JOLIET, Ill., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- An official in Will County, Ill., says the new year should bring about new evidence in the cases of former police officer Drew Peterson's last two wives.
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said the potential new information could possibly aid police in their investigation of Stacy Peterson's 2007 disappearance and the death of Kathleen Savio in 2004, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday.
"I'm very positive. I'm very encouraged by the work the police have done,'' Glasgow said Tuesday. "We are not at a dead end by any stretch of the imagination.''
Glasgow confirmed the grand jury investigating both cases during the last 14 months will meet in January.
The attorney's comments come months after Glasgow predicted in October that a resolution to one of the cases was likely to come about in the near future, the Sun-Times said.
The newspaper said Drew Peterson, a former police officer in Bolingbrook, Ill., has been a person of interest in the cases of Savio and Stacy Peterson, his third and fourth wives respectively.
The new year should bring new information that will help investigators determine what happened to at least one of Drew Peterson's wives, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said Tuesday.
Though Glasgow made a similar, still-unfulfilled prediction two months ago, he remains upbeat that authorities will solve the 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson and the 2004 drowning death of Kathleen Savio.
"I'm very positive. I'm very encouraged by the work the police have done,'' said Glasgow, speaking about the cases for the first time in several months. "We are not at a dead end by any stretch of the imagination.''
A grand jury that for 14 months has been probing Stacy Peterson's disappearance and Savio's death will resume hearing evidence next month, Glasgow confirmed.
"It'll be meeting next year,'' Glasgow said of the grand jury, which also has heard evidence in the April 2007 still-unsolved disappearance of Plainfield mom Lisa Stebic.
In October -- near the one-year anniversary of Stacy Peterson's disappearance -- Glasgow said he expected a resolution to at least one of the cases in the "near future.'' He wouldn't clarify that timetable Tuesday.
Drew Peterson -- who has been named a suspect in Stacy's disappearance -- isn't worried about the lengthy investigation because he's done nothing wrong, his attorney said.
Glasgow made his remarks during a taping of the WBBM 780 news program 'At Issue.' to be broadcast Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
Love is in the air this holiday season, although it might not be where you expect it.
Drew Peterson's lawyer recently confirmed that Peterson is engaged to a local 24-year-old woman. For those of you who haven't kept abreast of the Peterson media blitz, the 54-year-old former Bolingbrook police sergeant is being investigated in the 2004 homicide of his third wife, Kathleen, and he is still married to his missing wife, Stacy.
You might think that the suspicious death of one wife and another missing one would cause most women to run for the hills, but Peterson actually is quite the draw around town. Women swarm around him at local bars, so-called Drew groupies abound, and now he is engaged to a young, pretty woman.
What is the attraction?
There are a couple of reasons why women flock to purported bad boys like Peterson. Often, these women have an early history of conflict or trauma with the primary male figure in their life. In some women, this might be a history of an abusive relationship with their father, or perhaps an emotionally charged relationship with their stepfather.
If there is conflict with the primary male figure in a young woman's childhood, no matter whom that might be, this could present later in life an attraction to bad boys or an attraction to unhealthy relationships. This pattern also could be set in place when girls witness an abusive or an unhealthy relationship between their father and mother, or between their mother and the men she dates. Witnessing abusive or controlling relationships such as these can cause women to associate love with abuse or sexuality with control and dominance.
Another reason that women are attracted to bad boys is because of the power they wield. Women think that if they are attached to a powerful, dominant man, they will become powerful as well. Of course, the opposite is true, and these women often find themselves trapped in abusive relationships in which all of their power and autonomy is removed.
In cases such as Drew Peterson, the display of power becomes even more intoxicating, because his fame makes him appear larger than life. Whether innocent or guilty, Peterson has become a local celebrity. Regardless of whether this recognition is fame or infamy, women are attracted to the glow of fame. He might not be Brad Pitt, but he still gets his name in the paper on a regular basis, and that alone is attraction enough in our celebrity-obsessed culture.
The lure of bad boys is nothing new. From serial killers to convicted wife killers such as Scott Peterson, the most heinous criminals in our society are never short on fascinated groupies. Women who seek out bad boys will inevitably find them ... and, unfortunately, they often find a sad end as well.
To prevent these unsafe relationship patterns, parents have to help children develop confidence and secure relationships. Young women need to learn healthy relationship patterns and develop a strong sense of self-worth if they are to establish adult relationships with the right boy, instead of the bad one.
Love is in the air this holiday season, although it might not be where you expect it.
Drew Peterson's lawyer recently confirmed that Peterson is engaged to a local 24-year-old woman. For those of you who haven't kept abreast of the Peterson media blitz, the 54-year-old former Bolingbrook police sergeant is being investigated in the 2004 homicide of his third wife, Kathleen, and he is still married to his missing wife, Stacy.
You might think that the suspicious death of one wife and another missing one would cause most women to run for the hills, but Peterson actually is quite the draw around town. Women swarm around him at local bars, so-called Drew groupies abound, and now he is engaged to a young, pretty woman.
What is the attraction?
