Neighbor Told Police He Saw Drew Peterson, 2nd Man, Loading Barrel Into SUV

Originally posted Nov 7, 2007

FOXNews.com

A neighbor of Drew Peterson told police he saw the husband of missing mom Stacy Peterson and an unidentified man loading a barrel "big enough to put someone in" into the former cops SUV, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Sources told the paper that police are searching for the second man (who turned out to be Peterson step-brother Thomas Morphey) after the neighbor described the barrel as blue with a volume of between 35 and 55 gallons, the paper reports...

This is a repost from an article of foxnews.com on November 7, 2007. So, even though Peterson denies that the blue barrel story ever happened and accuses his step-brother of being a juicer, druggie and mentally imbalanced to boot, this neighbor made his statement to Illinois state police before Thomas Morphey's name was ever muttered.

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Thomas Morphey told the story to his neighbor claiming he was sure Stacy's body was in the barrel, even though Stacy had not been reported missing yet.

Sharon Bychowski babysat the children while Drew visited Tom in the hospital and told her later that Morphey's breakdown was because he had lost his job, lost his family. When his friends turned on him he claims THEY lost their jobs, losing thier house. Same with his buddy Ric Mims. He claims Stacy's family are 'gutter rats' and low lifes. He's the low life.

Drew Peterson's stepbrother appears on 'Good Morning America'

March 16, 2009
BY KARA SPAK

Sun-Times Reporter

Thomas Morphey, stepbrother of former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson, told "Good Morning America" in an interview aired Monday that he's convinced Peterson killed his fourth wife.

"I know he killed Stacy," Morphey said. "All the circumstances point to it."

Appearing with his girlfriend Sheryl Alcox, Morphey said Peterson asked him "How much do you love me?" Morphey said he told him he loved him, but not enough to kill for him.

Morphey described the hours before, during and after he helped Peterson move a blue barrel from Peterson's home into his SUV, a barrel Morphey now believes contained the body of Stacy Peterson. Morphey's first television interview followed similar revelations to the Chicago Sun-Times last week.

"I said ‘What about the smell?'" Morphey said on "Good Morning America." "He said it was in a sealed container."

Morphey added: "I knew it wasn't good. He was planning on killing someone."

Morphey said Peterson drove him home with the blue barrel in the back of his Yukon Denali. When he dropped him off, Morphey said Peterson told him that the incident never happened.
"I said ‘I won't say a word,'" Morphey said Monday.

Morphey was hospitalized after trying to kill himself following the alleged barrel moving incident. He then was put into state police custody for two months. He has yet to testify before an ongoing grand jury investigating Stacy's disappearance and the death of Peterson's third wife.

Morphey isn't the only speaking out. Peterson appeared on WIND-AM (560) Sunday with WIND personality Geoff Pinkus and newswoman Amy Jacobson, saying he and Morphey visited a storage facility the day before Stacy disappeared because he needed a place to store tires that were cluttering his garage.

He said he was just looking and didn't rent the storage space. Morphey said on the interview airing Monday part of him wishes he had rented the unit.

"Sometimes I wish I had rented that locker just because we'd know where she was," he said, adding "I partially think the locker was put in my name so he could set me up."

Morphey called himself "the perfect target for (Peterson)" because of "credibility issues." The "Good Morning America" reporter said Morphey has a bipolar disorder, and Morphey has said he's struggled with drug and alcohol problems.

Peterson repeatedly has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Stacy, his fourth wife, or the death of his third wife Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. No charges have been filed against anyone in either of the cases.

Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky has attacked Morphey's credibility, noting that he has yet to be called to tell his story to the grand jury despite extensive interviews with the Illinois State Police.

Morphey said in the interview Monday that Brodsky's job is to attack his credibility.

Excerpts of Morphey's 'Good Morning America' interview

March 16, 2009

"Good Morning America" released excerpts of its interview of Thomas Morphey, stepbrother to Drew Peterson:

CHRIS CUOMO: The day before Stacey Peterson disappeared you remember Drew Peterson asking you odd questions.

THOMAS MORPHEY: He didn't tell me where - where we were going. He said simply, how much do you love me?

CHRIS CUOMO: He trusted you.

THOMAS MORPHY: He said, how much do you love me? I said, I do. And he said, enough to kill for me?

