1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:05,172 --> 00:00:08,862 ♪♪ 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:38,655 --> 00:00:42,931 NOW TO YET ANOTHER NEW TWIST IN THE STACY PETERSON CASE. 5 00:00:42,931 --> 00:00:45,034 Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE MOST CONFOUNDING DISAPPEARANCES 6 00:00:45,034 --> 00:00:46,517 OF THE CENTURY. 7 00:00:46,517 --> 00:00:50,275 THIS STORY HAD EVERYTHING -- LOVE AFFAIRS, JEALOUSY, MURDER. 8 00:00:50,275 --> 00:00:52,931 Narrator: 23-YEAR-OLD MOM STACY PETERSON 9 00:00:52,931 --> 00:00:55,827 VANISHES FROM THE SUBURBS OF CHICAGO. 10 00:00:55,827 --> 00:00:58,896 THIS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL MOTHER WHO DISAPPEARS, 11 00:00:58,896 --> 00:01:01,206 AND HER HUSBAND'S A COP? 12 00:01:01,206 --> 00:01:02,758 Narrator: IN THIS 2-HOUR SPECIAL, 13 00:01:02,758 --> 00:01:04,275 WE GIVE EXCLUSIVE INSIGHT 14 00:01:04,275 --> 00:01:07,172 INTO THE MAN AT THE CENTER OF THIS MYSTERY. 15 00:01:07,172 --> 00:01:09,206 PLEASE GO HOME. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE. 16 00:01:09,206 --> 00:01:10,827 PLEASE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN MY LITTLE WORLD. 17 00:01:10,827 --> 00:01:12,310 [ LAUGHS ] 18 00:01:12,310 --> 00:01:17,241 THIS WAS A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS. 19 00:01:17,241 --> 00:01:23,068 HIS THIRD WIFE HAD DIED "MYSTERIOUSLY" IN A DRY BATHTUB. 20 00:01:23,068 --> 00:01:25,206 WAS IT AN ACCIDENT, OR WAS SHE PUT IN THERE? 21 00:01:25,206 --> 00:01:26,896 Narrator: HEAR FROM THE VOICES 22 00:01:26,896 --> 00:01:28,827 AT THE HEART OF THIS INVESTIGATION. 23 00:01:33,965 --> 00:01:37,620 AND ENTER THE COURTROOM FOR AN EXPLOSIVE LEGAL SHOWDOWN. 24 00:01:37,620 --> 00:01:42,137 THERE WERE AUDIBLE GASPS AND A LOT OF TEARS. 25 00:01:42,137 --> 00:01:45,068 Greenberg: IT WENT WORSE THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. 26 00:01:45,068 --> 00:01:46,586 IF I HAD BEEN AN ALCOHOLIC, 27 00:01:46,586 --> 00:01:49,448 I WOULD HAVE PULLED OUT MY FLASK RIGHT THERE IN THE COURTROOM 28 00:01:49,448 --> 00:01:51,931 AND STARTED DRINKING. 29 00:01:51,931 --> 00:01:56,896 Karas: YOU HAVE A COP WHO WAS SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT, 30 00:01:56,896 --> 00:02:00,413 WHO WAS REALLY A WIFE-KILLING MACHINE. 31 00:02:00,413 --> 00:02:05,068 Howard: THIS WAS A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS. 32 00:02:05,068 --> 00:02:09,896 WHY WOULD I LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO I DON'T BELIEVE IS MISSING? 33 00:02:09,896 --> 00:02:12,931 Aikin: THERE'S JUST SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. 34 00:02:12,931 --> 00:02:14,206 Dobrich: THERE WERE TEXT MESSAGES 35 00:02:14,206 --> 00:02:17,758 THAT WOULD MAKE A HUSBAND JEALOUS. 36 00:02:17,758 --> 00:02:19,344 Glasgow: DREW WAS SENDING THE MESSAGE, 37 00:02:19,344 --> 00:02:21,448 "YOU'RE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE." 38 00:02:21,448 --> 00:02:23,275 Karas: HE'S BRINGING THIS TEENAGER 39 00:02:23,275 --> 00:02:25,034 INTO THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOME 40 00:02:25,034 --> 00:02:26,448 TO HAVE SEX WITH HER. 41 00:02:26,448 --> 00:02:29,965 Dobrich: HE THINKS HE HELPED DREW MOVE A BODY. 42 00:02:29,965 --> 00:02:36,689 Aikin: I HOPE THAT, ONE DAY, DREW WILL CONFESS. 43 00:02:39,137 --> 00:02:43,172 ♪♪ 44 00:02:43,172 --> 00:02:45,793 Karas: SOMETIME BETWEEN 3:00 AND 4:00 IN THE MORNING 45 00:02:45,793 --> 00:02:48,689 ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007, 46 00:02:48,689 --> 00:02:51,517 A 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN NAMED CASSANDRA CALES 47 00:02:51,517 --> 00:02:53,655 WALKS INTO THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE 48 00:02:53,655 --> 00:02:56,586 AND REPORTS HER SISTER MISSING. 49 00:02:56,586 --> 00:02:58,172 HER SISTER, STACY PETERSON, 50 00:02:58,172 --> 00:03:02,206 WAS A MOTHER OF FOUR, MARRIED, 23 YEARS OLD. 51 00:03:02,206 --> 00:03:06,172 SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM HER SINCE EARLIER ON SUNDAY. 52 00:03:06,172 --> 00:03:11,137 CASSANDRA HAD BEEN WITH STACY THAT SATURDAY. 53 00:03:11,137 --> 00:03:13,413 Cales: MY NAME IS CASSANDRA CALES, 54 00:03:13,413 --> 00:03:17,793 AND I AM SISTER OF STACY PETERSON. 55 00:03:17,793 --> 00:03:19,517 WHEN I WAS LEAVING THAT SATURDAY, 56 00:03:19,517 --> 00:03:21,689 I SAID, "JUST CALL ME WHEN YOU GET UP, 57 00:03:21,689 --> 00:03:23,931 AND WE'LL PLAN OUR DAY FROM THERE." 58 00:03:23,931 --> 00:03:28,103 AND I GAVE HER A HUG AND SAID, "I LOVE YOU," AND LEFT. 59 00:03:28,103 --> 00:03:30,379 Hosey: STACY LIVED IN A TOWN CALLED "BOLINGBROOK." 60 00:03:30,379 --> 00:03:31,931 IT'S ABOUT 30 MILES FROM CHICAGO. 61 00:03:31,931 --> 00:03:33,448 IT'S RESIDENTIAL. 62 00:03:33,448 --> 00:03:35,724 IT'S NOT MUCH GOING ON THERE AT ALL. 63 00:03:35,724 --> 00:03:38,000 IT'S A QUIET, SLEEPY TOWN. 64 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,689 Karas: CASSANDRA HAD BEEN TEXTING 65 00:03:39,689 --> 00:03:42,724 AND CALLING STACY ALL DAY SUNDAY, 66 00:03:42,724 --> 00:03:45,413 STARTING IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. 67 00:03:45,413 --> 00:03:48,344 BUT STACY WASN'T RESPONDING TO CASSANDRA, 68 00:03:48,344 --> 00:03:51,206 AND CASSANDRA THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE BIT STRANGE 69 00:03:51,206 --> 00:03:53,206 BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY CLOSE. 70 00:03:53,206 --> 00:03:56,413 Narrator: TO CASSANDRA, STACY'S RADIO SILENCE 71 00:03:56,413 --> 00:04:00,206 SEEMS EXTREMELY OUT OF CHARACTER. 72 00:04:00,206 --> 00:04:02,793 Cales: STACY WAS MY BEST FRIEND. 73 00:04:02,793 --> 00:04:05,034 SHE WAS A GIRLY GIRL. 74 00:04:05,034 --> 00:04:07,379 SHE WAS FUN AND BUBBLY LIKE THAT. 75 00:04:07,379 --> 00:04:09,689 TO HER, IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT. 76 00:04:09,689 --> 00:04:11,862 STACY WAS PRETTY MUCH THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. 77 00:04:11,862 --> 00:04:15,310 SHE WAS VERY VIBRANT AND HAPPY. 78 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:19,413 Cales: THE MOST AMAZING MOTHER, AND SHE WAS BEYOND INVOLVED. 79 00:04:19,413 --> 00:04:23,000 SHE DID EVERYTHING WITH THOSE KIDS -- 80 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,034 SLEDDING, SWIMMING. 81 00:04:26,034 --> 00:04:29,241 THAT'S WHY SHE STARTED WORKING FOR THE NEIGHBOR, SELLING AVON, 82 00:04:29,241 --> 00:04:33,068 SO SHE COULD MAKE EXTRA CASH TO BUY THEM BIKES 83 00:04:33,068 --> 00:04:35,586 TO BE OUTSIDE, TO DO THINGS WITH THEM. 84 00:04:35,586 --> 00:04:37,413 Narrator: BUT STACY HAS ALSO ENDURED 85 00:04:37,413 --> 00:04:41,172 HER SHARE OF PERSONAL TRAUMA. 86 00:04:41,172 --> 00:04:43,310 SHE DIDN'T COME FROM WHAT I WOULD SAY 87 00:04:43,310 --> 00:04:45,689 WOULD BE THE PERFECT FAMILY. 88 00:04:45,689 --> 00:04:48,620 Aikin: THERE WASN'T A LOT OF MONEY IN THE HOME. 89 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:51,448 SHE DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF THINGS. 90 00:04:51,448 --> 00:04:52,965 Hosey: BEFORE SHE WAS BORN, 91 00:04:52,965 --> 00:04:56,034 HER FAMILY HOUSE BURNED DOWN AND A SISTER DIED IN THE FIRE. 92 00:04:56,034 --> 00:04:57,241 WHEN SHE WAS A BABY, 93 00:04:57,241 --> 00:05:00,758 SHE HAD ANOTHER BABY SISTER WHO DIED OF SIDS. 94 00:05:00,758 --> 00:05:04,068 AND HER BROTHER WENT TO PRISON ON A SEX OFFENSE. 95 00:05:04,068 --> 00:05:07,689 MY MOM DISAPPEARED AROUND 1998. 96 00:05:07,689 --> 00:05:12,344 ME AND STACY BOTH LIVED WITH OUR DAD THROUGH THE YEARS. 97 00:05:12,344 --> 00:05:13,586 WE MOVED AROUND A LOT. 98 00:05:13,586 --> 00:05:16,000 AND BY THE TIME WE WOULD MEET FRIENDS, 99 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,827 WE'D PICK UP AND MOVE AGAIN. 100 00:05:17,827 --> 00:05:21,517 WE BASICALLY ONLY HAD EACH OTHER GROWING UP. 101 00:05:21,517 --> 00:05:23,448 SO WE JUST... 102 00:05:23,448 --> 00:05:25,551 WE WERE ALWAYS THERE FOR EACH OTHER. 103 00:05:25,551 --> 00:05:27,586 Aikin: AFTER SHE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL, 104 00:05:27,586 --> 00:05:31,103 SHE WAS GOING TO JOLIET COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 105 00:05:31,103 --> 00:05:32,620 SHE WANTED TO BE A NURSE. 106 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:35,586 THAT'S HOW MUCH SHE LIKED TO HELP OTHERS. 107 00:05:35,586 --> 00:05:37,379 Narrator: CASSANDRA TELLS THE STATE TROOPER 108 00:05:37,379 --> 00:05:40,275 THAT SHE FOUND STACY'S SILENCE CONFUSING. 109 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:43,965 SO EARLIER THAT SAME EVENING, SHE DECIDED TO TRACK HER DOWN 110 00:05:43,965 --> 00:05:45,413 AND DROVE TO THE HOUSE 111 00:05:45,413 --> 00:05:48,896 SHE SHARES WITH HER HUSBAND, DREW, AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN. 112 00:05:48,896 --> 00:05:50,413 Cales: I GO TO THE HOUSE. 113 00:05:50,413 --> 00:05:53,034 THERE'S NO CARS IN THE DRIVEWAY. 114 00:05:53,034 --> 00:05:55,000 I JUST KNOCK ON THE DOOR. 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,172 ONE OF THE KIDS, KRIS, OPENS THE DOOR. 116 00:05:57,172 --> 00:05:58,379 AND I GO, "WHAT'S UP?" 117 00:05:58,379 --> 00:05:59,965 HE GOES, "NOTHING." 118 00:05:59,965 --> 00:06:02,068 HE GOES, "MOM AND DAD GOT IN A FIGHT. 119 00:06:02,068 --> 00:06:04,862 MOM LEFT. DAD'S OUT LOOKING FOR HER." 120 00:06:04,862 --> 00:06:06,275 I DIDN'T WANT TO ALARM HIM. 121 00:06:06,275 --> 00:06:09,103 I JUST LEFT. 122 00:06:09,103 --> 00:06:11,172 Narrator: CONCERNED BY THE CHILD'S STORY, 123 00:06:11,172 --> 00:06:14,068 CASSANDRA DECIDES TO CONTACT DREW. 124 00:06:14,068 --> 00:06:17,241 I CALLED HIM, AND HE ANSWERED THE PHONE. 125 00:06:17,241 --> 00:06:19,482 HE SOUNDED OUT OF BREATH. 126 00:06:19,482 --> 00:06:21,068 I COULD HEAR KEYS. 127 00:06:21,068 --> 00:06:22,620 I COULD HEAR, LIKE, A DOOR OPEN, 128 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:25,275 LIKE WHEN YOU OPEN A CAR AND IT DINGS. 129 00:06:25,275 --> 00:06:28,413 HE WAS JUST RANTING OFF, "SHE TOOK HER BIKINI. 130 00:06:28,413 --> 00:06:33,655 SHE TOOK THE DEED TO THE HOUSE, $25,000, AND SHE LEFT ME." 131 00:06:33,655 --> 00:06:37,103 HE WAS JUST RAGING AND SAYING SHE WAS CHEATING ON HIM. 132 00:06:37,103 --> 00:06:41,827 DREW SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS IN A -- IN A PANIC. 133 00:06:41,827 --> 00:06:46,827 THERE IS A PROFOUND ANALOGUE TO THIS SCENARIO IN STACY'S LIFE. 134 00:06:46,827 --> 00:06:48,275 IN 1998, 135 00:06:48,275 --> 00:06:52,034 HER MOTHER, CHRISTIE, SEEMINGLY ABANDONED THE FAMILY. 136 00:06:52,034 --> 00:06:54,862 SHE GRABBED THE BIBLE, WENT TO CHURCH, 137 00:06:54,862 --> 00:06:56,448 AND NEVER RETURNED. 138 00:06:56,448 --> 00:06:59,034 SHE LEFT HER ENTIRE FAMILY BEHIND. 139 00:06:59,034 --> 00:07:03,034 PERHAPS STACY WAS DOING THE SAME. 140 00:07:03,034 --> 00:07:04,931 Aikin: SHE LOVED HAVING FAMILY. 141 00:07:04,931 --> 00:07:06,310 I COULD TELL THAT 142 00:07:06,310 --> 00:07:10,172 THERE WERE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN IT WAS DRAINING ON HER. 143 00:07:10,172 --> 00:07:12,034 I FEEL LIKE STACY GOT OVERWHELMED 144 00:07:12,034 --> 00:07:16,241 BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON WITH KIDS. 145 00:07:16,241 --> 00:07:18,000 ♪♪ 146 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,965 Narrator: AS CASSANDRA RECALLS THE CONVERSATION WITH DREW, 147 00:07:20,965 --> 00:07:25,689 STATE POLICE QUICKLY REALIZE HIS NAME RINGS FAMILIAR. 148 00:07:25,689 --> 00:07:30,172 THAT'S BECAUSE DREW PETERSON IS A COP ON THE LOCAL POLICE FORCE. 149 00:07:30,172 --> 00:07:32,655 HE WAS A SERGEANT WITH THE BOLINGBROOK POLICE DEPARTMENT. 150 00:07:32,655 --> 00:07:36,586 Hosey: DREW WAS BORN AND GREW UP IN THE SUBURBS OF CHICAGO. 151 00:07:36,586 --> 00:07:39,448 Dobrich: HE HELD A LOT OF JOBS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, 152 00:07:39,448 --> 00:07:41,931 EVERYTHING FROM EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN 153 00:07:41,931 --> 00:07:44,586 TO MEMBER OF THE SWAT TEAM. 154 00:07:44,586 --> 00:07:46,413 Greenberg: HE WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A WHILE 155 00:07:46,413 --> 00:07:48,275 AS A MILITARY POLICEMAN 156 00:07:48,275 --> 00:07:50,862 BEFORE BECOMING A BOLINGBROOK POLICE OFFICER. 157 00:07:50,862 --> 00:07:52,793 HE'S BEEN A WONDERFUL FATHER. 158 00:07:52,793 --> 00:07:56,068 HE REALLY DID A GOOD JOB OF RAISING HIS KIDS. 159 00:07:56,068 --> 00:08:01,793 Narrator: PETERSON MET THEN STACY CALES IN 2001. 160 00:08:01,793 --> 00:08:05,034 Hosey: SHE WAS WORKING OVERNIGHT AT A MOTEL IN BOLINGBROOK. 161 00:08:05,034 --> 00:08:07,965 DREW'S PARTNER WAS ROMANCING STACY'S CO-WORKER. 162 00:08:07,965 --> 00:08:09,931 DREW AND STACY GOT TO SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER 163 00:08:09,931 --> 00:08:12,758 AND ENDED UP GOING OUT THEMSELVES. 164 00:08:12,758 --> 00:08:15,413 SHE WAS 16, 17 YEARS OLD. 165 00:08:15,413 --> 00:08:18,344 DREW WAS 30 YEARS OLDER. 166 00:08:18,344 --> 00:08:19,517 Hosey: IF YOU SEE PICTURES 167 00:08:19,517 --> 00:08:20,896 OF WHAT STACY LOOKED LIKE WHEN THEY FIRST MET, 168 00:08:20,896 --> 00:08:22,758 SHE LOOKS LIKE A CHILD. 169 00:08:22,758 --> 00:08:25,068 WHEN HE MET HER, DREW WAS ACTUALLY STILL MARRIED 170 00:08:25,068 --> 00:08:27,379 TO A WOMAN NAMED KATHLEEN SAVIO. 171 00:08:27,379 --> 00:08:30,689 DREW WAS HAVING THIS AFFAIR BEHIND HER BACK. 172 00:08:30,689 --> 00:08:34,000 THEY WERE ALWAYS ON THE PHONE AND DOING STUFF TOGETHER. 173 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,655 SHE WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, CHITCHAT AND TELL ME ABOUT DREW. 174 00:08:38,655 --> 00:08:40,137 FROM WHAT I GOT OUT OF IT, 175 00:08:40,137 --> 00:08:44,862 KATHLEEN WAS THE BAD WOMAN IN THE RELATIONSHIP. 176 00:08:44,862 --> 00:08:48,413 Aikin: THE AGE DIFFERENCE DIDN'T MATTER TO STACY. 177 00:08:48,413 --> 00:08:51,379 HE WAS FINANCIALLY SET, 178 00:08:51,379 --> 00:08:55,241 AND SO SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY. 179 00:08:55,241 --> 00:08:57,689 I THINK SHE FELT, LIKE, STABILITY -- 180 00:08:57,689 --> 00:09:00,000 SHE FELT SOME SECURITY THERE. 181 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,965 HE GAVE HER A PLACE TO LIVE, GAVE HER A CAR. 182 00:09:02,965 --> 00:09:04,965 ALL OF A SUDDEN, SHE COULD GO ON TRIPS. 183 00:09:04,965 --> 00:09:07,827 HE GAVE HER A LIFE SHE NEVER HAD GROWING UP. 184 00:09:07,827 --> 00:09:10,103 Aikin: BUT I DID FEAR FOR STACY 185 00:09:10,103 --> 00:09:13,655 THAT SHE WOULD BE HURT, MOSTLY EMOTIONALLY. 186 00:09:13,655 --> 00:09:16,965 A RELATIONSHIP WITH 30 YEARS' DIFFERENCE 187 00:09:16,965 --> 00:09:20,620 IS NOT TOO LIKELY THAT IT'LL WORK OUT. 188 00:09:20,620 --> 00:09:23,551 Narrator: AFTER DATING STACY FOR NEARLY 2 YEARS, 189 00:09:23,551 --> 00:09:25,758 DREW DIVORCES KATHLEEN. 190 00:09:25,758 --> 00:09:28,413 Aikin: DREW AND STACY COULD NOT GET MARRIED 191 00:09:28,413 --> 00:09:30,310 UNTIL THE DIVORCE WAS FINALIZED. 192 00:09:30,310 --> 00:09:34,965 WHEN THE DIVORCE CAME THROUGH ON OCTOBER 10th, 193 00:09:34,965 --> 00:09:37,172 THEY GOT MARRIED ON OCTOBER 18th. 194 00:09:37,172 --> 00:09:39,310 ♪♪ 195 00:09:39,310 --> 00:09:41,103 Narrator: CASSANDRA COMPLETES HER STATEMENT 196 00:09:41,103 --> 00:09:42,724 TO THE STATE POLICE. 197 00:09:42,724 --> 00:09:44,655 AND THEY OPEN A FILE ON THEIR FELLOW COP 198 00:09:44,655 --> 00:09:46,965 FROM NEARBY BOLINGBROOK. 199 00:09:46,965 --> 00:09:50,310 BUT CASSANDRA CAN'T STAND IDLY BY. 200 00:09:50,310 --> 00:09:52,172 WHEN I LEFT STATE POLICE, 201 00:09:52,172 --> 00:09:55,310 I WENT TO STACY'S HOUSE WITH MY FRIEND, BRUCE. 202 00:09:55,310 --> 00:09:57,068 Narrator: AS SHE APPROACHES THE HOUSE, 203 00:09:57,068 --> 00:09:59,482 SHE'S STUNNED BY WHAT SHE FINDS. 204 00:09:59,482 --> 00:10:01,551 Karas: AND THEY SEE BOTH CARS ARE NOW IN THE DRIVEWAY. 205 00:10:01,551 --> 00:10:04,137 THAT'S STACY'S CAR AND DREW'S CAR. 206 00:10:04,137 --> 00:10:06,586 WHAT'S GOING ON? YOU KNOW, IS SHE HOME? 207 00:10:06,586 --> 00:10:09,586 I JUST LOOKED AT BRUCE, AND I SAID, "WHAT DO WE DO?" 208 00:10:09,586 --> 00:10:11,103 AND HE GOES, "CALL." 209 00:10:11,103 --> 00:10:14,034 IT WAS ON SPEAKERPHONE, AND DREW ANSWERS THE PHONE. 210 00:10:14,034 --> 00:10:16,379 BRUCE ASKED, "WHERE'S STACY?" 211 00:10:16,379 --> 00:10:18,689 AND HE JUST STARTS RANTING OFF TO BRUCE THAT, 212 00:10:18,689 --> 00:10:21,275 "SHE'S NOT HERE. SHE LEFT ME." 213 00:10:21,275 --> 00:10:24,068 SO BRUCE GOES, "WHY IS HER CAR HERE?" 214 00:10:24,068 --> 00:10:28,379 Karas: DREW TOLD BRUCE THAT STACY TOOK OFF WITH A BOYFRIEND 215 00:10:28,379 --> 00:10:30,965 AND LEFT THE CAR AT CLOW AIRPORT, 216 00:10:30,965 --> 00:10:32,482 "AND I HAD TO GO PICK IT UP." 217 00:10:32,482 --> 00:10:35,448 DREW THEN WENT TO CLOW AIRPORT, ONLY ABOUT A HALF A MILE AWAY 218 00:10:35,448 --> 00:10:38,724 AND PICKED UP HER CAR AND BROUGHT IT HOME. 219 00:10:38,724 --> 00:10:40,793 Narrator: DESPERATE FOR ANY INFORMATION, 220 00:10:40,793 --> 00:10:44,551 CASSANDRA AND BRUCE DRIVE TO THE SMALL REGIONAL AIRPORT. 221 00:10:44,551 --> 00:10:48,655 Karas: AT CLOW AIRPORT, CASSANDRA SEES SECURITY CAMERAS. 222 00:10:48,655 --> 00:10:50,000 THE SECURITY CAMERA 223 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,655 COULD HELP DETERMINE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO STACY. 224 00:10:54,655 --> 00:10:57,206 AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEY CALL THE POLICE. 225 00:10:57,206 --> 00:10:59,103 Narrator: CASSANDRA PLEADS WITH THE OFFICER 226 00:10:59,103 --> 00:11:01,413 TO RETRIEVE THE FOOTAGE FROM THE CAMERA. 227 00:11:01,413 --> 00:11:02,862 Cales: THE COP TOLD ME, 228 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:05,241 "OH, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THAT CAMERA DOESN'T RECORD." 229 00:11:05,241 --> 00:11:09,689 SO...THAT WAS IT. 230 00:11:09,689 --> 00:11:11,413 Karas: WITH NO FOOTAGE FROM THAT SECURITY CAMERA, 231 00:11:11,413 --> 00:11:12,793 THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS, 232 00:11:12,793 --> 00:11:15,448 AND THEY HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER WAY TO TRACK HER DOWN. 233 00:11:15,448 --> 00:11:18,275 SOMETHING WAS ABSOLUTELY WRONG HERE. 234 00:11:18,275 --> 00:11:19,965 Narrator: WITH EACH PASSING MOMENT, 235 00:11:19,965 --> 00:11:22,551 CASSANDRA'S DREAD GROWS. 