.
In the final days of her marriage, Savio traded battery allegations with her husband, who resigned from the police department this week.
Drew Peterson twice convinced the state's attorney's office to bring battery charges against his wife, but she was acquitted both times. Peterson never was charged, although Bolingbrook police have said officers investigated 18 domestic calls involving the couple.
Savio's family suspects police were trying to protect one of their own.
"She called it the 'good old boys club,'" said Charlie Doman, Savio's nephew. "Cops taking care of cops is what it was."
Among the documents Savio's family has kept for years is a copy of a letter they say she sent to an assistant state's attorney in Will County, claiming Peterson had beaten her several times, but police declined to file reports.
They also have a report from a suburban Chicago hospital that Savio visited in 2002 for treatment of a sprained wrist after what she said was a confrontation with Peterson. The report includes a notation by someone, possibly her doctor, that Savio said her husband was a Bolingbrook police officer and that the police would not take a report on the incident.
Documents relating to Savio's domestic battery arrests are gone. According to her family, she had the arrests expunged from her record. A spokesman for the Will County state's attorney's office said authorities have found little paperwork on the arrests, and it is unclear who Savio was accused of attacking.
But Savio's family said that, in one of the cases, the alleged victim was Stacy Peterson. Doman said Stacy Peterson became pregnant while Drew Peterson was still married to Savio.
An emergency room report provided to The Associated Press by the family contains a notation that Savio was injured during a confrontation involving someone named Stacy. Savio, her family said, was arrested after the two women argued.
"He staged it to make it look like a battery," said Pamela Bosco, a close friend of Stacy Peterson's family.
Savio's family is relieved to see authorities investigating their long-held suspicions about Peterson.
"Finally, they're paying attention," Doman said. "They're looking at everything that they had there already."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9LSLrzFQGStXb1io5FdErAtFFKgD8STODU00
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:43 pm |
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From Greta's blog - this person is watching Star Jones which I assume is on right now:
Comment by Jill in StL
November 16th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
no land line call or cellphone call from Stacy’s cell phone was made to Drew - Wow, I did NOT know that one! AMW guy calling it a big fat lie that Drew told about receiving call from Stacy.
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| Schmerty
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:11 pm |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,5731711.story
Drew Peterson's second wife tells her story
She recalls he threatened to kill her, make it look like an accident
By Erika Slife | Tribune staff reporter
November 16, 2007
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For the last two weeks, Vicki Connolly has watched in disbelief and with conflicting emotions as controversy swirls around her ex-husband, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson.
She doesn't know whether he had anything to do with the disappearance of his current wife, Stacy Peterson, who has been missing since Oct. 28, or the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who died mysteriously in 2004.
But in the first interview granted by one of his ex-wives since Stacy's disappearance, Connolly, 48, said Thursday that during their marriage an increasingly controlling Peterson told her he could kill her and make it look like an accident. While she couldn't believe he would ever do it, something prompted her to confide in Bolingbrook police officers who she considered friends. "So they would know he said these things to me," she said
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Famous Pathologist Rules Former Illinois Cop's Wife Died of Homicide
Saturday, November 17, 2007
JOLIET, Ill. — Respected forensic pathologist told FOX News' Greta Van Susteren his examination of the body of Kathleen Savio finds that she died by homicide.
"It is my opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty...that it is a homicide,” said former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden. 'That is what I would have put on the death certificate."
The ruling concerned the death of the third wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson contradicts a 2004 decision by a coroner's jury that Savio, whose body was found by her husband in a bathtub, died of an accidental drowning.
He said there was enough evidence to initially suspect she was homicide victim because she was an adult, healthy, and hadn't been drinking when she was found in the tub.
"Even then there was evidence of multiple blunt force traumas," said Baden.
Baden said there were signs of struggle including bruises on Savio's hands, chest, and abdomen on Savio's body were still fresh with purple discoloration but there were no fractures. Although there were no bruises on her arms, Baden believes that she may drowned be having her head pressed underwater.
"I don't think there is any possibility this was an accident, said Baden. "I don't think there is any evidence this was a suicide"
He told Fox News that the 2004 jury might not have seen all the evidence related to the case at the time of their verdict.
Baden said Savio's family was suspicious of the death because she had been wearing jewelry and her hairstyle was different from her normal pattern when bathing and they hadn't heard from her in 36 hours before the incident
Baden told Fox News that even though evidence points to homicide that it does not automatically mean there was criminal murder.