There are a couple of reasons why women flock to purported bad boys like Peterson. Often, these women have an early history of conflict or trauma with the primary male figure in their life. In some women, this might be a history of an abusive relationship with their father, or perhaps an emotionally charged relationship with their stepfather.
If there is conflict with the primary male figure in a young woman's childhood, no matter whom that might be, this could present later in life an attraction to bad boys or an attraction to unhealthy relationships. This pattern also could be set in place when girls witness an abusive or an unhealthy relationship between their father and mother, or between their mother and the men she dates. Witnessing abusive or controlling relationships such as these can cause women to associate love with abuse or sexuality with control and dominance.
Another reason that women are attracted to bad boys is because of the power they wield. Women think that if they are attached to a powerful, dominant man, they will become powerful as well. Of course, the opposite is true, and these women often find themselves trapped in abusive relationships in which all of their power and autonomy is removed.
In cases such as Drew Peterson, the display of power becomes even more intoxicating, because his fame makes him appear larger than life. Whether innocent or guilty, Peterson has become a local celebrity. Regardless of whether this recognition is fame or infamy, women are attracted to the glow of fame. He might not be Brad Pitt, but he still gets his name in the paper on a regular basis, and that alone is attraction enough in our celebrity-obsessed culture.
The lure of bad boys is nothing new. From serial killers to convicted wife killers such as Scott Peterson, the most heinous criminals in our society are never short on fascinated groupies. Women who seek out bad boys will inevitably find them ... and, unfortunately, they often find a sad end as well.
To prevent these unsafe relationship patterns, parents have to help children develop confidence and secure relationships. Young women need to learn healthy relationship patterns and develop a strong sense of self-worth if they are to establish adult relationships with the right boy, instead of the bad one.
GAG!! Whether he's engaged or not, Drew Peterson seems to be out and about, celebrating the holiday season.
Peterson spent Saturday night at the suburban hot spot, Stardust, with several unidentified ladies.
The club's owner, Reggie Benjamin, took several photos of Peterson getting cozy with the young women, and said Peterson was treated like a celeb.
A video also surfaced over the weekend showing Peterson with a woman he told the photographer was his fiance. But the Chicago Tribune reported the woman said "No, It's not. I'm sorry."
The woman in the photos and video does not appear to be Christina Raines, the 23-year-old Romeoville waitress Peterson has said is his fiance.
Raines' family -- and her live-in boyfriend -- have repeatedly denied that she is engaged to Peterson.
"She never said, 'Yes, I will marry you,'" Raines' boyfriend, Mike, who declined to give his full name, told the Chicago Tribune. 'He's [mad] at her and he's trying to get back at her by dragging her name through the mud."
He told the Tribune that Christina hasn't seen or spoken to Peterson in more than a week.
A publicist for Peterson first confirmed that Peterson was engaged last Wednesday. So far, no one has come forward to say publically she is his fiance.
The announcement marks at least the sixth time Peterson has gotten engaged, and according to a divorce attorney, there's no legal issue with him getting engaged.
If his current wife, Stacy Peterson, who has been missing since October 2007, doesn't respond within 30 days of him filling for dissolution, their marriage is legally over.
The former Bolingbrook police officer remains a suspect in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He has also been implicated in Peterson's disappearance, which is still under investigation.
The Southtown newspaper has compiled a roster of Peterson's romances, listing other women who may have fallen under Drew's spell.
The skull and bones found last week in a wooded lot outside Orlando, Fla., were identified as Caylee Anthony's on Friday, and Orange County officials declared the little girl was the victim of a homicide.
How the 2-year-old girl was killed remains a mystery. Orange County medical examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia reported that the skeletal remains were Caylee's, but the only clue to her death was that her bones didn't suffer trauma.
"They are not intact. They are all disarticulated. They are completely skeletonized," Dr. Garavaglia said. She said some of the bones were "tiny."
Caylee was two months shy of her third birthday when she vanished in June.
Garavaglia said Caylee's remains, which were found not far from the home where she lived with her mother and maternal grandparents, were identified through nuclear DNA analysis.
The news caps a five-month search for the girl, who was last seen in mid-June but wasn't reported missing by her mother until a month later. The mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, is behind bars without bond and charged with her daughter's murder.
The child's next of kin, including her mother; grandparents George and Cindy Anthony; and other relatives were notified of the findings before they were made public, according to Garavaglia.
"The bottom line is, no child should have to go through this," said Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary, his voice breaking. He called it a police chief's "nightmare case."
The case has garnered intense national attention and media scrutiny. Federal authorities have assisted in the investigation.
As to the question of whether someone might have taken Caylee out of the Orlando area where she lived, the FBI said there wasn't any indication that was the case.
"At no time did we find any evidence that this young child left this location," said Tampa FBI Special Agent Steven Ibison.
Casey Anthony's lead attorney Jose Baez said he is "disappointed" with the way the investigation has been handled.
"It’s not a professional way of doing things. I’m extremely disappointed in the way that all this has been carried out," Baez told reporters.
He declined to comment on how his client reacted to the news that her daughter was found dead.
"This is her private moment. This is her life," he said. "It’s not my place as her attorney to disclose her private moments to the public. I’m sure that’s what she would want."