236 00:11:22,551 --> 00:11:26,620 FOR CASSANDRA, NOTHING IN THIS BIZARRE SITUATION ADDS UP. 237 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:28,172 AND SHE STARTS TO BELIEVE 238 00:11:28,172 --> 00:11:31,793 THAT DREW HAD A HAND IN STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 239 00:11:31,793 --> 00:11:33,413 ♪♪ 240 00:11:35,758 --> 00:11:37,379 Narrator: CASSANDRA CALES IS SEARCHING 241 00:11:37,379 --> 00:11:41,413 FOR HER MISSING 23-YEAR-OLD SISTER, STACY. 242 00:11:41,413 --> 00:11:43,103 BUT STACY'S HUSBAND, DREW, 243 00:11:43,103 --> 00:11:45,965 INSISTS THAT SHE SIMPLY RAN AWAY. 244 00:11:45,965 --> 00:11:48,758 Dobrich: HE CLAIMED THAT SHE WAS LEAVING HIM FOR ANOTHER MAN, 245 00:11:48,758 --> 00:11:50,241 THAT SHE TOOK SOME CLOTHES, 246 00:11:50,241 --> 00:11:54,689 THAT SHE TOOK $25,000 OUT OF THEIR SAFE, 247 00:11:54,689 --> 00:11:56,689 AND HE NEVER SAW HER AFTER THAT. 248 00:11:56,689 --> 00:11:57,965 Narrator: BUT CASSANDRA 249 00:11:57,965 --> 00:12:01,758 FINDS DREW'S STORY DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW. 250 00:12:01,758 --> 00:12:04,000 Cales: SHE DID NOT RUN OFF. 251 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,172 SHE WOULD NEVER LEAVE HER KIDS. 252 00:12:08,172 --> 00:12:11,413 THERE WAS, LIKE, JUST THIS EERIE FEELING I DIDN'T LIKE. 253 00:12:11,413 --> 00:12:14,103 I DIDN'T -- JUST DIDN'T TRUST HIM. 254 00:12:14,103 --> 00:12:16,793 Narrator: ON THE MORNING OF MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 255 00:12:16,793 --> 00:12:20,448 JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER CASSANDRA'S LATE-NIGHT REPORT, 256 00:12:20,448 --> 00:12:21,896 THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE 257 00:12:21,896 --> 00:12:27,137 BEGIN INVESTIGATING A MAN THEY KNOW ALL TOO WELL. 258 00:12:27,137 --> 00:12:29,068 Dobrich: MY NAME IS CARL DOBRICH. 259 00:12:29,068 --> 00:12:32,413 I AM A RETIRED CAPTAIN FROM THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE. 260 00:12:32,413 --> 00:12:35,551 I HANDLED THE DREW PETERSON CASE. 261 00:12:35,551 --> 00:12:37,862 DREW HAD A REPUTATION. 262 00:12:37,862 --> 00:12:39,310 HE, AT ONE TIME, WAS A MEMBER 263 00:12:39,310 --> 00:12:42,517 OF THE JOLIET AREA NARCOTICS UNIT, 264 00:12:42,517 --> 00:12:45,000 WHICH THE STATE POLICE ADMINISTERED. 265 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,689 DREW WAS DISMISSED FROM THAT UNIT 266 00:12:47,689 --> 00:12:49,413 OVER AN ALLEGATION THAT 267 00:12:49,413 --> 00:12:53,413 HE PROVIDED INFORMATION TO AN OUTLAW BIKER GANG 268 00:12:53,413 --> 00:12:57,379 THAT COULD HAVE CAUSED A PROBLEM DURING AN UNDERCOVER DRUG DEAL. 269 00:12:57,379 --> 00:13:00,551 SO, AT LEAST WITH MEMBERS OF THE STATE POLICE, 270 00:13:00,551 --> 00:13:03,241 DREW'S REPUTATION WAS NOT GOOD. 271 00:13:03,241 --> 00:13:07,172 Narrator: DOBRICH'S TEAM SET OUT TO QUESTION DREW. 272 00:13:07,172 --> 00:13:08,482 Dobrich: FIRST THING WE WANTED TO DO 273 00:13:08,482 --> 00:13:13,241 WAS GO TALK TO DREW AND GET HIS STATEMENT. 274 00:13:13,241 --> 00:13:16,793 AND SO A TEAM OF AGENTS WENT UP TO BOLINGBROOK, 275 00:13:16,793 --> 00:13:18,758 ENCOUNTERED DREW AT HOME, 276 00:13:18,758 --> 00:13:20,137 AND TALKED TO HIM 277 00:13:20,137 --> 00:13:24,137 ABOUT WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 278 00:13:24,137 --> 00:13:27,344 "WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE HER? WHAT DID SHE SAY? 279 00:13:27,344 --> 00:13:28,862 WHO WAS SHE WITH?" 280 00:13:28,862 --> 00:13:30,896 AND DREW BASICALLY TOLD US 281 00:13:30,896 --> 00:13:34,241 THAT HE HADN'T SEEN STACY SINCE YESTERDAY. 282 00:13:34,241 --> 00:13:36,206 DREW HAD RETURNED HOME FROM WORK 283 00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:38,310 ABOUT 5:00 OR 6:00 THAT MORNING. 284 00:13:38,310 --> 00:13:40,448 HE HAD WORKED THAT NIGHT, THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT. 285 00:13:40,448 --> 00:13:44,551 HE SAID HE HAD TALKED TO STACY BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP. 286 00:13:44,551 --> 00:13:47,551 THE CHILDREN WOKE HIM UP ABOUT 10:00 IN THE MORNING. 287 00:13:47,551 --> 00:13:49,344 STACY WAS ALREADY GONE. 288 00:13:49,344 --> 00:13:51,482 DREW JUST WENT ABOUT HIS BUSINESS THE REST OF THE DAY, 289 00:13:51,482 --> 00:13:53,896 TAKING CARE OF THE KIDS, RUNNING ERRANDS. 290 00:13:53,896 --> 00:13:56,551 HE CLAIMED LATER HE GOT A CALL FROM STACY 291 00:13:56,551 --> 00:13:58,655 WHERE SHE INFORMED HIM SHE WAS RUNNING OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN 292 00:13:58,655 --> 00:14:01,517 AND LEAVING HIM AND THE CHILDREN, 293 00:14:01,517 --> 00:14:04,689 AND HE NEVER HEARD FROM HER AGAIN. 294 00:14:04,689 --> 00:14:06,310 Dobrich: SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, 295 00:14:06,310 --> 00:14:08,482 DREW STARTED TO LOOK FOR HER. 296 00:14:08,482 --> 00:14:10,413 BUT HE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING. 297 00:14:10,413 --> 00:14:11,862 HE WAS VERY CALM. 298 00:14:11,862 --> 00:14:14,034 DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE SHOOK UP. 299 00:14:14,034 --> 00:14:17,931 HE WAS VERY ADAMANT THAT SHE TOOK OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN 300 00:14:17,931 --> 00:14:23,310 AND THAT STACY'S CAR HAD BEEN LOCATED AT CLOW AIRPORT. 301 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:25,862 Narrator: THEN, INVESTIGATORS TURN THEIR ATTENTION 302 00:14:25,862 --> 00:14:28,482 TO PETERSON'S HOME. 303 00:14:28,482 --> 00:14:31,862 Dobrich: THEY DID ASK DREW IF WE COULD LOOK AROUND. 304 00:14:31,862 --> 00:14:33,724 HE ALLOWED US TO LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE, 305 00:14:33,724 --> 00:14:35,896 BUT HE SAID, "DON'T DISTURB ANYTHING." 306 00:14:35,896 --> 00:14:40,310 SO IT WASN'T A FULL-BLOWN CRIME-SCENE SEARCH. 307 00:14:40,310 --> 00:14:42,344 BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET A FEEL 308 00:14:42,344 --> 00:14:43,758 FOR HOW THINGS WERE IN THE HOUSE. 309 00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:46,034 DID IT LOOK LIKE THERE WAS ANY DISTURBANCES? 310 00:14:46,034 --> 00:14:47,655 WERE THERE HOLES IN THE WALL? 311 00:14:47,655 --> 00:14:50,000 WERE THERE BLOOD STAINS ON THE CARPET? 312 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,931 WERE THERE WEAPONS AROUND? 313 00:14:52,931 --> 00:14:55,965 HOWEVER, WE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING. 314 00:14:55,965 --> 00:14:57,793 NOTHING WAS OUT OF ORDER. 315 00:14:57,793 --> 00:15:01,793 AND THEN WE ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO LOOK THROUGH HIS VEHICLES. 316 00:15:01,793 --> 00:15:06,206 DREW OWNED A DENALI, AND STACY HAD A GRAND PRIX. 317 00:15:06,206 --> 00:15:09,724 HE ALLOWED US TO ONLY SEARCH THE DENALI, 318 00:15:09,724 --> 00:15:12,482 BUT DIDN'T WANT US IN STACY'S CAR. 319 00:15:12,482 --> 00:15:18,000 Karas: SO THAT CAST A LITTLE SUSPICION ON HIM. 320 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,241 LIKE, WHY NOT? 321 00:15:19,241 --> 00:15:23,586 WHY ISN'T HE GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT? 322 00:15:23,586 --> 00:15:26,517 WHY CAN'T THEY SEARCH STACY'S CAR? 323 00:15:26,517 --> 00:15:29,310 Narrator: AS POLICE DIG FOR INFORMATION ON DREW, 324 00:15:29,310 --> 00:15:31,551 THEY ALSO BEGIN TO SCOUR THE COMMUNITY 325 00:15:31,551 --> 00:15:34,448 FOR ANY SIGNS OF STACY. 326 00:15:34,448 --> 00:15:37,034 THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A SEARCH OF THIS MAGNITUDE 327 00:15:37,034 --> 00:15:38,551 IN BOLINGBROOK BEFORE. 328 00:15:38,551 --> 00:15:40,724 THE POLICE WERE USING ALL THEIR RESOURCES 329 00:15:40,724 --> 00:15:42,758 TO LOOK FOR THIS WOMAN. 330 00:15:42,758 --> 00:15:45,172 Narrator: AS THE SEARCH FOR STACY CONTINUES, 331 00:15:45,172 --> 00:15:48,965 THE MEDIA LATCHES ON TO THE STORY. 332 00:15:48,965 --> 00:15:50,172 Brodsky: FOR TWO OR THREE BLOCKS 333 00:15:50,172 --> 00:15:52,482 IN EVERY DIRECTION AROUND DREW'S HOUSE, 334 00:15:52,482 --> 00:15:55,586 NATIONAL AND LOCAL MEDIA HAD TRUCKS -- 335 00:15:55,586 --> 00:15:57,896 HUNDREDS OF THEM, LITERALLY. 336 00:15:57,896 --> 00:16:01,068 Karas: THE MEDIA JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT. 337 00:16:01,068 --> 00:16:05,206 THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL 23-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR WHO WAS MISSING, 338 00:16:05,206 --> 00:16:06,758 AND HER HUSBAND'S A COP. 339 00:16:06,758 --> 00:16:10,931 MAYBE THIS IS A GUY WHO MAY KNOW HOW TO MAKE SOMEONE DISAPPEAR 340 00:16:10,931 --> 00:16:12,206 AND GET AWAY WITH IT. 341 00:16:12,206 --> 00:16:13,758 -DREW PETERSON. -DREW PETERSON. 342 00:16:13,758 --> 00:16:15,068 -DREW PETERSON. -DREW PETERSON? 343 00:16:15,068 --> 00:16:16,724 [BLEEP] 344 00:16:16,724 --> 00:16:20,482 Narrator: ADDING TO THE INTRIGUE IS DREW'S DISPOSITION, 345 00:16:20,482 --> 00:16:22,172 WHICH CUTS AGAINST THE ARCHETYPE 346 00:16:22,172 --> 00:16:24,896 OF A MAN WHOSE WIFE IS MISSING. 347 00:16:24,896 --> 00:16:27,275 I'M NOT GOING TO GO HIDE IN A CORNER AND CRY ABOUT IT. 348 00:16:27,275 --> 00:16:32,379 YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST LIKE I PERSONALLY GRIEVE OVER IT. 349 00:16:32,379 --> 00:16:34,689 I DO THAT ALL ON MY OWN. 350 00:16:34,689 --> 00:16:37,586 Dobrich: HE ALWAYS CAME ACROSS AS, "IT'S ALL ABOUT DREW." 351 00:16:37,586 --> 00:16:40,896 SHOWING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DREW PETERSON 352 00:16:40,896 --> 00:16:43,689 AND HAVING THIS GUY IN MY FACE LIKE THIS. 353 00:16:43,689 --> 00:16:45,758 PLEASE GO HOME. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE. 354 00:16:45,758 --> 00:16:47,206 PLEASE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN MY LITTLE WORLD. 355 00:16:47,206 --> 00:16:48,620 [ LAUGHS ] 356 00:16:48,620 --> 00:16:53,206 THEY SAW A PERSONALITY IN DREW THAT WAS CAMERA-WORTHY. 357 00:16:53,206 --> 00:16:55,758 MY REACTION WAS, "HE'S TALKING WHEN HE SHOULDN'T BE, 358 00:16:55,758 --> 00:16:57,137 SO HE'S AN IDIOT." 359 00:16:57,137 --> 00:16:58,655 STAY IN SCHOOL AND DON'T DO DRUGS. 360 00:16:58,655 --> 00:17:00,172 [ Chuckling ] HAVE A GOOD DAY. 361 00:17:00,172 --> 00:17:02,482 Glasgow: HE WAS DRESSED LIKE THE FRITO BANDITO 362 00:17:02,482 --> 00:17:05,551 WITH THE BANDANA, SUN GLASSES, A BASEBALL HAT. 363 00:17:05,551 --> 00:17:08,206 IT WAS GETTING A LITTLE WEIRD. 364 00:17:08,206 --> 00:17:09,586 MAYBE DREW THOUGHT THAT 365 00:17:09,586 --> 00:17:13,689 ALL OF THOSE MEDIA APPEARANCES WERE DOING SOME GOOD. 366 00:17:13,689 --> 00:17:14,931 BUT IN THE END, 367 00:17:14,931 --> 00:17:18,275 IT ONLY HIGHLIGHTED THIS NARCISSISTIC FIGURE 368 00:17:18,275 --> 00:17:22,689 WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING TO GRAB THE SPOTLIGHT. 369 00:17:22,689 --> 00:17:25,448 Narrator: IN THE WEEKS AFTER STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE, 370 00:17:25,448 --> 00:17:29,275 DREW SHOWS LITTLE INTEREST IN THE EFFORTS OF POLICE. 371 00:17:29,275 --> 00:17:31,931 HE ENJOYED MEDIA ATTENTION WHEN YOU WOULD THINK 372 00:17:31,931 --> 00:17:35,551 HE WOULD BE MORE INTERESTED IN, "HOW'S THE INVESTIGATION GOING? 373 00:17:35,551 --> 00:17:37,620 IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP?" 374 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:39,103 DREW NEVER HELPED OUT WITH ANY OF THE SEARCHES. 375 00:17:39,103 --> 00:17:40,620 HE SAID THERE WAS NO POINT. 376 00:17:40,620 --> 00:17:44,965 WHY WOULD I LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO I DON'T BELIEVE IS MISSING? 377 00:17:44,965 --> 00:17:45,965 SHE'S JUST GONE. 378 00:17:45,965 --> 00:17:48,310 SHE'S WHERE SHE WANTS TO BE. 379 00:17:48,310 --> 00:17:50,310 Narrator: DESPITE DREW'S INSISTENCE, 380 00:17:50,310 --> 00:17:55,482 AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO SCOUR THE REGION FOR STACY. 381 00:17:55,482 --> 00:17:58,344 Burek: THIS WAS SOMEBODY WE WERE LOOKING FOR VERY INTENSELY, 382 00:17:58,344 --> 00:18:00,517 AND WE WANTED INFORMATION. 383 00:18:00,517 --> 00:18:03,448 THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN WE WOULD SEARCH AREAS 384 00:18:03,448 --> 00:18:06,931 WHERE SKELETAL REMAINS WERE FOUND. 385 00:18:06,931 --> 00:18:10,793 ALL OF THOSE PROVED TO EITHER BE MAYBE MALE SKELETON REMAINS 386 00:18:10,793 --> 00:18:13,758 OR DIFFERENT AGE BRACKETS THAN WE WERE LOOKING. 387 00:18:13,758 --> 00:18:15,137 Hosey: IN ALL OF THESE OPERATIONS THEY DID, 388 00:18:15,137 --> 00:18:19,000 THEY NEVER FOUND STACY OR ANY SIGN OF STACY. 389 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,275 Narrator: THEN, POLICE UNCOVER SURPRISING INFORMATION 390 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:23,655 THAT LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE 391 00:18:23,655 --> 00:18:26,517 THAT DREW MAY BE TELLING THE TRUTH. 392 00:18:26,517 --> 00:18:30,379 STACY HAD RECENTLY BEEN TEXTING WITH ANOTHER MAN. 393 00:18:30,379 --> 00:18:32,000 Dobrich: STACY HAD BEEN TO HIS HOME. 394 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 WE KNEW THAT THEY HAD A RELATIONSHIP. 395 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,758 DREW SAID, "IF SHE'S WITH ANYBODY, 396 00:18:36,758 --> 00:18:38,344 SHE'S GONNA BE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN." 397 00:18:38,344 --> 00:18:39,965 ♪♪ 398 00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:46,655 Narrator: DAYS AFTER STACY PETERSON DISAPPEARS, 399 00:18:46,655 --> 00:18:48,275 STATE POLICE ARE ON THE HUNT 400 00:18:48,275 --> 00:18:51,206 FOR A MAN SHE MAY HAVE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH. 401 00:18:51,206 --> 00:18:54,827 THE INVESTIGATION IDENTIFIED AN INDIVIDUAL 402 00:18:54,827 --> 00:18:57,068 WHOSE NAME WAS SCOTT ROSSETTO. 403 00:18:57,068 --> 00:19:02,068 SCOTT WAS A FRIEND OF STACY'S AND KNEW HER IN HIGH SCHOOL. 404 00:19:02,068 --> 00:19:03,931 DREW SAID, "IF SHE'S WITH ANYBODY, 405 00:19:03,931 --> 00:19:06,137 SHE'S GONNA BE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN." 406 00:19:06,137 --> 00:19:08,689 HE BECAME PRIORITY NUMBER ONE. 407 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:11,241 Narrator: POLICE MAKE A REQUEST FOR CELLPHONE RECORDS 408 00:19:11,241 --> 00:19:15,034 TO EXAMINE EXCHANGES BETWEEN SCOTT AND STACY. 409 00:19:15,034 --> 00:19:17,068 THEN, THEY TRACK DOWN ROSSETTO 410 00:19:17,068 --> 00:19:19,965 AND BRING HIM IN FOR QUESTIONING. 411 00:19:19,965 --> 00:19:23,689 SCOTT SAID THAT THEY HAD RECONNECTED IN OCTOBER, 412 00:19:23,689 --> 00:19:25,068 BUT IT WAS A SURPRISE TO HIM. 413 00:19:25,068 --> 00:19:26,586 HE NEVER EXPECTED HER CALL. 414 00:19:26,586 --> 00:19:28,655 SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE HAD FOUND HIS PHONE NUMBER 415 00:19:28,655 --> 00:19:29,965 WHILE SHE WAS CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE. 416 00:19:39,931 --> 00:19:41,758 HE SAID, PRIOR TO HER DISAPPEARANCE, 417 00:19:41,758 --> 00:19:44,655 STACY AND SCOTT GOT TOGETHER AT HIS HOUSE ONCE. 418 00:19:58,620 --> 00:19:59,931 HE ADMITTED THAT 419 00:19:59,931 --> 00:20:02,517 HE HAD A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP WITH STACY, 420 00:20:02,517 --> 00:20:04,310 THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH AWARE 421 00:20:04,310 --> 00:20:07,793 THAT STACY WAS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. 422 00:20:15,586 --> 00:20:17,310 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS PRESS ROSSETTO 423 00:20:17,310 --> 00:20:20,448 ON HIS WHEREABOUTS THE NIGHT STACY VANISHED. 424 00:20:20,448 --> 00:20:24,275 HE WAS A NURSE AT ONE OF THE LOCAL HOSPITALS. 425 00:20:24,275 --> 00:20:27,241 HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS WORKING WHEN STACY DISAPPEARED. 426 00:20:27,241 --> 00:20:30,482 Narrator: THEN, ROSSETTO RECOUNTS AN INCIDENT 427 00:20:30,482 --> 00:20:33,517 THAT OCCURRED ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HER DISAPPEARANCE. 428 00:20:33,517 --> 00:20:36,793 THE EXPERIENCE LEFT HIM TERRIFIED. 429 00:20:36,793 --> 00:20:39,413 Glasgow: HE SAID STACY AND SCOTT HAD GONE OUT TO EAT THAT NIGHT. 430 00:20:39,413 --> 00:20:40,689 ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY SEE 431 00:20:40,689 --> 00:20:43,379 THIS BOLINGBROOK SQUAD CAR CIRCLING THE RESTAURANT, 432 00:20:43,379 --> 00:20:46,862 AND IT'S DREW PETERSON, AND HE'S STARING AT THEM. 433 00:20:46,862 --> 00:20:49,482 AND THEN HE PARKS HIS CAR AND COMES IN. 434 00:20:49,482 --> 00:20:50,896 DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING, 435 00:20:50,896 --> 00:20:53,206 AND JUST FORCIBLY SITS DOWN WITH THEM 436 00:20:53,206 --> 00:20:55,275 AND STARES AT ALL OF THEM. 437 00:20:55,275 --> 00:20:58,000 DREW PETERSON WAS IN FULL UNIFORM. 438 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,241 STACY HANDLED THE SITUATION CALMLY, 439 00:21:02,241 --> 00:21:06,862 BUT SCOTT FEARED DREW, AND IT GOT TENSE. 440 00:21:06,862 --> 00:21:08,172 Hosey: DREW WAS VERY ANGRY. 441 00:21:08,172 --> 00:21:10,103 HE DIDN'T WANT HIM HANGING AROUND WITH STACY. 442 00:21:10,103 --> 00:21:13,310 HE SAID TO HIM, "HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THIS WAS YOUR WIFE?" 443 00:21:13,310 --> 00:21:15,000 Dobrich: IT KIND OF PUT MR. ROSSETTO 444 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,310 BACK A LITTLE BIT. 445 00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:19,068 AND HE ASKED MR. ROSSETTO FOR HIS IDENTIFICATIONS, 446 00:21:19,068 --> 00:21:21,689 AND HE PROVIDED HIM WITH HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE. 447 00:21:21,689 --> 00:21:23,034 Glasgow: IT WAS CRAZY. 448 00:21:23,034 --> 00:21:25,931 IT'S OUT OF A "B" MOVIE, A BAD "B" MOVIE. 449 00:21:25,931 --> 00:21:28,103 AND THEN DREW LEFT THE RESTAURANT. 450 00:21:28,103 --> 00:21:30,724 Karas: THAT PROBABLY MADE ROSSETTO REALIZE 451 00:21:30,724 --> 00:21:32,758 THIS IS NOT A WOMAN TO GET INVOLVED WITH. 452 00:21:32,758 --> 00:21:35,034 IT TOTALLY WEIRDED HIM OUT. 453 00:21:35,034 --> 00:21:37,965 Narrator: POLICE PUT ROSSETTO ON THE BACK BURNER 454 00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:43,000 UNTIL THEY RECEIVE CELLPHONE DATA THAT RAISES THEIR CONCERN. 