Videos, Interviews, Stuff Ric has said

[Lorie Taylor]

11/12/2007 (VIDEO) Hannah Storm With Rick Mims on the CBS "The Early Show"
HANNAH: Ric can you tell us something about this odd behavior, on Thursday [11/08/2007] night he was freaking out, knocking on a neighbor's window and running around with a urn of ashes, did he snap? - MIMS: "That's what they were telling me, I was in a hotel room and I got called at one o'clock in the morning from Tim Miller's room and they were explaining his behavior and asking me what I thought and that's not like the Drew that I know. He's not the monster that everyone is betraying on TV to be, the one that, the Drew that I know. He's a really nice guy, a good friend, would do anything for you, he's a family man from what I seen, I never seen what went on inside, you know, with Stacy and their private life but from what I knew of Drew he was a really nice guy, family man, this is un, this is not the Drew that I know."

[Lorie Taylor]

11/12/2007 (VIDEO) Hannah Storm With Rick Mims on the CBS "The Early Show"
HANNAH: When you see him walking around and covering his face with a bandana and sunglasses, what do you think? - MIMS: "I was just as shocked about that as everybody else was, he said he was just going to go outside and see what the media was doing and he threw the bandana on and walked out." - HANNAH: "Did he tell you specifically that he had nothing to do with the disappearance with his fourth wife Stacy? - MIMS: "No he never stated that to me, he just stated that she ran off with another guy, she found somebody she wanted to be with and called him and told him to pick up the car and she took a large amount of money and that's all he said to me about it."

[Lorie Taylor]

MIKE BROOKS: Ric. How long have you known Drew?
RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "Twenty-seven years. I was working at a local carry-out grocery store. I was stocking the cooler, and all the police officers used to come in there and buy their coffee. That`s when I met him the first time. And then a few years later, I was about 18 years old, and there was a sports bar in town. He was the hired police officer in uniform to work the door, and that`s when we became really good friends."

MIKE BROOKS: Drew is saying that she ran off with somebody. What do you think about that?
RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "I find that hard to believe. Well, at first, when Drew first told me that, and that was that Tuesday [10/30/2007] night, I was still kind of in shock about the whole thing. So the main thing was that I wanted to help take care of the kids, let him get his head together. But as details came out, like with his timeline not matching up with the cars being in the driveway, and then the car shows up over at Clow, which is, like, a five-minute walk from his house, and then the... Stacy supposedly called and told him that she found somebody else, she`s taking a vacation, If you want the car, it`s parked over at Clow."

MIKE BROOKS: Now, you -- initially, you were a big supporter of Drew.
RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "I was. And I still -- Drew`s still a friend. It`s just the facts aren`t adding up. And at one point, your common sense has got to take over. (INAUDIBLE) listen, you`re my friend, but I think you`re into some serious trouble and I`m just going to back away from you for a while."

[Lorie Taylor]

2007-11-30 www.newsweek.com
November 30, 2007

ALSO:
See Bychowski Files Sharon Bychowski told NEWSWEEK about Peterson kids hearing Drew and Stacy fighting and then stop fighting ILL "[Drew] Peterson told NEWSWEEK that police recently interviewed his 13- and 14-year-old sons by Savio for three hours. Peterson expects his sons' videotaped testimony will be submitted to a grand jury investigating Savio's death and Stacy's disappearance." "But Sharon Bychowski, next-door neighbor of the Petersons, believes the 13-year-old has information that will be helpful to the authorities. A close friend of Stacy's who often watched her kids, Bychowski said she talked to the boy after her disappearance. "I think he heard them fighting. And then he heard them stop fighting," she told NEWSWEEK. "I have no doubt that kid knows something."NOTE: Sharon is quoted in the Chicagao Tribune 12/13/07 "She {Sharon] said she never talked to Kris about his parents fighting and was offended by the article, which she said "left Kris out to dry."

[Lorie Taylor]

2007-12-03 CNN Nancy Grace
December 3, 2007 Mims says Peterson is pretty much a caveman type style ILL JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: OK, I can tell you what he told "People" magazine. Maybe you can elaborate on that. - MIMS: All right. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: He told "People" magazine that his dad was a Marine and that when he was a child, when his dad woke up in the morning, his mom would make his bed immediately, the family bed, and he expected all his wives to do the same thing and was disappointed that they didn`t. - MIMS: That`s a good -- that`s about it right there. That sums it up. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: So a chauvinist? - MIMS: Just that he was the man and she was the woman type deal, you know, pretty much a caveman-type style"
2007-12-03 CNN Nancy Grace
December 3, 2007 Mims thinks the trucker story is a red herring ILL JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: What is your take on this whole trucker story that we`ve been hearing? - RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW AND STACY PETERSON: I really don`t even want to comment on it. I think it`s a red herring. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: You think it is a red herring. Why do you say that? You go way back with Drew Peterson. Let me ask you this. What is your relationship like now? How did it devolve or evolve given all this stuff? - MIMS: It`s strained right now. I haven`t talked to Drew in quite some time now. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: Because you think he`s guilty? - MIMS: I`m letting the state police do their job."
2007-12-03 CNN Nancy Grace
December 3, 2007 Ric Mims:
"The whole community is upset right now. It`s a circus out there" ILL JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: Well, why wouldn`t you talk to him if you didn`t think he was guilty. - MIMS: I don`t have anything to say to him. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: Are you upset by everything that`s happened? This is a very insular community. Wife number three who died mysteriously in the bathtub lives about four blocks away from where Drew Peterson lives now. They in fact had had some run-ins. Stacy and Kathleen Savio. He was dating Stacy while he was still married to Kathleen. He`s a serial cheater, does that upset you what he has done to this community? - MIMS: The whole community is upset right now. It`s a circus out there, it is, it`s a circus between the media and just the things that`s going on out there. What Drew`s doing. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: So obviously you share the disgust of the community over what`s transpired? - MIMS: Yes."

[Lorie Taylor]

"Rick Mims, Peterson's long-time friend, told a grand jury last week that he and Peterson bought three such containers for about $100 from AmeriCable, where they both worked part-time in 2003, according to a source close to the investigation. Peterson put two of the containers on a shelf in his garage, but after Stacy vanished, so did the containers, Mims testified. A state prosecutor and the grand jurors themselves questioned Mims for approximately 10 minutes about the containers, the source said, asking in particular about the items' handles. Mims turned over photographs of the containers, and ABC News obtained copies of those photos. The new pictures have reportedly prompted state investigators, local police and volunteer searchers to shift their attention from what was originally thought to be a blue barrel to a square blue container."

[Lorie Taylor]

"Mims, the one-time friend of embattled former cop Drew Peterson, made his second appearance before the special grand jury and said he is slated to come back for yet another at the end of next month. "They asked about the week I was there," said Mims, who holed up with Peterson immediately after the retired police sergeant's wife went missing Oct. 28. Mims then turned on Peterson and sold a story suggesting he suspects his old friend was behind the young wife's disappearance. Mims says he and Peterson have not spoken since. "I'm trying to distance myself from that whole area there," said Mims, who was accompanied to the court appearance by his son." Following his appearance, Mims said he stood by the recent Enquirer story, saying, "Everything in the Enquirer is true."

[Lorie Taylor]

"Meanwhile, a friend of Drew Peterson's was released Wednesday [01/16/2008] from the Will County Adult Detention Facility after posting 10 percent of a $50,000 bail after he was accused of beating his ex-girlfriend and her friend, then allegedly threatening a witness. Michael J. Robinson, 34, of Bolingbrook was charged with felony intimidation, misdemeanor battery and domestic battery, according to police and court documents.""His [Michael Robinson] friendship with [Drew] Peterson came to light after Ric Mims, a one-time friend of the former sergeant, told the National Enquirer that Robinson provided Peterson with a cell phone after police seized his old one as part of a search warrant. Mims said Peterson and Robinson behaved suspiciously, communicating in handwritten notes. Peterson said the only note passed contained his cell phone number. Peterson could not be reached for comment Wednesday but said last week he has known Robinson for nearly two decades. "He was just a kid on the street that I befriended, tried to keep him out of trouble," Peterson said."

[Lorie Taylor]

01/24/2008 (www.chicagotribune.com) New Stacy Peterson sighting called false
"Grand jury scheduled to meet for at least 4 more months, prosecutor says"
"Today [01/24/2008 Will Co Grand Jury] we talked about mostly some stuff that went on with the Savio case, some surveillance things I did with Drew on her," [Ric] Mims said, shivering outside the Joliet building. "We followed her a few times. He'd have me watch her a few times at work while he did whatever it is he needed to do. "I was helping him. I thought he was going through a divorce, and just needed somebody to help him." - "He said that he and Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, would communicate by two-way radios, and that Peterson suspected Savio was having an affair. The surveillance took place in late 2003 or early 2004, Mims said, which would have been after Peterson was already married to Stacy but before his divorce settlement with Savio was finalized.""When asked if he felt bad about his participation, Mims said his biggest regret was the day he met Peterson. "I was not participating in [any] harassment. I never participate in any harassment," Mims said. "At the time, I was just helping a friend. . .with this, what I thought was going through a divorce. I thought he was just trying to find dirt on her for a divorce. I regret the day I met Drew Peterson now, to tell you the truth."

[Lorie Taylor]

1/28/2008 (www.mandjshow.com) - The moring show with Mike and Juliet
"Long-time Friend of Drew Peterson Speaks Out" (Ric Mims Interview)
JULIET: What would he do? What were some of the things that he did? - MIMS: With Stacy he had gotten her a cell phone with GPS tracking so he could track her movements on it. With Kathleen he had tapped the phones in her house. - MIKE: His third wife? - MIMS: Yes, his third wife. - JULIET: Who is dead, by the way, found in a bathtub. - MIMS: Correct. And we did some surveillance on her. I helped with some surveillance on her. - JULIET: You helped do some surveillance with Drew? - MIKE: What do you mean—you just followed her around? - MIMS: Yeah, when he was going through is divorce, it was right before the property settlement, the end of ’03, beginning of ’04. And he was worried that she was staying at her boyfriend’s house with the children. And he wanted to make sure, this is the story he told me, that she was leaving from her house in the morning to go to work.- MIKE: What is this thing that you would surveil her though? - MIMS: We monitored every move she made in the morning when she would go to work. - MIKE: You had communication with each other? - MIMS: We had a two-way radio. - JULIET: You felt like, I mean, why were you doing that? You felt like he was being wronged? - MIMS: Yes, I mean, it was a bitter divorce he was going through, he was a friend, and I was helping him gather evidence to help lower his alimony. - MIKE: What did you ever catch her doing? - MIMS: Nothing!

[Lorie Taylor]

01/28/2008 (www.mandjshow.com) - The moring show with Mike and Juliet
"Long-time Friend of Drew Peterson Speaks Out" (Ric Mims Interview)
RIC MIMS: The week that I spent at his house right after Stacy disappeared, his strange behavior, writing a check for a quarter of a million dollars to his son [Steve Peterson] to get out of an equity line, $10,000 out of his personal account, a lot of cash that was handed over to his son, a lot of strange things happened. One night he dressed all in black and he had something under his shirt—and disappeared out the back door and came back about thirty minutes later.RIC MIMS: I had been meeting with the State Police and they had been giving me timelines and also Mark Fuhrman had been giving me timelines. I had had a meeting with them on a Saturday morning and I went straight to the house and I asked Drew, I said, “You’re gonna have to be honest with me about a few things if I’m gonna stand by you on this. I’ve got to know.” And his basic response was everybody’s was lying but him.JULIET: Does it make you nervous that you were there for so many strange things—you guys would go into the closets to talk because he thought maybe the walls were bugged. Does it worry you that you know so much about him that you’re going to be a target? - MIMS: That is a concern, but in Bolingbrook, living in Bolingbrook, I feel very safe there with the Chief of Police there and the police department we have there.

[Lorie Taylor]

01/28/2008 (www.mandjshow.com) - The moring show with Mike and Juliet
"Long-time Friend of Drew Peterson Speaks Out" (Ric Mims Interview)
RIC MIMS: The only thing I found out so far, that he has told me personally, is that he drove down to the airport [Cushing Field] where he kept his ultra light plane to put his FAA stickers on, which aren’t due till the first of the year and we’re talking he went down on the day she went missing. - MIKE: What do you think happened? - MIMS: I believe he buried her somewhere down near the airport.MIKE: Do you think he buried her in that blue tub that everyone talks about? - RIC MIMS: Yes. - MIKE: You do. - RIC MIMS: Yes, I do, because the blue tub was brought up a bunch of times. And then when his, Thomas Morphey mentioned the tub with the silver handles. - MIKE: He helped him move it. - RIC MIMS: We used these big, blue tubs with the silver handles when we worked at the cable company to carry converter boxes in. And then the day I heard them say silver handles on the blue box, I knew immediately which box it was. I immediately grabbed pictures of the boxes I had that were similar.

[Lorie Taylor]

01/28/2008 (www.mandjshow.com) - The moring show with Mike and Juliet
"Long-time Friend of Drew Peterson Speaks Out" (Ric Mims Interview)
RIC MIMS: Ric: Uh, no. There is another person involved that came over and brought him a cell phone. JULIET: Who is this person? RIC MIMS: His name is Mike Robinson. And he brought him a cell phone the night that they raided the house. Because they took all our cell phones, they gave me mine back, and . . . MIKE: Do you think he knows what happened? RIC MIMS: I don’t know, but they were writing notes back and forth and shredding them and I wasn’t privy to what was on those.RIC MIMS: There have been a lot of questions about my friendship with Drew for twenty-seven years. I started a blog—it’s www.ricmims.com (this address is actually wrong—should be http://www.richardmims.com). People can go to it and catch up on how I met Drew and throughout the twenty-seven years.

[Lorie Taylor]

02/01/2008 (www.richardmims.com) - Blog titled,"On The Record” TONIGHT !!
Ed, January 30th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Ric, "Can you tell us the name of the cable company that Drew and you work for? Also, on the night that Drew found Kathleen Savio, do you know who the locksmith was that Drew called." . . .Ameriacable contracting company for Comcast, no longer in business. Ric

[Lorie Taylor]

Greta's "On The Record" Guest: Ric Mims
RIC MIMS: I have a blog and I'm putting up my story of my friendship with DP and the timeline after SP went missing. It can be found at www.richardmims.com We've had about 6,000 hits per day. I have a site administrator that helps me, but the writing and responding is mine. - GRETA: DId DP have any known access to her [Kathleen Savio] house at the time when she died? - RIC MIMS: I know that I watched her at work to be sure she did not leave while he went to her house to retrieve a few things. Don't know if was to retrieve something inside or outside. That would have been in late December 2003 or very early January 2004. He does know how to use a locksmith kit. Years ago we had that conversation. He has a little black case full of little picks--they look like dental tools. He showed me it when he was showing me his gun collection. He told me he was trained to use it. I've been before the GJ three times and I'm going back one more time that I know about. I've talked to SA about many things, such as whether DP did any parking ticket fixing and if the blue Dodge truck would fit into a garage with the camper top on it. (?) .

[Lorie Taylor]

008-02-01 www.richardmims.com
February 1, 2008

This posting, when reported got Rick into tons of trouble! Posting on Ric Mims website from somebody named Stacy ILL 02/01/2008 (www.richardmims.com) - Blog titled,"My Complete Drew Peterson story!"
Stacy February 1st, 2008 at 2:16 am
"I’m sorry to my children, I’m sorry to my family and I am sorry to my husband for putting you all through this. Know that I am in a safe place and am happy with my new life. I Love You" . . .If this is you call your sister please, love ya Ric
2008-02-01 www.richardmims.com
February 1, 2008

Ric thinks Peterson sold his motorcycle Posting response by Ric Mims regarding motorcycle ILL 02/01/2008 (www.richardmims.com) - Blog titled,"My Complete Drew Peterson story!"
Marsha in Calif, February 1st, 2008 at 7:41 am
"Hi Ric, This might have been asked on this blog before but where do you think Drew put his motorcycle and why would he hide it?." . . .No, I think he may have sold it. Ric