"She was beat up and placed in the bathtub as a cover-up for whoever done this," Sue Savio Doman, Savio's sister, told a Fox affiliate.
A coroner's jury initially ruled that Savio's 2004 death was an accidental drowning. But now, with Drew Peterson's fourth wife missing for more than two weeks, authorities are re-examining the circumstances of Savio's death.
"There was marks on her hips, her arms, her elbows, on her legs, her feet. ... There was a struggle. She did fight," Savio Doman said.
Peterson, 53, who resigned this week as a Bolingbrook police sergeant, has not been named a suspect in Savio's death. But he is a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth and current wife, Stacy, who was last seen Oct. 28 and whose case authorities have called a possible homicide.
Drew Peterson has an unlisted number. He has denied any involvement in either case and said he believes his 23-year-old wife left him for another man and is alive.
Savio's body was exhumed this week at the request of Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow, who has said after examining evidence he believes her death was a homicide staged to look like an accident.
The state's attorney's office allowed Baden to use the county morgue for his work and a state's attorney's investigator attended the autopsy, spokesman Charles Pelkie said.
The results of Will County's official autopsy will not be available for days, authorities said.
Savio's brother, Nick Savio, told WFLD-TV that Baden's report, which Pelkie said would be reviewed by investigators, was a step forward in the case.
"It gives us a little bit of closure ... but we're still far, far, far away from getting the closure that we really do need, and that is if whoever is responsible for this, that person should be put behind bars and justice hopefully will prevail this time for the Savio family."
Steve Carcerano, who says he was there when his friend Drew Peterson first saw Savio's body in the tub, said he was called by a grand jury looking into Savio's death and is to testify next week.
When Peterson first saw Savio's body, he was obviously surprised and distraught, Carcerano said.
"He checked her pulse right away to see if she was dead or alive. Then he was, `Oh my god, what am I gonna tell my kids? What am I gonna tell my kids?"' Carcerano said.
Documents released by Savio's family show she had accused Peterson of once stealing her car while she was in church with one of her children. According to one letter the family said was sent to Will County prosecutors in November 2002, she also accused Peterson of beating her a number of times so severely she "ended up in the emergency room."
She also described in the letter one time she believed he would kill her: "He pulled out his knife that he kept around his leg and brought it to my neck."
Pelkie said it remains unclear if that letter ever came to the office. He said it was not in the files Glasgow read when he began reinvestigating Savio's drowning.
But many allegations in the letter are consistent with those Savio made in an order of protection filed against Drew Peterson in 2002, as well as accounts given by her family members.
Carcerano said he never once saw Peterson strike or shout at his wife in anger, though he said he saw Savio attack Peterson.
"I've seen her slap him in the face right in front of me, seen her spit in his face and chasing him around with an extension cord, hitting him with it," Carcerano said.
Attorney Fred Morelli, who once represented Peterson, said he never heard the knife claims about his former client.
"That's the first I've heard of that," Morelli said. "That's crazy. ... (Peterson) was a very pleasant, personable fellow. Other than that, I don't know."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312023,00.html
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Carcerano said he never once saw Peterson strike or shout at his wife in anger, though he said he saw Savio attack Peterson.
"I've seen her slap him in the face right in front of me, seen her spit in his face and chasing him around with an extension cord, hitting him with it," Carcerano said.
Attorney Fred Morelli, who once represented Peterson, said he never heard the knife claims about his former client.
"That's the first I've heard of that," Morelli said. "That's crazy. ... (Peterson) was a very pleasant, personable fellow. Other than that, I don't know."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312023,00.html
That's interesting.
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When you wish upon a star...
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Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:46 pm |
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Carcerano gives me bad vibes
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| gwen
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| Heli wrote: | | Carcerano gives me bad vibes |
Me too, Heli.
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I haven't seen him that I know of. What do you both think about his guilt? I would hate to hang him high if he's truly innocent, but dang!!
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Here Is Why You Need to Wait for Actual Proof…
by Greta Van Susteren
I have been very blunt in my conversations with Sgt. Drew Peterson. I have told him directly (and written here and said on the air): “yes, I am suspicious of him….but I am not convinced that he had something to do with Stacy’s disappearance.” Sgt. Peterson understands my view — he is a police officer and done investigations.