455 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,620 Dobrich: WHEN STACY WENT MISSING, 456 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:50,413 DREW CLAIMED THAT HE GOT A PHONE CALL FROM STACY THAT EVENING. 457 00:21:50,413 --> 00:21:53,241 AND WE GOT THE CELLPHONE TOWER RECORDS 458 00:21:53,241 --> 00:21:55,482 TO SHOW THOSE PHONE PINGS. 459 00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:58,551 Narrator: THE LOCATION OF THE PINGS PIQUES THEIR INTEREST. 460 00:21:58,551 --> 00:22:00,758 Dobrich: THOSE CELLPHONE CALLS FROM STACY 461 00:22:00,758 --> 00:22:02,827 CAME FROM THE SHOREWOOD AREA, 462 00:22:02,827 --> 00:22:06,551 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN WHERE SCOTT ROSSETTO RESIDED. 463 00:22:06,551 --> 00:22:08,310 Hosey: THAT CALL TO DREW'S CELLPHONE 464 00:22:08,310 --> 00:22:09,689 WAS MADE RIGHT AROUND THE TIME 465 00:22:09,689 --> 00:22:11,379 THAT DREW HAD GOTTEN A CALL FROM STACY 466 00:22:11,379 --> 00:22:14,206 AND SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS RUNNING AWAY WITH ANOTHER MAN. 467 00:22:14,206 --> 00:22:16,482 Narrator: ALSO BURIED IN THE CELLPHONE DATA, 468 00:22:16,482 --> 00:22:20,413 POLICE DISCOVER A COLLECTION OF SECRETS. 469 00:22:20,413 --> 00:22:22,068 Dobrich: WE DIDN'T HAVE STACY'S TELEPHONE, 470 00:22:22,068 --> 00:22:25,172 BUT THE COMPANY MAINTAINED TEXT-MESSAGE RECORDS. 471 00:22:25,172 --> 00:22:28,413 SO WE WERE ABLE TO READ THOSE TEXT MESSAGES. 472 00:22:28,413 --> 00:22:31,000 THERE WERE TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN HER AND SCOTT 473 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,068 THAT WOULD MAKE A HUSBAND JEALOUS. 474 00:22:34,068 --> 00:22:35,482 IT WAS A CONNECTION. 475 00:22:35,482 --> 00:22:37,000 Karas: THEY WERE PRETTY RACY. 476 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,896 CHANCES ARE, IF YOU'RE SENDING SEXY MESSAGES LIKE THIS, 477 00:22:40,896 --> 00:22:42,896 YOU'RE PROBABLY HAVING A PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP. 478 00:22:42,896 --> 00:22:46,517 Narrator: POLICE CALL ROSSETTO BACK IN FOR MORE QUESTIONING 479 00:22:46,517 --> 00:22:49,379 AND CONFRONT HIM WITH THE EXPLOSIVE EVIDENCE. 480 00:23:03,482 --> 00:23:06,275 HE SAID, "LOOK, I'M A FLIRT. SHE'S A FLIRT. 481 00:23:06,275 --> 00:23:10,310 YEAH, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DOING, BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT." 482 00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:13,862 BUT IT WAS CLEAR IN HIS MIND THAT STACY WAS PURSUING HIM. 483 00:23:34,586 --> 00:23:37,000 Narrator: THEN DETECTIVES BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE 484 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,068 ROSSETTO'S ALIBI. 485 00:23:39,068 --> 00:23:42,620 SCOTT SAYS HE WAS WORKING AT A HOSPITAL THAT DAY 486 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:45,241 AND THAT RECORDS WOULD PROVE THAT. 487 00:23:45,241 --> 00:23:46,862 AND WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE 488 00:23:46,862 --> 00:23:49,241 HE WAS AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. 489 00:23:49,241 --> 00:23:52,206 Narrator: HOWEVER, ONE DETAIL ABOUT ROSSETTO 490 00:23:52,206 --> 00:23:54,482 CONTINUES TO VEX AUTHORITIES. 491 00:23:54,482 --> 00:23:56,344 WHY WOULD STACY'S PHONE BE IN SCOTT'S NEIGHBORHOOD 492 00:23:56,344 --> 00:23:58,551 IF HE WASN'T WITH HER? 493 00:23:58,551 --> 00:23:59,758 Narrator: POLICE ARE STAGGERED 494 00:23:59,758 --> 00:24:02,551 BY THEIR INABILITY TO PIN DOWN A SUSPECT 495 00:24:02,551 --> 00:24:06,241 OR UNCOVER THE SLIGHTEST HINT OF STACY'S WHEREABOUTS. 496 00:24:06,241 --> 00:24:09,275 BUT THEY MAY SOON GET THEIR ANSWER. 497 00:24:09,275 --> 00:24:12,172 Karas: THIS MAN SAYS HE GOT A CALL FROM DREW. 498 00:24:12,172 --> 00:24:15,103 DREW SAID, "I GOT A BIG PROBLEM ON MY HANDS, 499 00:24:15,103 --> 00:24:17,413 AND I NEED HELP TAKING CARE OF IT." 500 00:24:17,413 --> 00:24:18,758 ♪♪ 501 00:24:22,137 --> 00:24:23,655 Narrator: IN LATE OCTOBER, 502 00:24:23,655 --> 00:24:26,793 A NEW WITNESS EMERGES IN THE MISSING PERSON INVESTIGATION 503 00:24:26,793 --> 00:24:29,482 OF 23-YEAR-OLD STACY PETERSON. 504 00:24:29,482 --> 00:24:32,931 HE WAS ACTUALLY BROUGHT TO US BY A PHONE CALL FROM THE FBI. 505 00:24:32,931 --> 00:24:36,034 THEY SAID THAT THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL IN A HOSPITAL 506 00:24:36,034 --> 00:24:41,172 WHO HAD INFORMATION REGARDING THE STACY PETERSON CASE. 507 00:24:41,172 --> 00:24:44,344 SO, IMMEDIATELY, WE SENT AGENTS OUT TO INTERVIEW HIM. 508 00:24:44,344 --> 00:24:46,931 THOMAS MORPHEY WAS HIS NAME. 509 00:24:46,931 --> 00:24:50,000 MORPHEY WAS DREW PETERSON'S STEP-BROTHER. 510 00:24:52,068 --> 00:24:53,620 Narrator: MORPHEY TELLS INVESTIGATORS 511 00:24:53,620 --> 00:24:56,137 THAT THE NIGHT BEFORE STACY DISAPPEARED, 512 00:24:56,137 --> 00:25:00,413 DREW CAME TO HIM WITH AN URGENT CONCERN. 513 00:25:00,413 --> 00:25:04,482 DREW TALKED ABOUT STACY HAVING THIS AFFAIR WITH A MAN 514 00:25:04,482 --> 00:25:07,724 AND THAT DREW NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM. 515 00:25:07,724 --> 00:25:10,413 HE ASSUMED THAT DREW WAS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THE MAN. 516 00:25:10,413 --> 00:25:14,931 THE NEXT DAY THEY MET, AND DREW DROVE HIM TO A PARK, 517 00:25:14,931 --> 00:25:16,344 AND HE GAVE HIM A PHONE. 518 00:25:24,896 --> 00:25:29,379 30 MINUTES AFTER DREW LEFT, THERE WAS A PHONE CALL, 519 00:25:29,379 --> 00:25:34,000 AND THE CELLPHONE SAID IT WAS STACY'S CELL CALLING. 520 00:25:38,034 --> 00:25:41,724 AND THEN DREW APPEARED AGAIN, PICKED HIM UP. 521 00:25:48,206 --> 00:25:51,137 AND ACCORDING TO MORPHEY, HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO. 522 00:25:51,137 --> 00:25:54,413 HOWEVER, DREW, AS MANIPULATIVE AS HE WAS, 523 00:25:54,413 --> 00:25:58,448 DROVE HIM TO THE HOUSE, AND THEY WENT INSIDE. 524 00:25:58,448 --> 00:26:00,344 Hosey: THEY WENT UP TO DREW AND STACY'S BEDROOM, 525 00:26:00,344 --> 00:26:03,586 WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE, BLUE PLASTIC BARREL. 526 00:26:15,689 --> 00:26:18,068 AND DREW ASKED TOM TO HELP HIM CARRY IT DOWN 527 00:26:18,068 --> 00:26:20,931 TO HIS DENALI PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY. 528 00:26:20,931 --> 00:26:22,517 TOM SAID THE BARREL WAS CLOSED. 529 00:26:22,517 --> 00:26:25,586 HE COULDN'T SEE INSIDE, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS INSIDE. 530 00:26:25,586 --> 00:26:29,172 Dobrich: AND SO, MORPHEY HELPED DREW CARRY IT DOWN. 531 00:26:29,172 --> 00:26:30,448 DREW WAS TELLING HIM TO BE CAREFUL -- 532 00:26:30,448 --> 00:26:32,413 HE DIDN'T WANT TO SPILL ANYTHING. 533 00:26:32,413 --> 00:26:33,689 ACCORDING TO MORPHEY, 534 00:26:33,689 --> 00:26:36,103 HE WAS CONCERNED BY WHAT HE WAS CARRYING. 535 00:26:36,103 --> 00:26:38,448 HE SAID IT WAS WARM TO TOUCH. 536 00:26:38,448 --> 00:26:42,517 MORPHEY HELPED CARRY IT OUTSIDE INTO DREW'S DENALI, 537 00:26:42,517 --> 00:26:46,448 AND THEN MORPHEY GOT BACK IN THE CAR, AND DREW TOOK HIM HOME. 538 00:26:50,517 --> 00:26:53,620 Narrator: BUT MORPHEY IS PLAGUED BY SUSPICION. 539 00:26:56,482 --> 00:27:01,275 HE THINKS HE HELPED DREW MOVE A BODY, 540 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:04,275 AND HE THINKS IT WAS HIS SISTER-IN-LAW. 541 00:27:04,275 --> 00:27:09,103 TOM WAS DISTRAUGHT OVER THE FACT AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 542 00:27:09,103 --> 00:27:10,758 Hosey: AFTER HE'S DROPPED OFF BY DREW, 543 00:27:10,758 --> 00:27:12,068 TOM STARTED DRINKING, 544 00:27:12,068 --> 00:27:15,413 AND HE WAS FEELING REMORSE AND REGRET, 545 00:27:15,413 --> 00:27:19,068 AND HE TRIED TO OVERDOSE ON PILLS. 546 00:27:19,068 --> 00:27:20,862 HE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF. 547 00:27:20,862 --> 00:27:23,517 Narrator: BUT MORPHEY'S GIRLFRIEND STEPS IN TO HELP. 548 00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:25,172 SHE KNEW HE WAS IN TROUBLE 549 00:27:25,172 --> 00:27:28,793 AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AS QUICKLY AS SHE COULD. 550 00:27:28,793 --> 00:27:30,793 MORPHEY WAS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE, 551 00:27:30,793 --> 00:27:34,758 THE DOCTORS INSISTED HE SPEND A NUMBER OF DAYS THERE, 552 00:27:34,758 --> 00:27:37,448 BUT, FORTUITOUSLY, HE SURVIVED, 553 00:27:37,448 --> 00:27:40,413 AND THE INFORMATION THAT HE PROVIDED TO INVESTIGATORS 554 00:27:40,413 --> 00:27:42,068 WAS SEEN AS A BOON. 555 00:27:42,068 --> 00:27:44,517 THIS IS THE LEAD THEY HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR. 556 00:27:44,517 --> 00:27:46,275 Narrator: BUT MORPHEY'S HARROWING TALE 557 00:27:46,275 --> 00:27:50,137 LACKS AN EXTREMELY CRUCIAL PIECE OF INFORMATION. 558 00:27:50,137 --> 00:27:53,137 HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DREW DID WITH THAT BARREL. 559 00:27:53,137 --> 00:27:55,689 Narrator: POLICE ATTEMPT TO VERIFY MORPHEY'S STORY 560 00:27:55,689 --> 00:28:00,275 AND LAUNCH A MASSIVE HUNT FOR THE BLUE BARREL. 561 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:01,413 Dobrich: WE LEARNED THAT 562 00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:02,965 THERE WAS A CALL MADE FROM DREW'S PHONE 563 00:28:02,965 --> 00:28:05,655 IN THE AREA OF 135th AND ROUTE 53. 564 00:28:05,655 --> 00:28:08,655 IT'S RIGHT WHERE THE BRIDGE CROSSES THE CANAL THERE. 565 00:28:08,655 --> 00:28:10,275 THE CANAL IS BASICALLY 566 00:28:10,275 --> 00:28:15,103 A VERY UNFRIENDLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC PLACE -- 567 00:28:15,103 --> 00:28:18,551 QUITE FRANKLY, A GOOD PLACE TO DUMP A BODY. 568 00:28:18,551 --> 00:28:22,827 SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE DIVERS GO IN THE WATER THERE. 569 00:28:22,827 --> 00:28:25,931 WE SEARCHED FOR DAYS, IF NOT WEEKS. 570 00:28:25,931 --> 00:28:29,413 WE STARTED TOWING CARS OUT OF THERE AND SEARCHING EACH CAR, 571 00:28:29,413 --> 00:28:31,310 THINKING MAYBE A BODY'S IN HERE. 572 00:28:31,310 --> 00:28:35,068 AND I THINK WE PULLED OUT 25 OR 30 STOLEN VEHICLES, 573 00:28:35,068 --> 00:28:37,241 BUT NO BODY. 574 00:28:37,241 --> 00:28:38,896 Narrator: WITH NO SIGN OF THE BARREL, 575 00:28:38,896 --> 00:28:42,620 THE INVESTIGATION GRINDS TO A HALT. 576 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:44,344 COMPOUNDING MATTERS, 577 00:28:44,344 --> 00:28:47,655 DREW MAKES A MEDIA APPEARANCE TO DENY MORPHEY'S STORY 578 00:28:47,655 --> 00:28:52,103 AND TO COYLY CALL HIS CHARACTER INTO QUESTION. 579 00:28:52,103 --> 00:28:53,758 I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BAD-MOUTH TOMMY. 580 00:28:53,758 --> 00:28:56,000 HE HAS SOME SERIOUS EMOTIONAL ISSUES. 581 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,896 HE WAS LOSING HIS HOUSE, LOSING HIS WIFE, 582 00:28:58,896 --> 00:29:01,586 HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM, HAD A SUICIDAL PROBLEM. 583 00:29:01,586 --> 00:29:03,931 SO I REALLY -- AND HE IS A FAMILY MEMBER, 584 00:29:03,931 --> 00:29:05,896 SO I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BAD-MOUTH HIM HERE. 585 00:29:05,896 --> 00:29:08,517 DREW PETERSON -- HE'S SO SPELL BINDING. 586 00:29:08,517 --> 00:29:11,724 HE SEEMED COOL AND CALM UNDER PRESSURE. 587 00:29:11,724 --> 00:29:13,000 YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT 588 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,413 THIS MAN HAD BEEN PINPOINTED 589 00:29:15,413 --> 00:29:19,551 AS A SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. 590 00:29:19,551 --> 00:29:21,586 Narrator: AS FOR MORPHEY'S TRUTHFULNESS, 591 00:29:21,586 --> 00:29:24,379 INVESTIGATORS GIVE IT DEEP CONSIDERATION. 592 00:29:24,379 --> 00:29:26,620 TOM HAD A HISTORY OF DRUG ABUSE, 593 00:29:26,620 --> 00:29:28,689 HE HAD A HISTORY OF ALCOHOL ABUSE, 594 00:29:28,689 --> 00:29:31,586 AND WE TOOK THAT INTO ACCOUNT. 595 00:29:31,586 --> 00:29:33,965 INVESTIGATORS DON'T GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE 596 00:29:33,965 --> 00:29:35,793 WHO THEIR WITNESSES ARE. 597 00:29:35,793 --> 00:29:37,965 Narrator: BUT AS THEY DIG INTO MORPHEY'S STORY, 598 00:29:37,965 --> 00:29:40,724 THEY UNCOVER A CRITICAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE. 599 00:29:40,724 --> 00:29:42,620 THERE WAS ONE THING THAT HELPED US VERIFY 600 00:29:42,620 --> 00:29:44,310 WHAT MORPHEY WAS SAYING. 601 00:29:55,655 --> 00:29:58,551 AND HE ORDERED A COFFEE WITH VANILLA, 602 00:29:58,551 --> 00:30:00,448 AND WE WENT TO THAT STARBUCKS. 603 00:30:00,448 --> 00:30:02,586 AND AT THE TIME THAT HE SAID HE WAS THERE, 604 00:30:02,586 --> 00:30:05,551 THERE WAS DREW PETERSON ON THE VIDEO, ORDERING THAT. 605 00:30:05,551 --> 00:30:08,931 AND IT WAS THE ONLY COFFEE WITH VANILLA THE WHOLE DAY, 606 00:30:08,931 --> 00:30:10,655 WHICH HELPED US NAIL DOWN THAT 607 00:30:10,655 --> 00:30:14,000 THAT WAS A TRUTHFUL STATEMENT ON HIS PART. 608 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,896 Dobrich: WE DISCOUNTED DREW'S OPINION OF HIM 609 00:30:15,896 --> 00:30:18,241 BECAUSE MORPHEY WAS VERY CONSISTENT 610 00:30:18,241 --> 00:30:20,793 WITH WHAT HE TOLD US EACH AND EVERY TIME, 611 00:30:20,793 --> 00:30:24,413 AND HE FELT BAD ENOUGH THAT HE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE. 612 00:30:24,413 --> 00:30:27,620 ♪♪ 613 00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:29,448 Narrator: THEN POLICE FIND SOMEONE 614 00:30:29,448 --> 00:30:32,482 WHO CAN CORROBORATE THE EXISTENCE OF THE BARREL. 615 00:30:32,482 --> 00:30:33,862 Cales: BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED, 616 00:30:33,862 --> 00:30:35,862 ME AND STACY WALKED OUT TO THE GARAGE, 617 00:30:35,862 --> 00:30:38,586 AND THERE WAS THIS BLUE BARREL. 618 00:30:38,586 --> 00:30:40,724 AND I SAID -- I GO, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" 619 00:30:40,724 --> 00:30:42,241 AND SHE'S JUST LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW. 620 00:30:42,241 --> 00:30:46,103 SOMETHING DREW GOT FOR THE POOL. IT'S CHLORINE OR SOMETHING." 621 00:30:46,103 --> 00:30:48,172 Narrator: WITH THE HELP OF MORPHEY'S ACCOUNT, 622 00:30:48,172 --> 00:30:52,000 INVESTIGATORS PIECE TOGETHER WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO STACY. 623 00:30:54,344 --> 00:30:56,689 Dobrich: ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 28th, 624 00:30:56,689 --> 00:31:01,517 WE KNOW THAT STACY WAS TEXT-MESSAGING SCOTT ROSSETTO. 625 00:31:01,517 --> 00:31:03,482 ONE OF THE THEORIES THAT WE HAD 626 00:31:03,482 --> 00:31:08,827 WAS THAT DREW ENCOUNTERED STACY WHEN SHE WAS MESSAGING SCOTT, 627 00:31:08,827 --> 00:31:12,448 AND THAT HE BECAME ENRAGED AND KILLED HER IN THE BEDROOM. 628 00:31:12,448 --> 00:31:14,206 ♪♪ 629 00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:15,896 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT 630 00:31:15,896 --> 00:31:19,344 DREW PLACED HER BODY IN THE BARREL AND SEALED IT. 631 00:31:19,344 --> 00:31:22,068 THEN, IN AN ATTEMPT TO LAY THE BLAME ELSEWHERE, 632 00:31:22,068 --> 00:31:24,551 HE GRABBED STACY'S PHONE. 633 00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:27,000 THE THEORY WAS THAT DREW WAS TRYING TO FRAME SCOTT ROSSETTO 634 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,310 BY MAKING STACY'S CELLPHONE CALL 635 00:31:29,310 --> 00:31:32,344 FROM NEARBY SCOTT'S HOUSE TO HIS OWN PHONE 636 00:31:32,344 --> 00:31:35,206 TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE STACY HAD BEEN WITH SCOTT, 637 00:31:35,206 --> 00:31:37,655 AND THEN DREW GOT RID OF HIS DEAD WIFE'S BODY. 638 00:31:37,655 --> 00:31:40,793 Narrator: ON NOVEMBER 9th, ENCOURAGED BY THEIR THEORY, 639 00:31:40,793 --> 00:31:43,275 THE POLICE MAKE A DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT. 640 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:45,517 I WOULD SAY THAT, RIGHT NOW, 641 00:31:45,517 --> 00:31:47,758 DREW PETERSON HAS GONE FROM A PERSON OF INTEREST 642 00:31:47,758 --> 00:31:49,448 TO CLEARLY BEING A SUSPECT. 643 00:31:49,448 --> 00:31:50,965 THE CASE HAS SHIFTED NOW 644 00:31:50,965 --> 00:31:56,103 FROM A MISSING-PERSON CASE TO A POTENTIAL HOMICIDE CASE. 645 00:31:56,103 --> 00:31:59,827 WE HAD CONSULTED WITH AGENTS FROM THE FBI IN QUANTICO. 646 00:31:59,827 --> 00:32:01,655 AND THEIR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT 647 00:32:01,655 --> 00:32:03,689 BASICALLY GAVE US THE OPINION 648 00:32:03,689 --> 00:32:06,689 THAT HE WAS A NARCISSISTIC INDIVIDUAL 649 00:32:06,689 --> 00:32:12,344 AND THAT HE WAS COMPLETELY CAPABLE OF HOMICIDE. 650 00:32:12,344 --> 00:32:15,068 Narrator: BUT DESPITE THE COMPELLING NARRATIVE, 651 00:32:15,068 --> 00:32:19,034 AUTHORITIES LACK THE CONFIDENCE TO CHARGE DREW WITH MURDER. 652 00:32:19,034 --> 00:32:23,862 THE MAIN REASON RIGHT NOW IS THAT THERE IS NO BODY. 653 00:32:23,862 --> 00:32:26,448 THE CONCERN IS ALWAYS THAT, WITHOUT A BODY, 654 00:32:26,448 --> 00:32:28,517 THAT, IF IT RESULTS IN AN ACQUITTAL 655 00:32:28,517 --> 00:32:30,379 AND THEN A BODY TURNS UP LATER, 656 00:32:30,379 --> 00:32:32,344 DOUBLE JEOPARDY APPLIES. 657 00:32:32,344 --> 00:32:34,586 Aikin: IT'S JUST HARD NOT HAVING A BODY. 658 00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:38,034 THERE'S JUST SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. 659 00:32:38,034 --> 00:32:40,551 Narrator: AS THE INVESTIGATION GROWS COLD, 660 00:32:40,551 --> 00:32:43,551 INVESTIGATORS DIG DEEPER INTO DREW'S PAST 661 00:32:43,551 --> 00:32:45,827 AND MAKE A SHOCKING DISCOVERY. 662 00:32:45,827 --> 00:32:50,931 STACY ISN'T THE ONLY ONE OF DREW'S WIVES THAT'S DIED. 663 00:32:50,931 --> 00:32:54,068 Howard: THE INVESTIGATION INTO THIS DEATH WAS MISHANDLED, 664 00:32:54,068 --> 00:32:56,310 AND THAT RAISED RED FLAGS. 665 00:33:00,448 --> 00:33:01,827 Narrator: IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING 666 00:33:01,827 --> 00:33:04,172 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STACY PETERSON, 667 00:33:04,172 --> 00:33:06,862 INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER STARTLING INFORMATION 668 00:33:06,862 --> 00:33:10,620 ABOUT DREW'S PREVIOUS WIFE, KATHLEEN SAVIO. 