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NOW TO YET ANOTHER NEW TWIST IN THE STACY PETERSON CASE.

Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE MOST CONFOUNDING DISAPPEARANCES

OF THE CENTURY.

THIS STORY HAD EVERYTHING -- LOVE AFFAIRS, JEALOUSY, MURDER.

Narrator: 23-YEAR-OLD MOM STACY PETERSON

VANISHES FROM THE SUBURBS OF CHICAGO.

THIS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL MOTHER WHO DISAPPEARS,

AND HER HUSBAND'S A COP?

Narrator: IN THIS 2-HOUR SPECIAL,

WE GIVE EXCLUSIVE INSIGHT

INTO THE MAN AT THE CENTER OF THIS MYSTERY.

PLEASE GO HOME. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE.

PLEASE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN MY LITTLE WORLD.

[ LAUGHS ]

THIS WAS A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS.

HIS THIRD WIFE HAD DIED "MYSTERIOUSLY" IN A DRY BATHTUB.

WAS IT AN ACCIDENT, OR WAS SHE PUT IN THERE?

Narrator: HEAR FROM THE VOICES

AT THE HEART OF THIS INVESTIGATION.

AND ENTER THE COURTROOM FOR AN EXPLOSIVE LEGAL SHOWDOWN.

THERE WERE AUDIBLE GASPS AND A LOT OF TEARS.

Greenberg: IT WENT WORSE THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

IF I HAD BEEN AN ALCOHOLIC,

I WOULD HAVE PULLED OUT MY FLASK RIGHT THERE IN THE COURTROOM

AND STARTED DRINKING.

Karas: YOU HAVE A COP WHO WAS SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT,

WHO WAS REALLY A WIFE-KILLING MACHINE.

Howard: THIS WAS A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS.

WHY WOULD I LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO I DON'T BELIEVE IS MISSING?

Aikin: THERE'S JUST SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

Dobrich: THERE WERE TEXT MESSAGES

THAT WOULD MAKE A HUSBAND JEALOUS.

Glasgow: DREW WAS SENDING THE MESSAGE,

"YOU'RE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE."

Karas: HE'S BRINGING THIS TEENAGER

INTO THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOME

TO HAVE SEX WITH HER.

Dobrich: HE THINKS HE HELPED DREW MOVE A BODY.

Aikin: I HOPE THAT, ONE DAY, DREW WILL CONFESS.

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Karas: SOMETIME BETWEEN 3:00 AND 4:00 IN THE MORNING

ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007,

A 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN NAMED CASSANDRA CALES

WALKS INTO THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE

AND REPORTS HER SISTER MISSING.

HER SISTER, STACY PETERSON,

WAS A MOTHER OF FOUR, MARRIED, 23 YEARS OLD.

SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM HER SINCE EARLIER ON SUNDAY.

CASSANDRA HAD BEEN WITH STACY THAT SATURDAY.

Cales: MY NAME IS CASSANDRA CALES,

AND I AM SISTER OF STACY PETERSON.

WHEN I WAS LEAVING THAT SATURDAY,

I SAID, "JUST CALL ME WHEN YOU GET UP,

AND WE'LL PLAN OUR DAY FROM THERE."

AND I GAVE HER A HUG AND SAID, "I LOVE YOU," AND LEFT.

Hosey: STACY LIVED IN A TOWN CALLED "BOLINGBROOK."

IT'S ABOUT 30 MILES FROM CHICAGO.

IT'S RESIDENTIAL.

IT'S NOT MUCH GOING ON THERE AT ALL.

IT'S A QUIET, SLEEPY TOWN.

Karas: CASSANDRA HAD BEEN TEXTING

AND CALLING STACY ALL DAY SUNDAY,

STARTING IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON.

BUT STACY WASN'T RESPONDING TO CASSANDRA,

AND CASSANDRA THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE BIT STRANGE

BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY CLOSE.

Narrator: TO CASSANDRA, STACY'S RADIO SILENCE

SEEMS EXTREMELY OUT OF CHARACTER.

Cales: STACY WAS MY BEST FRIEND.

SHE WAS A GIRLY GIRL.

SHE WAS FUN AND BUBBLY LIKE THAT.

TO HER, IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT.

STACY WAS PRETTY MUCH THE LIFE OF THE PARTY.

SHE WAS VERY VIBRANT AND HAPPY.

Cales: THE MOST AMAZING MOTHER, AND SHE WAS BEYOND INVOLVED.

SHE DID EVERYTHING WITH THOSE KIDS --

SLEDDING, SWIMMING.

THAT'S WHY SHE STARTED WORKING FOR THE NEIGHBOR, SELLING AVON,

SO SHE COULD MAKE EXTRA CASH TO BUY THEM BIKES

TO BE OUTSIDE, TO DO THINGS WITH THEM.

Narrator: BUT STACY HAS ALSO ENDURED

HER SHARE OF PERSONAL TRAUMA.

SHE DIDN'T COME FROM WHAT I WOULD SAY

WOULD BE THE PERFECT FAMILY.

Aikin: THERE WASN'T A LOT OF MONEY IN THE HOME.

SHE DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF THINGS.

Hosey: BEFORE SHE WAS BORN,

HER FAMILY HOUSE BURNED DOWN AND A SISTER DIED IN THE FIRE.

WHEN SHE WAS A BABY,

SHE HAD ANOTHER BABY SISTER WHO DIED OF SIDS.

AND HER BROTHER WENT TO PRISON ON A SEX OFFENSE.

MY MOM DISAPPEARED AROUND 1998.

ME AND STACY BOTH LIVED WITH OUR DAD THROUGH THE YEARS.

WE MOVED AROUND A LOT.

AND BY THE TIME WE WOULD MEET FRIENDS,

WE'D PICK UP AND MOVE AGAIN.

WE BASICALLY ONLY HAD EACH OTHER GROWING UP.

SO WE JUST...

WE WERE ALWAYS THERE FOR EACH OTHER.

Aikin: AFTER SHE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL,

SHE WAS GOING TO JOLIET COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

SHE WANTED TO BE A NURSE.

THAT'S HOW MUCH SHE LIKED TO HELP OTHERS.

Narrator: CASSANDRA TELLS THE STATE TROOPER

THAT SHE FOUND STACY'S SILENCE CONFUSING.

SO EARLIER THAT SAME EVENING, SHE DECIDED TO TRACK HER DOWN

AND DROVE TO THE HOUSE

SHE SHARES WITH HER HUSBAND, DREW, AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN.

Cales: I GO TO THE HOUSE.

THERE'S NO CARS IN THE DRIVEWAY.

I JUST KNOCK ON THE DOOR.

ONE OF THE KIDS, KRIS, OPENS THE DOOR.

AND I GO, "WHAT'S UP?"

HE GOES, "NOTHING."

HE GOES, "MOM AND DAD GOT IN A FIGHT.

MOM LEFT. DAD'S OUT LOOKING FOR HER."

I DIDN'T WANT TO ALARM HIM.

I JUST LEFT.

Narrator: CONCERNED BY THE CHILD'S STORY,

CASSANDRA DECIDES TO CONTACT DREW.

I CALLED HIM, AND HE ANSWERED THE PHONE.

HE SOUNDED OUT OF BREATH.

I COULD HEAR KEYS.

I COULD HEAR, LIKE, A DOOR OPEN,

LIKE WHEN YOU OPEN A CAR AND IT DINGS.

HE WAS JUST RANTING OFF, "SHE TOOK HER BIKINI.

SHE TOOK THE DEED TO THE HOUSE, $25,000, AND SHE LEFT ME."

HE WAS JUST RAGING AND SAYING SHE WAS CHEATING ON HIM.

DREW SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS IN A -- IN A PANIC.

THERE IS A PROFOUND ANALOGUE TO THIS SCENARIO IN STACY'S LIFE.

IN 1998,

HER MOTHER, CHRISTIE, SEEMINGLY ABANDONED THE FAMILY.

SHE GRABBED THE BIBLE, WENT TO CHURCH,

AND NEVER RETURNED.

SHE LEFT HER ENTIRE FAMILY BEHIND.

PERHAPS STACY WAS DOING THE SAME.

Aikin: SHE LOVED HAVING FAMILY.

I COULD TELL THAT

THERE WERE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN IT WAS DRAINING ON HER.

I FEEL LIKE STACY GOT OVERWHELMED

BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON WITH KIDS.

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Narrator: AS CASSANDRA RECALLS THE CONVERSATION WITH DREW,

STATE POLICE QUICKLY REALIZE HIS NAME RINGS FAMILIAR.

THAT'S BECAUSE DREW PETERSON IS A COP ON THE LOCAL POLICE FORCE.

HE WAS A SERGEANT WITH THE BOLINGBROOK POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Hosey: DREW WAS BORN AND GREW UP IN THE SUBURBS OF CHICAGO.

Dobrich: HE HELD A LOT OF JOBS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,

EVERYTHING FROM EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN

TO MEMBER OF THE SWAT TEAM.

Greenberg: HE WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A WHILE

AS A MILITARY POLICEMAN

BEFORE BECOMING A BOLINGBROOK POLICE OFFICER.

HE'S BEEN A WONDERFUL FATHER.

HE REALLY DID A GOOD JOB OF RAISING HIS KIDS.

Narrator: PETERSON MET THEN STACY CALES IN 2001.

Hosey: SHE WAS WORKING OVERNIGHT AT A MOTEL IN BOLINGBROOK.

DREW'S PARTNER WAS ROMANCING STACY'S CO-WORKER.

DREW AND STACY GOT TO SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER

AND ENDED UP GOING OUT THEMSELVES.

SHE WAS 16, 17 YEARS OLD.

DREW WAS 30 YEARS OLDER.

Hosey: IF YOU SEE PICTURES

OF WHAT STACY LOOKED LIKE WHEN THEY FIRST MET,

SHE LOOKS LIKE A CHILD.

WHEN HE MET HER, DREW WAS ACTUALLY STILL MARRIED

TO A WOMAN NAMED KATHLEEN SAVIO.

DREW WAS HAVING THIS AFFAIR BEHIND HER BACK.

THEY WERE ALWAYS ON THE PHONE AND DOING STUFF TOGETHER.

SHE WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, CHITCHAT AND TELL ME ABOUT DREW.

FROM WHAT I GOT OUT OF IT,

KATHLEEN WAS THE BAD WOMAN IN THE RELATIONSHIP.

Aikin: THE AGE DIFFERENCE DIDN'T MATTER TO STACY.

HE WAS FINANCIALLY SET,

AND SO SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY.

I THINK SHE FELT, LIKE, STABILITY --

SHE FELT SOME SECURITY THERE.

HE GAVE HER A PLACE TO LIVE, GAVE HER A CAR.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, SHE COULD GO ON TRIPS.

HE GAVE HER A LIFE SHE NEVER HAD GROWING UP.

Aikin: BUT I DID FEAR FOR STACY

THAT SHE WOULD BE HURT, MOSTLY EMOTIONALLY.

A RELATIONSHIP WITH 30 YEARS' DIFFERENCE

IS NOT TOO LIKELY THAT IT'LL WORK OUT.

Narrator: AFTER DATING STACY FOR NEARLY 2 YEARS,

DREW DIVORCES KATHLEEN.

Aikin: DREW AND STACY COULD NOT GET MARRIED

UNTIL THE DIVORCE WAS FINALIZED.

WHEN THE DIVORCE CAME THROUGH ON OCTOBER 10th,

THEY GOT MARRIED ON OCTOBER 18th.

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Narrator: CASSANDRA COMPLETES HER STATEMENT

TO THE STATE POLICE.

AND THEY OPEN A FILE ON THEIR FELLOW COP

FROM NEARBY BOLINGBROOK.

BUT CASSANDRA CAN'T STAND IDLY BY.

WHEN I LEFT STATE POLICE,

I WENT TO STACY'S HOUSE WITH MY FRIEND, BRUCE.

Narrator: AS SHE APPROACHES THE HOUSE,

SHE'S STUNNED BY WHAT SHE FINDS.

Karas: AND THEY SEE BOTH CARS ARE NOW IN THE DRIVEWAY.

THAT'S STACY'S CAR AND DREW'S CAR.

WHAT'S GOING ON? YOU KNOW, IS SHE HOME?

I JUST LOOKED AT BRUCE, AND I SAID, "WHAT DO WE DO?"

AND HE GOES, "CALL."

IT WAS ON SPEAKERPHONE, AND DREW ANSWERS THE PHONE.

BRUCE ASKED, "WHERE'S STACY?"

AND HE JUST STARTS RANTING OFF TO BRUCE THAT,

"SHE'S NOT HERE. SHE LEFT ME."

SO BRUCE GOES, "WHY IS HER CAR HERE?"

Karas: DREW TOLD BRUCE THAT STACY TOOK OFF WITH A BOYFRIEND

AND LEFT THE CAR AT CLOW AIRPORT,

"AND I HAD TO GO PICK IT UP."

DREW THEN WENT TO CLOW AIRPORT, ONLY ABOUT A HALF A MILE AWAY

AND PICKED UP HER CAR AND BROUGHT IT HOME.

Narrator: DESPERATE FOR ANY INFORMATION,

CASSANDRA AND BRUCE DRIVE TO THE SMALL REGIONAL AIRPORT.

Karas: AT CLOW AIRPORT, CASSANDRA SEES SECURITY CAMERAS.

THE SECURITY CAMERA

COULD HELP DETERMINE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO STACY.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEY CALL THE POLICE.

Narrator: CASSANDRA PLEADS WITH THE OFFICER

TO RETRIEVE THE FOOTAGE FROM THE CAMERA.

Cales: THE COP TOLD ME,

"OH, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THAT CAMERA DOESN'T RECORD."

