"Dark Tuesday" For Stacy Peterson & Those Married To Cops
It is Christmas, a day to count your blessings and be thankful. For many families of crime victims this year, in particular, those within the law enforcement community, today is "Dark Tuesday", for their loved one(s) are still unaccounted. Missing in action if you will, married to those who take an oath to serve and protect. These tin badge cowards do not attempt to provide answers or look for their wives or girlfriends when they disappear. In a crime these police officers are by far the worst and best at being clever like a fox, serial criminals. They often know better than the common man how to commit the perfect murder. The lights still burn brightly in these missing victims homes. And sadly they will continue until that day when either the phone rings or there is a knock at the door informing them that Stacy and others have finally been found and can be laid to rest.
Stacy has been missing since 10/28/07. You can help by passing out or creating flyers. Showing up and helping in the search. If you know anything, please call the numbers below. Website address is www.findstacypeterson.com
A sad day for Stacy's family
December 25, 2007
By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer
BOLINGBROOK -- Cassandra Cales spent every Christmas with her half-sister, until this one.
"Every year she was with Stacy," said Pam Bosco, the foster mother of Cassandra Cales, whose half-sister Stacy Peterson vanished nearly two months ago.
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Former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson and his is fourth wife, Stacy, who has been missing for almost two months.
"(Stacy) would do all that special stuff for Cassandra," said Bosco, who has taken on the role of spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family, standing in the eye of the media storm generated by the young mother's disappearance.
"She knows Cassandra's heart," Bosco said.
Stacy was last was seen alive Oct. 28. When she vanished, the front lawn of the Pheasant Chase Court home she lived in with husband Drew Peterson, his two children from a previous marriage, and the two children they had together was crowded with inflatable Halloween decorations.
Halloween passed, then Thanksgiving, and today, Christmas will be celebrated by two families without Stacy Peterson around to enjoy it with them.
Bosco said she is hosting Christmas dinner and expects Cassandra to attend. But it wasn't easy convincing the grieving half-sister to show.
"My biggest concern is getting Cassandra to my house because initially, she wanted to stay home," she said.
Drew celebrates Christmas
No one answered the door to the Peterson home Christmas Eve. Drew Peterson, 53, a recently retired police sergeant, said last week he would be spending the holiday with family.
Bosco said Stacy's family has not seen her son, Anthony, or daughter, Lacy, in the nearly two months since their mother went missing.
She said their father has stood in the way of a visit with the children.
"I think he obviously has his reasons," Bosco said. "He doesn't want to let the children out of his sight."
Drew Peterson has been the subject of intense scrutiny since Stacy, his 23-year-old fourth wife, vanished. Within two weeks of her disappearance, state police named Drew Peterson a suspect in the case, which they classified a "potential homicide."
Police and prosecutors also reopened the investigation of the mysterious March 2004 death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Savio was found dead in a waterless bathtub. A special agent with the state police testified there were no signs Savio was a victim of foul play and a coroner's jury subsequently ruled her death an accidental drowning.
But a petition filed by State's Attorney James Glasgow to exhume Savio's body for further postmortem testing said the death scene appeared "consistent with the 'staging' of an accident to conceal a homicide."
The results of the second official autopsy performed on Savio's body have yet to be released.
No closure for family
State police spokesman Mark Dorencz failed to return calls for comment on the status of the Stacy Peterson and Kathleen Savio investigations.
Bosco had earlier expressed hopes Stacy would be found before Christmas to give her family some closure. It has not happened, and the investigation of her whereabouts remains unresolved.
"It won't be a happy day. It's impossible," Bosco said. "We believe Stacy is dead. How can we have a happy day?" http://www.chicagosuntimes.com
December 25, 2007
By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer
BOLINGBROOK -- Cassandra Cales spent every Christmas with her half-sister, until this one.
"Every year she was with Stacy," said Pam Bosco, the foster mother of Cassandra Cales, whose half-sister Stacy Peterson vanished nearly two months ago.
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Former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson and his is fourth wife, Stacy, who has been missing for almost two months.
"(Stacy) would do all that special stuff for Cassandra," said Bosco, who has taken on the role of spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family, standing in the eye of the media storm generated by the young mother's disappearance.
"She knows Cassandra's heart," Bosco said.
Stacy was last was seen alive Oct. 28. When she vanished, the front lawn of the Pheasant Chase Court home she lived in with husband Drew Peterson, his two children from a previous marriage, and the two children they had together was crowded with inflatable Halloween decorations.
Halloween passed, then Thanksgiving, and today, Christmas will be celebrated by two families without Stacy Peterson around to enjoy it with them.
Bosco said she is hosting Christmas dinner and expects Cassandra to attend. But it wasn't easy convincing the grieving half-sister to show.
"My biggest concern is getting Cassandra to my house because initially, she wanted to stay home," she said.
Drew celebrates Christmas
No one answered the door to the Peterson home Christmas Eve. Drew Peterson, 53, a recently retired police sergeant, said last week he would be spending the holiday with family.
Bosco said Stacy's family has not seen her son, Anthony, or daughter, Lacy, in the nearly two months since their mother went missing.
She said their father has stood in the way of a visit with the children.
"I think he obviously has his reasons," Bosco said. "He doesn't want to let the children out of his sight."
Drew Peterson has been the subject of intense scrutiny since Stacy, his 23-year-old fourth wife, vanished. Within two weeks of her disappearance, state police named Drew Peterson a suspect in the case, which they classified a "potential homicide."
Police and prosecutors also reopened the investigation of the mysterious March 2004 death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Savio was found dead in a waterless bathtub. A special agent with the state police testified there were no signs Savio was a victim of foul play and a coroner's jury subsequently ruled her death an accidental drowning.
But a petition filed by State's Attorney James Glasgow to exhume Savio's body for further postmortem testing said the death scene appeared "consistent with the 'staging' of an accident to conceal a homicide."
The results of the second official autopsy performed on Savio's body have yet to be released.
No closure for family
State police spokesman Mark Dorencz failed to return calls for comment on the status of the Stacy Peterson and Kathleen Savio investigations.
Bosco had earlier expressed hopes Stacy would be found before Christmas to give her family some closure. It has not happened, and the investigation of her whereabouts remains unresolved.
"It won't be a happy day. It's impossible," Bosco said. "We believe Stacy is dead. How can we have a happy day?" http://www.chicagosuntimes.com