669 00:33:10,620 --> 00:33:14,827 IN 2004, DREW HAD ALREADY DIVORCED KATHLEEN 670 00:33:14,827 --> 00:33:18,655 AND WAS MARRIED TO STACY, WHO WAS HIS FOURTH WIFE. 671 00:33:18,655 --> 00:33:23,068 THAT SAME YEAR, KATHLEEN DIED IN WHAT POLICE DETERMINED 672 00:33:23,068 --> 00:33:26,103 WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A FREAK ACCIDENT. 673 00:33:26,103 --> 00:33:27,620 Narrator: BUT THREE YEARS LATER, 674 00:33:27,620 --> 00:33:32,724 STACY'S DISAPPEARANCE IGNITES NEW SCRUTINY OF SAVIO'S DEATH. 675 00:33:32,724 --> 00:33:37,517 Glasgow: I'M JIM GLASGOW, WILL COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY. 676 00:33:37,517 --> 00:33:41,103 KATHLEEN SAVIO HAD DIED UNDER VERY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. 677 00:33:41,103 --> 00:33:44,310 ONCE I BECAME AWARE OF IT, WE PULLED THE FILE. 678 00:33:44,310 --> 00:33:48,344 THE BIG QUESTION WAS, WAS IT AN ACCIDENT OR A HOMICIDE? 679 00:33:48,344 --> 00:33:49,827 Narrator: AS GLASGOW DIGS INTO 680 00:33:49,827 --> 00:33:52,103 THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF SAVIO'S DEATH, 681 00:33:52,103 --> 00:33:56,275 HIS OFFICE ALSO PIECES TOGETHER HER BACKGROUND. 682 00:33:56,275 --> 00:33:59,241 Doman: MY NAME IS SUE SAVIO DOMAN. 683 00:33:59,241 --> 00:34:02,275 I'M KATHLEEN SAVIO'S SISTER. 684 00:34:02,275 --> 00:34:07,172 SHE WAS VERY AMBITIOUS, VERY KIND, ALWAYS SMILING. 685 00:34:07,172 --> 00:34:08,655 SHE WOULD LIGHT UP THE ROOM, 686 00:34:08,655 --> 00:34:11,379 AND SHE WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. 687 00:34:11,379 --> 00:34:14,103 Hosey: BUT, ALSO, SHE WAS TOUGH. 688 00:34:14,103 --> 00:34:16,793 SHE WAS STRONG-WILLED AND OPINIONATED, 689 00:34:16,793 --> 00:34:18,862 AND NO ONE WAS GONNA PUSH HER AROUND. 690 00:34:18,862 --> 00:34:20,689 KATHLEEN WAS WORKING AS A BOOKKEEPER 691 00:34:20,689 --> 00:34:22,103 WHEN SHE AND DREW MET. 692 00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:24,000 SHE HAD NEVER BEEN MARRIED. 693 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,896 SHE AND DREW WENT OUT ON A BLIND DATE, 694 00:34:25,896 --> 00:34:27,758 AND PRETTY QUICKLY, HE ASKED HER TO MARRY, 695 00:34:27,758 --> 00:34:31,000 AND WITHIN MONTHS, SHE'LL BECOME HIS THIRD WIFE. 696 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,379 Narrator: AFTER THEIR NUPTIALS ON MAY 3, 1992, 697 00:34:34,379 --> 00:34:37,931 KATHLEEN AND DREW SETTLE INTO LIFE TOGETHER IN BOLINGBROOK, 698 00:34:37,931 --> 00:34:40,551 WHERE SHE GIVES BIRTH TO TWO SONS, 699 00:34:40,551 --> 00:34:43,448 BUT THE RELATIONSHIP SOON SHIFTS. 700 00:34:43,448 --> 00:34:48,482 SHE WAS HAPPY IN THE BEGINNING, BUT HE WOULD CALL HER NAMES. 701 00:34:48,482 --> 00:34:53,448 HE SAID SHE WAS GETTING FAT, SHE LOOKED LIKE A DOG, 702 00:34:53,448 --> 00:34:56,137 AND THAT ESCALATED. 703 00:34:56,137 --> 00:34:57,344 Narrator: ACCORDING TO SUE, 704 00:34:57,344 --> 00:35:01,103 HER BROTHER-IN-LAW COP THEN CROSSES THE LINE. 705 00:35:01,103 --> 00:35:03,275 I'D GET CALLS, AND SHE WOULD SAY, 706 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:05,103 "HE'S HITTING ME." 707 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,103 AND DREW WOULD TAKE THE PHONE AWAY, 708 00:35:07,103 --> 00:35:10,517 AND HE WOULD LAUGH AND SAY, "EVERYTHING'S OKAY. 709 00:35:10,517 --> 00:35:14,068 SHE'S JUST HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK, AND SHE'S FINE. 710 00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:17,206 YOU KNOW, SHE'S CRAZY." 711 00:35:17,206 --> 00:35:18,551 HE HUNG UP. 712 00:35:18,551 --> 00:35:22,310 AND I CALLED BACK, AND NOBODY ANSWERED. 713 00:35:22,310 --> 00:35:23,827 Narrator: IN SPITE OF THE ABUSE, 714 00:35:23,827 --> 00:35:27,241 KATHLEEN TRIES TO MAKE THE RELATIONSHIP WORK. 715 00:35:27,241 --> 00:35:29,896 THEN, IN OCTOBER 2001, 716 00:35:29,896 --> 00:35:33,827 SHE RECEIVES THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME. 717 00:35:33,827 --> 00:35:35,517 Brodsky: SHE GOT AN ANONYMOUS LETTER 718 00:35:35,517 --> 00:35:39,275 FROM SOMEBODY THAT WAS WORKING FOR THE VILLAGE OF BOLINGBROOK, 719 00:35:39,275 --> 00:35:42,137 AND SAID, BASICALLY, "DREW'S MAKING A FOOL OUT OF YOU. 720 00:35:42,137 --> 00:35:45,344 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT HE'S CHEATING WITH THIS YOUNG GIRL." 721 00:35:45,344 --> 00:35:47,758 Dobrich: THIS ANONYMOUS LETTER IDENTIFIED STACY 722 00:35:47,758 --> 00:35:50,758 AS BEING THE WOMAN THAT DREW WAS SEEING. 723 00:35:50,758 --> 00:35:52,206 Hosey: THE LETTER MADE IT OUT 724 00:35:52,206 --> 00:35:54,655 LIKE HIS AFFAIR WITH STACY WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE 725 00:35:54,655 --> 00:35:58,275 AND EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT IT BUT HER. 726 00:35:58,275 --> 00:35:59,586 Narrator: UNTIL NOW, 727 00:35:59,586 --> 00:36:03,000 DREW SUCCESSFULLY CONCEALED THE AFFAIR FROM KATHLEEN, 728 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,034 EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HAPPENING RIGHT UNDER HER ROOF. 729 00:36:06,034 --> 00:36:09,586 WHILE KATHLEEN AND THE KIDS WERE UPSTAIRS SLEEPING, 730 00:36:09,586 --> 00:36:12,241 STACY WOULD SNEAK OVER THERE TO KATHLEEN'S HOUSE 731 00:36:12,241 --> 00:36:14,379 THROUGH THE WINDOW AND ENTER THEIR BASEMENT 732 00:36:14,379 --> 00:36:17,241 AND SLEEP AND HAVE SEX WITH DREW. 733 00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:19,793 Doman: HE HAD A SECRET ROOM DOWN THERE. 734 00:36:19,793 --> 00:36:21,137 IT WAS SCARY. 735 00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:23,206 IT WAS ALL BLACK. 736 00:36:23,206 --> 00:36:24,413 THE BED WAS BLACK. 737 00:36:24,413 --> 00:36:26,344 MIRRORS ON THE WALL. 738 00:36:26,344 --> 00:36:31,137 AND IT HAD, LIKE, A PADLOCK ON THE DOOR. 739 00:36:31,137 --> 00:36:33,034 Karas: SO HOW DISGUSTING IS THAT, 740 00:36:33,034 --> 00:36:36,724 THAT HE'S BRINGING THIS TEENAGER INTO THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOME 741 00:36:36,724 --> 00:36:38,103 TO HAVE SEX WITH HER 742 00:36:38,103 --> 00:36:42,103 WHILE HIS WIFE AND SONS ARE SLEEPING UPSTAIRS? 743 00:36:42,103 --> 00:36:44,344 TALK ABOUT PLAYING WITH FIRE. 744 00:36:44,344 --> 00:36:46,724 Narrator: FED UP WITH DREW'S CHEATING AND ABUSE, 745 00:36:46,724 --> 00:36:49,241 KATHLEEN RESOLVES TO TAKE ACTION. 746 00:36:49,241 --> 00:36:50,413 AT THAT POINT IN TIME, 747 00:36:50,413 --> 00:36:53,068 SHE DECIDED SHE WAS GONNA DIVORCE HIM. 748 00:36:53,068 --> 00:36:56,000 Howard: SOON ENOUGH, THEIR RELATIONSHIP UNRAVELED, 749 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,793 BUT IT TOOK MONTHS BEFORE THE PAIR AGREED UPON THEIR DIVORCE. 750 00:36:59,793 --> 00:37:01,172 Glasgow: HER LIFE WAS TORN ASUNDER 751 00:37:01,172 --> 00:37:02,827 WHEN SHE GOT THE LETTER. 752 00:37:02,827 --> 00:37:05,068 HER WHOLE WORLD CAME CRASHING DOWN. 753 00:37:05,068 --> 00:37:07,827 Narrator: WITHIN MONTHS, DREW MOVES TO A NEARBY HOUSE 754 00:37:07,827 --> 00:37:09,862 WITH THE TEENAGED STACY. 755 00:37:09,862 --> 00:37:11,620 AND THE PENDING DIVORCE 756 00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:15,379 TURNS THE NEIGHBORHOOD INTO A BATTLEFIELD. 757 00:37:15,379 --> 00:37:17,517 Hosey: DREW MOVED DOWN THE STREET FROM HIS EX-WIFE 758 00:37:17,517 --> 00:37:19,793 BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE CLOSE TO HIS CHILDREN. 759 00:37:19,793 --> 00:37:21,034 Karas: THERE WAS A LOT OF CONTACT 760 00:37:21,034 --> 00:37:22,586 BETWEEN DREW AND KATHLEEN. 761 00:37:22,586 --> 00:37:26,862 AND STACY WOULD SOMETIMES ROLLERBLADE PAST THE HOUSE 762 00:37:26,862 --> 00:37:29,862 AND TAUNT HER AND REALLY GET ON HER NERVES. 763 00:37:29,862 --> 00:37:31,482 Narrator: AS THE DIVORCE WINDS ITS WAY 764 00:37:31,482 --> 00:37:32,827 THROUGH THE LEGAL SYSTEM, 765 00:37:32,827 --> 00:37:35,827 EXCHANGING CUSTODY OF KATHLEEN AND DREW'S TWO SONS 766 00:37:35,827 --> 00:37:37,620 BECOMES A FLASH POINT. 767 00:37:37,620 --> 00:37:40,482 Doman: ONE PARTICULAR TIME DREW HAD THE KIDS, 768 00:37:40,482 --> 00:37:44,655 AND HE CALLED AND SAID, "HEY, I'M BRINGING THE KIDS." 769 00:37:44,655 --> 00:37:46,275 SO SHE WENT OUTSIDE, 770 00:37:46,275 --> 00:37:49,620 AND STACY GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND HAD A VIDEO CAMERA. 771 00:37:49,620 --> 00:37:54,827 STACY'S VIDEOTAPING KATHLEEN WITH KATHLEEN'S CAMERA. 772 00:37:54,827 --> 00:37:57,344 AND KATHLEEN WENT TO TRY TO JUST GRAB IT FROM HER. 773 00:37:57,344 --> 00:38:00,137 AND STACY SAID, "YOU HIT ME. YOU HIT ME." 774 00:38:00,137 --> 00:38:03,241 IN THE MEANTIME, THE CHILDREN ARE IN THE CAR, WATCHING THIS. 775 00:38:03,241 --> 00:38:06,137 THEN, DREW HELD HER IN A HEADLOCK, 776 00:38:06,137 --> 00:38:08,137 AND HE TOOK HER TO THE CURB. 777 00:38:10,241 --> 00:38:11,862 Hosey: DREW PLACED HER UNDER ARREST. 778 00:38:11,862 --> 00:38:15,068 SHE WAS CHARGED WITH BATTERY, 779 00:38:15,068 --> 00:38:16,758 BUT KATHLEEN WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY. 780 00:38:16,758 --> 00:38:17,862 THE CASE WAS LATER EXPUNGED. 781 00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:20,068 THERE'S NO RECORD OF IT AT ALL. 782 00:38:20,068 --> 00:38:23,172 THIS WAS A MAN WHO WASN'T AFRAID TO USE AND ABUSE HIS POSITION, 783 00:38:23,172 --> 00:38:27,000 HIS POSITION OF AUTHORITY AS A POLICE OFFICER. 784 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,172 Narrator: THE TURBULENCE OF THE DIVORCE EVENTUALLY SUBSIDES. 785 00:38:30,172 --> 00:38:34,551 AND IN 2003, KATHLEEN AND DREW REACH AN AGREEMENT. 786 00:38:34,551 --> 00:38:36,724 Hosey: DREW AND KATHLEEN HAD A VERY UNUSUAL DIVORCE. 787 00:38:36,724 --> 00:38:38,724 IT WAS A BIFURCATED DIVORCE. 788 00:38:38,724 --> 00:38:41,931 THEIR MARRIAGE ENDED WITHOUT SETTLING THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS, 789 00:38:41,931 --> 00:38:45,241 WHICH IS GENERALLY WHAT PEOPLE FIGHT OVER THE MOST. 790 00:38:45,241 --> 00:38:46,655 DREW AND KATHLEEN AGREED TO DO THIS 791 00:38:46,655 --> 00:38:49,275 SO THAT DREW COULD MARRY STACY. 792 00:38:49,275 --> 00:38:51,275 STACY WAS ALREADY PREGNANT. 793 00:38:51,275 --> 00:38:54,068 Glasgow: AND THAT PROBABLY WAS NOT THE BEST DECISION 794 00:38:54,068 --> 00:38:55,827 FOR KATHLEEN SAVIO. 795 00:38:55,827 --> 00:38:57,931 Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING TO A POLICE REPORT, 796 00:38:57,931 --> 00:39:01,689 ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2004, 797 00:39:01,689 --> 00:39:06,034 AFTER MONTHS OF PEACE, DREW ENCOUNTERS A PROBLEM. 798 00:39:06,034 --> 00:39:08,862 Hosey: DREW HAD HIS SONS FOR WEEKEND VISITATION. 799 00:39:08,862 --> 00:39:12,517 THEY WENT TO THE SHEDD AQUARIUM IN CHICAGO. 800 00:39:12,517 --> 00:39:14,310 Dobrich: THEY CAME BACK FROM THAT OUTING, 801 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:19,586 AND DREW BEGAN TO CONTACT KATHLEEN 802 00:39:19,586 --> 00:39:22,275 TO RETURN THE KIDS TO HER BECAUSE SHE HAD CUSTODY. 803 00:39:22,275 --> 00:39:26,310 HE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR -- DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSE. 804 00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:28,344 Hosey: SO HE WENT TO THE NEIGHBORS 805 00:39:28,344 --> 00:39:30,068 AND ASKED THEM IF KATHLEEN WAS AROUND. 806 00:39:30,068 --> 00:39:31,413 AND THEY HADN'T SEEN HER, EITHER. 807 00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:33,655 SO HE CALLED A LOCKSMITH. 808 00:39:33,655 --> 00:39:35,000 Karas: ACCORDING TO DREW, 809 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,758 IT WOULD BE BETTER IF HE DIDN'T GO INTO THE HOUSE. 810 00:39:37,758 --> 00:39:42,034 AFTER ALL, HE'D THIS ACRIMONIOUS SPLIT FROM KATHLEEN, 811 00:39:42,034 --> 00:39:44,965 SO SOMEONE ELSE CAN GO IN THE HOUSE. 812 00:39:44,965 --> 00:39:46,586 SO, HE CONTACTED THE NEIGHBORS, 813 00:39:46,586 --> 00:39:49,241 MARY PONTARELLI AND STEVE CARCERANO. 814 00:39:51,413 --> 00:39:54,586 Dobrich: AND DREW TOLD THEM, "I WANT YOU TO GO IN. 815 00:39:54,586 --> 00:39:56,862 TAKE A LOOK AROUND. I'LL STAY OUTSIDE." 816 00:39:56,862 --> 00:39:59,482 Karas: STEVE AND MARY WENT IN LOOKING FOR KATHLEEN, 817 00:39:59,482 --> 00:40:01,448 AND THEY WENT UPSTAIRS. 818 00:40:01,448 --> 00:40:04,172 ♪♪ 819 00:40:04,172 --> 00:40:08,172 STEVE GOES INTO THE BATHROOM, FOLLOWED BY MARY, 820 00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:11,620 AND FOUND KATHLEEN IN THE TUB. 821 00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:17,931 WHEN MARY SEES HER BEST FRIEND, OBVIOUSLY DEAD, SHE SCREAMS. 822 00:40:17,931 --> 00:40:19,862 AND THEN DREW RAN UP THE STAIRS, 823 00:40:19,862 --> 00:40:21,724 AND THEN THEY CALLED THE POLICE. 824 00:40:21,724 --> 00:40:25,379 Narrator: IN 2004, THE DEATH WAS RULED AN ACCIDENT, 825 00:40:25,379 --> 00:40:29,068 BUT NOW INVESTIGATORS SEE RED FLAGS. 826 00:40:29,068 --> 00:40:31,068 Dobrich: THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THAT STOOD OUT. 827 00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:32,344 INVESTIGATORS, AT THE TIME, BELIEVED 828 00:40:32,344 --> 00:40:35,379 THAT SHE DIED AS A RESULT OF A FALL IN THE BATHTUB. 829 00:40:35,379 --> 00:40:36,896 ASSUMINGLY, THE OFFICERS THOUGHT 830 00:40:36,896 --> 00:40:39,379 THAT WAS A RESULT OF HITTING HER HEAD, 831 00:40:39,379 --> 00:40:44,379 BUT THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION DONE TO SUPPORT THAT CONCLUSION. 832 00:40:44,379 --> 00:40:47,827 Glasgow: THEY BROUGHT THE BODY TO THE CORONER'S FACILITY. 833 00:40:47,827 --> 00:40:49,586 THEY LED THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST 834 00:40:49,586 --> 00:40:51,103 TO BELIEVE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, 835 00:40:51,103 --> 00:40:53,137 AND SO HE DIDN'T DO 836 00:40:53,137 --> 00:40:55,896 AS THOROUGH AS AUTOPSY AS HE MIGHT HAVE DONE. 837 00:40:55,896 --> 00:40:57,344 Narrator: OFFICIALS QUICKLY DETERMINE 838 00:40:57,344 --> 00:41:00,034 THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS DROWNING. 839 00:41:00,034 --> 00:41:02,689 BE HARD TO IMAGINE A MORE FLAWED INVESTIGATION. 840 00:41:02,689 --> 00:41:06,482 IT WAS OVER BEFORE IT STARTED. 841 00:41:06,482 --> 00:41:09,862 Narrator: NOW, THREE YEARS AFTER SAVIO'S DEATH, 842 00:41:09,862 --> 00:41:11,965 GLASGOW DECIDES THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY 843 00:41:11,965 --> 00:41:14,724 TO DETERMINE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. 844 00:41:14,724 --> 00:41:17,241 WE HADN'T HAD AN EXHUMATION IN 40 YEARS. 845 00:41:17,241 --> 00:41:19,068 I MEAN, SO WHEN I SAID, "WE'RE GOING TO DO AN EXHUMATION, 846 00:41:19,068 --> 00:41:21,344 EVERYBODY SAID, "WHAT? WE'RE GONNA DO A WHAT?" 847 00:41:21,344 --> 00:41:22,448 I SAID, "ABSOLUTELY. 848 00:41:22,448 --> 00:41:24,000 WE HAVE TO DO SOME OF THE EXAMINATIONS 849 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,620 THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN DONE AT THE ORIGINAL AUTOPSY " 850 00:41:26,620 --> 00:41:30,000 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS REMOVE SAVIO'S BODY FROM ITS GRAVE 851 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,448 AND RE-EXAMINE PHOTOS FROM THE FIRST AUTOPSY. 852 00:41:34,448 --> 00:41:36,793 Dr. Blum: I'M DR. LARRY BLUM. 853 00:41:36,793 --> 00:41:40,206 I PERFORMED AN AUTOPSY ON KATHLEEN SAVIO. 854 00:41:40,206 --> 00:41:43,310 I BELIEVE THERE WERE UP TO 16 AREAS OF HER BODY 855 00:41:43,310 --> 00:41:44,517 THAT SHOWED INJURIES, 856 00:41:44,517 --> 00:41:47,241 AND SHE HAD BRUISES ON BOTH SIDES. 857 00:41:47,241 --> 00:41:49,275 ALL THE BRUISES THAT I LOOKED AT 858 00:41:49,275 --> 00:41:52,206 APPEARED TO BE VERY RECENT. 859 00:41:52,206 --> 00:41:56,655 BUT TO SLIP IN A SMALL, GARDEN-SIZED TUB IN HER HOME 860 00:41:56,655 --> 00:41:58,620 AND COME UP WITH ALL THESE INJURIES -- 861 00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:00,241 I COULDN'T CONCEIVE OF IT. 862 00:42:00,241 --> 00:42:02,931 Narrator: ON FEBRUARY 21, 2008, 863 00:42:02,931 --> 00:42:06,620 AFTER COUNTLESS HOURS SPENT EXAMINING KATHLEEN'S CORPSE, 864 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:09,172 HE COMES TO A STRIKING CONCLUSION. 865 00:42:09,172 --> 00:42:15,000 I FOUND KATHLEEN SAVIO DIED OF DROWNING DUE TO HOMICIDAL MEANS. 866 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,379 Glasgow: WE KNEW THAT THIS WAS A HOMICIDE. 867 00:42:17,379 --> 00:42:20,413 WE HAD A LONG WAY TO GO TO PROVE IT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. 868 00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:23,000 Narrator: IN HINDSIGHT, THOSE CLOSEST TO STACY 869 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000 NOW VIEW THE DEATH OF KATHLEEN WITH SUSPICION. 870 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,034 Aikin: ON THE DAY THAT KATHLEEN WAS FOUND, 871 00:42:29,034 --> 00:42:30,724 STACY CALLED ME, CRYING. 872 00:42:30,724 --> 00:42:34,482 SHE WAS IN A HYSTERICAL STATE OF MIND. 873 00:42:34,482 --> 00:42:37,241 SHE WAS JUST REALLY UPSET AND SHOCKED. 874 00:42:37,241 --> 00:42:42,103 I CAN SEE THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY. 875 00:42:44,137 --> 00:42:45,965 Narrator: AS PROSECUTORS INVESTIGATE 876 00:42:45,965 --> 00:42:48,413 DREW'S ROLE IN KATHLEEN'S DEATH, 877 00:42:48,413 --> 00:42:51,206 THEY DIG DEEPER INTO HIS PAST, 878 00:42:51,206 --> 00:42:53,310 AND THEY DISCOVER TROUBLING THROUGH LINES 879 00:42:53,310 --> 00:42:54,931 IN ALL FOUR OF HIS MARRIAGES, 880 00:42:54,931 --> 00:42:59,965 STARTING WITH HIS FIRST IN 1974. 881 00:42:59,965 --> 00:43:02,724 DREW MARRIED HIS HIGH-SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND, CAROL. 882 00:43:02,724 --> 00:43:05,344 THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER, ERIC AND STEPHEN. 883 00:43:05,344 --> 00:43:06,965 THEY WERE MARRIED WHILE DREW WAS IN THE ARMY. 884 00:43:06,965 --> 00:43:08,827 AND THEIR FAMILY LIVED IN ILLINOIS 885 00:43:08,827 --> 00:43:11,034 WHILE DREW WAS A POLICE OFFICER. 886 00:43:11,034 --> 00:43:12,413 THE MARRIAGE ENDED AFTER SEVERAL YEARS 887 00:43:12,413 --> 00:43:13,586 DUE TO DREW'S INFIDELITY, 888 00:43:13,586 --> 00:43:16,862 WHICH WAS A RECURRING THEME IN HIS MARRIAGES. 