Now there are reports that authorities want to talk to a man she knew a long time ago but recently began calling - just 3 weeks before she vanished. There is no proof that this man knows anything about her disappearance but there is reason to talk to him. (And yes, I remain suspicious, but only suspicious of Sgt. Peterson.)
Until a case is solved, you should keep your eyes wide open.
Here is the story, click here and click here
The man Stacy turned to
November 18, 2007
BY JOE HOSEY AND JANET LUNDQUIST Staff Writers
SHOREWOOD--Investigators in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson have turned an eye to a Shorewood man from her past she reached out to just three weeks before she vanished. Searches and canvasses have been conducted in the area around the home of 35-year-old Scott Rossetto, and authorities have called him before a grand jury this week, he said.
A police source, however, said investigators do not count him as a suspect in Peterson's disappearance. Instead, the source said investigators have speculated that Peterson's body may have been dumped near Rossetto's home in an effort to frame him as the killer.
An Illinois State Police officer (left) knocks on a door, as officials, investigating the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, canvass the Walnut Trails subdivision in Shorewood Saturday near the home of Scott Rossetto (right).
(Terence Guider-Shaw / The Herald News)
A police source said Rossetto and Peterson, 23, were romantically involved, but Rossetto insisted they were not. He said he only knew her because his twin brother and a friend had dated Peterson years ago, before she married former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson.
Rossetto said he had not heard from Stacy Peterson in years when she called him last month.
"All of a sudden she called me once out of the blue about three weeks before she disappeared," Rossetto said. "That was the first contact in six years I had with her. She said she was just going through some stuff and just found my phone number." Rossetto declined to discuss his recent conversation with Stacy Peterson, saying, "I can¹t tell you anything." He also refused to say whether she spoke of any trouble in her life.
The two exchanged messages, but never made plans to meet, he said. "We were friends," Rossetto said. "We talked every once in a while. But that's it." Police tracked down Rossetto through phone and text messages.
On Saturday, State Police investigators canvassed Rossetto's neighborhood, going door-to-door for blocks to show residents photos of Drew and Stacy Peterson's SUV and sedan.
"They were asking if we had seen one of the two Peterson cars," said neighbor Barb McDaniel. "I told them 'no.'" Investigators did the same thing Friday night, neighbors said, and had been out in the same Walnut Trails subdivision about two weeks ago, circulating a photo of Stacy Peterson and asking neighbors if they had seen her recently.
State Police have branded Drew Peterson a suspect in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife. And authorities exhumed the body of his third wife last week to see if she really drowned in her bathtub as initially believed.
The suspicions swirling around Drew Peterson, 53, have not frightened Rossetto.
"Let him (try to get me). I don't give a crap," Rossetto said. "Why would I be afraid of Drew? What is he going to possibly do to me? He's more than welcome to try busting into my house." Rossetto said he was not tempted to indulge in an affair with Stacy Peterson.
"No. I didn't want any baggage," he said. "Sorry, she had a lot. She was married to a Bolingbrook cop and could've made my life miserable. I wasn't risking it. And I knew Drew well enough to know to stay away from her." Rossetto said he didn't know that police are looking at him as a lover of Stacy Peterson's.
"I¹m sure Drew probably thinks that, but I could care less about what Drew thinks," he said.
Drew Peterson said Friday he knows little about Rossetto but he knows of him.
"I heard of him," Drew Peterson said, but added that he had "no idea" how long the Shorewood man may have been involved with his wife.
"The police are looking into it," Drew Peterson said of the connection between Stacy Peterson and Rossetto, although he would not elaborate. He said police have not approached him about Rossetto.
Rossetto said he met Drew Peterson only once. Asked if Stacy Peterson was afraid of her husband, Rossetto said, "I'm not confirming that." Rossetto said his brother dated Stacy Peterson for about two months years ago and they broke up when he left for the Army. "When my brother left for the military she started dating Drew and we haven't seen her since because he cut off all ties with us," he said.
His brother, Keith, declined to comment on the case Saturday, saying he would first need to check with prosecutors.
"I'm not allowed to discuss the case," he said. "I don't know what I can discuss. I don't know what I can't discuss." Drew Peterson has repeatedly said he feels Stacy Peterson abandoned their family and likely ran off with another man. He recently appeared before a grand jury, as did his brother, Paul Peterson.
Drew Peterson, who in the last week traveled to New York City to appear on a national talk show, said the daily grind of police and media scrutiny is wearing on him.
"I'm just tired," Drew Peterson said. "It wears on you, you know?"
