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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 13:19:27 GMT -6
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 13:49:10 GMT -6
www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/peterson/2004329,Peterson-hearsay-day2-stepbro-JO012110.article Stepbrother: I helped Drew carry a blue barrel January 21, 2010 By JOE HOSEY jhosey@scn1.com and DAN ROZEK drozek@suntimes.com Chilling testimony from Drew Peterson's stepbrother Thursday outlined the plot to conceal the murder of Stacy Peterson. Thomas Morphey's testimony mirrored an exclusive account he gave to the Herald-News in March 2008. Morphey testified in a hearsay evidence hearing in Will County that he helped Peterson carry a blue barrel to a waiting SUV the night Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared. Drew Peterson's stepbrother, Thomas Morphey (left), took the stand Thursday in a hearing to decide whether prosecutors can use 'hearsay' evidence. Morphey's testimony came as Will County prosecutors sought to win a judge's permission to use so-called "hearsay evidence" against Peterson when he stands trial for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson has not been charged in connection with Stacy Peterson's 2007 disappearance. Morphey's testimony mirrored remarks he made last year during an exclusive interview with the Joliet Herald-News. In that interview, Morphey said he believed that Stacy Peterson's body was in the barrel he helped remove from his stepbrother's Bolingbrook home on Oct. 28, 2007. The day before, Morphey said Peterson tried to enlist him in a murder plot. “How much do you love me?" Peterson asked that day, according to Morphey. "Enough to kill for me?" The state police recorded a telephone conversation between Morphey and Peterson in november. Peterson ordered Morphey not to talk to the police or press and repeatedly told Morphey not to discuss their situation on the phone.
Attorney George Lenard began attempting to chip away at Morphey's testimony and will continue to do so this afternoon.A new state law allows prosecutors to introduce as evidence statements from victims who allegedly were killed to prevent them from testifying against their attackers. Prosecutors have said they intend to call dozens of witnesses to present statements purportedly made by Savio and others -- including Stacy Peterson -- to show that Drew Peterson murdered Savio.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:11:05 GMT -6
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:11:36 GMT -6
Rescueapet:
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Drew’s eldest son, Eric Peterson, testified about a brutal
incident of domestic violence Drew allegedly perpetrated against Kathleen Savio.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:29:21 GMT -6
Rescueapet: January 21, 2010 at 5:06 pm | #197 Quote Channel 9 News @ 5:00 – Defense atty, Lenard, highlighted Morphey’s problems with alcohol and depression. Outside of court, Brodsky said Morphey’s credibility will hurt the prosecution. Said he told different people different stories, changed the dimensions of the barrel numerous times. Brodsky said we’re seeing why the State’s case is “going to fall apart.” Oh, so he says. petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/peterson-hearsay-hearings-to-continue-thursday/#comment-56224 |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:29:41 GMT -6
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** Morphey added to what we’ve already seen that Drew asked him to rent a storage locker so that he could store an air-tight container for at least six months, after which time he’d dispose of it.**
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:30:46 GMT -6
rescueapet: petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/..../#comment-56224January 21, 2010 at 4:04 pm | #172 Quote Excerpts While the Will County hearing is about the death of Savio, Thursday’s testimony focused on the day Stacy Peterson disappeared. Prosecutors would not say why Morphey was being asked to testify about Stacy Peterson, but Will County state’s attorney’s office spokesman Chuck Pelkie said the reasons would become clear in the proceedings. Peterson’s attorneys have raised questions about using Morphey as a witness. He suffers from a bipolar disorder and has admitted to drinking too much. Morphey has acknowledged both issues and on Thursday prosecutors presented evidence that verified what Morphey said happened. That included video footage and witness interviews showing that both men made a trip to Starbucks around the time of the blue barrel incident. www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2010/01/21/ap/headlines/us_drew_peterson.txt |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 17:34:08 GMT -6
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 21, 2010 21:13:51 GMT -6
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/ct-met-0122-drew-peterson-hearing-20100121,0,4671344,full.story By Erika Slife and Steve Schmadeke, Tribune reporters January 21, 2010 Drew Peterson's stepbrother recounts night he helped Peterson remove blue storage container Thomas Morphey says he is convinced Stacy Peterson's remains were in container Drew Peterson has dismissed his stepbrother as a druggie, a drunk, a liar and psychologically unbalanced. But Thursday, Thomas Morphey took to the witness stand composed, serious and unflinching as he recounted the night that he says he helped Peterson remove his wife's body from the couple's Bolingbrook home. In a hushed Will County courtroom, Morphey testified that the two carried a heavy, blue container — containing what he thought was Stacy Peterson's body — out the front door of the house and into the back of Peterson's GMC Yukon Denali. Afterward Peterson turned to him and said, "This never happened."
