The Ultimate Betrayal Unraveled

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Earlier this week, I wrote a post titled The Ultimate Betrayal? If you aren’t familiar with this story, click on the link above to catch up.

Anne Darwin has now confessed that her presumed-to-be dead husband, John, was actually living in her home for the past several years.

She further identified that John talked to her about faking his death before he did it as a way to solve financial problems.

Read moreI find it amazing the lengths people will go through when money is at stake. Money—the lack of it or the desire to have it—can make people do crazy things.

Did you know faking one’s death is known as pseudocide?

As the video above questions, John Darwin has yet to say why he chose to come back from the dead.

News also surfaced yesterday that Rick Mims sold his story about Drew Peterson to the National Enquirer. Rick says that he needs the money to pay his cell phone bills that were upwards of four-hundred dollars. The rest, says Mims, will be donated to a fund in Stacy Peterson’s name. I did not see Mims say this. I’ve only heard what he said through a second source.

Monday

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I am utterly wordless, and without direction to write about anything. After such a whirlwind month in November, the news is quiet at the moment.

I did, however, come across a great posting by Dr. Steve: Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

It’s a fabulous post, if I do say so myself, and what I like most is Dr. Steve’s definition of lying at the end. I think it is superb. Many thanks to Deception Blog for pointing it out.

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Greta, Dr. Baden, Savio and Peterson

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I’m watching Greta Van Susteren right now on Fox, and Dr. Baden is talking about the autopsy he just did on Savio today. Dr. Baden’s finding is that Savio died from homicide.

What was fascinating for me, and very damning for Drew Peterson was that Dr. Baden said that he believes Kathleen Savio’s time of death was a minimum of 10 hours prior to her behind found — but could be upwards of 24 to 36 hours.

Remember what Peterson said in the interview with Matt Lauer yesterday?

Mr. PETERSON:
So when I heard screaming, I went inside and there she was in the bathtub.

LAUER:
What did you see? And did it look like an accidental drowning to you at that time?

Mr. PETERSON:
I felt the p–I didn’t know if she was dead or live, so I felt her pulse and, you know, being a policeman, I basically didn’t want to touch anything or disturb anything.

We all know that after ten hours of dying bodies cool. I wonder how Peterson is going to explain this one?

Drew Peterson Interview on Today Show

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Thanks for the notification that Drew Peterson is on the Today show talking to Matt Lauer!

I will review the video and write more about it today! Bookmark my website and check back soon!

The post is up! You will find it here.

Stacy and Drew Peterson

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Stacy Peterson, 23, has disappeared from her home in Illinois on Sunday and has not been heard from since and even though she is married with two children, her husband, a police officer, doesn’t suspect foul play.

“I believe she’s not missing. She’s where she wants to be,” he said. “I have no reason to suspect foul play.” (source)

“Drew Peterson, 53, a 29-year police veteran, said he believes his wife left voluntarily, even taking clothes with her. He said she’s been suffering from “mood issues” since her sister Tina Ryan death’s last year from colon cancer.” (source)

He also didn’t report his wife missing. It was Stacy’s family who reported her missing at 4:00 a.m. on Monday morning. But the story takes a few more strange, if not outright, eerie twists.

Read more Stacy was Drew’s fourth wife. His third wife, Kathleen Savio, 40, was found dead in her bathtub though her death was ruled an accidental death by drowning. When Drew’s third wife died, they were separated, and in the final stages of divorce. That is certainly hair-raising as was how her body was discovered but I am not going to get into that here. Since Stacy has disappeared, it appears the investigation into the Savio’s death is now being looked at again as it clearly needs to be.

But if you look closely at the facts being reported on this case, there are things being said by Stacy’s family that need to be considered as well. While they are very suspicious of Drew as I believe they should be, they do mention that Stacy was depressed, in the care of psychiatrist, and that furthermore, she had a mother who would disappear for years at a time.

Stacy’s family, however, is adamant that Stacy is not like her mother, and did not show the same tendencies. Her aunt talks about how Stacy wanted out of the marriage, was unhappy and didn’t like how she was being treated.

Naturally, the odds are stacked against Peterson here. To have four wives, one missing and one dead. And the one who is missing isn’t using her cell phone. What are the odds?

At this point, Peterson is not talking to anyone on camera, though he is talking off-camera just sadly the conversations aren’t being reported. News outlets are only reporting brief sentences — unconnected and unrelated.

I don’t like the way Peterson said, “I believe she’s not missing.” When people are dishonest, they often add the qualifier and descriptive text to the end as an after thought. Most people would normally say, “I don’t believe she is missing”. They don’t start out with “I believe she’s….and then tack on “not missing”. This is odd, but this is not enough for me to say much. I want to see more and while I see other snippets of conversations Peterson has had with other reporters, until I can see it all in context in a complete conversation, I won’t draw any conclusions.

If anyone sees any transcripts of conversations with Peterson or him speaking on video, please let me know. Either way, it’s not looking good for Peterson at this point. I am sure most people agree.

Drew Peterson spoke to the Today Show on 11-14-07
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