THOMAS MORPHY: Well, he, he had mentioned the storage locker

THOMAS MORPHEY: I knew it wasn't, it wasn't good. He was planning on killing somebody.

CHRIS CUOMO: You're confident of that

THOMAS MORPHEY: Absolutely positive of that.

CHRIS CUOMO: He said, can you live with knowing about a killing?

THOMAS MORPHEY: I was scared.

CHRIS CUOMO: This never happened.

CHRIS CUOMO: That's what he says to you?

THOMAS MORPHEY: Yeah.

THOMAS MORPHEY: Right.

CHRIS CUOMO: You thought that it was helping dispose of his wife.

THOMAS MORPHEY:Yes.

THOMAS MORPHY: You know, at that point, I was just - my God, what's goin' on?

A bit more on Peterson's stepbrother telling his story

A summary of what Morphey told police about weekend of Stacy's disappearance
March 10, 2009
By JOE HOSEY

suburbanchicagonews.com

Believing Stacy Peterson was in the blue barrel he helped his stepbrother haul to a waiting get-away car, Thomas Morphey said he tried to kill himself by swallowing bottles of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety pills.

Morphey survived the attempt but does not know if this makes him lucky.

Instead of death, he now endures each day in a living hell, he says, courtesy of his stepbrother, Drew Peterson.

“It kills me,” said Morphey, who broke a near 17-month silence to speak out last week. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t wish I could take back the events of that day.”

Morphey is talking about Oct. 28, 2007. That’s when Drew Peterson, he said, came out of the master bedroom in his home pushing a blue barrel and asked Morphey for a hand in carrying the barrel downstairs.

“I asked him, ‘Shouldn’t we have gloves on?’ He said, ‘No, don’t worry about it,” then hushed Morphey to be quiet. “That leads me to believe the kids were home, in their rooms,” Morphey said.

Peterson and Stacy, his fourth wife, have two children who lived with them in their Bolingbrook home. Peterson and his third wife, Kathleen Savio, had another two children together who also lived with Peterson and Stacy after Savio was found drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004.

State police are still investigating the Savio homicide, just as they are probing the October 2007 disappearance of Stacy, a case they consider a “potential homicide.” Morphey said he is quite certain there is nothing “potential” about Stacy being the victim of a homicide. And what he has to say about it led State’s Attorney James Glasgow to offer an immunity deal three days after Stacy was last seen alive.

Morphey got the deal while recovering from an overdose of Paxil and Xanax at Linden Oaks Hospital on Halloween 2007. However, Morphey has yet to deliver it in a courtroom. No arrests have been made in connection with Stacy’s disappearance, and Morphey has not even been called before the grand jury reviewing the cases of both Peterson’s last two wives.

The near year and a half that has passed since he first told police and prosecutors his story has spurred him to question what progress has been made in the case, and to speak out publicly about the last time he was in his stepbrother’s house.

Murder plot?

Morphey said the day before the blue barrel incident, (which would be October 27, Saturday. Shows premeditation.) Peterson showed up at his home, ostensibly to take him to a nearby Meijer store, where Peterson, the overnight sergeant for the Bolingbrook Police Department, had supposedly lined up a job interview for Morphey.

But Peterson and Morphey never made it to Meijer. Instead, Morphey said, Peterson drove him to a park off Remington Boulevard. “We went to that park to discuss Stacy cheating on him, and he had to take care of the problem,” Morphey said.

He assumed Peterson planned to murder someone but that his target was Stacy’s supposed boyfriend. “I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her,” he said. Then Peterson started asking strange questions.

“How much do you love me?” Morphey said Peterson asked him, and Morphey answered that he did love him, a lot. Peterson then asked, “Enough to kill for me?” “No, I couldn’t live with myself,” Morphey said.

Peterson pressed on, asking, “Could you live with knowing about it?” (dangerous question)
Morphey replied, “Yeah, I guess. We always figured you killed Kathleen.”

Morphey said Peterson then drove him to a storage facility and asked him to rent a unit, using his own name. Morphey had not brought along his required state identification. Peterson, fearing that leaving to get it and then returning would attract undue attention, dropped Morphey at home, Morphey said. whoa...

A few hours later, Morphey said, he called Peterson and told him this was something he couldn’t get involved with. Peterson, he said, replied, “OK, I can respect that.”