Cindy and George Anthony were "grieving deeply" in private, their attorney Brad Conway said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
"This is a tragic moment in the lives of good and honorable people," Conway said.
Ahead of the announcement, Florida police released evidence photos from the scene where the remains were found. One showed a book discovered in the woods that the child had been photographed reading before she vanished.
The pictures were among several cops publicized before the afternoon news briefing.
The book is among numerous pieces of evidence Orange County Sheriff's deputies say they found in the wooded area where Caylee's remains turned up.
Also Friday, police re-interviewed a county water meter reader who earlier this month discovered a bag with the child's skull and bones inside.
Detectives said the worker is not a suspect in her death.
The worker who found the bones on Dec. 11 had called in a tip to police on three consecutive days in August, telling them to look in the same area for the remains.
"Back in August of this year, I had previously reported … that I had spotted something suspicious, a bag, in the same area," said the meter reader, Roy Kronk, reading from a prepared statement Friday.
He wouldn't elaborate.
"I will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation," Kronk told reporters. "I respectively decline to get into the details of what I saw at the crime scene."
His attorney, David Evans, called Kronk a "concerned citizen" and lambasted media speculation that suggested otherwise.
"He has no connection whatsoever to this case or to the Anthony family," Evans said.
Orange County Sheriff's officials say they believe he was in the area on Dec. 11 following up on his own lead when he discovered the bones and skull.
Capt. Angelo Nieves said police questioned the worker again, as well as the sheriff's deputy who took the original call. They want to know more about what prompted him to contact authorities and how they handled the tips.
The meter reader first called on Aug. 11 to report a bag by the side of the road, MyFOXOrlando.com reported. A deputy wasn't able to locate Kronk.
On Aug. 12, the meter reader called a crime hotline. The information was passed on to the Orange County Sheriff's criminal investigation division.
And on Aug. 13, the utility worker called cops a third time, MyFOXOrlando.com reported. He met with police, and a deputy went into the wooded area to investigate the Kronk's claims, but didn't find anything, the station said. The scene was then cleared as a possible place of interest in the case.
There is now an internal probe under way within the police department into how the matter was handled.
"There are a lot of questions about the thoroughness of that response," Nieves told MyFOXOrlando.com.
Investigators were at the wooded crime scene all week in an exhaustive dig for evidence. They said late Thursday they found additional bones that also appear to be from a child.
Caylee vanished on or around June 16, less than two months before her third birthday. Her family reported her missing in mid-July. Her mother has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and other charges.
A spokesman for Baez accused police of lying to the press and suggested they could be tampering with evidence at the site.
"Some of their comments are blatant lies," Todd Black told FOXNews.com. "History has shown that in some cases authorities have been caught tampering with evidence. That is something we hope is not happening. We're not accusing anyone of anything."
Anthony and her defense team have maintained that she last saw Caylee when she left her with a baby sitter named Zenaida Gonzalez in an apartment complex parking lot. Anthony's lawyers say Gonzalez and another woman drove away with the child.
Police claim that story and the sitter are fictitious and Anthony has lied to them repeatedly.
Black suggested last weekend that the defense would argue Caylee was killed by her purported kidnapper if the remains were identified as hers.
MARIANNA, Florida (CNN) -- Four men, now in their 60s, met over the Internet, shared stories about the darkest days of their pasts and spurred an investigation into 32 graves at a reform school.
Roger Kiser, Michael McCarthy, Bryant Middleton and Dick Colon talked about whippings and beatings and other boys who disappeared.
They discussed the 32 crosses marking the graves of persons unknown on the grounds of the former Florida Industrial School for Boys.
They called their group the White House Boys, taking the name from the single story concrete building where, they say, boys were beaten and tortured decades ago.
The White House Boys believe that delinquents and orphans sent to the concrete White House were killed and their remains buried to cover up the brutality.
This week, the four called on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to investigate. Crist agreed and asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to search for remains, identify them and determine whether any crimes were committed.
The department agreed to look into the mystery of the 32 crosses on the grounds of what is now known as the Dozier School, in Marianna, just south of the Alabama state line.
Two of the White House Boys, Middleton and Colon, spoke with CNN. The stories they told were chilling.
Middleton said he was "an incorrigible youth of 14 or 15" when he was sent to the reform school for breaking and entering. During a 30-minute phone interview, he recounted story after horrific story about his time there.
Middleton said he took six trips to the concrete White House, where he endured brutal beatings. He says boys were regularly struck with a metal-reinforced double strap with a long wooden handle.
"You could hear it coming through the air, and when it hit your body, the pain was unbelievable," he recalled. "They just beat you to the point of unconsciousness, or you could no longer understand what was happening to you."
He recalled another occasion in which he and another boy decided to get drunk. They mixed orange juice with rubbing alcohol. It make Middleton sick and his friend intoxicated.
A guard confronted the other boy and began to treat him roughly, Middleton said.
"He dragged him to the administration building, and I never saw him again. He never came back to work or to the cottage," Middleton said. "He literally disappeared off the face of the Earth."
Colon is an electrical contractor in Baltimore, Maryland. But in the 1950s, he acknowledged, he was a wayward youth who gritted his teeth through 11 beatings inside the White House.