Contributing: Sun-Times Staff Reporter Dave Newbart
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Statement from Sgt. Drew Peterson’s Lawyer
by Greta Van Susteren
UPDATE - See below. I want to make sure you have the chance to read all the documents and releases that we receive.
There are two important points to keep in mind in reading the statement of Sgt. Drew Peterson’s lawyer below:
1/ What did the state’s medical examiner who did the autopsy the day before Dr. Baden conclude? (that is not yet released….) Does he agree or disagree with Dr. Baden’s finding of homicide?
2/ Dr. Baden did NOT say Drew Peterson killed wife #3. He merely said her death was a homicide. In fact, he specifically said on ON THE RECORD on Friday night that he could not tell from the autopsy — he could only tell the manner of death (not who did it.) No one has named Peterson a suspect in her death — and an investigation should be commenced that is wide open and not focused on one person. Good investigators don’t have their suspect first and then collect evidence to prove it — they do the reverse: they gather evidence to see who their suspect is.
Peterson statement:
We are the attorneys for Drew Peterson. We have seen Dr. Baden’s T.V. interviews regarding his autopsy of the remains of Kathleen Savio, which originally appeared on the FOX New Channel which we note is part of the FOX Entertainment Group. The results of Dr. Baden’s autopsy on Ms. Savio do not surprise us, not because we believe they are accurate, but only because Dr. Baden had indicated over a week before he had performed the autopsy that he believed Kathleen’s death was not an accident. While Dr. Baden is an eminent and renowned pathologist, we do not know his motivation for donating his services, and the nature of his arrangement with the FOX Entertainment Group. It has been reported that FOX paid for Dr. Baden’s trip to perform the autopsy, and his first interviews were on the FOX Entertainment owned FOX News Channel. All we wish to say is that Kathleen’s death should not be a source of entertainment.
We are also compelled to respond to one of Dr. Baden’s statements regarding his autopsy of Kathleen Savio. Dr. Baden is quoted as saying that ANormal healthy people don’t die accidently in bathtubs@. We are troubled by this statement. Even assuming that Ms. Savio was a Anormal healthy@ person, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that in 2006 alone there were 126,563 bathtub/shower related injuries in the U.S. based on 3,147 reported incidents, including 4 reported deaths, for people between the ages of 21 and 65. A great many of these reported injuries included lacerations, contusions and abrasions from falls in bathtubs. Also, of the 6 bathtub/shower related deaths reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2006, 2 included deaths by drowning.
We are concerned that there may be a rush to judgment in the Savio and Peterson investigations fueled by the media attention. Our hope is that the authorities are not swayed by what may prove to be inaccurate statements, or by media created pressure, and will only be influenced by confirmed facts and hard evidence.
Once again, for the sake of Mr. Peterson’s children who are caught up in this affair, we ask that the media exercise restraint. Mr. Peterson will comment through our office when such comment is appropriate. Otherwise, there will be no comment.
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People scoffed when Drew Peterson claimed his missing wife ran off with another man. But now he can point to a Des Plaines area woman who vanished last week only to resurface after telling authorities she did just that.
"This is just another case of what happened to me happening to someone else," Peterson, the ex-cop whose wife Stacy vanished more than two months ago, said of the case of Anu Solanki. "This happens all the time. I'm just another victim of it."
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Sun-Times readers chose the Stacy and Drew Peterson case as the year's top story.
(AP)
Solanki disappeared Christmas Eve. Her car was found running near a dam in Wheeling. She returned home Friday and told authorities she went on a cross-country trip with a male "friend" from California to escape a dissatisfying marriage.
State Police have named Drew Peterson a suspect in the "potential homicide" of Stacy Peterson. State Police also are revisiting the March 2004 death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was determined to have died in a bathtub drowning.
Peterson says Solanki's story is further evidence that such strange occurrences do happen. "People run away. People drown in the bathtub," he said. "And it happened to me."
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Body Found in Chicago not that of Stacy Peterson
Atlanta, Ga. 1/26/2008 08:19 PM GMT (FINDITT)
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=34411&cat=14
The body of a woman found in Chicago on Friday is not that of Stacy Peterson according to the city’s police.
There had been several rumors circulating that the badly decomposed body discovered by a land surveyor was that of Peterson but Chicago Police spokeswoman Monique Bond dispelled those reports as well as those speculating that the body may be that of Lisa Stebic, missing since last April.