Morphey said he feared a life was at stake, but did not know where to turn because Peterson was a police officer. “It’s just something I have to live with,” Morphey said. “I grew up Catholic. I believe if you take another life, you go to hell.”

Morphey and Peterson forged a relationship in the mid 90s, after the marriage of Morphey’s father and Peterson’s mother. After Morphey’s own marraige broke down, he moved in with a sister in Bolingbrook. That’s when he got to know Drew Peterson.

“My son’s a cop there,” Morphey recalled his new stepmother telling him. “He’ll take care of you.”

Since Stacy’s disappearance and the revelation that police believe Morphey helped Peterson dispose of her body, Peterson has repeatedly disparaged his stepbrother.

Told of the interview with Morphey, Peterson said Monday, “He’s lying. He’s hallucinating.” Just last week, Peterson’s attorney, Joel Brodsky issued a statement in which he said Morphey “has a documented history of severe mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction.”

Morphey concedes he has been diagnosed as manic-depressive, was arrested twice for driving under the influence, and did a stint in rehab in the wake of his mother’s death.

Since then, he said, he has straightened out his life. He has lived with the same woman, Sheryl Alcox, and her three sons, 11-year-old twins and an 18-year-old, for almost nine years. The three young men excel academically, and Morphey's life would be back together, he believes, if his stepbrother had not come calling the weekend of Oct. 27, 2007.

Cell phone calls

The night after their trip to the park on Remington, and then the storage facility, Morphey said Peterson showed up again. Morphey admits he’d been drinking beer, but claims to have a clear recollection of what transpired.

“He just started driving,” Morphey said. The two men got coffee at a Starbucks drive-through before heading to a park off Weber Road. There, Morphey said, Peterson handed him a cell phone, told him not to answer it, then left.

Morphey said he paced back and forth in the dark, wondering, “Is he killing someone?” About 45 minutes later the phone rang. Then it rang again. Both times, the caller ID showed “Stacy’s cell,” he said. It was then he “got a pretty good idea” that Peterson was not scheming to do in anybody’s boyfriend.

“Really, all I could think when I saw “Stacy” on the phone was he was killing her while I was standing there,” he said.

Peterson returned to the park within an hour of the phone calls, Morphey said, and Drew insisted he help him “at the house moving something.” They went inside the Peterson house, and Morphey noticed all of the children’s bedroom doors were closed.

They took the barrel “right out the front door” to Peterson’s Yukon Denali, which was parked in the driveway, Morphey said. Part of a thick plastic bag was protruding from the lid of the barrel, he said.

After loading the barrel, Morphey said, Peterson dropped him off at his home and told him, “This never happened.” “I said, ‘Don’t worry. I won’t say a word.”

But it did not take Morphey long to talk. Frantic, he left his house and went up the street to see his friend Walter Martineck. He told Martineck everything and stayed at Martineck’s until Alcox called and told him to come home.

Morphey spent the next day at the hospital with Alcox. He spoke on the phone with Peterson, he said, telling him he wanted to hang himself. Peterson, he said, told him not to worry.

When he got home that night, Morphey started drinking again. He spoke on the phone with one of his brothers. He had told the brother some of the details from the past weekend, and the brother told him he called the FBI about it.

Morphey said he hung up on his brother, ate two bottles of pills, and got in bed. He says he tried to kill himself to keep his girlfriend and her sons safe from Peterson. But Morphey’s brother called 911, and soon emergency responders were banging on the door.

Peterson visits

On that Tuesday morning, after returning from Edward Hospital in Naperville, Alcox said Peterson showed up at their door, not long after she saw a story on the TV news about Stacy’s disappearance.

She told Peterson about Morphey’s suicide attempt. He offered his help but said nothing about his wife’s disappearance, she said.

Martineck then arrived and drove Alcox to District 5 State Police Headquarters in Crest Hill. Soon after, troopers headed to the hospital in Naperville. But before they got there, Peterson paid his step-brother a visit, one Morphey remembers only through the haze of medication. Martineck said the state cops just missed him.

Getting immunity

The next day, Morphey got his offer of immunity. Glasgow showed up himself to grant it. He had a couple state troopers with him, and they talked to Morphey in a coffee room.