Colon said he remembers entering the laundry one day, and his life has never been the same.
Inside a large tumble dryer was a black teen.
The White House boys, who are all white, said black kids at the school were beaten even more savagely than white kids.
"I said to myself, 'What's going to happen to me if I take him out?' " Colon said.
He recalled being about 15 feet away from the boy in the dryer. He thought about helping him but was afraid.
"I said to myself, 'I can't do it, 'cause I'm gonna be the next one in the God------ dryer if I take him out,' " he said.
"I turned my back and walked out, and it torments me every day of my life."
So far, all authorities have are allegations and the collective memories of the White House Boys. But they say it's worth looking into the case.
"Questions remain unanswered as to the identity of the deceased and the origin of these graves," Crist wrote in his letter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
"The main goal is to determine the location of the graves, who owned the property at the time, and determine if any crimes were committed," agency spokeswoman Kristin Perezluha said.
Authorities are only now beginning their investigation, so no one can say for certain who, if anyone, is buried under the 32 white metal crosses.
Middleton learned about the investigation from a CNN producer.
"My God! That's remarkable. My God! That's all I ever wanted," he said. "That will begin a lot of the healing for those that survived that school.
"Some of us will never get over the brutality, the sexual assaults and the fear. But this is a major step in the right direction," he added.
Colon has established an educational trust fund at the same campus, the Dozier School for high academic achievers, today operated by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
At least one former student says the school was strict but fair.
"They were justified in giving me these paddlings, because, hey, I was wrong," Phil Hail of Anniston, Alabama, told The Miami Herald.
Hail told the Herald he remembers going to the white building once for getting low grades in 1957. "Was [the school] run with a very strict hand? Yes, it was ... Were the paddlings very severe? Yes, they were," he told the newspaper.
There are lingering questions no one seems able to answer: Why was there no outcry from the parents of boys who disappeared? Why did no one look for them?
Colon and Middleton say they're valid questions. They firmly believe that bodies will be found and that they will be the bodies of both black and white boys.
"I believe, in my own heart, that there has been a coverup," Middleton said.
Added Colon, "White, African-American, they're all there ... I believe they will find crushed skulls, and broken bones -- and hopefully, one day, the murderers."
CINCINNATI -- A young girl who lost her battle against cancer is continuing to inspire people well after her death thanks to the letters she left behind.
Six-year-old Elena Desserich’s life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Her family said that at the beginning, they were told to expect that Elena would only have about 135 days to live.
During her final days, the girl began writing letters to her family and hid them all over their home.
“She would tuck them into bookcases, tuck them into dishes, china you don't touch every year and you'd lift it up and there'd be a note in it,” Keith Desserich, Elena’s father, said.
Her father also wrote during their last few months. He kept an online journal of their battle that soon came to have a following.
"Before we knew it, we had 12,000 people a day who were reading this,” Desserich said.
Now he’s turned the collection of memories into a book titled “Notes Left Behind, 135 Days with Elena.”
The Desserich’s said that Elena left behind hundreds of notes all over the house.
The family is hoping to pass on their daughter’s strength and courage.
“They [readers] should take the time to listen and not get caught up in the days rush,” Desserich said. “To this day, I'll never forget that lesson. Wish I would've learned it earlier.”
The book will go on sale this weekend. The Desserich’s will be signing books at the Kenwood Barnes and Noble store starting at 2 p.m.
Former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson scored a victory Thursday after a Will County judge dismissed felony gun charges against him that had stemmed from the investigation into his missing wife, Stacy.
"It's a big relief, of course," Peterson told reporters afterward. "You know, there's potential to put me away in prison for this, and I didn't want to go. So it's a very happy day."
Circuit Judge Richard Schoenstedt dismissed two unlawful use of a weapon charges against Peterson after the state's attorney's office refused to give Peterson's legal team internal police memos, e-mails and other correspondence relating to his arrest in May.
Peterson, 54, was charged with allegedly possessing a modified assault rifle with a barrel of less than 16 inches, a violation of state law. Authorities had seized the rifle and other weapons after search warrants had been executed relating to the Oct. 28, 2007, disappearance of Stacy Peterson, who was 23 at the time.
Peterson is a suspect in the case, which police have labeled a "potential homicide."
Earlier Thursday, Schoenstedt granted a motion by Peterson's legal team to pursue a "vindictive prosecution" defense at trial and had ordered the state's attorney's office, at the request of Peterson's attorneys, to give the defense a "narrow and limited" copy of their documentation leading up to the charges against Peterson.
But Assistant State's Atty. John Connor strongly urged the judge to reconsider, arguing that the charges were not brought because of a personal vendetta against Peterson.
"It has nothing to do with personal animosity," Connor said. "It has to do with illegal weapons."
He warned that if the state's attorney's office were to comply, it would prompt defense attorneys across the state to "flood" prosecution offices with similar discovery motions.
Peterson's attorneys questioned the timing of the developments in the state's case. In February, Schoenstedt had ruled that police should return Peterson's firearms to him granted that he had a valid firearm owner's identification card.
Hours later, police revoked Peterson's FOID card.