SO...THAT WAS IT.

Karas: WITH NO FOOTAGE FROM THAT SECURITY CAMERA,

THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS,

AND THEY HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER WAY TO TRACK HER DOWN.

SOMETHING WAS ABSOLUTELY WRONG HERE.

Narrator: WITH EACH PASSING MOMENT,

CASSANDRA'S DREAD GROWS.

FOR CASSANDRA, NOTHING IN THIS BIZARRE SITUATION ADDS UP.

AND SHE STARTS TO BELIEVE

THAT DREW HAD A HAND IN STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE.

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Narrator: CASSANDRA CALES IS SEARCHING

FOR HER MISSING 23-YEAR-OLD SISTER, STACY.

BUT STACY'S HUSBAND, DREW,

INSISTS THAT SHE SIMPLY RAN AWAY.

Dobrich: HE CLAIMED THAT SHE WAS LEAVING HIM FOR ANOTHER MAN,

THAT SHE TOOK SOME CLOTHES,

THAT SHE TOOK $25,000 OUT OF THEIR SAFE,

AND HE NEVER SAW HER AFTER THAT.

Narrator: BUT CASSANDRA

FINDS DREW'S STORY DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW.

Cales: SHE DID NOT RUN OFF.

SHE WOULD NEVER LEAVE HER KIDS.

THERE WAS, LIKE, JUST THIS EERIE FEELING I DIDN'T LIKE.

I DIDN'T -- JUST DIDN'T TRUST HIM.

Narrator: ON THE MORNING OF MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th,

JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER CASSANDRA'S LATE-NIGHT REPORT,

THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE

BEGIN INVESTIGATING A MAN THEY KNOW ALL TOO WELL.

Dobrich: MY NAME IS CARL DOBRICH.

I AM A RETIRED CAPTAIN FROM THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE.

I HANDLED THE DREW PETERSON CASE.

DREW HAD A REPUTATION.

HE, AT ONE TIME, WAS A MEMBER

OF THE JOLIET AREA NARCOTICS UNIT,

WHICH THE STATE POLICE ADMINISTERED.

DREW WAS DISMISSED FROM THAT UNIT

OVER AN ALLEGATION THAT

HE PROVIDED INFORMATION TO AN OUTLAW BIKER GANG

THAT COULD HAVE CAUSED A PROBLEM DURING AN UNDERCOVER DRUG DEAL.

SO, AT LEAST WITH MEMBERS OF THE STATE POLICE,

DREW'S REPUTATION WAS NOT GOOD.

Narrator: DOBRICH'S TEAM SET OUT TO QUESTION DREW.

Dobrich: FIRST THING WE WANTED TO DO

WAS GO TALK TO DREW AND GET HIS STATEMENT.

AND SO A TEAM OF AGENTS WENT UP TO BOLINGBROOK,

ENCOUNTERED DREW AT HOME,

AND TALKED TO HIM

ABOUT WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE.

"WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE HER? WHAT DID SHE SAY?

WHO WAS SHE WITH?"

AND DREW BASICALLY TOLD US

THAT HE HADN'T SEEN STACY SINCE YESTERDAY.

DREW HAD RETURNED HOME FROM WORK

ABOUT 5:00 OR 6:00 THAT MORNING.

HE HAD WORKED THAT NIGHT, THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT.

HE SAID HE HAD TALKED TO STACY BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP.

THE CHILDREN WOKE HIM UP ABOUT 10:00 IN THE MORNING.

STACY WAS ALREADY GONE.

DREW JUST WENT ABOUT HIS BUSINESS THE REST OF THE DAY,

TAKING CARE OF THE KIDS, RUNNING ERRANDS.

HE CLAIMED LATER HE GOT A CALL FROM STACY

WHERE SHE INFORMED HIM SHE WAS RUNNING OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN

AND LEAVING HIM AND THE CHILDREN,

AND HE NEVER HEARD FROM HER AGAIN.

Dobrich: SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE,

DREW STARTED TO LOOK FOR HER.

BUT HE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING.

HE WAS VERY CALM.

DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE SHOOK UP.

HE WAS VERY ADAMANT THAT SHE TOOK OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN

AND THAT STACY'S CAR HAD BEEN LOCATED AT CLOW AIRPORT.

Narrator: THEN, INVESTIGATORS TURN THEIR ATTENTION

TO PETERSON'S HOME.

Dobrich: THEY DID ASK DREW IF WE COULD LOOK AROUND.

HE ALLOWED US TO LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE,

BUT HE SAID, "DON'T DISTURB ANYTHING."

SO IT WASN'T A FULL-BLOWN CRIME-SCENE SEARCH.

BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET A FEEL

FOR HOW THINGS WERE IN THE HOUSE.

DID IT LOOK LIKE THERE WAS ANY DISTURBANCES?

WERE THERE HOLES IN THE WALL?

WERE THERE BLOOD STAINS ON THE CARPET?

WERE THERE WEAPONS AROUND?

HOWEVER, WE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING.

NOTHING WAS OUT OF ORDER.

AND THEN WE ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO LOOK THROUGH HIS VEHICLES.

DREW OWNED A DENALI, AND STACY HAD A GRAND PRIX.

HE ALLOWED US TO ONLY SEARCH THE DENALI,

BUT DIDN'T WANT US IN STACY'S CAR.

Karas: SO THAT CAST A LITTLE SUSPICION ON HIM.

LIKE, WHY NOT?

WHY ISN'T HE GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT?

WHY CAN'T THEY SEARCH STACY'S CAR?

Narrator: AS POLICE DIG FOR INFORMATION ON DREW,

THEY ALSO BEGIN TO SCOUR THE COMMUNITY

FOR ANY SIGNS OF STACY.

THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A SEARCH OF THIS MAGNITUDE

IN BOLINGBROOK BEFORE.

THE POLICE WERE USING ALL THEIR RESOURCES

TO LOOK FOR THIS WOMAN.

Narrator: AS THE SEARCH FOR STACY CONTINUES,

THE MEDIA LATCHES ON TO THE STORY.

Brodsky: FOR TWO OR THREE BLOCKS

IN EVERY DIRECTION AROUND DREW'S HOUSE,

NATIONAL AND LOCAL MEDIA HAD TRUCKS --

HUNDREDS OF THEM, LITERALLY.

Karas: THE MEDIA JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT.

THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL 23-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR WHO WAS MISSING,

AND HER HUSBAND'S A COP.

MAYBE THIS IS A GUY WHO MAY KNOW HOW TO MAKE SOMEONE DISAPPEAR

AND GET AWAY WITH IT.

-DREW PETERSON. -DREW PETERSON.

-DREW PETERSON. -DREW PETERSON?

[BLEEP]

Narrator: ADDING TO THE INTRIGUE IS DREW'S DISPOSITION,

WHICH CUTS AGAINST THE ARCHETYPE

OF A MAN WHOSE WIFE IS MISSING.

I'M NOT GOING TO GO HIDE IN A CORNER AND CRY ABOUT IT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST LIKE I PERSONALLY GRIEVE OVER IT.

I DO THAT ALL ON MY OWN.

Dobrich: HE ALWAYS CAME ACROSS AS, "IT'S ALL ABOUT DREW."

SHOWING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DREW PETERSON

AND HAVING THIS GUY IN MY FACE LIKE THIS.

PLEASE GO HOME. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE.

PLEASE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN MY LITTLE WORLD.

[ LAUGHS ]

THEY SAW A PERSONALITY IN DREW THAT WAS CAMERA-WORTHY.

MY REACTION WAS, "HE'S TALKING WHEN HE SHOULDN'T BE,

SO HE'S AN IDIOT."

STAY IN SCHOOL AND DON'T DO DRUGS.

[ Chuckling ] HAVE A GOOD DAY.

Glasgow: HE WAS DRESSED LIKE THE FRITO BANDITO

WITH THE BANDANA, SUN GLASSES, A BASEBALL HAT.

IT WAS GETTING A LITTLE WEIRD.

MAYBE DREW THOUGHT THAT

ALL OF THOSE MEDIA APPEARANCES WERE DOING SOME GOOD.

BUT IN THE END,

IT ONLY HIGHLIGHTED THIS NARCISSISTIC FIGURE

WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING TO GRAB THE SPOTLIGHT.

Narrator: IN THE WEEKS AFTER STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE,

DREW SHOWS LITTLE INTEREST IN THE EFFORTS OF POLICE.

HE ENJOYED MEDIA ATTENTION WHEN YOU WOULD THINK

HE WOULD BE MORE INTERESTED IN, "HOW'S THE INVESTIGATION GOING?

IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP?"

DREW NEVER HELPED OUT WITH ANY OF THE SEARCHES.

HE SAID THERE WAS NO POINT.

WHY WOULD I LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO I DON'T BELIEVE IS MISSING?

SHE'S JUST GONE.

SHE'S WHERE SHE WANTS TO BE.

Narrator: DESPITE DREW'S INSISTENCE,

AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO SCOUR THE REGION FOR STACY.

Burek: THIS WAS SOMEBODY WE WERE LOOKING FOR VERY INTENSELY,

AND WE WANTED INFORMATION.

THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN WE WOULD SEARCH AREAS

WHERE SKELETAL REMAINS WERE FOUND.

ALL OF THOSE PROVED TO EITHER BE MAYBE MALE SKELETON REMAINS

OR DIFFERENT AGE BRACKETS THAN WE WERE LOOKING.

Hosey: IN ALL OF THESE OPERATIONS THEY DID,

THEY NEVER FOUND STACY OR ANY SIGN OF STACY.

Narrator: THEN, POLICE UNCOVER SURPRISING INFORMATION

THAT LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE

THAT DREW MAY BE TELLING THE TRUTH.

STACY HAD RECENTLY BEEN TEXTING WITH ANOTHER MAN.

Dobrich: STACY HAD BEEN TO HIS HOME.

WE KNEW THAT THEY HAD A RELATIONSHIP.

DREW SAID, "IF SHE'S WITH ANYBODY,

SHE'S GONNA BE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN."

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Narrator: DAYS AFTER STACY PETERSON DISAPPEARS,

STATE POLICE ARE ON THE HUNT

FOR A MAN SHE MAY HAVE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH.

THE INVESTIGATION IDENTIFIED AN INDIVIDUAL

WHOSE NAME WAS SCOTT ROSSETTO.

SCOTT WAS A FRIEND OF STACY'S AND KNEW HER IN HIGH SCHOOL.

DREW SAID, "IF SHE'S WITH ANYBODY,

SHE'S GONNA BE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN."

HE BECAME PRIORITY NUMBER ONE.

Narrator: POLICE MAKE A REQUEST FOR CELLPHONE RECORDS

TO EXAMINE EXCHANGES BETWEEN SCOTT AND STACY.

THEN, THEY TRACK DOWN ROSSETTO

AND BRING HIM IN FOR QUESTIONING.

SCOTT SAID THAT THEY HAD RECONNECTED IN OCTOBER,

BUT IT WAS A SURPRISE TO HIM.

HE NEVER EXPECTED HER CALL.

SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE HAD FOUND HIS PHONE NUMBER

WHILE SHE WAS CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE.

HE SAID, PRIOR TO HER DISAPPEARANCE,

STACY AND SCOTT GOT TOGETHER AT HIS HOUSE ONCE.

HE ADMITTED THAT

HE HAD A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP WITH STACY,

THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH AWARE

THAT STACY WAS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS PRESS ROSSETTO

ON HIS WHEREABOUTS THE NIGHT STACY VANISHED.

HE WAS A NURSE AT ONE OF THE LOCAL HOSPITALS.

HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS WORKING WHEN STACY DISAPPEARED.

Narrator: THEN, ROSSETTO RECOUNTS AN INCIDENT

THAT OCCURRED ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HER DISAPPEARANCE.

THE EXPERIENCE LEFT HIM TERRIFIED.

Glasgow: HE SAID STACY AND SCOTT HAD GONE OUT TO EAT THAT NIGHT.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY SEE

THIS BOLINGBROOK SQUAD CAR CIRCLING THE RESTAURANT,

AND IT'S DREW PETERSON, AND HE'S STARING AT THEM.

AND THEN HE PARKS HIS CAR AND COMES IN.

DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING,

AND JUST FORCIBLY SITS DOWN WITH THEM

AND STARES AT ALL OF THEM.

DREW PETERSON WAS IN FULL UNIFORM.

STACY HANDLED THE SITUATION CALMLY,

BUT SCOTT FEARED DREW, AND IT GOT TENSE.

Hosey: DREW WAS VERY ANGRY.

HE DIDN'T WANT HIM HANGING AROUND WITH STACY.

HE SAID TO HIM, "HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THIS WAS YOUR WIFE?"

Dobrich: IT KIND OF PUT MR. ROSSETTO

BACK A LITTLE BIT.

AND HE ASKED MR. ROSSETTO FOR HIS IDENTIFICATIONS,

AND HE PROVIDED HIM WITH HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE.

Glasgow: IT WAS CRAZY.

IT'S OUT OF A "B" MOVIE, A BAD "B" MOVIE.

AND THEN DREW LEFT THE RESTAURANT.

Karas: THAT PROBABLY MADE ROSSETTO REALIZE

THIS IS NOT A WOMAN TO GET INVOLVED WITH.

IT TOTALLY WEIRDED HIM OUT.

Narrator: POLICE PUT ROSSETTO ON THE BACK BURNER

UNTIL THEY RECEIVE CELLPHONE DATA THAT RAISES THEIR CONCERN.

Dobrich: WHEN STACY WENT MISSING,

DREW CLAIMED THAT HE GOT A PHONE CALL FROM STACY THAT EVENING.

