Drew Peterson Arrested For Murder Of 3rd Wife-With 20 Million Bond
Drew Peterson Arrested For Murder Of 3rd Wife-With 20 Million Bond as his 4th wife, Stacey Peterson is still missing.
Drew Peterson is a former police sergeant who authorities believe to be the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. He has been indicted on murder charges related to his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Illinois State Police arrested Peterson and was taken into custody about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7th, 2009, after a traffic stop near his home.
Authorites staked out his home all day, said police Capt. Carl Dobrich, but waited for Peterson to leave to arrest him out of concern for his three children, who were with him inside the house.
Peterson, through his attorney, denied any wrongdoing in either case.
Wills County State’s Attorney James Glasgow stated that he believes the case is strong and Peterson is being held on $20 million bond. This is an extremely grave and serious matter and it is reflected in the bond.”
Peterson’s attorney Joel Brodsky told CNN’s Larry King he believed the bond was excessive and would seek a more “reasonable” bond, noting it was the most expensive bond he’d seen in 10 years.
Charles B. Pelkie, spokesman for the state’s attorney in Will County, Illinois, stated that a grand jury indicted Peterson in the murder of petersons’ third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose death had been ruled an accidental drowning.
Brodsky stated in a written 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 stated that the grand jury continues to meet and is studying the possibility of charges in Stacy Peterson’s disappearance.
After Stacy Peterson went missing in October of 2007, media frenzy and police scrutiny on Peterson revealed Savio had died mysteriously a few years earlier during a nasty divorce.
Savio died just before the division of the marital assets was finalized, making Drew Peterson the sole beneficiary.
Drew Peterson Arrested For Murder Of 3rd Wife-With 20 Million Bond…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 KathleenSavio died as a result of foul play like her husband killing her.
The investigation into Stacy Peterson’s disappearance brought renewed interest in Savio’s death. Authorities exhumed Kathleen Savios’ body, further tests were conducted, and her death has now been ruled a “homicide staged to look like an accident.”
Brodsky told King on the Larry King Show, that he believes the case has always been about circumstantial evidence and that he will bring a pathologist to trial who will say Savio died from an accidental drowning.
“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.
Martin Glink, attorney for the Savio family, stated that they were hopeful the grand jury felt 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.”
But, for Stacy Peterson’s family, the news was bitter sweet as they continue to wait for news about her disappearance.
“We have anticipated this coming. We have dreamed about it. We have been patient over it,” Pam Bosco, spokesperson for Stacy Peterson’s family. “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 stated that while she had not heard about any charges relating to Stacy Peterson’s death, she was hopeful those charges would follow.
“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. Ernie Raines told CNN’s Anderson Cooper 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, Christina after the arrest…”My daughter was terrified, very emotional, upset. And I tried to tell her from the beginning that this was going to happen, be prepared. More than anything, when I heard about the arrest, I was relieved,” Raines stated. “I’m glad justice finally came — before he hurt my daughter,” he said.
Authorities put Petersons’ three minor children in the custody of the states’ children and family service department. At Drew Petersons’ request, his adult son was contacted to take his three children.
Peterson cooperated with police during his arrest.
Too bad that he didn’t treat his last two wives as nice. They are still dead and or missing. When I think of Stacy Peterson, I think of her in a blue plastic barrow. I hope that her family friends and children don’t think of her that way.
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Here is my story, because I lived within the area of Downers Grove Illinois on the night that Fox network can to a home in October to interview someone tied to the case of the missing woman Stacy Peterson, I took interested in this case.
For one I had seen Drew Peterson before and also there was a very familiar theme of Power and Control within the relationship of a police office and his wife and or girlfriend.
When I stopped and asked what was going on they told me nothing but again I did what a good investigative journalist does, investigated what was going on within my area.
Then I became applauded to what was going on and the fact that this case as within many others would go cold, because of insider cover-up’s. She was missing just a few days then and I knew that she had to be located within the first 48 hours or most likely she would be dead.
I started looking into it, and my investigation told a story of her coming from a dysfunctional family, her brother was in prison for rape, then there was the other story about Stacy’s mother who had been missing according to reports since the day that Kathleen Savio contacted her about her underage daughter dating her husband.
What was reported then was that Catherine Cales, Stacy’s mom then contacted the police department to issue a complaint, then after a while she ended up missing and to this date there has been no major investigation of her whereabouts. This again is too strange to see this many missing people within the same family and this again fascinated me to continue to look into this case of cover-up and corruption.
After researching I had found that they had a home in Naperville Illinois and also there was a bar he ( Drew) owned while still working as a Bollingbrook Police Officer, he was on the Narc unit and investigated drugs. Then his bar was closed because of alleged drug activity. At that time he was also removed from his position and fired from the police department this was before he married Stacy but he launched an investigation on the Bollingbrook Illinois without knowledge and due to this investigation he was returned into his position as a Police Officer.