In May, authorities arrested Peterson the day before he was to learn whether the guns could instead be given to his son Stephen, an Oak Brook police officer.
"Obviously we're very pleased," said Joel Brodsky, one of Peterson's attorneys.
The state's attorney's office will appeal, said spokesman Charles Pelkie.
His fourth wife vanished more than a year ago -- and now ex-Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson is considering making the separation official.
Peterson last week consulted with a high-profile Chicago attorney about possibly divorcing his missing 23-year-old wife, Stacy.
During the Nov. 11 meeting with family law attorney Jeffery Leving, Peterson discussed his legal options following Stacy's Oct. 28, 2007, disappearance, said Peterson's criminal defense attorney Joel Brodsky.
"All he's done is consult with him," Brodsky said. "Nothing has been finalized. No decisions have been made."
The 54-year-old Peterson has been named a suspect by police investigating Stacy's disappearance. Investigators also have reclassified as a murder the 2004 drowning death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, which originally had been ruled an accident.
Peterson has denied wrongdoing in both cases.
Under Illinois law, a divorce can be granted for desertion or abandonment after a spouse has been gone for more than a year. Peterson has contended his wife left him voluntarily.
Leving, who advertises himself as an advocate for fathers' rights in divorce actions, confirmed he met last week with Peterson, but said he hasn't been retained to represent him.
Authorities used "vindictive and selective" prosecution in their case against former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, his legal team argued in Will County Court on Wednesday.
Peterson, 54, is facing felony gun charges for allegedly possessing a modified assault rifle with a barrel of less than 16 inches. Authorities seized the rifle, along with other weapons, after search warrants were executed last November in the investigation into the Oct. 28, 2007, disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy.
But Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky questioned the timeline of how the gun case unfolded. In February, police revoked Peterson's firearm owner's identification card after a judge ruled that his firearms should be returned because Peterson had a valid FOID card. In May, Peterson was arrested for owning the rifle on the eve of learning from the judge whether the guns could be turned over to his son Stephen, an Oak Brook police officer.
Brodsky is requesting that prosecutors turn over documents from the time leading up to the charges against his client.
"This timeline proves with more than sufficient evidence that the reason to do this is to punish Mr. Drew Peterson for exercising his constitutional rights," Brodsky said. Peterson, who is the suspect in his missing wife's disappearance, has said she ran off. Authorities are also conducting a murder investigation in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson maintains his innocence and has said he used the rifle as a SWAT team member for the Bolingbrook Police Department.
Will County Assistant State's Atty. Dede Osterberger argued against giving the defense "privileged information." "We strongly argue against this case, judge, because we think that the defense is engaging in a fishing expedition," she said.
Judge Richard Schoenstedt, who was battling a cold and losing his voice, said he would defer his ruling until the next scheduled hearing, on Nov. 20. In Springfield, the state Senate voted 55-0 on a bill that could affect a potential prosecution against Peterson in the case of either one of his wives.
The bill, which is backed by the Will County state's attorney's office, would allow a judge to admit hearsay evidence into court for first-degree murder cases if the prosecution could prove that the defendant killed a witness to prevent testimony.
The Senate vote accepted a change proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that would allow the legislation to become effective as soon as the House, scheduled to meet next week, votes to go along.
Peterson's wives had told family and friends that they were fearful of Peterson. Stacy Peterson also told her minister that her husband had allegedly confessed to her that he killed Savio, according to the minister.
The husband and suspect in the disappearance of a suburban Chicago mom called his missing wife "a little girl" in an appearance on the "Dr. Phil" Show to air Monday.
Drew Peterson sat down with Dr. Phil McGraw last month in Los Angeles to speak about his 23-year-old wife Stacy Peterson, who vanished on Oct. 28, 2007, from her Bolingbrook, Ill., home. Drew Peterson has been named a suspect in her disappearance, and in the months following, police exhumed the body of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and reclassified her death as a homicide.
Nobody makes it easy for her to reappear," Drew Peterson said of Stacy in a video clip posted to Dr. Phil's YouTube site. "I mean why would anybody want to come back to this hellstorm that's been created or to possibility of some sort of criminal prosecution? She's a little girl and why would she want to come back to that."
In the promotional clip, Dr. Phil asks Drew Peterson why he's appeared so emotionally distant during the yearlong search for the missing mom.
"We've definitely looked for her with private investigators," Drew Peterson said. But shown emotion? I've been a policeman for 32 years."
"But this isn't about a case, this is about your wife," Dr. Phil said.
"It has to do with how you are, what you grow into. And being a policeman for 32 years, you're trained and you live life not showing emotion," Drew Peterson responded. "It's rare that anybody sees emotion out of me, and there's really no book written anywhere that you can read and tell you how to act or how to be when this type of thing happens."
The former police officer's publicist said in a news release Sunday that Drew Peterson's decision to sit down with Dr. Phil is perhaps "the boldest move yet to prove his innocence."
Glenn Selig, Drew Peterson's publicist, maintained his client's innocence in both Stacy Peterson's disappearance as well as Kathleen Savio's death.
Last month, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow issued a statement about the Savio and Stacy Peterson cases, indicating that a special grand jury is still weighing evidence in both.