AND WE GOT THE CELLPHONE TOWER RECORDS

TO SHOW THOSE PHONE PINGS.

Narrator: THE LOCATION OF THE PINGS PIQUES THEIR INTEREST.

Dobrich: THOSE CELLPHONE CALLS FROM STACY

CAME FROM THE SHOREWOOD AREA,

WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN WHERE SCOTT ROSSETTO RESIDED.

Hosey: THAT CALL TO DREW'S CELLPHONE

WAS MADE RIGHT AROUND THE TIME

THAT DREW HAD GOTTEN A CALL FROM STACY

AND SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS RUNNING AWAY WITH ANOTHER MAN.

Narrator: ALSO BURIED IN THE CELLPHONE DATA,

POLICE DISCOVER A COLLECTION OF SECRETS.

Dobrich: WE DIDN'T HAVE STACY'S TELEPHONE,

BUT THE COMPANY MAINTAINED TEXT-MESSAGE RECORDS.

SO WE WERE ABLE TO READ THOSE TEXT MESSAGES.

THERE WERE TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN HER AND SCOTT

THAT WOULD MAKE A HUSBAND JEALOUS.

IT WAS A CONNECTION.

Karas: THEY WERE PRETTY RACY.

CHANCES ARE, IF YOU'RE SENDING SEXY MESSAGES LIKE THIS,

YOU'RE PROBABLY HAVING A PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP.

Narrator: POLICE CALL ROSSETTO BACK IN FOR MORE QUESTIONING

AND CONFRONT HIM WITH THE EXPLOSIVE EVIDENCE.

HE SAID, "LOOK, I'M A FLIRT. SHE'S A FLIRT.

YEAH, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DOING, BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT."

BUT IT WAS CLEAR IN HIS MIND THAT STACY WAS PURSUING HIM.

Narrator: THEN DETECTIVES BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE

ROSSETTO'S ALIBI.

SCOTT SAYS HE WAS WORKING AT A HOSPITAL THAT DAY

AND THAT RECORDS WOULD PROVE THAT.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE

HE WAS AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

Narrator: HOWEVER, ONE DETAIL ABOUT ROSSETTO

CONTINUES TO VEX AUTHORITIES.

WHY WOULD STACY'S PHONE BE IN SCOTT'S NEIGHBORHOOD

IF HE WASN'T WITH HER?

Narrator: POLICE ARE STAGGERED

BY THEIR INABILITY TO PIN DOWN A SUSPECT

OR UNCOVER THE SLIGHTEST HINT OF STACY'S WHEREABOUTS.

BUT THEY MAY SOON GET THEIR ANSWER.

Karas: THIS MAN SAYS HE GOT A CALL FROM DREW.

DREW SAID, "I GOT A BIG PROBLEM ON MY HANDS,

AND I NEED HELP TAKING CARE OF IT."

♪♪

Narrator: IN LATE OCTOBER,

A NEW WITNESS EMERGES IN THE MISSING PERSON INVESTIGATION

OF 23-YEAR-OLD STACY PETERSON.

HE WAS ACTUALLY BROUGHT TO US BY A PHONE CALL FROM THE FBI.

THEY SAID THAT THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL IN A HOSPITAL

WHO HAD INFORMATION REGARDING THE STACY PETERSON CASE.

SO, IMMEDIATELY, WE SENT AGENTS OUT TO INTERVIEW HIM.

THOMAS MORPHEY WAS HIS NAME.

MORPHEY WAS DREW PETERSON'S STEP-BROTHER.

Narrator: MORPHEY TELLS INVESTIGATORS

THAT THE NIGHT BEFORE STACY DISAPPEARED,

DREW CAME TO HIM WITH AN URGENT CONCERN.

DREW TALKED ABOUT STACY HAVING THIS AFFAIR WITH A MAN

AND THAT DREW NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM.

HE ASSUMED THAT DREW WAS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THE MAN.

THE NEXT DAY THEY MET, AND DREW DROVE HIM TO A PARK,

AND HE GAVE HIM A PHONE.

30 MINUTES AFTER DREW LEFT, THERE WAS A PHONE CALL,

AND THE CELLPHONE SAID IT WAS STACY'S CELL CALLING.

AND THEN DREW APPEARED AGAIN, PICKED HIM UP.

AND ACCORDING TO MORPHEY, HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO.

HOWEVER, DREW, AS MANIPULATIVE AS HE WAS,

DROVE HIM TO THE HOUSE, AND THEY WENT INSIDE.

Hosey: THEY WENT UP TO DREW AND STACY'S BEDROOM,

WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE, BLUE PLASTIC BARREL.

AND DREW ASKED TOM TO HELP HIM CARRY IT DOWN

TO HIS DENALI PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY.

TOM SAID THE BARREL WAS CLOSED.

HE COULDN'T SEE INSIDE, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS INSIDE.

Dobrich: AND SO, MORPHEY HELPED DREW CARRY IT DOWN.

DREW WAS TELLING HIM TO BE CAREFUL --

HE DIDN'T WANT TO SPILL ANYTHING.

ACCORDING TO MORPHEY,

HE WAS CONCERNED BY WHAT HE WAS CARRYING.

HE SAID IT WAS WARM TO TOUCH.

MORPHEY HELPED CARRY IT OUTSIDE INTO DREW'S DENALI,

AND THEN MORPHEY GOT BACK IN THE CAR, AND DREW TOOK HIM HOME.

Narrator: BUT MORPHEY IS PLAGUED BY SUSPICION.

HE THINKS HE HELPED DREW MOVE A BODY,

AND HE THINKS IT WAS HIS SISTER-IN-LAW.

TOM WAS DISTRAUGHT OVER THE FACT AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Hosey: AFTER HE'S DROPPED OFF BY DREW,

TOM STARTED DRINKING,

AND HE WAS FEELING REMORSE AND REGRET,

AND HE TRIED TO OVERDOSE ON PILLS.

HE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF.

Narrator: BUT MORPHEY'S GIRLFRIEND STEPS IN TO HELP.

SHE KNEW HE WAS IN TROUBLE

AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AS QUICKLY AS SHE COULD.

MORPHEY WAS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE,

THE DOCTORS INSISTED HE SPEND A NUMBER OF DAYS THERE,

BUT, FORTUITOUSLY, HE SURVIVED,

AND THE INFORMATION THAT HE PROVIDED TO INVESTIGATORS

WAS SEEN AS A BOON.

THIS IS THE LEAD THEY HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR.

Narrator: BUT MORPHEY'S HARROWING TALE

LACKS AN EXTREMELY CRUCIAL PIECE OF INFORMATION.

HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DREW DID WITH THAT BARREL.

Narrator: POLICE ATTEMPT TO VERIFY MORPHEY'S STORY

AND LAUNCH A MASSIVE HUNT FOR THE BLUE BARREL.

Dobrich: WE LEARNED THAT

THERE WAS A CALL MADE FROM DREW'S PHONE

IN THE AREA OF 135th AND ROUTE 53.

IT'S RIGHT WHERE THE BRIDGE CROSSES THE CANAL THERE.

THE CANAL IS BASICALLY

A VERY UNFRIENDLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC PLACE --

QUITE FRANKLY, A GOOD PLACE TO DUMP A BODY.

SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE DIVERS GO IN THE WATER THERE.

WE SEARCHED FOR DAYS, IF NOT WEEKS.

WE STARTED TOWING CARS OUT OF THERE AND SEARCHING EACH CAR,

THINKING MAYBE A BODY'S IN HERE.

AND I THINK WE PULLED OUT 25 OR 30 STOLEN VEHICLES,

BUT NO BODY.

Narrator: WITH NO SIGN OF THE BARREL,

THE INVESTIGATION GRINDS TO A HALT.

COMPOUNDING MATTERS,

DREW MAKES A MEDIA APPEARANCE TO DENY MORPHEY'S STORY

AND TO COYLY CALL HIS CHARACTER INTO QUESTION.

I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BAD-MOUTH TOMMY.

HE HAS SOME SERIOUS EMOTIONAL ISSUES.

HE WAS LOSING HIS HOUSE, LOSING HIS WIFE,

HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM, HAD A SUICIDAL PROBLEM.

SO I REALLY -- AND HE IS A FAMILY MEMBER,

SO I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BAD-MOUTH HIM HERE.

DREW PETERSON -- HE'S SO SPELL BINDING.

HE SEEMED COOL AND CALM UNDER PRESSURE.

YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT

THIS MAN HAD BEEN PINPOINTED

AS A SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.

Narrator: AS FOR MORPHEY'S TRUTHFULNESS,

INVESTIGATORS GIVE IT DEEP CONSIDERATION.

TOM HAD A HISTORY OF DRUG ABUSE,

HE HAD A HISTORY OF ALCOHOL ABUSE,

AND WE TOOK THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

INVESTIGATORS DON'T GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE

WHO THEIR WITNESSES ARE.

Narrator: BUT AS THEY DIG INTO MORPHEY'S STORY,

THEY UNCOVER A CRITICAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE.

THERE WAS ONE THING THAT HELPED US VERIFY

WHAT MORPHEY WAS SAYING.

AND HE ORDERED A COFFEE WITH VANILLA,

AND WE WENT TO THAT STARBUCKS.

AND AT THE TIME THAT HE SAID HE WAS THERE,

THERE WAS DREW PETERSON ON THE VIDEO, ORDERING THAT.

AND IT WAS THE ONLY COFFEE WITH VANILLA THE WHOLE DAY,

WHICH HELPED US NAIL DOWN THAT

THAT WAS A TRUTHFUL STATEMENT ON HIS PART.

Dobrich: WE DISCOUNTED DREW'S OPINION OF HIM

BECAUSE MORPHEY WAS VERY CONSISTENT

WITH WHAT HE TOLD US EACH AND EVERY TIME,

AND HE FELT BAD ENOUGH THAT HE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

♪♪

Narrator: THEN POLICE FIND SOMEONE

WHO CAN CORROBORATE THE EXISTENCE OF THE BARREL.

Cales: BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED,

ME AND STACY WALKED OUT TO THE GARAGE,

AND THERE WAS THIS BLUE BARREL.

AND I SAID -- I GO, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"

AND SHE'S JUST LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW.

SOMETHING DREW GOT FOR THE POOL. IT'S CHLORINE OR SOMETHING."

Narrator: WITH THE HELP OF MORPHEY'S ACCOUNT,

INVESTIGATORS PIECE TOGETHER WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO STACY.

Dobrich: ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 28th,

WE KNOW THAT STACY WAS TEXT-MESSAGING SCOTT ROSSETTO.

ONE OF THE THEORIES THAT WE HAD

WAS THAT DREW ENCOUNTERED STACY WHEN SHE WAS MESSAGING SCOTT,

AND THAT HE BECAME ENRAGED AND KILLED HER IN THE BEDROOM.

♪♪

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT

DREW PLACED HER BODY IN THE BARREL AND SEALED IT.

THEN, IN AN ATTEMPT TO LAY THE BLAME ELSEWHERE,

HE GRABBED STACY'S PHONE.

THE THEORY WAS THAT DREW WAS TRYING TO FRAME SCOTT ROSSETTO

BY MAKING STACY'S CELLPHONE CALL

FROM NEARBY SCOTT'S HOUSE TO HIS OWN PHONE

TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE STACY HAD BEEN WITH SCOTT,

AND THEN DREW GOT RID OF HIS DEAD WIFE'S BODY.

Narrator: ON NOVEMBER 9th, ENCOURAGED BY THEIR THEORY,

THE POLICE MAKE A DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT.

I WOULD SAY THAT, RIGHT NOW,

DREW PETERSON HAS GONE FROM A PERSON OF INTEREST

TO CLEARLY BEING A SUSPECT.

THE CASE HAS SHIFTED NOW

FROM A MISSING-PERSON CASE TO A POTENTIAL HOMICIDE CASE.

WE HAD CONSULTED WITH AGENTS FROM THE FBI IN QUANTICO.

AND THEIR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT

BASICALLY GAVE US THE OPINION

THAT HE WAS A NARCISSISTIC INDIVIDUAL

AND THAT HE WAS COMPLETELY CAPABLE OF HOMICIDE.

Narrator: BUT DESPITE THE COMPELLING NARRATIVE,

AUTHORITIES LACK THE CONFIDENCE TO CHARGE DREW WITH MURDER.

THE MAIN REASON RIGHT NOW IS THAT THERE IS NO BODY.

THE CONCERN IS ALWAYS THAT, WITHOUT A BODY,

THAT, IF IT RESULTS IN AN ACQUITTAL

AND THEN A BODY TURNS UP LATER,

DOUBLE JEOPARDY APPLIES.

Aikin: IT'S JUST HARD NOT HAVING A BODY.

THERE'S JUST SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

Narrator: AS THE INVESTIGATION GROWS COLD,

INVESTIGATORS DIG DEEPER INTO DREW'S PAST

AND MAKE A SHOCKING DISCOVERY.

STACY ISN'T THE ONLY ONE OF DREW'S WIVES THAT'S DIED.

Howard: THE INVESTIGATION INTO THIS DEATH WAS MISHANDLED,

AND THAT RAISED RED FLAGS.

Narrator: IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STACY PETERSON,

INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER STARTLING INFORMATION

ABOUT DREW'S PREVIOUS WIFE, KATHLEEN SAVIO.

IN 2004, DREW HAD ALREADY DIVORCED KATHLEEN

AND WAS MARRIED TO STACY, WHO WAS HIS FOURTH WIFE.

THAT SAME YEAR, KATHLEEN DIED IN WHAT POLICE DETERMINED

WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A FREAK ACCIDENT.