"I won't tell a soul," Morphey said he replied.The dramatic testimony came on the second day of a special pretrial hearing to determine whether to allow hearsay statements in the murder case against Peterson, 56, who is charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Morphey, 42, is believed to be one of the prosecution's star witnesses because of his claims he helped Peterson dispose of his fourth wife, Stacy, who vanished on Oct. 28, 2007. Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, is a suspect in her disappearance but has not been charged. Morphey did not waver Thursday in his recollection of the days leading up to the disappearance of Stacy, who was 23 at the time. He acknowledged he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and battles manic depression. He admitted to being treated for drug and alcohol abuse. But he said his memory was clear about the morning of Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007, when Peterson allegedly drove Morphey to an industrial park and on the way asked Morphey, "How much do you love me?""I said, 'I do,'" Morphey told the court. "He said, 'Enough to kill for me?'"
Morphey said he replied it was not something he could live with."Could you live with knowing about it?" Peterson allegedly asked.
"I always assumed you killed Kathleen," Morphey said he told Peterson, to which Peterson allegedly replied, "'No, I would never hurt Kathleen; she was a great mother.'"
Morphey said Peterson then told him Stacy was cheating on him and wanted a divorce."He said she would take everything," Morphey testified. "He would have to continue to work for the rest of his life."He said Peterson told him he would give him $200 to rent a storage unit under Morphey's name and store a container there."I said, 'What about the smell?'" Morphey said. "He said (the container) would be airtight."Peterson allegedly said Morphey would check on the unit "from time to time to make sure there was no odor." Peterson would return in six months after the "smoke cleared" to take care of it. If something happened to Peterson during that time, Morphey testified, Peterson allegedly told him to "drop it in the canal."
Morphey said that he later called Peterson to tell him he couldn't take part in the plan, but that Peterson still picked him up the next day for help in removing the container.Peterson's attorney George Lenard interrogated Morphey about inconsistencies in his story, such as why he described the container to Illinois State Police as no taller than his knees and on Thursday said it was 3 1/2 feet tall. Morphey, who said he tried to commit suicide shortly after helping Peterson remove the container, blamed any irregularities on his mental state at the time. "It's the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me in my life," he said. "Things were coming at me pretty quick."
Peterson's adult son Eric also testified Thursday, seeing his father for the first time since moving out of Peterson's Bolingbrook home in 2003, in part out of anger that his father was dating Stacy, a much younger woman.Eric Drew Peterson testified that while spending the weekend at his father's home in 1993, Peterson dragged Savio — who was screaming and pleading for someone to call police — through the front door by her hair and arm.Asked whether he still loved his father and whether he thought he had been a good dad, Eric Peterson paused for a long time before twice answering, "no."eslife@tribune.com sschmadeke@tribune.com
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 22, 2010 9:27:24 GMT -6
www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/01/peterson-hearing-turns-to-day-kathleen-savio-found-dead.htmlPeterson hearing turns to day Kathleen Savio found deadJanuary 22, 2010 8:46 AM | No Comments Attention in a Will County courtroom turns to the day Kathleen Savio's lifeless body was found in her bathtub in 2004. Friday is the third day of a hearing to determine what hearsay statements a jury will be allowed to hear when Savio's former husband, Drew Peterson, stands trial in the slaying of his third wife. The lead Illinois State Police investigator who investigated Savio's death is scheduled to resume testimony. Retired Sgt. Patrick Collins is expected to detail why Savio's death was initially ruled an accident. The hearing has so far included testimony from co-workers of Savio's who described her fears that Peterson might harm her. On Thursday, Peterson's stepbrother took the stand and said he helped Peterson remove his fourth wife's body from the couple's Bolingbrook home. Tom Morphey testified that the two carried a heavy, blue container -- containing what he thought was Stacy Peterson's body -- out the front door of the house and into the back of Peterson's GMC Yukon Denali. Afterward Peterson turned to him and said, "This never happened." Peterson hasn't been charged in the 2007 disappearance of Stacy, but authorities say he is the only suspect. -- Associated Press