"I fully expect there to be a resolution in at least one of these investigations in the near future," Glasgow said.
Drew Peterson currently faces felony charges in connection to illegal guns found in his home.
Talk about personalized medicine: For the first time, scientists have mapped all the genes in a single person's cancer, allowing them to uncover eight new genes that could lead to better ways to treat the disease. Researchers used malignant blood cells from a 50-something woman who died of acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow, according to a paper in today's Nature. Doctors mapped all the genes in her tumor cells, the compared them — side by side — with the genes in a normal cell from her skin. Rest of USA Today article here...
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America..
The beginning starts off with Stewie's joke about Geena Davis- the funny thing is when Kaitlyn's sleepy and says my name, Krys, it reminds me of that little scene.
Unfortunately, the first part of that scene that the video shows is cut off, you can't hear the first "Hey, Chris?" by Stewie.
That's at the last five or so seconds of THIS video:
Former police officer Drew Peterson failed half a polygraph test about his missing fourth wife's disappearance, according to his attorney and the author of a new book.
Peterson, the prime suspect in Stacy Peterson's disappearance, agreed to be interviewed by writer Derek Armstrong and take a lie detector test for the book "Drew Peterson Exposed," Armstrong said.
"He failed half of six questions on the Stacy Peterson polygraph," Armstrong told FOXNews.com. "The questions he failed were directly related to the timeline I had him create."
Peterson's lawyer Joel Brodsky said he doesn't like lie detector tests.
"I don't think they're reliable," he said. "I advised him not to take one." Brodsky said he doesn't know what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from this polygraph.
Peterson got a "deceptive" reading with responses about whether his wife called to say she was leaving him (which he answered "yes" to), whether he knew where she was (he answered "no") and whether he had seen her the night before she vanished (he said "yes").
He got a "not deceptive" reading when he was asked if he physically harmed his wife during the time she disappeared (he said "no"), if he had any involvement in the physical removal of his wife from the home the day she vanished (he replied "no") and whether Stacy Peterson had called him to tell him where the car was parked after she left (he said "yes").
The lie detector test was administered by a well-respected polygraph expert named Lee McCord, according to Armstrong and Brodsky.
Stacy Peterson disappeared suddenly last October. Her body has never been found, and police say they believe she is dead.
Drew Peterson, who is also being investigated in the mysterious bathtub death of his third wife Kathleen Savio, has not been charged in either case. He passed a polygraph he took on Savio.
Armstrong says the ex-cop acted "cold" when he spoke about Stacy Peterson, and he has released some clips of the interview audio tapes to the media in the days since his book hit shelves Oct. 1.
"He became very, very cold. He appeared to be emotionless," Armstrong said. "Frankly, the only time I got him to warm up emotionally was when he talked about himself - and his kids."
In one of the excerpts, Peterson says he worries what will happen to him if his fourth wife turns out to have died.
"She comes up dead or something, they're going to be looking at me," he tells Armstrong. "That's got me a little concerned."
At another point, he says he "spent his days working cons on people" when he was a police officer.
Brodsky said he and Peterson are unhappy about Armstrong's decision to release some of the interview tapes.
"I'm kind of upset about the release of the clips," Brodsky told FOXNews.com. "We kind of look at it as a betrayal. He knows we're disappointed."
As for whether he believes Peterson is guilty, the author is reluctant to say for sure. He said that parts of the interviews with the ex-Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer made him uneasy.
"I don't think there's enough evidence either way, but I'm very uncomfortable," he said. "That's why I'm releasing the tapes."
He admitted he's also making portions of his interviews available for publicity of his book.
Brodsky said he suggested Peterson not speak to Armstrong, but his client wanted to try to "move on with his life" and "get his story told."
"We're not thrilled about it," said the attorney about the end result. "There are some things about that book that are positive. ... He [Drew] has mixed feelings."
Peterson's trial in a gun charges case begins Dec. 8.
There are nine parts. The others should be linked over to the right, after you click the above window and enter out into a seperate window using youtube.com's site.
Complex never expect me to be a perfect image- one of myself, or one of another.
for as the story always goes, i'm never to complete my own story, for self depreciation ruins all, everything.. i'll never fill my surreal vision of that goddess-like woman.
the whole world, always driving forward, endless with faces, names.. endless bodies, personalities, spirts..
is it not simple to easily feel so lost? to feel so very replacable- is it not natural to feel passed over, when there are so many other willing hearts, with their promising smiles, eyes glittering and full.. capturing that one fateful glance from a stranger.. but the stranger was mine once upon a time.
always another with a prettier smile, prettier face, prettier hair, prettier body. always another there with open arms, to be filled with what was once mine.
sinking into my stomach, this horrible self image is what eats away at my mind- and despite my deep certainty that everyone must be different, that everyone has a kind.. i find myself struggling just to be happy with myself.
Final Destination = Reality! Antonia Martinez Jimenez, 27, has told relatives that she normally sat at the back of the plane during take-off and landing, but on the ill-fated flight to Gran Canaria last Wednesday she was rostered to sit up front in seat 1E.