Narrator: BUT THREE YEARS LATER,

STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE IGNITES NEW SCRUTINY OF SAVIO'S DEATH.

Glasgow: I'M JIM GLASGOW, WILL COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY.

KATHLEEN SAVIO HAD DIED UNDER VERY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

ONCE I BECAME AWARE OF IT, WE PULLED THE FILE.

THE BIG QUESTION WAS, WAS IT AN ACCIDENT OR A HOMICIDE?

Narrator: AS GLASGOW DIGS INTO

THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF SAVIO'S DEATH,

HIS OFFICE ALSO PIECES TOGETHER HER BACKGROUND.

Doman: MY NAME IS SUE SAVIO DOMAN.

I'M KATHLEEN SAVIO'S SISTER.

SHE WAS VERY AMBITIOUS, VERY KIND, ALWAYS SMILING.

SHE WOULD LIGHT UP THE ROOM,

AND SHE WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY.

Hosey: BUT, ALSO, SHE WAS TOUGH.

SHE WAS STRONG-WILLED AND OPINIONATED,

AND NO ONE WAS GONNA PUSH HER AROUND.

KATHLEEN WAS WORKING AS A BOOKKEEPER

WHEN SHE AND DREW MET.

SHE HAD NEVER BEEN MARRIED.

SHE AND DREW WENT OUT ON A BLIND DATE,

AND PRETTY QUICKLY, HE ASKED HER TO MARRY,

AND WITHIN MONTHS, SHE'LL BECOME HIS THIRD WIFE.

Narrator: AFTER THEIR NUPTIALS ON MAY 3, 1992,

KATHLEEN AND DREW SETTLE INTO LIFE TOGETHER IN BOLINGBROOK,

WHERE SHE GIVES BIRTH TO TWO SONS,

BUT THE RELATIONSHIP SOON SHIFTS.

SHE WAS HAPPY IN THE BEGINNING, BUT HE WOULD CALL HER NAMES.

HE SAID SHE WAS GETTING FAT, SHE LOOKED LIKE A DOG,

AND THAT ESCALATED.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO SUE,

HER BROTHER-IN-LAW COP THEN CROSSES THE LINE.

I'D GET CALLS, AND SHE WOULD SAY,

"HE'S HITTING ME."

AND DREW WOULD TAKE THE PHONE AWAY,

AND HE WOULD LAUGH AND SAY, "EVERYTHING'S OKAY.

SHE'S JUST HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK, AND SHE'S FINE.

YOU KNOW, SHE'S CRAZY."

HE HUNG UP.

AND I CALLED BACK, AND NOBODY ANSWERED.

Narrator: IN SPITE OF THE ABUSE,

KATHLEEN TRIES TO MAKE THE RELATIONSHIP WORK.

THEN, IN OCTOBER 2001,

SHE RECEIVES THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME.

Brodsky: SHE GOT AN ANONYMOUS LETTER

FROM SOMEBODY THAT WAS WORKING FOR THE VILLAGE OF BOLINGBROOK,

AND SAID, BASICALLY, "DREW'S MAKING A FOOL OUT OF YOU.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT HE'S CHEATING WITH THIS YOUNG GIRL."

Dobrich: THIS ANONYMOUS LETTER IDENTIFIED STACY

AS BEING THE WOMAN THAT DREW WAS SEEING.

Hosey: THE LETTER MADE IT OUT

LIKE HIS AFFAIR WITH STACY WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE

AND EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT IT BUT HER.

Narrator: UNTIL NOW,

DREW SUCCESSFULLY CONCEALED THE AFFAIR FROM KATHLEEN,

EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HAPPENING RIGHT UNDER HER ROOF.

WHILE KATHLEEN AND THE KIDS WERE UPSTAIRS SLEEPING,

STACY WOULD SNEAK OVER THERE TO KATHLEEN'S HOUSE

THROUGH THE WINDOW AND ENTER THEIR BASEMENT

AND SLEEP AND HAVE SEX WITH DREW.

Doman: HE HAD A SECRET ROOM DOWN THERE.

IT WAS SCARY.

IT WAS ALL BLACK.

THE BED WAS BLACK.

MIRRORS ON THE WALL.

AND IT HAD, LIKE, A PADLOCK ON THE DOOR.

Karas: SO HOW DISGUSTING IS THAT,

THAT HE'S BRINGING THIS TEENAGER INTO THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOME

TO HAVE SEX WITH HER

WHILE HIS WIFE AND SONS ARE SLEEPING UPSTAIRS?

TALK ABOUT PLAYING WITH FIRE.

Narrator: FED UP WITH DREW'S CHEATING AND ABUSE,

KATHLEEN RESOLVES TO TAKE ACTION.

AT THAT POINT IN TIME,

SHE DECIDED SHE WAS GONNA DIVORCE HIM.

Howard: SOON ENOUGH, THEIR RELATIONSHIP UNRAVELED,

BUT IT TOOK MONTHS BEFORE THE PAIR AGREED UPON THEIR DIVORCE.

Glasgow: HER LIFE WAS TORN ASUNDER

WHEN SHE GOT THE LETTER.

HER WHOLE WORLD CAME CRASHING DOWN.

Narrator: WITHIN MONTHS, DREW MOVES TO A NEARBY HOUSE

WITH THE TEENAGED STACY.

AND THE PENDING DIVORCE

TURNS THE NEIGHBORHOOD INTO A BATTLEFIELD.

Hosey: DREW MOVED DOWN THE STREET FROM HIS EX-WIFE

BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE CLOSE TO HIS CHILDREN.

Karas: THERE WAS A LOT OF CONTACT

BETWEEN DREW AND KATHLEEN.

AND STACY WOULD SOMETIMES ROLLERBLADE PAST THE HOUSE

AND TAUNT HER AND REALLY GET ON HER NERVES.

Narrator: AS THE DIVORCE WINDS ITS WAY

THROUGH THE LEGAL SYSTEM,

EXCHANGING CUSTODY OF KATHLEEN AND DREW'S TWO SONS

BECOMES A FLASH POINT.

Doman: ONE PARTICULAR TIME DREW HAD THE KIDS,

AND HE CALLED AND SAID, "HEY, I'M BRINGING THE KIDS."

SO SHE WENT OUTSIDE,

AND STACY GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND HAD A VIDEO CAMERA.

STACY'S VIDEOTAPING KATHLEEN WITH KATHLEEN'S CAMERA.

AND KATHLEEN WENT TO TRY TO JUST GRAB IT FROM HER.

AND STACY SAID, "YOU HIT ME. YOU HIT ME."

IN THE MEANTIME, THE CHILDREN ARE IN THE CAR, WATCHING THIS.

THEN, DREW HELD HER IN A HEADLOCK,

AND HE TOOK HER TO THE CURB.

Hosey: DREW PLACED HER UNDER ARREST.

SHE WAS CHARGED WITH BATTERY,

BUT KATHLEEN WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY.

THE CASE WAS LATER EXPUNGED.

THERE'S NO RECORD OF IT AT ALL.

THIS WAS A MAN WHO WASN'T AFRAID TO USE AND ABUSE HIS POSITION,

HIS POSITION OF AUTHORITY AS A POLICE OFFICER.

Narrator: THE TURBULENCE OF THE DIVORCE EVENTUALLY SUBSIDES.

AND IN 2003, KATHLEEN AND DREW REACH AN AGREEMENT.

Hosey: DREW AND KATHLEEN HAD A VERY UNUSUAL DIVORCE.

IT WAS A BIFURCATED DIVORCE.

THEIR MARRIAGE ENDED WITHOUT SETTLING THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS,

WHICH IS GENERALLY WHAT PEOPLE FIGHT OVER THE MOST.

DREW AND KATHLEEN AGREED TO DO THIS

SO THAT DREW COULD MARRY STACY.

STACY WAS ALREADY PREGNANT.

Glasgow: AND THAT PROBABLY WAS NOT THE BEST DECISION

FOR KATHLEEN SAVIO.

Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING TO A POLICE REPORT,

ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2004,

AFTER MONTHS OF PEACE, DREW ENCOUNTERS A PROBLEM.

Hosey: DREW HAD HIS SONS FOR WEEKEND VISITATION.

THEY WENT TO THE SHEDD AQUARIUM IN CHICAGO.

Dobrich: THEY CAME BACK FROM THAT OUTING,

AND DREW BEGAN TO CONTACT KATHLEEN

TO RETURN THE KIDS TO HER BECAUSE SHE HAD CUSTODY.

HE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR -- DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSE.

Hosey: SO HE WENT TO THE NEIGHBORS

AND ASKED THEM IF KATHLEEN WAS AROUND.

AND THEY HADN'T SEEN HER, EITHER.

SO HE CALLED A LOCKSMITH.

Karas: ACCORDING TO DREW,

IT WOULD BE BETTER IF HE DIDN'T GO INTO THE HOUSE.

AFTER ALL, HE'D THIS ACRIMONIOUS SPLIT FROM KATHLEEN,

SO SOMEONE ELSE CAN GO IN THE HOUSE.

SO, HE CONTACTED THE NEIGHBORS,

MARY PONTARELLI AND STEVE CARCERANO.

Dobrich: AND DREW TOLD THEM, "I WANT YOU TO GO IN.

TAKE A LOOK AROUND. I'LL STAY OUTSIDE."

Karas: STEVE AND MARY WENT IN LOOKING FOR KATHLEEN,

AND THEY WENT UPSTAIRS.

♪♪

STEVE GOES INTO THE BATHROOM, FOLLOWED BY MARY,

AND FOUND KATHLEEN IN THE TUB.

WHEN MARY SEES HER BEST FRIEND, OBVIOUSLY DEAD, SHE SCREAMS.

AND THEN DREW RAN UP THE STAIRS,

AND THEN THEY CALLED THE POLICE.

Narrator: IN 2004, THE DEATH WAS RULED AN ACCIDENT,

BUT NOW INVESTIGATORS SEE RED FLAGS.

Dobrich: THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THAT STOOD OUT.

INVESTIGATORS, AT THE TIME, BELIEVED

THAT SHE DIED AS A RESULT OF A FALL IN THE BATHTUB.

ASSUMINGLY, THE OFFICERS THOUGHT

THAT WAS A RESULT OF HITTING HER HEAD,

BUT THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION DONE TO SUPPORT THAT CONCLUSION.

Glasgow: THEY BROUGHT THE BODY TO THE CORONER'S FACILITY.

THEY LED THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

TO BELIEVE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT,

AND SO HE DIDN'T DO

AS THOROUGH AS AUTOPSY AS HE MIGHT HAVE DONE.

Narrator: OFFICIALS QUICKLY DETERMINE

THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS DROWNING.

BE HARD TO IMAGINE A MORE FLAWED INVESTIGATION.

IT WAS OVER BEFORE IT STARTED.

Narrator: NOW, THREE YEARS AFTER SAVIO'S DEATH,

GLASGOW DECIDES THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY

TO DETERMINE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.

WE HADN'T HAD AN EXHUMATION IN 40 YEARS.

I MEAN, SO WHEN I SAID, "WE'RE GOING TO DO AN EXHUMATION,

EVERYBODY SAID, "WHAT? WE'RE GONNA DO A WHAT?"

I SAID, "ABSOLUTELY.

WE HAVE TO DO SOME OF THE EXAMINATIONS

THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN DONE AT THE ORIGINAL AUTOPSY "

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS REMOVE SAVIO'S BODY FROM ITS GRAVE

AND RE-EXAMINE PHOTOS FROM THE FIRST AUTOPSY.

Dr. Blum: I'M DR. LARRY BLUM.

I PERFORMED AN AUTOPSY ON KATHLEEN SAVIO.

I BELIEVE THERE WERE UP TO 16 AREAS OF HER BODY

THAT SHOWED INJURIES,

AND SHE HAD BRUISES ON BOTH SIDES.

ALL THE BRUISES THAT I LOOKED AT

APPEARED TO BE VERY RECENT.

BUT TO SLIP IN A SMALL, GARDEN-SIZED TUB IN HER HOME

AND COME UP WITH ALL THESE INJURIES --

I COULDN'T CONCEIVE OF IT.

Narrator: ON FEBRUARY 21, 2008,

AFTER COUNTLESS HOURS SPENT EXAMINING KATHLEEN'S CORPSE,

HE COMES TO A STRIKING CONCLUSION.

I FOUND KATHLEEN SAVIO DIED OF DROWNING DUE TO HOMICIDAL MEANS.

Glasgow: WE KNEW THAT THIS WAS A HOMICIDE.

WE HAD A LONG WAY TO GO TO PROVE IT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.

Narrator: IN HINDSIGHT, THOSE CLOSEST TO STACY

NOW VIEW THE DEATH OF KATHLEEN WITH SUSPICION.

Aikin: ON THE DAY THAT KATHLEEN WAS FOUND,

STACY CALLED ME, CRYING.

SHE WAS IN A HYSTERICAL STATE OF MIND.

SHE WAS JUST REALLY UPSET AND SHOCKED.

I CAN SEE THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY.

Narrator: AS PROSECUTORS INVESTIGATE

DREW'S ROLE IN KATHLEEN'S DEATH,

THEY DIG DEEPER INTO HIS PAST,

AND THEY DISCOVER TROUBLING THROUGH LINES

IN ALL FOUR OF HIS MARRIAGES,

STARTING WITH HIS FIRST IN 1974.

DREW MARRIED HIS HIGH-SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND, CAROL.

THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER, ERIC AND STEPHEN.

THEY WERE MARRIED WHILE DREW WAS IN THE ARMY.

AND THEIR FAMILY LIVED IN ILLINOIS

WHILE DREW WAS A POLICE OFFICER.