Stacy Peterson has been missing since October and the high-profile case has concentrated on her husband, Drew Peterson, who has consistently denied any involvement in his wife’s disappearance and has insisted she left him for another man.
The body discovered on Friday was found near the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
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Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer suspected of killing his wife Stacy, is reacting to the latest story suggesting his guilt. Stacy Peterson has been missing since last October.
The Chicago Sun Times reported Wednesday that two of his close friends, Len Wawczak and his wife Paula Stark, wore a wire for the Illinois State Police to record months of conversations with him.
Peterson, responding to reporters' questions from behind a closed door at his home this morning, said this is just another instance of his friends trying to capitalize on his troubles.
In the article Peterson's friends claim he made some very inflammatory comments about his third wife Kathleen Savio. Savio's death was initially ruled an accident but after her body was exhumed last year, it was ruled a homicide. The article claims Peterson said, "I should have had the b-(expletive) cremated."
It also claims he said, "He wasn't worried about them finding Stacy's remains down the road because he figured by that time he would have been tried and acquitted, and you can't be tried for the same case twice because of double jeopardy or something,"
Peterson tells the Sun-Times he feels no sense of betrayal by Wawczak or Starks. He also denies that he ever voiced wishes that Savio had been cremated.
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"It was the best hundred bucks I've spent. I would do it again," Wawczak said.
By Stacey Baca
BOLINGBROOK (WLS) -- Drew Peterson and the man who claims he secretly taped him are both at the Bolingbrook police station this afternoon after the two got into a fight.
It happened outside a barbershop and spilled into the parking lot of a strip mall.
Police say Len Wawczak and Peterson got into an altercation and police had to be called to the scene.
Earlier this week, Wawczak and his wife, Paula Stark, said that they wore wires to secretly record Peterson, who they say talked about the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and his missing fourth wife, Stacy.
Peterson is a suspect in her disappearance but has not been charged.
Bolingbrook Police Chief Ray McGury said Wawczak, who recorded conversations with Drew Peterson over a seven-month period, was the one who is walking away with a ticket.
McGury said at about 1:30 p.m. Friday, police received a call from the Illinois State Police that two people were in a verbal altercation at a barber shop.
"We responded to the scene, patrol officers and a supervisor, at which point there was no observable battery or any issues between the two, other than some shouting back and forth," McGury said. The chief said police began interviewing witnesses.
"We started getting statements. Both Mr. Wawczak and Mr. Peterson agreed to come down to the police department to sort it out. In taking some of the statements, independent witnesses came forward and stated that Mr. Wawczak allegedly had shoved Mr. Peterson in the back at least one time. Based on that information and based upon an interview with Mr. Wawczak, he was charged with a local ordinance charge of battery," McGury said.
Wawczak was charged with a misdemeanor and paid a $100 bond.
"He will come back here in September and plead guilty or not guilty to the charges," McGury said.
Wawczak walked out of the police department just after 4:30 p.m. He explained how the confrontation began.
"It started with my son, Colin, calling home and letting us know that he was in a barber shop that Drew had come into to get a haircut and was staring my son down, giving him dirty looks. I said, 'Do you feel he is starting with you?' He said, 'No, but he is trying to intimidate me,'" Wawczak said.
Wawczak said he wanted to let Drew Peterson know he could not "mess with my family, not my kids, not Paula, not nobody."
Wawczak said this was the first time he'd seen Drew Peterson since revealing he and his wife had worn wires during recent conversations with Drew. He said he doesn't regret the confrontation.
"Absolutely, I pushed him twice, not once. I don't have a problem with that. Like I said, it was the best hundred bucks I've spent. I would do it again," Wawczak said.
Wawczak said he doesn't have a problem with Drew Peterson and Peterson's lawyer, Joel Brodsky, trying to slam him or his wife because "that is their technique."
"They can continue to do it, and I'm sure this will fuel the fire for them. I'm good with that. What I'm not good with and won't be, is trying to intimidate one of my kids. So, if him and Joel continue to do what they are doing, which is slander me and Paula, it is OK. We can battle it out in court. If they try to intimidate one of my three kids, you will be back here again. I expect next time I will get a state charge instead of a local charge because next time I will knock his [expletive] out," Wawczak said.
Drew Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky briefly stated that Drew had been ambushed. Drew Peterson also left the police department Friday afternoon.
(Copyright ©2008 WLS-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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