All the other 17 survivors of the crash were sitting in the rows around her, and when the plane broke apart on impact, most were propelled out of the wreckage and away from the subsequent explosion that engulfed it. In a further stroke of good fortune, they landed in a stream where the water shielded them from the blistering heat as a massive fuel fire scorched the area. "I heard some people calling for help, but I couldn't do anything," said Ms Martinez Jimenez, who was still strapped her chair when she landed in the stream. "A few minutes later I heard the sirens and thought 'I am saved'."
Speaking from the hospital bed where she she is being treated for broken bones and facial burns, Ms Martinez Jimenez added that she had no proper recollections of the moments leading up to the crash. However, she added: "I will never fly again - it was horrible, horrible." The death toll from the crash climbed to 154 on Saturday after a woman who suffered severe burns in the accident died from her injuries, health official said. Maria Luisa Estevez Gonzalez, 31, passed away at Madrid's La Paz hospital where she was being treated for burns to 72 percent of her body.
Ms Martinez Jimenez is being treated in Madrid's La Princesa hospital for fractured vertebrae, a broken elbow and a bruised sternum, as well as serious burns to her face, although doctors say she should be able to make a full recovery.
Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (AHN) - "Please kill me." These were the only words muttered in court Tuesday by the man who stabbed to death a bus passenger in Manitoba before beheading the victim and eating his flesh.
Vince Weiguang Li uttered the words after shaking his head in response to a judge's question if he wanted an attorney. The judge ordered another hearing on Friday. The hearing on Tuesday was supposed to determine if the Chinese migrant should be subjected to psychiatric testing before trial. Prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn urged the evaluation in view of new details about the unprovoked and gruesome killing of carnival worker Tim McLean, 22, on Wednesday night. More from article HERE.
Reading the news article shocked the hell out of me, then to read the complete story here on Wikipedia was even sicker:
Murder of Tim McLean On the evening of July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed and beheaded while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 18 miles (29 km) west of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba traveling the Trans Canada Highway.
The incident took place near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, during a trip from Edmonton to McLean's hometown of Winnipeg. According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing McLean in the neck and chest. The attacker then decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to other passengers outside who had fled the bus in horror. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested 40-year-old Vince Weiguang Li soon afterward.
At 12:01 a.m. on July 30, 2008, Tim McLean departed Edmonton on board Greyhound bus 1170 to Winnipeg, via the Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan. He sat at the rear, one row ahead of the washroom. At 6:55 p.m., the bus departed from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba with a new passenger, Vince Weiguang Li. Li, described as a tall man in his 40s, with a shaved head and sunglasses, originally sat near the front of the bus, but moved to sit next to McLean following a scheduled rest stop. McLean "barely acknowledged" Li, then fell asleep against the window pane, headphones covering his ears.
At 8:30 p.m., the RCMP in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba received a report of a stabbing on a Greyhound bus west of the city. They arrived to find the suspect still on board the bus, being prevented from escaping by another passenger, the bus driver, and a truck driver who had provided a crowbar and a hammer as weapons. The other passengers were huddled at the roadside, some of them crying and vomiting. As the suspect had earlier attempted to escape by driving the bus away, the driver had engaged the emergency immobilizer system, rendering the vehicle inoperable. Witnesses had observed the suspect stabbing and cutting McLean's body, and carrying McLean's severed head.
By 9:00 p.m., police were in a standoff with the suspect and had summoned special negotiators and a heavily-armed tactical unit. The suspect taunted police, alternately pacing the length of the bus and cutting and defiling the corpse. Police officers then observed Li eating parts of the body. Meanwhile, the stranded passengers were transported from the scene to be interviewed at the Brandon RCMP detachment. RCMP officers reportedly heard Li say, "I have to stay on the bus forever."
On July 31, 2008 at 1:30 a.m., the suspect attempted to escape from the bus by breaking through a window. He was quickly apprehended, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser. Li was carrying a plastic bag when he was arrested, containing a human nose, ear and part of a mouth. At 10:00 a.m., Greyhound representatives took the other passengers to a local store to replace their clothes, which remained on the bus. They arrived in Winnipeg at 3:30 p.m. that day, to be reunited with family members and friends.
Witness accounts Garnet Caton, a 26-year-old seismic driller who sat one row ahead of McLean, described hearing "a blood-curdling scream," saying, "I turned around and the guy sitting right [behind] me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife.... Right in the throat. Repeatedly."
Caton added: "I got sick after I saw the head thing. Some people were puking, some people were crying, some people were shocked. [The attacker] just looked at us and dropped the head on the ground, totally calm." A police officer who was at the scene said the attacker also cut off parts of the victim's body and ate them.
Another passenger, Stephen Allison, stated that McLean fought his attacker, providing other passengers with the opportunity to get off the bus.
CHICAGO - A man who says he cooperated with police and wore a wire during conversations with a former police sergeant considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance was charged Friday with battery after shoving Drew Peterson in a barber shop parking lot.
Len Wawczak, a former friend of Peterson's, was charged with misdemeanor battery and released after posting $100 bond.
"I pushed him twice ... I don't have a problem with that," Wawczak told WLS-TV. "It was the best one hundred dollars I ever spent in my life ... I'd do it again."