THE MARRIAGE ENDED AFTER SEVERAL YEARS

DUE TO DREW'S INFIDELITY,

WHICH WAS A RECURRING THEME IN HIS MARRIAGES.

AFTER HE AND CAROL DIVORCED,

DREW MARRIED A WOMAN NAMED VICKI CONNOLLY.

SHE HAD A CHILD FROM A PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP,

SO DREW HAD A STEPDAUGHTER NOW.

HE HAD HIS TWO SONS AND HIS STEPDAUGHTER.

Howard: HE CHEATED ON HER, TOO,

WITH NONE OTHER THAN KATHLEEN SAVIO.

HE DIVORCED VICKI IN 1992.

Narrator: VICKI ALSO CLAIMS THAT DREW ABUSED HER.

AND THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS

THAT HE INTENDED TO CAUSE HER EVEN MORE HARM.

AT ONE POINT, VICKI GOT INTO A VERY SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT,

BUT SURVIVED.

SOME BELIEVE, PRIOR TO THAT,

DREW MAY HAVE TAMPERED WITH THE BRAKES.

Narrator: WITH A PATTERN OF ABUSE ESTABLISHED,

INVESTIGATORS ARE CONVINCED THEY'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

AND IN NOVEMBER 2007, AS PRESSURE ON HIM MOUNTS,

PETERSON SEEKS LEGAL COUNSEL.

Brodsky: MY NAME IS JOEL BRODSKY,

AND I WAS THE LEAD CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY

FOR DREW PETERSON.

GENERALLY SPEAKING,

THE FIRST RULE OF BEING A SUSPECT IN A CRIME

IS YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT -- YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING.

I WOULD ALWAYS TELL HIM, "OKAY, DON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA."

THERE WAS ALWAYS CONCERN

THAT HE WAS GONNA SAY THE WRONG THING.

Narrator: DESPITE BRODSKY'S ADVICE,

DREW CONTINUES TO GRANDSTAND.

WHENEVER ANYTHING FLARES UP -- YOU KNOW,

WE'RE ACCUSED OF SOMETHING OR I'M ACCUSED OF SOMETHING

IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION --

I HAVE A NEED TO GO OUT THERE AND JUST DEFEND MYSELF

THROUGH THESE ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE.

DREW PETERSON REALLY WAS ENAMORED OF THE CAMERA.

HE LOVED THE ATTENTION.

Narrator: IN JANUARY 2008,

DREW'S ANTICS CATCH THE ATTENTION OF A LOCAL CELEBRITY.

Brodsky: STEVE DAHL IS A MAJOR RADIO PERSONALITY IN CHICAGO.

STEVE DAHL WAS ALSO DOING DREW PETERSON IMPERSONATIONS

ON HIS SHOW.

Dahl: "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I THINK?

IT'S A SHAME THAT

HER 'REST IN PEACE' HAS TO BE DISTURBED."

Brodsky: THAT BECAME ALMOST TOO BIG OF A TEMPTATION

FOR DREW NOT TO PLAY WITH HIM.

I WAS, "OH, SURE. WHY NOT?

JUST REMEMBER --

YOU CAN'T TALK [Chuckling] ABOUT THE CASE."

Karas: SO DREW AND HIS ATTORNEY, JOEL BRODSKY,

APPROACH HIM WITH AN IDEA.

THEY SAID, "HEY, HOW ABOUT DOING A SEGMENT

ON WIN A DATE WITH DREW?"

Dahl: OH, I'LL DO A DATING GAME WITH YOU.

-DREW? -ME?

Brodsky: IT'S UP TO YOU, MAN.

Peterson: I DON'T KNOW. ASK THE LAWYER.

YEAH. WHY NOT?

Brodsky: DREW'S POSITION WAS,

"MY WIFE STACY RAN OFF WITH ANOTHER GUY.

SO WHAT AM I GONNA DO? I'M NOT GONNA BECOME A MONK.

SO WHAT'S WITH ME MEETING WOMEN THROUGH THE RADIO?"

Narrator: BUT DREW'S ROMANTIC RADIO SCHEME

COMPLETELY BACKFIRES.

Karas: HE'S MAKING LIGHT OF HIS BACHELORHOOD

WHEN MANY PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC BELIEVE

HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING TWO WIVES.

"HEY, WHO WANTS TO BE THE NEXT WIFE?"

YEAH. RIGHT.

AND SO THEY PULLED THE IDEA.

[ LIGHT CLICKS ]

THE STATION CHICKENED OUT.

Narrator: THEN, ON MAY 7, 2009,

THE JOKE IS OVER FOR DREW.

Hosey: A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER STACY DISAPPEARED,

MORE THAN 5 YEARS AFTER KATHLEEN DIED...

[ SIREN WAILING ]

...DREW PETERSON WAS CHARGED

WITH THE MURDER OF KATHLEEN SAVIO.

I GOT A CALL FROM THE STATE POLICE,

AND THEY TOLD ME HE'S BEING ARRESTED.

AND I WAS ECSTATIC.

I RAN IN THE LIVING ROOM, PUT THE TV ON,

AND I SAW IT LIVE.

IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE --

FINALLY, FINALLY.

Hosey: IT WAS JUST ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE WRINKLE IN THIS STORY.

HE CAME OFF AS A CRUMB. HE CAME OFF A TERRIBLE GUY.

AND THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE

WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.

Narrator: BUT FOR PROSECUTORS, VICTORY IS FAR FROM ASSURED.

Hosey: ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS WITH KATHLEEN'S CASE

IS THE COMPLETE LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

IF THERE WAS ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE,

THE STATE POLICE DIDN'T BOTHER COLLECTING IT IN 2004.

WE WERE LIKE, "WHERE ARE WE GONNA GO FROM HERE?"

Narrator: TO LINK DREW TO THE CRIME,

PROSECUTORS SEEK TESTIMONY FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.

Karas: THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STATEMENTS

THAT KATHLEEN MADE JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE DIED

AND THAT STACY MADE JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED

THAT THE PROSECUTION ABSOLUTELY NEEDED AT TRIAL

IN ORDER TO SHOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES.

WE NEEDED ALL OF THOSE STATEMENTS

IN ORDER TO PROVE THIS MURDER CASE.

Narrator: BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM --

BECAUSE STACY AND KATHLEEN

CANNOT TESTIFY ON THEIR OWN BEHALF,

THEIR PAST STATEMENTS ARE CONSIDERED HEARSAY,

WHICH IS GENERALLY NOT ADMITTED IN COURT.

Karas: HEARSAY ARE STATEMENTS MADE OUTSIDE OF COURT

BY SOMEONE,

AND ANOTHER PERSON IS GOING TO TESTIFY TO IT,

BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF EXCEPTIONS TO HEARSAY.

Narrator: IN PRETRIAL HEARINGS,

JUDGES GRANT THE PROSECUTION THE USE OF HEARSAY THEY SEEK.

WITH THE STATEMENTS, IT WAS A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME.

THEY HAD A PROVABLE CASE.

Narrator: THE DEFENSE STRIKES BACK WITH A PRETRIAL MOTION

ABOUT A SEPARATE CASE THEY FEAR COULD DAMAGE THEIR CLIENT,

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STACY PETERSON.

Greenberg: IF YOU'VE GOT A CASE LIKE THIS,

YOU'RE ASKING JURORS TO DISREGARD

SOMETHING THAT'S STARING THEM STRAIGHT IN THE FACE.

THEY'D HAVE TO BE LIVING IN A COMPLETE DARK CAVE

TO NOT KNOW THE STACY STORY

AND WONDER, "WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?"

BUT WE GOT THE JUDGE TO ORDER THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE

NO MENTION OF THE FACT THAT STACY DISAPPEARED.

THE JURY, TECHNICALLY, NEVER KNEW STACY WAS GONE.

Narrator: THEN, AT A PRETRIAL PRESS CONFERENCE,

THE DEFENSE TEAM SAVORS THEIR VICTORY.

ONE REPORTER ASKED ABOUT STACY'S STATEMENTS BEING USED AT TRIAL.

Reporter: WHAT DO YOU MAKE

OF THE STACY FACTOR IN THIS TRIAL?

-WHO? -THE STACY FACTOR.

-WHO? STACEY WHO? -STACEY WHO?

SHE'S ON YOUR WITNESS LIST.

-OH, THAT STACY. -OH, THAT -- [ LAUGHS ]

THAT'S WHEN WE DID THE REGRETTABLE, "STACY WHO?"

Hosey: THEN ALL THE OTHER LAWYERS STARTED SAYING,

"STACY WHO?" ALSO, LIKE, "WHO IS SHE?"

IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO BE FUNNY,

THEY REALLY ALIENATED THE PUBLIC.

♪♪

Narrator: FINALLY, ON JULY 31, 2012,

THE TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON BEGINS.

THE CHALLENGE FOR THE PROSECUTION

IS THAT THIS DEATH WAS ORIGINALLY RULED AN ACCIDENT

AND NOW THEY'RE SAYING IT WAS A MURDER.

ON TOP OF IT, THERE'S NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

TYING DREW PETERSON TO THE MURDER.

SO THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF THEM.

Glasgow: I KNEW WE HAD TO DIVE INTO THIS FULL FORCE.

WE LITERALLY WERE WORKING 14 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK.

Narrator: AFTER MONTHS OF ANTICIPATION,

JIM GLASGOW GIVES THE PROSECUTION'S OPENING STATEMENT.

Glasgow: THE KEY IN THE OPENING STATEMENT

WAS TO, YOU KNOW, PORTRAY KATHLEEN SAVIO

AS THE VICTIM THAT SHE WAS,

TRAPPED IN THIS CATCH-22

WITH THIS MANIPULATIVE POLICE OFFICER.

AND WE WERE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO SHOW

THAT HE WAS A DANGEROUS MURDERER.

THERE WAS A HUGE MOTIVE.

THE MONEY WAS THE NUMBER-ONE THING.

EVEN THOUGH DREW AND KATHLEEN HAD BEEN DIVORCED

FOR FIVE MONTHS,

THERE WAS STILL ONE FINAL ASPECT,

AND THAT WAS DIVIDING THE PROPERTY.

KATHLEEN STOOD TO GAIN THE HOUSE,

WHICH WAS WORTH $300,000,

HALF OF DREW'S PENSION,

AND THEN HALF OF OTHER MARITAL PROPERTY.

THAT WAS A LOT FOR DREW PETERSON TO BE GIVING UP.

ACCORDING TO THE STATE, DREW PETERSON WAS SO DESPERATE

NOT TO GIVE KATHLEEN ANY OF HIS PROPERTY AND HIS MONEY

THAT HE WAS WILLING TO KILL HER TO PREVENT IT.

Narrator: THEN, TO ESTABLISH DREW'S VIOLENT TENDENCIES,

GLASGOW DESCRIBES AN ENCOUNTER

THAT KATHLEEN SHARED WITH A LAWYER

AS SHE PREPARED FOR THE DIVORCE.

SHE WAS COMING DOWNSTAIRS WITH A LAUNDRY BASKET,

AND THERE HE WAS, IN A SWAT UNIFORM.

AND HE HELD A KNIFE TO HER THROAT.

Glasgow: HE HELD HER HOSTAGE ON THE STAIRS

FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS,

SAID, "YOU SHOULD JUST DIE."

Karas: HE'S THREATENING TO KILL HER,

AND HE SAID SHE'S NOT GONNA GET ANYTHING IN THE DIVORCE.

SHE FINALLY SAID, LIKE, "GO AHEAD.

DO IT. JUST KILL ME."

AND HE'S LIKE, "NO. I CAN'T KILL THE MOTHER OF MY SONS."

DREW WAS SENDING THE MESSAGE, "YOU'RE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE."

Narrator: GLASGOW TIES TOGETHER THE PIECES OF HIS ARGUMENT

IN A FORCEFUL CONCLUSION.

Glasgow: WE WERE GONNA PRESENT EVIDENCE

THAT DREW PETERSON MURDERED KATHLEEN SAVIO

AND STAGED THE SCENE TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT.

AND WE WERE GONNA SHOW HOW HE KILLED HER.

Greenberg: PROSECUTORS USUALLY ARE VERY BUSINESSLIKE,

AND GLASGOW WAS BUSINESSLIKE.

AND THEN IT WAS OUR TURN.

♪♪

Narrator: DREW'S LEAD ATTORNEY, JOEL BRODSKY,

TAKES AIM AT THE COMING HEARSAY STATEMENTS

FROM PROSECUTION WITNESSES MARY PARKS AND NEIL SCHORI.

BRODSKY CLAIMS THAT KATHLEEN MADE THEM UP

SIMPLY TO STRENGTHEN HER HAND IN THE PENDING DIVORCE.

Brodsky: THAT'S VERY COMMON.

PEOPLE IN BAD DIVORCES

IS JUST TRYING TO HURT THE OTHER SIDE

ANY WAY THEY CAN.

THAT'S THE NATURE OF BAD DIVORCES.

Greenberg: I THINK PEOPLE GO TO THEIR DIVORCE LAWYER,

AND THE DIVORCE LAWYER,

HALF THE TIME, THE FIRST THING THEY SAY IS,

"MAKE UP THAT YOUR HUSBAND HIT YOU."

I THINK THAT'S PRETTY STANDARD IN DIVORCE.

Brodsky: AND IT WAS A PRETTY ROCKY DIVORCE.

EVERY HOUSEWIFE'S WORST NIGHTMARE

IS THAT SHE'S GONNA BE THROWN ASIDE

FOR SOME YOUNGER, PRETTY GIRL.

