Drew tries to rent storage unit the day before

[Lorie Taylor]

JACOBSON: Thomas Morphey’s going to claim tomorrow on Good Morning America that you tried to get him to rent a storage locker the day before Stacy disappeared.

PETERSON: No.

JACOBSON: And that he didn’t have his ID with him. Did you ever go to a storage facility?

BRODSKY: Go ahead and answer.

JACOBSON: Just tell the truth.

PETERSON: Yeah, I was going, looking for storage facilities because if you look in my garage, you can’t move in my garage.

JACOBSON: So that happened the day before she disappeared.

PETERSON: The day before she disappeared I picked him up to go for a job interview for him but he was so drunk and intoxicated that I couldn’t take him to the interview.

JACOBSON: Where was the interview?

PETERSON: It was a grocery store in Bolingbrook.

JACOBSON: OK. So after that you went to a storage facility?

PETERSON: We were just driving around talking, and I stopped into one, yes.

JACOBSON: Where was this one?

PETERSON: It was ah…in Bolingbrook. On the South end of Bolingbrook.

JACOBSON: Off of Boughton Road?

PETERSON: No, off of Route 53.

JACOBSON: OK, so you did go to the storage facility and you did try to rent a locker?

PETERSON: No, I just went there to inquire about renting a unit.

JACOBSON: OK. And it had nothing to do with Stacy. To allegedly store a body and…

PETERSON: Nothing at all.

JACOBSON: Wait until things died down…

PETERSON: No, I was gonna put tires in there.

JACOBSON: Pin the murder on him?

PETERSON: No. No.

JACOBSON: Why didn’t you rent a locker then?

PETERSON: Well, this stuff came up and it wasn’t a matter-of-fact thing. It wasn’t something that I deliberately had to get done right away. But I wanted to clean my garage up a little bit.

PINKUS: Mr. Brodsky, do you think it’s ever going to die down, this case? Maybe after you’re not on TV and all that other stuff like the guy that Amy used to investigate, that Stebic guy? He hasn’t said nothing, gone no one, talked to no one, did nothing. They don’t even talk about him. You guys took over.

JACOBSON: Yeah, but he’s a suspect. Drew Peterson’s a suspect. You’re a suspect in Kathleen’s and Stacy’s or just Kathleen’s?

PETERSON: I don’t know what they’re officially calling me now.

PINKUS: Person of interest?

JACOBSON: No, that’s Stebic’s a person of interest. You’re a suspect. But I don’t know for which. I’m sorry. Excuse my ignorance, but I don’t know if it’s for Kathleen or for Stacy.

PETERSON: I guess I’m a suspect.

BRODSKY: You’re a…he’s a suspect in Stacy’s disappearance, which I don’t understand because disappearing is not a crime.

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[Lorie Taylor]

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"I Know He Killed Stacy": Drew Peterson's Stepbrother
Drew says he was just looking to store tires


Thomas Morphey, stepbrother of former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson, told “Good Morning America” in an interview aired Monday that he’s convinced Peterson killed his fourth wife.

“I know he killed Stacy,” Morphey said. “All the circumstances point to it.”

Appearing with his girlfriend Sheryl Alcox, Morphey said Peterson asked him “How much do you love me?” Morphey said he told him he loved him, but not enough to kill for him.

Morphey described the hours before, during and after he helped Peterson move a blue barrel from Peterson’s home into his SUV, a barrel Morphey now believes contained the body of Stacy Peterson. Morphey’s first television interview followed similar revelations to the Chicago Sun-Times last week.


“I said ‘What about the smell?’” Morphey said on “Good Morning America.” “He said it was in a sealed container.”

Morphey added: “I knew it wasn’t good. He was planning on killing someone.”

Morphey said Peterson drove him home with the blue barrel in the back of his Yukon Denali. When he dropped him off, Morphey said Peterson told him that the incident never happened.

“I said ‘I won’t say a word,’” Morphey said Monday.

Morphey was hospitalized after trying to kill himself following the alleged barrel moving incident. He then was put into state police custody for two months.

He has yet to testify before an ongoing grand jury investigating Stacy’s disappearance and the death of Peterson’s third wife.

Morphey isn’t the only one speaking out.

Peterson appeared on WIND-AM (560) Sunday with WIND personality Geoff Pinkus and newswoman Amy Jacobson, saying he and Morphey visited a storage facility the day before Stacy disappeared because he needed a place to store tires that were cluttering his garage.

He said he was just looking and didn’t rent the storage space.

Morphey said during the Monday interview that part of him wishes he had rented the unit.

“Sometimes I wish I had rented that locker just because we’d know where she was,” he said, adding “I partially think the locker was put in my name so he could set me up.”

Morphey called himself “the perfect target for (Peterson)” because of “credibility issues.” The “Good Morning America” reporter said Morphey has a bipolar disorder, and Morphey has said he’s struggled with drug and alcohol problems.

Peterson repeatedly has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Stacy, his fourth wife, or the death of his third wife Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. No charges have been filed against anyone in either of the cases.

Peterson’s attorney Joel Brodsky has attacked Morphey’s credibility, noting that he has yet to be called to tell his story to the grand jury despite extensive interviews with the Illinois State Police.

Morphey said in the interview Monday that Brodsky’s job is to attack his credibility.