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 22, 2010 9:38:06 GMT -6
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Eric Peterson, 31, recounted a savage tale of domestic abuse he says Drew Peterson perpetrated on Savio in 1993. Eric Peterson and his younger brother, Stephen Peterson, were visiting their father and Savio for the weekend when Drew hauled his wife through the front door by her hair. “She was being dragged and fighting to stop being dragged,” Eric Peterson said, adding that Savio was shouting obscenities at her husband, begging the children to call the police and “screaming for help.” Eric Peterson said his father ordered his sons upstairs and pulled Savio down to the basement. He said the commotion downstairs sounded like a train ran through the house. One of Savio’s sisters and the police later showed up.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 22, 2010 9:39:40 GMT -6
Stepbrother: Drew asked if I’d kill for him
January 21, 2010 By JOE HOSEY and DAN ROZEK
BOLINGBROOK — Drew Peterson’s stepbrother pieced together the accused wife-killer’s allegedly murderous schemes and revealed how he was supposedly roped into helping dispose of Stacy Peterson’s body. Morphey, whose father is married to Peterson’s mother, told his shocking tale from the witness stand on the second day of a historic hearing to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed at Peterson’s murder trial. Peterson faces murder charges in connection with the March 2004 apparent bathtub drowning of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Prosecutors are trying to prove he killed Stacy Peterson so she could not testify against him. Stacy Peterson vanished in October 2007. The state police believe she may have been slain and have named Peterson their only suspect in the case but have yet to make an arrest.
Stepbrother testifies
Morphey’s testimony mirrored an exclusive account he gave The Herald-News in March. In that interview, and in court Thursday, Morphey told how Peterson asked him, “Do you love me?’ and when Morphey said he did, continued with, “Enough to kill for me?” When Morphey said he could not live with himself if he killed someone, Peterson asked if he “could live with knowing about it,” to which Morphey replied, “I always assumed you killed Kathleen.” Morphey also told how Peterson dropped him off in a park with a cell phone for about an hour the night after Stacy was last seen alive. He said Peterson told him not to answer the phone when it rang. The phone rang twice, Morphey said, and both times the caller ID showed Stacy’s name. Peterson then picked up Morphey and brought him to the Peterson residence. The two men went inside, Morphey said, and carried a blue plastic barrel weighing about 150 pounds downstairs to Peterson’s sport utility vehicle. Distraught at the notion of aiding Peterson in the murder of his wife, Morphey attempted suicide by overdosing on tranquilizers. The state police interviewed him in the hospital and State’s Attorney James Glasgow granted him immunity for his testimony. Morphey also said Peterson confided that Stacy was cheating on him with two possible lovers, one of whom he wanted to frame for Stacy’s murder. Peterson asked him to drive Stacy’s car to Shorewood, where one of Stacy’s men lived, and leave the car there with the keys in the ashtray in an attempt to lead the cops there, Morphey said. He also said Peterson tried to get him to rent a storage locker in Romeoville. “He said he wanted it in my name, that he would pay me $200 up front to rent it and when that ran out, he (would give) me more money. Concerned about a decomposing body beginning stink, Morphey said he asked, “What about the smell?” but Peterson reassured him. “He said a sealed container, he said it would be air-tight,” Morphey said. “He said I should check it from time to time to make sure there was no odor.” “He’d leave the container there for six months until the smoke cleared and then he’d dispose of it,” Morphey said, and “If something happened to him, if he had a heart attack, to dump it in the canal.” Morphey said Peterson told him Stacy was demanding a divorce. She wanted Peterson out of the house in four days, was seeking custody of their two children along with the two born to Savio, who she adopted, and had her eyes on quite a bit of her old man’s assets. “She wanted half his pension, which meant he had to work for the rest of his life,” Morphey said. Peterson was also worried that if Stacy had custody of his kids, her brother, convicted sexual predator Yelton Cales, could get at them, Morphey said.