AND DREW HAD LEFT HER FOR A YOUNGER WOMAN,

AND NOW SHE SEES THIS YOUNG WOMAN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD,

WEARING SHORT SHORTS.

OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS KIND OF, IN KATHY'S MIND,

RUBBING IT IN HER FACE.

KATHY WAS HURT.

SHE HAD A VERY STORMY PERSONALITY.

Narrator: THEN, BRODSKY ARGUES

THAT THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION INTO KATHLEEN'S DEATH

GOT IT RIGHT.

DREW HAS INSISTED FROM DAY ONE, CONSISTENTLY,

THAT KATHLEEN DIED IN AN ACCIDENT.

Greenberg: THE THEORY WAS THAT SHE WAS ON MEDICATION.

SHE FELL ASLEEP, HOT BATH,

AND SORT OF SLIPPED IN AND DROWNED --

FREAK ACCIDENT.

IS IT RARE?

EXTREMELY.

IS IS IMPOSSIBLE? NO.

Narrator: THEN, BRODSKY ROUNDS OUT HIS ARGUMENT

BY PLEADING WITH THE JURY

TO CONSIDER HIS CLIENT'S CHARACTER

WITH AN OPEN MIND.

Greenberg: HE WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A WHILE

AS A MILITARY POLICEMAN

BEFORE BECOMING A BOLINGBROOK POLICE OFFICER.

WE TALKED ABOUT HOW HARD HE WORKED,

WHAT KIND OF A FAMILY MAN HE WAS.

A GOOD OPENING STATEMENT WILL HUMANIZE YOUR CLIENT

AND BRING THE JURORS BACK

AND LET THEM KNOW IT'S NOT SO CUT AND DRY, FOLKS.

Narrator: WITH THE CONCLUSION OF OPENING STATEMENTS,

THE PROSECUTION IS READY TO PRESENT THEIR CASE,

AND THEY CALL A WITNESS THAT LEAVES THE GALLERY STUNNED.

WHAT SHE SAW AND DIDN'T SEE IN THAT BATHROOM WAS CRITICAL.

♪♪

Narrator: IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON,

PROSECUTORS ARE BEGINNING TO EXPLAIN

HOW KATHLEEN'S DEATH WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT,

AND THEY CALL HER NEIGHBOR MARY PONTARELLI TO THE STAND.

Greenberg: MARY WAS A HOUSEWIFE AND KATHLEEN'S BEST FRIEND.

AS SHE DESCRIBED IT, THEY WERE ALMOST INSEPARABLE.

Narrator: MARY GIVES HER ACCOUNT

OF THE DAY KATHLEEN'S BODY WAS DISCOVERED.

Karas: SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM KATHLEEN,

AND DREW REACHES OUT TO HER THAT EVENING.

SHE AND STEVE CARCERANO

ARE THE ONES WHO WENT INTO THE HOUSE FIRST

TO LOOK FOR KATHLEEN,

LEAVING DREW OUTSIDE.

STEVE GOES INTO THE BATHROOM, FOLLOWED BY MARY.

WHEN MARY SEES HER BEST FRIEND IN THE TUB,

OBVIOUSLY DEAD, SHE SCREAMS.

THIS WAS A HORRIBLE SHOCK FOR HER.

Narrator: MARY RECOUNTS THAT, ONCE SHE COLLECTED HERSELF,

SHE BEGAN TO TAKE IN THE SCENE.

Karas: MARY REALIZED THAT

THERE WERE SOME THINGS ABOUT THE BATHROOM

THAT WERE A LITTLE BIT STRANGE.

KATHLEEN'S HAIR WAS DOWN.

SHE ALWAYS PUT IT UP IN A CLIP IF SHE GOING TO BATHE.

SHE WAS WEARING A VERY DELICATE GOLD NECKLACE.

SHE WOULD TAKE HER JEWELRY OFF BEFORE BATHING.

Glasgow: MARY, BASICALLY, WAS LOOKING AT THE BATHROOM

JUST FROM A WOMAN'S STANDPOINT.

THERE WASN'T A BATHROBE NEARBY. THERE WASN'T A TOWEL.

THERE WASN'T A BATH MAT.

Karas: THERE WERE THINGS THAT DIDN'T QUITE LOOK RIGHT TO HER.

LIKE, WHAT REALLY WAS HAPPENING HERE

AT THE TIME SHE DIED IN HER TUB?

MARY PONTARELLI'S TESTIMONY

WAS VERY HELPFUL TO THE PROSECUTION

AS A SCENE SETTER.

WHAT SHE SAW AND DIDN'T SEE IN THAT BATHROOM WAS IMPORTANT.

Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS THE SIGNIFICANCE

OF PONTARELLI'S OBSERVATIONS.

Greenberg: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOOD LAWYERS CAN DO

IS THEY CAN TAKE A PEBBLE AND MAKE IT INTO A BOULDER.

THE STATE DID A GOOD JOB OF THIS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT --

SHE NEVER WOULD'VE HAD HER HAIR LIKE THAT

WHEN SHE TOOK A BATH.

HOW DOES SHE KNOW WHAT SHE DOES WITH HER HAIR?

Narrator: THEN, TO ADDRESS

THE LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE COLLECTED AT THE SCENE,

THE PROSECUTION CALLS

THE OFFICER WHO OVERSAW THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION,

SERGEANT PATRICK COLLINS.

COLLINS DIDN'T HAVE ANY HOMICIDE EXPERIENCE.

HE WASN'T SURE EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT.

HE DEFERRED TO THE CRIME-SCENE TECHNICIAN

IN TERMS OF HANDLING THE SCENE.

AND THE CRIME-SCENE TECHNICIAN BELIEVED

THAT THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT,

SO COLLINS WENT ALONG WITH THAT.

Glasgow: THE EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN AT ONE POINT SAID THAT,

WHEN THEY WERE LIFTING HER BODY OUT OF THE TUB,

KATHLEEN WAS BLEEDING FROM THE BACK OF HER HEAD,

AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK TO SEE

WHERE THE BLOOD WAS COMING FROM.

Karas: THE FACT THAT

THE SCENE WAS NEVER PROCESSED LIKE A CRIME SCENE

MEANT THEY ALSO DIDN'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE

TYING DREW PETERSON TO THE SCENE.

Narrator: THE PROSECUTION THEN HONES IN

ON ANOTHER FLAW IN COLLINS' PERFORMANCE.

♪♪

COLLINS NEVER SECURED THE SCENE.

HE DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANY REASON TO TAKE DIFFERENT ACTION.

THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE TRAIPSING AROUND,

INCLUDING DREW PETERSON.

Howard: THE BATHROOM CONTAINED

THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE EVIDENCE

SURROUNDING THIS CASE,

AND IT WAS LEFT OPEN TO MANIPULATION.

Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE VIEWS THE STATE'S ANALYSIS

AS NOTHING BUT SPECULATION.

Greenberg: THEY DO AN INVESTIGATION,

AND THEN THE PROSECUTION SAYS,

"OUR INVESTIGATORS DIDN'T DO IT RIGHT.

SO FROM THAT, YOU SHOULD INFER THEY MISSED SOMETHING, RIGHT?"

WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY MISSED SOMETHING?

MAYBE THEY DID DO IT RIGHT AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.

Narrator: COLLINS ALSO TESTIFIES

ABOUT HIS INTERVIEW WITH DREW'S WIFE, STACY,

FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KATHLEEN.

ON THE STAND, COLLINS DESCRIBED INTERVIEWING STACY PETERSON

SOON AFTER KATHLEEN'S BODY WAS FOUND IN THE TUB.

DREW APPROACHED COLLINS

AND ASKED PERMISSION TO BE PRESENT

WHEN HE QUESTIONED STACY.

HE SAID THAT STACY WAS UPSET

AND HE JUST WANTED TO BE A COMFORT TO HER

WHILE SHE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED.

SO I GUESS IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL COURTESY,

BUT COLLINS WENT ALONG WITH IT.

AND THAT VIOLATED ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF AN INVESTIGATION.

WASN'T A WISE DECISION TO DO IT THAT WAY.

IT WAS BASICALLY LIKE A MARIONETTE.

HE HAD HIS HAND ON HER,

HELPING HER FINISH HER SENTENCES,

CONTROLLING HER STATEMENT TO THE POLICE.

Karas: WHEN HE QUESTIONED STACY,

SHE SAID THAT HER HUSBAND WAS HOME WITH HER ALL NIGHT.

SHE BACKED HIM UP AND PROVIDED HIS ALIBI

THE NIGHT THAT KATHLEEN WAS KILLED.

WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE SAID

IF COLLINS HAD BEEN TALKING TO HER ONE-ON-ONE?

Narrator: NEXT, FOR INSIGHT

INTO KATHLEEN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH DREW,

THE PROSECUTION CALLS ON AN OLD FRIEND NAMED MARY PARKS.

White: SHE WAS AT THE JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE

WHEN KATHLEEN SAVIO WAS THERE,

AND THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER.

THERE WAS A TIME WHERE SHE JUST NOTICED

THAT KATHY HAD A SWEATER OR SOMETHING ON

WITH A VERY HIGH COLLAR ON IT.

SHE SEEMED TO BE VERY UPSET,

SO THEN MARY QUESTIONED HER ABOUT IT,

AND THEN KATHLEEN SAVIO SHOWED HER

THERE WERE BRUISES ON HER NECK AND RED MARKS ON HER NECK.

KATHLEEN TOLD MARY THAT THOSE WERE CAUSED BY DREW.

Narrator: MARY TESTIFIES THAT, DURING ONE VIOLENT ENCOUNTER,

DREW SAID SOMETHING CHILLING TO KATHLEEN.

WAS MORE OF A STATEMENT,

AND THAT IS, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE?"

Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE

DIRECTLY CHALLENGES PARKS' STORY.

Greenberg: SHE WAS MY WITNESS.

SHE TESTIFIED VERY SPECIFICALLY

ABOUT WHEN THESE CONVERSATIONS HAD TAKEN PLACE --

"IN NOVEMBER, AFTER A CLASS WE HAD TOGETHER,"

AND THEN, ON CROSS-EXAMINATION,

I BROUGHT OUT THAT

THEY WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME.

KATHLEEN WASN'T EVEN ENROLLED IN SCHOOL THEN.

I MADE HER CRY,

AND I FELT NO SYMPATHY FOR DOING SO.

Narrator: THEN, TO MEDICALLY PROVE

THAT KATHLEEN'S DEATH WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT,

THE PROSECUTION CALLS DR. LARRY BLUM.

IN MY EXPERIENCE OF OVER 10,000 DEATH INVESTIGATIONS,

PEOPLE CAN AND DO SLIP IN THEIR BATHTUBS,

BUT THESE PEOPLE END UP IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM

AND NOT IN THE MORGUE.

SHE WAS A 40-YEAR-OLD HEALTHY WOMAN

WITH TWO SONS, 11 AND 9 YEARS OLD.

NOW, YOU DON'T SEE MOMS LIKE THAT

JUST DROWNING IN THEIR OWN BATHTUBS.

THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

Narrator: BLUM FOCUSES ON A WOUND

THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION ATTRIBUTED

TO A FALL IN THE TUB,

THE INCH-LONG GASH ON THE BACK OF KATHLEEN'S HEAD.

Karas: TO CAUSE THE LACERATION SHE HAD ON HER HEAD,

SHE NEEDED TO HIT A SHARP SURFACE.

THAT'S INCONSISTENT WITH THE SMOOTH CONTOURS OF THAT BATHTUB.

Narrator: BLUM ALSO ARGUES THAT,

IF KATHLEEN STRUCK HER HEAD ON THE TUB,

THERE WOULD BE OBVIOUS SIGNS.

IF SOMEONE DOES STRIKE THEIR HEAD ON AN EDGE

AND THEN SLIDE DOWN,

THERE IS A TRANSFER OF BLOOD, HAIR, TISSUE

FROM THE VICTIM TO THE OBJECT.

BUT THERE WAS NO BLOOD ON THE SIDES OF THE TUB

OR ON THE EDGE OF THE TUB.

Narrator: UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION,

BLUM OBSERVES OTHER INJURIES

THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH A SLIP AND FALL.

THERE WAS SEVERE BRUISING OF THE CHEST MUSCLES ON EACH SIDE.

AND HER DIAPHRAGM SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT BRUISE,

WHICH WOULD BE CONSISTENT

WITH SOMEBODY GIVING YOU A BEAR HUG FROM BEHIND,

HOLDING YOU WHILE YOU'RE STRUGGLING.

THAT WAS STICKING OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB.

Narrator: BLUM CLARIFIES THAT THESE DISTINCTIVE INJURIES

HELP EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW KATHLEEN DIED.

Dr. Blum: THIS INDICATED THAT SHE WAS HELD AROUND THE BODY

WHILE THE HEAD WAS BEING HELD DOWN.

AND THE STATE'S THEORY OF THE CASE

IS THAT SHE WAS FORCIBLY DROWNED IN THE TOILET,

AND THEN SHE WAS PLACED INTO THE TUB

AFTER SHE HAD BEEN KILLED.

Glasgow: ONCE WE PROVED IT WAS A MURDER,

THAT WAS HUGE

BECAUSE HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD WANT HER DEAD?

AND NOW OUR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

BECAME THAT MUCH STRONGER.

Narrator: THEN, A PROSECUTION WITNESS

REVEALS STUNNING STATEMENTS STACY MADE

ABOUT THE DEATH OF HER ROMANTIC RIVAL.

I'LL NEVER FORGET THE SHOCK THAT I HAD IN MY SYSTEM.

♪♪

Narrator: THE MURDER TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON

IS DOMINATING THE AIRWAVES.

EVERY NIGHT, PUNDITS HEATEDLY DEBATE THE DAY'S TESTIMONY.

