The murdered woman was Arabic, her eyebrows were threaded, and she was wearing an embroidered velvet robe/thobe. She wasn’t murdered in this country though, the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation (I think, might have been the local police) found out the Polaroid was taken as a trophy in another country, and brought to this country. I don’t think the killer was the one who lost the image. ETA: Wade through this if you want things more clarified, the person who e-mailed the investigators passed along the information about the supposition confirmation re: she was Arabic etc.
Ok, on re-scanning that thread, it was Jaded who contacted the Sheriff. So, pay attention to her posts in that topic. ETA: Further it is page sixteen, Jaded’s post number 393 which reveals the woman was from Iraq, etc.
Aha! Now I get it. I wasn’t reading carefully enough, I thought this was still about Stacy Peterson. Thanks. 
Nah, I was pointing out that though the posters at Websleuths may seem crazy, they can suss out information, and citing cases I know of, in which they did so.
He was on Today again this morning; this time he had a lawyer who barely let him say a word and spouted bullshit about biased people and whatnot as well. “You’re not talking because the last time you did you convinced millions of people you did it, you idiot,” I can hear said lawyer (who doesn’t seem exactly trustworthy to me either and I’m fairly sympathetic to defense lawyers) telling him.
And it doesn’t matter if you’re Stacey, Lacey, or even Tracy or Macy! You’re fucked.
Apparently he’s been talking to the local media, though, and even joking with reporters. Listen up, man, even if your wife really did up and leave you with some other guy (suuuuuuure she did) and you’ve been so miserable for years that this is the best thing to happen to you since sliced bread… did you happen to miss that you’re under suspicion of murdering her? Yeah, didn’t think so. Knock it off with the humor.
Joking? Good Lord. The man is nuts. And stupid.
If I were a betting man, which I am, I would bet that he a) simply didn’t do it and/or b)knows the investigation is going to either bear that fact out, or is headed in the completely wrong direction. I don’t think he’s that nuts.
I saw more of the clips from the local news (done in his driveway) interviews, and wow. His lawyer probably wishes he’d been there to gag the guy.
- When asked if the media coverage didn’t help with the effort to find her, he said the media should go search, and added that the cops had been through his house twice “and they didn’t find it.” He called his wife an “it”.
- When asked what he was thankful for, he laughed about how he was glad he didn’t have enough turkey for the media to come to dinner, and then added that he was thankful that his kids were happy. Happy. Their mom is gone, he’s saying she ran away from them to be with some other guy, the media is camping outside their house, their dad has been traveling to appear on the Today show, and yet the kids are happy?
There were other things, but just the amount of laughing he was doing seemed really inappropriate and weird. And he still hasn’t said anything approximating that he wishes she’d come home.
He’s not smart enough to be nuts. I don’t think he has four consecutive brain cells operating in his head at any one moment in time. Makes sense, being a tenured authority figure. Only the stupidest ones ever seem to achieve any career advancement. Not only is he grotesquely stupid, but in all his years of police work he hasn’t even learned how to tell a convincing lie. Shouldn’t the fact that he can’t even utilize a career that depends on knowing when someone is lying to tell a better lie of his own be some kind of indicator that he’s dumber than dishwater? Not only is he beginning to turn the whole ordeal into a source of entertainment for himself, but he refers to his wife in the past tense (and as Ferret said, as an “it”), he hasn’t expressed any desire about wanting her to come home, and frequently turns the focus of the investigation away from where she is and why, and more toward how the coverage is affecting him. Everybody who knows him has testified that he’s about as far from normal as Pluto is from the sun, and several have spoken about the threats he has issued in the past. As I said before, he got away with it on Wife 3, and being a psychopath, that’s enough to form the basis of a pattern of behavior to follow, so he did it again with Wife 4 figuring, naturally, that he’d get away with it once again.