“It was the first of many interrogations,” Morphey said. “They went easy on me there.” But the grilling got tougher, he said, with police accusing him of killing Stacy. Morphey figures he underwent about 40 hours of interrogation that included threats to pull his immunity.

Morphey said he spent about five months away from his family for his own protection. The state police first put him and Alcox up in a motel about two hours from his home. Alcox returned after a long weekend.

“I was put at various locations,” he said. “I didn’t know where I’d be staying from one night to the other.” In December, the state police found a permanent location for Morphey out of state, but by “February or March, I just decided enough was enough,” he said. Police, he said, reluctantly agreed to let him return home.

Holding pattern

That was a year ago. And Morphey has yet to speak a word to the ongoing grand jury convened to hear evidence about Stacy's disappearance and Savio’s death.

“All contact’s pretty much been broken,” he said. And Morphey feels “betrayed.”
Charles B. Pelkie, spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said he was precluded from discussing Morphey’s story. “I can’t comment on any aspect of a pending investigation,” he said.

The state police have told Morphey to keep his mouth shut, Morphey said. But he wants to know what the police are waiting for. “I just feel like the truth needs to be told at some point,” he said. “...I don't know if I’ll get my day in court.”

Morphey doesn’t know if Peterson will have his day in court, either.
“I know what I know,” he said. “Drew knows what I know.”

I'd like to know what they are waiting for also.

Stepbrother Says He Thinks He Helped Drew Peterson Dispose of Wife's Body

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Foxnews.com


Drew Peterson's step-brother fears that he had a hand in the murder of the former Illinois police sergeant's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson — telling a Chicago-area newspaper that he helped Drew Peterson dispose of a blue barrel that may have contained Stacy's remains.
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Stacy Peterson disappeared in October 2007. Her husband has been the focus of a police and grand jury investigation, but he never has been charged.
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Thomas Morphey, the stepbrother, told the Herald News that he thinks Stacy, 23, was in the blue barrel that he helped remove from the Peterson's home in Bolingbrook, Ill., and put into a car.
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Beforehand, Morphey told the Herald News, Peterson, 55, had come to his home to take him to a nearby store where Peterson supposedly had set up an interview for him. But instead, the two went to a park, where a conversation led him to believe Peterson was planning to murder Stacy's boyfriend, Morphey said.
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Click here for photos.
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“We went to that park to discuss Stacy cheating on him, and he had to take care of the problem,” Morphey told the newspaper. "I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her.”
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Peterson started questioning Morphey's love for him and asked if he would kill for him. When Morphey said no, Drew Peterson allegedly asked, "Could you live with knowing about it?"
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Morphey told the newspaper that he responded, "Yeah, I guess," adding that he always figured Peterson had killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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Savio's death in a bathtub was ruled a homicide after initially being deemed accidental. Savio's body was exhumed and re-examined after Stacy Peterson vanished.
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Morphey told the Herald News that the night after meeting Peterson in the park, he met up with Peterson, who enlisted his help with the blue barrel.
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Tom Morphey was offered immunity by police to tell them what happened that night, but has yet to tell it to a grand jury, he said.

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Peterson insists Morphey is lying. "He’s hallucinating," he told the newspaper.


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These are some notes I took at the time Stacy disappeared, but never posted. A thrown together timeline from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and the Herald News.

Stacy Peterson Timeline

October 28, 2007 Sunday

After allegedly helping Drew Peterson haul a large container that was warm to the touch from a bedroom, Tom Morphey, step-brother to the Drew Peterson, former Bolingbrook police sergeant, told a friend Oct. 28 that he was afraid he had just helped Peterson dispose of the body of his wife, Stacy Peterson, a source close to the investigation said.
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Morphey was so distraught that he was hospitalized two days later after an apparent suicide attempt on Oct 30, two sources close to the case said. He has not been charged with a crime nor named as a suspect.
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Stacy Peterson, 23, was reported missing by her sister, Cassandra Cales, about 4 a.m. Oct. 29, after she failed to show up to help Cales paint a home the previous day.
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Drew Peterson later said his wife called him about 9 p.m. Oct.28 and told him that she had left him for someone else. He has steadfastly denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance. In a Nov. 7 appearance before a Will County grand jury investigating the case, he exercised his 5th Amendment right.
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Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich identified Drew Peterson as a suspect in Stacy Peterson's disappearance, and though it is still classified as a missing person case, authorities’ say it is moving toward a homicide investigation.
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On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, sources close to the investigation revealed a detailed account of the alleged activities of Drew Peterson and his relative on the day of Stacy Peterson's disappearance. Drew Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, dismissed the information as nothing more than rumors.
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Drew Peterson was scheduled to work at 5 p.m. Oct. 28 but called in to take a personal or sick day, said Bolingbrook police Lt. Ken Teppel.