My question is what made then change there minds of removing him from his post? And why was he returned? How much did he had on someone from within and or was there more? Could this be the reason why his has control of the investigation of his case?
His then wife Kathleen had her name on many of the businesses and also was on the real estate that he had in Bollingbrook and Naperville. He she divorced him the property could have gone to her if his name was not on the deeds and ownership records.
Therefore he was not going to let her get out of this in the way she wanted. While he was married and while he had the affair with Stacy, his wife then Kathleen stated within letters written to the States Attorney and other officials about the abuse stated that he had beaten her while Stacy watched. Drew and Stacy came to her home on roller blades, and he told her to get down…he forced her on the ground (Kathleen) and started to beat her with a night stick.
I got enraged by this because my ex-husband was abusive, and knew that the policing agencies would not react the way that one would think. As well, how many women had no way out. I left and I knew that she, Kathleen was murdered.
Again by who…this was a planned effort, there was insurance money and a need to cover up everything to make it look like an accident.
This is a case of major insurance fraud but the media is not talking about the fact there were a number of people who sat on the inquirer of Kathleen’s accidental death and rule on it…all tied right back to Drew Peterson.
In addition the way she had died my god! SHE HAD WATER IN HER LUNGS FROM A DRY TUB!
I have told everyone one that who ever killed her, had to have placed her head in the toilet. The tub had no water and there was marks on her body. Was another night stick used on her?
Then there were all the calls that Stacy made to Drew’s cell phone right after the death of Kathleen. According to reports, why did she called him and he ever called her? Think about this one…if he murdered her and was upset wouldn’t he have called Stacy? Not the reverse?
I also knew from working within the court system the great numbers of people who have been murdered and their bodies where placed within a storage unit. And this is my other point.
I called NBC and told them of my thoughts no one called me back. I then went to the scene of the crime Drew’s home in Bollingbrook Illinois. While there I then came across a number of family members who were searching in the wooded area near a mall and storage area on or near Remington Street.
The interesting thing was…while they were involved in looking in the woods, I was asking around some of the local storage companies. I felt that he had only enough time to take the body somewhere close. Somewhere fast and to somewhere temporary, which would be a storage company and now my idea was confirmed by Morphey.
Those statements are as follows:
According to an article by Joseph Hosey of SuburbanChicagoNews.com, Morphey said the day before the blue barrel incident, Peterson showed up at his home, ostensibly to take him to a nearby Meijer store, where Peterson, the overnight sergeant for the Bolingbrook Police Department, had supposedly lined up a job interview for Morphey.
But Peterson and Morphey never made it to Meijer. Instead, Morphey said, Peterson drove him to a park off Remington Boulevard.
“We went to that park to discuss Stacy cheating on him, and he had to take care of the problem,” Morphey said.
He assumed Peterson planned to murder someone but that his target was Stacy’s supposed boyfriend.
“I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her,” he said. Then Peterson started asking strange questions.
Peterson asked, “How much do you love me?” (meaning Morphey) Morphey answered that “he did love him, a lot.”
Peterson then asked, “Enough to kill for me?”
“No, I couldn’t live with myself,” Morphey said.
Peterson pressed on, asking, “Could you live with knowing about it?”
Morphey replied, “Yeah, I guess. We always figured you killed Kathleen.”
Morphey then stated that Peterson drove him to a storage facility and asked him to rent a unit, using his own name. Morphey had not brought along his required state identification.
Peterson, then fearing that leaving to get the ID and then returning would attract undue attention, so he dropped Morphey at home, Morphey said.
A few hours later, Morphey said, he called Peterson and told him this was something he couldn’t get involved with. Peterson, he said, replied, “OK, I can respect that.”
Morphey said he feared a life was at stake, but did not know where to turn because Peterson was a police officer. “It’s just something I have to live with,” Morphey said. “I grew up Catholic. I believe if you take another life, you go to hell.”
The night after their trip to the park on Remington, and then the storage facility, Morphey said Peterson showed up again. Morphey admits he’d been drinking beer, but claims to have a clear recollection of what transpired.
“He just started driving,” Morphey said. The two men got coffee at a Starbucks drive-through before heading to a park off Weber Road. There, Morphey said, Peterson handed him a cell phone, told him not to answer it, then left.
Morphey said he paced back and forth in the dark, wondering, “Is he killing someone?” About 45 minutes later the phone rang. Then it rang again. Both times, the caller ID showed “Stacy’s cell,” he said. It was then he “got a pretty good idea” that Peterson was not scheming to do in anybody’s boyfriend.
“Really, all I could think when I saw “Stacy” on the phone was he was killing her while I was standing there,” he said.
Peterson returned to the park within an hour of the phone calls, Morphey said, and Drew insisted he help him “at the house moving something.”