889 00:43:16,862 --> 00:43:18,689 AFTER HE AND CAROL DIVORCED, 890 00:43:18,689 --> 00:43:21,551 DREW MARRIED A WOMAN NAMED VICKI CONNOLLY. 891 00:43:21,551 --> 00:43:23,655 SHE HAD A CHILD FROM A PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP, 892 00:43:23,655 --> 00:43:24,862 SO DREW HAD A STEPDAUGHTER NOW. 893 00:43:24,862 --> 00:43:27,034 HE HAD HIS TWO SONS AND HIS STEPDAUGHTER. 894 00:43:27,034 --> 00:43:28,551 Howard: HE CHEATED ON HER, TOO, 895 00:43:28,551 --> 00:43:31,896 WITH NONE OTHER THAN KATHLEEN SAVIO. 896 00:43:31,896 --> 00:43:35,827 HE DIVORCED VICKI IN 1992. 897 00:43:35,827 --> 00:43:38,931 Narrator: VICKI ALSO CLAIMS THAT DREW ABUSED HER. 898 00:43:38,931 --> 00:43:40,206 AND THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS 899 00:43:40,206 --> 00:43:43,655 THAT HE INTENDED TO CAUSE HER EVEN MORE HARM. 900 00:43:43,655 --> 00:43:47,448 AT ONE POINT, VICKI GOT INTO A VERY SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT, 901 00:43:47,448 --> 00:43:48,827 BUT SURVIVED. 902 00:43:48,827 --> 00:43:51,000 SOME BELIEVE, PRIOR TO THAT, 903 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,034 DREW MAY HAVE TAMPERED WITH THE BRAKES. 904 00:43:54,034 --> 00:43:56,137 Narrator: WITH A PATTERN OF ABUSE ESTABLISHED, 905 00:43:56,137 --> 00:43:59,517 INVESTIGATORS ARE CONVINCED THEY'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK. 906 00:43:59,517 --> 00:44:03,620 AND IN NOVEMBER 2007, AS PRESSURE ON HIM MOUNTS, 907 00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:07,034 PETERSON SEEKS LEGAL COUNSEL. 908 00:44:07,034 --> 00:44:08,310 Brodsky: MY NAME IS JOEL BRODSKY, 909 00:44:08,310 --> 00:44:10,379 AND I WAS THE LEAD CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY 910 00:44:10,379 --> 00:44:11,896 FOR DREW PETERSON. 911 00:44:11,896 --> 00:44:13,172 GENERALLY SPEAKING, 912 00:44:13,172 --> 00:44:15,965 THE FIRST RULE OF BEING A SUSPECT IN A CRIME 913 00:44:15,965 --> 00:44:18,379 IS YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT -- YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING. 914 00:44:18,379 --> 00:44:22,103 I WOULD ALWAYS TELL HIM, "OKAY, DON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA." 915 00:44:22,103 --> 00:44:23,379 THERE WAS ALWAYS CONCERN 916 00:44:23,379 --> 00:44:26,034 THAT HE WAS GONNA SAY THE WRONG THING. 917 00:44:26,034 --> 00:44:27,896 Narrator: DESPITE BRODSKY'S ADVICE, 918 00:44:27,896 --> 00:44:30,344 DREW CONTINUES TO GRANDSTAND. 919 00:44:30,344 --> 00:44:32,137 WHENEVER ANYTHING FLARES UP -- YOU KNOW, 920 00:44:32,137 --> 00:44:35,379 WE'RE ACCUSED OF SOMETHING OR I'M ACCUSED OF SOMETHING 921 00:44:35,379 --> 00:44:37,793 IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION -- 922 00:44:37,793 --> 00:44:40,586 I HAVE A NEED TO GO OUT THERE AND JUST DEFEND MYSELF 923 00:44:40,586 --> 00:44:42,448 THROUGH THESE ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE. 924 00:44:42,448 --> 00:44:45,206 DREW PETERSON REALLY WAS ENAMORED OF THE CAMERA. 925 00:44:45,206 --> 00:44:47,724 HE LOVED THE ATTENTION. 926 00:44:47,724 --> 00:44:50,241 Narrator: IN JANUARY 2008, 927 00:44:50,241 --> 00:44:53,689 DREW'S ANTICS CATCH THE ATTENTION OF A LOCAL CELEBRITY. 928 00:44:53,689 --> 00:44:57,137 Brodsky: STEVE DAHL IS A MAJOR RADIO PERSONALITY IN CHICAGO. 929 00:44:57,137 --> 00:44:59,586 STEVE DAHL WAS ALSO DOING DREW PETERSON IMPERSONATIONS 930 00:44:59,586 --> 00:45:00,758 ON HIS SHOW. 931 00:45:00,758 --> 00:45:02,206 Dahl: "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I THINK? 932 00:45:02,206 --> 00:45:03,517 IT'S A SHAME THAT 933 00:45:03,517 --> 00:45:06,793 HER 'REST IN PEACE' HAS TO BE DISTURBED." 934 00:45:06,793 --> 00:45:09,068 Brodsky: THAT BECAME ALMOST TOO BIG OF A TEMPTATION 935 00:45:09,068 --> 00:45:11,034 FOR DREW NOT TO PLAY WITH HIM. 936 00:45:11,034 --> 00:45:12,517 I WAS, "OH, SURE. WHY NOT? 937 00:45:12,517 --> 00:45:13,896 JUST REMEMBER -- 938 00:45:13,896 --> 00:45:16,448 YOU CAN'T TALK [Chuckling] ABOUT THE CASE." 939 00:45:16,448 --> 00:45:19,137 Karas: SO DREW AND HIS ATTORNEY, JOEL BRODSKY, 940 00:45:19,137 --> 00:45:21,206 APPROACH HIM WITH AN IDEA. 941 00:45:21,206 --> 00:45:23,620 THEY SAID, "HEY, HOW ABOUT DOING A SEGMENT 942 00:45:23,620 --> 00:45:26,137 ON WIN A DATE WITH DREW?" 943 00:45:26,137 --> 00:45:27,241 Dahl: OH, I'LL DO A DATING GAME WITH YOU. 944 00:45:27,241 --> 00:45:28,275 -DREW? -ME? 945 00:45:28,275 --> 00:45:29,551 Brodsky: IT'S UP TO YOU, MAN. 946 00:45:29,551 --> 00:45:31,000 Peterson: I DON'T KNOW. ASK THE LAWYER. 947 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,172 YEAH. WHY NOT? 948 00:45:32,172 --> 00:45:33,275 Brodsky: DREW'S POSITION WAS, 949 00:45:33,275 --> 00:45:36,586 "MY WIFE STACY RAN OFF WITH ANOTHER GUY. 950 00:45:36,586 --> 00:45:38,724 SO WHAT AM I GONNA DO? I'M NOT GONNA BECOME A MONK. 951 00:45:38,724 --> 00:45:42,965 SO WHAT'S WITH ME MEETING WOMEN THROUGH THE RADIO?" 952 00:45:42,965 --> 00:45:45,000 Narrator: BUT DREW'S ROMANTIC RADIO SCHEME 953 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,172 COMPLETELY BACKFIRES. 954 00:45:47,172 --> 00:45:50,103 Karas: HE'S MAKING LIGHT OF HIS BACHELORHOOD 955 00:45:50,103 --> 00:45:52,620 WHEN MANY PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC BELIEVE 956 00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:56,068 HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING TWO WIVES. 957 00:45:56,068 --> 00:45:58,551 "HEY, WHO WANTS TO BE THE NEXT WIFE?" 958 00:45:58,551 --> 00:46:00,965 YEAH. RIGHT. 959 00:46:00,965 --> 00:46:03,275 AND SO THEY PULLED THE IDEA. 960 00:46:03,275 --> 00:46:04,344 [ LIGHT CLICKS ] 961 00:46:04,344 --> 00:46:06,896 THE STATION CHICKENED OUT. 962 00:46:06,896 --> 00:46:10,275 Narrator: THEN, ON MAY 7, 2009, 963 00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:12,793 THE JOKE IS OVER FOR DREW. 964 00:46:12,793 --> 00:46:15,413 Hosey: A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER STACY DISAPPEARED, 965 00:46:15,413 --> 00:46:17,724 MORE THAN 5 YEARS AFTER KATHLEEN DIED... 966 00:46:17,724 --> 00:46:19,241 [ SIREN WAILING ] 967 00:46:19,241 --> 00:46:20,551 ...DREW PETERSON WAS CHARGED 968 00:46:20,551 --> 00:46:22,758 WITH THE MURDER OF KATHLEEN SAVIO. 969 00:46:22,758 --> 00:46:25,379 I GOT A CALL FROM THE STATE POLICE, 970 00:46:25,379 --> 00:46:29,137 AND THEY TOLD ME HE'S BEING ARRESTED. 971 00:46:29,137 --> 00:46:30,896 AND I WAS ECSTATIC. 972 00:46:30,896 --> 00:46:33,758 I RAN IN THE LIVING ROOM, PUT THE TV ON, 973 00:46:33,758 --> 00:46:35,379 AND I SAW IT LIVE. 974 00:46:35,379 --> 00:46:38,000 IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE -- 975 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,068 FINALLY, FINALLY. 976 00:46:41,068 --> 00:46:43,793 Hosey: IT WAS JUST ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE WRINKLE IN THIS STORY. 977 00:46:43,793 --> 00:46:46,793 HE CAME OFF AS A CRUMB. HE CAME OFF A TERRIBLE GUY. 978 00:46:46,793 --> 00:46:48,206 AND THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE 979 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:51,310 WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN. 980 00:46:51,310 --> 00:46:55,310 Narrator: BUT FOR PROSECUTORS, VICTORY IS FAR FROM ASSURED. 981 00:46:55,310 --> 00:46:57,034 Hosey: ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS WITH KATHLEEN'S CASE 982 00:46:57,034 --> 00:46:59,068 IS THE COMPLETE LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 983 00:46:59,068 --> 00:47:00,448 IF THERE WAS ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, 984 00:47:00,448 --> 00:47:04,172 THE STATE POLICE DIDN'T BOTHER COLLECTING IT IN 2004. 985 00:47:04,172 --> 00:47:06,724 WE WERE LIKE, "WHERE ARE WE GONNA GO FROM HERE?" 986 00:47:06,724 --> 00:47:08,551 Narrator: TO LINK DREW TO THE CRIME, 987 00:47:08,551 --> 00:47:11,896 PROSECUTORS SEEK TESTIMONY FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. 988 00:47:11,896 --> 00:47:13,482 Karas: THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STATEMENTS 989 00:47:13,482 --> 00:47:16,793 THAT KATHLEEN MADE JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE DIED 990 00:47:16,793 --> 00:47:20,793 AND THAT STACY MADE JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED 991 00:47:20,793 --> 00:47:23,413 THAT THE PROSECUTION ABSOLUTELY NEEDED AT TRIAL 992 00:47:23,413 --> 00:47:29,068 IN ORDER TO SHOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES. 993 00:47:29,068 --> 00:47:30,862 WE NEEDED ALL OF THOSE STATEMENTS 994 00:47:30,862 --> 00:47:33,931 IN ORDER TO PROVE THIS MURDER CASE. 995 00:47:33,931 --> 00:47:36,206 Narrator: BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM -- 996 00:47:36,206 --> 00:47:37,689 BECAUSE STACY AND KATHLEEN 997 00:47:37,689 --> 00:47:40,206 CANNOT TESTIFY ON THEIR OWN BEHALF, 998 00:47:40,206 --> 00:47:42,620 THEIR PAST STATEMENTS ARE CONSIDERED HEARSAY, 999 00:47:42,620 --> 00:47:45,758 WHICH IS GENERALLY NOT ADMITTED IN COURT. 1000 00:47:45,758 --> 00:47:48,655 Karas: HEARSAY ARE STATEMENTS MADE OUTSIDE OF COURT 1001 00:47:48,655 --> 00:47:49,931 BY SOMEONE, 1002 00:47:49,931 --> 00:47:52,965 AND ANOTHER PERSON IS GOING TO TESTIFY TO IT, 1003 00:47:52,965 --> 00:47:55,896 BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF EXCEPTIONS TO HEARSAY. 1004 00:47:55,896 --> 00:47:57,586 Narrator: IN PRETRIAL HEARINGS, 1005 00:47:57,586 --> 00:48:01,758 JUDGES GRANT THE PROSECUTION THE USE OF HEARSAY THEY SEEK. 1006 00:48:01,758 --> 00:48:05,000 WITH THE STATEMENTS, IT WAS A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME. 1007 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,758 THEY HAD A PROVABLE CASE. 1008 00:48:07,758 --> 00:48:10,517 Narrator: THE DEFENSE STRIKES BACK WITH A PRETRIAL MOTION 1009 00:48:10,517 --> 00:48:14,137 ABOUT A SEPARATE CASE THEY FEAR COULD DAMAGE THEIR CLIENT, 1010 00:48:14,137 --> 00:48:16,689 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STACY PETERSON. 1011 00:48:18,793 --> 00:48:21,068 Greenberg: IF YOU'VE GOT A CASE LIKE THIS, 1012 00:48:21,068 --> 00:48:23,241 YOU'RE ASKING JURORS TO DISREGARD 1013 00:48:23,241 --> 00:48:25,827 SOMETHING THAT'S STARING THEM STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. 1014 00:48:25,827 --> 00:48:28,862 THEY'D HAVE TO BE LIVING IN A COMPLETE DARK CAVE 1015 00:48:28,862 --> 00:48:31,689 TO NOT KNOW THE STACY STORY 1016 00:48:31,689 --> 00:48:34,275 AND WONDER, "WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?" 1017 00:48:34,275 --> 00:48:37,965 BUT WE GOT THE JUDGE TO ORDER THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE 1018 00:48:37,965 --> 00:48:41,896 NO MENTION OF THE FACT THAT STACY DISAPPEARED. 1019 00:48:41,896 --> 00:48:47,517 THE JURY, TECHNICALLY, NEVER KNEW STACY WAS GONE. 1020 00:48:47,517 --> 00:48:50,517 Narrator: THEN, AT A PRETRIAL PRESS CONFERENCE, 1021 00:48:50,517 --> 00:48:53,241 THE DEFENSE TEAM SAVORS THEIR VICTORY. 1022 00:48:53,241 --> 00:48:56,344 ONE REPORTER ASKED ABOUT STACY'S STATEMENTS BEING USED AT TRIAL. 1023 00:48:56,344 --> 00:48:57,517 Reporter: WHAT DO YOU MAKE 1024 00:48:57,517 --> 00:48:59,724 OF THE STACY FACTOR IN THIS TRIAL? 1025 00:48:59,724 --> 00:49:01,241 -WHO? -THE STACY FACTOR. 1026 00:49:01,241 --> 00:49:03,689 -WHO? STACEY WHO? -STACEY WHO? 1027 00:49:03,689 --> 00:49:04,827 SHE'S ON YOUR WITNESS LIST. 1028 00:49:04,827 --> 00:49:06,551 -OH, THAT STACY. -OH, THAT -- [ LAUGHS ] 1029 00:49:06,551 --> 00:49:10,068 THAT'S WHEN WE DID THE REGRETTABLE, "STACY WHO?" 1030 00:49:10,068 --> 00:49:11,310 Hosey: THEN ALL THE OTHER LAWYERS STARTED SAYING, 1031 00:49:11,310 --> 00:49:13,310 "STACY WHO?" ALSO, LIKE, "WHO IS SHE?" 1032 00:49:13,310 --> 00:49:15,551 IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO BE FUNNY, 1033 00:49:15,551 --> 00:49:17,586 THEY REALLY ALIENATED THE PUBLIC. 1034 00:49:17,586 --> 00:49:20,275 ♪♪ 1035 00:49:20,275 --> 00:49:23,655 Narrator: FINALLY, ON JULY 31, 2012, 1036 00:49:23,655 --> 00:49:27,413 THE TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON BEGINS. 1037 00:49:27,413 --> 00:49:28,931 THE CHALLENGE FOR THE PROSECUTION 1038 00:49:28,931 --> 00:49:31,689 IS THAT THIS DEATH WAS ORIGINALLY RULED AN ACCIDENT 1039 00:49:31,689 --> 00:49:34,000 AND NOW THEY'RE SAYING IT WAS A MURDER. 1040 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,034 ON TOP OF IT, THERE'S NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 1041 00:49:36,034 --> 00:49:38,275 TYING DREW PETERSON TO THE MURDER. 1042 00:49:38,275 --> 00:49:40,965 SO THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF THEM. 1043 00:49:40,965 --> 00:49:44,068 Glasgow: I KNEW WE HAD TO DIVE INTO THIS FULL FORCE. 1044 00:49:44,068 --> 00:49:48,413 WE LITERALLY WERE WORKING 14 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. 1045 00:49:48,413 --> 00:49:50,448 Narrator: AFTER MONTHS OF ANTICIPATION, 1046 00:49:50,448 --> 00:49:54,000 JIM GLASGOW GIVES THE PROSECUTION'S OPENING STATEMENT. 1047 00:49:56,965 --> 00:49:58,413 Glasgow: THE KEY IN THE OPENING STATEMENT 1048 00:49:58,413 --> 00:50:01,172 WAS TO, YOU KNOW, PORTRAY KATHLEEN SAVIO 1049 00:50:01,172 --> 00:50:03,206 AS THE VICTIM THAT SHE WAS, 1050 00:50:03,206 --> 00:50:04,689 TRAPPED IN THIS CATCH-22 1051 00:50:04,689 --> 00:50:07,448 WITH THIS MANIPULATIVE POLICE OFFICER. 1052 00:50:07,448 --> 00:50:10,689 AND WE WERE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO SHOW 1053 00:50:10,689 --> 00:50:13,620 THAT HE WAS A DANGEROUS MURDERER. 1054 00:50:13,620 --> 00:50:15,413 THERE WAS A HUGE MOTIVE. 1055 00:50:15,413 --> 00:50:18,344 THE MONEY WAS THE NUMBER-ONE THING. 1056 00:50:18,344 --> 00:50:20,172 EVEN THOUGH DREW AND KATHLEEN HAD BEEN DIVORCED 1057 00:50:20,172 --> 00:50:21,172 FOR FIVE MONTHS, 1058 00:50:21,172 --> 00:50:23,310 THERE WAS STILL ONE FINAL ASPECT, 1059 00:50:23,310 --> 00:50:25,655 AND THAT WAS DIVIDING THE PROPERTY. 1060 00:50:25,655 --> 00:50:27,551 KATHLEEN STOOD TO GAIN THE HOUSE, 1061 00:50:27,551 --> 00:50:30,103 WHICH WAS WORTH $300,000, 1062 00:50:30,103 --> 00:50:32,310 HALF OF DREW'S PENSION, 1063 00:50:32,310 --> 00:50:35,172 AND THEN HALF OF OTHER MARITAL PROPERTY. 1064 00:50:35,172 --> 00:50:38,344 THAT WAS A LOT FOR DREW PETERSON TO BE GIVING UP. 1065 00:50:38,344 --> 00:50:42,275 ACCORDING TO THE STATE, DREW PETERSON WAS SO DESPERATE 1066 00:50:42,275 --> 00:50:46,724 NOT TO GIVE KATHLEEN ANY OF HIS PROPERTY AND HIS MONEY 1067 00:50:46,724 --> 00:50:51,068 THAT HE WAS WILLING TO KILL HER TO PREVENT IT. 1068 00:50:51,068 --> 00:50:54,551 Narrator: THEN, TO ESTABLISH DREW'S VIOLENT TENDENCIES, 1069 00:50:54,551 --> 00:50:56,172 GLASGOW DESCRIBES AN ENCOUNTER 1070 00:50:56,172 --> 00:50:57,931 THAT KATHLEEN SHARED WITH A LAWYER 1071 00:50:57,931 --> 00:51:01,965 AS SHE PREPARED FOR THE DIVORCE. 1072 00:51:01,965 --> 00:51:04,758 SHE WAS COMING DOWNSTAIRS WITH A LAUNDRY BASKET, 1073 00:51:04,758 --> 00:51:10,379 AND THERE HE WAS, IN A SWAT UNIFORM. 1074 00:51:10,379 --> 00:51:13,413 AND HE HELD A KNIFE TO HER THROAT. 1075 00:51:13,413 --> 00:51:15,000 Glasgow: HE HELD HER HOSTAGE ON THE STAIRS 1076 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,551 FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS, 1077 00:51:16,551 --> 00:51:18,931 SAID, "YOU SHOULD JUST DIE." 1078 00:51:18,931 --> 00:51:20,413 Karas: HE'S THREATENING TO KILL HER, 1079 00:51:20,413 --> 00:51:23,068 AND HE SAID SHE'S NOT GONNA GET ANYTHING IN THE DIVORCE. 1080 00:51:23,068 --> 00:51:24,655 SHE FINALLY SAID, LIKE, "GO AHEAD. 1081 00:51:24,655 --> 00:51:26,137 DO IT. JUST KILL ME." 1082 00:51:26,137 --> 00:51:30,103 AND HE'S LIKE, "NO. I CAN'T KILL THE MOTHER OF MY SONS." 1083 00:51:30,103 --> 00:51:34,275 DREW WAS SENDING THE MESSAGE, "YOU'RE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE." 1084 00:51:34,275 --> 00:51:37,172 Narrator: GLASGOW TIES TOGETHER THE PIECES OF HIS ARGUMENT 1085 00:51:37,172 --> 00:51:40,103 IN A FORCEFUL CONCLUSION. 1086 00:51:40,103 --> 00:51:41,620 Glasgow: WE WERE GONNA PRESENT EVIDENCE 1087 00:51:41,620 --> 00:51:44,310 THAT DREW PETERSON MURDERED KATHLEEN SAVIO 1088 00:51:44,310 --> 00:51:47,448 AND STAGED THE SCENE TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT. 1089 00:51:47,448 --> 00:51:50,931 AND WE WERE GONNA SHOW HOW HE KILLED HER. 1090 00:51:50,931 --> 00:51:53,068 Greenberg: PROSECUTORS USUALLY ARE VERY BUSINESSLIKE, 1091 00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:55,206 AND GLASGOW WAS BUSINESSLIKE. 1092 00:51:55,206 --> 00:51:56,551 AND THEN IT WAS OUR TURN. 1093 00:51:56,551 --> 00:51:58,965 ♪♪ 1094 00:51:58,965 --> 00:52:01,241 Narrator: DREW'S LEAD ATTORNEY, JOEL BRODSKY, 1095 00:52:01,241 --> 00:52:03,482 TAKES AIM AT THE COMING HEARSAY STATEMENTS 1096 00:52:03,482 --> 00:52:07,965 FROM PROSECUTION WITNESSES MARY PARKS AND NEIL SCHORI. 1097 00:52:07,965 --> 00:52:10,758 BRODSKY CLAIMS THAT KATHLEEN MADE THEM UP 1098 00:52:10,758 --> 00:52:14,689 SIMPLY TO STRENGTHEN HER HAND IN THE PENDING DIVORCE. 1099 00:52:14,689 --> 00:52:16,862 Brodsky: THAT'S VERY COMMON. 1100 00:52:16,862 --> 00:52:19,551 PEOPLE IN BAD DIVORCES 1101 00:52:19,551 --> 00:52:21,241 IS JUST TRYING TO HURT THE OTHER SIDE 1102 00:52:21,241 --> 00:52:22,517 ANY WAY THEY CAN. 1103 00:52:22,517 --> 00:52:25,034 THAT'S THE NATURE OF BAD DIVORCES. 1104 00:52:25,034 --> 00:52:26,689 Greenberg: I THINK PEOPLE GO TO THEIR DIVORCE LAWYER, 1105 00:52:26,689 --> 00:52:28,103 AND THE DIVORCE LAWYER, 1106 00:52:28,103 --> 00:52:29,620 HALF THE TIME, THE FIRST THING THEY SAY IS, 1107 00:52:29,620 --> 00:52:31,551 "MAKE UP THAT YOUR HUSBAND HIT YOU." 1108 00:52:31,551 --> 00:52:34,172 I THINK THAT'S PRETTY STANDARD IN DIVORCE. 1109 00:52:34,172 --> 00:52:36,862 Brodsky: AND IT WAS A PRETTY ROCKY DIVORCE. 1110 00:52:36,862 --> 00:52:39,551 EVERY HOUSEWIFE'S WORST NIGHTMARE 1111 00:52:39,551 --> 00:52:42,241 IS THAT SHE'S GONNA BE THROWN ASIDE 1112 00:52:42,241 --> 00:52:44,620 FOR SOME YOUNGER, PRETTY GIRL. 1113 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:46,931 AND DREW HAD LEFT HER FOR A YOUNGER WOMAN, 1114 00:52:46,931 --> 00:52:49,724 AND NOW SHE SEES THIS YOUNG WOMAN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, 1115 00:52:49,724 --> 00:52:51,413 WEARING SHORT SHORTS. 