A source familiar with the investigation said that at about 7 p.m., on Sunday, October 28, Drew Peterson picked up his step brother Thomas Morphey from a park and the two went to a local Starbucks.
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After a short time, Drew Peterson told the Morphey he had to go somewhere and left Tom at the coffee shop with a cell phone, along with instructions that he should not answer if it should ring, the source said.
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Morphey waited for some time, and the phone rang, showing the name "Stacy" on the caller ID, the source said. A brief time later, Drew Peterson returned to the coffee shop, the source said. Drew Peterson and the relative then drove to the Peterson's home on Pheasant Chase Court, the source said.
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Drew Peterson asked the his step-brother to help him move a blue barrel from upstairs to the Peterson's sport-utility vehicle, the source said. The two men went to an upstairs bedroom and removed a large covered and sealed 4-foot-long plastic container and placed it in the SUV, the sources familiar with the case said.
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They left the home about 10 p.m., and Drew Peterson then dropped the Morphey off at his home, at which point the distraught man contacted a friend (*see below), saying words to the effect of, "I think I just helped Drew dispose of Stacy," the source said.
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Morphey allegedly told the friend the plastic container was warm to the touch and may have weighed about 120 pounds, a source said. NOTE: STACY WASN'T REPORTED MISSING UNTIL THE NEXT DAY, by her sister Cassandra at 4:00 a.m., after getting a run-around from Drew about where Stacy was.
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Tom was taken home at about 10:00 p.m. It was about a quarter of a mile away.
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Cassandra went to house at 11:00 p.m. to drop off fund raiser money. Stacy’s car gone. Son says Drew and Stacy had big fight, Drew is out looking for her.
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11:30 Cassy calls Drew who is out of breath and she hears scrapping noises. He says he is at home. She is in neighborhood and knows he is not home, and both vehicles are gone.
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2:00 both cars back in drive. Drew asks her where her sister is.
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2:30 Cassy goes to police
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4:00 a.m. Cassy is sent to another police station and reports Stacy missing.
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Two days later, on Tuesday, Morphey was treated at Edward Hospital in Naperville after an apparent suicide attempt, sources said. He stayed in "seclusion" for 6 to 9 months after Stacy "went missing."
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Drew Peterson allegedly visited his relative at the hospital Oct. 30, and later that day, state police investigators -- who were informed of the relative's statements by the man's friend -- contacted the relative at the hospital, one source said.
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On Nov. 7, the Tom Morphey was contacted outside his home by a Chicago Tribune reporter. He confirmed he was interviewed by authorities regarding Stacy Peterson's disappearance but then declined further comment.
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Less than 30 seconds later, state police investigators got out of a car in the relative's driveway and ordered the reporter to leave.
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The Will County state's attorney's office declined to comment on the relative's alleged involvement with Drew Peterson, saying it would not discuss any aspect of the investigation.

"Nobody helped me with anything in such a manner," Drew Peterson told WGN-TV, a local Chicago station. "There's no container -- no blue barrel," said Brodsky, in reference to reports in other media that a neighbor saw a man help load a blue barrel into the back of the Petersons' SUV.
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"That's all part of the growing swirl of rumors that seem to have engulfed this case."Referring to the step-brother, Brodsky said, "This man, from what I'm hearing, has some serious psychological issues. Once again, I don't even know if he said it. This could be one of a growing number of rumors swirling around this case."
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Brodsky declined to say whether Drew Peterson has provided him with a complete timeline about his whereabouts on the day of his wife's disappearance, citing attorney-client privilege. He did say Drew Peterson has given statements to the Illinois State Police, "which I guarantee did account for his whereabouts for that day."