‘He’s a very ill man’
During the hearing, Glasgow played a telephone conversation between Peterson and Morphey that was taped by the state police. On the tape, Peterson orders Morphey not to talk to the press or the police, and warns him about discussing things on the phone. One of Peterson’s attorneys, George Lenard, raised the issue of Morphey’s drug and alcohol problems, pointed out that he suffers from bipolar disorder and claimed Peterson just wanted to rent the storage locker so he could hide things in it before Stacy filed for divorce. Another of Peterson’s attorneys, Joel Brodsky, attacked Morphey’s credibility during a break in the hearing.
Drew’s son speaks Morphey was followed to the stand by Peterson’s estranged son Eric Peterson. The older of two children born to Peterson’s first wife, Carol Brown, who is neither missing nor murdered, Eric Peterson, 31, recounted a savage tale of domestic abuse he says Drew Peterson perpetrated on Savio in 1993. Eric Peterson and his younger brother, Stephen Peterson, were visiting their father and Savio for the weekend when Drew hauled his wife through the front door by her hair. “She was being dragged and fighting to stop being dragged,” Eric Peterson said, adding that Savio was shouting obscenities at her husband, begging the children to call the police and “screaming for help.” Eric Peterson said his father ordered his sons upstairs and pulled Savio down to the basement. He said the commotion downstairs sounded like a train ran through the house. One of Savio’s sisters and the police later showed up. The next morning, Eric Peterson said, there was no sign of Savio, but the house was strewn with broken glass and overturned furniture. Eric Peterson said it was apparent that Savio was drunk the night Drew Peterson dragged her around. Eric Peterson said he has not spoken to his father since January 2003. “I don’t love him or hate him,” Eric Peterson said of his father. “It’s separate of emotion. It’s indifference.”
Sergeant takes stand
The last witness called Thursday was retired state police Sgt. Patrick Collins, who headed up the Savio death investigation. In his 22 years as a detective, Collins said he had never handled a homicide. And the Savio case would not be his first, as he and two other investigators decided about a half hour after showing up at Savio’s house that her death was likely accidental. Savio’s death would be officially classified as such following a coroner’s inquest that featured testimony from a state police special agent who said investigators found no sign of foul play. Collins said Peterson told the state police that he and Savio had an amiable relationship at the time of her death and did not stand to profit from her dying. “He said basically he would gain nothing because during the divorce Kathy changed some of the paperwork,” said Collins, whose testimony will continue today.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 22, 2010 9:47:54 GMT -6
POSTED BY RESCUEAPET JUSTICE CAFE: petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/hearsay-testimony-to-continue-with-retired-sgt-patrick-collins/#commentsJanuary 22, 2010 at 9:03 am | #19 Quote CBS News legal analyst Lisa Bloom says, “It has to be to show pattern because, in this hearing, which is really a trial before the trial, the state has to show that Drew Peterson killed Kathleen Savio. And I believe at the trial, they’ll be allowed to introduce evidence as to both (wives), to show it was a pattern, that he killed them, according to the state, to prevent them from divorcing him and taking a lot of his money.” Whether the hearsay evidence is admitted could prove pivotal, Bloom adds, explaining to “Early Show” co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Friday, “That’s what it’s all about. She allegedly told about 15 people, ‘He’s threatened me, he held a knife to my throat, he’s going to kill me, he’s going to get away with it, he’s going to make it look like an accident.’ (That’s) critical evidence for the state. They want to get that evidence in, and that’s the basis of this hearing. At the end of this hearing, in about a month, the judge will decide whether those statements can come in or not.” Without them, Bloom observes, prosecutors would have “a significantly weakened case, because I think those statements are the strongest part of the state’s case. Without it, there’s no forensic evidence linking Drew Peterson to the killing of Kathleen Savio and he’s got an alibi: He says he was home with a lot of family members the entire weekend that she was killed.” www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/22/earlyshow/main6128553.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsEarlyShow+%28The+Early+Show%3A+CBSNews.com%29&utm_content=Twitter |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 22, 2010 13:20:21 GMT -6