They went inside the Peterson house, and Morphey noticed all of the children’s bedroom doors were closed. They took the barrel “right out the front door” to Peterson’s Yukon Denali, which was parked in the driveway, Morphey said. Part of a thick plastic bag was protruding from the lid of the barrel, he said.
After loading the barrel, Morphey said, Peterson dropped him off at his home and told him, “This never happened.”
“I said, ‘Don’t worry. I won’t say a word,” said Morphey.
But it did not take Morphey long to talk. Frantic, he left his house and went up the street to see his friend Walter Martineck. He told Martineck everything and stayed at Martineck’s until Alcox called and told him to come home.
Morphey spent the next day at the hospital with Alcox. He spoke on the phone with Peterson, he said, telling him he wanted to hang himself. Peterson, he said, told him not to worry.
When he got home that night, Morphey started drinking again. He spoke on the phone with one of his brothers. He had told the brother some of the details from the past weekend, and the brother told him he called the FBI about it.
Morphey said he hung up on his brother, ate two bottles of pills, and got in bed. He says he tried to kill himself to keep his girlfriend and her sons safe from Peterson. But Morphey’s brother called 911, and soon emergency responders were banging on the door.
On that Tuesday morning, after returning from Edward Hospital in Naperville, Alcox said Peterson showed up at their door, not long after she saw a story on the TV news about Stacy’s disappearance.
She told Peterson about Morphey’s suicide attempt. He offered his help but said nothing about his wife’s disappearance, she said.
Martineck then arrived and drove Alcox to District 5 State Police Headquarters in Crest Hill.
Soon after, troopers headed to the hospital in Naperville. But before they got there, Peterson paid his stepbrother a visit, one Morphey remembers only through the haze of medication. Martineck said the state cops just missed him.
The next day, Morphey got his offer of immunity. Glasgow showed up himself to grant it. He had a couple state troopers with him, and they talked to Morphey in a coffee room.
“It was the first of many interrogations,” Morphey said. “They went easy on me there.” But the grilling got tougher, he said, with police accusing him of killing Stacy.
Morphey figures he underwent about 40 hours of interrogation that included threats to pull his immunity.
Morphey said he spent about five months away from his family for his own protection. The state police first put him and Alcox up in a motel about two hours from his home. Alcox returned after a long weekend.
“I was put at various locations,” he said. “I didn’t know where I’d be staying from one night to the other.” In December, the state police found a permanent location for Morphey out of state, but by “February or March, I just decided enough was enough,” he said.
Police, he said, reluctantly agreed to let him return home.
That was a year ago. And Morphey has yet to speak a word to the ongoing grand jury convened to hear evidence about Stacy’s disappearance and Savio’s death.
“All contact’s pretty much been broken,” he said. And Morphey feels “betrayed.”
Charles B. Pelkie, spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office, said he was precluded from discussing Morphey’s story. “I can’t comment on any aspect of a pending investigation,” he said.
The state police have told Morphey to keep his mouth shut, Morphey said. But he wants to know what the police are waiting for. “I just feel like the truth needs to be told at some point,” he said. “…I don’t know if I’ll get my day in court.”
Morphey doesn’t know if Peterson will have his day in court, either.
“I know what I know,” he said. “Drew knows what I know.”
Read full resource details by Joseph Hosey…
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/genevasun/news/1468257,Peterson-stepbrother-talks_jo030909.article
March 09, 2009
Now again, I was there on the day they were looking in the wooded area. Then I drove back to Peterson’s home, while all the major media was there, while looking around the area I saw Fox folks there and I was to be interviewed because they said my idea was interesting.
I am also to be on my program at 9pm. I watched waited and filmed what I saw was going on within the area. I knew she was murdered and that the body was moved to maybe storage but again no one would listen no one was interested and here is my point. I am an investigative journalist coming from a family of investigative journalist and no one gave a damn about what I saw, in addition I worked within the courts.
Well this is high level insurance fraud and others need to be investigated as well, I will be on my program about this and other issues concerning the issue of corruption within the justice system which needs to be heard within a panel discussion. I have attempted to take up other issues to local state government representatives but they refused to meet with me and have not returned any calls from myself and others.
The Drew Peterson case is one of many within Illinois and the fact that they have no regard to people interested in having a true and real government. It tells it all…we need to launch a major investigation in Illinois of the policies and behavior of it’s policing organizations. The Drew Peterson case alone is proof that there is more than what meets the eye.
What I saw and witnessed is proof positive. I am ready to state everything that I saw and witnessed. I am watched by the police because again the corruption runs very deep. Perhaps too deep for anyone person to clean it up.
Drew Peterson was a man who taped his home, bugged phones etc..
Watch when you hear that he did not kill Kathleen and who may have done it and why?
Then asked here is Stacy’s mom. No she did not do it but perhaps she met the same ending.
Peace D’Anne Burley
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