# I was hanging with a maybe killer last night. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480 "2008-10-11T16:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/21 "2008-10-12T15:51:23Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I guess I don’t watch enough TV. There’s another Peterson in California (Scot) who’s on death row, but I don’t think I’d recognize him in a restaurant. That’s why I’m confused! I could have sworn the guy in the OP was already in prison. “Why does everyone keep saying Stacy? I thought it was Lacey?” Makes so much more sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/22 "2008-10-12T16:01:46Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > That’s why I’m confused! I could have sworn the guy in the OP was already in prison. “Why does everyone keep saying Stacy? I thought it was Lacey?” > > Makes so much more sense now. The commentary around the time was something like, "If you’re a woman with a name that ends in ‘-ey’ and you married a guy with that last name, look out! :eek: " It’s very much a Chicago-area crime, though the guy did go on Larry King Live and… something else, I thought. Maybe the Today show. It was kind of creepy how unconcerned he usually sounded about the fact that his wife had ditched him and their kids to run off with some mystery man, and covered her tracks so well that no one could find her, to the point where he was being looked at.\* If I were him I’d be trying to do the near-tearful “Please call and let our kids know you’re OK” appeals or something. - (Not to mention that neighbors saw him move a 55-gallon drum out of the house at night not long after she disappeared.) ---
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/23 "2008-10-12T16:32:02Z")
I don’t know about his guilt, but I think that his not giving a flip about where his whore ex-wife\* is reasonable. If I had a wife run off with another man, I wouldn’t even address the fact of her ever having existed, let alone some whiny plea, in front of the whole of the nation, to call him. Also, he’s a cop, so he probably has a macho image to uphold, so he can’t be crying all over the place about some woman leaving him. \*Benefit of the doubt in case his story is true. ---
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/24 "2008-10-12T16:38:57Z")
On the subject of his marital woes, though, I would like to point out that I once took out a woman, 27 years old, who had buried three husbands (yes, they were dead). I don’t know if the police ever checked into her or not. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/25 "2008-10-12T16:56:06Z")
> [@greatshakes](#): > > On the subject of his marital woes, though, I would like to point out that I once took out a woman, 27 years old, who had buried three husbands (yes, they were dead). I don’t know if the police ever checked into her or not. I know a guy who’s done over thirty years in state and federal prison for, among other things, murder and nine bank robberies, including a shoot-out with the FBI. As far as I know, he’s a law-abiding citizen now. But I’m pretty sure he deeply regrets his past, and if he hadn’t told me about all this, I wouldn’t have suspected it. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480/26 "2008-10-12T17:50:29Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > The wife and I, and the Kid and the BF were at our usual wings/beer sports bar last night, to ease me out of my [essentially crappy day.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487289) I got there first by myself, the girls were at some jewelry party, BF came from work downstate, and met me first. Then the girls came, and we were hanging out, munching wings, watching baseball. I was flirting lightly with a couple of our regular waitresses, which I get to do when we’re there because they don’t take me seriously and the wife knows that. > > Anyway, we were all there when HE came in. > > Who’s he? [This is he.](http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/1202947,CST-NWS-bolingintro05.article) > > We used to live in the next town from him, and have a lot of friends in his town, including several cops, including the ex-chief. So we’ve seen him plenty of times, I even met the missing wife once or twice. Really nice girl, very fond of tight denim, and she made it work for her. > > But I digress. You want facts. Ok, yes he was with a date. Cute-ish brunette, maybe 5’7". 24 years old - one of our waitress friends was serving them and carded her. Just after one of the local HS football games ended, a bunch of cheerleaders, players and coaches came in. We joked that maybe he was going to dump the girlfriend for a nice cheerleader more his type. > > Everyone in the place knew he was there, and he knew we all knew. I think that place broke the single day record for text messages from a single place. One of the football coaches was at the table by us and was not happy. Kept mumbling to his friends about how he and a few of them ought to inflict some vigilante justice. > > So, the kicker to this sorta? This place we were in, is in the same town where [this lady is from.](http://www.findlisastebic.com/index/) The high school team that was in there is the same high school she used to hang out and workout in. And the last time we were there, actually only on Monday - her husband was there. > > Wait, it gets better. He sat in the same booth with his kids, as Drew was in last night. > > And the same waitress served them. > > Aint nobody going to tell me this is a sleepy suburb, not with this kind of action going on. I didn’t realize you live in the same general geographical area as I do. I have been lucky enough to never run into Drew Peterson or Craig Stebic. It’s possible they may not be guilty but they sure do give off that OJ vibe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-hanging-with-a-maybe-killer-last-night/467480.md?page=1)