THE DREW PETERSON TRIAL...

WE'VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS VERY HIGH-PROFILE TRIAL.

WELL, I TALKED WITH A LOT OF COURT WATCHERS,

AND THEY SEEM TO THINK IT'S A DRAW.

BOTH SIDES HAD GREAT ARGUMENTS TO MAKE.

THERE'S NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE CONNECTING ANY OF THE MURDERS

TO DREW PETERSON.

THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME FOR THESE WOMEN,

THESE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, IS DURING THE DIVORCE.

THIS IS WHAT THE JURY IS LEFT WITH,

IN TERMS OF DEFENSE WITNESSES.

THERE WERE A LOT OF ELEMENTS THAT CAPTIVATED THE NATION.

NO ONE WANTED TO MISS THIS ONE.

Narrator: AND AT THE COURTHOUSE,

THE FAMILY OF KATHLEEN SAVIO HOLDS VIGIL.

THIS IS WHAT MY SISTER HAD TO GO THROUGH.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,

THE FACES THAT WE DON'T SEE.

♪♪

Narrator: BUT WHEN COURT IS BACK IN SESSION,

THE PROSECUTION CALLS A WITNESS

WITH ASTONISHING DETAILS OF KATHLEEN'S DEMISE.

Schori: MY NAME IS NEIL SCHORI,

AND I WAS STACY AND DREW PETERSON'S PASTOR.

THEY TALKED WITH ME ABOUT LIFE AND SOME MARRIAGE ISSUES.

I HAD SESSIONS WITH JUST STACY,

AND I HAD SESSIONS WITH JUST DREW,

AND I HAD SESSIONS WITH THEM TOGETHER.

THEY HAD NORMAL LIFE ISSUES, NORMAL MARRIAGE ISSUES.

Narrator: ON THE STAND, SCHORI GIVES HEARSAY TESTIMONY

AND EXPLAINS THAT, IN AUGUST OF 2007,

STACY PETERSON CALLED HIM WITH AN URGENT REQUEST.

AND SHE SAID, "IS THERE ANY CHANCE YOU CAN MEET TOMORROW

AT STARBUCKS, FIRST THING IN THE MORNING?"

I DON'T MEET WITH PEOPLE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

IT'S JUST A POLICY THAT I HAVE.

AND I SAID, "YEAH, I CAN MEET AT THE STARBUCKS."

STACY WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME CRYING,

AND SHE DESCRIBED HOW, ONE NIGHT,

SHE AND DREW WENT TO BED AT THE SAME TIME,

AND THEN SHE WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,

AND HE WASN'T THERE.

SHE TRIED TO REACH HIM BY PHONE, AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER,

AND SHE JUST HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS.

BUT HOURS LATER, SUDDENLY, SHE HEARD DREW COME IN,

AND HE WALKED INTO THEIR LAUNDRY ROOM,

AND SHE SAID HE WAS COVERED IN BLACK CLOTHES,

AND HE WAS CARRYING SOME SORT OF A DUFFEL BAG.

AND THEN HE TOOK THE DUFFEL BAG, AND HE UNZIPPED IT,

AND HE DUMPED ALL THE ITEMS INTO THE WASHING MACHINE,

AND HE WALKED OUT.

SHE WAS JUST LEFT STANDING THERE IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM,

SO SHE OPENED UP THE WASHER, AND SHE LOOKED IN,

AND THERE WERE WOMEN'S CLOTHES THAT SHE KNEW WERE NOT HERS.

Narrator: THEN, GLASGOW ESTABLISHES

WHEN THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE.

THAT WAS THE NIGHT WHEN KATHY SAVIO DIED.

Schori: LATER ON, SHE FOUND HIM IN THE HOUSE.

AND HE SAT DOWN HER, AND HE SAID,

"THE POLICE ARE GONNA COME,

AND THEY'RE GONNA WANT TO TALK TO YOU."

SHE SAID HE COACHED HER FOR HOURS ON WHAT TO SAY

BEFORE THE POLICE SHOWED UP.

AND SHE ADMITTED SHE LIED TO THE POLICE FOR DREW PETERSON.

Schori: SHE WAS JUST DRIPPING WITH FEAR IN HER VOICE

AS SHE SAID THIS.

I TRIED TO FIGHT THROUGH MY OWN SHOCK OF HEARING THAT.

ON THE STAND, NEIL SCHORI DELIVERED 100%.

Narrator: THE DEFENSE THEN TAKES AIM

AT THE STAR WITNESS

AND QUESTIONS HIS RESPONSE TO STACY'S ALLEGED CONFESSION.

THE CROSS-EXAMINATION -- IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE.

Greenberg: WHAT WOULD A NORMAL PERSON DO?

IF SOMEONE COMES TO YOU AND THEY TELL YOU,

"I AM FEARFUL FOR MY LIFE,"

YOU'RE NOT GONNA SAY TO THEM,

"WOULD YOU LIKE A LITTLE CREAM AND SUGAR WITH YOUR LATTE?"

AND, "GEE, I FEEL TERRIBLE FOR YOU,"

AND, "GO HOME."

YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, "LET ME REFER YOU TO A SHELTER.

LET ME FIND A PARISHIONER YOU CAN LIVE WITH."

WHAT DID YOU DO?

WHAT DID YOU DO?

NOTHING.

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, DUDE.

SO I DON'T THINK MUCH OF NEIL SCHORI.

Schori: SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO DO ANYTHING WITH IT.

SHE FELT VERY MUCH LIKE

THERE WAS NO ESCAPE FROM THIS MAN,

AND I HAD STRONGLY GOT THE FEELING FROM HER

THAT, EVEN IF SHE GOT AWAY, HE WOULD MAKE SURE TO FIND HER.

AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS I WAS WITH IT,

I HELD THE STORY TIGHT.

Narrator: THE STATE RESTS THEIR CASE,

AND THE DEFENSE TAKES THE FLOOR.

THEY HAD PUT IN ENOUGH TO GET A CONVICTION

UNLESS WE PUT ON SOME EVIDENCE

THAT POKED SOME HOLES IN SOME OF THEIR THEORIES.

Karas: THE DEFENSE NEEDED TO DEAL

WITH THESE ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE BY DREW AGAINST KATHLEEN,

SO TO OVERCOME THAT,

THEY CALLED ONE OF HER BEST FRIENDS, MARY PONTARELLI.

THE DEFENSE ASKED MARY WHETHER OR NOT

SHE EVER NOTICED BRUISES ON KATHLEEN,

ON HER NECK OR ARM, OTHER PARTS OF BODY, YOU KNOW,

OVER THE YEARS THAT SHE WAS FRIENDLY WITH HER,

OR DID SHE SEE HER WEARING CLOTHING

THAT MIGHT BE COVERING BRUISES.

SHE SAID NO TO ALL OF THOSE.

WHEN ASKED WHETHER SHE HAD EVER SEEN

DREW GET VIOLENT OR ANGRY WITH KATHLEEN,

SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T.

MARY SAID THAT DREW WAS ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN TO HER.

SHE WAS VERY HELPFUL TO THE DEFENSE.

SHE WAS PAINTING A DIFFERENT PICTURE OF DREW PETERSON

FROM WHAT THE PROSECUTION WANTS THE JURY TO BELIEVE.

♪♪

Narrator: NEXT, THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS PONTARELLI

ABOUT KATHLEEN'S PERSONALITY.

MARY PONTARELLI ALSO SAID THAT KATHLEEN WAS A FIGHTER,

AND THAT SHE WOULD NOT HAVE LET SOMEONE HIT HER

WITHOUT FIGHTING BACK.

I THOUGHT MARY PONTARELLI WAS A GREAT WITNESS FOR US

AND VERY TRUTHFUL.

Narrator: BUILDING ON TESTIMONY

ABOUT KATHLEEN'S COMBATIVE NATURE,

THE DEFENSE THEN CALLS AN INVESTIGATOR

WHO WAS AT THE PETERSON HOME THE DAY KATHLEEN WAS FOUND.

Karas: BRYAN FALAT WAS WITH THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE.

HE DID NOT SEE ANY SCRATCHES ON DREW PETERSON

THAT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH KATHLEEN FIGHTING WITH HIM.

HE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING TO SUPPORT THAT.

Greenberg: IF THERE'S A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO ADULTS

AND YOU'RE KILLING SOMEBODY,

THERE'S GONNA BE SOMETHING.

THERE'S GONNA BE A SCRATCH MARK ON DREW.

THERE WASN'T.

THERE'S GONNA BE SOMETHING UNDER HER FINGERNAILS.

THERE WASN'T.

Narrator: THE DEFENSE THEN ATTEMPTS

TO EXPLAIN THE BRUISES FOUND ON KATHLEEN'S BODY.

THEY QUESTION HER BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH,

STEVE MANIACI.

BOYFRIEND WAS THIS GIANT MACHO GUY,

A REAL MAN'S MAN,

AND THE BOYFRIEND SAID

THAT THEY HAD HAD SEX TWO NIGHTS BEFORE ON THE CARPET

AND THAT THEY HAD DONE IT,

ACCORDING TO WHAT HE TOLD THE POLICE, DOGGY STYLE,

WHICH WOULD HAVE EXPLAINED THE MARKS ON HER KNEES

AND, IF HE'S GRABBING HER, THE BRUISING ON HER HIPS.

Narrator: THEN, TO DISCREDIT

THE DAMNING HEARSAY TESTIMONY FROM PASTOR SCHORI,

THE DEFENSE COMES UP WITH A RISKY PLAN

TO ATTACK THE STATEMENTS OF STACY PETERSON.

THEIR STRATEGY IS TO SAY THAT SHE WAS GOING AROUND

TALKING ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT DREW

AS PART OF HER PLAN

TO GET MORE MONEY OUT OF DREW IN A DIVORCE.

THEY WANTED TO SAY THAT STACY WAS A GOLD DIGGER,

THAT SHE HAD MADE UP THE FACT THAT DREW HAD KILLED KATHY

IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE MORE MONEY OUT OF HIM.

THE DEFENSE DECIDED TO CALL DIVORCE ATTORNEY HARRY SMITH.

Smith: MY NAME IS HARRY SMITH.

I WAS CONTACTED BY STACY PETERSON

DAYS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED.

SHE WAS CALLING ME FOR A DIVORCE CONSULT.

THE FIRST THING THAT STACY TALKED ABOUT ON THE PHONE CALL

WAS WHETHER OR NOT SHE COULD LEAVE THE STATE

WITH THE CHILDREN.

SHE WAS GETTING READY TO GET OUT.

Narrator: AS BRODSKY PRESSES SMITH

ABOUT STACY'S CALL,

THE DIVORCE LAWYER REVEALS SOMETHING STUNNING.

STACY SORT OF CASUALLY SAID TO ME,

"CAN I GET MORE MONEY IN THE DIVORCE

IF WE GO TO THE POLICE AND TELL THEM HOW DREW KILLED KATHY?"

JUST SAID IT.

Narrator: THE DEFENSE'S GAMBIT

QUICKLY TURNS INTO A SPECTACULAR FAILURE.

Smith: MR. BRODSKY WANTED TO CLARIFY THE FACT

THAT WHAT STACY HAD DONE WAS ASK ME,

COULD SHE GET MORE MONEY

IF WE TOLD THE POLICE HE KILLED KATHLEEN?

HE DID THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES.

AND HE GAVE ME THE ABILITY TO KEEP SAYING,

"NO. SHE SAID, 'IF I TELL HIM HOWHE DID IT.'"

AND I THINK DRIVING THAT POINT HOME WAS A PROBLEM.

IT WENT WORSE THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

IF I HAD BEEN AN ALCOHOLIC,

I WOULD HAVE PULLED OUT MY FLASK RIGHT THERE IN THE COURTROOM

AND STARTED DRINKING.

Brodsky: DREW INSISTED THAT WE CALL HIM.

HE'S THE DEFENDANT.

IF HE WANTS SOMETHING AND IT'S REASONABLE,

IT'S HARD TO SAY NO.

JIM GLASGOW, AFTER SMITH TESTIFIED,

CALLED THAT TESTIMONY A GIFT FROM GOD.

THAT'S THE RISKS OF TRIAL.

Narrator: THE DEFENSE SOON RESTS.

THEN, ON SEPTEMBER 5th,

THE JURY BEGINS DELIBERATING THE FATE OF DREW PETERSON.

Glasgow: WHEN IT WENT OVER INTO THE NEXT DAY,

I CALLED NEIL SCHORI.

Schori: HE SAID, "I THINK THE VERDICTS ARE GONNA COME SOON."

AND HE SAID, "AND JUST -- I NEED YOU TO PRAY

THAT THE RIGHT ONE COMES DOWN."

AND I SAID, "YES, SIR. I'LL DO IT RIGHT AWAY."

WE GOT OFF THE PHONE, AND I KNELT DOWN IN MY BEDROOM.

Glasgow: I HUNG UP, AND LITERALLY 60 SECONDS LATER,

SOMEONE CAME TO MY DOOR AND SAID, "WE HAVE A VERDICT."

♪♪

Narrator: AFTER 14 HOURS OF DELIBERATION,

THE JURY IN THE DREW PETERSON MURDER CASE

HAS JUST REACHED A DECISION.

SOMEBODY YELLED OUT, "VERDICT."

I WAS TREMENDOUSLY SCARED.

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.

Dobrich: I WAS THERE WITH A GROUP OF OTHER OFFICERS,

AND I WATCHED AS THE VERDICT WAS READ ALOUD.

Karas: AS WE ALL SAT ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS,

THE JUDGE DID THE READING.