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* Morphey talks to his friend Walter Martineck, 40, of Bolingbrook, who told the Tribune that on Oct. 29, Drew Peterson's relative tried to get rid of the money he said was payment for helping Drew Peterson remove the plastic tub. Tom Morphey wanted to give it to Martineck, he said. Martineck said he went to the state police with his friend's story.
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In an interview, Martineck expanded on a prior Tribune report detailing Tom Morphey's alleged activities the night Stacy Peterson disappeared. Martineck said he was at home Oct. 28 watching the World Series. "He called me and said, 'I gotta talk to you,'" Martineck said.
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"It was late, around 10 o'clock. I remember it was the 7th inning. I told him, 'OK, come to the garage door.'"Moments later, Tom walked up the driveway and into the garage, he said. "He was real frantic," Martineck said. "I could tell he'd been drinking a little. He put his hands on my shoulders and says, 'You can't tell no one. I know she was in there,'" Martineck said.
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Morphey said when Drew Peterson returned, the two men went to the Petersons' home and removed a large plastic tote that was covered and sealed, Martineck said. As he spoke, Morphey became more and more distraught, Martineck said."He goes, 'I know she was in there,'" Martineck said. "I asked him how he knew that, and he said, 'Because it was warm,'" Martineck said.
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The following day, Martineck said Tom tried to give him the money he said was payment for helping Drew Peterson. "I told him, no, I don't want that," Martineck said. He said he didn't know how much money it was. Hours later, Tom allegedly tried to commit suicide, and Martineck said he went to the state police with his friend's story.
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Sooo, where all these people hallucinating, Drew? In your world, I suppose they are.

Did Peterson grand jury hear barrel story?

It's interesting that drew has an explanation for everyone who has something to say against him. Sharon and his half brother Thomas are simply fabricating stories, Sharon is harrassing poor drew. Martinek and (again) Thomas are "goofy" and can't be believed. Remember, please that Thomas made the statement to Walter about moving Stacy's body BEFORE she had even been reported missing.

He says all Stacy's family are gutter rats. That Stacy was screwing (so far) the old friend she called a couple weeks before she left AND her minister, then there is the anonymous "ride me like a stallion" untraceable text message. Even though he had GPS on her cell phone and knew every burp and fart she uttered. That she loved attention from men and is probably out dancing (as in exotic/stripper.) He sure has a low opinion of women.

That Kyle Piry is making stuff up because 15 years ago he dumped her (which, if so, why did he stalk her afterward, if he wanted nothing more to do with her.) This man is such a loser. And he is raising a slew of loser sons, if they don't get away from him. His daughter will think there is nothing for her but to be a whore. Cause daddy says all women are. I'm still waiting for his timeline for the day Stacy disappeared, and can't wait to see his ugly ass locked up.

April 11, 2008
By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer

The man who went on television and claimed Drew Peterson's stepbrother showed up at his door and blurted out that he helped the Bolingbrook cop get rid of his missing wife's body was called before the grand jury Thursday.

Walter Martineck, a neighbor and friend of Peterson's stepbrother, Thomas Morphey, declined to discuss his grand jury appearance.

In December, Martineck was more talkative and went on the network news show "Dateline" to detail his late October conversation with Morphey.

Hours after Peterson's wife, Stacy Peterson, was last seen alive Oct. 28, Morphey showed up at his front door, Martineck said, and told him, "I think I just helped move Stacy with Drew."
Martineck said Morphey told him, "We lifted a blue container out of -- out of his room down into his truck."

Martineck asked Morphey how he knew Stacy was in the container, and said his friend told him the container was "warm." "And the way he said 'warm,' it's like it was warm," Martineck said.

Peterson was not impressed by Martineck's appearance at the grand jury, or what he had to say on television months ago.

"Oh, brother, that goofy guy," Peterson said. "You have one goofy guy giving information to another goofy guy."

Son suspendedMartineck's appearance at the grand jury reviewing the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, and the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, came a day after the Oak Brook Fire and Police Commission suspended Peterson's police officer son, Stephen Peterson, for eight days.

Stephen Peterson, an Oak Brook cop, drove his marked squad car to Joliet in December to appear before the grand jury reviewing the fates of his stepmothers.

He also showed up in his police uniform and was filmed by television crews. Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan said he sought the suspension because Stephen Peterson attracted negative attention to the department. Stephen Peterson's attorney, Tamara Cummings, said Thursday she may appeal the board's decision.