1116 00:52:51,413 --> 00:52:53,620 OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS KIND OF, IN KATHY'S MIND, 1117 00:52:53,620 --> 00:52:54,896 RUBBING IT IN HER FACE. 1118 00:52:54,896 --> 00:52:56,448 KATHY WAS HURT. 1119 00:52:56,448 --> 00:52:58,896 SHE HAD A VERY STORMY PERSONALITY. 1120 00:52:58,896 --> 00:53:00,862 Narrator: THEN, BRODSKY ARGUES 1121 00:53:00,862 --> 00:53:03,689 THAT THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION INTO KATHLEEN'S DEATH 1122 00:53:03,689 --> 00:53:06,172 GOT IT RIGHT. 1123 00:53:06,172 --> 00:53:09,655 DREW HAS INSISTED FROM DAY ONE, CONSISTENTLY, 1124 00:53:09,655 --> 00:53:12,586 THAT KATHLEEN DIED IN AN ACCIDENT. 1125 00:53:12,586 --> 00:53:16,482 Greenberg: THE THEORY WAS THAT SHE WAS ON MEDICATION. 1126 00:53:16,482 --> 00:53:19,620 SHE FELL ASLEEP, HOT BATH, 1127 00:53:19,620 --> 00:53:22,482 AND SORT OF SLIPPED IN AND DROWNED -- 1128 00:53:22,482 --> 00:53:24,103 FREAK ACCIDENT. 1129 00:53:24,103 --> 00:53:25,931 IS IT RARE? 1130 00:53:25,931 --> 00:53:26,793 EXTREMELY. 1131 00:53:26,793 --> 00:53:30,000 IS IS IMPOSSIBLE? NO. 1132 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,931 Narrator: THEN, BRODSKY ROUNDS OUT HIS ARGUMENT 1133 00:53:32,931 --> 00:53:34,172 BY PLEADING WITH THE JURY 1134 00:53:34,172 --> 00:53:35,827 TO CONSIDER HIS CLIENT'S CHARACTER 1135 00:53:35,827 --> 00:53:38,551 WITH AN OPEN MIND. 1136 00:53:38,551 --> 00:53:40,482 Greenberg: HE WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A WHILE 1137 00:53:40,482 --> 00:53:42,206 AS A MILITARY POLICEMAN 1138 00:53:42,206 --> 00:53:44,793 BEFORE BECOMING A BOLINGBROOK POLICE OFFICER. 1139 00:53:44,793 --> 00:53:46,896 WE TALKED ABOUT HOW HARD HE WORKED, 1140 00:53:46,896 --> 00:53:49,241 WHAT KIND OF A FAMILY MAN HE WAS. 1141 00:53:49,241 --> 00:53:52,758 A GOOD OPENING STATEMENT WILL HUMANIZE YOUR CLIENT 1142 00:53:52,758 --> 00:53:54,172 AND BRING THE JURORS BACK 1143 00:53:54,172 --> 00:53:57,172 AND LET THEM KNOW IT'S NOT SO CUT AND DRY, FOLKS. 1144 00:53:57,172 --> 00:53:59,413 Narrator: WITH THE CONCLUSION OF OPENING STATEMENTS, 1145 00:53:59,413 --> 00:54:02,448 THE PROSECUTION IS READY TO PRESENT THEIR CASE, 1146 00:54:02,448 --> 00:54:06,586 AND THEY CALL A WITNESS THAT LEAVES THE GALLERY STUNNED. 1147 00:54:06,586 --> 00:54:11,103 WHAT SHE SAW AND DIDN'T SEE IN THAT BATHROOM WAS CRITICAL. 1148 00:54:11,103 --> 00:54:12,862 ♪♪ 1149 00:54:15,931 --> 00:54:17,965 Narrator: IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON, 1150 00:54:17,965 --> 00:54:19,862 PROSECUTORS ARE BEGINNING TO EXPLAIN 1151 00:54:19,862 --> 00:54:22,482 HOW KATHLEEN'S DEATH WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, 1152 00:54:22,482 --> 00:54:26,000 AND THEY CALL HER NEIGHBOR MARY PONTARELLI TO THE STAND. 1153 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,827 Greenberg: MARY WAS A HOUSEWIFE AND KATHLEEN'S BEST FRIEND. 1154 00:54:28,827 --> 00:54:31,517 AS SHE DESCRIBED IT, THEY WERE ALMOST INSEPARABLE. 1155 00:54:31,517 --> 00:54:33,000 Narrator: MARY GIVES HER ACCOUNT 1156 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,655 OF THE DAY KATHLEEN'S BODY WAS DISCOVERED. 1157 00:54:37,655 --> 00:54:39,000 Karas: SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM KATHLEEN, 1158 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,379 AND DREW REACHES OUT TO HER THAT EVENING. 1159 00:54:42,379 --> 00:54:43,931 SHE AND STEVE CARCERANO 1160 00:54:43,931 --> 00:54:46,758 ARE THE ONES WHO WENT INTO THE HOUSE FIRST 1161 00:54:46,758 --> 00:54:48,068 TO LOOK FOR KATHLEEN, 1162 00:54:48,068 --> 00:54:49,724 LEAVING DREW OUTSIDE. 1163 00:54:49,724 --> 00:54:52,448 STEVE GOES INTO THE BATHROOM, FOLLOWED BY MARY. 1164 00:54:52,448 --> 00:54:56,689 WHEN MARY SEES HER BEST FRIEND IN THE TUB, 1165 00:54:56,689 --> 00:54:59,793 OBVIOUSLY DEAD, SHE SCREAMS. 1166 00:54:59,793 --> 00:55:02,793 THIS WAS A HORRIBLE SHOCK FOR HER. 1167 00:55:02,793 --> 00:55:05,689 Narrator: MARY RECOUNTS THAT, ONCE SHE COLLECTED HERSELF, 1168 00:55:05,689 --> 00:55:08,655 SHE BEGAN TO TAKE IN THE SCENE. 1169 00:55:08,655 --> 00:55:09,862 Karas: MARY REALIZED THAT 1170 00:55:09,862 --> 00:55:11,724 THERE WERE SOME THINGS ABOUT THE BATHROOM 1171 00:55:11,724 --> 00:55:13,965 THAT WERE A LITTLE BIT STRANGE. 1172 00:55:13,965 --> 00:55:15,827 KATHLEEN'S HAIR WAS DOWN. 1173 00:55:15,827 --> 00:55:18,758 SHE ALWAYS PUT IT UP IN A CLIP IF SHE GOING TO BATHE. 1174 00:55:18,758 --> 00:55:21,172 SHE WAS WEARING A VERY DELICATE GOLD NECKLACE. 1175 00:55:21,172 --> 00:55:24,724 SHE WOULD TAKE HER JEWELRY OFF BEFORE BATHING. 1176 00:55:24,724 --> 00:55:27,034 Glasgow: MARY, BASICALLY, WAS LOOKING AT THE BATHROOM 1177 00:55:27,034 --> 00:55:29,034 JUST FROM A WOMAN'S STANDPOINT. 1178 00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:31,482 THERE WASN'T A BATHROBE NEARBY. THERE WASN'T A TOWEL. 1179 00:55:31,482 --> 00:55:33,275 THERE WASN'T A BATH MAT. 1180 00:55:33,275 --> 00:55:35,275 Karas: THERE WERE THINGS THAT DIDN'T QUITE LOOK RIGHT TO HER. 1181 00:55:35,275 --> 00:55:37,310 LIKE, WHAT REALLY WAS HAPPENING HERE 1182 00:55:37,310 --> 00:55:39,793 AT THE TIME SHE DIED IN HER TUB? 1183 00:55:41,758 --> 00:55:43,172 MARY PONTARELLI'S TESTIMONY 1184 00:55:43,172 --> 00:55:44,758 WAS VERY HELPFUL TO THE PROSECUTION 1185 00:55:44,758 --> 00:55:46,448 AS A SCENE SETTER. 1186 00:55:46,448 --> 00:55:51,103 WHAT SHE SAW AND DIDN'T SEE IN THAT BATHROOM WAS IMPORTANT. 1187 00:55:51,103 --> 00:55:53,448 Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS THE SIGNIFICANCE 1188 00:55:53,448 --> 00:55:56,172 OF PONTARELLI'S OBSERVATIONS. 1189 00:55:56,172 --> 00:55:58,241 Greenberg: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOOD LAWYERS CAN DO 1190 00:55:58,241 --> 00:56:02,000 IS THEY CAN TAKE A PEBBLE AND MAKE IT INTO A BOULDER. 1191 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,344 THE STATE DID A GOOD JOB OF THIS. 1192 00:56:04,344 --> 00:56:06,241 I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT -- 1193 00:56:06,241 --> 00:56:08,586 SHE NEVER WOULD'VE HAD HER HAIR LIKE THAT 1194 00:56:08,586 --> 00:56:09,827 WHEN SHE TOOK A BATH. 1195 00:56:09,827 --> 00:56:12,724 HOW DOES SHE KNOW WHAT SHE DOES WITH HER HAIR? 1196 00:56:12,724 --> 00:56:14,137 Narrator: THEN, TO ADDRESS 1197 00:56:14,137 --> 00:56:17,103 THE LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE COLLECTED AT THE SCENE, 1198 00:56:17,103 --> 00:56:18,517 THE PROSECUTION CALLS 1199 00:56:18,517 --> 00:56:21,655 THE OFFICER WHO OVERSAW THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION, 1200 00:56:21,655 --> 00:56:24,172 SERGEANT PATRICK COLLINS. 1201 00:56:24,172 --> 00:56:26,758 COLLINS DIDN'T HAVE ANY HOMICIDE EXPERIENCE. 1202 00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:29,206 HE WASN'T SURE EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT. 1203 00:56:29,206 --> 00:56:31,172 HE DEFERRED TO THE CRIME-SCENE TECHNICIAN 1204 00:56:31,172 --> 00:56:33,758 IN TERMS OF HANDLING THE SCENE. 1205 00:56:33,758 --> 00:56:35,586 AND THE CRIME-SCENE TECHNICIAN BELIEVED 1206 00:56:35,586 --> 00:56:36,965 THAT THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT, 1207 00:56:36,965 --> 00:56:39,931 SO COLLINS WENT ALONG WITH THAT. 1208 00:56:39,931 --> 00:56:42,413 Glasgow: THE EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN AT ONE POINT SAID THAT, 1209 00:56:42,413 --> 00:56:45,551 WHEN THEY WERE LIFTING HER BODY OUT OF THE TUB, 1210 00:56:45,551 --> 00:56:48,965 KATHLEEN WAS BLEEDING FROM THE BACK OF HER HEAD, 1211 00:56:48,965 --> 00:56:50,689 AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK TO SEE 1212 00:56:50,689 --> 00:56:52,896 WHERE THE BLOOD WAS COMING FROM. 1213 00:56:52,896 --> 00:56:54,241 Karas: THE FACT THAT 1214 00:56:54,241 --> 00:56:56,551 THE SCENE WAS NEVER PROCESSED LIKE A CRIME SCENE 1215 00:56:56,551 --> 00:56:58,655 MEANT THEY ALSO DIDN'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE 1216 00:56:58,655 --> 00:57:02,379 TYING DREW PETERSON TO THE SCENE. 1217 00:57:02,379 --> 00:57:04,068 Narrator: THE PROSECUTION THEN HONES IN 1218 00:57:04,068 --> 00:57:07,413 ON ANOTHER FLAW IN COLLINS' PERFORMANCE. 1219 00:57:07,413 --> 00:57:09,206 ♪♪ 1220 00:57:09,206 --> 00:57:11,206 COLLINS NEVER SECURED THE SCENE. 1221 00:57:11,206 --> 00:57:15,206 HE DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANY REASON TO TAKE DIFFERENT ACTION. 1222 00:57:15,206 --> 00:57:17,655 THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE TRAIPSING AROUND, 1223 00:57:17,655 --> 00:57:20,793 INCLUDING DREW PETERSON. 1224 00:57:20,793 --> 00:57:22,482 Howard: THE BATHROOM CONTAINED 1225 00:57:22,482 --> 00:57:25,344 THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE EVIDENCE 1226 00:57:25,344 --> 00:57:27,793 SURROUNDING THIS CASE, 1227 00:57:27,793 --> 00:57:31,275 AND IT WAS LEFT OPEN TO MANIPULATION. 1228 00:57:31,275 --> 00:57:33,758 Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE VIEWS THE STATE'S ANALYSIS 1229 00:57:33,758 --> 00:57:36,000 AS NOTHING BUT SPECULATION. 1230 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,137 Greenberg: THEY DO AN INVESTIGATION, 1231 00:57:37,137 --> 00:57:38,241 AND THEN THE PROSECUTION SAYS, 1232 00:57:38,241 --> 00:57:40,103 "OUR INVESTIGATORS DIDN'T DO IT RIGHT. 1233 00:57:40,103 --> 00:57:43,827 SO FROM THAT, YOU SHOULD INFER THEY MISSED SOMETHING, RIGHT?" 1234 00:57:43,827 --> 00:57:45,551 WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY MISSED SOMETHING? 1235 00:57:45,551 --> 00:57:49,896 MAYBE THEY DID DO IT RIGHT AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. 1236 00:57:49,896 --> 00:57:51,689 Narrator: COLLINS ALSO TESTIFIES 1237 00:57:51,689 --> 00:57:54,034 ABOUT HIS INTERVIEW WITH DREW'S WIFE, STACY, 1238 00:57:54,034 --> 00:57:57,206 FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KATHLEEN. 1239 00:57:57,206 --> 00:58:00,413 ON THE STAND, COLLINS DESCRIBED INTERVIEWING STACY PETERSON 1240 00:58:00,413 --> 00:58:03,448 SOON AFTER KATHLEEN'S BODY WAS FOUND IN THE TUB. 1241 00:58:03,448 --> 00:58:05,000 DREW APPROACHED COLLINS 1242 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,758 AND ASKED PERMISSION TO BE PRESENT 1243 00:58:06,758 --> 00:58:08,310 WHEN HE QUESTIONED STACY. 1244 00:58:08,310 --> 00:58:09,896 HE SAID THAT STACY WAS UPSET 1245 00:58:09,896 --> 00:58:11,965 AND HE JUST WANTED TO BE A COMFORT TO HER 1246 00:58:11,965 --> 00:58:13,310 WHILE SHE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED. 1247 00:58:13,310 --> 00:58:15,793 SO I GUESS IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL COURTESY, 1248 00:58:15,793 --> 00:58:18,310 BUT COLLINS WENT ALONG WITH IT. 1249 00:58:18,310 --> 00:58:22,620 AND THAT VIOLATED ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF AN INVESTIGATION. 1250 00:58:22,620 --> 00:58:27,000 WASN'T A WISE DECISION TO DO IT THAT WAY. 1251 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,275 IT WAS BASICALLY LIKE A MARIONETTE. 1252 00:58:29,275 --> 00:58:31,103 HE HAD HIS HAND ON HER, 1253 00:58:31,103 --> 00:58:33,862 HELPING HER FINISH HER SENTENCES, 1254 00:58:33,862 --> 00:58:36,517 CONTROLLING HER STATEMENT TO THE POLICE. 1255 00:58:36,517 --> 00:58:37,965 Karas: WHEN HE QUESTIONED STACY, 1256 00:58:37,965 --> 00:58:41,344 SHE SAID THAT HER HUSBAND WAS HOME WITH HER ALL NIGHT. 1257 00:58:41,344 --> 00:58:44,206 SHE BACKED HIM UP AND PROVIDED HIS ALIBI 1258 00:58:44,206 --> 00:58:46,586 THE NIGHT THAT KATHLEEN WAS KILLED. 1259 00:58:46,586 --> 00:58:48,517 WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE SAID 1260 00:58:48,517 --> 00:58:52,862 IF COLLINS HAD BEEN TALKING TO HER ONE-ON-ONE? 1261 00:58:52,862 --> 00:58:54,275 Narrator: NEXT, FOR INSIGHT 1262 00:58:54,275 --> 00:58:57,137 INTO KATHLEEN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH DREW, 1263 00:58:57,137 --> 00:59:02,310 THE PROSECUTION CALLS ON AN OLD FRIEND NAMED MARY PARKS. 1264 00:59:02,310 --> 00:59:04,310 White: SHE WAS AT THE JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE 1265 00:59:04,310 --> 00:59:06,068 WHEN KATHLEEN SAVIO WAS THERE, 1266 00:59:06,068 --> 00:59:08,206 AND THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER. 1267 00:59:08,206 --> 00:59:09,724 THERE WAS A TIME WHERE SHE JUST NOTICED 1268 00:59:09,724 --> 00:59:12,310 THAT KATHY HAD A SWEATER OR SOMETHING ON 1269 00:59:12,310 --> 00:59:13,827 WITH A VERY HIGH COLLAR ON IT. 1270 00:59:13,827 --> 00:59:16,310 SHE SEEMED TO BE VERY UPSET, 1271 00:59:16,310 --> 00:59:18,172 SO THEN MARY QUESTIONED HER ABOUT IT, 1272 00:59:18,172 --> 00:59:20,103 AND THEN KATHLEEN SAVIO SHOWED HER 1273 00:59:20,103 --> 00:59:24,586 THERE WERE BRUISES ON HER NECK AND RED MARKS ON HER NECK. 1274 00:59:24,586 --> 00:59:28,034 KATHLEEN TOLD MARY THAT THOSE WERE CAUSED BY DREW. 1275 00:59:28,034 --> 00:59:31,413 Narrator: MARY TESTIFIES THAT, DURING ONE VIOLENT ENCOUNTER, 1276 00:59:31,413 --> 00:59:34,551 DREW SAID SOMETHING CHILLING TO KATHLEEN. 1277 00:59:34,551 --> 00:59:35,758 WAS MORE OF A STATEMENT, 1278 00:59:35,758 --> 00:59:37,896 AND THAT IS, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE?" 1279 00:59:37,896 --> 00:59:39,000 Narrator: BUT THE DEFENSE 1280 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,862 DIRECTLY CHALLENGES PARKS' STORY. 1281 00:59:41,862 --> 00:59:43,344 Greenberg: SHE WAS MY WITNESS. 1282 00:59:43,344 --> 00:59:45,034 SHE TESTIFIED VERY SPECIFICALLY 1283 00:59:45,034 --> 00:59:47,724 ABOUT WHEN THESE CONVERSATIONS HAD TAKEN PLACE -- 1284 00:59:47,724 --> 00:59:50,965 "IN NOVEMBER, AFTER A CLASS WE HAD TOGETHER," 1285 00:59:50,965 --> 00:59:53,137 AND THEN, ON CROSS-EXAMINATION, 1286 00:59:53,137 --> 00:59:54,482 I BROUGHT OUT THAT 1287 00:59:54,482 --> 00:59:57,034 THEY WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME. 1288 00:59:57,034 --> 01:00:00,034 KATHLEEN WASN'T EVEN ENROLLED IN SCHOOL THEN. 1289 01:00:00,034 --> 01:00:02,241 I MADE HER CRY, 1290 01:00:02,241 --> 01:00:05,172 AND I FELT NO SYMPATHY FOR DOING SO. 1291 01:00:05,172 --> 01:00:06,965 Narrator: THEN, TO MEDICALLY PROVE 1292 01:00:06,965 --> 01:00:09,965 THAT KATHLEEN'S DEATH WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, 1293 01:00:09,965 --> 01:00:13,655 THE PROSECUTION CALLS DR. LARRY BLUM. 1294 01:00:13,655 --> 01:00:18,103 IN MY EXPERIENCE OF OVER 10,000 DEATH INVESTIGATIONS, 1295 01:00:18,103 --> 01:00:21,551 PEOPLE CAN AND DO SLIP IN THEIR BATHTUBS, 1296 01:00:21,551 --> 01:00:24,241 BUT THESE PEOPLE END UP IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM 1297 01:00:24,241 --> 01:00:26,241 AND NOT IN THE MORGUE. 1298 01:00:26,241 --> 01:00:28,896 SHE WAS A 40-YEAR-OLD HEALTHY WOMAN 1299 01:00:28,896 --> 01:00:32,172 WITH TWO SONS, 11 AND 9 YEARS OLD. 1300 01:00:32,172 --> 01:00:33,758 NOW, YOU DON'T SEE MOMS LIKE THAT 1301 01:00:33,758 --> 01:00:36,068 JUST DROWNING IN THEIR OWN BATHTUBS. 1302 01:00:36,068 --> 01:00:39,413 THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 1303 01:00:39,413 --> 01:00:40,931 Narrator: BLUM FOCUSES ON A WOUND 1304 01:00:40,931 --> 01:00:42,965 THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION ATTRIBUTED 1305 01:00:42,965 --> 01:00:44,758 TO A FALL IN THE TUB, 1306 01:00:44,758 --> 01:00:49,931 THE INCH-LONG GASH ON THE BACK OF KATHLEEN'S HEAD. 1307 01:00:49,931 --> 01:00:52,034 Karas: TO CAUSE THE LACERATION SHE HAD ON HER HEAD, 1308 01:00:52,034 --> 01:00:54,965 SHE NEEDED TO HIT A SHARP SURFACE. 1309 01:00:54,965 --> 01:00:59,931 THAT'S INCONSISTENT WITH THE SMOOTH CONTOURS OF THAT BATHTUB. 1310 01:00:59,931 --> 01:01:01,413 Narrator: BLUM ALSO ARGUES THAT, 1311 01:01:01,413 --> 01:01:03,793 IF KATHLEEN STRUCK HER HEAD ON THE TUB, 1312 01:01:03,793 --> 01:01:06,689 THERE WOULD BE OBVIOUS SIGNS. 1313 01:01:06,689 --> 01:01:09,827 IF SOMEONE DOES STRIKE THEIR HEAD ON AN EDGE 1314 01:01:09,827 --> 01:01:11,620 AND THEN SLIDE DOWN, 1315 01:01:11,620 --> 01:01:15,068 THERE IS A TRANSFER OF BLOOD, HAIR, TISSUE 1316 01:01:15,068 --> 01:01:17,862 FROM THE VICTIM TO THE OBJECT. 1317 01:01:17,862 --> 01:01:20,551 BUT THERE WAS NO BLOOD ON THE SIDES OF THE TUB 1318 01:01:20,551 --> 01:01:22,965 OR ON THE EDGE OF THE TUB. 1319 01:01:22,965 --> 01:01:24,931 Narrator: UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION, 1320 01:01:24,931 --> 01:01:26,413 BLUM OBSERVES OTHER INJURIES 1321 01:01:26,413 --> 01:01:29,517 THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH A SLIP AND FALL. 1322 01:01:29,517 --> 01:01:34,068 THERE WAS SEVERE BRUISING OF THE CHEST MUSCLES ON EACH SIDE. 1323 01:01:34,068 --> 01:01:38,793 AND HER DIAPHRAGM SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT BRUISE, 1324 01:01:38,793 --> 01:01:40,034 WHICH WOULD BE CONSISTENT 1325 01:01:40,034 --> 01:01:42,103 WITH SOMEBODY GIVING YOU A BEAR HUG FROM BEHIND, 1326 01:01:42,103 --> 01:01:44,241 HOLDING YOU WHILE YOU'RE STRUGGLING. 1327 01:01:44,241 --> 01:01:47,482 THAT WAS STICKING OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB. 1328 01:01:47,482 --> 01:01:50,137 Narrator: BLUM CLARIFIES THAT THESE DISTINCTIVE INJURIES 1329 01:01:50,137 --> 01:01:53,344 HELP EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW KATHLEEN DIED. 1330 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,482 Dr. Blum: THIS INDICATED THAT SHE WAS HELD AROUND THE BODY 1331 01:01:59,482 --> 01:02:02,344 WHILE THE HEAD WAS BEING HELD DOWN. 1332 01:02:02,344 --> 01:02:04,206 AND THE STATE'S THEORY OF THE CASE 1333 01:02:04,206 --> 01:02:09,551 IS THAT SHE WAS FORCIBLY DROWNED IN THE TOILET, 1334 01:02:09,551 --> 01:02:12,379 AND THEN SHE WAS PLACED INTO THE TUB 1335 01:02:12,379 --> 01:02:15,448 AFTER SHE HAD BEEN KILLED. 1336 01:02:15,448 --> 01:02:17,448 Glasgow: ONCE WE PROVED IT WAS A MURDER, 1337 01:02:17,448 --> 01:02:19,172 THAT WAS HUGE 1338 01:02:19,172 --> 01:02:22,068 BECAUSE HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD WANT HER DEAD? 1339 01:02:22,068 --> 01:02:24,172 AND NOW OUR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 1340 01:02:24,172 --> 01:02:27,206 BECAME THAT MUCH STRONGER. 1341 01:02:27,206 --> 01:02:29,862 Narrator: THEN, A PROSECUTION WITNESS 1342 01:02:29,862 --> 01:02:32,068 REVEALS STUNNING STATEMENTS STACY MADE 1343 01:02:32,068 --> 01:02:35,551 ABOUT THE DEATH OF HER ROMANTIC RIVAL. 1344 01:02:35,551 --> 01:02:39,068 I'LL NEVER FORGET THE SHOCK THAT I HAD IN MY SYSTEM. 