www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/....found-dead.htmlCop admits mistakes in ruling Savio’s death an accident January 22, 2010 12:33 PM | No Comments | UPDATED STORY A retired Illinois state police sergeant admitted there were numerous shortcomings in his investigation that concluded the death of Drew Peterson’s third wife was an accident. “I’m not going to beat myself up right now, you can second-guess anything,” Patrick Collins testified today. “Looking back now, everything could have been important. But at that particular moment, I was looking for things that were more obvious.” Savio was found dead in an empty bathtub in her home in 2004. After Peterson’s fourth wife Stacy disappeared more than three years later, investigators exhumed her body, ruled her death a homicide and charged Peterson with murder. Collins took the stand today during a hearing to determine what hearsay evidence, if any, should be allowed in Peterson’s murder trial. Collins said a crime scene technician considered the death an accident, and that assessment colored his view of what happened because he had never investigated a murder before. Collins also admitted he broke with normal protocol and allowed Peterson to sit in on an interview with Stacy Peterson, who gave Peterson his principal alibi for his whereabouts in the days before Savio was discovered. Police interviewed Stacy Peterson for one hour on March 3, 2004. She said she and her husband had spent the weekend with the children, backing up Peterson’s statements made to police a day earlier. She said they had spent Saturday hanging around the house and had gone to the Shedd Aquarium Sunday. The only time Peterson left was Sunday morning to get doughnuts. Savio was found the next day, a Monday. Peterson, a Bolingbrook police officer at the time, asked for “professional courtesy” and sat about a foot away from Stacy while she was interviewed, Collins said. Collins also said he regretted not reaching out to any of Savio’s family. Other shortcomings he admitted to: Not examining or saving a glass of orange juice in the kitchen or a cup in the microwave; not specifically asking about the position of Savio’s body in the bathtub; not asking if the people who had discovered her had touched the body. The initial autopsy concluded Savio, a 40-year-old woman in good health, had drowned. A coroner’s jury ruled her death an accident after a state police special agent testified Savio had probably fallen, hit her head and drowned in the water before it leaked out the drain. After Savio’s body was exhumed and a second autopsy done, State’s Atty. James Glasgow said it appeared the scene was staged to look like an accidental drowning. Peterson has pleaded not guilty in Savio’s death. He has not been charged in Stacy’s disappearance, but authorities say he is the only suspect.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 23, 2010 14:49:35 GMT -6
Savio murder probe superficial January 22, 2010 By JOE HOSEY jhosey@scn1.com JOLIET — The Bolingbrook police called in state agents when the estranged wife of one of their own sergeants turned up dead in the midst of a contentious divorce. These state police detectives didn’t speak to the dead woman’s relatives. They did not interview any of the officers who worked with her husband, Sgt. Drew Peterson.< They took him at his word when he told them he stood to gain "basically nothing at all" financially from the death of his wife, Kathleen Savio. They did not subpoena Peterson's cell phone records or review the court file for his divorce case. They did not question either of the couple's two teenage sons. They spoke to none of Savio's Joliet Junior College classmates. They allowed Peterson to be interviewed at his own police station instead of the local state police headquarters.
They let him stick around for the interview with his new wife, Stacy Peterson, and jump in to answer her questions while she was establishing his alibi.
And they did not even consider Peterson a likely candidate as his wife's killer. "We did not interview him as a suspect," said retired state police Sgt. Patrick Collins, whose testimony Tuesday revealed how little his agency investigated Savio's death. Hearsay hearing Collins, who headed up the investigation of Savio's March 2004 drowning, was the 13th of 60 witnesses to be called in the hearing to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed at Peterson's murder trial. Peterson has been accused of killing Savio, who was his third wife. The state police had considered Savio's death accidental for more than three and a half years and only altered their position when Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in October 2007. Stacy Peterson remains missing. State police think she may have been slain and have identified Drew Peterson as the only suspect in their "potential homicide" investigation, but have yet to make an arrest for her disappearance. Prosecutors now are trying to prove Drew Peterson killed Stacy to keep her from testifying against him. Proving that would allow some hearsay comments to be used in court during the Savio murder trial. First homicide case Collins testified that he had never worked a homicide case before he was called in to probe Savio's death. He described himself as "naive" and said he relied heavily on the guidance of state police crime scene technician Robert Deel, who advised him that it appeared Savio slipped in the tub and hit her head.Collins also said Peterson asked him to show "some professional courtesy," and allow him to be present for the interview of Stacy, who had an 8-month-old son and was pregnant again.
"He said she was really shaken, very upset, that she had just had a baby, she was very young, and he asked to be present for the interview," Collins said.
During the interview, which was conducted in the basement of Peterson's house, Stacy, who was 20 at the time, "was emotional," Collins said, and "broke down and started crying."Collins admitted he would handle things differently if given another crack at the case.
