Sister Of Cop's Missing Wife Suspicious

Stacy Peterson's Sister Thinks She's Dead; Previous Wife's Sister Also Had Misgivings

(CBS/AP)  The sister of the missing wife of a suburban Chicago police sergeant said she believes Stacy Peterson is dead.

"I'm just going to find her, bring her home and bring whoever did this to justice," said Peterson's younger sister, Cassandra Cales.

Peterson, 23, was reported missing Oct. 29. The mother of two is the fourth wife of Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, who has suggested she left him for another man.

Illinois State Police said the woman's disappearance is being investigated as a missing persons case and foul play is not suspected.

But Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, 40, was found dead in a bathtub in March 2004.

The death was ruled accidental by a coroner's jury, but the Will County State's Attorney's office has said it will re-examine the death in light of recent events.

"She told me she was afraid. She told me that he would kill her - it would look like an accident, but it wasn't," Savio's sister, Sue Doman, said on CBS News' The Early Show Monday. "'So make sure you take care of my kids. I'm afraid of him. I'm afraid of him,'" Doman quoted her sister as saying.

Doman told co-anchor Julie Chen she had misgivings about Drew Peterson when he was her brother-in-law.

"I could see that he always put on an act. He would be very nice and happy and always laugh, but we were always brought to the side (by Peterson), and he would always talk bad about my sister, how crazy she was," Doman said.

His disparagement of his third wife continued after her death, when Doman would visit her nephews.

"He asked me to come over and he would tell me about my sister, how bad she was, how crazy she was, and I asked him many a times, 'don't talk about her that way, I don't want to talk about her that way,'" Doman said.

Drew Peterson, 53, has claimed his wife suffered from "mood issues" since a sister died last year.

But Stacy Peterson's family has said she feared her husband, was making plans to divorce him and would not have willingly left her two small children.

"Never have, never will, never would of," said Cales.

"She told me Friday night she feared for her life," Cales said last week.

Texas EquuSearch, a organization that helps look for missing persons, said Monday it will help look for the 23-year-old Bolingbrook woman.

Volunteers searched forests near the couple's home over the weekend.

"I guess if it were my daughter, I'd want everybody in the world out there looking for her," Georgia Szkolny, of New Lennox, said Sunday. "I can't imagine what her family is going through."

On Friday, state police sent divers into a retention pond near the Peterson's home.

[klingon69]

What is with these cops?

[toolmangler-2009]

It isn''t the Cops, its some of the scumbags that get to be Cops. I know a lot of ''good'' Cops.

[dbstevens]

I think we need to withhold opinions till there''s more evidence. What if this guy DIDN''t do anything? What if this girl''s sister just doesn''t like him and she and the previous wife''s sister are just jumping on the "attention" bandwagon because of shallow personalities wanting to trash someone they didn''t like? Maybe he''s not that nice, but maybe he didn''t do anything, and Stacy really DID just leave him. If that is the case, then it''s really unfair and cruel to smear his reputation so deeply.

If he did do it, that fact will be discovered. But right now, there''s a chance that he''s innocent and hurting doubly from his wife leaving him and from an unfair smear campaign.

[kerry4ever]

To lose one wife could be an accident; to lose two is suspicious.

[sassalin]

brucestevens,
First, most of the time it is a relative that murdered the missing person.
Second, the husbands response to his wife missing is she left me for another man. Would you not want to know where or need to know where. I don''t hear much concern from this man.
Third, the sisters mostly likely would not lie. They want their sister found alive and well. All sisters are saying the same thing. Family members can tell when something is wrong.
Fourth, a cop would have the means necessary to kill and dispose of the body.

I hope he ddin''t kill the mother of his children but if he did I hope he feels just as much pain as her and the people that will suffer because she is gone from this world.