1345 01:02:39,068 --> 01:02:40,724 ♪♪ 1346 01:02:44,931 --> 01:02:46,862 Narrator: THE MURDER TRIAL OF DREW PETERSON 1347 01:02:46,862 --> 01:02:48,965 IS DOMINATING THE AIRWAVES. 1348 01:02:48,965 --> 01:02:52,620 EVERY NIGHT, PUNDITS HEATEDLY DEBATE THE DAY'S TESTIMONY. 1349 01:02:52,620 --> 01:02:54,275 THE DREW PETERSON TRIAL... 1350 01:02:54,275 --> 01:02:56,724 WE'VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS VERY HIGH-PROFILE TRIAL. 1351 01:02:56,724 --> 01:02:58,379 WELL, I TALKED WITH A LOT OF COURT WATCHERS, 1352 01:02:58,379 --> 01:03:00,413 AND THEY SEEM TO THINK IT'S A DRAW. 1353 01:03:00,413 --> 01:03:03,689 BOTH SIDES HAD GREAT ARGUMENTS TO MAKE. 1354 01:03:03,689 --> 01:03:06,482 THERE'S NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE CONNECTING ANY OF THE MURDERS 1355 01:03:06,482 --> 01:03:08,034 TO DREW PETERSON. 1356 01:03:08,034 --> 01:03:10,758 THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME FOR THESE WOMEN, 1357 01:03:10,758 --> 01:03:13,344 THESE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, IS DURING THE DIVORCE. 1358 01:03:13,344 --> 01:03:15,793 THIS IS WHAT THE JURY IS LEFT WITH, 1359 01:03:15,793 --> 01:03:18,137 IN TERMS OF DEFENSE WITNESSES. 1360 01:03:18,137 --> 01:03:20,827 THERE WERE A LOT OF ELEMENTS THAT CAPTIVATED THE NATION. 1361 01:03:20,827 --> 01:03:22,862 NO ONE WANTED TO MISS THIS ONE. 1362 01:03:22,862 --> 01:03:24,137 Narrator: AND AT THE COURTHOUSE, 1363 01:03:24,137 --> 01:03:27,448 THE FAMILY OF KATHLEEN SAVIO HOLDS VIGIL. 1364 01:03:27,448 --> 01:03:29,551 THIS IS WHAT MY SISTER HAD TO GO THROUGH. 1365 01:03:29,551 --> 01:03:32,068 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 1366 01:03:32,068 --> 01:03:36,000 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 1367 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,965 THE FACES THAT WE DON'T SEE. 1368 01:03:37,965 --> 01:03:40,931 ♪♪ 1369 01:03:40,931 --> 01:03:43,586 Narrator: BUT WHEN COURT IS BACK IN SESSION, 1370 01:03:43,586 --> 01:03:45,275 THE PROSECUTION CALLS A WITNESS 1371 01:03:45,275 --> 01:03:49,000 WITH ASTONISHING DETAILS OF KATHLEEN'S DEMISE. 1372 01:03:50,793 --> 01:03:52,000 Schori: MY NAME IS NEIL SCHORI, 1373 01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:55,206 AND I WAS STACY AND DREW PETERSON'S PASTOR. 1374 01:03:55,206 --> 01:03:58,758 THEY TALKED WITH ME ABOUT LIFE AND SOME MARRIAGE ISSUES. 1375 01:03:58,758 --> 01:04:00,620 I HAD SESSIONS WITH JUST STACY, 1376 01:04:00,620 --> 01:04:02,172 AND I HAD SESSIONS WITH JUST DREW, 1377 01:04:02,172 --> 01:04:04,862 AND I HAD SESSIONS WITH THEM TOGETHER. 1378 01:04:04,862 --> 01:04:09,206 THEY HAD NORMAL LIFE ISSUES, NORMAL MARRIAGE ISSUES. 1379 01:04:09,206 --> 01:04:12,103 Narrator: ON THE STAND, SCHORI GIVES HEARSAY TESTIMONY 1380 01:04:12,103 --> 01:04:15,310 AND EXPLAINS THAT, IN AUGUST OF 2007, 1381 01:04:15,310 --> 01:04:18,827 STACY PETERSON CALLED HIM WITH AN URGENT REQUEST. 1382 01:04:18,827 --> 01:04:23,448 AND SHE SAID, "IS THERE ANY CHANCE YOU CAN MEET TOMORROW 1383 01:04:23,448 --> 01:04:26,103 AT STARBUCKS, FIRST THING IN THE MORNING?" 1384 01:04:26,103 --> 01:04:28,379 I DON'T MEET WITH PEOPLE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 1385 01:04:28,379 --> 01:04:30,275 IT'S JUST A POLICY THAT I HAVE. 1386 01:04:30,275 --> 01:04:32,758 AND I SAID, "YEAH, I CAN MEET AT THE STARBUCKS." 1387 01:04:32,758 --> 01:04:35,137 STACY WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME CRYING, 1388 01:04:35,137 --> 01:04:39,034 AND SHE DESCRIBED HOW, ONE NIGHT, 1389 01:04:39,034 --> 01:04:41,344 SHE AND DREW WENT TO BED AT THE SAME TIME, 1390 01:04:41,344 --> 01:04:43,413 AND THEN SHE WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, 1391 01:04:43,413 --> 01:04:45,241 AND HE WASN'T THERE. 1392 01:04:45,241 --> 01:04:47,655 SHE TRIED TO REACH HIM BY PHONE, AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER, 1393 01:04:47,655 --> 01:04:51,034 AND SHE JUST HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS. 1394 01:04:51,034 --> 01:04:56,310 BUT HOURS LATER, SUDDENLY, SHE HEARD DREW COME IN, 1395 01:04:56,310 --> 01:04:59,068 AND HE WALKED INTO THEIR LAUNDRY ROOM, 1396 01:04:59,068 --> 01:05:02,413 AND SHE SAID HE WAS COVERED IN BLACK CLOTHES, 1397 01:05:02,413 --> 01:05:04,862 AND HE WAS CARRYING SOME SORT OF A DUFFEL BAG. 1398 01:05:04,862 --> 01:05:07,551 AND THEN HE TOOK THE DUFFEL BAG, AND HE UNZIPPED IT, 1399 01:05:07,551 --> 01:05:10,827 AND HE DUMPED ALL THE ITEMS INTO THE WASHING MACHINE, 1400 01:05:10,827 --> 01:05:12,275 AND HE WALKED OUT. 1401 01:05:12,275 --> 01:05:14,310 SHE WAS JUST LEFT STANDING THERE IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM, 1402 01:05:14,310 --> 01:05:16,482 SO SHE OPENED UP THE WASHER, AND SHE LOOKED IN, 1403 01:05:16,482 --> 01:05:22,448 AND THERE WERE WOMEN'S CLOTHES THAT SHE KNEW WERE NOT HERS. 1404 01:05:22,448 --> 01:05:24,724 Narrator: THEN, GLASGOW ESTABLISHES 1405 01:05:24,724 --> 01:05:27,517 WHEN THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE. 1406 01:05:27,517 --> 01:05:31,758 THAT WAS THE NIGHT WHEN KATHY SAVIO DIED. 1407 01:05:31,758 --> 01:05:34,413 Schori: LATER ON, SHE FOUND HIM IN THE HOUSE. 1408 01:05:34,413 --> 01:05:35,931 AND HE SAT DOWN HER, AND HE SAID, 1409 01:05:35,931 --> 01:05:37,034 "THE POLICE ARE GONNA COME, 1410 01:05:37,034 --> 01:05:38,793 AND THEY'RE GONNA WANT TO TALK TO YOU." 1411 01:05:38,793 --> 01:05:43,413 SHE SAID HE COACHED HER FOR HOURS ON WHAT TO SAY 1412 01:05:43,413 --> 01:05:46,586 BEFORE THE POLICE SHOWED UP. 1413 01:05:46,586 --> 01:05:50,896 AND SHE ADMITTED SHE LIED TO THE POLICE FOR DREW PETERSON. 1414 01:05:50,896 --> 01:05:52,965 Schori: SHE WAS JUST DRIPPING WITH FEAR IN HER VOICE 1415 01:05:52,965 --> 01:05:54,827 AS SHE SAID THIS. 1416 01:05:54,827 --> 01:05:58,448 I TRIED TO FIGHT THROUGH MY OWN SHOCK OF HEARING THAT. 1417 01:05:58,448 --> 01:06:04,448 ON THE STAND, NEIL SCHORI DELIVERED 100%. 1418 01:06:04,448 --> 01:06:05,931 Narrator: THE DEFENSE THEN TAKES AIM 1419 01:06:05,931 --> 01:06:07,413 AT THE STAR WITNESS 1420 01:06:07,413 --> 01:06:12,137 AND QUESTIONS HIS RESPONSE TO STACY'S ALLEGED CONFESSION. 1421 01:06:12,137 --> 01:06:15,896 THE CROSS-EXAMINATION -- IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE. 1422 01:06:15,896 --> 01:06:17,827 Greenberg: WHAT WOULD A NORMAL PERSON DO? 1423 01:06:17,827 --> 01:06:19,724 IF SOMEONE COMES TO YOU AND THEY TELL YOU, 1424 01:06:19,724 --> 01:06:22,379 "I AM FEARFUL FOR MY LIFE," 1425 01:06:22,379 --> 01:06:24,137 YOU'RE NOT GONNA SAY TO THEM, 1426 01:06:24,137 --> 01:06:27,310 "WOULD YOU LIKE A LITTLE CREAM AND SUGAR WITH YOUR LATTE?" 1427 01:06:27,310 --> 01:06:29,448 AND, "GEE, I FEEL TERRIBLE FOR YOU," 1428 01:06:29,448 --> 01:06:30,827 AND, "GO HOME." 1429 01:06:30,827 --> 01:06:34,000 YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, "LET ME REFER YOU TO A SHELTER. 1430 01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,758 LET ME FIND A PARISHIONER YOU CAN LIVE WITH." 1431 01:06:36,758 --> 01:06:38,655 WHAT DID YOU DO? 1432 01:06:38,655 --> 01:06:40,379 WHAT DID YOU DO? 1433 01:06:40,379 --> 01:06:41,551 NOTHING. 1434 01:06:41,551 --> 01:06:44,344 ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, DUDE. 1435 01:06:44,344 --> 01:06:47,724 SO I DON'T THINK MUCH OF NEIL SCHORI. 1436 01:06:47,724 --> 01:06:49,724 Schori: SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO DO ANYTHING WITH IT. 1437 01:06:49,724 --> 01:06:51,931 SHE FELT VERY MUCH LIKE 1438 01:06:51,931 --> 01:06:54,275 THERE WAS NO ESCAPE FROM THIS MAN, 1439 01:06:54,275 --> 01:06:56,517 AND I HAD STRONGLY GOT THE FEELING FROM HER 1440 01:06:56,517 --> 01:07:00,517 THAT, EVEN IF SHE GOT AWAY, HE WOULD MAKE SURE TO FIND HER. 1441 01:07:00,517 --> 01:07:02,586 AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS I WAS WITH IT, 1442 01:07:02,586 --> 01:07:05,379 I HELD THE STORY TIGHT. 1443 01:07:05,379 --> 01:07:07,586 Narrator: THE STATE RESTS THEIR CASE, 1444 01:07:07,586 --> 01:07:09,931 AND THE DEFENSE TAKES THE FLOOR. 1445 01:07:09,931 --> 01:07:11,827 THEY HAD PUT IN ENOUGH TO GET A CONVICTION 1446 01:07:11,827 --> 01:07:13,620 UNLESS WE PUT ON SOME EVIDENCE 1447 01:07:13,620 --> 01:07:16,689 THAT POKED SOME HOLES IN SOME OF THEIR THEORIES. 1448 01:07:16,689 --> 01:07:18,068 Karas: THE DEFENSE NEEDED TO DEAL 1449 01:07:18,068 --> 01:07:20,965 WITH THESE ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE BY DREW AGAINST KATHLEEN, 1450 01:07:20,965 --> 01:07:22,310 SO TO OVERCOME THAT, 1451 01:07:22,310 --> 01:07:25,724 THEY CALLED ONE OF HER BEST FRIENDS, MARY PONTARELLI. 1452 01:07:25,724 --> 01:07:27,931 THE DEFENSE ASKED MARY WHETHER OR NOT 1453 01:07:27,931 --> 01:07:30,448 SHE EVER NOTICED BRUISES ON KATHLEEN, 1454 01:07:30,448 --> 01:07:33,448 ON HER NECK OR ARM, OTHER PARTS OF BODY, YOU KNOW, 1455 01:07:33,448 --> 01:07:35,379 OVER THE YEARS THAT SHE WAS FRIENDLY WITH HER, 1456 01:07:35,379 --> 01:07:38,620 OR DID SHE SEE HER WEARING CLOTHING 1457 01:07:38,620 --> 01:07:41,275 THAT MIGHT BE COVERING BRUISES. 1458 01:07:41,275 --> 01:07:43,965 SHE SAID NO TO ALL OF THOSE. 1459 01:07:43,965 --> 01:07:45,793 WHEN ASKED WHETHER SHE HAD EVER SEEN 1460 01:07:45,793 --> 01:07:48,379 DREW GET VIOLENT OR ANGRY WITH KATHLEEN, 1461 01:07:48,379 --> 01:07:50,241 SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T. 1462 01:07:50,241 --> 01:07:52,827 MARY SAID THAT DREW WAS ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN TO HER. 1463 01:07:52,827 --> 01:07:54,551 SHE WAS VERY HELPFUL TO THE DEFENSE. 1464 01:07:54,551 --> 01:07:57,068 SHE WAS PAINTING A DIFFERENT PICTURE OF DREW PETERSON 1465 01:07:57,068 --> 01:07:59,620 FROM WHAT THE PROSECUTION WANTS THE JURY TO BELIEVE. 1466 01:07:59,620 --> 01:08:03,034 ♪♪ 1467 01:08:03,034 --> 01:08:06,068 Narrator: NEXT, THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS PONTARELLI 1468 01:08:06,068 --> 01:08:08,655 ABOUT KATHLEEN'S PERSONALITY. 1469 01:08:08,655 --> 01:08:12,413 MARY PONTARELLI ALSO SAID THAT KATHLEEN WAS A FIGHTER, 1470 01:08:12,413 --> 01:08:14,758 AND THAT SHE WOULD NOT HAVE LET SOMEONE HIT HER 1471 01:08:14,758 --> 01:08:17,310 WITHOUT FIGHTING BACK. 1472 01:08:17,310 --> 01:08:20,034 I THOUGHT MARY PONTARELLI WAS A GREAT WITNESS FOR US 1473 01:08:20,034 --> 01:08:21,655 AND VERY TRUTHFUL. 1474 01:08:21,655 --> 01:08:23,000 Narrator: BUILDING ON TESTIMONY 1475 01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,620 ABOUT KATHLEEN'S COMBATIVE NATURE, 1476 01:08:25,620 --> 01:08:27,689 THE DEFENSE THEN CALLS AN INVESTIGATOR 1477 01:08:27,689 --> 01:08:31,655 WHO WAS AT THE PETERSON HOME THE DAY KATHLEEN WAS FOUND. 1478 01:08:31,655 --> 01:08:35,000 Karas: BRYAN FALAT WAS WITH THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE. 1479 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,413 HE DID NOT SEE ANY SCRATCHES ON DREW PETERSON 1480 01:08:37,413 --> 01:08:40,655 THAT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH KATHLEEN FIGHTING WITH HIM. 1481 01:08:40,655 --> 01:08:43,206 HE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING TO SUPPORT THAT. 1482 01:08:43,206 --> 01:08:45,137 Greenberg: IF THERE'S A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO ADULTS 1483 01:08:45,137 --> 01:08:46,931 AND YOU'RE KILLING SOMEBODY, 1484 01:08:46,931 --> 01:08:48,172 THERE'S GONNA BE SOMETHING. 1485 01:08:48,172 --> 01:08:50,275 THERE'S GONNA BE A SCRATCH MARK ON DREW. 1486 01:08:50,275 --> 01:08:51,689 THERE WASN'T. 1487 01:08:51,689 --> 01:08:54,758 THERE'S GONNA BE SOMETHING UNDER HER FINGERNAILS. 1488 01:08:54,758 --> 01:08:56,448 THERE WASN'T. 1489 01:08:56,448 --> 01:08:57,862 Narrator: THE DEFENSE THEN ATTEMPTS 1490 01:08:57,862 --> 01:09:01,896 TO EXPLAIN THE BRUISES FOUND ON KATHLEEN'S BODY. 1491 01:09:01,896 --> 01:09:04,586 THEY QUESTION HER BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH, 1492 01:09:04,586 --> 01:09:06,758 STEVE MANIACI. 1493 01:09:06,758 --> 01:09:09,862 BOYFRIEND WAS THIS GIANT MACHO GUY, 1494 01:09:09,862 --> 01:09:11,827 A REAL MAN'S MAN, 1495 01:09:11,827 --> 01:09:14,344 AND THE BOYFRIEND SAID 1496 01:09:14,344 --> 01:09:20,034 THAT THEY HAD HAD SEX TWO NIGHTS BEFORE ON THE CARPET 1497 01:09:20,034 --> 01:09:21,482 AND THAT THEY HAD DONE IT, 1498 01:09:21,482 --> 01:09:24,551 ACCORDING TO WHAT HE TOLD THE POLICE, DOGGY STYLE, 1499 01:09:24,551 --> 01:09:28,034 WHICH WOULD HAVE EXPLAINED THE MARKS ON HER KNEES 1500 01:09:28,034 --> 01:09:31,896 AND, IF HE'S GRABBING HER, THE BRUISING ON HER HIPS. 1501 01:09:31,896 --> 01:09:33,379 Narrator: THEN, TO DISCREDIT 1502 01:09:33,379 --> 01:09:36,931 THE DAMNING HEARSAY TESTIMONY FROM PASTOR SCHORI, 1503 01:09:36,931 --> 01:09:39,172 THE DEFENSE COMES UP WITH A RISKY PLAN 1504 01:09:39,172 --> 01:09:41,965 TO ATTACK THE STATEMENTS OF STACY PETERSON. 1505 01:09:41,965 --> 01:09:44,655 THEIR STRATEGY IS TO SAY THAT SHE WAS GOING AROUND 1506 01:09:44,655 --> 01:09:47,655 TALKING ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT DREW 1507 01:09:47,655 --> 01:09:49,172 AS PART OF HER PLAN 1508 01:09:49,172 --> 01:09:52,655 TO GET MORE MONEY OUT OF DREW IN A DIVORCE. 1509 01:09:52,655 --> 01:09:56,275 THEY WANTED TO SAY THAT STACY WAS A GOLD DIGGER, 1510 01:09:56,275 --> 01:10:00,103 THAT SHE HAD MADE UP THE FACT THAT DREW HAD KILLED KATHY 1511 01:10:00,103 --> 01:10:02,689 IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE MORE MONEY OUT OF HIM. 1512 01:10:02,689 --> 01:10:08,413 THE DEFENSE DECIDED TO CALL DIVORCE ATTORNEY HARRY SMITH. 1513 01:10:08,413 --> 01:10:10,241 Smith: MY NAME IS HARRY SMITH. 1514 01:10:10,241 --> 01:10:12,034 I WAS CONTACTED BY STACY PETERSON 1515 01:10:12,034 --> 01:10:13,862 DAYS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED. 1516 01:10:13,862 --> 01:10:16,068 SHE WAS CALLING ME FOR A DIVORCE CONSULT. 1517 01:10:16,068 --> 01:10:18,068 THE FIRST THING THAT STACY TALKED ABOUT ON THE PHONE CALL 1518 01:10:18,068 --> 01:10:20,275 WAS WHETHER OR NOT SHE COULD LEAVE THE STATE 1519 01:10:20,275 --> 01:10:21,620 WITH THE CHILDREN. 1520 01:10:21,620 --> 01:10:23,413 SHE WAS GETTING READY TO GET OUT. 1521 01:10:23,413 --> 01:10:24,931 Narrator: AS BRODSKY PRESSES SMITH 1522 01:10:24,931 --> 01:10:26,586 ABOUT STACY'S CALL, 1523 01:10:26,586 --> 01:10:30,206 THE DIVORCE LAWYER REVEALS SOMETHING STUNNING. 1524 01:10:30,206 --> 01:10:32,620 STACY SORT OF CASUALLY SAID TO ME, 1525 01:10:32,620 --> 01:10:34,448 "CAN I GET MORE MONEY IN THE DIVORCE 1526 01:10:34,448 --> 01:10:38,413 IF WE GO TO THE POLICE AND TELL THEM HOW DREW KILLED KATHY?" 1527 01:10:38,413 --> 01:10:39,965 JUST SAID IT. 1528 01:10:39,965 --> 01:10:41,275 Narrator: THE DEFENSE'S GAMBIT 1529 01:10:41,275 --> 01:10:44,724 QUICKLY TURNS INTO A SPECTACULAR FAILURE. 1530 01:10:44,724 --> 01:10:46,517 Smith: MR. BRODSKY WANTED TO CLARIFY THE FACT 1531 01:10:46,517 --> 01:10:49,344 THAT WHAT STACY HAD DONE WAS ASK ME, 1532 01:10:49,344 --> 01:10:50,965 COULD SHE GET MORE MONEY 1533 01:10:50,965 --> 01:10:54,689 IF WE TOLD THE POLICE HE KILLED KATHLEEN? 1534 01:10:54,689 --> 01:10:56,206 HE DID THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES. 1535 01:10:56,206 --> 01:10:58,275 AND HE GAVE ME THE ABILITY TO KEEP SAYING, 1536 01:10:58,275 --> 01:11:02,137 "NO. SHE SAID, 'IF I TELL HIM HOWHE DID IT.'" 1537 01:11:02,137 --> 01:11:05,034 AND I THINK DRIVING THAT POINT HOME WAS A PROBLEM. 1538 01:11:07,137 --> 01:11:10,344 IT WENT WORSE THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. 1539 01:11:10,344 --> 01:11:11,896 IF I HAD BEEN AN ALCOHOLIC, 1540 01:11:11,896 --> 01:11:14,793 I WOULD HAVE PULLED OUT MY FLASK RIGHT THERE IN THE COURTROOM 1541 01:11:14,793 --> 01:11:17,103 AND STARTED DRINKING. 1542 01:11:17,103 --> 01:11:19,275 Brodsky: DREW INSISTED THAT WE CALL HIM. 1543 01:11:19,275 --> 01:11:20,448 HE'S THE DEFENDANT. 1544 01:11:20,448 --> 01:11:22,793 IF HE WANTS SOMETHING AND IT'S REASONABLE, 1545 01:11:22,793 --> 01:11:24,586 IT'S HARD TO SAY NO. 1546 01:11:24,586 --> 01:11:26,724 JIM GLASGOW, AFTER SMITH TESTIFIED, 1547 01:11:26,724 --> 01:11:29,551 CALLED THAT TESTIMONY A GIFT FROM GOD. 1548 01:11:29,551 --> 01:11:32,931 THAT'S THE RISKS OF TRIAL. 1549 01:11:32,931 --> 01:11:35,379 Narrator: THE DEFENSE SOON RESTS. 1550 01:11:35,379 --> 01:11:37,206 THEN, ON SEPTEMBER 5th, 1551 01:11:37,206 --> 01:11:42,275 THE JURY BEGINS DELIBERATING THE FATE OF DREW PETERSON. 1552 01:11:42,275 --> 01:11:44,310 Glasgow: WHEN IT WENT OVER INTO THE NEXT DAY, 1553 01:11:44,310 --> 01:11:46,344 I CALLED NEIL SCHORI. 1554 01:11:46,344 --> 01:11:48,689 Schori: HE SAID, "I THINK THE VERDICTS ARE GONNA COME SOON." 1555 01:11:48,689 --> 01:11:50,448 AND HE SAID, "AND JUST -- I NEED YOU TO PRAY 1556 01:11:50,448 --> 01:11:52,413 THAT THE RIGHT ONE COMES DOWN." 1557 01:11:52,413 --> 01:11:54,724 AND I SAID, "YES, SIR. I'LL DO IT RIGHT AWAY." 1558 01:11:54,724 --> 01:11:59,448 WE GOT OFF THE PHONE, AND I KNELT DOWN IN MY BEDROOM. 1559 01:11:59,448 --> 01:12:02,655 Glasgow: I HUNG UP, AND LITERALLY 60 SECONDS LATER, 1560 01:12:02,655 --> 01:12:05,413 SOMEONE CAME TO MY DOOR AND SAID, "WE HAVE A VERDICT." 1561 01:12:05,413 --> 01:12:07,965 ♪♪ 1562 01:12:11,275 --> 01:12:13,517 Narrator: AFTER 14 HOURS OF DELIBERATION, 1563 01:12:13,517 --> 01:12:15,896 THE JURY IN THE DREW PETERSON MURDER CASE 1564 01:12:15,896 --> 01:12:19,620 HAS JUST REACHED A DECISION. 1565 01:12:19,620 --> 01:12:22,827 SOMEBODY YELLED OUT, "VERDICT." 1566 01:12:22,827 --> 01:12:25,103 I WAS TREMENDOUSLY SCARED. 1567 01:12:25,103 --> 01:12:27,413 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. 1568 01:12:27,413 --> 01:12:30,344 Dobrich: I WAS THERE WITH A GROUP OF OTHER OFFICERS, 1569 01:12:30,344 --> 01:12:33,241 AND I WATCHED AS THE VERDICT WAS READ ALOUD. 1570 01:12:33,241 --> 01:12:36,172 Karas: AS WE ALL SAT ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS, 1571 01:12:36,172 --> 01:12:38,310 THE JUDGE DID THE READING. 1572 01:12:38,310 --> 01:12:39,517 "WE, THE JURY, 1573 01:12:39,517 --> 01:12:42,689 FIND THE DEFENDANT, DREW PETERSON... 1574 01:12:42,689 --> 01:12:45,034 GUILTY." 