Since when is it alright for a crime victim or a missing person to have their family history or personal hurdles blasted like bright headlights in the media? In the case of missing police officer wife Stacy Peterson she is a mother, someone' sister, aunt, relative and friend. First and foremost she is in my opinion a crime victim. Stacy lived her life under the heavy weight of an abuser capable of anything including bodily harm and yes, death. Stacy was followed constantly, the word is stalked like a hunters prey prior to the kill. And she had every right to fear for her own life based on the fact that another wife died in a highly suspect way. As many profiled abusers Drew Peterson is a classic. Where are the psychological expects hiding? Surely they can shed some light and yet for now they are no where to be found. I suspect we will all hear from them once the case is solved like bad diarrhea of the mouth.
For the media to even report in the first few sentences of their story the missing woman's mother left, or that her sister died of cancer or her brother has a checkered past has no place in this or any crime victims situation.
In my opinion, Officer Peterson is clever like a sly fox guarding the few crumbs of his hen house before the final dark egg hatches. He is after all, a classic text book case of an abuser. The media needs to educate the public on these types of criminals. With a rash of recent murders in the state of Illinois and across the country we must put a halt to this ticking time bomb of an age old issue that has been allowed to live like a contagious fungus since the beginning of time. Call it what you will abuse, domestic violence, stalking, control, the fact is, it is a crime. Women whose cries for help fall on deaf ears and those were passed with a pen of not ink, but red human blood. This deadly trend will continue, children will become motherless and society will forever find blame with the victims, unless we begin to understand these crimes and act accordingly.
Story from the Sun-Times....................................................
Stacy Peterson might come home again to Bolingbrook after blowing off some steam. Or she might not. Her mother hasn't yet, her son-in-law says, and she left eight years ago.
"I believe she's either going to tell people where she is or she's going to go down deeper, like how her mom did," said Peterson's husband, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson.
Drew Peterson, 53, said this isn't the first time his 23-year-old wife split on him. She had taken off on him before, he said, when their children or he got to be too much.
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