A woman doesn’t leave her kids behind to disappear with another man never to be heard from again. Even if she had, she’d have contacted a family member, a friend, a police department, or a stranger on the street by now. She’d have used a credit card or a cell phone if she had one. She’d have been sighted by someone. When was the last time any of these cases ever ended with the missing woman suddenly turning up and saying “Here I am!” to everyone who was looking for her behind the wrong tree?
Slight nitpick, the Will County Coroner has not OFFICIALLY ruled the death a homocide, the work was done by the former New York City Medical Examiner hired by the Savio Family to get the results. He has no official power to do anything other than call it a homocide because that’s what he was paid to do.
It has not been RULED a homocide, it’s been CALLED a homocide. Not the same thing at all.
It’s fine to point fingers and take wild guesses based on what little the news feeds you, but at this point there is simply no proof. Do I THINK he did it? Probably, I mean, he’s the most likely candidate, he fits the profile, he was closest to her, had troubles with her before, etc.etc. The facts are that we don’t know the facts. It’s not illegal to be stupid, it’s not illegal to be a bastard, it’s not illegal to not be ‘normal’ whatever THAT means, it’s not illegal to bumble your way through a TV interview or call your wife an “it”.
You have hours and hours to analyze what amounted to just minutes of coversation in a setting foreign to at least one of the people speaking.
Analysis of anything he says must consider the fact he was in a setting that can unnerve even the best liars.
Moreover, you can assume you’d know what a “woman” does, I’m sure all the people in the audience, and especially John Mason thought ‘a woman’ just doesn’t desert her husband at the altar.
Not apples to apples, but rather an example of uncharacteristic human behavior.
Particularly if Peterson is known to be a flyer in the area, his presence at the airport would not arouse suspicion.
Anyone know what sort of ultralight he has? Some of the “fat” ultralights could potentially lift another person along with the pilot. As for “borrowing” another airplane - either a friend was stupid enough to loan it to him, or someone didn’t secure their airplane very well. Would also be problematic to fly a small plane or ultralight AND manuver the wife out of the machine. Too creepy for me to speculate on how to do that :::shudder:::
It’s possible - although he’s running an enormous risk if that’s how he disposed of the body. Very hard to explain why you’re loading a dead wife into an airplane, ya know? Bit of a long shot, if you ask me, although probably easier than chopping her up and running her through the garbage disposal. Probably much easier to load her into the trunk of the car for transport to a disposal site. I’m sure there are many ways to attempt to get rid of an inconvient dead body.
But, as a poster at Websleuths pointed out, she had asked him to move out, and his stuff was piled in the garage in boxes. Why then, would she leave her home, and her kids, to be with another man, when she’d already booted Drew Peterson out the door? That doesn’t add up, and tilts the balance in favor of 'She didn’t run off anywhere, alive." IMO.
I still think she’s in the house somewhere. That would explain why he’s so amused at everyone running around the Midwest looking for her poor corpse.
He also said something like “Your wife leaves, you’re upset.” Not my or I.
And, he looks just like the Cowardly Lion.
Except that they searched his house with cadaver dogs that would sniff a body out. Those houses have solid concrete foundations, so she’s likely not buried in there.
I usually withhold judgement in these kinds of cases, but I have say that if this guy isn’t guilty, he’s the stupidest, most cold-hearted bastard to ever walk the planet. I’m leaning towards psychopath even if he didn’t commit murder (this time).
Why did he go on the Today show the first time without a lawyer? The guy is a cop, but doesn’t seem to appreciate the fact that everytime he talks about “his story”, there’s a strong possibility that he could screw up and incriminate himself. That’s bizarre to me. It’s almost like he’s flaunting his supposed ballsiness by doing things know one in their right mind would do. That’s something someone who feels he has nothing to lose would do. Not a father who is missing his wife and the mother of his kids. He seems detached from reality.
Your premise assumes that this relationship was a partnership of equals, everything points to that NOT being the case. He ‘wore the pants’ as it were, controlled things, THAT is why she would have left. The odds are against the whole runaway bride scenario, but there doesn’t seem to be any concrete proof that he DID anything.