1575 01:12:45,034 --> 01:12:47,689 Doman: WHEN IT CAME IN, IT WAS LIKE, BOOM. 1576 01:12:47,689 --> 01:12:49,931 IT JUST HIT YOU RIGHT IN THE HEAD. 1577 01:12:49,931 --> 01:12:53,310 I HUGGED MY SISTER, AND WE SAID, "WE DID IT. 1578 01:12:53,310 --> 01:12:56,620 WE FINALLY DID IT." 1579 01:12:56,620 --> 01:12:57,965 Cales: I WAS JUST FEELING GREAT. 1580 01:12:57,965 --> 01:13:00,482 I WAS SMILING AND JUST STARING AT DREW. 1581 01:13:02,310 --> 01:13:04,931 DREW PETERSON WAS VERY IMPASSIVE. 1582 01:13:04,931 --> 01:13:10,310 HE GLARED AT THE JURORS WHEN THEY FILED OUT OF THE COURTROOM. 1583 01:13:10,310 --> 01:13:11,448 Dobrich: WE WERE HAPPY. 1584 01:13:11,448 --> 01:13:14,344 WE FELT THAT OUR WORK WAS REALIZED. 1585 01:13:14,344 --> 01:13:16,310 GETTING THE FINAL VERDICT WAS ELATION. 1586 01:13:16,310 --> 01:13:19,068 THERE WAS NO QUESTION. 1587 01:13:19,068 --> 01:13:21,310 HE WAS A THUG -- HE WOULD THREATEN PEOPLE 1588 01:13:21,310 --> 01:13:23,172 'CAUSE HE HAD A GUN AND A BADGE, 1589 01:13:23,172 --> 01:13:24,586 AND NOBODY EVERY TOOK HIM ON. 1590 01:13:24,586 --> 01:13:26,724 BUT WE TOOK HIM ON NOW, AND HE LOST. 1591 01:13:26,724 --> 01:13:28,689 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] 1592 01:13:28,689 --> 01:13:32,206 JUSTICE WAS FINALLY DONE FOR KATHLEEN SAVIO'S FAMILY. 1593 01:13:32,206 --> 01:13:35,448 I HOPE THERE WILL BE JUSTICE FOR STACY. 1594 01:13:35,448 --> 01:13:42,275 I HOPE THAT, ONE DAY, DREW WILL CONFESS. 1595 01:13:42,275 --> 01:13:45,206 Narrator: IN FEBRUARY 2013, 1596 01:13:45,206 --> 01:13:47,896 DREW RETURNS TO COURT FOR A SENTENCING HEARING, 1597 01:13:47,896 --> 01:13:52,068 WHERE HE FACES A MAXIMUM OF 60 YEARS IN PRISON. 1598 01:13:52,068 --> 01:13:54,034 WHEN DREW WAS SENTENCED, LIKE EVERY OTHER DEFENDANT, 1599 01:13:54,034 --> 01:13:56,379 HE WAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO ADDRESS THE COURT. 1600 01:13:56,379 --> 01:14:00,241 Cales: IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE HIM GO UP THERE ON THE PODIUM 1601 01:14:00,241 --> 01:14:05,344 BECAUSE I COULD JUST TELL HE WAS JUST FULL OF THIS ANXIETY, 1602 01:14:05,344 --> 01:14:06,965 LIKE HE WAS HAVING A PANIC ATTACK. 1603 01:14:12,827 --> 01:14:14,310 Man: SAY WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE. 1604 01:14:39,379 --> 01:14:41,000 "I DIDN'T KILL HER!" WHATEVER. 1605 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,068 YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW. 1606 01:14:42,068 --> 01:14:44,034 PATHETIC. 1607 01:14:44,034 --> 01:14:46,310 IT ALMOST SOUNDED LIKE AN INSANE PERSON. 1608 01:14:46,310 --> 01:14:48,379 ♪♪ 1609 01:14:48,379 --> 01:14:52,000 THE JUDGE GAVE DREW PETERSON A 38-YEAR SENTENCE 1610 01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,034 FOR THE MURDER OF KATHLEEN SAVIO. 1611 01:14:54,034 --> 01:14:55,724 CONSIDERING HIS AGE, 1612 01:14:55,724 --> 01:14:59,586 THAT HE WOULD BE AN OLD MAN BEFORE HE EVER GOT OUT. 1613 01:14:59,586 --> 01:15:02,379 Narrator: BUT EVEN WITH A POTENTIAL LIFELONG SENTENCE 1614 01:15:02,379 --> 01:15:03,896 IN FRONT OF DREW, 1615 01:15:03,896 --> 01:15:07,275 ONE VITAL PIECE OF INFORMATION REMAINS SECRET. 1616 01:15:07,275 --> 01:15:09,344 White: NOBODY KNOWS WHERE STACY IS. 1617 01:15:09,344 --> 01:15:13,862 ALWAYS, BEHIND EVERYTHING ELSE, IS STILL, "WHERE'S STACY?" 1618 01:15:13,862 --> 01:15:16,103 Karas: THEY DIDN'T REALLY EVER FIND ANYTHING 1619 01:15:16,103 --> 01:15:19,413 THAT WOULD HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED TO STACY. 1620 01:15:19,413 --> 01:15:23,620 ♪♪ 1621 01:15:23,620 --> 01:15:25,413 Narrator: DREW HEADS TO PRISON, 1622 01:15:25,413 --> 01:15:27,620 AND THE FAMILIES OF STACY AND KATHLEEN 1623 01:15:27,620 --> 01:15:30,034 TRY TO MOVE PAST THEIR TRAGEDIES. 1624 01:15:30,034 --> 01:15:32,965 BUT IN AUGUST OF 2014, 1625 01:15:32,965 --> 01:15:36,103 ALMOST TWO YEARS AFTER HIS MURDER CONVICTION, 1626 01:15:36,103 --> 01:15:38,103 LEGAL PROBLEMS COME ROARING BACK 1627 01:15:38,103 --> 01:15:41,931 INTO THE LIFE OF DREW PETERSON. 1628 01:15:41,931 --> 01:15:43,620 THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE RECEIVED A LETTER 1629 01:15:43,620 --> 01:15:46,275 FROM A CONVICT DOWN IN MENARD CORRECTIONAL CENTER. 1630 01:15:46,275 --> 01:15:47,965 Karas: AND THE LETTER BASICALLY SAYS, 1631 01:15:47,965 --> 01:15:50,724 "I HAVE SOME MIND-BLOWING INFORMATION 1632 01:15:50,724 --> 01:15:52,689 ABOUT JAMES GLASGOW." 1633 01:15:52,689 --> 01:15:55,517 WE GET LETTERS ALL THE TIME FROM INMATES. 1634 01:15:55,517 --> 01:15:59,931 99-PLUS PERCENT OF THE TIME, THEY'RE B.S. 1635 01:15:59,931 --> 01:16:01,172 Narrator: THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN 1636 01:16:01,172 --> 01:16:05,482 BY AN INMATE NAMED ANTONIO SMITH. 1637 01:16:05,482 --> 01:16:08,931 Karas: ANTONIO "THE BEAST" SMITH WAS A GANG MEMBER 1638 01:16:08,931 --> 01:16:11,448 OF A GROUP CALLED "SATAN'S DISCIPLES." 1639 01:16:11,448 --> 01:16:13,034 IN 2011, HE GOT CONVICTED 1640 01:16:13,034 --> 01:16:15,000 OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, HOME INVASION, AND ROBBERY 1641 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,482 AND WAS SERVING A 40-YEAR SENTENCE. 1642 01:16:17,482 --> 01:16:20,137 WHILE IN THE ILLINOIS CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM, 1643 01:16:20,137 --> 01:16:21,862 HE MADE A NEW FRIEND... 1644 01:16:21,862 --> 01:16:24,758 DREW PETERSON. 1645 01:16:24,758 --> 01:16:26,827 Walker: MY NAME IS JEREMY WALKER, 1646 01:16:26,827 --> 01:16:29,758 AND I'M THE STATE'S ATTORNEY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 1647 01:16:29,758 --> 01:16:32,551 ANTONIO SMITH AND MR. PETERSON BECAME FRIENDS 1648 01:16:32,551 --> 01:16:35,172 OVER A GAME OF BASKETBALL DOWN AT MENARD. 1649 01:16:35,172 --> 01:16:37,068 BEAST WAS SHOOTING SOME HOOPS. 1650 01:16:37,068 --> 01:16:38,862 HE WAS GETTING HOT, SO TO SPEAK, 1651 01:16:38,862 --> 01:16:41,137 AND MR. PETERSON WON SOME MONEY GAMBLING OFF OF HIM, 1652 01:16:41,137 --> 01:16:43,793 AND THAT'S WHAT FORGED THEIR RELATIONSHIP. 1653 01:16:43,793 --> 01:16:45,620 Hosey: THEY WOULD EAT TOGETHER, HANG OUT TOGETHER, 1654 01:16:45,620 --> 01:16:47,344 COOK IN THEIR CELLS TOGETHER. 1655 01:16:47,344 --> 01:16:50,000 HE AND DREW DEVELOPED A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP. 1656 01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,517 Narrator: ACCORDING TO SMITH'S LETTER, 1657 01:16:51,517 --> 01:16:54,827 PETERSON, WHO'S IN THE MIDST OF APPEALING HIS SENTENCE, 1658 01:16:54,827 --> 01:16:59,758 HARBORS DEEP ANIMOSITY ABOUT HIS TRIAL AND CONVICTION. 1659 01:16:59,758 --> 01:17:02,275 Hosey: DREW BLAMED GLASGOW FOR RUINING FOR HIS LIFE, 1660 01:17:02,275 --> 01:17:03,551 ACCORDING TO SMITH. 1661 01:17:03,551 --> 01:17:06,517 HE PUT HIM IN PRISON FOR LIKELY THE REST OF HIS LIFE. 1662 01:17:06,517 --> 01:17:08,724 HE REALLY DESPISED GLASGOW. 1663 01:17:08,724 --> 01:17:10,931 AND SMITH SAID THAT DREW HAD ASKED HIM 1664 01:17:10,931 --> 01:17:13,931 TO FIND SOMEONE TO KILL JIM GLASGOW. 1665 01:17:13,931 --> 01:17:15,620 Narrator: TO INVESTIGATE THE CLAIM, 1666 01:17:15,620 --> 01:17:18,689 AUTHORITIES RUSH INTO ACTION. 1667 01:17:18,689 --> 01:17:22,206 WE SENT A TEAM DOWN TO GO INTERVIEW ANTONIO SMITH. 1668 01:17:22,206 --> 01:17:23,517 THIS IS MY HANDWRITING. 1669 01:17:23,517 --> 01:17:26,000 Man: OKAY. THAT'S THE LETTER THAT YOU WROTE TO OUR OFFICE? 1670 01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:27,862 YEAH. OPEN IT UP. 1671 01:17:27,862 --> 01:17:30,482 THAT'S INSCRIBED, TELLING YOU EVERYTHING. 1672 01:17:30,482 --> 01:17:33,551 "I WANT HIM KILLED BECAUSE OF THIS." 1673 01:17:33,551 --> 01:17:34,517 BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. 1674 01:17:34,517 --> 01:17:35,896 "THE PENSION. 1675 01:17:35,896 --> 01:17:38,206 HE'S TRYING TO DO THIS [BLEEP] WITH INMATES. 1676 01:17:38,206 --> 01:17:40,482 HE'S [BLEEP] MY APPEAL," ALL THIS STUFF. 1677 01:17:40,482 --> 01:17:41,586 HE'S LET ME KNOW ALL THIS. 1678 01:17:41,586 --> 01:17:42,896 AND IT TURNED OUT, 1679 01:17:42,896 --> 01:17:45,413 EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN FOR A VERY TERRIBLE CRIME, 1680 01:17:45,413 --> 01:17:50,275 HE WAS VERY SMART AND GAVE AN EXCELLENT INTERVIEW 1681 01:17:50,275 --> 01:17:52,000 AND APPEARED TO BE VERY TRUTHFUL. 1682 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,689 Narrator: TO BUILD A CASE, 1683 01:17:53,689 --> 01:17:57,241 WALKER NEEDS EVIDENCE OF DREW'S SUPPOSED THREATS. 1684 01:17:57,241 --> 01:17:59,344 NOW, YOU'RE GONNA WANT THAT MAN SAYING IT ON HIS WORDS, 1685 01:17:59,344 --> 01:18:02,379 AND MR. SMITH INDICATED HE WOULD BE WILLING TO WEAR A WIRE. 1686 01:18:02,379 --> 01:18:03,620 IT'S ABSOLUTELY, IN MY OPINION, 1687 01:18:03,620 --> 01:18:05,758 THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD SECURE A CONVICTION. 1688 01:18:05,758 --> 01:18:07,413 Narrator: ON NOVEMBER 13th, 1689 01:18:07,413 --> 01:18:10,586 SMITH STARTS ROLLING TAPE INSIDE PRISON. 1690 01:18:10,586 --> 01:18:12,931 ♪♪ 1691 01:18:12,931 --> 01:18:16,034 FIRST RECORDING THAT WE HAVE, THERE WAS TALK ABOUT THE PLAN, 1692 01:18:16,034 --> 01:18:18,137 ABOUT HOW HE WANTED HIM GONE STILL. 1693 01:18:18,137 --> 01:18:20,758 MR. SMITH INDICATED THAT HE HAD AN UNCLE 1694 01:18:20,758 --> 01:18:22,793 THAT COULD GET THE JOB DONE OUT ON THE STREETS. 1695 01:18:38,137 --> 01:18:39,310 [ PETERSON LAUGHS] 1696 01:18:41,965 --> 01:18:43,206 OH. [ LAUGHS] 1697 01:18:54,379 --> 01:18:58,344 Glasgow: IT CROSSED MY MIND BACK IN 2007, 1698 01:18:58,344 --> 01:18:59,827 KNOWING DREW PETERSON AS I DID, 1699 01:18:59,827 --> 01:19:03,448 THAT, IF I UNDERTOOK THIS CASE AND I FAILED AND HE GOT AWAY, 1700 01:19:03,448 --> 01:19:05,758 I'D BE IN DANGER. 1701 01:19:05,758 --> 01:19:07,689 SO THAT WAS ABSOLUTE CONFIRMATION 1702 01:19:07,689 --> 01:19:10,379 THAT MY INSTINCTS WERE RIGHT. 1703 01:19:10,379 --> 01:19:13,482 Narrator: ON FEBRUARY 9, 2015, 1704 01:19:13,482 --> 01:19:16,965 AUTHORITIES CHARGED DREW FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER, 1705 01:19:16,965 --> 01:19:21,896 AND AT TRIAL, ANTONIO SMITH REVEALS SOMETHING SHOCKING. 1706 01:19:21,896 --> 01:19:26,000 Karas: HE TOLD JURORS THAT DREW PETERSON TOLD HIM 1707 01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,517 WHERE STACY IS, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. 1708 01:19:28,517 --> 01:19:30,413 ♪♪ 1709 01:19:33,448 --> 01:19:35,586 Narrator: DREW PETERSON'S MURDER-FOR-HIRE TRIAL 1710 01:19:35,586 --> 01:19:37,724 MOVES FULL STEAM AHEAD, 1711 01:19:37,724 --> 01:19:39,551 AND THE PROSECUTION PRESENTS EVIDENCE 1712 01:19:39,551 --> 01:19:43,379 ON HIS PLOT TO KILL STATE'S ATTORNEY JIM GLASGOW. 1713 01:19:43,379 --> 01:19:44,655 IN THE RECORDINGS, YOU KNOW, 1714 01:19:44,655 --> 01:19:47,206 HE SAID, "IT'S A GO. IT'S BETTER THAN 100%." 1715 01:19:47,206 --> 01:19:51,965 HE ABSOLUTELY INDICATED THAT HE WANTED MR. GLASGOW GONE. 1716 01:19:51,965 --> 01:19:54,655 Narrator: THE PROSECUTION CALLS ANTONIO SMITH, 1717 01:19:54,655 --> 01:19:58,172 THE INMATE WHO RECORDED DREW, TO TESTIFY. 1718 01:19:58,172 --> 01:19:59,689 Karas: ANTONIO "THE BEAST" SMITH 1719 01:19:59,689 --> 01:20:01,931 WAS A KEY WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. 1720 01:20:01,931 --> 01:20:03,758 HE WAS ON THE STAND FOR DAYS. 1721 01:20:03,758 --> 01:20:06,482 HE TALKED ABOUT MEETING DREW IN PRISON, 1722 01:20:06,482 --> 01:20:10,448 ALERTING THE AUTHORITIES, COOPERATING. 1723 01:20:10,448 --> 01:20:13,655 HE ENGAGED DREW PETERSON IN CONVERSATIONS IN THE YARD, 1724 01:20:13,655 --> 01:20:16,862 AT CHOW, VARIOUS PLACES IN THE PRISON. 1725 01:20:16,862 --> 01:20:20,000 Narrator: THEN, SMITH PROVIDES A STARTLING REVELATION 1726 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:24,068 THAT STRIKES AT THE HEART OF A LONGTIME MYSTERY. 1727 01:20:24,068 --> 01:20:26,172 ANTONIO SMITH HAD INDICATED THAT, 1728 01:20:26,172 --> 01:20:29,241 IN SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE NOT RECORDED, 1729 01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,137 THAT DREW PETERSON HAD ADMITTED TO KILLING STACY PETERSON... 1730 01:20:32,137 --> 01:20:34,379 ♪♪ 1731 01:20:34,379 --> 01:20:37,206 ...THAT SHE WAS IN LAKE MICHIGAN. 1732 01:20:37,206 --> 01:20:42,310 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE PUT WORDS IN DREW'S MOUTH 1733 01:20:42,310 --> 01:20:43,931 THAT HE HAD KILLED STACY. 1734 01:20:43,931 --> 01:20:46,448 SHE DIDN'T RUN AWAY WITH SOMEBODY -- SHE'S DEAD. 1735 01:20:46,448 --> 01:20:49,965 I DON'T REMEMBER THE JURY HAVING MUCH OF A REACTION TO IT, 1736 01:20:49,965 --> 01:20:51,965 BUT, CERTAINLY, THE CHICAGO MEDIA 1737 01:20:51,965 --> 01:20:56,241 HAD A VERY BIG REACTION TO THAT STATEMENT. 1738 01:20:56,241 --> 01:20:58,586 Narrator: THE TRIAL CONCLUDES AT THE END OF MAY, 1739 01:20:58,586 --> 01:21:02,793 AND THE JURY NEEDS ONLY AN HOUR TO RENDER A DECISION. 1740 01:21:02,793 --> 01:21:04,517 Walker: THE ONLY THING THAT A QUICK VERDICT TO ME MEANS 1741 01:21:04,517 --> 01:21:06,103 IS EITHER THEY ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T BELIEVE 1742 01:21:06,103 --> 01:21:07,413 THE PROSECUTION CASE, 1743 01:21:07,413 --> 01:21:10,482 OR THEY ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T BELIEVE THE DEFENSE CASE. 1744 01:21:10,482 --> 01:21:11,862 Karas: THEY SAID, "WE, THE JURY, 1745 01:21:11,862 --> 01:21:16,965 FIND DREW PETERSON GUILTY OF MURDER FOR HIRE." 1746 01:21:16,965 --> 01:21:19,482 ♪♪ 1747 01:21:19,482 --> 01:21:20,931 Glasgow: ANTONIO SMITH 1748 01:21:20,931 --> 01:21:23,000 ISN'T GONNA GET OUT OF PRISON EARLIER. 1749 01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:24,448 HE'S NOT GONNA GET A MEDAL. 1750 01:21:24,448 --> 01:21:27,689 BUT IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY NOBLE AND BRAVE THING THAT HE DID 1751 01:21:27,689 --> 01:21:32,068 TO HELP US GET DREW PETERSON ON THIS PARTICULAR CASE. 1752 01:21:32,068 --> 01:21:33,931 Walker: AND DREW WAS SENTENCED TO 40 MORE YEARS 1753 01:21:33,931 --> 01:21:35,379 IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 1754 01:21:35,379 --> 01:21:38,241 AFTER HE FINISHES HIS MURDER CONVICTION. 1755 01:21:38,241 --> 01:21:39,379 Hosey: THAT'S TWO YEARS MORE THAN HE GOT 1756 01:21:39,379 --> 01:21:41,344 FOR ACTUALLY KILLING KATHLEEN. 1757 01:21:41,344 --> 01:21:45,344 Narrator: DESPITE SMITH'S CLAIM THAT DREW CONFESSED, 1758 01:21:45,344 --> 01:21:47,137 THERE'S STILL NO CONFIRMATION 1759 01:21:47,137 --> 01:21:49,758 OF WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO STACY. 1760 01:21:49,758 --> 01:21:53,655 TO MY KNOWLEDGE, STACY'S CASE REMAINS OPEN, 1761 01:21:53,655 --> 01:21:55,793 AND THAT THEY HAVE A CASE AGENT 1762 01:21:55,793 --> 01:21:58,413 THAT MONITORS INFORMATION THAT COMES IN. 1763 01:21:58,413 --> 01:22:00,137 Aikin: WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HAVE CLOSURE 1764 01:22:00,137 --> 01:22:04,275 AND TO HAVE ALL THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ANSWERED 1765 01:22:04,275 --> 01:22:06,758 BECAUSE, EVERY DAY, WE WONDER. 1766 01:22:06,758 --> 01:22:09,137 DREW CREATED THIS BIG MESS. 1767 01:22:09,137 --> 01:22:10,655 TELL US WHERE STACY IS. 1768 01:22:10,655 --> 01:22:13,413 STOP THE GAMES NOW. 1769 01:22:13,413 --> 01:22:17,413 ♪♪ 1770 01:22:17,413 --> 01:22:18,896 Brodsky: I DON'T THINK THE FASCINATION 1771 01:22:18,896 --> 01:22:21,172 WITH THE DREW PETERSON CASE IS EVER GONNA GO AWAY, 1772 01:22:21,172 --> 01:22:23,724 AT LEAST NOT UNTIL DREW IS, YOU KNOW, DEAD AND BURIED. 1773 01:22:23,724 --> 01:22:25,655 I THINK IT CAPTURED A LOT OF ATTENTION 1774 01:22:25,655 --> 01:22:28,896 BECAUSE DREW LIKES ATTENTION. 1775 01:22:28,896 --> 01:22:32,000 Howard: HE WAS CHARISMATIC AND A GOOD FATHER, 1776 01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:33,310 BUT UNDERNEATH IT, 1777 01:22:33,310 --> 01:22:35,827 THERE WAS A TWISTED DOUBLE LIFE, 1778 01:22:35,827 --> 01:22:40,482 A MAN HIDING SOME HORRIFIC AND DARK SECRETS. 1779 01:22:40,482 --> 01:22:42,758 THIS CASE RESONATES WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE 1780 01:22:42,758 --> 01:22:48,000 BECAUSE YOU HAVE A COP WHO WAS SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT 1781 01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,896 WHO WAS REALLY A WIFE-KILLING MACHINE. 1782 01:22:50,896 --> 01:22:53,655 HE WAS AN ABUSER, A MISOGYNIST, 1783 01:22:53,655 --> 01:23:01,000 AND A GREEDY, ARROGANT, EVIL KILLER. 1784 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:05,310 THIS STORY HAD EVERYTHING -- LOVE AFFAIRS, JEALOUSY, MURDER. 1785 01:23:05,310 --> 01:23:09,586 THIS IS A STORY THAT HAS DYSFUNCTION ALL AROUND, 1786 01:23:09,586 --> 01:23:12,482 BUT THESE WERE WOMEN WHO REALLY LOVED THEIR CHILDREN 1787 01:23:12,482 --> 01:23:16,896 AND REALLY WANTED TO DO RIGHT BY THEIR CHILDREN. 1788 01:23:16,896 --> 01:23:19,482 Narrator: TODAY, THE CHILDREN OF STACY PETERSON 1789 01:23:19,482 --> 01:23:20,655 ARE IN THE CUSTODY 1790 01:23:20,655 --> 01:23:23,586 OF DREW'S ELDEST SON FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE. 1791 01:23:23,586 --> 01:23:25,965 THEY'RE HAPPY. 1792 01:23:25,965 --> 01:23:29,137 I THINK THEY'RE DOING AMAZING IN THEIR CIRCUMSTANCE, 1793 01:23:29,137 --> 01:23:32,482 BUT MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE MISSING 1794 01:23:32,482 --> 01:23:35,241 BECAUSE THEY DON'T REMEMBER SO MUCH. 1795 01:23:35,241 --> 01:23:39,241 I JUST THINK THAT IT'S HARD NOT TO HAVE YOUR MOM. 1796 01:23:41,482 --> 01:23:45,344 I WROTE DREW A LETTER IN PRISON, 1797 01:23:45,344 --> 01:23:51,172 JUST ASKING IF I CAN SEE MY NIECE AND NEPHEW 1798 01:23:51,172 --> 01:23:53,655 BECAUSE THAT'S THE CLOSEST THING I HAD WITH STACY. 1799 01:23:55,965 --> 01:23:58,586 AND HE JUST SAID NO. 1800 01:24:01,103 --> 01:24:02,551 I LOVE STACY. 1801 01:24:02,551 --> 01:24:06,448 LOVE YOU, AND I MISS YOU. 1802 01:24:06,448 --> 01:24:11,413 AND I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, FOR YOUR JUSTICE. 1803 01:24:11,413 --> 01:24:13,551 FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN, 1804 01:24:13,551 --> 01:24:17,103 I WILL CONTINUE ON THIS JOURNEY. 1805 01:24:17,103 --> 01:24:20,103 --Captions by VITAC-- www.vitac.com 1806 01:24:20,103 --> 01:24:23,137 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS