Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Officer Stephen Peterson publicly discusses the events surrounding Stacy Peterson's disappearance for the first time.
For the first time, the embattled Oak Brook cop, son of accused wife-killer Drew Peterson, publicly discussed his relationship with his father and the events surrounding the disappearance of his much younger stepmother, Stacy Peterson. Stephen Peterson told a hearing he harbored no suspicions at all about Stacy supposedly running off with another man and abandoning not only her two young children, but also the two boys she adopted after Peterson's previous wife, Kathleen Savio, mysteriously turned up drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. "He said his wife had left him," Stephen Peterson said during a disciplinary hearing convened by the Oak Brook Fire and Police Board Tuesday night. "He was upset and I was helping him out." That help …
Accused wife-killer Drew Peterson's son could lose his Oak Brook Police job for allegedly hiding a gun for his father
As the Oak Brook Police and Fire Board prepare for a Tuesday night hearing on whether to fire Oak Brook Police Officer Stephen Peterson, Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills residents are talking about the controversial case. "This is not just a nationally prominent story, it's right here where we live," said Clarendon Hills resident Luke Goss. Stephen Peterson is the son of former Bolingbrook police officer, Drew Peterson, who is in accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and allegedly having a role in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. Stephen Peterson is in trouble with Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheehan for stashing an illegal assault weapon for his father just before the state police executed a search …
Stephen Peterson will go before the Oak Brook Police and Fire Board Tuesday night—one day after his father's lawyer files a federal appeal to get Drew Peterson released from jail.
Attorneys for accused wife-killer Drew Peterson filed an appeal in federal court in hopes of having the former cop released from jail while he awaits trial. Joseph Lopez, one of the five lawyers defending Peterson against charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, said he filed the appeal Monday. Lopez said he could not discuss contents of the appeal because it was filed under seal. Peterson allegedly drowned Savio in March 2004 but was not arrested until the disappearance of his next wife, Stacy Peterson, attracted attention to Savio's death. State police have said they suspect Drew Peterson might have killed Stacy Peterson as well, but have yet to bring charges against the former Bolingbrook cop. Stacy Peterson vanished in …
Marie Lara
5:28 pm on Wednesday, December 1, 2010
I believe that any clear-thinking, level headed adult that has followed this case has a pretty good picture of Drew Peterson and who he is... a cold-blooded murderer of two wives.....Looks like the old ego thing going on here: Don't let them make you look bad by leaving you, kill them.....This guy thinks he's smart, killed one, all's good.......I got away with it once, gosh I'm clever, I'll just … more ›