"I would have reached out to more people, interviewed more people in regards to this investigation," he said, adding, "I'm not going to beat myself up right now."Strange behavior Stacy Peterson's close friend and next-door neighbor, Sharon Bychowski, followed Collins to the witness stand. Bychowski recounted Peterson's curious behavior in the days following his wife's disappearance. Bychowski's testimony will continue Monday. www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/peterson/2006516,4_JO22_Savio-murder-probe-superficial.article |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 23, 2010 14:50:26 GMT -6
Cop admits missteps in Peterson’s third wife’s death By Christy Gutowski | Daily Herald Staff n the early days of the disappearance of Drew Peterson’s fourth wife, neighbor Sharon Bychowski said he appeared on her Bolingbrook doorstep acting “kind of crazy,” insisting she follow him back home. A barefoot Bychowski complied.
“I said, ‘Oh my God, Drew! Is there something wrong with Stacy?’” she testified Friday in a unique pretrial hearing to determine if certain hearsay statements are reliable enough for a jury to hear at trial. “He said, very dramatically, ‘Well, she left me.’”Bychowski told Will County Circuit Judge Stephen White she was immediately suspicious since she said Stacy, with whom she was close friends, would never leave her kids.
“She would leave him, but not without her kids,” said Bychowski, who tearfully described Stacy as “the world’s best mother.”Stacy Peterson, 23, hasn’t been seen since October 2007. Her disappearance sparked a renewed investigation into the mysterious drowning death of her husband’s third wife, Kathleen Savio, 40, found dead in her dry bathtub March 1, 2004, while the former couple battled over finances and custody of their two sons. Authorities initially ruled Savio died in an accident when she slipped in her tub but, after her body was exhumed for a second autopsy, they deemed her death a homicide. Drew Peterson, 56, is not charged in Stacy’s disappearance, but the former Bolingbrook police sergeant was arrested May 7, 2009, in the Savio investigation. In lengthy testimony Friday, retired Illinois State Police Sgt. Patrick Collins conceded missteps were made in the Savio investigation, including a lack of forensic testing of items inside the Bolingbrook home. “If I had to do certain things over, yes, I would,” said Collins, the lead investigator. “I’m not going to beat myself up right now. You can second-guess anything you do in life.” Collins said it was his first murder investigation, and he relied heavily on the opinion of the lead crime scene technician would considered Savio’s death an accident. There was no forced entry to the home, no obvious defensive injuries on her body and nothing appeared missing or out of order. Collins admitted he broke from normal police procedure in allowing Drew Peterson, a fellow police officer, to sit in on the interview with Stacy as she provided his alibi. Collins said Drew Peterson was never a suspect.He said Stacy Peterson was very nervous and visibly shaking.
“Drew was sitting next to her, very close,” Collins said, “guarding her. He was looking at her mouth, listening to the words she was repeating to us.”Police did not question Peterson’s neighbors or double check his receipts and phone records to verify his whereabouts. They also didn’t interview Savio’s family, sons, or her attorney in the often volatile divorce.Collins said it never occurred to him that the scene in the bathroom where Savio’s body was found might be staged – as authorities now allege.So far, 13 witnesses testified in the hearsay hearing. In earlier dramatic testimony, Drew Peterson’s stepbrother described how he believed he might have helped him dispose of Stacy’s body in a large blue barrel taken out of the couple’s home. The stepbrother, Thomas Morphey, said Peterson suggested but never directly admitted killing Stacy and the two never talked about what was in the barrel. Bychowski said Drew Peterson told her he last spoke with Stacy that Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, when she returned his call to say she had left him for another man and took $25,000, some new clothes, as well as the titles to their house and a car. “If she was going to leave, I would have known,” Bychowski said. The Will County hearing resumes Monday, with the defense’s cross examination of Bychowski. Judge White said he won’t rule until the hearing’s conclusion, likely another two weeks. www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=353261 |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 26, 2010 10:38:31 GMT -6
POSTED BY FACS ON JUSTICE CAFE: petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/drew-peterson-hearsay-hearings-day-4/#commentsJanuary 25, 2010 at 11:12 am | #4 Quote Hosey must have stepped outside for a moment… joehosey Gripping emotional testimony from Sharon Bychowski. She told of a forlorn Stacy Peterson predicting her own death at the hands of her hu … 8 minutes ago from txt joehosey Sharon said Stacy told her having sex with Drew made Stacy’s “skin crawl.” 7 minutes ago from txt joehosey Defense attorney George Lenard makes repeated references to Fatal Vows. 6 minutes ago from txt |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 26, 2010 10:39:00 GMT -6