Peterson's lawyer, Joel Brodsky, said his client told investigators Wawczak "ambushed and punched" him and that Peterson tried to "walk away from the confrontation and was punched once in the back."
Click here for more on this story from MyFOXChicago.com.
Wawczak told the station he went to the barber shop after his son called him to say he and Peterson were there at the same time and that Peterson was "staring my son down ... giving him dirty looks."
Bolingbrook Lt. Ken Teppel confirmed police were called to the shop for a report of an altercation between Peterson and Wawczak. Wawczak was arrested based on a signed complaint from Peterson and witness statements, Teppel said.
Wawczak is scheduled to appear for an arraignment on Sept. 10, Teppel said. If found guilty, he faces fines, court fees and community service.
Wawczak did not have a listed telephone number.
Wawczak and his wife, Paula Stark, said they secretly taped Peterson after being contacted by the Illinois State Police in mid-November. They said they continued recording conversations through mid-June.
The couple claimed, among other things, that Peterson wished aloud that he'd cremated his third wife's remains and asked them to set fire to a memorial to his missing wife, Stacy.
Brodsky said earlier this week he doesn't know if there are any tapes, but if there are, he was confident Peterson said nothing incriminating.
Peterson, in questioning the couple's motives, has said they had asked him for money and became angry when he would not lend it to them.
Stacy Peterson disappeared in October, and authorities have said they believe she is dead. Her body has not been found.
Drew Peterson denies involvement in wife's disappearance and says he believes she left him for another man.
Drew Peterson said Thursday he was impressed by former friend Len Wawczak's online impersonation of a woman for two months and called the stunt "comical."
Earlier Thursday, Wawczak admitted he had posed as a woman named Ashley and began an online romance with Peterson in order to gather information on the former Bolingbrook police sergeant suspected in the Oct. 28 disappearance of his wife, Stacy.
"I was very taken," Peterson said. "I've been playing practical jokes for most of my life and for someone to get me like that, I'm impressed."
The revelation came just one day after news broke that Wawczak and his wife, Paula Stark, at the alleged behest of state police, had been secretly recording their conversations with Peterson for nearly seven months.
"My idea was to show people that he really is what they think he is," Wawczak said of the online affair. "He's a liar."
The idea for the online spoof came when Peterson showed Wawczak chats he was having with other women online. Wawczak said he memorized Peterson's username, went home to set up his own account and began creating his alter ego, Ashley, a 29-year-old Web designer from southern Illinois.
Ashley's last name, Gabrys, was really the name of someone he used to know. He picked Granite City as Ashley's hometown because he knows someone who lives there who could provide local information if needed.
"I had everything covered," Wawczak said.
Within days, Peterson started opening up to Ashley. The chats, which Wawczak has posted clips of on a blog he created, show Peterson expressing his love for Ashley, asking to meet her and making several racy comments.
"One day I went over to his house and he said ‘Hey, look at this, look at this chick I'm talking to.' And he pulls out the picture of Ashley," Wawczak said. "I found it hard to keep a straight face then."
The online romance ended in May when Ashley told Peterson that she had driven by his house and saw him sitting with another woman on his porch. Wawczak said he had heard that Peterson was with this woman and that he decided to make Ashley seem jealous.
Wawczak said police have seen the chats and that he published them online after receiving approval from state police. He said they also asked permission to go public about the wiretapping operation, which ended in June.
Illinois State Police Sgt. Tom Burek declined to comment Wednesday.
Peterson would have found out about it shortly anyway, Wawczak said, because authorities are required to notify the subject of such investigations after the recording ceased. Although the notification would not identify Wawczak and Stark, he said they were the only ones around Peterson enough to make the operation useful.
"It wouldn't take him very long to figure out that it was us," Wawczak said.
But the couple was also motivated to come forward because of decreasing media coverage of the investigations into Stacy Peterson's disappearance and the March 2004 murder of Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson's third wife.
"Obviously it did what I wanted it to do, which was it got it back out in the news," Wawczak said. "It got Stacy back out there, it really did in a big way, and Kathleen, too."
Drew Peterson is the sole suspect in his wife's disappearance, which police are calling a "potential homicide." The case also prompted police to reopen the case of Savio's drowning, which was originally ruled an accident. Authorities exhumed Savio's body in March and two pathologists, one at the request of Savio's family and one on behalf of the state, performed separate autopsies. Each recently ruled the death a homicide. Police have not named a suspect in the death.
Peterson has maintained his innocence and has not been charged with a crime in either case.
Peterson and his attorney Joel Brodsky said the couple are simply looking to profit off Peterson's notoriety. Peterson lambasted the couple for befriending his children and then ceasing contact with them.
"It's a shame these people warmed up to my kids and now my kids are missing them," Peterson said. "They used my kids to get to me. But, when people smell money, there's no parameters of who your victims are going to be."
Wawczak said he and his wife have not profited from the publicity and that the hardest part about going public about the undercover operation was losing contact with Peterson's children.
"They're great kids. Tom and Kris (Peterson's sons) probably aren't too fond of me right now," Wawczak said. "Hopefully, somewhere down the road they'll see my point, they'll see why I did it."
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