"WE, THE JURY,

FIND THE DEFENDANT, DREW PETERSON...

GUILTY."

Doman: WHEN IT CAME IN, IT WAS LIKE, BOOM.

IT JUST HIT YOU RIGHT IN THE HEAD.

I HUGGED MY SISTER, AND WE SAID, "WE DID IT.

WE FINALLY DID IT."

Cales: I WAS JUST FEELING GREAT.

I WAS SMILING AND JUST STARING AT DREW.

DREW PETERSON WAS VERY IMPASSIVE.

HE GLARED AT THE JURORS WHEN THEY FILED OUT OF THE COURTROOM.

Dobrich: WE WERE HAPPY.

WE FELT THAT OUR WORK WAS REALIZED.

GETTING THE FINAL VERDICT WAS ELATION.

THERE WAS NO QUESTION.

HE WAS A THUG -- HE WOULD THREATEN PEOPLE

'CAUSE HE HAD A GUN AND A BADGE,

AND NOBODY EVERY TOOK HIM ON.

BUT WE TOOK HIM ON NOW, AND HE LOST.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

JUSTICE WAS FINALLY DONE FOR KATHLEEN SAVIO'S FAMILY.

I HOPE THERE WILL BE JUSTICE FOR STACY.

I HOPE THAT, ONE DAY, DREW WILL CONFESS.

Narrator: IN FEBRUARY 2013,

DREW RETURNS TO COURT FOR A SENTENCING HEARING,

WHERE HE FACES A MAXIMUM OF 60 YEARS IN PRISON.

WHEN DREW WAS SENTENCED, LIKE EVERY OTHER DEFENDANT,

HE WAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO ADDRESS THE COURT.

Cales: IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE HIM GO UP THERE ON THE PODIUM

BECAUSE I COULD JUST TELL HE WAS JUST FULL OF THIS ANXIETY,

LIKE HE WAS HAVING A PANIC ATTACK.

Man: SAY WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE.

"I DIDN'T KILL HER!" WHATEVER.

YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW.

PATHETIC.

IT ALMOST SOUNDED LIKE AN INSANE PERSON.

♪♪

THE JUDGE GAVE DREW PETERSON A 38-YEAR SENTENCE

FOR THE MURDER OF KATHLEEN SAVIO.

CONSIDERING HIS AGE,

THAT HE WOULD BE AN OLD MAN BEFORE HE EVER GOT OUT.

Narrator: BUT EVEN WITH A POTENTIAL LIFELONG SENTENCE

IN FRONT OF DREW,

ONE VITAL PIECE OF INFORMATION REMAINS SECRET.

White: NOBODY KNOWS WHERE STACY IS.

ALWAYS, BEHIND EVERYTHING ELSE, IS STILL, "WHERE'S STACY?"

Karas: THEY DIDN'T REALLY EVER FIND ANYTHING

THAT WOULD HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED TO STACY.

♪♪

Narrator: DREW HEADS TO PRISON,

AND THE FAMILIES OF STACY AND KATHLEEN

TRY TO MOVE PAST THEIR TRAGEDIES.

BUT IN AUGUST OF 2014,

ALMOST TWO YEARS AFTER HIS MURDER CONVICTION,

LEGAL PROBLEMS COME ROARING BACK

INTO THE LIFE OF DREW PETERSON.

THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE RECEIVED A LETTER

FROM A CONVICT DOWN IN MENARD CORRECTIONAL CENTER.

Karas: AND THE LETTER BASICALLY SAYS,

"I HAVE SOME MIND-BLOWING INFORMATION

ABOUT JAMES GLASGOW."

WE GET LETTERS ALL THE TIME FROM INMATES.

99-PLUS PERCENT OF THE TIME, THEY'RE B.S.

Narrator: THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN

BY AN INMATE NAMED ANTONIO SMITH.

Karas: ANTONIO "THE BEAST" SMITH WAS A GANG MEMBER

OF A GROUP CALLED "SATAN'S DISCIPLES."

IN 2011, HE GOT CONVICTED

OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, HOME INVASION, AND ROBBERY

AND WAS SERVING A 40-YEAR SENTENCE.

WHILE IN THE ILLINOIS CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM,

HE MADE A NEW FRIEND...

DREW PETERSON.

Walker: MY NAME IS JEREMY WALKER,

AND I'M THE STATE'S ATTORNEY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

ANTONIO SMITH AND MR. PETERSON BECAME FRIENDS

OVER A GAME OF BASKETBALL DOWN AT MENARD.

BEAST WAS SHOOTING SOME HOOPS.

HE WAS GETTING HOT, SO TO SPEAK,

AND MR. PETERSON WON SOME MONEY GAMBLING OFF OF HIM,

AND THAT'S WHAT FORGED THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

Hosey: THEY WOULD EAT TOGETHER, HANG OUT TOGETHER,

COOK IN THEIR CELLS TOGETHER.

HE AND DREW DEVELOPED A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO SMITH'S LETTER,

PETERSON, WHO'S IN THE MIDST OF APPEALING HIS SENTENCE,

HARBORS DEEP ANIMOSITY ABOUT HIS TRIAL AND CONVICTION.

Hosey: DREW BLAMED GLASGOW FOR RUINING FOR HIS LIFE,

ACCORDING TO SMITH.

HE PUT HIM IN PRISON FOR LIKELY THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

HE REALLY DESPISED GLASGOW.

AND SMITH SAID THAT DREW HAD ASKED HIM

TO FIND SOMEONE TO KILL JIM GLASGOW.

Narrator: TO INVESTIGATE THE CLAIM,

AUTHORITIES RUSH INTO ACTION.

WE SENT A TEAM DOWN TO GO INTERVIEW ANTONIO SMITH.

THIS IS MY HANDWRITING.

Man: OKAY. THAT'S THE LETTER THAT YOU WROTE TO OUR OFFICE?

YEAH. OPEN IT UP.

THAT'S INSCRIBED, TELLING YOU EVERYTHING.

"I WANT HIM KILLED BECAUSE OF THIS."

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

"THE PENSION.

HE'S TRYING TO DO THIS [BLEEP] WITH INMATES.

HE'S [BLEEP] MY APPEAL," ALL THIS STUFF.

HE'S LET ME KNOW ALL THIS.

AND IT TURNED OUT,

EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN FOR A VERY TERRIBLE CRIME,

HE WAS VERY SMART AND GAVE AN EXCELLENT INTERVIEW

AND APPEARED TO BE VERY TRUTHFUL.

Narrator: TO BUILD A CASE,

WALKER NEEDS EVIDENCE OF DREW'S SUPPOSED THREATS.

NOW, YOU'RE GONNA WANT THAT MAN SAYING IT ON HIS WORDS,

AND MR. SMITH INDICATED HE WOULD BE WILLING TO WEAR A WIRE.

IT'S ABSOLUTELY, IN MY OPINION,

THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD SECURE A CONVICTION.

Narrator: ON NOVEMBER 13th,

SMITH STARTS ROLLING TAPE INSIDE PRISON.

♪♪

FIRST RECORDING THAT WE HAVE, THERE WAS TALK ABOUT THE PLAN,

ABOUT HOW HE WANTED HIM GONE STILL.

MR. SMITH INDICATED THAT HE HAD AN UNCLE

THAT COULD GET THE JOB DONE OUT ON THE STREETS.

[ PETERSON LAUGHS]

OH. [ LAUGHS]

Glasgow: IT CROSSED MY MIND BACK IN 2007,

KNOWING DREW PETERSON AS I DID,

THAT, IF I UNDERTOOK THIS CASE AND I FAILED AND HE GOT AWAY,

I'D BE IN DANGER.

SO THAT WAS ABSOLUTE CONFIRMATION

THAT MY INSTINCTS WERE RIGHT.

Narrator: ON FEBRUARY 9, 2015,

AUTHORITIES CHARGED DREW FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER,

AND AT TRIAL, ANTONIO SMITH REVEALS SOMETHING SHOCKING.

Karas: HE TOLD JURORS THAT DREW PETERSON TOLD HIM

WHERE STACY IS, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER.

♪♪

Narrator: DREW PETERSON'S MURDER-FOR-HIRE TRIAL

MOVES FULL STEAM AHEAD,

AND THE PROSECUTION PRESENTS EVIDENCE

ON HIS PLOT TO KILL STATE'S ATTORNEY JIM GLASGOW.

IN THE RECORDINGS, YOU KNOW,

HE SAID, "IT'S A GO. IT'S BETTER THAN 100%."

HE ABSOLUTELY INDICATED THAT HE WANTED MR. GLASGOW GONE.

Narrator: THE PROSECUTION CALLS ANTONIO SMITH,

THE INMATE WHO RECORDED DREW, TO TESTIFY.

Karas: ANTONIO "THE BEAST" SMITH

WAS A KEY WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.

HE WAS ON THE STAND FOR DAYS.

HE TALKED ABOUT MEETING DREW IN PRISON,

ALERTING THE AUTHORITIES, COOPERATING.

HE ENGAGED DREW PETERSON IN CONVERSATIONS IN THE YARD,

AT CHOW, VARIOUS PLACES IN THE PRISON.

Narrator: THEN, SMITH PROVIDES A STARTLING REVELATION

THAT STRIKES AT THE HEART OF A LONGTIME MYSTERY.

ANTONIO SMITH HAD INDICATED THAT,

IN SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE NOT RECORDED,

THAT DREW PETERSON HAD ADMITTED TO KILLING STACY PETERSON...

♪♪

...THAT SHE WAS IN LAKE MICHIGAN.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE PUT WORDS IN DREW'S MOUTH

THAT HE HAD KILLED STACY.

SHE DIDN'T RUN AWAY WITH SOMEBODY -- SHE'S DEAD.

I DON'T REMEMBER THE JURY HAVING MUCH OF A REACTION TO IT,

BUT, CERTAINLY, THE CHICAGO MEDIA

HAD A VERY BIG REACTION TO THAT STATEMENT.

Narrator: THE TRIAL CONCLUDES AT THE END OF MAY,

AND THE JURY NEEDS ONLY AN HOUR TO RENDER A DECISION.

Walker: THE ONLY THING THAT A QUICK VERDICT TO ME MEANS

IS EITHER THEY ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T BELIEVE

THE PROSECUTION CASE,

OR THEY ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T BELIEVE THE DEFENSE CASE.

Karas: THEY SAID, "WE, THE JURY,

FIND DREW PETERSON GUILTY OF MURDER FOR HIRE."

♪♪

Glasgow: ANTONIO SMITH

ISN'T GONNA GET OUT OF PRISON EARLIER.

HE'S NOT GONNA GET A MEDAL.

BUT IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY NOBLE AND BRAVE THING THAT HE DID

TO HELP US GET DREW PETERSON ON THIS PARTICULAR CASE.

Walker: AND DREW WAS SENTENCED TO 40 MORE YEARS

IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

AFTER HE FINISHES HIS MURDER CONVICTION.

Hosey: THAT'S TWO YEARS MORE THAN HE GOT

FOR ACTUALLY KILLING KATHLEEN.

Narrator: DESPITE SMITH'S CLAIM THAT DREW CONFESSED,

THERE'S STILL NO CONFIRMATION

OF WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO STACY.

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, STACY'S CASE REMAINS OPEN,

AND THAT THEY HAVE A CASE AGENT

THAT MONITORS INFORMATION THAT COMES IN.

Aikin: WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HAVE CLOSURE

AND TO HAVE ALL THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ANSWERED

BECAUSE, EVERY DAY, WE WONDER.

DREW CREATED THIS BIG MESS.

TELL US WHERE STACY IS.

STOP THE GAMES NOW.

♪♪

Brodsky: I DON'T THINK THE FASCINATION

WITH THE DREW PETERSON CASE IS EVER GONNA GO AWAY,

AT LEAST NOT UNTIL DREW IS, YOU KNOW, DEAD AND BURIED.

I THINK IT CAPTURED A LOT OF ATTENTION

BECAUSE DREW LIKES ATTENTION.

Howard: HE WAS CHARISMATIC AND A GOOD FATHER,

BUT UNDERNEATH IT,

THERE WAS A TWISTED DOUBLE LIFE,

A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS.

THIS CASE RESONATES WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE

BECAUSE YOU HAVE A COP WHO WAS SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT

WHO WAS REALLY A WIFE-KILLING MACHINE.

HE WAS AN ABUSER, A MISOGYNIST,

AND A GREEDY, ARROGANT, EVIL KILLER.

THIS STORY HAD EVERYTHING -- LOVE AFFAIRS, JEALOUSY, MURDER.

THIS IS A STORY THAT HAS DYSFUNCTION ALL AROUND,

BUT THESE WERE WOMEN WHO REALLY LOVED THEIR CHILDREN

AND REALLY WANTED TO DO RIGHT BY THEIR CHILDREN.

Narrator: TODAY, THE CHILDREN OF STACY PETERSON

ARE IN THE CUSTODY

OF DREW'S ELDEST SON FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE.

THEY'RE HAPPY.

I THINK THEY'RE DOING AMAZING IN THEIR CIRCUMSTANCE,

BUT MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE MISSING

BECAUSE THEY DON'T REMEMBER SO MUCH.

I JUST THINK THAT IT'S HARD NOT TO HAVE YOUR MOM.

I WROTE DREW A LETTER IN PRISON,

JUST ASKING IF I CAN SEE MY NIECE AND NEPHEW

BECAUSE THAT'S THE CLOSEST THING I HAD WITH STACY.

AND HE JUST SAID NO.

I LOVE STACY.

LOVE YOU, AND I MISS YOU.

AND I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, FOR YOUR JUSTICE.

FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN,

I WILL CONTINUE ON THIS JOURNEY.

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