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Cops Love Corruption: Sgt. Drew Peterson Free Despite Two Murders
By Brian K. White
Dec 8, 2007, 05:20

This is a picture of Stacy Peterson when she was 17 taken in the lap of her then-married, but soon to be widowed fiance who would later kill her upon expiration of her usefulness to him.

When Drew Peterson's third wife died amid highly suspicious circumstances, the flawless machine that is our American criminal justice system stepped back and presumed more innocence than the woman's family or very soon to be teenaged fourth wife could. But when wife Mach-IV went missing, they knew their tracks were too evident to obscure.

Despite overwhelming circumstantial evident, retired police Sergeant Drew Peterson remains a man free to ride his motorcycle, taunt the media who seek his comments and collect his $72,000 pension despite documented abuses as an officer… sorry, check that, his pension turns out to be only $69,600. It seems he may have told a tiny fib to try to qualify for more.

POLICE CHIEF AIN'T MITT ROMNEY
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been sharply criticized for appointing a judge who freed a man who later committed double homicide. Bolingbrook chief of police McGury, however, feels his critics are unjustified, and that he should skate away squeaky clean.

Once the scandal began to unfold, he was the first to demand Sgt. Drew Peterson's head on a pike, almost as if to repent for past wrongdoings. He tried unsuccessfully to have Sgt. Peterson arrested (which would have been illegal at the time, but you know how police can be when it comes to unlawful arrest and due process), and even refused to accept his resignation, wishing instead to fire him outright. Perhaps it's so that Peterson could collect unemployment, or maybe it was an attempt to deflect attention from himself.

BOLINGBROOK FAILED TO PROTECT OR SERVE
It was well known in the precinct that Sgt. Drew Peterson had met and courted they young Stacy when he was married and she was just seventeen years of age. Somehow the other officers and supervisors failed to find any question of ethical alarm in this.

Despite 18-calls to 911 requiring police assistance at Peterson's residence (all domestic concerns), there has been no evidence to suggest that Drew Peterson was ever arrested or censured within the department. All 50-states have domestic violence laws that mandate at least one party be arrested in a domestic violence call, but his buddies at the station apparently let it slide, and did so with alarming frequency.

BOLINGBROOK POLICE ARE COMPLICIT
The chief swears otherwise and I can't blame him; he's trying his best to cover his ass. Even close friends of Drew are now nearing certainty that foul play was afoot, and that the frequently investigated behavior of Drew Peterson (on the job as well as at home) may have been to blame.

Complaints of unnecessary force, inappropriate stalking on exclusive police systems, and the unbelievable number of necessary visits by officers to his home for domestic complaints are one thing, but when you add in the age the age differential, his martial arts mastery (against a 100-pound wife) and his known cache of weapons on hand, Sergeant or not, you should feel compelled to at least ask a question or two. Good first question might be, "Could my looking the other way ever end in someone being murdered?"

Never mind that Stacy Peterson told family, friends and clergy that Drew might kill her, or that he had already killed his previous wife just to be with her.

DREW PETERSON REFUSES TO JOIN IN THE HUNT
Absence of proof negative is not proof positive, but when a network news reporter asked Mr. Peterson why he wasn't participating in the hunt for the body, the real killer, or any evidence as to the whereabouts of his missing wife, he was stunned. He said he knows she isn't missing. Is that because he knows she's dead because he killed her and hid the body with police-like expertise, or because he just doesn't care where she is regardless of what may have happened?

If my wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, friend, coworker, casual acquaintance, enemy or total stranger goes missing and I'm the only suspect, I know two things for certain. First, I know I'm going to be the lead guy out looking to find the missing person, and second, I know that I'm going to be too distraught to have the presence of mind to be a total jerk to reporters.

I'll plow through them to get to my car and ask them to be respectful, but acting towards them in an outright abrasive and flippant manner? I'll save that for the acquittal. Peterson is unlikely to enjoy such an opportunity in the future, so maybe he's just getting it all out of his system now.

Do these look like the faces of a killer and a killed, respectively? Notice, if you will, the uncommon gap in age. He was nearly three-times her age when they first met.

DREW PETERSON IS A FREE MAN, SOMEHOW
His decades spent behind a badge have given him an uncommon advantage as a killer, but he never counted on the intense scrutiny of the blood-thirsty media armed with millions in investigative research funding and unlimited international reporting power. As long as there is rock to turn, there will be funds to turn it over.

The only perfect crime these days is a national coup, and Drew Peterson lacks even a fraction of that capacity. Luckily for Drew, he has enjoyed the custom of corruption so prevalent in police work, and the small town incompetence so ubiquitous around the country. So today he wanders the world free to earn a nickel off appearing with Greta Van Susteren and likewise free to find his next unsuspecting abuse survivor. Sadly (or perhaps luckily) the story has mushroomed out from under him in ways he obviously hadn't anticipated, and his expectation of minimal forensic scrutiny has turned out to be something a bit more inclusive.

There are too many factors, too much evidence and too deep a public sympathy for this poor, precious, beautiful little girl. She wanted a secure life, but the period at the end of her sentence was one of death. This is a story that will not be swept beneath any rug.

Sure, her cell phone, debit cards and any traceable items went cold a month ago, but what does that mean? Perhaps this impressionable youngster is really clever with her disappearance and now lives under the world's darkest rock unaware that her family is already grieving her death and that she's the subject of a media manhunt. Stranger things have happened, but the odds are prohibitively slim.

DREW PETERSON TO HANG AT HIGH NOON
Whether the arrest and trial comes today, in a week or only after a decade when the rotting remains are regrettably uncovered, this guy will fry for what he's done. If we don't string him up for Stacy, we'll sure as hell get him for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose recently reconsidered autopsy has already shown proof-positive of foul play and an attempted coverup. Because as sure as I know cops are glorified criminals with a badge and permission to fire at will, this guy is a murderer, and it seems he's done it more than once.

How many heads back at headquarters will roll for fostering his dungeon of doom remains to be seen, but the heavy hand of scrutiny is finally knocking at the door of Bolingbrook PD, and precincts nationwide should being auditing their own known in-house abusers that much more carefully.

I'm sure retired Sergeant Drew Peterson is thanking God that he isn't poor, black, previously convicted or a non-police citizen, because if he was, the crime the evidence insists he'd done would have him locked up tonight. The noose tightens by the day, and if prosecutors don't think he's a flight risk, they've never seen how a predator reacts once they know they've been backed in to a corner.

If Stacy Peterson is alive, she can rest assured that her nightmare of abuse is over, and that her coming out of hiding will earn her the greatest pick of upstanding men in the history of mainstream media. Likewise, if unicorns exist, well, I owe Noah an apology for that whole Arc debacle I uncovered some years back, but being serious for a minute, which of these two possibilities do you think is more likely?

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