[rosevk]

How compassionate of you brucestevens to comment on his innocence, I made the same public comment for Scott Peterson and can never take it back.I''m sure Stacy would not just run away leaving her precious children behind as he is trying to brainwash us with like I should have believed Laci wouldn''t have done the same thing being 8 months pregant with her precious child, was I ever wrong & remorseful for giving Scott Peterson the benefit of the doubt, this poor excuse of a cop doesn''t deserve the benefit of the doubt especially because he''s insulted her & her family by "suggesting" she''s run off with another man and isn''t making any effort to help find the Mother of his children. It doesn''t take a rocket scientist to figure this one out-4 wives, 3rd & 4th want out of the marriage & are gone; 3rd & 4th wife express their fear of being killed by this man to their families; 30-year age difference between him & Stacy; he''s a police sergeant who believes he''s above the law because of his status & thinks he knows how to commit the perfect crime since he almost got away with murdering his 3rd wife (thank goodness their re-opening that investigation)how arrogant and selfish he is, he better be looking over his shoulder & keep one eye open when he''s asleep because sooner (I hope) or later he will get caught. Then his innocent victims can finally rest in peace while he rots in h___ where he deserves to be. My compassion is gone, Scott Peterson made sure of that!

[jennmarie620]

I''m interested in what this man''s first two wives have to say about him as a husband, father, and human being. I honestly have never met anyone married four times who didn''t have something about them that made them difficult to live with - or without getting involved with people who the same characteristics that they, themselves, find hard to handle. I agree that the death of one wife could very well have been accidental - but then the disappearance of the next wife? Something just sounds odd with that.

I hope this woman is found and her family can find justice in the case that something illegal did happen.

[bwessels]

This guy moves right along, doesn''t he? He buried his third wife 3.5 years ago, got married again, had two kids, and now his fourth wife is missing? Does he already have an affair going with wife #5?

If Stacy is not dead, it is because she escaped in time to save her own life. But I don''t hold out much hope. She would have taken the kids when she ran.

[bb19631]

I hope they find this poor lady, alive!! My opinion is mothers don''t leave their kids behind scared or not...

[pariah3]

Is it really any surprise that more and more law enforcement personnel are being revealed to be the same monsters law enforcement are supposed to lock away in a cage? There''s a reason why police officers are breaking the law. Our president, and other "leaders" of this nation break the law and are rewarded for it by their corporate masters.
When are people going to wake up and get involved with scrapping the existing corrupt system and replacing it with one that sticks to "for the people and by the people"

[korinsha]

The fact this guy is a cop has nothing to do with the fact he''s a monster. People are monsters, and yes, SOME of those people are attracted to being a cop because of the power. Just like pedophiles are attracted to professions where they can be around kids. Does that mean all teachers are pedophiles? Of COURSE not! That''s absurd! If this man is guilty, he''s guilty because he''s a jealous, controlling man. The fact he''s a cop has nothing to do with it.

[rosevk]

Korinsha, your defense on behalf of law enforcement is admirable and perhaps Drew Peterson''s initial intentions getting into law enforcement was to ''serve and protect'' however you have to admit he seems to be using his position of being in law enforcement as a cover up or shield to protect ''himself'' and not those who were duped by him as an ''officer of the law'', which in his case being a cop ''does'' have much to do with this case and it seems that of his 3rd wife. And I do agree this one bad seed does not reflect the overall goodness of our law enforcing officers who ''do'' serve and protect, but he isn''t a janitor or a store clerk, he is a Police Officer.

[ladyephesus1]

Wearing sunglasses to answer the door for the news crew is not very bright when your wife is missing. Hes as suspicious as a $3.00 bill.

There are good cops and some bad ones out there.

If wife number 3 was scared, then I say check it out.

I have a landlord that is a reserve cop and she has
harrassed me and told me that I dont know the law when she has changed information in my tenant files and everything. Problem is..nobody suspects a cop!!

Nuff said!

[republic1776]

Wife Number three!
Last wife dided in tub.
Maybe darwin was right...
I''d give the hairy eyeball to the cop.
The odds of loosing two wives.

[barbaraf4]

I know a lot of ''''good'''' Cops. Posted by ToolMangler

If there are any "good" cops out there, they are very young, new to the job and still idealistic. That changes as they are on the job a while. If they peer into the belly of the beast enough times, they change. Criminals, alcoholics, wife beaters - take your pick. These are not very nice people.