by Greta Van Susteren February 1st, 2008 8:00 PM Eastern
EAVESDROP on Ric Mims IS HE GOING TO JAIL…TONIGHT???
RIC MIMS: Yes I identified myself as Richard Mims, give them my phone number twice, told them about the whole thing about Pat Collins told me to call and leave a message, I left the message regarding the at 2:14am I received this e-mail, I mean this blog, approved it, a, and she says she's Stacy, I don't know that for a fact if it is or isn't but I thought I needed to report it.
GRETA: Do you have any idea who sent this posting?
MIMS: No, I have not a clue. It came from an e-mail address, "Rainbow8" at Yahoo.
GRETA: And you turned all that over to the police?
MIMS: Yes and the IP address. Which is XX.XX.XX.XX That's the IP.
GRETA: I take it you have no idea who it is?
MIMS: No, I don't have a clue. I don't have a clue to any of these people are, they're all anonymity and I don't, I approve all messages, I mean whether, I mean unless it's really bad, you know things people are putting on there I won't approve the really bad ones. But, I approve 90% of the messages because I want to be fair, you know to people who, there's people whose writing on there writing for him, writing against him, I don't want to be impartial, I figure let everybody speak their mind on here, you know, that's what the blog was for.

[Lorie Taylor]

Greta Van Sustern "On the Record" Update (02/28/2008) RECAP by "Snicker":
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: We have DP's former friend Ric Mims with us. When LE seized DP's belongings did they seize all his guns? - RIC MIMS: No they didn't. The night after they did the first search warrant DP pulled a folding gun out of his pocket and said "they didn't get this one." (Greta showed a photo of a folding gun.) There were also his old badges and IDs that he also hid. - GRETA: Why do you think he showed this to you? - MIMS: He was just trying to show me that they didn't get those things and he's still in control. - GRETA: DP had the right to own guns up until the past day or so. So he was not in violations of anything to have that gun and didn't have anything to be concerned about. - MIMS: Now he does. Now that he doesn't have a permit to carry a gun, it's up to the police to handle that. GRETA: Have you spoken to DP lately? - MIMS: I ran into him in a clothing store, but I didn't speak to him. I was shopping with my daughter and he was in the men's section of a clothing store. When I went to the register, he got in line behind me. We didn't speak. Then the register closed down and I had to move to another one, but we still didn't speak.

[Lorie Taylor]

Greta Van Sustern "On the Record" Update (02/28/2008) RECAP by "Snicker":
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: We have JB on the phone. - JOEL BRODSKY: We just pulled in on the plane. DP is going to obtain an attorney for the boys and the hearing will be postponed. When the boy first spoke with a child advocate, DP was promised that the boys would not have to testify before the GJ, so he's very disappointed that they will have to. - GRETA: We just had Ric Mims on and he stated that DP showed him a folding gun he had after the rest of his guns were seized. Does he have any guns? - BRODSKY: No, LE took all of his guns. - GRETA: I'm sure you are aware that his FOID card has been revoked. - BRODSKY: We don't know why yet. This is just a pretext by LE to further vex DP because this happened within 24 hours of the hearing and it doesn't usually happen that quickly. - GRETA: Do you know anything about the folding gun? - BRODSKY: No I don't. Ric Mim's credibility is questionable anyway. - GRETA: Do you know where Thomas Morphey is? - BRODSKY: No, Thomas Morphey has not been heard from for months. No one that we know of has heard from RM, even the family doesn't know where he is. We know of no reason he would be in protective custody. If he was in protective custody, we would certainly know about it. Apparently he just slipped off and disappeared.

[Lorie Taylor]

11/12/2007 (VIDEO) Hannah Storm With Rick Mims on the CBS "The Early Show"
HANNAH: Ric can you tell us something about this odd behavior, on Thursday [11/08/2007] night he was freaking out, knocking on a neighbor's window and running around with a urn of ashes, did he snap? - MIMS: "That's what they were telling me, I was in a hotel room and I got called at one o'clock in the morning from Tim Miller's room and they were explaining his behavior and asking me what I thought and that's not like the Drew that I know. He's not the monster that everyone is betraying on TV to be, the one that, the Drew that I know. He's a really nice guy, a good friend, would do anything for you, he's a family man from what I seen, I never seen what went on inside, you know, with Stacy and their private life but from what I knew of Drew he was a really nice guy, family man, this is un, this is not the Drew that I know."