January 25, 2010 at 11:38 am | #6 Quote Peterson’s neighbor: Stacy warned Drew would kill her January 25, 2010 BY DAN ROZEK AND JOE HOSEY Staff Reporters A week before she disappeared, Stacy Peterson told her next-door neighbor that her cop husband, Drew Peterson, is “going to kill me,” the neighbor testified this morning at a hearing in Joliet. “If I disappear, Sharon, it’s not an accident. He killed me,” Stacy Peterson told Sharon Bychowski in 2007, Bychowski testified this morning. Drew Peterson is facing charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. A Will County judge in Joliet is hearing testimony in advance of the trial to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed. Peterson has not been charged in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife. She has not been seen since late 2007. He has denied any involvement in her disappearance. Drew Peterson’s step-brother, Tom Morphey, testified before the same judge last week he helped the former Bolingbrook cop move a large, warm blue barrel from the Petersons’ Bolingbrook home. A week before that, Sharon Bychowski saw Stacy Peterson crying outside the home, Bychowski testified this morning. Bychowski approached, and Stacy Peterson told her she wanted Drew out. “She said Drew wouldn’t go. He wouldn’t leave,” Bychowski testified. “She didn’t love him anymore and having sex with him made her skin crawl.” Bychowski testified Stacy Peterson said: “I packed 10 boxes of his. I want him to go and he won’t go.” Bychowski said she then saw the boxes sitting in the Petersons garage. Stacy Peterson then told her: “If I disappear, Sharon, It’s not accident. He killed me,” Bychowski testified. Bychowski, who began crying during her testimony, said she told Stacy to begin writing down her concerns. But Stacy had a chilling response, Bychowski told the judge. Stacy replied:”It doesn’t matter. I’m already dead. He’s going to kill me,” After telling Judge Stephen White that, Bychowksi broke down and White called a recess. www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/2010008,drew-peterson-neighbor-stacy-hearing-012510.article www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/2010050,Peterson-neighbor-testifies_JO012510.article |
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 26, 2010 10:39:32 GMT -6
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State’s Attorney James Glasgow twice brings up Fatal Vows and confirmed the author, Joe Hosey, did not pay for an interview.
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Post by Lorie Taylor on Jan 26, 2010 10:44:19 GMT -6
Neighbor: Stacy Peterson sensed death She said husband was going to kill her, woman says in pretrial testimony www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35064297/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/updated 2:50 p.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 25, 2010 JOLIET, Ill. - The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would murder her, even telling a neighbor before her disappearance in 2007 that "'I'm already dead,'" according to testimony at a pretrial hearing on Monday. The neighbor sobbed uncontrollably at times as she spoke during a hearing meant to determine what, if any, "hearsay" evidence prosecutors can use during Peterson's upcoming trial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004. Sharon Bychowski told the court that she came upon Stacy Peterson, then 23, crying outside her suburban Chicago home one day. She explained how she had packed 10 boxes of Drew Peterson's clothes and asked her husband, 30 years her senior, to leave. But he'd refused. "She said, 'If I disappear, Sharon. It's not an accident. He killed me,'" a visibly shaken Bychowski testified. 'He's going to kill me' As Stacy Peterson described how she feared for her life, Bychowski advised her to put what she was saying in writing. Her response, Bychowski said, was to say — "'It doesn't matter. I'm already dead. He's going to kill me.'" At one point, the judge called a brief recess to allow Bychowski to regain her composure. Peterson has pleaded not guilty in Savio's 2004 death. Officials exhumed her body and ruled her death a homicide only after Stacy Peterson vanished three years later. He hasn't been charged in her disappearance, but authorities do say he's the only suspect. Bychowski testified that Stacy Peterson talked about her intention to divorce Peterson. "She didn't love him anymore," Bychowski said. She added that, for Stacy Peterson, "having sex with him made her skin crawl." Stacy Peterson told Bychowski she had mulled over whether to leave herself or insist Drew Peterson leave their Bolingbrook home. Stacy Peterson said she was certain she'd keep her own two children but hadn't decided whether to seek custody of her two stepsons, Bychowski said. |
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